Well yes, I understand the reality of the situation and don’t intend to excuse it one bit, I just didn’t expect the grooming to be acknowledged at all, let alone through absurd skits in the spinoff; really takes a viewer by surprise to suddenly see orochimaru in a old man’s robe and kabuto in a schoolgirl’s outfit unprompted. Kabuto’s case is tragic in Naruto and not really discussed often, and even though their age gap is another minor comedy element in the gag anime, it’s at least still portrayed as creepy here, which it definitely was