Beans2
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I feel like Killer Bee could have been a great character with lots of potential but Kishimoto really butchered him as a character.
First off i'd like to say i'm not character bashing this is from a neutral standpoint.
Debut/Role
First off his debut was pretty late. Bee was supposed to be an important character, but he wasn't introduced until pretty late into the series. I actully liked his debut, it showed how crazy powerful he was. It's weird though that such a powerful character, a perfect jinchuuriki, was never even mentioned until this late in the manga. But what really bothers me is that he isn't really necessary as a character; Obito needed the Hachibi and the Kyubi to make the Juubi complete, why not just the Kyubi? It would have put more pressure on Naruto to defeat him and made Naruto surviving be more important than ever. Bee's role was probably to be a mentor to Naruto and train him in the arts of being a jin. But why do we need that? Naruto has plenty of mentor figures in his life (Jiraiya, Kakashi, Iruka, Hiruzen, Tsunade, Minato, even Yamato) and his motto is hard work, so he could have learned to cooperate with Kurama on his own. Don't get me wrong I loved the Confining the Jinchuuriki Arc, but Kishi could have written his way around the Tailed Beast Temple training without it seeming like an asspull. If he wanted another jinchuuriki to accompany Naruto and train with him, he could have easily used Gaara: make it so that Gaara never lost his bijuu, then have him and Naruto train together! Gaara's been around since Part I, it wouldn't be an asspull like it was with Bee, who suddenly appears as this perfect jin who's even better than Naruto.
Personality
Kishi tried making Bee a 'funny' character like Suigetsu, who gives the manga some moments of comic relief (like his constant rapping or his cute conversations with his buddy the Hachibi.) Bee isn't funny. I've never cracked a smile when seeing him in the manga or the anime. He's annoying and pointless, and since he's always rapping it's hard to understand what he's saying. Believe me, it's better than a boring quiet emo personality like Itachi/Sasuke/Neji/Shino/Gaara/Kaguya but it still just doesn't do it for me.
Background
We saw a bit of Bee's background during his encounter with Ay and I'll admit some of it turned out nicely. I have a problem taking him seriously and viewing him as an actual character with depth though, since he speaks in weird rap phrases and is difficult to understand. Him and Ay have a cute little bond but to be honest Bee was never more than a jinchuuriki to me.
Current Status
Kishi suddenly decided to make Killer Bee irrelevant, for no real reason. He got sucked up by the Gedo Mazou after cutting off his tentacle but nobody paid any attenton to him or cared, even Naruto. We were left in the dark as to what happened to him for like, what, 17 chapters? Then we see a panel of him standing next to a tentacle. Okay, so he escaped the Gedo Mazou only to be caught in Infinite Tsukuyomi. What now?
First off i'd like to say i'm not character bashing this is from a neutral standpoint.
Debut/Role
First off his debut was pretty late. Bee was supposed to be an important character, but he wasn't introduced until pretty late into the series. I actully liked his debut, it showed how crazy powerful he was. It's weird though that such a powerful character, a perfect jinchuuriki, was never even mentioned until this late in the manga. But what really bothers me is that he isn't really necessary as a character; Obito needed the Hachibi and the Kyubi to make the Juubi complete, why not just the Kyubi? It would have put more pressure on Naruto to defeat him and made Naruto surviving be more important than ever. Bee's role was probably to be a mentor to Naruto and train him in the arts of being a jin. But why do we need that? Naruto has plenty of mentor figures in his life (Jiraiya, Kakashi, Iruka, Hiruzen, Tsunade, Minato, even Yamato) and his motto is hard work, so he could have learned to cooperate with Kurama on his own. Don't get me wrong I loved the Confining the Jinchuuriki Arc, but Kishi could have written his way around the Tailed Beast Temple training without it seeming like an asspull. If he wanted another jinchuuriki to accompany Naruto and train with him, he could have easily used Gaara: make it so that Gaara never lost his bijuu, then have him and Naruto train together! Gaara's been around since Part I, it wouldn't be an asspull like it was with Bee, who suddenly appears as this perfect jin who's even better than Naruto.
Personality
Kishi tried making Bee a 'funny' character like Suigetsu, who gives the manga some moments of comic relief (like his constant rapping or his cute conversations with his buddy the Hachibi.) Bee isn't funny. I've never cracked a smile when seeing him in the manga or the anime. He's annoying and pointless, and since he's always rapping it's hard to understand what he's saying. Believe me, it's better than a boring quiet emo personality like Itachi/Sasuke/Neji/Shino/Gaara/Kaguya but it still just doesn't do it for me.
Background
We saw a bit of Bee's background during his encounter with Ay and I'll admit some of it turned out nicely. I have a problem taking him seriously and viewing him as an actual character with depth though, since he speaks in weird rap phrases and is difficult to understand. Him and Ay have a cute little bond but to be honest Bee was never more than a jinchuuriki to me.
Current Status
Kishi suddenly decided to make Killer Bee irrelevant, for no real reason. He got sucked up by the Gedo Mazou after cutting off his tentacle but nobody paid any attenton to him or cared, even Naruto. We were left in the dark as to what happened to him for like, what, 17 chapters? Then we see a panel of him standing next to a tentacle. Okay, so he escaped the Gedo Mazou only to be caught in Infinite Tsukuyomi. What now?
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