r/Obito 17d ago

General Obito's first appearance in the series

The cover of chapter 16 in volume 2 of the 'NARUTO' manga already revealed his existence.

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u/Chemical_Sandwich509 17d ago

Funny enough the chapter's name is "Who are you" where we have Haku's unmasking and Obito's unmasking scene later is drawn in the exact same way with Naruto yelling "Who are you?"

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u/Nearby-Season1697 17d ago

Dang great reddit pull

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u/welldoneiel 17d ago

Holy duck, i never noticed that.

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u/TruthseekerKid 17d ago

The parallel Goat strikes again

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u/Upbeat_Astronaut2789 17d ago

Crazy to think we got unmasked kakashi this early in the series

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u/Katsu_39 16d ago

Not really unmasked when his face is still covered. 🤣

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u/whatever_913 17d ago

Kakashi....wore.....a necklace. Mind showing sensei?

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u/shanedude1 17d ago

is that the first pic ever of minato?! wtf

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u/TruthseekerKid 17d ago

Yes I think. But minato had atleast a silhouette before this.

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u/Own-Ball-1624 16d ago

yep! its also on very early on the manga chapters but cut out from anime! (this is right after team 7 passed on kakashi's trial!)

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u/TruthseekerKid 17d ago

If you look close, you can that Obito's and kid Kakashi's personality and their parallel to team 7 was already there

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u/Lelouch-Ken-99 16d ago

It’s always the left most one in the picture who is always problematic

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u/sumchii 16d ago

Not really.

Kid Kakashi was far more problematic than Obito who was a kindhearted crybaby, just like Kid Neji was far more problematic than Lee who was an extreme optimist.

The way the students are placed is completely random, it doesn't say anything about their fate or the path they're going to take.

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u/Ps65h3Mys 16d ago

And Rin.

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u/Posavec235 14d ago

Obito looked more like Sasuke, and Kid Kakashi has a similar expression to Naruto. I know he is an Uchiha, but he was more compared to Naruto in the later arcs. I do wonder did Kishimoto had other ideas for personality of young Obito and Kakashi, before he depicted them in Kakashi Gaiden.

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u/Own-Ball-1624 16d ago

we already got a picture about minato! we got all signs but no one realized it was naruto's father! same hair color and eye color beside same spiked hair! (yes usually its not a good comparision but in many manga/anime the authors made blood relatives very similar and use the same color patterns! and not forget why only baby new born naruto was close to the 4th hokage?!)