I was reading through early Naruto and it bugs me that the requirement to be a soldier/ninja was just the simple Bunshin no jutsu not even the kage bunshin. Shouldn't the reqs for being a ninja be higher. Or at least something more practical like a d-rank tech from the main 5 elements or something along those lines. What do you think the requirements to graduate in Konoha have been?
Konoha Graduation Requirements
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Cunning Linguist
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Claymantan
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Ordinarily, the ability to make a bunshin should be enough, because all they're supposed to do is D-rank missions (harvesting crops, getting cats from trees) for the town while developing actual ninja skills that they'd use in the Chuunin Exams, which is the real test to become a ninja. By the time the CE comes about, most of them are fully qualified to be considered ninjas.
Team 7 distorted this by bumming into a high rank mission early on.
Also, the K12 are all pretty gifted (Genius Shika, Prodigy Neji, Shino and Kiba are highly competent for their age and at the time of the manga, even if Hinata is meek, her skills at Gentle Fist are no joke, it's just that Neji outclasses her, Lee is a taijutsu beast, etc.)
Team 7 distorted this by bumming into a high rank mission early on.
Also, the K12 are all pretty gifted (Genius Shika, Prodigy Neji, Shino and Kiba are highly competent for their age and at the time of the manga, even if Hinata is meek, her skills at Gentle Fist are no joke, it's just that Neji outclasses her, Lee is a taijutsu beast, etc.)
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Being a Genin might as well be the same as Elementary school.
So asking them to do something practical to graduate is like asking a preschooler to solve multiplication problems to get into Kindergarten.
So asking them to do something practical to graduate is like asking a preschooler to solve multiplication problems to get into Kindergarten.
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^ this. They aren't suppose to be killing and doing death missions yet. Usually by the time the chunin exams come by they are a little older. In this case Narutos group graduated not long before the time came hence why most of them failed.
I suppose so. But still they are still supposed to be trained with the intention that they will one day become the village's fighting force. Shouldn't they from the jump be expected to do more than just a bunshin?
