Naruto is one of those who grows on you. I originally bought the manga in Chinese, just to keep up with my characters (and nearly screamed in frustration because it's printed in Taiwan, therefore is all in traditional instead of simplified, grrrr). I ended up buying it in english because by that point I simply had to know what they were saying (the translations from Japanese to Chinese retain the Japanese grammar, which is really whacked from a Chinese POV, but I won't go into that here). Then a friend burned eps 1-60 of the fansubs...and the rest is history. Matter of fact, I'm currently d/ling ep132. Geebus. I'm an addict.

There are worse things to be addicted to, frankly. The relationships between the characters--and the outright whacked-yet-understandable like/dislike/hate/love crap that goes on--is just entrancing. Plus, not everyone is thirteen. Big plus. And there's none of this "every week the bad guy is even badder than the week before!" nonsense like in most shonen series, like YuuYuu Hakusho, which does get annoying after two or three episodes. Best, there's character development. Excuse me while I flippin' squee.

*cough*

I'm not a fanboy. Really.