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Originally Posted by itachi-san314
it's clearly mature material.
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Honestly, I think you are confusing a dramatic situations with a mature story. You keep focusing on the shock value/potentially controversial moments, rather than how these moments reflect any sense of maturity in the characters or the audience. Death by itself is not mature. Politics by itself is not mature. Mystery for mystery's sake is not mature. Etc. It's how these moments are used in the series, or the events that surround them that reflect on the character's, story's or audience's maturity.
To give an example, I thought Shikimaru confronting the fact that he failed his sensei was very mature. Sadly, Kishimoto ruined the moment by making Shikimaru an Avenger just like Sasuke (which isn't necessarily a bad story, save for the fact that so much had been made about how bad it was for Sasuke to be an Avenger), even going so far as to try and abandon his village just to get his revenge. It reeked of childishness and not fully reflecting on his actions (as if, somehow, killing the man who killed his sensei would make up for his sensei's death).
Naruto is an immature story (or at least not a mature story), simply because the world the characters live in is childish and simplistic. And, truthfully, it works best this way.