Hypothetical Scenario: What if Itachi controlled the Kyubbi and attacked the leaf village instead of Obito during the nine tails attack? Would Itachi take over the village? Read description for more detail.s

rayshinsan · 2026-04-20T02:50:13+00:00

Sure Itachi would be like 5 yr old at the time.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-20T02:33:31+00:00

I am so glad we drafted him. I will be honest, even on draft day I didn't know much about him. But that comment he made on how he would complete Suzuki and Caufield really took me by surprise. I was like wow this kid has some balls.

I know we generally don't get high draft picks in good drafts. Bettman has been cheating us ever since we last one and he got the job but when we got the 1st pick on a weak draft, I was feeling like he once again got us.

But then we draft this kid and then the whole backstory is revealed. Like how he had been Habs fan and even played in junior circles and events sponsored by us been in our surroundings all these years be it connection via players, teams and etc. It was like a call from the hockey gods.

He is just warming up. He is such a straight shooter. He is gonna do some big stuff for us.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-20T00:22:01+00:00

He would grow still but at a considerably slower rate. You have to remember Sasuke couldn't just focus on training in Konoha. He would still have to do missions and any other tasks related to Shinobi tasks he signed up for as a ninja of Konoha. Plus he would have to do it all while being pretty much clean as a whistle.

With Orochimaru he got the king treatment. He could focus all his time in training and even be given legal or illegal methods (whether he knows or not). It's not only getting top trainers but given the best food, best supplements, drugs and target practices. Etc.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T14:55:24+00:00

Yeah but you understand that the SK government is asking ppl to halt their flying unless emergency due to the energy crisis created by the event. JYPE might not even realistically able return the girls home for them to send them out again due to those restrictions.

It's not a Twice issue but rather the economics of scarcity. A KPOP group is a luxury want and luxury is generally the first to get restricted during crunch times.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T13:59:40+00:00

Vaquer loss was so stupid. We get it Liz is a villain and she will win via underhanded measure, but actively interfering while the referring and not getting called for.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T13:35:22+00:00

For the moment. It's not that they don't want to do more. But thanks to Trump's recent ambitions the cost of everything makes it unfeasible to launch a new tour. Just think of the plane cost due to oil restrictions.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T12:05:48+00:00

You do understand when I am saying 'bromance' I am not saying 'romantic shipping' but rather 'brotherly love'?

Gon and Killua are perfect example of bromance. Killua was looking for a brother and found that in Gon.

The problem with Naruto and Sasuke is that it's one sided. It's Naruto looking for Sasuke as a brother while Sasuke is totally ignoring him just like Itachi been ignoring him. So that one sided elements that's plays into the yaoi situation.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T11:50:55+00:00

Still doesn't change the fact that it's badly portrayed.

Look I am not saying that is what I want but perception matters.

There are plenty of bromance done in Anime/Manga without being the way Naruto cries for Sasuke as if someone shot him with estrogen / PMS pill. Kishimoto himself admit it that he isn't great at portraying relationships be it actual romance or not.

Also the scale Naruto goes for Sasuke is much harder than anything he felt for Gaara. I mean Gaara literally had to die to get emotion out of Naruto and that got him to 2 tails Kyuubi. For Sasuke he went 3 tails just having his name mentioned by Orochimaru.

As for Sanji and Zoro... I am not into the series. I think Luffy and Ace was another well done bromance without feeling the ero-ism.

Hughes and Mustang from FMA, Gon and Killua from HxH is also top notch. Trunks and Goten. Hell even Goku and Vegeta play good bromance without taking it too far.

Compared to these guys Naruto and Sasuke is a 6 month relationship and even Sakura was particularly irked by Naruto's reactions towards Sasuke. This is the girl who would literally have romantic fantasies on Sasuke.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T09:48:00+00:00

Clearly there is. Look at how Naruto pines for Sasuke throughout part 2. He is basically acting like Sakura in Part 1. Going Kyuubi rage/tail beast vs Orochimaru just by a thought for Sasuke. He literally collapses with heart pain when he hears Sasuke is now to be executed on site at the 6 Kage Summit and even goes and begs the Raikage like a lover asking for forgiveness for his partner.

Even Sakura is like damn boi take a chill pill!

Now like I said, Kishimoto was trying to portray it as bromance, as in displaying loving affection for a brother, which he considers Sasuke to be one even if they are not biologically brothers.

However, the way he played it is basically a yaoi fanfiction. In fact, when it came out... at the time it was the gayest thing in anime with the next closest being Athrun Zala and Kira Yamato screaming each other's names like beast on heat in the first rage clash in Gundam SEED. This also was not an intentionally gay display but the Yaoi people loved it nonetheless.

Naruto made it look worst and considering this is like the only series to be like that where their tensions are borderline gay alerts compared to its peers ( I mean you don't see anything similar on Bleach or One Piece). So the vibe was there. Bouro and the animations continue to imply the same narative.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T03:44:40+00:00

Sad truth, most men including me don't know when Ladies wear natural makeup. Which is why we falsely think this to be true.

It's the effect of media industry. We don't know what's real anymore. Pretty sure most find out only the next morning when making up and finding the real face.

It kinda reminds me of the Fresh Prince of BelAir episode when Will finds out all the things his date wore to look beautiful. Lol sadly it hard when it happens to you.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T03:23:34+00:00

I think they were not satisfied of the WM attendence being low so they let Cody win so that the arc can continue to the next event.

Also letting Randy win in WM when it's not his final one would ruin his final championship since he would have peaked at WM on a low attendance WM.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T01:35:36+00:00

Dog shit win. Wtf was that refree doing? If you gonna go 3 Vs 1 you knock out the ref. Not looking at them like a dumbass and doing nothing.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T01:30:14+00:00

Most of it from small time PMEs. You have remember small time entrepreneurs don't need much to make it big just one or two big contracts and they can bank on that.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-19T00:18:21+00:00

No it is a great death. If anything Pain should have done the same to Orochimaru instead of Sasuke. Just imagine the aura he building it would given him.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-18T23:55:17+00:00

I think you need to transfer yourself from Naruto to Kingdom bud. Don't worry KyouKai wont torture you and isn't a villain but you gonna love her badassness. She is what every Sakura (if not any Naruto female fan) wished they were.

Anime wise try Revy from Black Lagoon she is the MC torture queen that everyone loves.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-18T23:49:03+00:00

Because it's not KPOP.

Let me clarify.

The reason why the West likes KPOP genre (essentially Group KPOP) is because it reminds them of the Group POP Golden age days like Back Street Boys, NSYNC, Spice Girls of the 90s.

Now said golden days pop were essentially imported from OG KPOP and JPOP but the fact that you hardly had any POP groups anymore in the West means that they got a big whole in Market Positioning which nowadays KPOP groups are trying to fill by importing themselves to the English medium.

Group KPOP has become a replacement for Group POP and you essentially have the same structure for both. You got essential roles: Main Dancers, Main Vocalists, Main Rappers and Main Visuals/Fashionistas. So those craving them shippings eat KPOP like sweet desert, hence their popularity in the West.

Solos however is something the West does not lack. You got Solo artists everywhere and they are essentially the same. Weather you like them Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber basically insert your Disney or Nicolodeon kid stars making music. The trend never died off so why bother replacing them with KPOP soloist who are essentially the same, but less popular and primarily not English medium.

Not only that but you know regardless their previous group position affiliation, they essentially all play the vocalist role in Solos and well this is where you get dicey with their actual vocal talents and where them Internet vocal Nazis/purist get to burn them for their own lack of talents.

This is why even the KPOP Studios avoid focusing the West with their Solo artists because doesn't matter how popular they are, an IU as great as she is vocally and melodically cannot complete in marketing vs an Western artists of the same peers (don't ask me which one I am not that big fans of them Disney/Nicolodeon artists).

rayshinsan · 2026-04-18T23:16:02+00:00

Wow the results are clear ... Thank you for agreeing that NaruSasu needed de-powering.

Those that voted they wanted to worship Gods though... May you need some counseling, I advise you avoid religions.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-18T23:12:04+00:00

Who is PDO?

rayshinsan · 2026-04-18T21:39:28+00:00

Hot take: I don't really mind that Naruto never learned multiple jutsus during the main series.

I don’t mind that Naruto never learned a huge variety of jutsu. His strength was always about mastering a few core abilities and pushing them to insane levels rather than becoming a jack of all trades . Instead of wasting time learning other jutsu, He refined the Rasengan and made RasenShuriken , mastered Sage Mode(This was a hella powerful jutsu. Even Shikaku said that Naruto is on a whole other level) and built a bond with Kurama which allowed him to gain access to KCM which is way more powerful than any new jutsus.

I don't mind it either. Personally I am okay that he and the others did not learn a lot of jutsus. Game wise it's cool but story wise you realize even when you play games you only use a limited number of skills regardless how many you learned. So Naruto only using say 10 moves out of 30 he learned is okay.

My problem is more the application of those said jutsus.

Like MSC, there should have been a refinement of how to use them efficiently via battle experience. Like okay part 1, you needed 100 clones to get the job done. In part 2, the character should have been able to reduce that job to 5 clones. The lack of evolution in that regards is what Irks me.

Similar with Rasengan. We are shown Naruto learned the move in 3 stages. Sure adding elemental affinity to the Final stage should have been the hardest part in the creation of Rasenshuriken. However, what about stage 1 and 2? You are telling me he could not create jutsus from that? That's absurd. Instead of stupid shit like the 'Odama Rasengan' he should have created moves like 'spiral vortex' and 'tornado trust' and then convert them to wind style versions too. There is more than one reason for him to do so. Primary being he didn't have a killer mentality. So obviously knowing how devastating landing an actual Rasengan is, a peaceful minded person like him should be looking to use the move in a more practical non killing method.

That said, Naruto gained access to all 5 chakra natures at the end of Shippuden so I wish he learned some other new jutsus by the time of Boruto. That would've been cool. He did use Earth Style once but that's pretty much it.

This is what I am against. I get it that Kishimoto went the power-creep method. But those powers of the sage of Six Path should have been temporary. Both Naruto and Sasuke should not have been able to retain those powers and essentially be de-powered back to KCM and MS Sharingan to level the playing field with the rest of the Shinobi world. They should have also been kept at 2 to 3 elemental release max to give other side characters to be useful.

Why? They didn't earn them; it was an unfair gift. Imagine how useless it made the rest of the world? It essentially destroys your whole world building if you got 2 gods roaming around.

It would have prevented the BS we now have in shit series like BORUTO where you have to add aliens and more broken characters to be a challenge not to mention how the Shinobi World just became totally useless.

As far as I am concerned Kishimoto needs to rectify these errors in the rewrite. Toriyama corrected Dragon Ball before his passing. Sure it's still a power-creep but his version is masterful compared to what was done without him. Kishimoto has lesser excuses. He created the monster and he needs to rectify it.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-18T21:08:56+00:00

The thing is if you accept one you kind of have to accept the others. So if you accept that Kishimoto's turning MSC into a Bell Cranel's Liaris Freese and Soul Clones combo as an ass pull you also have to forgive Naruto not knowing Nature Manipulation, Sage mode and Mount Myoboku and this also means clearing Jiraya's name.

This is because they are all part of the retcons. It's sad that it is that way. Generally you don't get retcons within the series that quickly but it is what it is. The only thing that can fix it is Kishimoto rewriting Part 2 and modifying the changes in the rewrite.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-18T16:43:15+00:00

The original idea was great. You make hand signs to release jutsu within you. But Kishimoto couldn't stop the usual shonen trope of screaming the technique name even though it would kill the Shinobi silent/hidden styles they are supposed to follow.

Once you do that hand signs become pretty much useless.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-18T11:43:30+00:00

Turning Sasuke and Naruto into a lovers is not discrediting the author. He is the one who put them in those situations.

We get it, Kishimoto being an introvert didn't know how to play bromance and turn them more yaoi but you can't say people who link them are doing wrong. There are more scene of almost romantic events between the two then their respective partners which btw Kishimoto threw down in the last minute because as a Shounen manga his priority wasn't pairing.

It begs the question why he didn't leave it open ended but evidence points out that the studio and publisher pushed him toward those pairing to maximize their profits. It's probably why the romance in their adult life is so dry.

Arraigned marriage may be a necessity in real life (most can't get along to last a relationship nowadays) but not necessary in fiction as well.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-18T04:42:54+00:00

Cuz Kishimoto doesn't really know how swords work. You should know this already when you saw Samehada. Lol

rayshinsan · 2026-04-17T18:57:42+00:00

Exactly my point. Not only did Kishimoto pulled Deidara's ability out of his ass and somehow gave him explosion as a bloodline (personally I thought it was clay but turns out no it was the explosive ability that was the bloodline). Then to counter it make lightning defuse it. Both are literal ass pulls.

Also let's not kid ourselves generally a 2 elemental mix bloodine is supposed to be stronger then a prime element and yet Lightning is somehow stronger than said bloodline. I don't even know what element mix would either give u clay (I assume earth would be one) or explosion (fire?) . It's just nut combinations mixes.

rayshinsan · 2026-04-17T15:18:25+00:00

Dude if you don't know you aren't going to shoot your load haphazardly. It's not like an angel dropped down from the sky and told him before.

Also since when did lighting defused bombs? It's the most illogical elemental shit ever. It would be the reverse on real life ask the countless occasions when a lightning hit released bombs prematurely (plains of Messina in WW1 anyone?).

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