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gwydionae · 5 days ago

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I get using no specific iteration of the TMNT in a crossover and just making yet another new version. After all, the franchise has had many, many different versions at this point, so it's easy to accept that this is simply one more to add to the pile.

But Naruto has... one. Just the one. So when all of a sudden characters are written/shown to have expertise that they shouldn't have at the age they're being depicted, it just ends up feeling weird.

I get that fitting things into the Naruto timeline can be a chore. Do it too early, and Sakura is kinda useless. Do it too late, and Sasuke's off murdering people. And if you try to set it after the series, the power levels are seriously gonna be out of whack.

But breaking the only canon that has ever existed for these characters makes them feel like... not the same characters. I might be the only one who cares about this, but it really took me out of the story, to the point where I couldn't help but focus on it. I don't want to be distracted from page one of a silly ninja crossover comic.

#almost as distracting as the weird dialogue given to all the naruto characters i mean wut lol #unsurprisingly i didn't care for how the naruto characters were handled #i went into this issue knowing this would most likely be the case #i am admittedly very harsh on how i judge naruto characterizations pre time jump #ah well #who knows maybe in the end the story will be worth it but at just 4 issues i'm not gonna hold my breath #more specific spoilers below...#i feel like they really should have just left sakura her normal self #if you know her character well enough you could totally pull off a fight between her and raph #he is a brawler and very straightforward but sakura is smart and has excellent chakra control #honestly just use her zaku fight tactics - substitution until you can get a surprise attack #or have her tree climb to get away and attack from range using paper bombs #i'd say she could use clones as a distraction but obviously that's too close to naruto's thing #like you can still make a fight with her work it's not like any of the tmnt were using anything other than taijutsu #but we've already seen covers with naruto using rasengan so i'm guessing she won't be the only one with extra powers #(i know the anime stuck some filler eps in between sasuke waking from his itachi induced coma and his fight with naruto on the roof)#(but those are non-canon and frankly really ruin the flow so i've always hated that they existed even if the kakashi mask one is amusing)#(but if you go by the anime's canon i guess you could technically have naruto knowing rasengan if this story is set then)#also uh sasuke you know you have the sharingan right #why weren't you using it you basically always use it post chuunin exams #though admittedly what the two tomoe sharingan is capable of isn't always clear as sometimes he can see attacks coming #(avoiding gaara's sand ball spikes or seeing haku's fast movement)#and sometimes he can't (like kyuubi naruto at the valley of the end until he gets his third tomoe)#ANYWAY i just really wanted to rant a bit about this thing so uh yeah i ranted XD #not tagging but i suppose it might still come up in searches... ehhhhhh i'll delete the post if i start getting hate or something lol

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