Black Zetsu is a manipulative tool lacking depth in Naruto Shippūden's Akatsuki ... forgotten antagonists and even hated bad ...

Memorable characters have great ... Itachi was a classic example of the many Naruto bad guys who weren't "villains" per se, but antagonists. But in Itachi's case, we didn't know that until ...

Shizune holds a particular position in Naruto yet somehow always seems to ... in the plot aside from some offhand mentions by the bad guys.

From the start, I had opportunities to introduce characters as supervillains. Since One Piece was already doing that, I wanted to do something different with Naruto. My villain characters also had ...

Naruto is a shining example ... who see Danzo as a compelling character, there’s more or less unanimous agreement that, at the end of the day, he was a “bad guy”. In reality, although ...