#5kages

[orangelemonart]

what is your favorite arc in Naruto? i read something where someone explained the land of waves arc and how some of the themes were abandoned that Naruto hated how ninja was and he wanted to be the change but he did not do that - i did not finish watching shippuden i will but i don't care for spoilers and i wanna know what you think? and if you would change something to reflect back to the whole lets make a better world cause the one before us was terrible if you care about that kinda stuff

I used to feel that way. A million years ago, when the manga's war arc felt endless, I thought the series was abandoning all it's themes.

But after years of thinking way too much about this series, I believeJiraiya's "Quest For Peace" idea creates a through line from Land of Waves to the rest of the series and proves the themes WEREN'T abandoned. Putting this under a read more cause I rambled.

I'm sure the anime is worse because the war arc takes much longer there (I didn't watch the anime as is), so it really feels like we're losing the point for long stretches. But Naruto stays true to his feelings after the Zabuza and Haku stuff through the whole series. He refused to be a tool- his whole thing in that arc- when everyone was telling him to let Sasuke be executed, when they tried to keep him from the war, every thing or flashback about Nagato or Jiraiya's concept of a quest for peace. Hell it's WHY he was able to reach Obito. It's what he yaps about in every Talk-no-Jutsu

I think the entire series strongly supports that idea that Naruto would keep his vows to everyone he T-n-Jed about finding the best, least-violent solutions to conflict and oppression, all flowing from his Land of Waves experience. They're practically OVEREXPLAINED, not abandoned, that's why people make fun of T-n-J so much. And from what little I know about the spin-off series, his whole quest-for-peace/not-giving-up-not-being-a-tool/fix-everything/my-own-ninja-way is why he's busier than other kages, and why the antagonists are ninja moon aliens. Naruto is maintaining world peace, the only place left for villains is OUT OF THIS WORLD.

Anyway that's probably why the 5-Kage Summit is my favorite arc. A lot of (DUMB) people hate it because they think "well the whole village likes Naruto now, that should be the end of the series!", failing to realize Naruto's real goal has changed from being leader so everyone would treat him better, to being a leader who makes the world better for others. He spends that arc grappling with just how difficult that is through the microcosm of how he can't even do that for Sasuke, meanwhile Sasuke is dealing with the emotional ramifications of the cycle of revenge and CONSTANTLY being used as a tool by others. I think that arc strengthens the themes and character development.

I don't think it's perfect, of course. I think there's some muddiness in "not being a tool" and maintaining the ninja system. These things should have been addressed on a world-scale, not just a Sasuke-scale, after chapter 698. There should have been at least a cursory sentence about how Naruto as hokage is working hard to end oppression and cycles of revenge around the world, how even though he hasn't fixed everything, he isn't giving up or backing down! That's all it'd take, but nooooo we had dedicate the entire last chapter to introducing spin-off characters instead of addressing the themes of the series. The 5 Great Nations have more amicable summits, that's all we got.

I have a comic about what I would do differently, SOMEDAY I'll finish coloring it.... someday......

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more nukenin Kakashi stuff..

thinking about Obitos super cool solo missions...

[lawyeryuri]

oh yeah thats what i went into tumbler for. TSUNADE WOULDNT HATE SASUKE. lefs list all of his crimes ok?

1.killed danzo

well she hated danzo. why woukd she be mad

2. killed orochimaru

he brought him back.no harm no foul also orochimaru was a wanted criminal.

3. abandoned the village

wow do you guys know who ELSE left the village? someone who also maybe hates the institution for what it did to their loved ones? someone else maybe brought back by naruto? who has huge boobs? anyone? literally the only difference is she was a war hero before she left and sasuke was one after.

in short: why is sasuke in jail again?

oh fuck i forgot th terrorism. whatever sasuke was really bad at it so who cares

[piratebuttercup]

Madara fighting 5kage and giving his kage bunshin's a susanoo :))

Making literally the only wood user a fucking babysitter 💢

Disrespectful moments in Naruto I think about a Lot™

that first lee vs sasuke fight. humbled isn't even the word to describe that.

gai calling kisame a puffer fish to his face, in all seriousness and sincerity

14 year old itachi catching legendary sannin orochimaru in a genjutsu and toying with him. actually, any time Itachi opens his mouth.

that one man groping a 12 year old Sakura and her roundhouse kicking him in the face (deserved)

deidara and sasori arguing about their philosophies surrounding art while using gaara's corpse as a sofa

hidan picking out what instruments konan, kakuzu, and itachi played because he thought they were an emo rock band

hashirama: I'll deal with you later

naruto punching sasuke square in the mouth so hard that he quadruple flipped in the air

literally any time itachi interacts with sasuke after the massacre wtf why was he so MEAN

killer bee too focused on coming up with lyrics to fight but still somehow winning against team hebi

Please feel free to add on

[mochidoodle]

evil grandpa: defeated

[gregoryhou5e]

no bc I was looking thru the manga which i have never rlly done yesterday and i am appalled!!! LOOK HOW NORMAL AND NICE IZUNA LOOKS IN THE MANGA…. STUDIO PIERROT HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO HIM…

[missuchitard]

the original image is not from me. i dont know who the artist is

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[uchiha-in-disguise]

My Unpopular Opinions About Naruto Anime

Uchiha:

I have mixed feelings about Itachi.But as a brother , he is worst . Before , you all say that all he did was for Sasuke , hear me out. All his plans for Sasuke , failed terribly. I hold him responsible for ruining Sasuke 's youth completely. I don't know what he thought while traumatizing and manipulating him , that emotionally hurting him and then sowing seeds of hatred and vengeance will make him stronger in coming future? Even before massacre, I didnt get his reasoning for Not training with Sasuke. Itachi might be a loyal to Konoha and talented Shinobi , but as brother he is a failure.

Obito wasn't a simp and Rin wasn't the ONLY reason for him to turn evil . Yes ,her death was a major reason . After Rin's death , he started believing Madara's pessimistic view about Shinobi World. The reason for him turning evil , was Madara's manipulation which came to fruition with Rin's death.

I don't have problem with Obito being 'talk-no jutsu-ed ’ by Naruto

Tobirama was a racist.

I understand his reasoning for hating Uchihas during Warring state Era , as Senju and Uchiha have been fighting from ages. Uchihas killed his clansmen and family , considered . But it was two way thing, even Senju did the same thing right? Hashi and Madara created Konoha to stop the wars and hardship Shinobi had to live with, even as a child. It was all about compromise, collobrate and co-operate, which Uchiha and Senju could have done slowly as both of them wanted peace

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I believe . Tobirama forming Police Force , to keep Uchiha's out of influence of the government and creating headquarter in remote area due to his mistrust was wrong . As a Hokage , he had to be rational, and NoT take decisions according to his personal feelings towards something. His actions were guided by his perosnal feelings towards Uchiha Clan. He had to consider them as a part of vilage as much as Senju were. Konoha was new start , a village formed as a sign of peace , and to maintain and sustain the peace he and the leaders had to forgo the past and form a new future of peace that both the clans and all the Shinobi wanted in general. Unlike , Hashi Tobirama wasnt willing to give a chance to Uchiha and his mistrust indeed led to 4th Shinobi War

.As explained above , Uchiha 's dissatisfaction with government was completely justified. And I support coup d'état.

I like Fugaku Uchiha, I would have loved to see his backstory.

. Sasuke isn't a emo brat who was moulded for plot purpose. His actions were more or less result of piles lies and half-truth he was served. I undestand his motivation and reasoning for destroying konoha. What reason did he have NOT to destroy Konoha? What good did Konoha did to him? Ordered his brother to wipe off his complete clan and family? He just didn't blindly follow Itachi.After talking to Edo Itachi , he wanted to know what does it mean to be a Hokage , or village , why was his brother willing to do anything for village? He just didn't do things for no reason.

. Sasuke is my favourite character in Naruto. Dare I say, but I liked 5Kage Summit Arc Sasuke , though he was full of rage , he was complete badass .In the same day he fought Raikage and his subordinates , Gaara , invaded 5 Kage Summit, battled Mizukage and Tsuchikage, defeated Danzo and also dealt with Team7 . It was quite impressive IMO.

I like Uchiha Clan, though I admit they are bit OP , especially their Sharingan Abilities

Plot:

I liked the War Arc , atleast the first half. It felt like a real war going on , where all the Shinobi are united , fighting at different fronts. Talking about second part, I feel it was messed up , especially the eye 'parcing the parcel’ thing.

Kaguya , Raikdou Senin , Indra , Ashura weren't out of nowhere , Raikdou Sennin was refrenced many times in Shippuden. And this story indeed gave the reason for Uchiha -Senju fights , origin of Shinobi , chakra and ninjutsu. But deep down I feel that making Naruto-Sasuke Indra-Ashura re incarnates was unnecessary.

Female Characters:

I belive the female characters are often sidelined and aren't given major role in the storyline as the males.

Again , the female characters could have been written better ,with their own time to shine.

I consider Karin's backstory nothing more than a head cannon . Its in the Tsukuyomi FILLER arc and so I don't consider it canon, as its not present in Manga.

I like Karin and Sakura's Friendship. I like the way they respect each other. Though it isnt shown on screen , it's good to know that they are friends than having ill will towards each other ..

I do not think Sakura is treated as main character, really , compared to Naruto and Sasuke who play pivotal role in the storyline , Sakura is playing role in background.(Unlike her mother , I wish Sarada gets adequate devlopement and major role in story)

I am not really fond of female characters in Naruto. As of the main female character , Sakura , I am neutral towards her tho I have many problems with her character . I like Kushina .

I don't really like Hinata. I am not fond of excessively shy girls anyway.

Hinata had many possible way to grow as a character and Shinobi , but alas she didnt.(atleast not upto my expectation) She did came for a girl always watching Naruto’s back to a girl who could be upfront about her feelings And try to walk together with Naruto, I appreciate that .

I feel ,she would have been better off , if her charcater or rather her role in the story wasn't centered to N-Naruto-Kun. I'd really like if she had became the clan head , and bring a reform in the clan , as she witnessed the problems related to the clan , especially the main and side branch. With Byakugan and now Hamura's chakra she could have done wonders , but Boruto isnt treating her well.

Sakura:

She doesn't deserve the hate she gets. 80% of people hate her due to some misconception about her character. She is mostly subjected to double standards by the community.

I think the major problem with her character is how her devlopement goes to and fro , a fine example is Land of Iron Arc . All her devlopement in Shippuden was curbed in the snow.

In my opinion she is far more competent and achieved many things at the age of 17 compared to other kunoichi of her age.

Sakura wanking is just out of the world. Her wankers or whatever need to stop over-praising her and create false post to make her seem great .

I do not find her punching Naruto as funny , sometimes it's fine but over doing it makes it irritating. Nonetheless , I understand that Kishi added as a comic relief and it shouldn't be taken seriously.

Her bond with Naruto and Sasuke is highly underrated. While , I understand this because how her character goes to peak and then falls.

Talking about Naruto and Sakura Friendship , Sakura was amongst the first few people to acknowledge him and supported his dream of being Hokage , OUT LOUD.

Despite having crush on Sakura , Naruto acknowledged that her feelings will be directed wholly and solely towSasuke . He acted like a support and reassurance when Sasuke left the village.

Both of them support , acknowledge and praise each others abilities

Though what Sakura did was completely wrong in Land of Iron Arc, her intention was to help Naruto, and stop burdening him from the promise. Same way, she wanted to kill Sasuke , so that he doesn't dwell in darkness even more.

About , Sasuke and Sakura…well Sakura was annoying fangirl at start , but she did grow up from that, I admit at start her image of Sasuke was highly superficial , but the image shattered down slowly, first in the Land of Waves.

The notion of Sasuke being jerk towards Sakura comes from the fact he is brutally honest and blunt . Sakura was annoying at start, and as a Shinobi she was even behind Naruto , she could have utilize the time for training ,than flirting with Sasuke. He said this in front of her , and it was true. He was being completely honest with her

Sasuke wasn't rude, arrogant,uncaring , unkind towards Sakura at start. Infact, it was quite opposite . He cared about her a lot, and considered her to be a precious person who he didn't wanted to lose , yet again. He had been vulnerable and unguarded infront of Sakura many times. He opened up first time about the massacre and also the Otsutsuki threat (not directly tho) to Sakura. Unlike other girls , Sasuke didn't push off Sakura rather allowed her to touch him physically. He did acknowledge her ability and also was thankful for her love & genuinely sorry for the pains she had to go thro bcoz of him.

Though Sakura's crush at start was superficial and she was a fangirl, she really started loving him , and her love for Sasuke indeed help her grow as a character. It was one of the driving force for her to get strong.

Ships:

I ship Sasuke and Sakura. I am completely okay with people not liking this ship

Even though I am die hard SasuSaku shipper , I feel NaruSaku did make sense. I don't understand why many fans claim it's absurd and wierd. Naruto had a legit crush on Sakura and they had more screen time than the canon ship. Having said that , Kishi himself teased the ship many times. It completely make sense people shipping them. Its way better than shipping an adult and child or people who didnt even have conversation or met each other. I know that many crazy people gave death threats to Kishi and all , but we can't generalize all the shippers ,right?I have seen NaruSaku shipper being completely fine with them being just best friends in Boruto. But that DOESN'T mean that I validate or support hideous and bizzare questions and theories, like Naruto/Sakura should ditch their respective partners etc etc.

Instead of Naruto seeing Genjutsu and realising his love , they could have added more NaruHina moments in Shippuden and make him realise that he loved Hinata.

I like Yahiko and Konan &MinaKushi.

General Characters:

I don't like Jiraya. His perverted personality rub me off the wrong way. As a Sensei , I think he was a bit irresponsible. While he actually taught Naruto, Summoning , dispelling genjutsu , and Rasengan but all the important things like Sennin mode and Nine tails mode was learnt after his death. Honestly , his death was not that emotional for me as for many other fans , for me it was like any other Shinobi dying.

Jiraya is overrated and over-gratified

I am not that fond of Neji either , again his death wasn't emotional for me.

Kakashi wasn't a good sensei at all , even he was irresponsible and ignorant. Unlike popular belief , I dont see him as a father-figure to either memebers of Team 7.

Naruto and Sasuke 's friendship is one of the most well written and devloped relationship. I don't have any qualms with Naruto going lengths to save Sasuke .

Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura are misunderstood by many fans.

I do not like the Hyuga Clan

Naruto is a good protagonist.

Naruto-Kurama bond is underrated.

Naruto- Shikamaru werent best friends /childhood friends. Thanks to fillers people consider him to be Naruto's ‘ real friend ’ who was there with him since childhood.

Suigetsu was wierd but amusing.

Tsunade was a good Hokage and I feel she isn't credited enough

Thank you!

[shikanarumara]

gonna watch the 5kage summit arc bc it's the most explicitly gay sns content we get for like four seasons

[sasukesun]

As someone who ships narugaa (my otp is still sns tho rip) i can easily say that SS fans only "ship" gaanaru bc 1) it keeps sasuke out of the equation with naruto and they can safely ship SS without examining how sasuke had more chemistry with naruto than sakura 2) it gives them a gay ship to hide behind from criticisms of being homophobic bc alot of their remarks arguments and quips against sns are homophobia 101 and 3) alot of them hate hinata but like naruto so they'll ship naruto with anyone with who he had any vague chemistry with as long as its not hinata like I've seen them shipping naruto with INO even tho they had like 2 interactions throughout the whole series lol

I rarely have seen any of these ss shippers talking about narugaa outside of when they are trying to negate the bond between sns almost everytime they make a tweet about narugaa its when they are also trying to shit on sns

Anyways naruto himself loves sasuke much more than he cares for gaara and made it clear during the 5kage summit when he removed gaara's hand from his shoulders and then proceeded to yearn after sasuke n having a panic attack over him :)

yeah that makes a lot of sense, naruto just makes them pressed because sasuke cares more about him than he could ever care about sakura.

i don’t think narugaa is a bad ship though i don’t trust the fandom that much because of what you said plus the narugaas that hate sasuke and the self inserty fangirls that think naruto have multiple boyfriends or whatever... i honestly don’t see any reasons to multiship either naruto or sasuke or even ship them with other people cause i just don’t think they have chemistry and are interested in anyone else

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[lawyeryuri]

this just in, on reading boruto so you don't have to. (vol. 2 edition) it's whatever. summary below the cut! it got long but i had fun w it <3

our story so far! its just them doing the chunin exams. sasuke is mentoring boruto, and boruto is using... how to explain this. he's been sponsored by new ninja tools Inc. which allows him to basicallyyyy copy paste jutsu (not unlike the alien fuckers) which allows him a totally unearned power boost

boruto gets back from the exams and Naruto has possibly one of the most awkward father-son conversations ever. boruto goes up to his room and hears a knock on the door. he says fuck off mom I'm playing minecraft!! but it's naruto! actually im gonna transcribe it cause it's so funny

boruto:... dad!

Naruto: ... yo! um... ....i, er.... ... heard you passed... round two.

boruto:... yeah...

Naruto:...

boruto: what?

Naruto:....

boruto: if that's it, couldja go?

Naruto: you... did well. see you later, then.

boruto: you came up... just to say that?

Naruto: well... it's........ important, you know.... real important... .... yeah. it's very important.

(GOD WHAT A NERD. kind of sad cause he like. doesn't know how to talk to his kid but. yeah)

then Naruto's all like "don't lose to shikadai" and boruto goes "this could have been an email" (LMAO LITTLE SNARK. he's so awful 💛) (boruto is really happy about it though)

so he uses his little ninja tool thang to win the fight against shikamaru's kid, but naruto SEES him... and he goes HEY this gives you a totally unearned power boost you little fuck! you don't even deserve to call yourself a ninja! I'll lecture you about this later... and boruto goes well maybe you should have lectured me BEFORE. you would have known I was using secret ninja tools if you were in my life, DAD.

and oh no, we don't have time to deal with that because the aliens show up!! ahhh! they want narutos beast chakra for blah blah blah who cares. so they kidnap him. and sasukes like hey boruto let's go get your dad. 5kages like ok we're coming too so sasuke and the 5kage AND THIS RANDOM ASS GENIN... go get him in dimension 20 or wherever the fuck they go. OH YEAH. naruto yells at one of the aliens for relying on "doping" for power when they take some ninja pills or whatever. (COMPLETELY ignoring choji's whole thang of food pills. whatever. I <3 retconning) yeah I get its s'posed'a parallel what boruto is doing with the tools, but it sucks.

uh then alien guy eats his friend and goes curse mark lvl 1. end volume. I hate those lame ass idiot aliens. they don't even have sharingan 3rd eye like kaguya.

and now this is just nitpicky, but rocklee has awful tank top sleeves in one panel, and regular ones in the next

[ID: comic panels in which Rock Lee, from boruto, is shown with cut-off tank top sleeves in one, but full sleeves in the next. /End ID.]

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[mochidoodle]

『ObiKonan』

I have this very specific, self-indulgent AU where Obito becomes Lady Angel’s bodyguard/advisor/boy toy/house-husband/the ultimate shopping bag holder (kamui)/etc and they attend 5kage summits where minor village leadership is invited.

Obito always has been and will be a simp, except he went through a dark phase, is an ex-villain, and now instead of crushing on a sunshine girl he has a goth ninja president ex-villain wife without whom he does not function tbh