25 Naruto Fan's Hot Takes DEBUNKED!

[@NCHammer23]

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[@runak77]

My G, how have you made Naruto content for years without understanding the message of the story? The message is about ending the cycle of hatred not working hard no matter what situation your born into, that's just rock lee's theme.

[@b1bbscraz3y]

we got Nick the lib saying "pull yourself up by your bootstraps". what a world

[@AntonioFChapa]

Libs don't work hard? ​@@b1bbscraz3y

[@dudeguy63]

Raycon is ass.

[@AzureReborn]

Tenten is a real ninja in a wizard world

[@aliceDarts]

Yes!! This is so true. Sadly she is not a wizard.

[@user-biscut]

That means that Rock Lee is Mash Burnedead (mc from Mashel).

[@KarmasAB123]

And Naruto is a bard with wizard parents

[@user-biscut]

@@KarmasAB123 Dual class or multi?

[@vallerianredha8822]

Last time I checked ninja cannot store or summon giant weapon or summon a water in scroll

[@yunue904]

Madara had like 10 years of build up and anticipation for people OUTSIDE of the show. If we got anything less, it would've been bullshit.

[@jpisback]

We Did get less.... It Was bullshit.

[@716_ハディくん]

​@@jpisbackbecause you are asking so much that Kishimoto is unable to give him proper weakness not really our problem but obviously it helps exposed kishimoto incompetence

[@audreyschicksalholmwiltz3872]

Damn, listening to Danzo's summary really makes you think and reflect that he is very similar to politicians and leaders in certain countries in real life

[@MFShro0m]

Yeah tho imo the best parallel for Danzo and the root irl is the CIA. They believe they’re doing what’s best for their country at all times even tho some of what they’ve done is extremely morally reprehensible and some of it came back to bite the US big time and Danzo even tried to assassinate Hiruzen like how the CIA were likely responsible for the assassination of JFK

[@sephirian688]

That’s literally the point of his character. In fact Nick even brings this up in the video.

[@MFShro0m]

@@audreyschicksalholmwiltz3872 yeah altho the best parallel for Danzo and the root irl is the CIA. They always tried to do what’s best for their nation but often by extremely morally reprehensible means with some of it came back to bite their country big time. They’ve also tried to brainwash their ppl like the CIA did via psyops and MK Ultra and even tried to assassinate Hiruzen like how the CIA likely assassinated JFK

[@MFShro0m]

@@audreyschicksalholmwiltz3872 yeah altho the best parallel for Danzo and the root irl is the CIA. They always tried to do what’s best for their nation but often by extremely morally reprehensible means with some of it came back to bite their country big time. They’ve also tried to brainwash their ppl like the CIA did via psyops and MK Ultra and even tried to assassinate Hiruzen like how the CIA likely assassinated JFK

[@MFShro0m]

@@audreyschicksalholmwiltz3872 yeah altho the best parallel for Danzo and the root irl is the C I A. They always tried to do what’s best for their nation but often by extremely morally reprehensible means with some of it came back to bite their country big time. They’ve also tried to brainwash their ppl like the C I A did via psyops and MK Ultra and even tried to assassinate Hiruzen like how the C I A likely assassinated JFK

[@reesejackson5935]

Hiruzen: i regret not stopping orochimaru Jiraiya: i regret not stopping my best friend (orochimaru) from going down that path. Kakashi: i regret letting obito go. Those who abandon their friends are worse tha scum. Naruto:.......yea in not gonna have those same regrets. And yall wonder why he stays after sasuke. All his teachers regretted not doing it

[@cheyennemoore8380]

Exactly

[@haroldhopkins7719]

True,

[@GenJuhru]

Don't forget Iruka-sensei's contribution too.

[@reesejackson5935]

@GenJuhru yup the one who hiruzen taugh to swallow his resentment for kurama and not treat naruto harshly even though kurama killed irukas parents. A main reason naruto didnt crash out

[@ACE360x]

The flaw is that he doesn't kill Sasuke. In anything where he isn't the MC Sasukes damage makes Naruro at best reckless

[@taylor.river7]

The Hyuga's would've been much more powerful if they specialized in medical ninjutsu, alongside gentle fist. They are living x-ray machines bec of their byakugan. 💚

[@Elite02k]

Living xray, CT scanners, about everything

[@daniel.etcetera]

Neji shouldn't have died, he should've been a doctor.

[@taylor.river7]

@daniel.etcetera Exactly! Neji should've lived on to marry Tenten and become an adviser to Naruto. He can have 3, but only has 1, Shikamaru. Or he could've help run the Hyuuga clan. So many options.

[@blackogjesus]

The idea is cool but pointless past the original Naruto, bad in Shippuden (ig it'd be cool in war Arc), even worse in the Boruto era Maybe a form of sage hyuga would be cool, or somehow combining gentle fist with the hidden gate's, heck I could agree if they learned 100 healings maybe I just don't see how them just having basic healing throughout the whole show would make them more relevant in any way especially when their opponent is launching Akatsuki/Biju/kage/ outsutski level but if you're talking about 100 healings like I said you got a nice argument

[@716_ハディくん]

​@@blackogjesusthat's why don't read battle manga too much power creep is too much and there's no way for weaker characters to win against stronger characters with just intelligence which do happen in real life

[@mr.penguin4614]

I always thought naruto was more of a: dont let your circumstances define you, your actions, and your goals. more so than a pick yourself up by your bootstraps.

[@BrysonCollins12]

But also acknowledges theirs people that do get changed by their environment and situations but Naruto himself struggling with that over came it and pretty much understands the reasonings behind all the evils in his world, so did the sasuke the other mc like character who with the same problems like Naruto chose to let the environment mold him into someone else that killed those responsible

[@cheyennemoore8380]

Same

[@haroldhopkins7719]

Nice,

[@S.pilgrim]

That’s definitely a more apt thematic undercurrent for the series.

[@microshlink]

picking yourself up by your bootstraps is synonymous with not letting your circumstances define you

[@carolina_reaperx]

I feel like Kaguya should've been teased at the of Shuppuden, like showing the gedo statue cracking open or something but her as a character/antagonist should've been introduced in Boruto or a movie in the middle cause her appearance and especially how she appeared took away from Madara as a villain leading to his "defeat" feeling underwhelming

[@MrSpider0_0]

7:20 What u mean hes a bad father, he was only a father for like a hour

[@matijasostojic4288]

And in that Hour he sealed a demon in his son.

[@TawshifShafi]

That's one hour cost Naruto bullied by everyone in childhood ☠️

[@muhammedgezer3915]

@matijasostojic4288 and thats the only reason why Obito didnt win the 4th Ninja War.

[@MrSpider0_0]

@TawshifShafi now hold up a minute, they wouldn't of known if danzo wasn't a snitch

[@matijasostojic4288]

@@muhammedgezer3915 He still sealed a demon in him. Good ending or not a good father would do that to theri kid.

[@variangaming8559]

Naruto’s story was never about ‘hard work beats talent’ or that ‘if you work hard enough you can achieve your dreams’. Yes these are themes in the story but was NEVER and will never be what Naruto is about. Naruto the story, not just a theme or a plot point, the ENTIRE POINT of the story was to demonstrate how we are all victims of our circumstances and if we seek to understand each other instead of constantly fighting we can overcome the cycle of hatred. Shinobi were always meant to be emotionless soldiers who perpetuate the cycle to continue, but in the very first arc Naruto was able to reach the heart of Zabuzza and promised that he would not be the emotionless tool that the world wanted him to be. And ever since then Naruto proved time and time again that it is love that leads to peace and understanding not hate. That is the point of Naruto, everything else is just extra. Therefore Naruto is not only a great character for the story that was being told but was the only character that could truly fulfill the themes that the story was trying to tell.

[@sharkgod4572]

Yessss finally someone said it

[@BraveryBeyond]

Truly the hottest of takes, and yet is perfectly cooked.

[@A_Professional_Idiot_mk.2]

yeah, but he also made the hard work thing a pretty relevant theme, and it doesn't rlly work for naruto at all

[@mrclutchy420]

⁠@@A_Professional_Idiot_mk.2not really, Naruto only said the hard work thing against Neji. Not giving up, is the message I always received from the show. Idgaf about the forgive people thing F that. I believe in an Eye for an Eye and this goes against it.

[@felix7720]

​​ @A_Professional_Idiot_mk.2 Yeah, but Naruto never cared if he was destined to be great or not. That's the point. He didnt have natural talent, but he managed to stand on equal grounds with Sasuke who was naturally talented and destined to be strong as well. Asura and Naruto would have been alot weaker if they didn't believe in themselves, train, and rely on others as much as they do. Also, the destiny part that the Toads brought up is most likely an ability to somewhat peer into the future. A god didn't say one of Jiraya's student was destined, they just happened to get information about the future through an ability that they didn't fully understand. We know that an ability like that exists because of the Ostsusuki and Kashin Koji. There are branching paths. He would have caused great stability or destruction which means that the future isn't set in stone.

[@corruptangel6793]

10:29 Okay, I don't like Naruto, but I have to defend him here. His character was *never* about hard work and all that nonsense. The story is about breaking the cycle of hatred. It has been since Chapter 1 with Iruka. The hard work/underdog thing was just his personal conflict with Neji specifically during the Chunin Exams. 14:20 You can't use his age to justify/forgive his actions when he was deemed mature enough to be the captain of the Anbu. Either he's mature enough to be given the same condemnation as any adult, or everyone else has to be made dumber for giving a child such a position of authority The number 12 hot take is technically correct. Madara should have died to Night Guy. My (one of them) hit take: Susanoo shouldn't be a dojutsu. Susanoo being created by the MS makes no sense and it's really dumb that a shinobi would create a giant suit of kaiju battle armor. It should have been a technique created by and used predominantly by the samurai clan. You can then just say Madara, Itachi, and whoever learned it from them.

[@jaybronx98]

Agreed on all points and for me, who personally loves Naruto as a character, it’s cool to see someone who actually understands the character despite not liking them💯 the hard work beats talent thing was debunked years ago lol idk how people still think this.

[@amberknight7301]

Naruto is not about hard work. It’s about bonds breaking curses. This is the point of Naruto and Sasuke’s relationship.

[@jaybronx98]

Yup and overcoming hatred. Don’t understand how people still believe that a sub plot theme (hard work beats talent) from the chunin exams that was mainly embodied by Lee, was somehow the main theme of the story😂🤦🏽‍♂️

[@kleatise52]

@@jaybronx98they just wanted it to be, rock lee vs gaara is what catapulted the series let’s be serious. So rock lee is a huge favorite

[@jaybronx98]

@@kleatise52 just bc you want something, doesn’t mean it should happen. A theme like Hard work beats talent doesn’t work for a story like Naruto. So criticizing it saying Lee should’ve been the mc doesn’t make sense when that’s not even the main theme of the story.

[@kleatise52]

@@jaybronx98 yeah I agree. It’s a long running story with many different themes and the writing is more complex than many will give it credit for.

[@RedEyeItachi]

No that’s the point of Shippuden. Part 1 of Naruto had nothing to do with that. The theme of Naruto 100% changed as the story went on cuz the original theme of Naruto was no longer applicable as Naruto’s backstory was revealed. The original theme of Naruto was about a nobody orphan working hard to become Hokage despite all odds. In part 2 the theme of Naruto became less about Naruto’s journey to Hokage and more about his pointless stupid pursuit of sauske.

[@taylor.river7]

Hinata was poorly written. She was not proactive in changing the ways of the Hyuga clan. She relied on Naruto to do the heavy lifting.

[@emmarod8746]

Not liking her as a person and her personality is different then her being poorly written.

[@taylor.river7]

@emmarod8746 Is "Hinata is a poorly constructed caracther" better? 🤔🤔🤔

[@just_toni7063]

this^

[@BrysonCollins12]

She quite literally refused her fathers request for her to not marry out the family and then moved away from the branches, she quite literally broke free, neji sadly was the one focused on changing the branches, and sure hinata felt the need to help him finish that mission, but she kinda did it in her own way, by leaving the family which did in fact change to a loving one after hinatas decision

[@716_ハディくん]

her writing could be better but we are expecting too much from manga which demographics focus more on male teenager fantasy

[@Not____Applicable]

Hiruzen wasn’t a bad hokage but he was a TERRIBLE guardian to Naruto. Given the task by Minato to take care of his child just for that child to eat Ramen for every meal and drink milk with it. Kurama mustve been working overtime making sure Naruto doesn’t die of a heart attack at the mere age of 12.

[@AlexeiMikhailBoleslav]

Ramen and whole milk are very nutritious and not bad for you. Also, food isn’t the primary cause of heart disease. It’s oxidative stress on the glycocalix which is caused by exposure to smoke, fumes from industry, and chemicals. This damage is then repaired by UVA and IR light from the sun which produces nitric oxide and other healing factors. Unhealed damage to the glycocalix by a lack of sunlight results in calcium deposits, arterial thickening, and if it happens too 13:14 quickly, a heart attack and death. The kid was outside 24/7 and wasn’t around cars and didn’t smoke. He was fine

[@averageexistenceenjoyer3950]

​@@AlexeiMikhailBoleslavbut consider that eating the same food for almost every meal is unhealthy, and given how casually he chugs the spoiled milk in one if the first episodes, it's not hard to say he's drank a lot of expired milk. Also I'm pretty sure the reason he was shorter than Sasuke and Sakura in part 1 was because he wasn't properly fed

[@valtaoi9334]

that because naruto was never supposed to meet his parents at first it's almost 10 years after the start of te serie

[@dream_scape_amv]

​@AlexeiMikhailBoleslav the milk had expired

[@levz360]

​@AlexeiMikhailBoleslav nah instant Ramen is not healthy for you nor can you sustain yourself with it alone (trust me I've tried)

[@seanfloyd9943]

So we're just gonna forget about granny chio, huh arguably, the most compelling female character in the show a woman who wanted nothing to do with alliances, who ended up sacrificing herself in the name of one of those alliances. Not to mention, she's the grandmother to one of the akotsky members, her backstory is incredibly compelling

[@cheyennemoore8380]

Yes, but overall the women weren't strongly written if they weren't already adults.

[@seanfloyd9943]

@cheyennemoore8380 and that is a completely fair critique, I just feel like people entirely forget about Granny chio, being such a well written character.

[@Jayden_Yugiohplayer4000-zb9sb]

she's great but it doesnt make up for all the other poor written women

[@Nikolai2i]

Danzo is the closest thing we have to Fascism in Naruto. Danzo does care for Konoha but in his mind the existence of village is above the needs of the people themselves. Not mention he is very authoritarian and thinks that he should control everything with iron fist. That’s makes him a very compelling villain. He isn’t the strongest villain in physicality but has caused a lot damage.

[@716_ハディくん]

definitely fascism right there this kind of politician always forgets that a nation without it people is useless

[@jasonporrett810]

Lol, Shikamaru is Naruto's Shadow Best Friend.

[@taylor.river7]

@@jasonporrett810 This! 🔥🔥🔥

[@connr3750]

10:25 Naruto is about connections/bonds that’s the main theme of the story. That’s why Naruto never lost the plot of his main theme he is still about connection. He connects with everyone he meets and even connected to Kurama which allowed him to be connected to the shinobi in the war. Naruto is about hard work but that’s not the main theme of the story, it’s a theme not the main one though.

[@ChangeGonnaComeSoon]

The biggest plot hole with Danzo is why didn’t he try to be the 5th Hokage?

[@molyneuxproject]

He probably wanted to be that at first, but after a while he would have been smart enough to realise it would not only undermine his goals but sometimes actively prevent him from working towards them. Half of the things he did would have instantly caused a war to outbreak if he did them in public eye and whilst he would have still been able to do them he would have been hesitant to as the hokage would be well observed by every other villiage in comparison to a shadow hokage. For example if he was hokage and set up Anbu that could have been seen as him strengthening the milatary of Konoha and if the leader of a villiage did that the other villages would have done the same out of retaliation and likely tried to attack first. Another example is the whole getting rid of clans within the village like the Uchiha, would have 100% caused divide and possibly a cival war

[@Macapta]

13:20 Neji learned that his clan was flawed in Part 1, he should be working to correct it in Part 2. That is plenty enough and if we had seen him making good progress towards actually achieving this is would have given his death actual consequences now that his clan will remain flawed.

[@weremutt8]

My hot take is that the Konoha 12 are all high level ninjas, including Tenten and Kiba. They all passed the first two tests of the Chunin exams which eliminated a ton of kids. And the war arc showed us a ton of jonin who seem to be well below what the 12 pull off, especially against the 10 tail minion things.

[@amberknight7301]

Okay, yeah, but what are other high-level ninja? The Raikage? Deidara? Danzo? By the end of the series most of them can’t even beat the weaker members of the Akatsuki.

[@weremutt8]

@amberknight7301 I'm not saying they're kage level. Im saying they're top tier jonin. Most members of the Akatsuki are in the low to mid kage level with even Sasori being one of the weaker members but being said that he destroyed a whole nation once. Hidan is probably the weakest member and he was in the high jonin levels.

[@kleatise52]

@@amberknight7301weaker level of akatuski are still the strongest ninja almost ever lol.

[@716_ハディくん]

​@@kleatise52obviously, they're a shinobi world threat for a reasons

[@kleatise52]

@@716_ハディくん he’s acting like kiba not surpassing deidara is a shame or something. Nah in fact if the whole konoha 12 surpassed the akatuski it wouldn’t even be believable but that’s what some people want.

[@snailmix]

Saying Kiba would be a better MC is legitimately such a batshit crazy take, I’m convinced it was just complete ragebait

[@716_ハディくん]

I don't mind Kiba spin-off like Rock Lee Kiba is comedic relief after all

[@GenJuhru]

Ooh! MC Kiba... with akamaru having different soldier pills that their combination jutsu will also vary: two-headed/offense, liondog/defense, wolfman/speed, raiku/lightning, youko/fire, etc.. If one is the mc, the verse will shape for him/her.. usually.

[@Nikolai2i]

Another Hot take by me I feel like Obito was the most interesting main villain for me. Obito is basically a reflection of Naruto if he gave up. Their personality is almost identical when they were kids. Obito has connection to Kakashi, Minato, Kushina. I know that Obito's objective to put everybody into dream world just to be with a fake version of Rin sounds dumb. but still the personal connections makes it much personal which is understandable why talk no jutsu would work on Obito. Pain also shares a bit of personal connection because they are both Uzumaki and students of Jiraya. On the other hand there's nothing that connects Madara and Naruto directly. Yeah he indirectly caused all the events but that's not really enough. Even the fact that Madara is the previous reincarnation of Indra doesn't really connect them much. I feel like Madara's main appeal is that he is very OP character ans he is very cool. The VAs of his character both in Japanese and English are just amazing.

[@raziberry1595]

As much as i love madaras character, i do think it wouldve been cool to have obito as the main villain after stealing the 10 tails power instead of being talk no jutsu'd

[@Nikolai2i]

@raziberry1595 I think talk no jutsu with Obito works here. Especially when you realise that Obito's planning were not efficient. I believe that unconsciously Obito didn't wanted to go with this plan but Madara messed up his well. Madara is important here because we're getting something similar to Darth Vader and Palpatine situation. I believe that Kshimoto was inspired by that. Obito's character is very similar to Anakin Skywalker.

[@Venator2015]

So sick of the Hiruzen hate that has no ground to stand on. I’ve heard some reasonable arguments over the years - but honestly there are a few points I fundamentally disagree with. 1. Minato had no idea Hiruzen would be re-elected Hokage after his death. How would he? Not even Hiruzen knew. It had never happened before in the village. An old retired man would have a lot more time to take care of a kid than the leader of the entire village. 2. Despite being the busiest man in the village (keep in mind Naruto had towers of paperwork and Hiruzen didn’t have Naruto’s proclivity for Shadow Clones to help), Hiruzen paid for a full apartment for Naruto for years, paid for his meals and clothes and regularly checked in on him. He had as much of an eye on the kid that a man in his position could have.

[@716_ハディくん]

you are naive if you think people who only read fantasy battle manga like naruto will understand characters like hiruzen

[@the_goat02]

Hiruzen has a special jonin look after and teach his grandson, he could have at least assigned a gennin to look after baby naruto

[@716_ハディくん]

​@@the_goat02but he did tho naruto does have jonin taking care of him until he is old enough to join orphanage before Danzo reveals his identity

[@the_goat02]

@716_ハディくん we literally see a 4 or 5 year old naruto starving in the street until ramen dude feeds him cuz nobody else would accept naruto

[@Smkymcpott85]

I disagree with the Jiraiya take. I can understand the emotions behind it, but I don't agree with him taking away from the story. When introduced he is this legendary character and a sage. His pervy nature made Jiraiya human. Just like Master Roshi. All Jiraiya did was spy on women in a bathhouse, he didn't put cameras in the bathhouse and sell the tapes, he didn't force himself on anyone. In a series where people steal children and force them to kill their emotions to kill others, spying on a tit or two isn't that bad.

[@felix7720]

@@Smkymcpott85 Yeah, I agree. People try to compare our current standards in the real world to their world which doesnt really make sense. In the future I'm sure they will compare their standards to how we live now in the same way. Our values change overtime. I'm not saying it's right for him to spy on them, but it's human to have faults and they didnt grow up in the same world we did.

[@716_ハディくん]

​@@felix7720welcome to the anime community in 2024 😂

[@__senjutsu]

Facts. He was the only character up until Naruto who genuinely wanted World Peace. He never took away from the story, his death was sad, emotional and most certainly an important piece to the overarching plot.

[@steel4o]

All Legendary Sannin were flawed in their own way. They were all brought up in a world where killing children was as mundane as eating a sandwich so they had to cope anyway they could. Jiraya was a perv / ladies-man, Tsunade a drunk and a degenerate gambler and Orochimaru a scruple-less scientist who sought out greatness through power. I've known people who got their lives wrecked through gambling, you don't see me blaming Tsunade every time she laughs off her losses and successfully conns someone into lending her more money.

[@pyrus138]

Nick, put on the headband behind you.... It calls to you O-O

[@brendonbarr6136]

Extremely hot take: Naruto isn’t and was never about to “pulling yourself up by your boot straps”. I don’t even know where this myth came from. From chapter 1, we’re given that Naruto was a special kid (his insane amount of chakra reserves), but Naruto was also demonstrated to be one of the laziest students. Naruto’s real message was staying true to your beliefs and desires no matter the adversity. Literally, the two main plots of Naruto (Naruto becoming Hokage and Naruto getting Sasuke back) are never changed. Naruto stays true to his ultimate goals, even in the face of immense adversity. Even his battle with Neji was not about “hard work beats talent”, but about defying someone’s supposed fate. It’s insane how many people miss this message.

[@lightyoshiman]

"say's he's one of the laziest students completely ignores that the only reason he learned shadow clones is because he spend all night training for it nonstop even iruka noted how much work he put into learning the justu" Naruto had a lot of chakra but that didn't make his job as a shinobi easier in fact it just made it more dangerous. The fight with Neji was about using hardwork to overcome your fate in otherwords you can change who you are if you try hard enough that was also the point of Naruto finishing off neji with a shadow clone neji mistook it for Naruto's specialty with naruto correcting him saying it used to be his worst justu and it only seemed like he's a natural at it because he trained hard to master it

[@brendonbarr6136]

@@lightyoshiman But... it wasn't. Note, I said Naruto is *one* of the laziest students. He has his moments, sure, but he also consistently takes the easy way out ESPECIALLY in the beginning. And no, he didn't use hard work to beat Neji. He used an X-factor Neji didn't foresee and a lot of ingenuity on Naruto's part. That wasn't hard work; we don't have arcs about Naruto perfecting his shadow clones, and literally the entire fight was about the fate of these two characters and how Naruto defied his by sticking true to himself.

[@ACE360x]

​@brendonbarr6136 I agree it's more about sticking to your true self and ideals but we need to stop rewriting and acting like he's lazy. We have a lot of cases of him borderline putting himself in danger to train a lot

[@lightyoshiman]

@@brendonbarr6136 what easy way did he take out at the start of the series? in the very beginning he worked all night to learn the shadow clone justu again iruka pointed out how hard he was working. Then in the next arc he spend a week learning chakra control to the point he passed out from exestuation (the kid with the nine tailed fox chakra as well as uzumaki chakra passed out from over training) kid was a hard worker since the beginning. By the time Naruto fought Neji he had gone through intense training some of which nearly killed him the whole point of Naruto finishing Neji off with a shadow clone was to show Neji that trying hard and working towards your goal isn't pointless and you can get results (seeing as Naruto sucked at making clones but by training hard not only in learning the shadow clone but his chakra control he's able to use them more effectively and easily). Neji's view on life is "your never going to change no matter how hard you work life sets you a path and you follow it regardless of what you do" in Naruto's case he was set up to be a loser for life he had no skills in being a ninja much more becoming hokage and if anything he was set up to be a ticking time bomb, he proved Neji wrong by not only beating him but using what was once his worse justu

[@brendonbarr6136]

@@lightyoshiman The entire bell exam? The written exam of the chunin exam that he passed not by studying but rather by *staying true to himself*? Maybe lazy isn't the right word, but there are plenty of examples of Naruto distinctly not using hard work but rather his innate abilities and sheer impulsiveness. As for the comment about Neji; *Yes. That's exactly the point*. The battle was one about defying fate, not about the hard work Naruto was putting into it. Even Naruto's catchphrase is about how he never goes back on his word.

[@richchia92]

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[@muhammedgezer3915]

its impressive how someone live their life on Naruto does not even understand the main point and theme of Naruto.. imagine thinking "Hardwork beat Talent" is the theme... Kakashi in the chunin exams look at Lee and says "By hardwork alone its not possible, this guy must a be genius". The theme was to defy the fate. And it is ALWAYS the same. Naruto vs Sasuke second fight is Naruto completely rejecting and defying the Fate of Ashura and choosing to forgive Sasuke (Indra) and make him understand what means to be a ninja. Both Hashirama and Ashura couldnt do it and they eventually cut their ties with Madara and Indra. Naruto refused it.

[@corruptangel6793]

If you wanna find the theme of a story as a whole, you have to look at it from start to finish and only 1 theme exists from the first chapter to the final chapter, and that is breaking the cycle of hatred and forgiveness.

[@jaybronx98]

Exactly, idk how people still think the main theme was hard work beats talent😂 that was lees theme. Defying fate and overcoming hatred were much more impactful and consistent themes in the series. So much so, that I don’t get how people still clinch onto a sub plot theme from the chunin exams🤦🏽‍♂️

[@muhammedgezer3915]

@ Lee frickin lost the fight as well😭 and Neji vs Naruto obviously about defying the Fate not Hardwork beat Talent.

[@bloster_ant]

@@muhammedgezer3915 That fight wasn’t even about defying fate though. In Neji’s eyes, Naruto’s fate was to be a weakling and idiot his whole life. What we learn from Shippuden though is that Naruto’s fate was to master the nine tails and defeat the person thought to be Madara at the time, a destiny that far eclipses anything Neji was destined for.

[@muhammedgezer3915]

@ that Child of prophecy “destiny” applies to Nagato and Minato which both of them couldnt achieve. Naruto became the Saviour with his own actions and choices. He saved Sasuke and destroyed the Reincarnation cycle with his own choices defying the pre determined fate from Ashura.

[@BetterU1906]

I have a personal theory that Naruto's "talk no jutsu" is watered down version of the charm shinjutsu. It gives an in universe reason for how he's able to persuade strong willed idealogs to his way of thinking such as Nagato and Obito (amongst many others)

[@716_ハディくん]

shinjutsu didn't exist yet in shippuden

[@BetterU1906]

@716_ハディくん Shinjutsu did exist via Shibai and the Osutskis we as the reader were unaware of them until Boruto. Similar to DragonBall Goku was always a Sayain but the reader isn't aware of it until the arrival of Raditz.

[@haroldhopkins7719]

I don't watch Boruto but I believe (in Naruto) talk no jutsu is derived from true ninshu, teachings of Ashura & Hagaromo,

[@BetterU1906]

@haroldhopkins7719 hmm that's an interesting angle

[@haroldhopkins7719]

(if given the option)Talk no jutsu is Naruto's answer too any & every confrontation, Naruto understands empathy & compassion,

[@cadeparrott3590]

Debunked my ass. Dude agreed with a lot of them

[@betterlatethannever4529]

17:20 nah. He was also in charge during the kidnapping attempt of Hinata. Neji’s dad didn’t have to die if hiruzen would have gotten involved

[@MrJRDOT1]

Danzo is the best villain because he actually exists and is one of the most realistic villains in fiction.

[@taylor.river7]

Either Tenten should've gone back to training medical ninjutsu. Naruto it's all about not giving up and she gave up. Tsunade is her idol and she was now in the village. Why didnt she try again? It doesnt make sense. Or she should've learned chakra flow and apply it to her weapons. Imagine how powerful she would've been if she trained under Asuma? 🐵🗡

[@ThatPazuzu]

That's a great idea! Tenten learning how Tsunade does the chakra super strength thing and then augmenting it so it means her weapons hit with 100x the force they are supposed to would be a good power up for her. It'd still make her the weakest of the Konoha 13 but it'd give her some kind of post-genin gimmick and it would give her a teeny tiny character src

[@SaberKT14]

three points i wanna make. kakashi was never meant to be a teacher who trains team 7. he was someone who taught them what he thought he needed to learn at their age. Also about narutos obsession with sasuke, I always thought it was explained when hagoromo revealed that they were transmigration of brothers. I thought it was like a subtle influence of asura to reconcile with indra. lifetimes of trying and failing to reconnect with his brother who went the wrong path. It was also obvious to me that naruto giving up on sasuke would be the ultimate insult to himself too. Naruto has always been someone to never give up on whatever he does, him giving up on sasuke would retract from his promise to himself to never give up on his friends. thirdly, sakura would have no idea how to run a village. shikamaru was a much better choice, considering the fact that he is extremely familiar in the process of running the village from being the hokages advisor, and sakura is the best medical ninja in history, excluding maybe hashirama. she might be the strongest but she wasn't the most suitable. its the same reason kakashi was the sixth hokage instead of naruto. Naruto might be more powerful but he wasn't trained for it at the time.

[@haroldhopkins7719]

I agree with 2nd point, very good,

[@jaybronx98]

@@SaberKT14 agreed with your second point. I think Nick just says that it’s an obsession bc people critique Sakura for it and feel they should do the same to Naruto since she’s one of his fav characters. You’re pretty much spot on on why Naruto doesn’t give up on him. Comparing him to Sakura who just had an obsessive crush is an insult to Naruto’s character tbh.

[@Jayden_Yugiohplayer4000-zb9sb]

naruto's obssesion with sasuke is also about how his teachers left behind theyre "brother"

[@louis2k18]

I love your channel you deserve more subscribers!!!

[@Mochaherrera909]

29:00 Naruto shippuden should’ve ended after killing Madara but with a cliffhanger that Kaguya is reborn/freed from the moon by black zetzu and then Naruto shippuden 2 continues with Kaguya as the new villain, everything just happened so quick you can tell they rushed the ending. Then we should’ve got Boruto

[@hiddensweatshirt4836]

Meh, then where does that put the final fight between Naruto and Sasuke? In the next part of the series, how long would it take to finish her since she would be the next big bad that we lead up to, even though it only seemed to take a day to defeat her? So would it still be Boruto Next Gen if we start with not even the ending of the 4 Ninja War? I think there are a lot of repercussions and weird things if this would be the case, much more pacing issues and storytelling issues. Idk about a cliffhanger towards the ending of Naruto and Sasukes “main story” is the best time to start another part of the series.

[@Ahtsham_ul_ha]

content starts 4:20

[@Vyspion]

Thank you 🙏🏾😂

[@jimismith1159]

You can't forget danzo allowed for more destruction, and death to happen when pain attacked the leaf because he killed the messenger frog. All to force himself into the hokage position hidden behind him acting like it was for the best of the leaf village

[@permixtg4322]

28:33 And that's where you lost most people.

[@slime_jah8772]

😂💯

[@Thankyouforyoursupport]

Yeah how tf did kaguya make the story better lol.

[@darronwilliams4641]

Facts

[@Silly_Andres]

17:35 I love how it jsut says "Sasuke sucks" Not "Sasuke was a bad character" or "Sasuke is not as great as people say" or something like that Nanana, just "Sasuke sucks" DSIFJASOIF I mean, he kinda does, but I say that in a loving way "Look at that pathetic man, can't get a hold of his life and makes it everyone's problems. He sucks" I love him. I also hate him

[@Blu-Tk]

14:38 I absolutely agree with this. Itachi is one of my top two favorite characters, not just in Naruto, not just in anime, but anything. Mostly it’s because of how I relate to his story and decision making as an older brother to two younger brothers that I’d do anything for. His story about sacrificing everything and himself for his younger brother hit very close to me, and that is one if the biggest reasons I love him so much. But I see so many people deifying Itachi and acting like he’s Jesus 2, which is insane. He’s a person thrust into a bad situation and forced to do what he thinks is best, whether or not it was true. He’s strong but he’s not so insanely strong. People acting like he’s a perfect human being and a shining example of morality or something like that is so insane when I would say that Itachi has a good heart and soul, he isn’t a good person.

[@lightyoshiman]

I'm so fucking sick and tired of hearing that hot take of Naruto not being a hard worker, wahhhh he's the son of Minato and Kusina two powerful people when all he inherited from them is a load of chakra he couldn't do jack shit with and had to train hard in order to use properly, wahhhh he has the strongest tailed beast inside him you know that murderous monster that wanted Naruto dead and he had to fight the guy in a life and death battle to even gain some control over and even then he had to work hard to free son to prove that he really did care about kurama outside of his power, wahhhhhh he's the reincarnation of Asura you know that loser who couldn't do anything on his own and not only had to work hard but relay on others for more power despite being the son of the sage of six path (which is another underlining theme of the series people over look). People of course Naruto is going to be a juggernut by the end of his story that's the whole point he worked himself to the bone to get there plus he had help getting there

[@benogle4951]

My hot take is Boruto shouldn't look so drippy in two blue vortex. Him being this cool physically hurts me because I could enjoy ragging on him before and now he is freaking cool. I used to make jokes about him being lame and now he's freaking cool. Bro went rom gen Z/alpha spoiled brat to an actual cool character talk about a freaking glow up

[@aayushpatil2294]

Nah dude, you still can hate him like other illiterates on Twitter do by saying "Why ain't he smiling anymore" or "Why's he trying to be like Sasuke". There are still ways. Your giving up too early on the young lord.

[@benogle4951]

@@aayushpatil2294 I'm mainly talking about the outfit in terms of him being cooler but also he is kind of cooler because he's like Sasuke but with the edge dialed back where he isn't evil and hate filled but still dark

[@Nikolai2i]

Actually that a good reason why he should be cool 🤣

[@benogle4951]

@Nikolai2i but does boruto deserve this level of drip

[@HamsterBaddy]

32:34 Uhm, no? The first Rasenshuriken, with only wind nature transformation added to the Rasengan, was specifically NOT throwable! That came later wuth Sage Mode!

[@wifi1872]

Nick looks like the biggest Real Friends fan but speaks about anime with the passion of my friends in middle school. I love it

[@ThexAngryxPharoah]

Madara is Batman with prep time personified

[@ThatPazuzu]

Batman With Prep Time except he never needs prep time, he just does whatever

[@kleatise52]

That’d be shikamaru

[@transagentcooper8041]

10:30 Ok your use of the bootstrap paradox aside, Naruto, thematically, is about how, in order to grow, one must work with others, achieve understanding, and unite against forces that torment, tantalize, and seek to control, as well as offering redmeption to those who seek it (not htose that deserve it, but those taht actively seek it out and due the work to change their ways). Naruto's personal story has been pointed out, many times, as literally just being the Golden Path of Budism, intermixed with the aformentioend themes of growth, understanding, and unity. This wasnt always the case, the start of the series is closer to the usual "do your best" angle most shonen take, but as the series expands so too do its ideas. Trying to force a series that long ago moved onto concepts like refinement of the self and mutal international cooperation to adhere to the simple ideas it had at the start is almost anathema to its corea ideals, even at the start. Furthermore, being born an uzumaki, the son of hokage, the host fo the most powerful tailed beast, and being a reincarnanated child of prophecy dont really help Naruto that much: -Being the son of a hokage didnt stop an entire village from persecuting, neglecting, and abusing him for the first 13 years of his life -he had the strongest tailed beast and was an uzumaki...and still had shitty chakra and lagged behind his peers for over half the series -being a child of prophecy literally meant he was destined to unite the beasts and beat kaguya, and thats it. Nothing else is mentioned, we literally watch him put time and back breaking work in, and he got by with help most of the time. Also, the prophecy made him the target of multiple kidnapping and murder attempts and centered a war on him Like, the idea that Naruto "lost the plot" as a character in this context hinges on ignoring the very loudly repeated points of the series writ large. Im not saying anoyone has to like the character, but still

[@jaybronx98]

Perfectly well said, it’s insane to me that people don’t understand this and heavily underestimate the nuance in Naruto’s character. Naruto worked hard but that wasn’t his main theme, it’s lees theme which people confuse and try to say he should’ve been the MC which is objectively wrong.

[@transagentcooper8041]

@@jaybronx98 exactly, hard work is only one component of his character and the series but people fixate on it bc its where the series started.

[@troy.c8102]

Hey, my hot takes are amazing thank you very much, Nick.

[@jaybronx98]

While I agree with most of your points in this video, Naruto’s main theme was NOT hard work beats talent, that’s lees theme. Naruto’s themes were: never giving up, overcoming hatred and being able to change your fate.

[@cameroncrouch5843]

My personal hot take is that Danzo should have been the final villain. He caused both Naruto and Sasuke's trauma, and it just thematically fits, I feel.

[@johnnypollack3243]

Keep up the amazing work and videos Nick

[@Alpha___00]

I really don’t like “minato is bad father” take. It’s more like Hiruzen and Jiraya are kinda assholes, who risked quite a lot while betting on Naruto growing up a good man while shunned by his own village.

[@rickyarroyo9108]

Where is Pt. 2 for the “best character in each arc”?!

[@afighterforfriends2996]

Didn't Minato seal the "Good" half of Kurama in himself while sealing the "evil" half of Kurama in his newly born infant child?

[@williambenton9959]

Yin and yang are utilized as shadow and light rather than good and evil. They say the nara clan utilize yin release for shadow possession while the akamichi use yang or light style for body expansion.

[@kleatise52]

If I’m not mistaken it’s the other way around.

[@naaga7932]

12:10 i kinda disagree look at what togashi is doing in black whale rn theres probably 50+ characters that all have their own designs, motives, factions theyre in. You dont need thousands of chapters to do it

[@AhmedHussain-ju6xd]

most anime hot takes are a coinflip, u either get straight trash or completely luke warm opinions.

[@kleatise52]

A “hot take” in essence is people being bored creating controversy for conversation.

[@haroldhopkins7719]

Hot take ? Or not ? Shisui's eye within Naruto over time, would have turned into a rinnegan,

[@AhmedHussain-ju6xd]

@@haroldhopkins7719 😂

[@Rikinbili13]

Thank you for these videos man there definitely great to pass the days 💪 your the man

[@matthewdodd1262]

It surprises me that someone really went online and said "wow, I don't understand why people hate a character that was written in a way to make people hate him"

[@AzureDragon158]

Hot take: Nagato's rinnegan being a transplant was a terrible idea.

[@SlayingSin]

By definition of a hot take, which is an opinion, it CAN'T really be debunked since opinions are subjective in the first place.

[@tejiriziregbe1816]

For someone who had a magic crystal ball hiruzen sure missed a lot of important stuff

[@loavprod]

i think naruto's talk no jutsu is an hability of unifying people he inherited from Asura. Asura was the descendant of an alien so i assume there's some power involved with that. their inherited connection can also explain how they can talk to each other on that weird realm when they're actually fighting.

[@azrael_pendragon]

Why does he want temari and hinata not to be house wives lol, nothing else they could do especially aga8nst otsutsukis, hinata was put into the hospital tryna take on momoshiki and kinshiki lmao. Only shikamaru and ino have good skills for the current boruto era.

[@ColinCorgiat-cf6vk]

Bro Nick! I think your best hair day ever was in that Raycon add, hell yeah

[@uscreativegamers]

A friend recently told me to stop saying that Naruto is about hard work overcomes natural abilities, and that its about love overcoming hate. So I rewatched Shippuden with that in mind and I was surprised at how accurate that felt

[@wifi1872]

I genuinely dislike when people say “blank was supposed to be a story about this or that” so much the story is dictated by what the writer wants to do, not what you as the readers have committed this story to being (edit: i dont think the readers/watchers are the ones who decide what the plot is, frankly i think thats a crazy take, whether we decide which plot points are more important is an entirely different thing)

[@omariwashington2570]

10:41 this is a real hot Take, the meaning of Naruto isn't just about hard work it's about how you're surrounding shape Who You Are over what you were born as, Naruto with all these powerful advantages couldn't even do a simple Jutsu to pass his test in the academy, because nobody really showed belief in him and so he clinged to the first person to actually show care, (the white haired guy in ep1) and just trusted his words because he showed care, which led Naruto to learning forbidden Jutsu in less than a night, Naruto has shown time and time again that with his friends he gets stronger, and that just having people who shows care to him make him stronger, you can even see the parallels with nagato, and how his story was very similar to Naruto's until his friends died which led him to go in a dark spiral, I just think the "you are a product of your environment" themes are more evident then the hard work themes, even though both are their and show up a lot, at least in Shippuden pre time skip Naruto seems to have more hard work messages.

[@kagekun1198]

Gentle Fist being OP is possible, but it's a trap if that is all the Hyuga clan member could do. The Hyuga must also branch out to different kinds of jutsus to round out their arsenal or else a smart long range attacker can render them helpless

[@CMWolfMagic]

Isn't Wind Nature the rarest nature? That's why he got sent to Asuma. Kakashi had been shown to only use the other natures up until the Rasen training. I doubt Jiraiya even had the ability to teach him any Wind style because he never used Wind anything. The only Toad based Jutsu Naruto has ever used that involves wind was Toad Oil Bullet, which I believe Naruto had to basically learn from the ground up on how to do.

[@jahiemyoung754]

I still want to see Danzo come back in Two Blue Vortex or Kishimoto expand on the Shimura Clan history and background.

[@JaylenJelks-by3cf]

With Minato it’s hard to be a good or bad father when you we’re not there

[@blaze048]

Yea he was a father for like an hour (if even that)

[@CrimsonGenie]

I actually like and appreciate kaguyas introduction better now. Think about it like madara who’s 1/1billion chance plan had backfired for being so greedy he didn’t realize he was being manipulated By someone who’s plan was essentially the same but way more complicated and difficult.

[@gabrielecalabrese2906]

I halfway agree with "Madara is too OP", he does get power ups, hashirama cells, rinnegan, and ten tails but he was dominating the 5 kages with pure power alone, which diminishes and ridicules 5 very intersting and liked characters, a villain who outmanouvers the good guys will always be more interesting than the one that just stomps everybody because he's stronger. Look at FMA, nobody gets powers ups there, they just strategize and play on their strenghts to overcomes difficulties.

[@AzureDragon158]

FMA's a pretty bad example to use here given that Father literally gains divine power by absorbing Truth to the point of casually creating and containing a miniature sun.

[@gabrielecalabrese2906]

@AzureDragon158 yeah, at the very end of the series, no "stronger bad guy" after that and everybody had to pitch in that fight to win, it didn't diminish anybody from the cast. My point still stands.

[@midpixie]

My only Hot Take with Naruto is that Rin's death DIRECTLY causes Shippuden to happen and it doesnt even make sense. She couldve waited outside Konoha for Minato, her sensei and a SEALING JUTSU MASTER

[@GameCyborgCh]

Kakashi doesn't even teach them how to walk on water. At least not to Naruto, that's Ebisu's and Jiraiya's doing.

[@PhiloticSymmetrist]

My [potentially] hot takes: 1. Naruto was never dumb. If you look at what he actually does instead of what we are told he does, he is actually very intelligent and skilled. Naruto and the audience are gaslighted into thinking he's dumb because we are told he is, we are not shown that he is. 2. Naruto and Sasuke absolutely would have defeated Madara if Black Zetsu hadn't interfered. They had both just received massive power-ups that they were still getting used to, and were experimenting with using them in a variety of ways. 3. The story ends with chapter 699 and 700. Boruto may be an entertaining series, but the Naruto manga told a complete story which is meaningful and sufficient on it's own. However, there were also some inconsistences and retcons, including things like chakra nature being introduced really late, but in a way that made it strange for it not to have been included quite early in the story. There are also some inconsistences with characterization, which are forgivable as you're going through the story, but really could have been done better if they were more planned out from the start. I find these to be a problem with Boruto, because they are building too much onto a foundation that is only really stable enough to hold itself. I think it would have been much better if they had taken all of those ideas and started a new story with a more consistent foundation.

[@martinbabich1920]

You say talk no jutsu is impossible, but I say that without it the role of president of the US wouldn't exist. And that's just an example. By the way, I think Karin is a more powerful sensory type than Ino

[@CyanPrince]

Said it before and I’ll say it again. The whole “underdog” theme was never the core message of Naruto. That was mainly in the early portions of the story and mainly Rock Lee’s whole storyline during the Chunin Exams with parallels made to Naruto here and there. Past that, a lot of the messaging is confronting war and hate, the importance of forming bonds, and raising up the future generations.

[@VGInterviews]

One thing I will always disagree is the whole "Naruto got all his powerups for free and doesn't represent hard work" During the first half it is stated that the Nine tails is actively interfering with Naruto's chakra control, that's why at first he sucks that much, he is at an active disadvantage against all his classmates and the only reason he is actually able to do any ninjutsu is because of his abnormal chakra reserves allow him to waste so much Most of his succeses are only realized after a bunch of hard work and the final key to success is due to his own creativity (using shadow clones to master the rasengan and rasenshuriken in record time, learning to distribute his chakra evenly among clones and mobilize them efficiently so not even the byakugan can find the original, circunventing the need to fuse with the frog sage by using clones as batteries, because AGAIN, Kurama is actively making things harder for him) And finally the whole "he is the reincarnation of Ninja Jesus".....yes....and so was Hashirama, and while recognized as immensely strong he still wasn't able to unify the world in peace like Naruto did, or save the tail beasts, like Naruto did, and neither did any of the (allegedly) previous Ashura reincarnates or Junchurikis, it was Naruto's personality, will and courage which changed Kurama and changed everything, that's what Minato and Kushina were counting on Naruto saved everyone because of who he was, not of what he was

[@madDjakni]

I will admit upfront that I have never watched or read Naruto/Boruto and all my knowledge comes from watching your videos and a couple shorts/scenes from the anime posted to youtube here and there however I have to say first (in the video) take is a bit wrong. Danzo doesn't love Konoha, he's obsessed with his own idealized version of Konoha that only existed in his head. Danzo only cared about what he wanted for Konoha and what could benefit him. Danzo wanted to control Konoha and the only reason he wanted Konoha to be strong was for the same reason any ninja wants their weapons to be strong. If Danzo truly loved Konoha he wouldn't take actions so blatantly against it such as: The opression and later massacre of the Uchiha, actively sponsoring Orochimaru kidnapping and experimenting on children from Konoha, Keeping secrets such as Yamatos wood release from Hiruzen and Konoha or attempting to have Hiruzen assassinated (I believe more than once even).

[@alexD.InkGuy]

Kakashi didn’t even teach them how to walk on water. He taught them how to walk on solid surfaces. Ebisu Sensei taught Naruto how to walk on water.

[@Bangman085]

This is a hot take…NC Hammer despises the Uchiha Clan except Itachi, Madara, & Obito because they had a hand in killing off the Uchiha Clan.

[@716_ハディくん]

basically NC Hammer is Tobirama alt account

[@MagnusJensen-s3f]

I think it’s hurting retention, that you take 4 minutes to start the video. Nonetheless, you produce bangers every time❤

[@swervyghost]

The whole article is wack kiba over naruto as a mc was such a wild sentence who tf likes fart boy

[@devinschieffler865]

Bro is dropping heat this week

[@gaignunleingod4143]

i still say Danzō used Shisui grandfather eye on Hanzō of the Salamander because why change your entire personality from what an enemy say

[@alex-og.zalez9403]

I don't like when people say the power ups that Naruto gets make him less of a representative of the main point of his story. The main point is that you can become more than the circumstances of your birth. Naruto represents that completely. So what he had great genetics, that lesson is about more than just gaining power. By the circumstances of his birth, Naruto was left an orphan with no family and a village that hated him for something he had no control of from the moment of his birth. He should've become a villain (another main point of the story), but he didn't. He overcame that. Instead, he became hokage, but not just that. He became a hero to the entire world. He made that village love him through sheer will to protect, not power. Sasuke had power and couldn't do that for a while. He also made kurama, the once hated demon, a loved citizen and asset of konoha. He absolutely became more than the circumstances of his birth and represents that whole heartedly. This has been my TED Talk....sorry lol

[@chrisboone641]

Here's a hot take: Shikadai should've been his team's medical ninja. We got one throwaway line about the Nara clan's medical ninjutsu knowledge, and that's it. Plus, it would serve to diversify the Medical Ninja Corps and reinforce the fact that men can be medical ninja

[@Austenite75]

28:38 you got it all the way around, she is specificaly created to set future villain for boruto. If not for the higher up preassure to continously milking naruto's story kishimoto wouldn't have to sack madara in the stupid way to give way for kaguya.

[@SlayingSin]

1:15 Yeah, people's hate for Danzo isn't unwarranted. But the actual hot fake is that Danzo is infact likeable. I'm not talking about a "love to hate em" kind of likeable, I mean a genuine care for Danzo's character and wellbeing.

[@danielrivera5406]

New drinking game, take a shot every time Nick says something is compelling

[@Nikolai2i]

Actually there are way too many Minato bashing / Naruto Neglect fanfics. People like to hate on Minato for some reason.

[@kleatise52]

He’s the most popular which comes with some kind of hate from people who like others it’s just how people work

[@macalloway1]

%90 of the hot takes start with "'x'character did nothing wrong" and the moment you see "did nothing wrong" you know even the person saying it doesnt believe it

[@puddingknight]

My “hot take” even though it’s more a theory than anything else. I think Amado has a special genjutsu. Almost every time we see Amado explaining anything, or talking to powerful people, he smokes a cigarette. Multiple times he does this it’s in a convo, granted initially, about Kara, but he’s done it a few times now in TBV I think his genjutsu might be a shinjutsu that allows vapors to initiate the genjutsu

[@dequanwrenwrites]

So I've been thinking a lot about a certain jutsu and this will sound crazy so bear with me. What if sexy Jutsu is secretly the most effective jutsu in Naruto. And what if Jiraya knew this and forced him to use it so much? In part one, he KO'd the 3rd, and beat his first Jonin, and commonly injured Iruka with it. Sure there gag moments but, I am a writer, and Kishimoto has an odd way of having characters react to the move's effectiveness. The third feared facing Naruto's Harem jutsu after seeing Ibisu be defeated so easily after basically vowing to seriously hurt Naruto, bluff or not. It's the first move he taught his very first student, and an early part of Boruto's development as a ninja as well. Of course, most characters fighting with rageful intent aren't affected by this, but Naruto learns early on when to use it and when to not. So when he pulled it out on Kaguya, Sakura, who hated the jutsu, was affected and in aww when it worked, but Sasuke approved of it, and Kakashi wasn't all that surprised to see the jutsu either. Remember, Kishimoto killed MADARA UCHIHA off for a one-time Kakashi Susanno, To introduce the Otsotsuki clan, and for The group to struggle and barely land anything on Kaguya until Naruto used the reverse harem technique. This may be soon to call, but I'm betting Boruto uses it in a key moment at the end of the series. Kakashi foreshadows this when he says "Is his pervy jutsu really going to save the world?". Remember Jiraya made him practice this jutsu more than RASENGAN, and he was preparing him to fight the Akatsuki. Naruto himself said before using it on Kaguya, "This usually works better on stronger opponents.". It's Naruto's classic gag, but SO6P, Truth-Seeker Orb, Naruto with two arms, Rinnegan Sasuke And 100 heals Sakura, felt he had to resort to using the technique to gain the upper hand in a fight and Sasuke, the second strongest on scene and someone that proved unaffected by the jutsu approved this idea and seemed as if he wasn't shocked by the results.

[@cheyennemoore8380]

America needs a talk no jutsu so badly. Where's our Naruto? 😂

[@Berserker-zw8cf]

A what if story about Yahiko, Konan and Nagato joining with Hanzo successfully, without Danzo manipulating things could be interesting. An Akasuki group fighting for the peace of the five elemental nations while eventually coming into conflict with Obito's group of Biju hunters. Might be that some of the other characters join up in a tenure of sorts with the black cloaks with red clouds being seen as a symbol of pride and hope rather than being vilified.

[@taylor.river7]

You should do a video like this for Boruto! ⚡⚡⚡⚡

[@whitenobeard]

Hey mate, just wanna give a quick warning about putting multiple lightning bolts together like that isn’t a good idea. It's seen and used as a neo-n@zi dog whistle.

[@Schnapee]

Does Nick have a new camera? Something feels fresh!