Kinniku Suguru & Uzumaki Naruto, aka Original & Copycat

[Bankai11]

Those who watched oldschool animes before 2000 maybe remember to one of the most oldest (if not the FIRST) neverending shonen fight anime/manga, Kinnikuman, which almost he "foundation stone" of all later long running shonen fight serieses. There's nothing that other mangas didn't "borrowed" from this franchise (Power Limits, "starts as then turns into" plot, newer and stronger enemies and rivals, character deaths and resurrections, legendary figures and techniques and so on) and in one interview Kishimoto said HE LIKED that series when he was young.

Well, there's a very interesting "parallel" between the hero of Kinnikuman, Kinniku Suguru (1979) and Uzumaki Naruto (1999), who shares TOO much things in both in their personalities and story development, even their love life and "habits" are scarily almost the same!

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Yes, Neji is not a "mass murderer", but he was also a bloodthirsty villain until Naruto redeemed.

What do you think? Could it be that Kishimoto simply copypasted Kinniku Suguru from Kinnikuman? Because if I have to compare Naruto to another shonen hero, it would be definitly Kinniku Suguru!

LOL. Nobody has arguments about the parallels here? :/

 

[Gagster]

What's the name of your mental handicap? I'm just asking so I can abort any of my children if they have the smallest chance to turn out like you.

 

[Bankai11]

What's the name of your mental handicap? I'm just asking so I can abort any of my children if they have the smallest chance to turn out like you.

Would you please explain this? All I did was linking a picture I found and wrotte that the similarities between Kinniku Suguru and Uzumaki Naruto are not concidence, as Naruto is Suguru's carbon copycat (Suguru debuted 1979, Naruto debuted 1999).

 

[Avani 👑]

Would you please explain this? All I did was linking a picture I found and wrotte that the similarities between Kinniku Suguru and Uzumaki Naruto are not concidence, as Naruto is Suguru's carbon copycat (Suguru debuted 1979, Naruto debuted 1999).

Your extreme bias against Naruto makes you blind. Do you even understand the meaning of carbon copy? Kinnikuman is a gag/wrestling manga and the similarities you counted are applicable to almost all shonnens out there besides being pretty superficial. Shouldn't you making same comparison with DBZ and Kinnikuman instead?

If you must look for inspiration for Naruto series go further back and find out older Ninja mangas and serieses like Astro Boy or Mnaga Sarutobi Sasuke. Kishimoto took inspiration from a lot of places but he wrote his own story and art, reasons, motivations and actions of characters and the plot line is completely different, for better or for worse. Some like his series some not as much. But if you are going to criticize or draw parallels you need to put a lot more efforts than finding an image on Google. This comparison isn't even posted first time. Didn't you use your alt too?

And didn't I ask you not bring blind comparisons with other mangas in this section?