Naruto as Hokage

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We know from Chapter 700 that Naruto becomes the Hokage, but as far as our information reaches, he was still a Genin at that time. And that still doesn't make sense to me.
I already felt that it would have made sense to just promote him to Chuunin after his part in rescuing Gaara and defeating Pain, but there is no way they wouldn't have promoted him (maybe even immediately to Jounin) after the events of the Fourth Shinobi War.
Does this strike anyone else as irritating and illogical?
 

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So you think after the f*cking 15 years time skip Konoha never organized a f*cking Chunin Exam? That is like having dozen of Genins then
U mad?
 

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Makes no sense, they don't even give him sage rank. Even more so, Sakura is a jounin... By rank Sakura is better than Naruto :coffee:
 

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2 years after i bet they had a chunin exam besides ranks aren't important....
 

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I just figured they knew how irrelevant rankings were, especially for Naruto who is strong enough to be a Kage.

I understand that people will say, why not just rank the guy until then but I just blame that on Kishi putting emphasis on rankings don't matter much like how power levels are pretty irrelevant in DBZ.
 

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Lol yeah it does bother me even in the last he's still a genin....
 

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Rankings are irrelevant. Lee is still a chuunin and naruto is a genin XD
 

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I don't think ranks mattered at the time of Naruto's election as Hokage. He is more entitled to the position than anyone before him, given that he is the one who saved the goddamn world.
 

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Kishi didn't want to change Narutos outfit so he kept him as genin lol
 

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who gives a f*ck bout chunin, jonin, hes the hokage its the highest rank of all even higher then ambu, hes the f*ckin BOSS
 

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who gives a f*ck bout chunin, jonin, hes the hokage its the highest rank of all even higher then ambu, hes the f*ckin BOSS, back then it was irratating that he never became chunin or jonin, like shikinaru who became chunin even tho he didnt finish the exam
 

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Guys, it's been years since the war. Surely he went through Chunin exams and became Chunin and Jonin.
 

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To all of you who say he just took the Chuunin exam: he doesn't have a team to compete with and no one can stand up to him. Besides, do they really still need him to show/prove he is strong/wise enough to be a chuunin?
 

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I don't think rankings are that important at this point. I kind of found them irrelevant once Shikamaru got promoted after letting Temari win, when Naruto won and didn't get promoted.
 

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Rank doesnt mean anything in nv anymore. The world was saved by a gennin & a rogue ninja.
 

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I don't think rankings are that important at this point. I kind of found them irrelevant once Shikamaru got promoted after letting Temari win, when Naruto won and didn't get promoted.

Well you cant have idiots teaching at the academy now, can you?
 

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We know from Chapter 700 that Naruto becomes the Hokage, but as far as our information reaches, he was still a Genin at that time. And that still doesn't make sense to me.
I already felt that it would have made sense to just promote him to Chuunin after his part in rescuing Gaara and defeating Pain, but there is no way they wouldn't have promoted him (maybe even immediately to Jounin) after the events of the Fourth Shinobi War.
Does this strike anyone else as irritating and illogical?

Remember that the moment he became a Sage, regardless of Organized rank, he achieved one far higher.
 

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Sage was a title given to "OroJiNade" by Hanzo for surviving a fight with him. It's not some name you get from a village.
 

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I'm sure everyone knows that Naruto is more than simply a genin, I think it really doesn't matter to them since he's pretty much the top dog in NV, a war hero, and could destroy a village entirely by himself. At that point you pretty much transcend rank.
 
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