I just caught up with the anime last night, and I'm having a slight problem with Naruto vs. Pain.
I read the manga ages ago and overall the battle in both anime and manga are awesomely awesome, but it just seems that it's all just a little bit too easy for Naruto.
He's been training in sage mode a whole lot less than Jiraiya did (presumably) and for a guy who's not known to be a genius at picking up new stuff, he's mastered a level that is well beyond what we've come to expect from Naruto, but it's not just that, the problem I'm having is that by making Naruto so stupidly powerful so easily, they've belittled Jiraiya's character by making him comparatively weak (consider Naruto has killed 5 pains, 1 of them twice whereas Jiraiya barely managed to take one out. Also consider Jiraiya had the frogs chanelling nature chakra whereas Naruto is using nature battery clones.)
I dunno, it's cool and all that Naruto is this badass, but being that Jiraiya is my all time favourite character, it feels ****ty that he's all of a sudden so weak.