Was Orochimaru's pupil who trained under him, received knowledge of his jutsus, had the serpent jutsu and the cursed seal, on top of that she was a tomboy...And did nothing in the serie, got captured in shippuden and become a chubby auntie in Boruto =_=;

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W character development

Take off the Shonen plot armor goggles for two minutes and look at this from a pure military and leadership standpoint. Danzo and the elders were completely justified in wanting to keep Naruto at Mount Myoboku.

First, look at the information Tsunade actually had. She knew Pain had just killed Jiraiya, one of the greatest ninja Konoha ever produced. She had no confirmation that a 16-year-old Naruto had fully mastered Sage Mode, let alone reached a level capable of defeating someone who literally calls himself a God. Calling Naruto back was essentially handing the Akatsuki their primary objective on a silver platter while Konoha was in absolute chaos.

Second, the risk of losing the Nine-Tails was catastrophic. People forget how close the world actually came to ending in that fight. Naruto was literally one millimeter away from fully tearing off the seal. If Minato had not installed a fail-safe chakra ghost inside Naruto, something Tsunade had zero knowledge of, the full Nine-Tails breaks out right in the middle of a crippled village.

Think about how that scenario plays out:

1. Kurama kills Pain, but now an unstoppable, unsealed beast rampages across what is left of the Land of Fire, while Nagato is still alive somewhere in the shadows.

2. Pain manages to suppress or capture Kurama, completing the Akatsuki weapon project and sealing the fate of every ninja nation.

Either outcome means total annihilation. The only reason Konoha survived was a miraculous chain of unplannable events: an unannounced dead Hokage bail-out, Hinata triggering the transformation, and Nagato having a sudden change of heart to resurrect everyone he killed.

Tsunade gambled the entire existence of the Leaf Village and the entire shinobi world on blind faith in a teenage genin. From an in-universe strategic perspective, keeping your ultimate deterrent hidden away until you understand the enemy threat was the only sane call. Danzo and the elders were completely right.

Should I go straight to reading Boruto and only watch some canon episodes or completely skip that shi and just wait for the new naruto manga thats coming out in a year or 2 ?

Is it worth watching/reading Boruto right now from the very start ? I don't wanna waste my time reading something that might get overshadowed by a new bigger project written from the original author.

Im hearing a lot of mixed opinions about this. Some say that its worth it and it's peak, some say Boruto isn't even canon and Kishimoto has nothing to do with it , and others say that they spent too much time investing on Boruto and reading it all these years that even if its ass, it's too late for them to quit and stop reading cause they want to see how it ends.

In what category do yall belong and what would you suggest me to do ?

I don’t think I’m seeing the same picture as the Elders and Danzo, but I most definitely not seeing the same picture as Tsunade or anyone else. Because to me, bringing Naruto back seems like one of the worst choices possible. While I understand he is currently training to surpass Jiraya or at least become as strong as Jiraya so he could beat Pain calling him back could lead to him losing to Pain and getting captured.

He was there for like week at most, meaning you can’t really expect him to come back with something like an imperfect Sage mode(or a perfected version of it), so there’s a massive chance of him losing.

Then again, you had people like Konohamaru kill a Pain, and Kakashi who I think killed or massively crippled the Asura path, so bringing him back with those highly skilled or powerful Shinoni plus others like Torture guy(can’t recall his name) could help him fight by a good margin since the reason for Jiraya’s loss and Naruto’s loss was due to the number of opponents. But this is knowledge I doubt anyone else had at the time and even then the Asura path’s death or crippling was done by complete accident too.

Anyways, unrelated to the question, but Danzo could’ve probably just undid all the damage and destruction Pain had done by using Izanagi. I don’t think there was ever an established limit to it’s abilities seeing how in a flashback some Uchiha used it to revive their entire squad(but I guess didn’t undo to the damage to the environment). So if Danzo got off of his fat fucking ass for once and actually did something useful to literally anyone(including Tobirama because we all know that killing the Uchiha would’ve pissed him off since he cares more for the village than hating the Uchiha) they likely wouldn’t even needed Naruto in the first place.

A couple friends and I would spend says beating the shit out of each other, coming up with arbitrary “rules” from game mechanics that were deemed unfair.

And she wasn't done there...

Sakura literally carried the entire intellectual weight of Sasuke Retsuden. While Sasuke was doing his usual stealth infiltration thing, Sakura was out here decoding a millennia-old astronomical scroll left by the Sage of Six Paths. She figured out that the zodiac drawings were actually the Tailed Beasts and translated the star patterns into hidden shinobi hand signs to unlock the Ultra Particles. Sasuke had the muscle, but Naruto literally owes his life to Sakura’s brainpower for finding that cure.

Sasauke will burn you alive, Sakura will bisect & cut you into pieces (after punching you), & then Naruto will just feed you to Kuruma

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I got inspired to make this artwork after watching episodes 429 & 430.

I am very late with this meme trend but anyway, here's the Jinchūriki team. Or what I thought: how Killer B sees the Jinchūriki in those two episodes xd

(I am quite bad with backgrounds, so I made a few variations)

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I think Sasuke is by far the most complex in how much he changes through the story. In flashbacks we see him as a kind, innocent and insecure kid. But by the time we meet him he's a quiet, serious and traumatized with a goal dead in sight, yet despite that he's shown to care for others and willing to put his life on the line for team 7. Orochimaru temptation of powe, Itachi return and Naruto growth, forces him to make a decision of either focusing on power or his comrades, he chose power. But he's still not an evil person by early Shippuden, he only harms those who are a danger to him like Orochimaru and Deidaraand those who try to stop his plan like team 7. Besides that he doesn't want to hurt anyone besides Itachi. Then the plot twist happens which results on him having an existential crisis and a very reasonable reaction to all the information. Now he's completely unstable mentally and doesn't care anything about revenge against Konoha. He remains like this until meeting edo Itachi which makes him question why he would protect Konoha to this extent. So he asks the Hokage personally several questions. He eventually comes to the conclusion that in order for true peace, Sasuke should become Hokage himself by killing all the remaining Kage and have the world to focus all their hate on himx forcing them to unite. Then Naruto defeats him and makes him realize that bonds are greater than isolation. Ending the series by going on a journey to atone for his sins and become an ally once more.

No two versions of the character are the same.

After a year in my closet, I wanted to share my custom Rock Lee Converse before I finally wear them / they get roughen by the power of youth!

They were made in 2025 via the Converse website when they had a personnalisable Naruto collection.

The Gaara ones are part of the official Shippuden collection and I bought them earlier this year.

A part of me wants to blackened Rock Lee’s hairs and brows with a Sharpie… should I do it?

So, which ones do you prefer? I personaly can’t choose and will probably wear one of each at the same time haha! :)

Even someone like Hashirama

It’s ok guys. He didn’t die to sickness. He probably just got got, like any shinobi.

I personally think it's the same arc and it's the conclusion to the story of the Chunin Exams, it literally happens during the Chunin Exams.

I don't think there is a need to separate it, although I know some people do that for the Chunin Exams to not be so big or just to recognize events easier.

The same happens with Naruto's fight with Sasuke near the end of Part 1, in which they separate it from the rest of the "Sasuke Retrieval Arc" and consider it it's own arc.

In a show full of toxic rivalries, trauma bonded rivalries and also rivalries that literally resulted in lost limbs, Kakashi and Guy are the one pairing that actually made each other better human beings.

When Kakashi was sinking into severe depression after his time in ANBU and losing Minato, Rin, and Obito, Guy didn't let him isolate. He forced him into ridiculous contests, dragged him back into the light and kept him grounded.

Guy never even tried to outshine Kakashi out of spite, he competed with him out of genuine love and respect. By the end of the series, seeing two war veterans who lost almost everything still traveling together and enjoying life in retirement was such a satisfying character payoff.