2015-10-13, 17:13 | Link #1861 |
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Ugh. The next three episodes are apparently:
Jiraiya Ninja Scrolls - The Tale of Naruto the Hero - Team Jiraiya (10/15/15) JNS - TNH - The Priorities (10/22) NO NEW EP ON 10/29 JNS - TNH - The Masked Man (11/5) So this filler arc alone is gonna compose over a month's worth of time, and it's a nigh-certainty that it won't be the last filler before we get back to canon material... |
2015-10-14, 06:37 | Link #1863 | |
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2015-10-15, 14:46 | Link #1866 |
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having not seen an episode in a while, I assume it's because it's a dream and whoever is currently dreaming identifies Naruto with his normal last name. Dreams don't have to be logical. What does have to be logical, is Naruto's backstory involving his parents and the kyuubi, and that is much farther off the mark unfortunately.
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2015-10-16, 21:13 | Link #1867 | |
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He's the son of the former Hokage! Damn right people better know who he is. Of course the story would have been infinitely different if people knew who his father was and it wasn't some super village secret. |
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2015-10-17, 10:27 | Link #1868 | |
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2015-10-22, 20:44 | Link #1872 | |
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And why even keep his father a secret?! Minato wasn't some traitor to the village and a dark secret to be kept hidden. There was literally no reason for the village elders to hide who Naruto's father was. Frankly it's just bad writing to force a plot point. Now when are the fillers going to end? |
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2015-10-22, 21:30 | Link #1873 |
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So not only are they continuing to chuck Filler at us like it's going out of style, but there isn't even a new episode next week (Pokemon double-feature instead), so that's an extra week of waiting before we eventually (2016?) return to canon material!
I think I remember hearing that one reason (there was more than one) was that because Naruto's father made a LOOOOT of enemies in the Third Great War, some people from other villages might wanna nip a potential Second Yellow Flash in the bud or get some revenge-by-proxy by hunting down and killing him while he was still young and (relatively) weak. So, they gave him his mother's surname so that, say, if he was out on a mission at 12 or 13 when he wasn't god-tier power yet, and they ended up in the same area as some Stone-nin or the like, they wouldn't hear 'Namikaze' and think "Oh F*CK the Yellow Flash spawned hunt it down KILL IT THROW EVERYTHING WE HAVE AT HIM maybe we can kill him while he's still a weak kid!!" |
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Except there were plenty of kids with hated last names going on high risk missions where their daddies wouldn't be able to save them. |
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2015-10-22, 23:26 | Link #1875 | |
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B) I'm trying to find an explanation for the last-name thing that ISN'T "bad writing". |
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2015-10-23, 09:30 | Link #1878 | |
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As far as recognizing Naruto, everyone in Konoha who isn't brain dead should be able to put together that the blond kid with whiskers is Minato and Kushina's son and he has the fox in him. They all knew she was pregnant and then died and that the Kyuubi was still around, etc... it doesn't take a genius. Other villagers in the know like Jounin-level, even perhaps Chuunin level, should have had enough intel to put 2 and 2 together as well, but Kishi just went the easy route by making almost everyone idiots |
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2015-10-23, 16:09 | Link #1879 |
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Still doesn't really explain how the Raikage knew. He probably recognized that the Naruto looked like his rival Minato, had the last name Uzumaki, and had the nine tailed fox. That still makes it weird how no one else seemed to know,
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