[Discussion] I think it was Dai's decision....

[-ahhimane-]

Remember Konoha shinobis calling Dai as the Eternal Genin?
Even not being able to use Ninjutsu, Dai was capable of beating a Jounin level shinobi. Yeah there's no proof for it. But we have seen him getting to 7th gate after 20 years of hard training.
He should have been a chunin. But he wasn't.

I think it was Dai's decision to remain a Genin.
Also there wasn't any rule that a shinobi must know ninjutsus. Otherwise Gai and Lee wouldn't be admitted to the Leaf's Academy in the first place. But they were.

Thoughts?

BTW, in the anime after the Pain arc, the fillers had an episode of an Eternal Genin (i don't know that old man's name) which was a punishment for him for not able to protect his comrades on a mission because of his own mistake.
How the hell they got that idea?
Do you think something like that happened with Dai?

 

[PlasticAngelx]

No, I think people without ninjutsu weren't accepted back then. But when he fought with the seven ninja swordsmen and killed maybe a couple they acknowledged how strong he was. Idk really confusing.

 

[HashiraMadara]

Kishimoto is nuts! First He writes maito gai use taijutsu alone on purpose! (summoning justu, Dispels kabuto genjutsu!). Now come with a chapter of gai not being able to use ninjutsu and genjutsu!

 

[Draxus]

Kishimoto is nuts! First He writes maito gai use taijutsu alone on purpose! (summoning justu, Dispels kabuto genjutsu!). Now come with a chapter of gai not being able to use ninjutsu and genjutsu!

At 5... this was true when Gai was FIVE!

 

[Mr Hiru]

At 5... this was true when Gai was FIVE!

This.

I'm really getting tired of people who doesn't know how to read properly (not just manga, but grammar syntax in general), and then they tell that Kishimoto's has extremely bad writing skills.

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