The Craziest Retcons in Naruto

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[@agentemerald4563]

Chidori wasn’t originally lightning style and had no chakra nature

[@AK-su3tz]

What?

[@DiamonDust]

That is completely false. Chidori was created when Kakashi failed to add his lightning change in chakra nature to a Rasengan. Meaning by definition it requires lightning change in chakra nature, that's how he created it. Maybe you are confused by how only Kakashi's Chidori has the nickname "Lightning Cutter"? That is just a nickname given to his Chidori because of the legendary moment when he sliced a Lightning Bolt in half with it. From what we know it is still a regular Chidori like Sasuke's, he was just very skilled at using it when he cut the Lightning in half.

[@AK-su3tz]

@@DiamonDust Lmao people in this comment section know nothing, don't bother explaining it to him even the youtuber liked the comment. No signs of intelligence anywhere

[@DiamonDust]

@@AK-su3tz I leave comments like these in some pointless attempt to halt the spread of misinformation lol. I'm just now realizing that they meant "originally" as in when introduced, but there wasn't anything to suggest that chakra natures didn't exist to my knowledge, so I don't see how it would be a retcon to say it's lightning chakra.

[@jonathanisolato]

Yeah, wasn't it just your hand wrapped in chakra made visible by the friction against surfaces and turned into a blade by traveling stupid fast

[@Emilis2023]

One of the ones that always bugged me was just how much the Byakugan was hyped up in the beginning. I think they said it was better or at the very least on par with the Sharingan and the Hyuugas where the village's strongest clan. At the very beginning of the series that seemed plausible, but as the show goes on, especially into Shippuden that just becomes more and more of a ridiculous notion. It seems to basically just give users telescope vision and the ability to see chakra flow, whereas the sharingan just keeps getting more and more powers added to it and evolved forms.

[@Slavolko]

Exactly. So much wasted potential.

[@buincqv67]

Byakugan became irrelevant once sharingan got to mangekyou. Sad

[@lilbrit0821]

Not really, the Byakugan was strong just not in comparable to the Godlike ability of the Uchiha clan. The Hyuugas are the strongest clan in the village because Uchiha are gone. That’s why Neji wanted to challenge Sasuke to prove even though he’s a branch clan member, he’s stronger than the people who are oppressed him.

[@Ilson7]

tell me a moment in part one when they say they were the strongest clan in the village. Kakashi in chapter 16 and also in the anime (at least 2 separate episodes) declares Uchiha as a strongest. Byakugan was never hyped up, they just said that in terms of visual clarity it's better than sharingan not as a whole.

[@kyle032196]

Isn't Boruto all about the Byakugan and how those eyes are directly from the Otsutsuki clan that the sage of six paths is from? I haven't seem much but im pretty sure they're a huge deal now?

[@indrainspace2601]

I find it hard to believe that people didn't find out naruto was minato's son with his last name being "Uzumaki" and the ONLY Uzumaki in their village was the wife of the fourth hokage. On top of this, Naruto had the EXACT SAME FEATURES as minato other than the wiskers. To add on to this, sensory type ninjas can tell what clan a person's from based on their chakra signature meaning any sensory ninja could have sensed both Uzumaki and Namekaze chakra inside of naruto and yet... nobody knew some fucking how

[@quincyquincy4764]

Also why risk loosing the nine tails by sending Naruto out on missions?

[@kiddomadeit8634]

@@quincyquincy4764 exactly. Makes no sense to train jinchuriki in anything other than how to transform into their beast and maintain control. You might say well how does he fight? I’m pretty sure as a giant Kaiju you’ll manage.

[@rotkappchenlp7032]

I can sort of excuse the civilians not knowing stuff cause they literally aren't classified to know stuff, especialy since we don't actually know if people outside of minatos friend group knew about him being married to kushina or that they were having a baby like minato is a kage so making your loved one public is kinda dumb considering the 3rd war just ended and most of the other villages kinda hated him and pergnancy canonicly weakens the jinjuruki seal, so they might have genuinly not told anyone except close friends for security reasons. What I am more confused about is how they do know that he is/has the kyuubi in the first place cause literally how would they know that?

[@Kaze.No.Okami.]

Bro as a kid reading the manga for part 1 I knew Minato (then only know as the Fourth Hokage) was Naruto’s dad so how could the leaf villagers not 😭 never sat right with me 😭

[@CluelessCarter]

i thought everyone knew he was minato's son but were still afraid that he loses control of the 9 tails and kills everyone in the village. that was my assumption on why they still treated naruto like crap.

[@code.c.]

It's funny that Kishimoto decided halfway through the series that the existence of a nine-tailed fox should imply the existence of a species with eight other creatures possessing varying amounts of tails.

[@KatoBeyond]

The existence of a 9 Tailed Fox implies 8 Tailed Beasts

[@pn2294]

@@KatoBeyond you’re joking right?

[@pn2294]

@@symbolik4372 In addition, they’re known for being extremely loyal

[@mrcarter2229]

One tailed Shukaku already existed back in the Chunin Exams so it really wasn't far fetched

[@pn2294]

@@mrcarter2229 Shukaku is based on Tanuki lore which is really common in Japan. Not to mention how Gaara was portrayed became incongruous with how Jinchuriki were portrayed later

[@elementcreed257]

Sakura being a genjutsu/taijutsu specialist would've been the perfect way to differentiate her fighting style from Tsunade's rather than just making her completely the same but stronger

[@allworksnew]

Genjutsu doesn't work since most of the main bad guys had the sharingan.

[@elementcreed257]

@@allworksnew yeah, but it would atleast make her overall more powerful overall considering most people apart from uchiha don't have much genjutsu resistance Plus her chackra control is so good she's considered immune to genjutsu, so imagine how powerful one's she casts would be

[@allworksnew]

creed sakura is trash regardless

[@knightlight5497]

I agree. I get that she had to train with a Sanin, but that “cha” thing is ridiculous. It also makes sense that she’s a medical ninja like Kabuto, but he used his chakra control and genjutsu brilliantly(I also didn’t like the snake thing he turned into). It’s like they were building up cool things for Sakura, and then they started not to care.

[@elementcreed257]

@@knightlight5497 yeah, i love her and Tsunade's brute strength and it's cool that Sakura took after her master and all, but what i find ridiculous is the fact that someone as smart as Sakura would choose to only use things she's taught and not branch out in any way and try something different

[@jaybang5320]

Sakuras genjutsu retcon was crazy because she already had inner sakura which could have worked as a genjustu… hell it was the original susano if you think about it

[@revolvers34]

Dygoknights rewrite of naruto does exactly that, its absolutely amazing.

[@allworksnew]

It wasn't the "original susano" what the hell? It was just her inner self that said her true mind but wouldn't be appropriate for the time

[@trevionhenderson5721]

@@allworksnew It was her stand. Don't forget her fight against Ino

[@xavmanisdabestest]

@@allworksnew they're both a manifestation of ones soul

[@allworksnew]

@@trevionhenderson5721 ha sure

[@VileGlory]

Not really a retcon but the situation with chakra natures was kinda strange. Everyone suddenly having an innate element at birth and introducing a rock-paper-scissors system seems like something that should've been introduced way earlier than it was in the series.

[@MattAnd]

Given that the only time’s the Rock Paper Scissors element was really relevant was the Sasuke vs Diedra and Kakazu fights that immediately followed, I’m convinced it was just introduced for those. Problem is that it could’ve been a cool tactical element to fights, but ultimately the series had to focus on power level style fights due to the Nine Tails just being “more chakra” rather than any special elements like the other Beasts

[@buincqv67]

​@Matt And naruto also never really needed kurama. At the beginning he only used his Chakra several times but had massive Chakra reserve kinda like a base form goku from dragon ball.

[@MegaShinobi2011]

The chakra nature system not being something Naruto knew before Kakashi taught him was utterly stupid. You'd think that the test would've been performed way earlier given how soon jonin could recommend their team to participate in the chunin exam after they graduate the academy. I mean...think of it this way, Sasuke and Naruto are outliers but every other named genin from Naruto's graduating class that was in the chunin exams came from an established clan yet every other genin was probably deemed irrelevant because they hadn't received basic elemental training prior to graduating.

[@1BadAssArchAngelvs14]

@@MegaShinobi2011 in Boruto Gen academy arcs the new Boruto gen has some episodes learning about elemental chakra natures and summoning Jutsu and how they work. Naruto fanboys think Genin in Boruto should not learn chakra natures at the academy that it ruins power scaling. The Naruto fandom is sometimes a double-edged Hypocrite fandom.

[@1BadAssArchAngelvs14]

@@axxjazz. In Boruto Gen academy arcs the new Boruto gen has some episodes learning about elemental chakra natures and summoning Jutsu and how they work. Naruto fanboys think Genin in Boruto should not learn chakra natures at the academy that it ruins power scaling. The Naruto fandom is sometimes a double-edged Hypocrite fandom.

[@LucasMp]

Minato not using sage mode to save the village strictly for the purpose of flexing on everybody else is my new head canon. 😂

[@buincqv67]

Minato couldn't fully use sage mode until he got the other half of kurama. His sage mode was incomplete like jiraiya. Minato is not a Uzumaki so he couldn't use sage mode until getting some of kurama Chakra. Chakra.

[@MegaShinobi2011]

@@buincqv67 Nothing about that is stated...why would you assume he was an imperfect sage just because he wasn't an uzumaki? Jiraiya just sucks but developed work arounds. Minato was a genius. Minato not using sage mode is just a moment of Kishimoto coming up with something that inadvertently makes something established earlier illogical.

[@Nemesis_T-Type]

@@buincqv67 That makes no sense whatsoever and is never stated anywhere, please dont use your headcanon as an argument

[@Milfuelle100]

I thought he said during the war arc that his sage mode was not good at all.

[@Nemesis_T-Type]

@@Milfuelle100 Except that Minato has perfect sage, not imperfect like Jiraiya, its just a plothole

[@BubblesChika]

Funny hearing people try and defend the obvious tailed-beast retcon. It's soooo obvious Kishi never planned for them to be a set and only retrospectively done so as a quick and easy way to add more super powerful monsters without adding much backstory. Firstly, Gaara literally referred to Shukaku as the *old monk sealed inside a teakette. (Which was later retconned in the war arc as the monk being his jinchuuriki Secondly, Shukaku was always referred to as Shukaku and not the one-tails despite the plot point of no one caring to learn the names of the tailed-beasts Thirdly, Gaara doesn't gain a red cloak like every other Jinchuuriki And Fourthly, Shukaku *NEVER* reacts to Gamabunta and Naruto joint-transforming into Kurama, his supposed brother back then. When you put all these points together, it paints a definitive picture that Kishi retconned the tailed-beasts into existence. Just because both Kurama and Shukaku coincidentally happened to have tails doesn't mean they were planned to be a part of a set. That's like saying because Goku always had a tail Akira planned to make him an alien from the get go. No. He was just Sun Wukong the inspired character. Same with Shukaku and Kurama. They were just Japanese folklore characters nothing more and nothing less until part two rolled around

[@theking8347]

Naruto and Gamabunta only transform into Kurama in the anime. In the original manga, they just transform into a giant regular fox.

[@Dezsr]

@FuckOuttaHere B and Hachibi technically did sometimes with those tentacles

[@gameuniverse5973]

​@FuckOuttaHerethe Edo jinchiriku gaining the tail of their tailed beast huh

[@Bloooo95]

Minor correction: in the manga, Naruto doesn’t transform into the 9 tails, just a normal fox. So Shukaku having no reaction makes even more sense with that in mind.

[@anakomaru]

Unfortunately, in the anime, they made it a 9 tailed fox

[@katitadeb]

@@anakomaru unfortunately? That was epic Bro!

[@paliboy93]

He definitely transforms into Kurama. It’s just Kurama with 1 tail. That being said, the transformation in the manga starts and ends so fast relative to the anime. It’s only takes a few panels for the Fox to grab Shukkaku, as opposed to a more drawn out struggle in the anime. You could argue Shukkaku just didn’t have time to react or was focused on being grabbed instead.

[@KatoBeyond]

@@paliboy93 Kurama with one tail is exactly how I would describe that transformation

[@Kidkinsey]

Deadass? I gotta go read that fight now lol

[@johnjones6161]

I'm currently at the 8:02 point and I have to agree that non sharingan genjutsu didn't get enough shine. For example, look at Kirenai; she was said to be one of the best genjutsu users in Konoha and the only time we seen her really use it was against Itachi, her worst possible match up

[@HonkaiHistory]

At least they gave her a whole filler arc where she watches over another genjutsu user. There's alot of really cool and trippy genjutsu shown in that arc.

[@TheodoreBrosevelt]

Kakashi got put in a coffin, Asuma was doing his best impression of Sakura(OG Naruto) and doing nothing, Kurenai was just a bad match up and got packed up for that reason. Itachi the Pack Collector 😂😂😂

[@DiamonDust]

Yeah, it would have been way cooler when Itachi turned the tables on her if we had seen Kurenai wreck someone strong with her genjutsu first. They made her look weak, but Itachi is just the strongest genjutsu master alive.

[@outis_406]

Kurenai got 1 really cool filler arc, then after that she was swept under the rog.

[@gameuniverse5973]

No one gonna mention toneri genjutsu that trapped the last Naruto mkay

[@TheToby121]

The thing about Hiruzen that people should keep in mind is he was somewhat designed after Wukong. He uses an extending staff, often stands in an ape-like way, has a summon that is the king of apes, is said to know all jutsu (monkey see monkey do) he was extremely prodigious. The thing is that due to power spikes later in the series the level of jutsu and techniques shown at that early stage became slightly less impressive. So you have this situation where he was the wise and skillful leader meant to be the epitome of the ninja who was eclipsed due to story progression and lack of cohesion between different story elements.

[@t-god2439]

Somewhat? Nah he was fully designed after him like goku

[@LucasMp]

The power creep in Shippuden was INSANE.

[@MildChunkySalsa]

Also de difference in technology and probably budget and budget between the two anime’s. Power creep is one thing but also the limitations on what they could show and write were also lifted a bunch.

[@Mhopson968]

​@MildChunkySalsa i dont think anime budget impacted the source material

[@yukikid2195]

I find it still works as the villagers have not seen the first annd second personally fight. And the stories of them are starting to fade. Like he said, recency bias. But it also can work irl for us, as some people see knowing many jutus as being strong. And he’s known for learning all of konoha’s techniques

[@Immortalangel14]

I think the biggest retcon was that naruto was the incarnation of ashura, almost ninja Jesus and that didn't invalidate his struggles but it did invalidate the world and message Naruto had established.

[@buincqv67]

The people should've gave naruto the title instead of the actual God in their universe the 6th Paths

[@rongill1234]

it validated what neji said tho....

[@gameuniverse5973]

​@@rongill1234it dint at all Naruto and Sasuke fate and destiny was literally to kill each other and one ends up dead but Naruto literally broke it you all dumb than a bag of bricks go back to DBZ

[@raiden3013]

@@rongill1234 What naruto didnt agree with was specifically that people were telling him his fate was to be a loser and nothing. he didnt want to cave into fate that way. He wanted to prove everyone wrong that his fate wanst to be a loser. Naruto was never arguing specifically against what Neji said.

[@rongill1234]

@@raiden3013 neji said you were either born great of born a loser.... people said naruto was a loser because.... he was a kid with no family and since nobody showed him anything he was bad at doing ninja stuff..... then you find out he's basically a god.... if that whole hey you're a god thing never ever happened he would be proving neji wrong but the guy that was made to be in the trash part of the hyuga family ends up dead while the guy who is basically a god became hokage lol

[@The_Wonders_of_Engineering]

Im still so surprised the fandom never talks about the atrocious amount of absurd retcons made when Madara entered the story

[@MisaelMatute76]

Like?

[@The_Wonders_of_Engineering]

@@MisaelMatute76 Jeez where do I even begin. Madara uses izanagi after already being dead. Completely violates the rules established for how it works. Madara awakens the rinnegan in both eyes even tho one of his original eyes was blinded by izanagi. If you want to argue he swapped the blinded eye for a new sharingan and it adapted to the new user, then thats not how sharingans work. Thats only applicable for EMS. Cause if that were the case madara would not have been able to use kamui when he took kakashi's eye, it would have adapted to be madaras sharingan. The completely absurd story ruining retcon that nagato's eyes were madara's the whole time. Like this was so obviously never planned and makes so little sense. Madara awakens the rinnegan in his old age and decides to just give them to a random kid in a war torn country??? A kid very easily could have died. And madara just leaves him there for years, until obito arrives. Like how was madara even planning on manipulating nagato into reviving him until finding obito lmao? Rinne rebirth revives madara to his youth with no eyes. Thats not how rinne rebirth was establised to work. Its not supposed to be able to create a whole new body, it would just revive the body in kabuto's lab. And since it did create a whole nee body, why does it stoo at the eyes lmao? Probably the worst retcon of them all. Madara uses sharingan and rinnegan powers with no eyes. The story is ruined in so many ways to bend around this lame character.

[@MisaelMatute76]

@@The_Wonders_of_Engineering Ah I see what your saying, but some of this things do have an explanation. If there good explanations, thats for you to determine but there is explanations. 1. It has been stated that the mangyeko sharingan can use techniques even after the user dies. Hense Itachis attack on Tobi from Sasuke... 2. It wasn't a random kid. It was the only one that would be able to handle it. Uzumakis were not easy to find and Zetsu was watching him. 3. Rinne Rebirth didnt bring his eyes back, because they had never died. They were still being used. The other points there isnt much explanations that I can think of, but I'll let you know if I think of something lol

[@The_Wonders_of_Engineering]

@@MisaelMatute76 I mean still retcons and not exactly good explanantions... 1. Izanagi isnt a MS sharingan ability and was established to have certain rules with danzo's fight. 2. Still a horrible retcon. If you want to say zetsu was watching over him, that completely ruins the entire backstory and tragedy of pain. If he was never really in danger of death as a child. Plus thats just your head canon anyway, as far Im aware its never actually stated zetsus watching nagato. As for nagato being an uzumaki being the reason he was selected, im sure there were less risky uzumakis to choose from. If you want to say be wanted to avoid leaf village attention, then could have easily just kidnapped nagato as a child and raise and brainwash him from the start, cut out all these extra steps. 3. Fair point, but it should not have made madara a new body from the edo tensei. Madaras actual body was in a lab somewhere. My point was if rinne rebirth is going to construct a brand new body (which already violates the rules) why stop at the eyes.

[@MisaelMatute76]

@TheAnthonymcinnis 1. But when they explained the time delay after his death, they specifically mention it is possible to delay Izanagi. So that actually checks out. And since we had already seen an example of a time delay jutsu, its not really a retcon. 2. When Obito went to Pain, he knew exactly where he was, because of Zetsu. So yes he was watching. The fact that Zetsu was the "master plan" at the end also confirms that. Also he wasnt really interested in Nagato, just the eyes. So Nagato could have been in danger, Zetsu would just let it happen and steal the eyes after. 3. Madaras real body died in the cave. Since it was several decades later, his body was already decomposed. Like I said the eyes were still active though, hense why that couldnt be recreated...

[@MCWon212]

Biggest plot hole to me is Wtf happened to the Senju clan? Not enough generations passed for a clan to just breed out. Wish that would have been further explored.

[@TheSpencermacdougall]

For the 3rd Hokage being strong, it might just be because he was as strong as they say...in his prime. But he's a old man now, so losing some power is reasonable, especially when compared to the previous Hokage who died in their prime.

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

Prime Hiruzen was at least as strong as Tobirama, minimum. He was strong af in his prime. Your right, him being "strongest" in P1 is mainly due to his feats while young. He was also probably the strongest of his era's 5 kage (def beating Mei, A, and Onoki; probably Rasa too).

[@buincqv67]

​@AlTiUCOFe same way naruto and Sasuke were the strongest in the end of shippuden until boruto

[@TheUnderDogUzumaki]

@@MarioTheLiopleurodon Hiruzen was indeed confirmed to be the strongest kage of his time. The only one who was a bit not too extremely far behind him was Onoki

[@Shushkin]

Can you beat Mike tyson in a boxing match?

[@gameuniverse5973]

@@MarioTheLiopleurodon Orochi literally mention how hiruzen as old lost alot of his power but whatever

[@tenerife_sea]

I think the biggest retconned in Naruto you failed to mentioned are: - how Jiraiya in the beginning seemed to not know Naruto and wants nothing to do with a stupid brat like him. even when seeing his nine-tails seal he acted like he didn't know anything about it, but was intrigued. when later on, the retcon is that Jiraiya was his godfather, and was very close to Minato, and his name was even taken from his book, etc. but we saw absolutely none of this nuance in the beginning lol. - Second, is how Naruto is a son of deceased Hokage, but no one took care of him. including those who knows his real identity. like the 3rd Hokage. he didn't even give Naruto, an orphan money to survive his daily lives like wtf.. you would think that being an amazing Hokage, Minato's son would at least get support from the Leaf's government, but they literally just abandoned him. not even Jiraiya took care of him. it is amazing how Naruto doesn't have abandonment issues lol.

[@JayJay-mk9xg]

we do see a lot of it in the beggining tho,Jiraiya often thinks about the fourth while training Naruto and its shown right after (in hiruzens fb against orochi)that he trained him. And even in the rasengan training arc its teased multiple times and theres even more pararels with minato/Naruto. Jiraiya just acts as a clueless pervert for comedy but it was always shown he was more than that from his first 3 chapters of being in the story And nobody taking care of Naruto despite his lineage isnt a retcon either since Naruto being the fourths son seemed to be a plot point very early too,and apparently Hiruzen wanted to keep it lowkey so he just got him a flat. It just makes him a questionnable guy but its no reton

[@Marlayyna]

I thought Hiruzen did provide Naruto with an allowance?

[@spiritgun7286]

Lmao 3rd hokage was tryna instill the will of fire in that boy

[@bar4d2ock]

None of these our retcons unfortunately

[@calloo7843]

Multiple characters are mentioned to be super close to Naruto's parents later in the story, but anyone takes care of him. Hiruzen, Jiraiya, even Kakashi or Sasuke's mom could have take care of Naruto

[@TheWiicube]

The retcon that annoys me the most is how close Naruto was to Shikamaru, Choji, and Kiba when they were little, especially Shikamaru. In the first chapter and episode, all three of them are treating Naruto like shit, but in later episodes, they are all close friends and goofing around and Shikamaru especially having a scene asking his father about if he could be friends with Naruto. They weren't that close!

[@lordraiden7397]

That's not what a retcon is.

[@shadowbladesabre1945]

​@@lordraiden7397 yes it is? It's more retconning Naruto's relationships, but it's still a retcon. He was never friends with Shikamaru, Choji and Kiba as a kid in the early manga, but that stuff was added later despite their interactions early on contradicting them being friends. Therefore retcon.

[@jobdylan5782]

@@shadowbladesabre1945 the only people who say "that's not a retcon!" either don't know what it means or are being dense because they think you're insulting their anime. Once you notice it you never stop.

[@lordraiden7397]

@@jobdylan5782 I dont even like Naruto. Stop projecting bullshit.

[@sirperybLakeney]

It's not a retcon. The fact that they played together once doesn't mean they were friends. In fact their parents come along and take their children away from Naruto which tallies exactly with what Hiruzen said about children picking up attitudes from their parents and alienation.

[@nightangelx1513]

The third coffin was his browser history

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

Itachi also seemed like a pretty big retcon. He seemed to be no-shit, certified, 100% a mf villain! All that "secret spy for the Leaf" stuff seems to have been an afterthought

[@stonalisa3729]

For sure. He shouldn’t have wanted to traumatize Sasuke if he really was a spy. Especially when they reunite

[@mvmsma]

@@stonalisa3729 Right, people always try to justify that but ain't no way someone would force their 8-year-old brother to watch their parents get murdered, like, 700 times and then act like he was just trying to protect him, that's some bullshit.

[@tartaglia11thofthefatuihar71]

From what I read long ago is that Kishimoto really planned for Itachi just to be a villain shinobi who hated the leaf but changed it when he found out how popular Itachi was.

[@JustAnotherAccount8]

@@mvmsma my head canon is that the uchiha massacre was so deeply traumatising for itachi that he forgot his original reason for doing it in the first place. all he could think about was dying for his sins, and who better than sasuke to do that, hence why he planted that seed of hatred.

[@mvmsma]

@@JustAnotherAccount8 pretty sure that was also said in the anime, that Itachi wanted Sasuke to be the one to kill him

[@achimsinn6189]

One thing that I found weird is that they allowed Naruto to live on his own in some flat without anybody taking care of him. At the start of the series he was way to young to care for himself and the series itself made a point of that by showing how he only ate ramen noodles all the time and by having him drink rotten milk before Kakashi's test. Besides from that the leaders of the village should have known about the ninetails and if not for anything else than for the sake of keeping an eye on Naruto and making sure the ninetails doesn't escape or is being picked up by other villages or the akatzuki or whoever there should have been some ninja watching over Naruto.

[@DiamonDust]

Logically it would have made perfect sense for the 3rd Hokage to adopt him and live with him. I would even say that it was practically his duty to do so as not just the Hokage but Minato and Kushina’s friend. So yes it was very weird that he was left to rot.

[@Astral_Incarnate]

Both hiruzen and kakashi were supposed to take care of him but kakashi didnt get directly involved because naruto was kind of a direct reminder of how he failed his former master and hiruzen didnt take care of him because.....hiruzen is just kind of an asshole i guess

[@MisaelMatute76]

Well to be fair, they do say all the other elders and advisors wanted something like that for Naruto, but the 3rd overrode them and tried his best have Naruto live a "normal" life. He even assigned Iruka and later Kakashi to guide him as a kid. I'm sure Jiraya showing up later wasn't a coincidence either.

[@richborn6700]

Iruka probably the only one checking on Naruto each day

[@MisaelMatute76]

@richborn6700 The third also did. Naruto always described him as kind and we see several flashbacks of Naruto just "hanging out" with the 3rd. Not to mention, Naruto wanted to be Hokage despite only knowing one. Which means he is his inspiration to be Hokage.

[@quitehandsomedude6412]

Naruto - The only shonen where main character defies the theme of the story himself.

[@HonkaiHistory]

For me the biggest retcon and at the same time the most poorly planned one was the Zetsu-Kaguya retcon. Black Zetsu was supposed to be part of Madara's mind and follow his will. Kishimoto even said in an interview that he came up with the idea of Kaguya and the Otsutsuki clan as a more prominent role around the time he drew the Madara-Hashirama flashback after Oro & Sasuke brought back the Edo Kage in the war. In that flashback we also got the first hint at Zetsu lurking at Hashirama's and Madara's final battle. Already being well into the war and rewriting the story that late made it feel too sudden and random. Everything in ninja history being planned by Zetsu and Zetsu just pretending is also a kinda cheap way to explain everything. I do like the idea of Kaguya as a deranged godess, that is the origin of everything, but it felt very rushed. At least the anime made it a little bit better in putting some fillers, that show her origins and the stories of Hagoromo, Hamura, Ashura and Indra.

[@nickeel8401]

Idk if you’d count it as a retcon but, the sharingan used to just be copying jutsu, enhanced perception and minor genjutsu effects. How did we go from that to giant mountain splitting avatars of death, warping actual reality, insta KO’ing ppl with genjutsu and other mangekyo shenanigans. The rinnegan makes my head spin as well

[@liplip-yr8vx]

That's not a retcon.

[@passingrando6457]

Simple: the power scaling got all sorts of fucked as the series went on.

[@liplip-yr8vx]

@@passingrando6457 the actual answer is that characters get stronger as a show goes. Abilities get stronger as a show goes on which isn't a bad thing.

[@shadenox8164]

@@liplip-yr8vx It isn't if its handled well. The sharingan was not handed well.

[@raiden3013]

its not a retcon. all those powers are of the Mangekyo which has been here since part 1. the regular sharigan does exactly what you say

[@Ma1q444]

The fact that Naruto had the single most powerful force inside him and he wasn’t trained since birth is a big retcon they act like he just has a random monster inside of him.

[@takatotakasui8307]

It kinda seems like Tsunade should be a genjutsu user too at this point

[@rexcraptor2761]

Another plot hole is how its stated that naruto missed his graduation multiple times and yet everyone else graduated at the same time as him even tho they are all the same age? Did everyone fail multiple times?

[@ZzigZaG00NIN]

Hyped up by recency bias is funny

[@LinkEX]

Not only funny, but honestly a probable explanation. Heck, that has been my intuitive headcanon so far - it didn't even register as retcon to me.

[@Henry_NYC]

I find the most plausible explanation to be that at the time those jutsu were the most powerful and he hadn't created a sage mode or six paths yet, then once he made Madara so OP he had to make hashirama OP as well to make Madaras defeat reasonable.

[@Corey1873]

@@Henry_NYC Well, we've never seen prime Hiruzen fight. Is he as strong as Hashirama? Probably not. As they said in the series Hashi was so strong that people thought tales of his deeds were just exaggerated stories. But he could certainly be stronger than Tobi and Minato. Edo Hiruzen was fairly strong. If in his prime he's making dozens of shadow clones and shooting out massive combination jutsu constantly then he's not someone to mess with lightly.

[@nocap6000]

Prime horizon could’ve been stronger than Hashirama who knows. I wish they’d do a manga about him

[@21forevergone]

Nah it's all trash

[@xdfeverdream8122]

You could hand wave the third hokage falling for Orochimaru's Minato bluff as him knowing if anyone could undo the reaper death seal it would be Orochimaru. As for the fear of Minato I'd say it was probably the other half of Kurama coming back with him that he was more afraid of.

[@gameuniverse5973]

He just dint want to fight three kages and Orochi who would want that

[@xdfeverdream8122]

@game universe The original edos were heavily nerfed and Minato canonically had a very small chakra pool to begin with. Fear of the 9 tails makes more sense. Minato himself would have been negligiblely weak to the point where the reaper death seal could still work and still have enough juice to seal Orochimaru's arms. .-.

[@zyxyx6754]

@@xdfeverdream8122 Only high chakra pool individuals can use sage mode. Only high chakra pool individuals can use teleportation. Minato had one of the highest chakra pools in the series.

[@xdfeverdream8122]

@Zyxyx Actually he really doesn't. During the war arc when he used sage mode he only had enough chakra despite being a perfect sage for 1 jujitsu before reverting back to base. He even brought up himself he's always sucked at sage mode due to just having the bare minimum amount of chakra to pull it off. There's quality of chakra usage and quantity when it comes to chakra. Minato has the opposite problem his son has in that regard. The reason he can do what he does has never been how much he has access to its just he perfected using his jujitsu's with the minimum required to pull them off. .-. If Orochimaru somehow brought him back with the prototype edotensei he wouldn't have had access to sage mode at all.

[@xdfeverdream8122]

I'm not saying Minato is weak by any means. I'm saying as nerfed as much as Orochimaru's prototype edotensei would have left him as far as the Reaper Death Seal specifically would be concerned Minato would be almost as good as free of cost to seal due to how that specific jujitsu works. It is literally the strongest sealing jujitsu in the series that isn't the totsuka blade. .-.

[@MegaShinobi2011]

This isn't a retcon but it's still a MASSIVE plothole. There is quite literally 0 reason for obito not have round up all the jinchuriki himself, place them under genjutsu and just have the akatsuki perform the ritual. There was also 0 reason for Obito to have not kidnapped naruto in the land of iron

[@TFIta369]

Naruto: Is blonde and looks like the fourth hokage, his surname is Uzumaki like the wife of the fourth hokage, he's seemingly the only other Uzumaki in town, his clan is known for sealing techniques, he's about as old as the Nine Tails' attack when the village was defended by the fourth hokage, and he has that beast sealed inside him. Konoha: ThAt KiD iS a NoBoDY.

[@UltraAnimaniac101]

In regards to Orochimaru's arms. The reaper seal took away his ability to use ninjutsu that required hand signs. While he could switch bodies to regain motive function in his arms, the seal still prevented him from using jutsu. This was brought up by Suigetsu (If I'm remember his name correctly) as a reason why Sasuke manage to defeat Orochimaru so easily.

[@jrking3812]

Itachi being a good guy suddenly seems like a retcon bcs it was so convoluted and ridiculous to make it work and just caused so many questions with lack luster answers.

[@Xeno574]

The answers were fine. Kishimoto did a fairly good job of hiding his tracks enough to not make it seem like an outright retcon

[@yohanenightingale7615]

I agree it was a 100% a retcon the whole conflict it made no sense at times like when Itachi and Sasuke meet again when he was younger and Itachi beats him senseless and then uses tsukuyomi on him and breaks and tortures his mind as well and then you are trying to make me believe he "loves him" now it was so stupid lol you can say he was doing it on purpose to drive Sasuke to kill him but Sasuke already has that motivation, Itachi could have beat him up slightly or knocked him out but he went full in on him could have killed him as well just didn't make sense if he truly "loved him"

[@Xeno574]

@Yohane Nightingale Kishimoto counters that or atleast tries to fix that by having Itachi admit he screwed up big time. Itachi knows his plan was bad, but at that point he had no choice. You also gotta remember that he was like 13-14 years old when he came up with said plan and had to kill everyone in his life. Itachi admitted that there were way better ways for him to have gone about the whole situation, and he especially regretted making Sasuke go through all of that. In the end when he tells him that he will love him always, it was him saying that despite all that bullshit he loves him. I think having Itachi be a shinobi who is so devoted that he's even willing to torture his own brother for the "sake of the village" makes him very interesting, since we don't really see many characters who were devoted the village to THAT extent. All of Itachi's actions that were so convincing even made Sasuke question the system of shinobi and the concept of a village itself, and he needed a lecture and story from Hashirama the 1st Hokage himself to figure something out.

[@RTU130]

Ye

[@yohanenightingale7615]

@@Xeno574 I understand that as well like I still like Itachi and I don't mind what Kishimoto did with his character but somethings don't add up and are kinda silly looking back on and to think about using tsukuyomi on Sasuke was just really odd because if Naruto and Jiraiya didn't find Tsunade, Sasuke might have been locked in the coma state or even died like Itachi was shown to be one of the smartest characters in the series but he put his whole plan at risk by doing that to Sasuke which was kinda a silly thing to do not to mention he killed everyone but Sasuke in the past didn't want to hurt him but now could have killed him on "accident"

[@madambutterfly1997]

It’s unforgivable, how Tobirama was passed over for the title god of shinobi, considering the things he can do

[@rotkappchenlp7032]

Seriously the guy invented shadow clones, teleportation and literally found a way to revive the dead. like Hashirama and his whole wood style is cool and all and Hiruzen has the whole monkey theme and sapposedly mastered all jutsu of the Leaf, but Tobirama just straight up invented an unkillable zombie army that doesn't even die if you kill the caster

[@dylan119]

Tobirama WORST hokage by far, cry about it

[@rotkappchenlp7032]

@@dylan119 how was tobirama a bad kage?

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

Minato eclipsed Tobirama in justabout every category, especially with his use of Flying Raijin.

[@madambutterfly1997]

@@MarioTheLiopleurodon is that so? What forbidden jutsu did Minato create that outclasses the Edo Tensei and Shadow Clone Jutsu? Come to think of it I don’t recall Minato having an affinity to Water release or even unlocking it. You say Minato has Tobirama beat in just about every category when the only edge he has is sealing jutsu and he’s slightly faster. Even with the sealing jutsu he’s no where near as proficient with it compared to an actual Uzumaki. Kushina taught him some of the jutsu (I say some on account of the fact that there were sealing jutsu exclusive to Uzumaki with ‘special’ chakra like the Adamantine Chains)

[@kiddomadeit8634]

Tailed beasts are like nukes. In a war you don’t use it because if you do your enemies will and everyone dies. Simple. Great video

[@SunlightGwyn]

This isn’t a retcon but the biggest plot hole in Naruto is how Hashirama died young. No ninja existed in history besides the Sage Of Six Paths that could defeat Hashirama so we know he couldn’t have been killed. And we know he couldn’t have died due to illness or natural causes because he has the best natural healing jutsu out of anyone. Kishimoto didn’t even try to explain how the most powerful ninja alive just died for no reason and Tobirama somehow outlived him and became the Second Hokage.

[@JayDash7]

An easy explanation for his death would be natural causes due to his healing. If you look at Tsunade's mitotic regeneration it shortens your lifespan after using it due to the fact your cells can only divide so much and it's a bargain bin version of Hashirama's natural healing ability. Constantly fighting Madara and taking hits just because you know you're going to heal it anyway, It wouldn't be surprising if his body just hit it's limit

[@nahte123456]

Madara was pretty clear that Tsunade's healing was the same as Hashirama's and Part 1 outright says her healing shortens her lifespan, her cells can only divide so many times no matter her healing.

[@SunlightGwyn]

@@nahte123456 No that's not what he said. He said Tsunade's healing was inferior to Hashirama's as he could heal without weaving handsigns. Tsunade doesn't have natural healing abilities like Hashirama either. Just transplanting his cells into your body heals you. Tsunade is simply using healing jutsu that she learned which isn't the same as the innate healing Hashirama has. So no, that doesn't explain how he died young. Also Madara extending his life with Hashirama's cells debunks the claim that Hashirama's healing shortened his life.

[@SunlightGwyn]

@@JayDash7 No that's not correct for multiple reasons. Read the comment above this one.

[@nahte123456]

@@SunlightGwyn you're wrong on both accounts. First he says it's inferior at the start of the fight, than she does the thing where she gets stabbed, breaks the sword, and shoves it into the Susano he than says it's the same. Read the whole fight, rather than just one page. Second part is just dumb. Madara never says that gave him longer life and we see he's hooked up to the Gedo Mazo not alive under his own power.

[@conansglasses2645]

I dont really like your explanation in the end , because to me you seem to be implying that " Naruto failed upwards " which doesn't really help the argument you're trying to disprove

[@KatoBeyond]

Neji looked at Naruto and decided he was a loser, but he couldn't accurately ascertain Naruto's potential

[@knightlight5497]

I agree with this comment. What Neji said was still correct, but he didn’t know Naruto was the son of the fourth Hokage. And as everyone says, Neji also suffered his fate. The child of prophecy thing really wasn’t needed.

[@KatoBeyond]

@@knightlight5497 You agree with the comment that dislikes my explanation at the end? But in my explanation I said that some of what Neji said was correct and that he didn't know Naruto was the 9 Tails jinchuriki

[@AzerAnimations]

I think the point that you miss about the Hiruzen retcon is that it retcons one of the largest themes of Naruto, which is why it is one of the worst retcons in my opinion. Hiruzen was meant to be STRONGER than the hokage before him, and Minato was meant to be the strongest Leaf shinobi of all time, but he died saving the village, before he could realize his full potential. This is because the Nine-tails was meant to be the strongest force in the series (no ten tails or aliens yet). Hiruzen getting retconned (with the real retcon actually being Hashirama and Madara being so strong) is one of the worst decisions in the series in my opinion. It completely ruins one of the main themes, which is that the next generation carries on the will of fire and becomes stronger than the last. Hashirama being so strong basically means the will of fire was trash and no one except Naruto (who is literally another reincarnation of Ashura) would be stronger than Hashirama. It is honestly the worst retcon of the series in my opinion because that leads to all the weird powerscaling history issues with Madara, Kaguya, the Rinnegan, and aliens.

[@Zenitsu-zq4pj]

Perfectly said, I always hated Hashirama's history, and the fact that Kishimoto repeated the title of "God of Shinobi" to Hashirama, since this title was already said to be Hiruzen's title. Now to be strong in Naruto you need to be a Senju or Uchiha, this is ridiculous.

[@MisaelMatute76]

I still feel like both statements could be true, in the fact that each generation has their own heroes. To Hiruzen and his generation, 1st and 2nd were the gods of shinobys. But by the time we enter the story the 1st and 2nd are long gone, having died early. So with them being gone for so long, it makes sense that people would start calling the 3rd the god of shinobi.

[@AzerAnimations]

@@MisaelMatute76 Yes this is true, but that is not what I am saying. By making the first Hokage so much stronger than the third, it completely removes the theme of Naruto of the Will of Fire and the next generation being better than the last. The original series had stated that the Third was the strongest Hokage ever, and that Minato would have surpassed him if he hadn't died early. That makes perfect sense with the the theme of Naruto, because that explains how Naruto will become stronger than the previous Hokage when he eventually becomes Hokage. Instead, the only reason he is stronger than the other Hokage is because he is literally the same reincarnation as Hashirama. How is that good writing at all? It sucks, and makes every other shinobi seem really weak because none could surpass Madara or Hashirama.

[@MisaelMatute76]

@@AzerAnimations Well thats because your only looking at the hokages. But the whole "the next generation" will surprass the previous, isn't just about the hokages. It involves the entire generation as a whole. So while its possible that one or two individuals were stronger, the next generation overall has surpassed the other. And this also applies in more than just strenght. It also applies towards their viewpoint and growing as humanity. In Hashiramas time, it was tribe vs tribe. He then got them to joined and it became village vs village... Naruto eventually got them to ally and so on..

[@AzerAnimations]

@@MisaelMatute76 I mean I agree it should be on the whole of the generations. That is how it was originally to be, and we can see that with the the Three Sannin and then Team 7, where each surpassed their mentor (though Sakura vs Tsunade is debatable). I am focusing on the Hokage because they are important to the entire premise of the show. The original premise of the show is that Naruto is going to become "Hokage someday, dattebayo!". So the Hokage need to represent something worth surpassing. The powerscaling problems from this retcon are so insane, surely you can see that with how Hashirama and Madara were too OP so they had to make all the Otsutsuki and Kaguya etc...

[@movieman6456]

The crazy thing is these are maybe 10% of the overall retcons lol. Kishimoto really embraced the western comics ideology.

[@passingrando6457]

Please don't make me have to defend Western comics, because they're pretty shit these days, but retcons are very much endemic to manga, since the rule of thumb for Eastern fiction has been "the journey is more important than the end" for literal millennia.

[@patty1c390]

hiruzen stopping the last edo tensi makes sense, IF it was the 4th hokage, since even orochimaru thought it would work naturally hiruzen thought it would work, and hiruzen knows edo tensi to a degree because of tobirama and it being stated that he knows all leaf jutsu, so he could’ve come to the conclusion that while all three of their stats were gonna be pretty nerfed, he feared minato’s flying raijun would be the most troublesome ability to deal with

[@kingace6186]

Yeah, but only if it was the fourth, which it couldn't have been plot-wise.

[@salt7532]

@@kingace6186 it is, the coffin has the kanji for four

[@kmav2213]

It didn’t work because his soul was inside the shinigami

[@kevinokoye7423]

I think it was clearly supposed to be the 4th hokage and he stopped it because in part one the fourth hokage is incredibly hyped more than any other hokage, hiruzen, jiraya, kakashi, whenever they think of the epitome of ninja, a prodigy they think of the 4th hokage, I feel like eventually kishimoto thought having the old guard be stronger was better and just rolled with it

[@crowofspades7965]

​@@kmav2213Although in the episode both Hiruzen and Orichimaru say that Hiruzen stopped the third coffin.

[@lrmclinn]

Does anyone else find it endlessly entertaining that Neji was hyped up as this prodigy spent all his screen time talking down to people about how they'll never amount to anything before disapearing out of relevancy until he was finally spit roasted and died on the battlefield of the 4th ninja war as basically cannon fodder 😅

[@RealCGH]

The Hiruzen retcon was immediately shown as soon as Itachi was introduced

[@cliffbot638]

We get no canon explanation on why the Senju suddenly vanished. And I don't wanna here "they married into Konoha". That was never stated, it's just fanon. Plus why are there no Uzumaki in Konoha if they had an alliance with Konoha? No one wanted to stay in Konoha?

[@caliqm2199]

About the Akatsuki never going for the Nine Tails: This was probably also due to Itachi. The only reason he joined the Akatsuki was to keep them away from the Leaf,hence why the Leaf gets attacked shortly after his death.

[@Rck-vert]

It was stated by Zetsu and confirmed by Madara that the tailed beasts must be sealed in order, the 9 tails is the last beast.

[@Nemesis_T-Type]

@@Rck-vert This is straight up a lie, when a tailed beast is sealed in the Gedo Mazo (or Demonic Statue of the Outer Path) a pupil shows up in one of the eyes. By the start of Shippuden, before the One-Tails is sealed, we can see two other beasts were already sealed. Also, it makes no sense for Itachi and Kisame to go after Naruto in part 1 if the have to capture 8 Jinchuuriki before they can seal it

[@gameuniverse5973]

​@@Nemesis_T-Typeitachi lied to check up on Sasuke after hiruzen who he trusted on died and make sure danzo does not try anything

[@gameuniverse5973]

​@@Nemesis_T-Typeitachi could have said they capture him and just keep him lock up until they have the others

[@Oblivion___]

@@Rck-vert This is actually another retcon, as Akatsuki never sealed the tailed beasts in order.

[@zxb995511]

The retconning for the fight between Orochimaru and Hiruzen was a little more clever than that. In the war arc its explained that when Hiruzen faced both previous Kages, the process had not been done to its maximum extent and they didn't have their full power, this point was hammered home by the fact that if someone uses a Edo-Tensei and the summon has more Chakra than the user, than they can wrestle free of their control. It would make sense that Hiruzen would not want to battle the 4th Hokage (if it was him), because out of the three, even in a weakened state Hiruzen really had no Justus to counter his speed. Final point is, Orochimaru DIDN"T KNOW about the Grim Reaper Seal Jutsu, Hiruzen showed it to him for the first time in the fight. Hiruzen also knew very little about this particular ability, it was Minato's jutsu, and its something you can only use a single time.....Its possible that neither Hiruzen or Orochimaru realized that trying to summon the 4th Hokage would have failed.

[@shadenox8164]

I think people are reading too much into him stopping the third one as if he feared that one more. The first two caught him off guard and a fourth opponent would have been bad for him regardless of who it was.

[@ChichiNaka]

naruto really fell off the rails after the Zabuza fight, so much world building went right out the window, jobs, ranks, missions and other countries basically went out the window so naruto can rasengan everything for another 15 years

[@ishmeelcurry2282]

Editors fault kishimoto wanted land of waves type arcs but the editors convinced him to skip to the chunin exams

[@danfoxdude]

Bro said it fell off on the first arc 💀

[@coenvore1675]

@@danfoxdude it really did ngl

[@phillipgutierrez4899]

Man, I forgot how much world building there was in the first arc of Naruto

[@hardlo7146]

​@@danfoxdude It did though? Imagine if they built upon all that instead of just dismissing it. Kishimoto just kept doing it as the series went on shedding all the side characters, even fan favorite ones like Lee

[@buyakir]

I feel like Naruto was supposed to be a real orphan with some unknown fodder parents who died , and Kishimoto only made him the 4th Hokage's son later. That's why his childhood has so many plot holes

[@theking8347]

His mother was supposed to be an unknown fodder, but his father was always the Fourth.

[@AntiSoraXVI]

But like… spitting image of his dad , the only person in his village with blonde hair (actually not sure of this anymore) and I think just one of the only two orphans in the village. As children we all figured out that connection, there’s no way it wasn’t intentional. I just think personally that kishimoto is a clumsy writer. Basically just do whatever is interesting and figure out how to make people accept it after. This tactic of his worked all the way up until kaguya because what he came up with wasn’t interesting enough of a distraction to hide the massive pile of crap he left behind. The series is *full* of this. Hand signs were interesting until he came up with the rasengan (which I’m not mad at). Orochimaru was interesting so he brought him back, but he never reached that first half peak again. Shinigami seal was interesting up until he realized that people would love to see legends in action. It goes on and on.

[@MisaelMatute76]

Actually Kishimoto has explained that. He said he never wanted Naruto to meet his parents. But when Kishimoto himself became a father, he changed his mind. As he could only think of his child not knowing him. So he made arragements so that Naruto would meet his dad and mom somehow.

[@AK-su3tz]

There is literally no plot hole regarding his childhood

[@AntiSoraXVI]

@@AK-su3tz disregarding the literal chasm in the story in which hiruzen promised 2 dying parents to take care of their orphaned child and he… *checks notes* left him to live on his own (with a monster of calamity that could come out at any time), checked on him rarely to give some money (added later), allowed him to be completely ostracized by his people without ever once standing up for him, and died without leaving any kind of backup to help said child when he was no longer around to do it (he was gonna die of old age eventually) His parents being 1.an uzumaki and 2.literally the savior of their entire village makes it seem like the people actively hated them for leaving the tailed beast in their child and for forcing this situation on them. Hiruzen at least was around for Konohamaru meanwhile the child of his student, his successor, the one man who gave his life for the village was living like a stray dog.

[@Disxidence]

I literally went back and watched the scene. They call it the one tails and they call it a bijuu.

[@KatoBeyond]

They don't actually. In the anime they call it "the spirit of an old monk of the sand village who was sealed in a jar of tea" (episode 58, 14:30-14:55) and I also showed the manga panels on screen where Gaara contradicts that idea

[@dicyanoacetylene6220]

It would have been interesting if Sakura had genjutsu to go along with her taijutsu and medical ninjutsu. The concept of a medical ninja using genjutsu to conceal themselves while they heal their allies mid battle, the opponent realizing what is going on, dispelling the technique, only to get a knuckle sandwich the moment they return to reality.

[@shadenox8164]

It would have let Sakura connect so many more punches than she did.

[@hian]

The third casket is not implied to be the fourth Hokage. It states it outright. The casket bears the Kanji for 4(四) where the two others bear the kanji for 初(first) and 二(2). So yeah, this is just a hard problem of continuity/plot logistics. No need to pull punches here.

[@KatoBeyond]

That's why I discussed it possibly being the 4th Kazekage. A lot of people have been saying Madara in the comments but there's not really reason to put a 4 on the 3rd casket if it's Madara

[@hian]

@@KatoBeyond Yeah, I was just agreeing with the sentiment. There's literally zero reason to think a box with the literal kanji for 4 on it would be intended to be anything other than the 4th when the two other caskets contain the 1th and 2nd according to their respective kanji.

[@KatoBeyond]

@@hian I appreciate the comment especially since I forgot to mention the kanji in the video

[@hian]

@@KatoBeyond Np!

[@mikecoolgreen]

i think the biggest retcon is the fact that there is a spinoff called boruto.

[@hasseo195]

About the reaper. Orochimaru must found it in the timeskip. He didnt knowed the reaper jutsu, when Hiruzen used it. He has probally invested it afterwards, when Tsunade betrayed him to. His plan was probally, to collect the mask, when he want to take Sasukes body. Used it to take his arm back and than go over into sasukes body.

[@yoyomayne]

I think Hiruzen didn't stop the first two summonings because it happened too fast, and when he caught on to who Oro was summoning, he then stopped the third. He didn't automatically realize who or what orochimaru was summoning until he read the markings on the caskets

[@HonkaiHistory]

The way I understood it was that Hiruzen tried to stop the third coffin, the coffin failing, then Orochimaru saying that the third coffin was a failure and Hiruzen thinking he managed to stop it. But actually the coffin didn't fail because of Hiruzen but because the 4th hokage soul was sealed. If the soul wasn't sealed maybe the 3rd would've also failed to stop the 3rd coffin like with the first two.

[@rac2300]

​@Honkai Impact History Ch. See, I never bought that because edo tensei takes so much prep. I feel like Orochimaru would know it would fail during that prep. That always led me to believe that it was the 4th Kazekage in that box. Then, it's like the other guy said. Hiruzen got surprised by the first 2, and managed to stop the 3rd. Whoever was in it wouldn't matter as much because he would want to stop an increasingly worse scenario as best he could. The series just kinda took everything away from Hiruzen by the end and I hate that.

[@kingace6186]

@@HonkaiHistory Oh. That works.

[@TheodoreBrosevelt]

​@@rac2300 True but Orochimaru didn't know how the reaper death seal worked until Hiruzen used it in the battle, he even told Hiruzen "to hurry up and show him the jutsu".

[@rac2300]

@@TheodoreBrosevelt Also true, but Hiruzen knows about both techniques. He had access to all of Tobirama's research and info plus he had knowledge from the Uzumaki clan directly. Why would he attempt to stop a coffin that he should know would fail anyway. It just seemed to me that the Kazekage made more sense there.

[@midgetydeath]

If I remember correctly, before the bijuu were a thing, the lore said that Shukaku was a corrupt priest who tried to use his spirit to posses the sand spirit who also had the name Shukaku. He bonded to it wrong and his failure drove both of them insane.

[@festral7509]

the sage of the 6 paths is kind of a jerk if you think about it, crating the tailed beasts and making one way stronger than all of the others put together.

[@alex52043]

Something I heard somewhere else that makes sense is that the naming conventions of Japan don't always have the kids take the father's name if the mother's family is more important. Since the Uzumaki were almost on par with the Senju it makes sense for Naruto to have his mother's name.

[@harrybuttery2447]

Kind of. In Japan the Husband can be adopted into the wife's family which often happens if the wife is the only child of a family. It's more about continuing the family by adopting the husband than it is about which family is more important and so which one should bear the name.

[@Grammulka]

The whole tailed beast retcon makes sense because their whole lore is not widely known. For us readers just like for most people in that universe they are some semi-legendary creatures.

[@theamazingmarlbito6293]

Um no. A core part of the fight with neji was about his one's birth defines your station in life and how Naruto was against it. It was not his entire argument, but you can't just blow passed that core part of it

[@KatoBeyond]

Even if that is core, Neji is also wrong about Naruto's birth

[@theamazingmarlbito6293]

@@KatoBeyond Yes, because everyone was ignorant of the circumstances of his birth. That doesn't change that Naruto was the reincarnation of a god/the son of the hokage/a nuke/prophesied to change the world. All of that supports Neji's larger point

[@theamazingmarlbito6293]

I'm not even sure it's a retcon either. He was kind proven right in the fight at the time. If Naruto wasn't born with the nine tails he probably would have lost

[@KatoBeyond]

@@theamazingmarlbito6293 Neji said that he can tell what people's potential is by looking at them and that people who fight their fate are foolish. Naruto said that he didn't know the fates of others. Neji didn't know Naruto's fate, meaning he was wrong

[@theamazingmarlbito6293]

@@KatoBeyond I mean I guess about that, but not about the larger point. I think might guy might be a better example of him being wrong though. Dude got jacked

[@chazz30000]

@6:00 that's because half-way through the manga Kishimoto decided to switch up themes. From the start, the manga has a rather straightforward 'every next generation is stronger than the previous one' going on but he then falls back on the more boring and trop of 'old gods return to fight again' which is how you get Madara, Hashirama etc.

[@gameuniverse5973]

Kyuubi sage mode Naruto would have passed alive Madara and hashirama even if he dint get the six path amps when he gets to thirty or forty especially if he gets the other half of the Kyuubi from Minato

[@ayhamahmad2277]

Madara and hashirama fight was established in the end of part one and madara was hinted to be powerful ever since part one and all of Shippuden and everyone love madara and hashirama because they are well written no body care about the third hogage and the final villain needs to be powerful or no one will care and shonan ruined by introducing kagua to set up for boruto and don't forget chapter one say about the power to destroy montens

[@Philosynoir]

Shikamaru’s shadow possession working like Hidan’s jutsu. I remember when confronting Gaara in the hospital there’s a scene where Naruto punches Gaara and Shikamaru says that when Naruto punches Gaara, Shikamaru can feel it. Or did I imagine this scene?

[@Corey1873]

I imagine that's a mastery issue.

[@divasrus5774]

Naruto's whole persona, point in series 1 was ret conned 🤣. The whole vibe, message of series 1 was supposed be Naruto was a pure hard working underdog with everything stacked against him. Naruto in Shippuden literally is the child of prophecy that's the son of a hokage with insane talent and mom is an Uzumaki, auto giving him insane chakra and the reincarnation of Ashura 🤣. He's basically handed destined to be god like from birth 🤣.kinda honestly with all he had going for him kinda makes him look like shit fkr uix power level in series 1. Let's also not even get into that other than Shadow clones which is amped because of his already gifted chakra and Rasengan (his father created the jutsu he's gonna have some natural talent for it 🤣) but even giving him those he quite literally masters, works to get nothing else 🤣. From their it's all basically Naruto version super sayian physical amps. Sage Mode I guess you can give him but it's still just a amp. Then the kcm modes, six paths etc.

[@shadenox8164]

I mean, no because Naruto always had the nine tails and it pulled his ass out of the fire more than once.

[@corruptangel6793]

The third coffin most likely was supposed to be Minato originally, because the opening of the manga talks about the Nine-tails rampage as some apocalyptic event and that all the clans came together but it was ultimately the 4th Hokage that defeated and sealed it away. It in no way feels like what we would come to know happened. It's pretty clear from that that the 9 tails wasn't originally supposed to be some simple chakra beast, one of 9 pieces of the 10 tails. Nor was Minato supposed to be simply super fast and skilled. That opening really hyped up the idea that Karuma would be the final boss and that Naruto would have to finish what his father, the strongest person in the world, started. Defeat the 9 tails, the demon who can end the world, once and for all. It's similar to the deal with Sakuna in JJK now that I think about it. But obviously, none of that happened.

[@justinarzola4584]

Not to mention that Minato appears in the first episode of the anime in sillouette and kishimoto drew minato on one of the chapter splash pages before hiruzen died( chapter 137) so it was pretty obviously some foreshadowing going there early with the coffin, having the ending be Naruto beating kurama which his father failed to and becoming hokage sounds like a cool idea if the plan didnt becomes the fox getting sealed in him instead.

[@RTU130]

Hmm

[@alansmith776]

The third coffin was medora also it stated that orochimaru used tags to control the reincarnate hokage will making them weaker in the process.... This is how you know the person who made this video didn't actually do their research they just googled retcons ....

[@passingrando6457]

​@@alansmith776 the third coffin was not Madara. It was Minato. Thus the 4 on the coffin, and Sarutobi explicitly reading the coffin and saying "I can't let that one activate". The later information even says it was Minato, but it failed due to Minato being in the Shinigami's stomach. Neither did it say the seal weakened them, in point of fact it said the opposite, with Tobirama explicitly saying that they were holding themselves back until Orochimaru inserted them, and they'd be more dangerous once Orochimaru activated the seals. The information you're citing was all written over a decade after the chuunin exams fight, and directly contradicts several things said earlier in the manga.

[@bryangonzales4198]

@@alansmith776 it was Minato in the third coffin. The first coffin had the kanji “初” meaning (first), the second coffin had the Katakana/kanji “ニ” meaning (Two), & the third coffin had the Kanji “四” meaning (Four).

[@lucaerard1832]

One of the best video about naruto i have seen. Thanks!

[@deazee2288]

11:27 on that point, almost every village have their own tailed beast sealed within one of their children (presumably from Naruto Gaara and Bee) so why were they antagonizing a weapon of mass destruction so much not fearing the repercussions

[@oflameo8927]

Tsunade and Sakura not spamming genjutsu is a giant pothole. If I write something similar I am totally going to fix this. The fact that the universe lacks genjutsu / taijutsu specialists other than Madara is a huge let down.

[@KatoBeyond]

Tsunade and Sakura being taijutsu and genjutsu specialists would have been really cool. I wish that happened

[@oflameo8927]

@@KatoBeyond There is even a character that came around in the 2000s, that same era Naruto came in another series that would be classified as a genjutsu / taijutu specialist if she was in Naruto. Her name was Reika Kitamai. She was an antagonist that was a doctor that regularly used glamour and mind control magic, but also gave the physical beat downs.

[@junior523]

Itachi Being a good guy was definitely a retcon. Most people like it some hate it irregardless of all that it's still a retcon. Nagato's eyes being originally Madara's is a retcon where i feel like I'm the only one who it angered. Everyone else is cool with it but for me it was so so irritating.

[@Galvatronover]

The itachi thing is a reveal not a retcon

[@quincyquincy4764]

The Rinnegan being implanted in Nagato was weird.

[@harshraj9266]

Disagree with your Itachi point.

[@Ashtonflorman1997]

I agree with the Itachi thing. If he was really good he wouldn’t tell Sasuke to fill his heart with more hate and kill his bff, then traumatized him the way he did. Imagine if sasuke killed Naruto then killed Itachi. He would’ve had no where to go and stay with the akatski. He even told Kisame to kill Asuma and Kurenai, when kakashi talked about the Akatski.

[@jasonmoukala8909]

The second part is not a retcon

[@lNer0xl]

Hiruzen was the strongest Hokage back then in his prime. People forget that he was an old man who stepped back from being the hokage originally, when he fought Orochimaru.

[@revolvers34]

Dygoknight is making a full series rewrite of naruto and actually taps into sakuras affinity for genjutsu especially using her inner self and its done perfectly. Give it a watch!

[@The8Disciples]

Yes this! His series is so good other people really need to give it a watch

[@RTU130]

Hmm

[@revolvers34]

@@The8Disciples honestly

[@r.a.panimefan2109]

All these retcons weren't seamless I noted them instantly Also the biggest reasons they weren't noticed is becuase most don't really pay close attention to long shows continuity

[@WolfXGamerful]

Congrats. You're one of a few hundred out of the millions of Naruto fans that pay attention to the story's structure on such a level.

[@Kiidomaru]

I don’t think hiruzen feared the 4th hokage but he just wasn’t gonna let orochimaru keep summoning more edo tenseis 😅

[@passingrando6457]

No, early on it was explicitly stated that Hiruzen was stronger than the first two Hokage, but Minato was stronger than he was. This was a whole theme, the next generation being better than the last, that Kishimoto talked about quite a bit during part 1 and early on in part 2. Then it turned into Type:Moon logic.

[@305Independent]

I think you could make the head cannon that Hirzuen thought the third casket was Madara, not Minato.

[@itsmesteve1081]

The kekkei genkai was retconned too. In the early days of naruto a kekkei genkai was a special ability held only by clans people. As time went on kekkei genkai became about fusing two chakra natures together.

[@NoirN3rd]

That’s literally how some Kekkei Genkai worked in some cases tho. Haku being an ice style user is a culmination of having wind and water natures. The mizukage having 2 kekkei genkai is also correct as she wields 3 chakra natures. Remember it was stated that villages have affinities for certain nature types. When Naruto found out he had wind affinity like asuma it was stated that that nature type was rare in konoha. That’s just how some kekkei genkai worked. Others were abilities outside of chakra natures like dojutsu.

[@stonalisa3729]

That’s not a retcon at all. It’s simultaneously both. You need the clan genetics to use those natures at the same time. Not just anyone with water and earth release can use wood release. Yamato needed the cells of the first hokage.

[@itsmesteve1081]

I think everything you guys mentioned was explained in shippuden. Which if it took that long for the author to explain it then I'd consider it a retcon. For example, it can not be simultaneously both true that a clan bloodline and the mixing of two Chakra nature are needed to have a kekkei genkai because abilities like sharingan are not made by mixing two Chakra natures. Am I wrong?

[@NoirN3rd]

@@itsmesteve1081 No it’s was explained in part one as well.

[@NoirN3rd]

@@itsmesteve1081 Yes. You’re wrong. Some bloodline traits are elemental while others aren’t. The Hyuuga and Uchiha aren’t elemental. However certain clans also have affinities for a certain element but it’s not a bloodline trait. The Sarutobi and Uchiha were known for their adept use of fire nature. The 5 great nations all have an affinity for an element and out of that came certain bloodline traits. Cloud village - Lightning style Leaf village - Fire style Sand village - Wind style Mist village - Water style Stone village - Earth style Haku’s clan is now extinct and were skilled ice type users who possessed the wind and water natures.

[@gatfatf]

I've been thinking about who was in that third coffin for the longest time. Part of me wonders if even Orochimaru knew that he didn't have the ability to resurrect the 4th. Like does the Jutsu stop itself from working if the soul being requested is unavailable? Or does it just bring up an empty coffin? Some episode 2 of FMA type monstrosity inside instead of your person? Was Orochimaru even trying to summon the 4th Hokage? Was Hiruzen wary of fighting the 4th period or just the idea of fighting him AND two other Kage at the same time? Why were the first and second so much weaker than they were in real life and even as zombies the second time around? Is the power of an Edo Tensei'd person limited but the summoner's power? Their knowledge of the resurrected person? Did Orochimaru know how much he was getting ripped off when he asked for the first two Hokage and got their dollar store versions? Can Orochimaru summon someone who can do a magic trick that he's never heard about? So many questions from that one interaction compared to the rest of the story.

[@NightcyZero]

BROTHER!!! Tell me I did not hear your fire alarm beep in the background of the video. 😅😅😂😂

[@KatoBeyond]

Maybe some stereotypes are real

[@jackruul7103]

Well, hiruzen might have assumed Orichimaru succeeded in releasing Minato from the seal prior to the battle, or that the reanimation jutsu ignored that type of sealing. So when he realised the reason Minato wasn’t summoned was because of the forbidden sealing jutsu, it probably contributed to his decision to use it himself

[@andyhone548]

Why wouldn’t he think it was Madara?

[@jackruul7103]

@@andyhone548 The third coffin has the kanji for “4” on it. The second coffin (Tobirama) had the kanji for “2”. I suppose an interpretation could be that Orichimaru was trying to summon the fourth Kazekage.

[@MisaelMatute76]

​@andyhone548 If you summon the first and the second and then the other coufin has a 4 on it, why would you think thats Madara? 😂

[@MisaelMatute76]

Hiruzen didnt actually stop it though, Orochimaru said it failed... and yeah Hiruzen knows anything could be possible with Orochimaru, so he was right to be worried.

[@andyhone548]

@@jackruul7103 I did not know that! Thank you

[@SuperGakman]

Your interpretation of the Neji fight is interfering I guess. If you’re right it’s a very uninspiring message that goes against the entire rest of the series. I believe it’s supposed to be parallel with Guy and Lees stories. The retcons make it all fall flat.

[@kingk.d.m4620]

I’m pretty sure it was stated that the 3rd coffin was the 4th lord Hokage by Hiruzen but the way how it failed was left ambiguous as Orochimaru didn’t say oh Hiruzen stopped it he just said “ahh so it did fail” or something like that. That’s left open so it could’ve been that Hiruzen stopped it or maybe kishimoto already planned ahead with the reaper death seal as it was introduced in that fight

[@KatoBeyond]

In the manga Hiruzen has thought bubbles about stopping the 3rd coffin, seems pretty intentional

[@kingk.d.m4620]

@@KatoBeyond yeah I know that’s why I said it was left ambiguous as to who or what stopped the 4th hokages coffin whether it was hiruzen just stopping it or it failed because Minato soul is in the reapers belly

[@nickthrasher4948]

dude the nine tails is literally known to be stronger than all the other tail beast put together it goes in order from their tails as in it doubles from each one up

[@aldybarrack6522]

Sakura still a master at dispelling genjutsu tho.. in the Last Movie. she break out everyone from genjutsu. and this was casted by an otsutsuki

[@deldarel]

Part of why the recons work so well is because we look at it from Naruto's point of view. This gives us soft world building which is flexible. Any type of hard world building is relayed to us as a lesson to Naruto himself so we still use the same framing device.

[@bunnablem5686]

this is factually incorrect

[@zagreus5773]

The constant retconing doesn't work at all and it ruins the entire series. Also, Naruto is clearly an example of hard world building.

[@ipacklunches]

I always found it odd Shukaku was referred to by name rather than tail number when I look backed on it.

[@gameuniverse5973]

Honestly not that weird i can see shukaku wanted to have his real name be feared and not be delegated to just the one tail

[@ipacklunches]

@@gameuniverse5973 I can see that, I just think it would make sense for people outside the sand would refer to him by tail # Now that I think about it, who outside of the Sand refer to Shukaku by name? I know between Naruto and Gaara "demon" or something was used a lot.

[@TheStormriderz18]

Tell me you didn't read the manga without telling me you didn't read the manga.

[@Raphael007143]

lee having no chakra made no sense since the entrance exam for the ninja acadmy required you can make 1 shadow clone of yourself

[@DeadLog]

The reason Naruto had the surname "uzumaki" is actually because all uzumaki are supposed to have red hair, so when people would go looking for the jinchuriki "Naruto Uzumaki" they would look for someone with red hair, this one is almost directly stated i just dont remember where

[@komodosonn]

I think the 3rd simply was preventing the summon of the 4th because not only was he too slow to prevent the 1st and 2nd, but the 4th on top of them would've been too much to handle all at once, not because he's the strongest per say.

[@handgun559]

Minato sealing half of the 9 tails is the most unsatisfying retcon. In unnecessarily changes how we viewed the 9 tails. It nerfs and buffs them at the same time, and it drastically calls into question Minatos plan. So you're gonna seal the evil side inside your son, and take the good half into a seal that you never planned to have undone? Excuse? It also changes Kurama from having been a rough character who learns to live, to just being the evil side by nature, and then by the end it's somehow two good sides, because Naruto turns the evil half.

[@mendyc158]

The biggest one was the Ashura thing.. it completely destroys everything Naruto stands for Although he did train and fought hard for what he believed in.. he was the reincarnation of one of the most powerful Ninjas.. so he was preselected And completely destroys the Neji vs Naruto’s fight.. Neji saying everything is already decided and Naruto saying you have to fight for it.. but his fate was already decided…?

[@DannyMJ34]

It kinda does make sense if you think about it. Hashirama and and Madara were the first reincarnations. Yet the same exact thing happened has it did with Asura and Indra. So with Naruto and Sasuke being the second set of reincarnations, fate was decided that both of them were to continue that cycle, but Naruto decided to fight fate and ended up changing it by ending the cycle that was started by Asura and Indra

[@apo8895]

Am I imagining things or the limit of every ninja only being able to master two elements was something that was retconned?

[@Nemesis_T-Type]

Not really, in the first arc of Naruto, Kakashi is already shown using 3 elements already (Earth, Lightning and Water), its simply something that only Jonin should be able to do

[@shadenox8164]

I believe the explanation was most ninjas only manage two. When you look at who have mastered all five, they all have pretty big names.

[@-UnknownHero]

As to the he coffin 'plot hole': In the manga, it simply fails, because Minato is sealed. btw. I also think it was implying Minato was the strongest, but it could also mean, Hiruzen meant he must avoid a fourth opponent. However, given that it failed in the mange due to other reasons, no need to think about it

[@WritingGeekNL]

I mean... Minato is the fastest ninja of his time, if not ever... Hiruzen is old... 1+1=2

[@KatoBeyond]

In chapter 117 Hiruzen forms a hand seal and stops the third coffin from rising in the first place, but that does support your idea that Hiruzen simply didn't want to face another opponent Kage level opponent

[@ASdeclassified]

@@KatoBeyond Orochimaru also had no knowledge of the Reaper Death Seal prior to Hiruzen telling him about it. So even if Hiruzen did nothing, Orochimaru's attempt to summon Minato would've still failed.

[@laskurtanceixixii]

@@ASdeclassified so ?

[@hasseo195]

The answer is simple, even, when the panels are in the way. It wasnt the 4. Hokage. But, the 4. Kazekage. Minato can not even be in the coffin to that point. So, Orochimaru couldnt even try to summon him by Hiruzen. But, he had killed the 4. Kazekage. And maybe wanted to use him to in the fight (2 Hokage and one Kazekage again one Hokage). Hiruzen simply thinked, that the third coffin would be Minato and used his blocking jutsu, to block the 4. Kazekage instant.

[@21forevergone]

"inevitable that some things won't make sense" One piece: Am I a joke to you?

[@krsnavigliotti4611]

I always assumed that shikaku and kurama were somehow connected as a kid

[@NinjaAimless]

Hating this show as a young adult then actually liking and respecting it after another (with more anime XP under my belt ) watching of this show Naruto was never an underdog, dude was only neglected as a child and a young ninja. Had he had the upbringing of all the others in his class he’d have been the most powerful character more than a lot of the adults around him In No Time 😁.

[@orionzeiter4521]

The way most of the retcons were handled actually makes MORE sense in the context of the ninja culture. Like Gaara saying Shukaku was the spirit of a village elder. It's not like the internet exists, so all of their history is written on scrolls or shared via folk tales. It's very likely that the truth about the one-tail (and all the tailed beasts for that matter) was forgotten in time. And even if they did know, what purpose does it serve to tell Gaara? Everyone's scared of him anyway, and knowing the facts will change nothing. In my eyes, it makes sense for us to learn as the characters do. Society forgot about the tailed beasts over the span of 100+ years, and we only learn the truth during the war arc because we're told directly from someone in the know

[@Corey1873]

Or you can consider that Gaara is also a ninja and so is simply lying to the Leaf ninja.

[@wowdhaewow8901]

at 4:15 your smoke detector goes off. change your battery friend

[@SniperZaku]

Hahahahaha! I heard that too, thought I was going crazy. Smh smh

[@randalgelinas848]

my favorite retcon is how Naruto failed the graduation exam three times but is the same age as Sasuke and Sakura.

[@S.pilgrim]

"For Pain's plan only the 9 tails mattered" I'm not sure if I've misinterpreted your point here, but this isn't true. They needed the chakra of all the tailed beasts. Enjoyable video though!

[@littenfire3563]

But with Kurama being the strongest Tailed Beast, there's no reason now to go after the others

[@S.pilgrim]

@@littenfire3563 He needed the tailed beasts to create new forbidden jutsu, allegedly capable of destroying an entire nation in an instant (in his words). Kurama is the strongest, but he needed the chakra of all the tailed beasts, not just the strongest one (or the strongest few etc)

[@KatoBeyond]

You are making some good points. Just to clarify, my point was that Pain's plan could have been modified. If they had the Nine Tails, they could conceivably have just used that to wipe out entire nations. Especially since Tobi should have no problem controlling it. But some other comments did point out that the Akatsuki might not have been aware of the huge power disparity between the Tailed Beasts

[@S.pilgrim]

@@KatoBeyond That's a fair point! I guess also it could have been that Pain was led to believe that all the tailed beasts were necessary by Obito, because for his (Obito's) plan it was necessary, whereas as you suggested maybe Pain's plan could have sufficed with just the 9 tails due to the massive power disparity

[@RTU130]

Ye

[@snuggie12]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but Orochimaru can use his hands in part 2 because Sasuke was late to arrive at the end of part 1. I had to look it up, but he transfers to someone named Gen'yūmaru which is why the time skip lasts as long as it does (some sort of minimum time required between transfers.)

[@kurtiswells1448]

The Third Hokage was probably worried the third summoning would have been Madara.

[@tartaglia11thofthefatuihar71]

I hate the retcon of making Naruto and Hinata friends from early on, cause that literally defeats his entire "I will not let you experience loneliness as long as I live cause I have been alone since the start" goals, reasonings and his beliefs on life. If he had Hinata since the start I really doubt he'd be the trouble making kid we love.

[@VeniceTrojan]

I think only hashirama knew how strong the tailed beasts were. Besides madara I guess. And that is why we kept the nine tails. Other villages thought they were equal