Mikasa Hagaromo
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Anyone else feel this way?
I would've preferred for Naruto to have a background more similar to Sakura's: a nobody form a no name clan. To me, Naruto's ability to connect with and understand others' pain would've been so much more special if he was this regular guy with an irregular worldview and level of determination. So now as if him being the 4th hokage's son and an Uzumaki (which makes his proficiency with the shadow clones a bit less special in my eyes--it would've been better if he learned it from the scrolls like in chapter/episode 1 and put his own spin on it to enable the mass production of shadow clones, instead of the large #s being enabled by genetics...) wasn't bad enough, we have to accept him being Ashra's reincarnation. This reincarnation business is probably more special and meaningful to Kishi's Japanese audience, but based on my understanding of reincarnation as a westerner, it makes Naruto less Naruto and less individual.
Same deal with Sasuke, but the disappointment is more pronounced in Naruto from my POV. To be honest, I don't completely buy the Sasuke-Indra connection bc we see Sasuke embrace team work throughout the series--although he did value power. I personally think (based on articles I've read about the editors convincing/forcing Kishi to create Taka instead of having Sasuke travel solo to pursue Itachi) that Kishi originally intended to better mirror Indra in Sasuke but the editors ****ed up his plans with the team work bull shit. He made do where he could, but stuck to his framework of "power through collaboration vs "power through individual talent" despite the fact that it doesn't completely connect with Sasuke. Now we'e supposed to force ourselves to accept that Sasuke is Indra's reincarnation 'philosophically'.
I would've preferred for Naruto to have a background more similar to Sakura's: a nobody form a no name clan. To me, Naruto's ability to connect with and understand others' pain would've been so much more special if he was this regular guy with an irregular worldview and level of determination. So now as if him being the 4th hokage's son and an Uzumaki (which makes his proficiency with the shadow clones a bit less special in my eyes--it would've been better if he learned it from the scrolls like in chapter/episode 1 and put his own spin on it to enable the mass production of shadow clones, instead of the large #s being enabled by genetics...) wasn't bad enough, we have to accept him being Ashra's reincarnation. This reincarnation business is probably more special and meaningful to Kishi's Japanese audience, but based on my understanding of reincarnation as a westerner, it makes Naruto less Naruto and less individual.
Same deal with Sasuke, but the disappointment is more pronounced in Naruto from my POV. To be honest, I don't completely buy the Sasuke-Indra connection bc we see Sasuke embrace team work throughout the series--although he did value power. I personally think (based on articles I've read about the editors convincing/forcing Kishi to create Taka instead of having Sasuke travel solo to pursue Itachi) that Kishi originally intended to better mirror Indra in Sasuke but the editors ****ed up his plans with the team work bull shit. He made do where he could, but stuck to his framework of "power through collaboration vs "power through individual talent" despite the fact that it doesn't completely connect with Sasuke. Now we'e supposed to force ourselves to accept that Sasuke is Indra's reincarnation 'philosophically'.
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