Logic is foregone. Copyright infringement runs rampant. People have lost the ability to operate the part of the brain that thinks. Awful plot twists and cookie-cutter angst robot main characters run free. Welcome...

To Naruto, the wildly popular (and highly overrated) Jump series about a boy and his ADD, a girl and her utter uselessness, and a boy and his nonsensical angst-driven decisions. Every week, I shall tell you what Masashi Kishimoto did wrong. And trust me, the list gets longer each week. Naturally, there will be spoilers. I'm not going to warn you about those, though. I'm going to warn you that the contents of each chapter are horrifying and strange. So why do I lampoon them and tear them to shreds each week? It's a community service, I think. Anyway, let the terror begin.

Mystery Naruto Theatre 3000: Chapter 420

And after a week of nothing but Tsubasa, I return to this not quite crap anymore. Better transform and roll out. Ooh, nice cover spread there, Kishi. Interesting character designs. Too bad all but 4 of them are dead, all but one of those ha...

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Mystery Naruto Theatre 3000: Chapter 419

Pain/s is/are forming a plan/s to invade/invade a lot. His bodies are designated into realms: Demon, Animal, Hungry Ghost, God, Human and Hell. First three will cause a diversion whilst the latter three will do reconnaissance, along with Konan. Ap...

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Mystery Naruto Theatre 3000: Chapter 418

Chapter is titled Naruto the Sage. Kill me. Anyway, Naruto has apparently managed to keep all 38 of his attention span disorders in check and mastered the Sage Chakra. According to Fukusaku, he's even surpassed Jiraya and avoided any hint o...

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Mystery Naruto Theatre 3000: Chapter 417

It should be noticed that the Raikage's face looks like a piece of cardboard with features drawn on. Maybe he's related to Zabuza's sword. The chapter begins with Fukusaku playing wak-a-moron again. Naruto asks why he can't just carry the o...

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Mystery Naruto Theatre 3000: Chapter 416

Our chapter opens with some random guy wearing a "?" forehead protector and what appears to be a baseball cap chasing a guy wearing a Jounin jacket who resembles Naruto without whiskers. From this, I can deduce that we're reading Jiraya's book in ...

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