oh I see... I like the anime mostly for the thrills but the inner struggles of most characthers is what adheres me to the anime itself... I'm an outcast, much like Naruto is at the beginning and unlike Naruto I don't have a figure that pulls me up like Iruka does for Naruto in the first episode... But another element I like that I find in manga and anime nowadays are the romances that opposites attact, a common example is Hinata and Naruto... Naruto is hardly a stranger yet Hinata is a typical shy girl... and so she trains hard to overcome her weaknesses because she wants the strength to confess to Naruto... She does confess before she dies in shippuden though... (sorry if you didn't know that)