Why always the heart but not the head?

[NarutoOST]

Why do the ninjas in naruto never aim for the head? Even in close quarters where a headshot is a confirmed hit. Example, kakashi stabbing kakuzu's heart instead of his head. Minato using rasengan on obito's back instead of his head. Why? in kakuzu's case, who cares if he has 100 hearts, without a head he would be dead.

 

[Cfighter]

Dead is dead. The body is just an easier target.

 

[NarutoOST]

Dead is dead. The body is just an easier target.

Nope, look at kakuzu. Had kakashi zapped his head off his hearts would not be of any use.

 

[Putokage]

Because that's anticlimactic, which means lackluster plot development.

 

[Typhon Uchiha]

I think a lightning charged hand through someones head might be a bit brutal for Kishimoto, not to say he couldn't do it, its just not his style.

 

[NarutoOST]

Because that's anticlimactic, which means lackluster plot development.

Yeah, I guess that's true. Another example, naruto holding kabuto in part 1, kabuto was basically asking for a rasengan to the head. But nope, naruto went for his stomach.

 

[pandu]

Too much violence may be

 

[NarutoOST]

I think a lightning charged hand through someones head might be a bit brutal for Kishimoto, not to say he couldn't do it, its just not his style.

Kishi has drawn some seriously brutal stuff.

 

[NarutAwesome]

well then, there probably will be some gruesome anime episodes

 

[NarutoOST]

Too much violence may be

When you have gaara squishing people alive with sand, I think a headshot is rather tame. What about using bijuu dama(highly explosive) to bomb everything to pieces? Being shredded by rasenshuriken alive? Headshotting is basically mercy killing in naruto.

 

[SIR HERDERP PRESIDERP SDO]

There are kiddies reading/watching

 

[Stencil]

Hidan's head gets lopped off... No? Anyone?


Seems like I'm the only one that remembers U_U

 

[NarutoOST]

Hidan's head gets lopped off... No? Anyone?


Seems like I'm the only one that remembers U_U

Exactly, Hidan's head is lopped off. So why not other enemies' head get lopped off? It gets the job done quicker.

 

[Stencil]

Exactly, Hidan's head is lopped off. So why not other enemies' head get lopped off? It gets the job done quicker.

Well taking off Hidan's head didn't really work ~_~

 

[Typhon Uchiha]

Hidan's head gets lopped off... No? Anyone?


Seems like I'm the only one that remembers U_U

Plus Onoki's clone got shot in the head by the water gun technique, so it does happen. Just not as often.

 

[NarutoOST]

Plus Onoki's clone got shot in the head by the water gun technique, so it does happen. Just not as often.

Nope, onoki's clone got shot through his chest, not his head.

 

[NarutoOST]

Well taking off Hidan's head didn't really work ~_~

But it is effective. He can't do anything anymore. If you were to hit him in his heart, he would laugh it off.

 

[Frikid]

since sasuke don't wear a head gear, kishi forbid everyone in manga to go for head shots .

 

[johnny335704]

Its a fight style defined in manga by Kishimoto so we can't say anything about it.

 

[narito]

Don't forget Kisame cops a double lariat and gets decapitated. Also the previously stated and Sasuke have both taken lariats to the chest and have been shown with their chests messed up something fierce.

And by the way, if Kakazu had his head chopped off I'm sure his body would just use its threads to sew it back on? But probably he controls that threads himself, which he'd need his head for

Unrelated but: I'm sure there must be a thread on it but I couldn't find it. Where does Kakuzu's blood that Shikamaru uses to trick Hidan with come from? I thought Hidan was all threads