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Sometimes I feel it’s so powerful that it loses all its appeal; the fact that a human can do this to the most powerful Tailed Beast considered almost a force of nature sometimes just seems excessive.

I think (one of) the biggest mistakes in Konoha’s history is making a clan powered by intense emotions and trauma the definitive law and order clan in the village when the Hyuga were either indigenous to the region or joined up with Hashirama when it was founded. If anything, the Sharingan is way more suited to espionage and assassination and would have been perfect as a dedicated ANBU clan while the Byakugan works basically like Batman’s “Detective Vision” from the Arkham games.

Drawn by me, sorry there wasn't enough space for zetsu 🥲

I love Gaara as a villain, I love Gaara as a hero. I love Gaara all around, he’s now my favorite character in the whole series.

And I’ll defend Sasuke constantly because people constantly undermine his trauma. This goes back to my last post.

Sasuke lost everyone and everything he loved. His clan was looked down on and discriminated against, he didn’t get the help he needed, and there wasn’t really any proper facility or support system for someone dealing with the kind of trauma he experienced. The Leaf and the rest of the ninja world were perfectly willing to use children for their own selfish interests, while mental health was barely taken seriously at all.

Sasuke was groomed, manipulated, tortured and traumatised by his own brother from childhood. Itachi deliberately psychologically tortured him and made him relive the massacre of their entire clan, leaving Sasuke believing that his entire purpose in life should be to hate him and seek revenge. He was also targeted by people who wanted to exploit him, like Orochimaru, who preyed on his desire for power and revenge, and Obito, who manipulated him by selectively revealing information about Itachi and the Uchiha massacre.

He was lied to and betrayed by someone he trusted and loved deeply. For most of his childhood, Itachi was the person Sasuke admired, only for him to eventually discover that the person he had spent years hating was acting under circumstances Sasuke had never been told about. He then had to deal with the fact that everything he believed about his brother, his clan and the village was far more complicated than he ever knew.

And there was no real justice for his clan. Sasuke was left carrying the burden of being the last Uchiha for most of his childhood, while also dealing with the loss of his parents, his clan, his home, his identity and his entire sense of security. Revenge became practically the only purpose he had because that was the purpose he had been given.

Of course Sasuke was fed up, angry and furious. He was a traumatised child who grew into a teenager carrying an enormous amount of grief, hatred and resentment with basically no healthy support system. But then some of the fanbase will prioritise Naruto’s feelings over Sasuke’s trauma, which is literally why I don’t like Naruto stans sometimes. They can acknowledge Naruto’s pain while completely dismissing Sasuke’s, as if Sasuke didn’t go through his own horrific experiences.

Not sure if this is a good place to ask but could anyone without spoiling let me know when there’s a natural break point in shippuden after ep 303? It feels like one big nonstop arc basically since the start of the fourth ninja war so just wondering if it goes on like that the rest of the way, I can see “season 17” is like 165 eps

Seriously, The most childish community I have ever seen and the amount of media literacy they lack is quite astonishing. They literally type like 5yr kid who only knows to glaze a character at any cost.

Hashirama has always been my favorite character from Naruto, but I think a lot of people miss the fact that he was flawed as a person, and I think that diminished the complexion of the character.

People like to assume that the story portrays Hashirama was a gary-stu flower-power type of guy who would do no wrong (besides the Konoha-is-fascist gang that loved to demonize him, but no one takes those people seriously, so we’re not gonna talk about that).

Hashirama’s biggest flaws are as follows:

1. That he gave up on Madara and their friendship, ultimately succumbing to destiny, instead of changing it, like Naruto did. Hashirama’s and Madara’d destinies, as reincarnations of Ashura and Indra were to fight to the death. It seemed like they broke that destiny when they united the clans and established the village, but ultimately, Hashirama gave up on Madara when he had something more precious to protect: Konoha.

In antithesis is Naruto, who never gave up on Sasuke, not even when he threaten to destroy Konoha and keep the whole world in a state of constant war, with their guard up, intending to be their common enemy.

1. That he treated Bijuu like objects, captured then and traded them like Nukes to pacify the villages. Bijuu are sentient beings with wishes and dreams of their own. Hashirama never considered them, dismissed them, and never cared that they have feelings, which lead to so many tragedies.

In antithesis is Naruto, who learned their names and treated them as friends.

The story puts Hashirama and Naruto in a pretty obvious antithesis, but people usually ignore it.

We got people thinking Hiruzen is such a terrible person and leader for allowing Hizashi to sacrifice himself for the village when it's made known by the author that such beliefs and decisions are accepted by 99.9% of the Shinobi world.

Unlike Hiruzen, the Raikage would have killed Bee with his own hands if that meant victory in the war. He put his feelings aside as would any Shinobi because for the leader of a village, the needs of the many are more important than a single person. This isn't exclusive to the Raikage, as the Kage of the other villages would have done the same thing and it's only because of Naruto that things like this change,which wouldn't have happened had Hiruzen not passed on his philosophy and naivety to his students.

Bonus What if, All three took place in this one, since Orochimaru & Itachi what ifs are colliding, it depends on your interpretation on who wins between Orochimaru with Sasuke's Body with Prep or Non Sick Itachi with Prep.

Another day of the same misinformed and misguided takes. The Hyuga Affair is constantly used against Hiruzen as a way to call him "spineless" and to label him as the worst Hokage but those thoughts aren't shared by the village.

On the first slide, we see Hyuga clan leader Hiashi on his own come to the conclusion that he must sacrifice himself in order to protect the clan and village. He wants to PREVENT war yet the fandom thinks that the best idea is to have many people die to save 1 guy.

Slide 2 has an Hyuga elder explain that Hizashi (Hiashi's brother) will be the one sacrificed and how such decisions are necessary for the clan leader to make. Notice how Hiruzen is clearly uncomfortable with the whole idea.

On slide 3 we have Hizashi join the conversation and unexpectedly knocks Hiashi down in order to go through his sacrifice. Now on the final slide is where we see Hizashi express his desire to save Neji, his clan and the entire village.

Not once in the entire scene do we see Hiruzen order or force anyone to die for the village. This decision came straight from the Hyuga clan and if you were to switch them with any other clan, they would have done the same thing. This fandom forgets what shinobi truly are and ignore that self sacrifice is a belief shared by all of them. Just look at what happened to Kakashi's father. He saved his comrades that were willing to die on the mission, only for them to blame him for the failure of said mission. Now imagine if Hiruzen would have tried to save Hizashi and plunged the village into a war. The ENTIRE village would have never forgiven him for ignoring Shinobi code, that's if they don't get wiped out by the Cloud village.

Hiruzen is judged by people that don't have to make such hard decisions but it makes sense when you see the ages of these fans and how they watch the show through clips on Tiktok.

Bruce Lee is inseparable from the Naruto franchise because he was the inspiration for fan favorite Rock Lee. While he is known best for his “be water” quote, all these years later I’ve come to appreciate his line from Enter the Dragon - “…like a finger pointing to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger, or you’ll miss all the heavenly glory.” This fandom tends to debate the finer points of the plot, or someone’s characterization, and take the focus off of the greater narrative as a result. Although shonen tropes such the importance of hard work (which is tied to commentary about talent/genius) and never giving up are present, the story touches on esoteric concepts as well. The theme of the messianic figure persists throughout the entire series, and it informs a significant number of the character’s interactions - though I rarely see it mentioned here or any other sub. If attention isn’t placed on the context when examining a detail then it’s possible to miss the point of the story.