He was supposed to be the strongest hokage in part 1 but kishi forgot about that in part 2, its stupid and an insult to the readers imo, hashirama was never called a god of shinobi until the war arc, its obvious that kishi came up with it at the last moment just to hype him up since he was supposed to be stronger than madara, why didn't he mention anything about hiruzen being a god of shinobi in this arc? and why didn't anyone mention anything about hashirama being a god of shinobi in part 1? its like he forgot about it or he thinks the readers are stupid, it shows that he never meant for hashirama to be too important until the war arc where he came up with that. I was hoping to see edo hiruzen show why he was called a god of shinobi but that won't happen.