Christopher A. Born notes that the "Naruto" storyline contains traditional Confucian values, and suggests that students who analyse manga such as "Naruto" and "Bleach" will learn more about Confucianism than they would from studying its abstract ideas. Norman Melchor Robles Jr. evaluated the portrayal of both positive and negative ideas in "Naruto" by counting words in the script which were associated with either violence or positive values; he found that a small majority of tagged words were violent, but commented that the portrayal of violence seemed organized to show how positive strategies on the part of the protagonists could overcome the violence. Sheuo Hui Gan considers the series to have a set of "traditional ethical values". She also compares the treatment of in "Naruto", which Naruto overcomes by joining his society, to the portrayal of alienation in "Akira" and "Neon Genesis Evangelion", where the main characters remain alienated.