Iruka remained at #4 or #5 for a long time, which I never understood considering after the chuunin exam he dropped out of the series for years.

Are we never going to address that Konoha has a forest filled with giant centipedes in the middle of their town? Or are we just going to ignore that?

What was Iruka doing this entire time? Was he just standing in a room, bored, as he waited for five days to be summoned? You can't start jerking off to porn or anything because you don't know when this kids'll arrive.

You can easily tell Kishimoto later retconned Kabuto. In the early days he was always talking about his old blood boiling and such, which makes me think Kishimoto had other plans for him. This whole thing about wanting blood and the death of his mentor definitely was added much later.

I'm most impressed that Kakashi can remember all the fucking characters needed for this seal. I can barely memorize a Shakespearean soliloquy, never mind god knows what's necessary for containing an evil seal.

Oh fuck, this scene is so much cooler in the manga since they didn't have his arms shoot off in the anime. I'm kinda sad Shino stepped out of the limelight later in the series because he always does cool shit.

Tenten also seemed to have a lot of potential but never followed through with it. Admittedly she's outshone by Neji and Lee's back story, but I still would've liked to see more of her.

God almighty, I'm telling you Naruto had some of the best fucking plans in the early part of the series. I'd say next to Shkamaru he came up with some of the best ideas because he was an unskilled idiot who had to resort to trickery. Which is hilarious because he also came up with some of the worst fucking plans too.

I'm adding this for Greene's benefit.