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True, it IS a shounen thing to have the female characters take reduced roles, but Kishimoto is particularly bad in regards to this. Look at Bleach, for example, or One Piece--the girls for the most part are always going to be outclassed by the guys' power levels, but Bleach has a much larger and more varied female cast than Naruto, and one that gets a hell of a lot more screentime and development than the girls do in Naruto (and it doesn't hurt that it was recently revealed in one of the Bleach sourcebooks that the second most powerful captain in Soul Society, right after Old Man Yama, is Unohana).
I don't know One Piece as well, but look at Nami and Nico Robin and Princess Vivi--they're all fully developed, realized characters with a significant chunk of plot space and backstory. You just don't get that with Naruto, and it's really a fucking shame.
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