Why are the samurai so weak?

Naruto D Luffy

Kage in the Making 👑
Legendary
Joined
Oct 30, 2012
Messages
10,361
Reaction score
343
Samurai should be stronger than ninja. Why are they so expendable in this manga?

Examples

- Zabuza took out a bunch of samurai using a kunai in his mouth.
- Sasuke also beat a bunch of them without trouble
 

grizzlyshree

Anbu Operative 🎭
Veteran
Joined
May 24, 2013
Messages
2,594
Reaction score
71
Because the manga is about ninjas! i think both are strong in real world
 

Flakez

Member
Joined
Mar 28, 2012
Messages
70,977
Reaction score
1,947
Because they are irrelevant in this manga. It's about ninjas, not samurai.
 

WhistleBlower

Legendary Shinobi 🐸
Supreme
Joined
Apr 12, 2012
Messages
27,716
Reaction score
1,797
You're incorrect, Mifune is a samurai, he seems to be pretty strong being able to take down hanzo? :bouncy:
 

Forbidden Tale

Anbu Operative 🎭
Veteran
Joined
Mar 10, 2014
Messages
4,423
Reaction score
239
The manga is about ninjas and weren't in real life ninja stronger than samurai?
 

Klad

Legendary Shinobi 🐸
Supreme
Joined
Jul 13, 2012
Messages
26,125
Reaction score
1,524
Because Naruto is about Ninja .

Go and read Vagabond and you will see the true worth a samurai . They are not weak ; they're stronger than Ninja in real life .
 

St Joseph

Leaf Village Regular 🍃
Regular
Joined
Mar 10, 2014
Messages
883
Reaction score
53
Samurai are meant to be better than Shinobi in Tai and ken, but this manga will focus on ninja more than Samurais, which is why it may not be showcased as such.
 

WhistleBlower

Legendary Shinobi 🐸
Supreme
Joined
Apr 12, 2012
Messages
27,716
Reaction score
1,797
Those samurais were fake's just a bunch of people they gathered to look powerfull.

- The once at the castle where they want to seek out the sword zabuza had was hired inexperienced people as well. The real samurais are Mifune and those at the Five kage mansion.

- They might look weak but their pretty strong, it's just because they made sasuke so ridiculous strong he were able to nuke them all.
 

~Sky~

Sannin of the Scrolls 📜
Elite
Joined
Jul 19, 2012
Messages
6,871
Reaction score
600
The writer doesn't value them.
 

Drakengard

Anbu Operative 🎭
Veteran
Joined
Feb 9, 2012
Messages
4,371
Reaction score
357
The examples you use showcase named, important characters (I mean c'mon, sasuke?) against no-name fodder x_x ninja beat other fodder ninja all the time so it's not that strange. Remember that an earlier Sasuke beat hundreds with ease~
 

grizzlyshree

Anbu Operative 🎭
Veteran
Joined
May 24, 2013
Messages
2,594
Reaction score
71
difference between ninjas and samurai

 

Honord Sage

Kage in the Making 👑
Legendary
Joined
Mar 10, 2010
Messages
16,764
Reaction score
621
It was a Samurai who took Edo Hanzo down in the war. and Theirs a reason why the Ninja Nations don't attack their country and why their in this war.
 

UltimateDeadpool

Jōnin Strategist 🧠
Veteran
Joined
Apr 19, 2013
Messages
2,306
Reaction score
202
The manga is about ninjas and weren't in real life ninja stronger than samurai?

No. Samurai were highly trained in both armed and unarmed combat: katana, naginata, bow, jujutsu, and pi gua. They were also highly educated and were known to be artists and poets, and adhered to a code of honor.
Ninjas were commonly mercenaries acting as thieves, spies, and assassins that possessed no code of honor; they were dirty fighters that used guerrilla tactics. Hystorically they were likely trained in ninjutsu (in real life, it's not magic) and typically used whatever they could find as a weapon.

Ninjas in the Narutoverse were also confirmed to originally be rogue samurai.

Onoki said that the samurai are very formidable and no ninja village will dare attack them. But, fodder is fodder. The real problem is that, aside from Mifune, there are no samurai that were made to be more than fodder. We can at least infer that fodder Samurais > fodder Ninjas.
 
Last edited:

-Spoiler-

Sannin of the Scrolls 📜
Elite
Joined
Nov 14, 2010
Messages
7,020
Reaction score
460
The manga is about ninjas and weren't in real life ninja stronger than samurai?
Nope Ninjas where just Spies and specialized in information retrieval, gathering and stealth assassinations, direct combat wasn't their forte and that was Samurais strong suit.
 
Top