Current Events > Re-watching Naruto is kinda funny vs. how it all turned out (spoilers)

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Zabuza and Kakashi fight but Zabuza loses.
Haku then "kills" Zabuza with Kakashi confirming he is dead.

Naruto throws a fit because Zabuza was so strong yet some snotty kid like himself just was able to casually kill him. Naruto can't accept that but Kakashi is like that is the reality of things.

This is a hard lesson about how mortal we all are and eve....

WAIT WAIT just kidding everyone is a godlike being in the end who can barely be killed by what is essentially localized nuclear blasts, even Kakashi who gets a super Susanoo for a bit.

Remember how they pretended teamwork was gonna be a thing early on?

Then in Boruto everyone just comes out of the womb Kage level. Oh wait, Kage level is fodder, I meant Otsutsuki level.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

Remember how they pretended teamwork was gonna be a thing early on?

technically Naruto and Sasuke worked as a team to beat Kaguya

Rock Lee should have been the main character

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

Remember how they pretended teamwork was gonna be a thing early on?

''Dying together can also be considered teamwork''

God I miss Madara so much.

DarthEnvoy posted...

''Dying together can also be considered teamwork''

God I miss Madara so much.

Fuck Madara. Atrocious goddamn mary sue villain.

WingsOfGood posted...

technically Naruto and Sasuke worked as a team to beat Kaguya

Dont forget Sakura!

Seaman_Prime posted...

Dont forget Sakura!

pretty sure she didn't do anything in the final fight

wtf they had literal Cranes to build that bridge with

where is all this tech the rest of Naruto?

I know Boruto has stuff like that but I had always thought it was like a scientific revolution like that train

DarthEnvoy posted...

Then in Boruto everyone just comes out of the womb Kage level. Oh wait, Kage level is fodder, I meant Otsutsuki level.

Yeah. Everyone comes already buffed by God.

power creep in naruto is just so bad

oh also remember the theme of hard work in part 1

WingsOfGood posted...

pretty sure she didn't do anything in the final fight

they quite literally only won because she punched the final boss prevented her from dodging
the final attack was a 3 way combo between team 7 with kakashi watching on with pride

Whole story starts to suck the second Naruto stops being about even vague interpretations of ninjas.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

Remember how they pretended teamwork was gonna be a thing early on?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/010be7fb.jpg

yusiko posted...

they quite literally only won because she punched the final boss prevented her from dodging
the final attack was a 3 way combo between team 7 with kakashi watching on with pride

that was not some bad ass moment for sakura it was kishi going "oh yeah she is here to"

hell there is no reason kaguya couldnt have seen the attack coming she has 360 degree vision

tbf to Sakura, she has to live in a world where every other character has some special bloodline, has genetic experiments done on them, has notable family techniques, and/or is some reincarnation of a ninja demigod.

boxoto posted...

tbf to Sakura, she has to live in a world where every other character has some special bloodline, has genetic experiments done on them, has notable family techniques, and/or is some reincarnation of a ninja demigod.

And the thing she was best at (genjutsu) was more or less abandoned unless you were an Uchiha.

yusiko posted...

they quite literally only won because she punched the final boss prevented her from dodging
the final attack was a 3 way combo between team 7 with kakashi watching on with pride

Don't recall

Naruti and Sasuke got specual buffs to seal her like her original kids

PowerOats posted...

Rock Lee should have been the main character

watch Mashle

Thats just the nature of shounen and the power creep due to milking of the series.

Yeah...I didn't like the power creep the Naruto series shows in Part 2. And the less said about Boruto the better.

s0nicfan posted...

And the thing she was best at (genjutsu) was more or less abandoned unless you were an Uchiha.

for real, I feel bad for her and Kurenai because of that.

WingsOfGood posted...

Zabuza and Kakashi fight but Zabuza loses.
Haku then "kills" Zabuza with Kakashi confirming he is dead.

Naruto throws a fit because Zabuza was so strong yet some snotty kid like himself just was able to casually kill him. Naruto can't accept that but Kakashi is like that is the reality of things.

....that is not at all why naruto was upset about hakus death lmao.

Are you sure you're rewatching?

DarthEnvoy posted...

Then in Boruto everyone just comes out of the womb Kage level. Oh wait, Kage level is fodder, I meant Otsutsuki level.

Literally only this applies to team 7. Every other kid in boruto is leagues weaker than the previous generation was at that age.

Toonstrack posted...

....that is not at all why naruto was upset about hakus death lmao.

Are you sure you're rewatching?

errrr you are clearly confused

TC Is talking about the fake death from when haku "killed" zabuza

AceMos posted...

errrr you are clearly confused

TC Is talking about the fake death from when haku "killed" zabuza

Ah ok, I was mixing the two up.

for Boruto, he also wasn't born OP - he absorbed the one alien's consciousness after killing him, which gave him the karma.

he also had teachers who helped him become OP - Sasuke and Jiraya's cyborg clone.

Himarawi, on the other hand...

boxoto posted...

tbf to Sakura, she has to live in a world where every other character has some special bloodline, has genetic experiments done on them, has notable family techniques, and/or is some reincarnation of a ninja demigod.

That is the gist of it. Keep in mind at how many Genins of the Classic Naruto was related to some bloodline or the other.

No wonder the anime played so hard around Eugenics. Some are basically born with power of Gods directly from womb while others have to develop a technique out of pure hardwork that basically requires you to die.

Sakura is kage level by series end.

WingsOfGood posted...

technically Naruto and Sasuke worked as a team to beat Kaguya

Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, Obito and Kakashi worked together for that actually. The whole series was full of teamwork moments. I don't know what that guy's on about.

Remember when they set things up by saying that the series would be about how hard work and training can help you defeat somebody with natural inborn talents, and then quickly threw that out and said "nah j/k the main character is strong because he has a fox god inside him that grants unlimited energy" and Rock Lee became a spectator character?

TMOG posted...

Remember when they set things up by saying that the series would be about how hard work and training can help you defeat somebody with natural inborn talents, and then quickly threw that out and said "nah j/k the main character is strong because he has a fox god inside him that grants unlimited energy" and Rock Lee became a spectator character?

Might Gai legit gave Madara one of the best fights of his life...

AgentCoulson posted...

Might Gai legit gave Madara one of the best fights of his life...

And who won

AgentCoulson posted...

Might Gai legit gave Madara one of the best fights of his life...

I believe it tells more about how Kishi seems to hate Rock Lee. Sakura is somehow Kage level, Gai managed to be an opponent to Madara, and Rock Lee got left behind.

Either Gai teaching sucked ass or Tsunade was absolutely Goddess to make Sakura be a Kage Level while also being a Medical Ninja.

AgentCoulson posted...

Might Gai legit gave Madara one of the best fights of his life...

its might guy

AgentCoulson posted...

Might Gai legit gave Madara one of the best fights of his life...

Thank god they gave Might a father to have learned the Eight Gates from, otherwise he would have ended up like Rock Lee.

TMOG posted...

And who won

He still put up a good fight and was acknowledged by an opponent that Naruto and Sasuke themselves were struggling with.

ellis123 posted...

Thank god they gave Might a father to have learned the Eight Gates from, otherwise he would have ended up like Rock Lee.

Training and hardwork.

AgentCoulson posted...

He still put up a good fight and was acknowledged by an opponent that Naruto and Sasuke themselves were struggling with.

So you're saying he didn't win

AgentCoulson posted...

Training and hardwork.

Plot Magic is more important. Just ask Gohan from DBZ.

Remember when Sakura confessed her love to Naruto

i been meaning to rewatch it now that it's all dubbed. i watched it 11 years ago. skipped all the filler and think i might have started skipping a lot of the partial filler eps in shippuden to make it go faster. i loved the original but shippuden was a mess. plus like halfway through shippuden they didn't dub it anymore and i watched the rest subbed but mostly while i was playing destiny so i was barely paying attention to naruto. just couldn't be bothered but i was like 500 eps into the 720 so i kept going just to get it over with.

so i need to give it a proper rewatch. been trying to get into one piece but i'm like 80 eps in and still haven't gotten that interested in it. naruto i at least did enjoy for awhile. just probably need to break it up a bit instead of trying to binge all 400 or whatever canon eps. definitely could use a kai version to it and i expected naruto to be it over one piece which i still find a bit weird since the anime is still ongoing although it will finally end sometime soon.

Guy demonstrated that if you dedicate your entire life to just hand-to-hand combat you can be strong enough to slightly worry your opponent before your body shatters from the impact of your one strike. If you're lucky, Jesus Naruto will be around to touch you and bring you back to life, but otherwise all you've done is kill yourself in the hopes that your one attack succeeds against a single powerful opponent.

It was very cool, but at this point we've seen characters trap other people in infinite illusions, summon multiple meteors on top of each other, use ranged abilities that disintegrate your opponent if they come in contact with it, summon Mountain sized combat creatures, and watched the main characters base ability evolved to the point where, if you get hit by it, it shreds you at the cellular level.

Guy is basically Deku from my hero academia before he learned that being able to cripple yourself to take out one opponent isn't really useful in a team fight.

TMOG posted...

So you're saying he didn't win

I'm saying nobody won against Juudara. But the character that didn't have special blood or a demon but instead dedicated his life to training and hard work gave him the best fight.

AgentCoulson posted...

I'm saying nobody won against Juudara. But the character that didn't have special blood or a demon but instead dedicated his life to training and hard work gave him the best fight.

But... he didn't win?

Therefore using him as an example does absolutely nothing to counter my statement?

Evolician posted...

Remember when Sakura confessed her love to Naruto

To give credit to Naruto, the manga highlighted about how bullshit that was.

Hot take: Getting Madara goddamn Uchiha to announce that he declares you as the strongest in Taijutsu in the world is better than just winning the fight. This is the same dude who basically won't even look in your direction if you aren't even a Kage.

TMOG posted...

But... he didn't win?

Therefore using him as an example does absolutely nothing to counter my statement?

You're not making any sense. They explained their statement, you have tunnel vision on "who won" when that was never what they were saying.

Toonstrack posted...

....that is not at all why naruto was upset about hakus death lmao.

Are you sure you're rewatching?

Re-read my post

I did not say Haku death

How did Anko not recognize Orichamaru right away lmao

No one else uses their tongue to pickup a kunai