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2013-09-02, 14:04 | Link #2942 | |
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Anyways, I don't recall being told exactly when during the course of their academy days the flashbacks in question took place. So is there any reason for the following timeline to not be possible? Year 1: -Naruto enrolls -fails graduation exam for the 1st time. Year 2: -Naruto fails exam for the 2nd time Year 3: -Naruto fails exam for the 3rd time Year 4: (All flashbacks depicting these two in the academy setting take place during this year) -Sasuke finally enrolls and becomes classmates with Naruto -Sasuke's clan gets murdered sometime throughout this same academic year -Sasuke graduates with Naruto (finally) |
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2013-09-02, 15:59 | Link #2943 | |
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naruto failed the GRADUATION EXAM, going from first year to second year is not called graduating, and naruto himself told to neji during their fight that he failed the graduation exam 3 times because of shadow clone jutsu, and the shadow clone jutsu was the graduating exam test i am not drilling Kishimito that there is a plot hole here or anything and everything is wrong, this isn't even of much importance, but i am just saying that there is some misconnection here and i just want to confirm it from others that it IS a misconnection, if there is any other explanation that say otherwise i would like to hear it
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2013-09-02, 19:20 | Link #2945 | |
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I get the impression that the entirety of Konoha's shinobi academic system might just be a one year course open to everyone starting from a very young age. So you either have the skills and grades needed to pass the same year you enroll, or you fail and have to repeat the entire 1 year course from scratch. I could be wrong. But I don't recall their ever being an established and mandatory number of years necessary to graduate from the academy. I mean that would at least explain why its possible for true prodigies to graduate at extremely young ages. (Kakashi--age 5; Itachi--age 7). I'd assume that the difficulty of the curriculum is designed such that the average age most finally develop the maturity, skills, and intelligence needed to graduate tends to be by roughly age 10 through 13--which is probably the average age range most students choose to enroll. However, if the student is confident enough to enroll earlier, or if the parent feels their child is skilled enough to pass the academic curriculum at a young age, then there's nothing to stop them from trying. It just happens to be unusual for children to master enough of the curriculum to graduate that early. Being determined to become Hokage and with no parents to steer him otherwise, I could see Naruto taking the initiative by enrolling himself into the academy a couple years earlier than he was probably ready to join. Especially if he was hellbent on trying to prove to everyone in the village how amazing he was. And since Sasuke had a more or less normal and typical upbringing prior to the massacre, I could see why circumstances led him to enroll during the average age range. Last edited by sayde; 2013-09-02 at 20:37. |
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2013-09-02, 23:15 | Link #2946 | |
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so this explanation seems satisfactory to me so let's go with that
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2013-09-03, 10:17 | Link #2948 | |
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they certainly don't learn any history. barely anyone ever has a clue who their older predecessors are, what they did and what techniques they knew. and nobody ever even heard of the rikudo sennin even if it was arguable whether he existed or not, he still should have been mentioned in a ninja school as lore or mythology or something... |
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2013-09-03, 10:51 | Link #2949 | |
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And it's not a normal school. It's basically a vocational school. If you go to a mechanic school, you probably aren't going to learn too much about Henry Ford and the rest of the automotive industry's history. You're going to learn how to fix cars. |
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Besides, learning about Madara and Rikudou wouldn't help them at all except in this ridiculously fantastic situation where Madara was brought back to life and someone attempted to become the Rikidou. Neither of these were really believed to be possible, let alone probable. And knowing of them doesn't help in their day to day activities. It'd be like a mechanic learning about Henry Ford (see there? Another comparison). It's "nice to know where you came from", but it doesn't actually help you at all. |
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2013-09-03, 14:03 | Link #2952 | |
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Well as far as the academy goes, I've no doubt he passed everything easily. Now his time spent as genin is a different matter (and one that's somewhat unrelated to the issues I was initially discussing). If I'm not mistaken, I believe Gai had his own reasons for making his team wait a full year before taking the chuunin exam. So that's the official explanation for why Neji (despite being a genius) was a year older than Naruto and Sasuke by the time he took the exam for the first time. Last edited by sayde; 2013-09-03 at 14:15. |
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2013-09-03, 21:17 | Link #2954 | |
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haha yea. it all makes sense now |
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2013-10-04, 14:06 | Link #2956 |
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Hey guys, just started watching Naruto after a long time of thinking about it, and I've really gotten into it... Although the fillers are KILLING me!
I'm at episode 147, and I'm getting so bored I'm considering just jumping over to Shippuden. Could anyone please tell me if there are any fillers worth watching? Are there any episodes I really should watch to get some insight before I go over to Shippuden? Are there any episodes after 147 that are not filler episodes? I saw a list on the net the other day which said that the only ep that wasn't a filler ep was 220... Which is the last episode of the show. But when I turned it on, it showed some random fight with Gaara or something, and I figured I shouldn't be watching it if it was a non-filler fight... And I'm scared I'll spoil myself if I keep watching the ep I'd be really happy if someone could help me with this, I wanna continue watching and enjoying the show! Also, please be cautious not to spoil me, I've been able to stay away from spoilers 'till now xD Thanks guys!!
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2013-10-04, 19:35 | Link #2957 | |
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if you want to jump to shippuden then you can watch the last arc where you mentioned Garra was fighting someone and then continue the ending then to shippuden or you can just skip to the ending of ep 220 and continue to shippuden. about the fillers you watch some if you want to see some attention given to the side characters.
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