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Anyone who thinks Itama had a small role and was pointless in the new chapter is stupid.
Itama completed his role in the series perfectely; That entire chapter was about the young children dying in war because a brash and violent adults.
So what does Kishi do? He introduces a new character- a Senju brother, in fact- and makes you believe he could have a larger role.
But what does he do?
He kills him off not even 2 pages later. This is exactly what Kishi wanted, and that was to show just how immoral the Shinobi world was then. The shock of seeing a young child we had just met killed off in the same chapter only solidifies the point of the chapter.
Kishi is a great writer. Itama's death is what put this chapter in my top ten.
You can cry about "character development", but you'd only be making yourself look stupid because that wasn't the point of Itama.
Itama completed his role in the series perfectely; That entire chapter was about the young children dying in war because a brash and violent adults.
So what does Kishi do? He introduces a new character- a Senju brother, in fact- and makes you believe he could have a larger role.
But what does he do?
He kills him off not even 2 pages later. This is exactly what Kishi wanted, and that was to show just how immoral the Shinobi world was then. The shock of seeing a young child we had just met killed off in the same chapter only solidifies the point of the chapter.
Kishi is a great writer. Itama's death is what put this chapter in my top ten.
You can cry about "character development", but you'd only be making yourself look stupid because that wasn't the point of Itama.