Tag: naruto

endoplasmicpanda:

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kyriolex:

bleckerer:

ybee:

seriously sit and try to think about how ridiculous naruto’s backstory is. The 3rd didn’t give a shit and just left him money sometimes and when he’s like ‘why don’t I have parents?’ instead of just being like ‘kid they died’ he goes ‘sTOP ASKING QUESTIONS!!’ also where was jiraya?? hello? your student had a kid and then he died and they named the kid after your shitty oc and you’re not even going to help take care of it?? even until he can maybe take care of himself?? WHERE is the ninja orphanage. WHO was checking up on naruto in his tiny apartment that they put him in when he was like 5 years old. Who let Sasuke go and live in the house his family was murdered in.  

Why did a big chunk of the villagers believe that Naruto was literally Kurama when fuinjutsu were probably a big chunk of the curriculum at the ninja academy that they all had to go to? 

The jinchūriki

are later shown to be pretty important to the political climate between the villages – a structure instituted by the First Hokage himself, no less – so why is Konoha seemingly full of people who just straight-up have no clue what they are?

Also, does the ninja academy straight up just not teach history? Did an entire generation of people just sorta forget who the Fourth Hokage was? Did nobody ever, not once, remark to anybody else that Naruto looks a lot like two exceedingly famous people who just so happened to die on the day he was born?

The ninja academy teaches watered-down history in order to “prevent grudges” and “preserve the peace”. Even in the modern era, teachers don’t discuss real history, as we can see from the fact that Sarada and Chocho don’t recognize Orochimaru. There is no version of Konoha’s history that makes sense without him. Orochimaru is responsible for Sunagakure’s invasion, the Third’s death, Sunagakure’s alliance (inspired by his kidnapping of Sasuke), resurrecting the Kage to fight in the war, the creation of Yamato (an essential part of the Ten-Tails), etc. 

I’d like to think Shino is a good teacher who is forced to follow tradition. Considering his propensity for grudges, it’s out-of-character for him to not to mention all of Orochimaru’s crimes. I’d say it’s almost certain that the Academy curriculum is influenced by higher powers…or Kishimoto didn’t put a lot of thought into his world-building. That is also possible.

Honestly the underlying theme of forgetting/outright erasing history in the Naruto universe is one of the more disturbing ones in the setting. When you realize how much history is lost for one reason or another (no one records anything, and if they do records are usually kept secret within one’s clan, survivors don’t pass on their experiences to others, other witnesses just die off) it paints this weird picture where the shinobi don’t know their own pasts. 

I feel like this is highlighted when it comes to the shinobi wars. We the readers know so little about them, but like… do the characters themselves know much more than we do? Does anyone who didn’t live through it even know why the second or first wars were started?

Weekly reminder that the plot holes in Naruto are big enough to drive a truck into

The plot holes in Naruto are big enough to drop an aircraft carrier into, and it’ll still have plenty of room to float. Possibly enough to do maneuvers.

Hnnng I love this Tsunade & Kakashi content! I’ve always had the headcanon that if Sakumo had survived the Sannin would have been like eccentric uncles/aunt and Kakashi would forever be impressed with his Aunt Tsunade’s muscles. She would tease him and they’d be Salt Buddies from the time Kakashi could talk. When the other jounin and their kids find out it’s in the most ridiculous way possible. Jiraiya fears when they team up because no one escapes unscathed 🤣

shittilydrawing:

HI I LIKE this headcannon so much I was even willing to draw jiraiya. in this house, we pretend jiraiya as not a huge creep because yea.

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also I love drawing shit kid kakashi

unwiltingblossom:

So I have an issue with common fandom interpretations of Hashirama and Madara. (Not together, but it applies to Hashimada too)

Whenever I see Hashirama in the context of a relationship or the bedroom, he’s always either superderp or supertop. Whenever I see Madara, he’s either the smoothest dude ever or just ultra dominant.

Let me tell you something.

Madara is the man who turned Hashirama into a meme because he’s so incapable of articulating himself that when he saw his old friend and enemy he just decided to scream “HASHIRAMAAA” at him. This is the guy who can’t pee if someone looks at him while he’s doing it. This dude somehow managed to fail to convince his own clan, who he was presumably the leader and most powerful member of, to leave Konoha and ended up getting booted out.

By his own clan.

He failed charisma checks to get Hokage even when his friend and the only Hokage to exist at that point wanted him to be Hokage, and he failed so badly not one Uchiha joined him when he stormed out.

He self destructed partly because he can’t figure out that children are kind of important to have, because he saw them as brats running around his ankles. We see him with no personal bonds other than his siblings (primarily the one brother he had during his time with Hashirama) and Hashirama, and while he does manipulate quite well, it’s with violence and controlling circumstances. When he gets to ramble he sounds like a crazy old man.

He literally could not convince his own best friend to see things his way and he was one of the ones who founded the village in the first place.

Meanwhile, Hashirama became Hokage, founded and grew a village, forged the first peace between the nations, and had a wife and children. He convinced thousands of people, even those who were his enemies, to see things his way. He swayed Sasuke at least some small amount.

He had presence. He demanded respect and admiration from those around him, and even slapped down Tobirama. We’re also shown him manipulating and generally messing with people socially, not by heavily traumatizing them into a broken mess and picking up the pieces.

My point is, almost certainly, the smooth frick of the pair is Hashirama. He might also be derp, he might or might not be super top, but Hashirama is the dude to look out for. One does not successfully create a (temporary but also lasting) peace and village structure out of chaos and war without being wily.

Madara, on the other hand, is savage, a little feral, and insanely laser focused. And ultimately ended up being manipulated by a plant, like every other Uchiha ever. So. Madara probably uses his chopsticks by gripping them with his fist, stabbing through the plate, and lighting anything on fire that refuses to be skewered.

His mating call is probably just to scream at the person he’s interested in.

I’m just saying.

There’s no indicator that he’s a smooth operator anywhere ever.

Ever.

blackkatmagic:

Itachi’s fanbase is about 98% of why I don’t feel more ambivalent about his character. Fictional characters who do terrible things can be incredibly interesting – they give the viewer a look at other points of view, at moral complexity, at different mindsets that might not otherwise be encountered. But –

But at some point, every Itachi stan I’ve ever spoken with – including my brother, so please, don’t take this as an attack, because it’s just a differing point of view and I accept that – tends to use the phrase “But he was just following orders”.

It’s the Nuremberg Defense. It’s the Nuremberg Defense, which is so named because it was a defense of Nazi soldiers at the Nuremberg Trials who were party to genocide. And – Itachi’s actions? The Uchiha Massacre? That counts as genocide, too.

The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.

And that’s my big sticking point with Itachi. He had a moral choice. He chose genocide instead of literally anything else. There can be a thousand different arguments about why the moral choice wouldn’t have worked, why it would have been harder, why it would have been hard for Itachi as a person to make, what other options he could have possibly had. But, honestly? That doesn’t change the fact that he could have made it.

Regardless of all other factors, he had a choice, and he chose genocide.

Befehl ist Befehl is not an excuse. There’s always a moral choice. And when Itachi is outright painted as a hero, as a martyr, as a pinnacle of goodness, it’s wrong. Genocide is not right. Itachi had a choice and he decided to follow orders. That makes him a soldier. It doesn’t make him a hero.

One can argue Itachi’s moral complexity and motivations forever. It won’t change what he did. And whenever someone tells me he was just following orders, the response that’s always on the tip of my tongue is I know another set of people who used that excuse for genocide. And somehow, I don’t think you would call them heroes.