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.

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.

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

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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

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?

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.

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.

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.

I really hope we get to see Kakashi in action again! He deserves a good chunk of page time and at least a couple of epic fight scenes. Fingers crossed they treat his character right in this manga!

Little Kashi was getting a little cranky and needed to refuel

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Bro, I swear Kishimoto was secretly gay and that's why he didn't do anything with his female cast. He was in loves doing gay shit for his male cast too much, and there are too many things. This manga is so gay, and the whole Naruto and Sasuke relationship, I swear you replace the gender of Sasuke with a woman and they end up as a couple at the end😂

If Obito got hit with that instead, how different does things play out if at all?

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.

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.

If Sakura's "Inner Sakura" was an actual Ninjutsu. How would it work? And what sort of Abilities would it have?

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?

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.

Ok assuming Naruto wasn’t Hokage I honestly think Neji (RIP) would’ve been better suited to the position than Shikamaru if he had survived and continued developing into adulthood.

Not because Neji was smarter. Shikamaru is obviously the better pure strategist. But I think people sometimes equate ‘smartest strategist’ with ‘best leader’ and they aren’t the same thing.

Shikamaru is extremely abstract and strategic. He’s brilliant at analysing situations, predicting outcomes and creating plans, which is exactly why I think he’s better suited as the Hokage’s chief strategist/adviser. Neji’s intelligence is more grounded and operational. He has stronger command presence, takes responsibility seriously, understands hierarchy and institutions and is better suited to actually carrying executive authority.

The Sasuke Retrieval arc shows this really well. Shikamaru creates the strategy to escape Jirobo’s chakra dome while Neji understands what he’s doing without needing it explained, verifies it with the Byakugan and explains it to the others. When Shikamaru considers splitting the group Neji is also the person he trusts to lead the second team. They already understand each other’s strengths with basically no ego involved.

Shikamaru could absolutely be Hokage. I’m not arguing that he’d be bad at it. I just think putting him in that position means your greatest strategic specialist is now also spending enormous amounts of time on administration, diplomacy, public leadership, personnel, clan politics and every other responsibility attached to the office. Neji as Hokage allows Shikamaru to specialise in the thing he’s uniquely exceptional at while Neji’s much broader leadership profile gets used at the executive level.

Neji also has the advantage in conventional combat ability which matters because Hokage is still the supreme shinobi position in a military village. He was already the only one of their generation promoted to jonin during the timeskip (even though Kishi made him useless), was considered a genius from childhood, had the Byakugan and Gentle Fist and died at only seventeen. We never actually got to see what an adult Neji in his late twenties or thirties could have become.

And symbolically Neji becoming Hokage would’ve been huge. A Branch House Hyuga who grew up believing birth determined your destiny eventually becoming the leader of the entire village would’ve been the perfect conclusion to his character arc.

Neji definitely had weaknesses. He could be rigid, emotionally reserved and overly certain of his own conclusions but that’s exactly why Shikamaru would’ve been such a strong adviser for him.

So basically: Shikamaru is the better strategist, but Neji had the stronger overall profile for Hokage—command, responsibility, combat ability, institutional understanding and symbolism.

If Naruto wasn’t going to be Hokage, I genuinely think Neji as Hokage with Shikamaru as his chief strategist/adviser would’ve been one of the strongest possible leadership structures for Konoha.