is there any character from Naruto who immediately comes to mind when you hear the word "ninja"?

personally, i’m torn between zabuza momochi and kakashi hatake.

i feel like both of them give off the strongest "ninja vibe"—even in terms of their visuals, I mean, their appearance.

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1. Let's talk China for two seconds. When we first read and discussed Naruto we thought all that Chinese-style costuming of the nobles was *Heian*, and later. See: Chuunin Exams audience. But after a while we realized that Chinese-style bureaucracy was also signified in there. Consistently in the Land of Fire, the nobles are depicted like Chinese upper class. I mean it could be both, since it's not 1:1. But there is a consistent artistic choice going on.
2. Tenten as a poor orphan is mostly because we never see her with anyone else besides her team. Now hang on, before the "she's a girrrrl in a Kishimoto narrraaative" ... Spoilers! This made more sense once we saw the filler about Naho. Who can't be older than Konohamaru. Who lives in a huge house, no visible servants, and she's allowed to conduct business on her own, as the controller of a territory. Her only "value" is as a relative to the Daimyo.

Lady Naho is inspecting her territory, so we have to go to Shizume Village (by the end of) today.

And Naho is dressed up in distinctly Chinese style. She's powerful enough that they're not allowed to tell her she can't just "request Sasuke"; they could easily knock her out and carry her to Shizume Village and it would be faster. But they can't, because she's some form of nobility.

What this means is it's normal for nobility to just leave their kids wherever, inside the territory (Land of Fire) and nobody can touch them.

It's not weird if it applies to Kakashi :: ninja at five years old, or younger.

So if Tenten wants to move into the Leaf Village to follow Tsunade, who is a known vagabond drunk gambler, if she is a noble then she can just go and do this.

The rest is subtext.

1. Where did she get the money to acquire all those weapons? She needs her own supply chain in those quantities.

2. Tenten has more outfit changes than Ino does.

And Tenten is never shown as someone who is worried about her appearance, like a fashion plate.

Like for her to dress up and wear lipstick to the Chuunin Exams, when there's no indication there that she's interested in Neji beyond as her teammate. And, it is distinctly different from the way Ino and Sakura dress up (or dress down). But now that's explained if Tenten's showing up in front of other nobles.

Where did she get the money to acquire all those fits?

1. Look at that bedroom. That's more lux than Sasuke's.

2. And a bunch of other things. Like, how is she allowed to just open up a business (that's not even making any money). Konoha's hurting for manpower. Why's she not tapped for the mission roster, and overworked like Kakashi was? It would be real easy if she has her own source of wealth. And if, perhaps, she's untouchable as a nepo baby. After all, nobody asked her to give the Treasures back.

I think it's a testament to how cool Tenten is that she never acts like a nepo baby, and no one treats her like that. So of course she's mistaken for a poor. Like she came to Konoha to work hard at her craft, and she never quit.

It seems like a missed opportunity to me.

Similar to how Ino helped Sakura become confident, Sakura helps Karin become her own person.

Both had feelings for Sasuke. Maybe looking at Karin reminded Sakura over how she used to act in Part 1 and forces her to reconsider her feelings for Sasuke.

Karin is at first reluctant to Sakura but eventually opens up to her finding someone to show her an ounce of kindness other than Sasuke.

My head-canon is that when Tsunade wakes up Sakura convinces her to give Karin a second change showing empathy after learning of Karin’s backstory and acting as her warden/friend when she’s being interrogated by Ibuki & the Interrogation Force.

Sakura helping Karin ease into Konoha life would be nice to see.

Some of these picks are interesting.

Kakashi placed number 1 in popularity polls 1 and 3.

Sasuke managed to snag number 1 on polls 5 and 6.

And Naruto managed to win 2, 4, and 7.

I can understand where the audience is coming from with some of these choices.

Iruka is probably the biggest shocker since he rarely gets any screentime and only barely fell out of the top 10 for the seventh poll. The guy had his fans.

Deidara is the only character other than Kakashi and Sasuke to outrank Naruto. Placing 3rd on the sixth character poll. He’s also the only Akatsuki member to do that until Itachi in Naruto99.

Also, unless you wanna imprison him indefinitely, Sasuke will just leave again once captured, literally nothing prevents him.

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Looking at the fate of every single Kazekage makes you realize how dark Sunagakure’s history is compared to Konoha

1st & 2nd Kazekage: Both got straight-up assassinated

3rd Kazekage: Supposedly the strongest, yet kidnapped, killed by a 15-year-old Sasori, and turned into a human puppet

4th Kazekage (Rasa) Got betrayed, backstabbed, and left in the desert by Orochimaru

5th Kazekage (Gaara) Literally died after having Shukaku extracted, and only survived because of plot armor, Naruto’s friendship, and Chiyo’s sacrifice

While the Hokage get honorable, heroic battlefield sacrifices representing the "Will of Fire,"

every Kazekage gets targeted, betrayed, or killed in the dark. Is Sunagakure just cursed, or is political instability in the desert really that brutal?

Leaving the Infinite Tsukuyomi out of the equation, there are many jutsus throughout the series that could easily claim the title of "the strongest"—such as Kamui, Kotoamatsukami, Edo Tensei, the Reaper Death Seal, the Flying Raijin (Hiraishin), and so on.

Personally, I believe the most powerful jutsu of all is Madara Uchiha’s Limbo. I think this is a technique against which 99% of the characters in the series would inevitably lose (unless you happen to be Naruto or Sasuke), as there is simply no way to win.

While Sage Mode does allow one to sense the Limbo clones and potentially counter them, only Naruto was able to master this to such a degree—meaning that even other Sage Mode users, like Minato or Jiraiya, wouldn't be able to handle it.

What do you think?

Would Naruto, Kakashi, and guy be able to defeat him still or would the 4th great ninja war just end there also why couldn’t obito control kakashi if it was his eye kakashi was using

I've heard that Kishimoto gradually changed his art style over the years to make the characters look more like their anime counterparts. Is that actually true, or was it the anime that gradually adapted to his evolving art style? Wouldn't you normally expect the anime to follow the manga's designs rather than the other way around?

If Kishimoto really did take inspiration from the anime's character designs, I think that would show how humble he is and how willing he is to learn from the animators and their interpretations of his work. The manga's early art style was noticeably different, with a more old-school feel, whereas the later designs look much closer to what we're used to seeing in the anime.

Personally, I prefer the newer style, although I still find the original one very charming. Naruto is probably one of the few manga adaptations where the anime's character designs can look so close to the manga's that you could almost mistake one for the other. Just look at the fifth slide featuring Sakura to see how subtle the differences can be!

Obito fights the 5 kages instead and Madara has to fight kcm2 naruto , Kakashi spamming kamui, Might Guy and Bee, would the fights end up being harder for them?

I personally think the Naruto group is superior to the 5 kages, you have two mastered jinchurikis , best taijutsu user and a hax jutsu and strategist with Kakashi.

The fandom loves acting like Itachi was some genius planner who gave up everything for his village and brother but what he actually did was completely reckless.

He trapped a 7 year old Sasuke in Tsukuyomi and forced him to watch their parents die thousands of times on loop. Years later, he beat him into a coma and put him through the exact same nightmare just to "test his hatred" On top of that, his backup plan was to use shisui's Kotoamatsukami to brainwash sasuke into defending Konoha against his will.

Itachi didn't save Sasuke or help him. He broke him, turned him into a dangerous rogue and got lucky that Naruto eventually cleaned up his mess.

The funniest part is that even Edo Itachi agrees with this. He literally admitted to Sasuke that he failed, lied to him and handled everything wrong and told him he doesn't ever have to forgive him.

For specifics, the example I'm referring to is in Episode 28 and starts playing at 11:56. I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Little Kashi was getting a little cranky and needed to refuel

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Personally, there are two scenes in Naruto that I feel are often underrated—both involving the same character—though perhaps they are actually among the most well-known; still, hear me out.

The first scene is when Naruto defeats Gaara during the invasion of Konoha.

Afterward, he begins to cry and says, "It’s unbearable, isn’t it? The feeling of being all alone..." What, in my opinion, adds tremendous value to this scene is that as Naruto approaches, the show begins to display flashbacks from both his and Gaara’s childhoods, highlighting their similarities.

We see Naruto recalling Haku’s words, all set to a soundtrack that is absolutely 10/10.

And the second scene takes place in Shippuden, during a flashback where Kankuro is talking to Gaara.

In this scene, Kankuro tells Gaara that putting himself forward as the Kazekage of Sunagakure is a bad idea—given that people are still afraid of him—but Gaara replies that he knows this, yet he must still try and move forward.

He hopes that, in doing so, he might one day become someone new, someone more like Naruto. For me, these scenes are peak.

Are there any scenes that you feel are underrated?

Say he actually kills Naruto, The Kage and secures the tailed beasts for himself. What do you think things would look like next in your opinion?

Would things be worse for everyone than in canon? Would be pretty strange as most of the cast would still be alive despite it being one of the bad endings. I'd reckon Sasuke becomes paranoid after dealing with Toneri and would copy some of Madara's plans as far as empowering himself just in case anymore celestial beings appear.

Whether he can actually survive past the blank period and into the Boruto era is really hard to say imo.

Firstly, the reanimated person is controlled by a kunai with a script that's placed in the back of their heads, no?

Why is it that when they regenerate their heads, they're still under the control of Kabuto?

Also, why can someone like hanzo completely defy the jutsu with pure conviction, but other characters are unable to?