#but its excessive when naruto initially was an underdog story. you realize that even with his parents gone he was inevitably going to be
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tired of shounen relying on lineage as means to justify the main character's plot armour
#beans of consciousness#naruto is just political families upon political families. i dont mind that hes the host of the kyuubi nor him being the son of the 4th#but its excessive when naruto initially was an underdog story. you realize that even with his parents gone he was inevitably going to be#a candidate for hokage. all naruto does is punch things harder and while his perseverence is admirable... he never really grows beyond that#he gets away with the bashing head approach because of his parents' connections. his father is the mentee of the sanin who were mentees#of the 3rd who was a mentee of the 2nd. the 3rd also taught the 5th. and naruto is distantly related to the 1st 2nd and 5th because of his#mother's lineage. even if his childhood was lonely you cannot deny that he had privilege by virtue of who his parents were#anyway finding out that jjk is going that same route with the yuuji parents reveal and honestly. they low key did that w yuta and making#him distantly related to gojo is disappointing. its tiring.#anyway this is why world trigger is goated
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