Naruto has a mid worldbuilding compared to Bleach and One Piece

[redux007]

BTW, if you're looking for extreme levels of "world building," then Five Star Monogatari is probably what you're looking for. Every little chapter/booklet comes with an expository dictionary explaining the dynastic history of even minor characters. It's up there with Dune.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Worldbuilding is crucial to storytelling and not only determines where a story takes place (either a fictional set or not), but also its cultural context and historical length... even as a fan, I think we should just all acknowledge that the wb in naruto is as messy as its story, that's why we see absurd stuff like choji eating chips by the same space/time daimyo lords are arriving to konoha to follow the events of chunin exams lol.

I always assumed that this was mostly for the joke or that the world of Naruto has a ninja theme yet is still a fairly "modern" world.

Also remember that Japan was still in the Meiji era (with Samurais) when potato chips were made.

I kinda disagree about worldbuilding being "crucial" to storytelling. In fact do we need the full context of a world for a story to be good? Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope is still a great movie even if you entirely ignore the Clone Wars, Order 66 and many other Extended Universe elements (I don't care if it's called Legends by Disney). Same thing with The Hobbit still being a good tale despite the depth of Tolkien's world.

That's what separates a tale from a bible: one is telling a narrative action the other is a compendium of all of those stories for a lore.

 

[Bakuma1997]

I will break a spear and will see that as a positive

Yeah, worldbuilding is good, but too many cooks spoil the soup, i want to watch some Anime, not have to do geography and history homework over a fictional world

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I will break a spear and will see that as a positive.

I'm not a naruto fan (just nostalgic of the 90's mangas in general) but it feels refreshing when a series doesn't try to be the next Dune or LotR in term of lore.

Yeah, worldbuilding is good, but too many cooks spoil the soup, i want to watch some Anime, not have to do geography and history homework over a fictional world.

I follow you in that aspect. Sometimes it could be detrimental for the narration.

GTO is a beloved series and anime by many yet you can appreciate it even without having seen Shonan Junai Gumi.

Ditto with JoJo even if you've skipped parts or didn't know about the Stand Arrows.

 

[shadowcat]

Did I hit my head and wake up in 2006? People are still arguing about the big three of yesteryear?