>>280450376
In retrospect, I think I finally realized why I find the Sound Village characters interesting: they feel sort of like a proto-Akatsuki, albeit more disjointed; looking back at it, it's interesting how you've got this small group of characters connected to one faction that hassle the protagonists for almost the entire story (I actually forgot that in some way, the Sound baddies are involved in every single arc except for Land of Waves), they've all got unique designs in abilities, are generally divided into smaller sub-groups, and of course they get killed off bit-by-bit, it's just that they're not really given the same kind of gravitas that the Akatsuki did