The modern day hero's ending

The war with Madara and Kaguya ends. The war arc was kinda r-slurred but, hey, it was finally over.

But then he has a kino fight with Sasuke where they fight to a draw and then Naruto talks him down. It sounds simple but it works really well in execution. (You may not like it if you don't like flashbacks, but then again if you didn't like flashbacks you wouldn't like Naruto at all)

What really makes Naruto stand above other shonen to me is that the narrative is about something, and by the time it all ends that something has actually been addressed. Naruto's goals are resolving his conflict with the Nine Tails, dealing with his loneliness within the village and desire to become a leader, bringing peace to the shinobi world and ending the shit situation he first learns about when facing Zabuza and Haku, and resolving the conflict with Sasuke that further represents a yin yang binary conflict between hero and edgelord that defines the in-universe history of the setting (Asura and Indra, Hashirama and Madara — to an extent this also applies to Hiruzen and Danzo, Jiraiya and Orochimaru, Kakashi and Obito) By the time the story ends, all of this has been addressed and it doesn't feel like Kishimoto forgot anything. (People complain that the vibe of the franchise changes from ninjas to Dragonball shit, but the serialized plot remained logically coherent)

Is Naruto philosophical or meaningful? No. Does it have many real life lessons to teach outside of simple stuff like friendship is good? Still no.

But by shonen standards Naruto is a well crafted and tightly woven narrative with a solid ending. Outside of literal anime filler, the plot never goes on random adventure story tangents. Every canon arc is part of the main narrative and contributes to it. The closest to random adventures would be Land of Waves and the first part of Chunin Exams, but the first arc is actually quite important because it introduces Naruto to the truly warlike nature of ninjas — he'd previously become a shinobi because he was lonely and desperate for respect, and not because he really wanted to serve in a military — and convinces him of the need to change the world on a political level, and then Chunin Exams naturally transitions from a shits and giggles tournament arc to a very plot relevant attack on the Leaf Village complete with plenty of foreshadowing so it's not a random asspull.

Naruto's solving of his goals also synergize well with each other. Why is he so obsessed with redeeming Sasuke? Because he's gay It's not just because Sasuke was his first friend. It's also because he feels he needs to bring about an end to the Asura/Indra conflict instead of perpetuating it, and because he needs to prove that he can actually be a more peaceful Hokage than his predecessors. It's kind of like why Batman never kills Joker — if Naruto killed Sasuke because it would be easier, how can he be sure that his Ninja President self wouldn't just start wars instead of negotiating with other villages because it was easier? He needed to talk Sasuke down to prove to himself that his belief in peaceful cooperation could be put into practice — "How can I save the ninja world if I can't even save one friend?"

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He beat everyone, the final boss was zetsu being the malice incarnation of an alien god species that invented chakra. They sealed her butt and some neighbor cut the moon in half in a canon movie also btw the moon is hollow but anyway he gets to bang Hinata and they have two kids.

Its still going

Yes he did

Moon mommy !weebs @BWC