16 Naruto Myths People Still Believe In 2024 

Tell me more Naruto stereotypes

It's kinda tragic if you think about it because Rock Lee and Guy both lose their biggest fights, proving they were wrong about working hard.

Doctor said: "After this fight against gaara, lee will never be a ninja anymore." well he was right

“Hardwork beats natural talent” has been debunked by the series so many times it’s hilarious. There are a few really strong characters like Guy and Adult Sakura that got their powers purely due to hard work, but all of the God tiers didn’t. Naruto and Sasuke worked hard at first but then they were just gifted god powers because they were reincarnated demi gods. Madara and Hashirama worked for their powers but they couldn’t get them without being reincarnated demi gods as well.

Neji was right and Naruto was an actual villian for gaslighting him so hard.

I think when people say “Shippuden became like DBZ” it’s less about strategy not being used. The complaint is more about over the top abilities. For example, somebody using water to make a water dragon doesn’t feel out of place. You get to Shippuden and you got characters dropping meteors or having hax that can only be countered by uber top tier characters. Nagato is the best example of this. Think about when he returns during the war. He is revived by a hax ability that makes him unkillable by normal means, then has to be haxed by Itachi to be defeated, Itachi had to hax Naruto with a hax that isn’t even his own to hax himself. Strategy only really applies to characters who have the hax to counter whatever hax they are facing. Not to mention, anyone who thinks there wasn’t strategy in Dragon Ball clearly didn’t pay attention. Just because characters don’t have inner dialogue about their strategy doesn’t mean there is no strategy.

I think you misunderstand the criticism that Naruto has become more about Dragon Ball Z power levels as opposed to skilled fights. I can't speak for everyone, but my criticism to that end has always been that part 1 was more grounded. The characters felt and were portrayed as normal humans that could SOMETIMES shoot magic. The magic wasn't something they could just spam like a water gun in the ocean, it was something they used sparingly, so every time you saw a new one it was exciting and had tension. Early Shipuuden feels similar to P1, but after the pain fight it's just downhill. Theoretically, a child could kill a Jonin in P1 because it was their skill that separated them from genin, not their physical durability, which is why Zabuza was scared of a kunai thrown by a fresh genin. By the end, half the cast is tanking nuclear blasts. Jutsus that used to be really lethal just seem like something you throw as a minor inconvenience and not to actually get a killing blow.

Hard work not beating natural talent really sends out the message "If you're not gifted, you're nothing and whatever you do also means nothing"

The characters act less like shinobis and more like wizards in Naruto shippuden. Wizards are cool too though.

My dad read the manga of naruto with me week to week up until the end while i was in highschool. He even keeps up with boruto, which i dont. He's the best dad in the world

I think disliking increasing power levels is valid and perfectly fine. It gets very hard to relate to fights in later part of shippuuden exactly because they are so big in scale that suspension of disbelief may just refuse to work in some people. Generally I believe that grounded fights are by default better if you're supposed to care about something other than the spectacle of it

I don’t know if stereotype is the right term to use, why not just say misconceptions

Hard work beats TALENT. No one said hard work beats godly powers, Its like saying a hard working fighter would beat a talented fighter in real life. But the same hard working guy would not defeat the talented guy if he was given a gun.

"Boruto is better than Naruto" and "this filler flashback episode of Boruto is the best episode ever" Yeah I read this in many Boruto comment sections. Somehow they like an episode that adds nothing to the story more than canon material but somehow think it's better than Naruto.

There's a fan made version of the anime called Naruto Kai. They removed all the flashbacks and fillers and made the anime actually good

15:00 it's explained that Minato designed the seal so that Kurama's chakra would mix over the years with Naruto's. Also it's very gary stuey to suddenly just dominate an S class level jutsu, without even trying once, when he couldn't even do the most basic one to begin with.

Naruto vs Pain was a good example. Naruto literally started crying to his dad because of how much hard work he had to put in because of his situation. The very first episode of the show Iruka talks about how hard Naruto works. Narutos fight against Neji..etc. The confusion comes from the show throwing the theme away when convenient and making characters gods.

Wizards disguising as ninjas.

If you want to watch a faster pace Naruto you need to watch the ocean cut of it. A people named “ocean” made a cut of Naruto where you can binge watch it. It cuts out all fillers, cuts out alot of flashbacks you have already seen. Episodes are an hour long and is actually well put together.

For the second point I don’t think the misconception is as much that it was just shooting the biggest lasers, but more so than they just stopped being ninjas and became soldiers. There’s very few covert missions and focusing on gathering intel and acting away from the public eye was all but abandoned

The complaint is that they became overly powerful. Like in Part 1, Hiruzen vs Orochimaru was seen as a HIGH LEVEL KAGE BATTLE. Yet pretty much everything in Shippuden blows that fight out the water. Now, there is some solid possible reasoning for this. Orochi hadn't perfected Edo Tensei yet, Hiruzen knew they were weaker than they were before and didn't see the need to do much more. Although, he did use Reaper Death Seal, sooooo... It's just the power creep over time, but to be fair, all anime have the power creep. Also, yeah DBZ does have strategy. Against Vegeta, Goku was trying to overpower him but after that failed, they were trying to outmaneuver him and force him out his transformation while buying time for Goku to charge the spirit bomb. Against Frieza, Goku was initially trying to overpower him, but when they were evenly matched, he ended up using a lot of abilities to catch him off guard. The feet Kamehameha, the delayed Kamehameha, after images, and later a lot of teamwork to get the spirit bomb off. Now when he got SSJ, yeah it was kinda just I'm stronger and I'm gonna beat you to a pulp, but Goku had earned that pay off by struggling up to that point and he unlocked a legendary form from rage. Even then, he used strategy later in the fight. Frieza got scared realizing he couldn't win and tried to blow up the planet. However, Goku had been fighting him for so long and had beaten him so brutally as a Super Saiyan, Frieza wasn't confident he'd survive a planet blowing up himself. Not only that, Frieza couldn't even use full power anymore due to his injuries and stamina loss. Once he failed to insta kill the planet, Goku let him power up to maximum and it still wasn't enough. The strategy stopped being about beating the villain and became about how to save everyone before the planet exploded.

i think the thing with naruto shippuden people saying "its just people throwing abilities at each other like dbz" most of them don't mind the fights but they just think the taijutsu was better which i agree on. The most popular fights were taijutsu

I disagree with your position on the battle quality of Naruto. Giant monster summons, physical/eye transformations, and kekigenki spamming became the bed and butter of all combat after Naruto part one. It was different and a lot of people didn't like the direction and it was the reason the final battle played out like it did

There were still some decent "ninja-like" moments even with power creep. Only flaw is that older characters were affected by Worf effect like Lee, Orochimaru, Kakashi (mostly pre-war arc, he wasn't doing so good, practically a jobber), Neji (him especially), etc. If they found a way to balance their abilities then it would better.

Hard work does not always beat natural talent. Hard work is a contributing factor that can facilitate and extend natural talent. People really miss the fact that despite Naruto’s tailed beast powers being given to him at birth he never would’ve been able to control them or much less become stronger if he hadn’t trained or gotten good instructions from better ninjas at the time

The flashbacks are tedious even in the manga,even when kishi could have told most backstory in a few sentences of dialogue but i guess that would get boring quick.

i always thought the hard work VS natural skill was a story device to show the main Theme of the story Never give up on yourself or others, to live a happy life you need to have faith in yourself and humanity

The problem is not that they will use giant things like Naruto did against Gara in the chunin exams, but that they were an exception, with well-defined costs and not something regular that Don Pepe also had. An example of this is Hashirama's cells that later in the work literally made Jutsus who had costs no longer had them, or now because of Hashirama's cells, the cost is so minuscule that it is no longer taken into account. And have a little shame on that face. You can't compare Kakashi and Zabuza finger dancing for 3 pages to make the water dragon, which damaged a considerable part of the forest but did not break the entire forest when it hit Zabuza. With Naruto ,who can literally create a chakra mecha in a matter of seconds and wipe out a continent.

I think the hard work vs talent as a theme comes down to the misconception of naruto being untalented, at the start of the series naruto was seemingly a hack but really he just lacked a proper mentor

It is obvious that hard work versus talent was never the main theme surrounding Naruto, not to mention that it is a flawed philosophy in the series that almost ended Rock Lee's ninja career. When Rock Lee was fighting Gaara, he recklessly opens up the Gates without thinking of the consequences because he wanted to show off to Neji how far he had come. But Gaara is able to withstand his assault and all of a sudden Lee is left defenseless and if not for Tsunade his career as a ninja would have been over. Kakashi himself noticed that Rock Lee was not pure hard work considering that he was able to access the eight inner gates technique to a high extent. Kakashi called Lee a pure genius. The main theme of Naruto was demonstrated in the first chapter with a social outcast developing close bonds and working to end the cycle of hatred, with Iruka defending and accepting Naruto despite Naruto being the host of the creature that killed Iruka's parents. Iruka admitted that Naruto possessed an amazing amount of potential considering that he mastered a high-caliber technique in one day and beat a chunin-level ninja easily with that technique. It was reaffirmed by Kakashi, who indicates both Naruto and Sasuke have great talent within them and both possess a vast amount of chakra reserves that would make them deadly ninjas with their training was complete. Besides the words hard work never leaves Naruto's mouth during the Neji fight. He has says one line where he vaguely gives his opinion that people's destinies aren't predetermined. The rest of his dialogue is telling Neji that he doesn't give a shit and to stop making personal assumptions about other people. Neji is repeatedly caught off guard by unforeseen circumstances in the fight. Naruto's entire problem with Neji is that the latter character believes in resigning one's self to fate, even though he's being a total hypocrite about it. Neji claimed that Naruto did not understand bearing an inescapable curse despite being the host of the ferocious Nine-Tailed Fox and hated by the entire Leaf Village. Naruto calls Neji out that despite being a member of the cadet branch of the Hyuga that Neji used the Chunin Exams to beat up Hinata and prove his superiority over the main branch, defying his supposed fate. Hinata herself was trying to improve herself and defy her fate by earning respect despite being considered hopeless by her father. Neji may possess amazing talent but also we see him train constantly, just like Sasuke works hard as well. Neji's philosophy was steeped in the idea that everyone's destiny is predetermined when they're born, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't divert that path, Rock Lee proved that he was a splendid ninja and Naruto became Hokage. The Hokage hat was never guaranteed to Naruto considering that he was hated by the entire village for a long time and Itachi already said you have to be acknowledged by the people to become Hokage. The truth of the matter is that the only thing Naruto inherited from his parents was a curse that nearly led to him being overcome by hatred many times as a wild animal before finally proving himself to Kurama. Naruto's reserves are actually humongous because Kurama's power was leaking into his own reserves with the seal designed by Minato. Hagoromo literally says Naruto inherited nothing and the only thing Sasuke has is trauma. Naruto was supposed to die fighting Sasuke instead he redeemed and saved his former friend. Even the peace Naruto helped create after the Fourth Great Ninja War has proven itself to not be perfect or completely stable, instead the only thing holding the alliance together is the power of Naruto and Sasuke. Now without their main abilities temporary peace will finally begin to unravel.

Naruto lost itself after sage mode, from Pain onwards it became less and less Naruto and more "generic pew pew battlese shonen". Yes, there was some strategy, and good ones even, here and there but that wasn't the solution to anything anymore, as always the powerscaling ends up being the answer. All characters other than team 7 got so sidelined so hard that they became all but irrelevant. An amazing cast of characters relatively valuable characters that just became nothing compered to literal demigods and chosen ones.

“Hardwork beats natural talent” Hey Naruto how did you get your most powerful form? Well I have this demon buddy that gives me chakra, also some random guy appeared when I died and revived me and also gave me god chakra, pretty neat.

Manga is always better Than The Anime.

Eh.. there are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many flashbacks in this series. Binged the entire series (sans tons of filler) like 5 years ago and especially around the war arc there was so many flashbacks to shit we've seen approximately 37,000 times each.

Yo dygo, I love the videos lately! One thing i don’t think u have talked about is in the war arc people like kakashi can spam chidori and kamui, or Tsunade surviving madara

"Hard work vs natural talent is only a Guy and Lee fight" Naruto is looking at you about giving Neji a speech about how he will be homage, not being a genius with just hard work Love the channel, and love naruto, but in this vid it almost feel like you're using incomplete information to justify your point. Again, love the channel. Keep rocking, man

To me, at least, the Naruto Shippuden become DBZ-esque isn't because people stop using strategy. Akira Toriyama did write fights with characters capable of strategic thinking as well. Much of the comparison is indeed the massive power-creep. Yes the demon fox was powerful in the first chapter but that was an exceptional outlier, the expectations set by the Jounin, Kage, and Sennin-level fights seen in Naruto were far more subdued and felt much more magical ninja-esque than Shippuden. There's also is how ridiculously redundant (Yamcha-fied, if you will) most of the cast became, the persistent use of power-ups to scale higher and higher for both the main protagonist and antagonist, both of which contribute to the entire setting being reduced to a handful of super-powered martial artists punching one another... and that gets even worse in Boruto.

The gaara filler senses needed to be added because of granny and Sakura fight took ages. And I know not having those scene would of taken a lot out of it but if guy beats his clone in 2 minutes and would be able to help Sakura and same with kakashi and then wouldn’t be a two on one fight scene and wouldn’t be nearly as good. It wouldn’t be in my top 10 fight scenes if eight on 1 happened.

I'm 35, and I have watched cartoons and Anime since I was a kid, and I still enjoy both to this day. Your age doesn't matter. Also, I really love your flat out denial of Boruto being canon. Kishimoto himself is currently the writer of the story, so it is canon. And honestly, it's not a bad story. Yes certain decisions sucks and I absolutely hate that they did that. Like turning the whole thing into a sci-fi story with robots, mechanical prostetics and so on. I really hate the more advanced technology we see in Boruto cuz it really feel out of place in a Ninja story and part of me really wish that when Kishimoto took over he would have just retconned all of out of existence, cuz it legit annoys me that that is now canon. But beyond that, I do genuninly like Boruto, not as much as Naruto, obviously, but it's a good story.

For me this is one of the bigger blunders of naruto. Naruto literally is the son of prophecy and is pretty neglected in terms of his skill set until sage mode j so the message of working hard is implemented. Like Naruto deadass is an uzamaki, had the 9 tails, is the son of a former hokage and rizzed up the daughter of the main head from the hyuga clan 💀.

Kinda pisses me off the naruto community doesn’t know about your channel ngl. You consistently put out more and more interesting content

Something I will always find hilarious is that when me and a few of my friends were watching naruto, one friend was streaming himself watching it on discord and my other friend was watching it like 5 episodes behind also streaming it on discord and I was watching both streams at once because I thought it would be funny, and during that time we reached a point where both streams that were 5 episodes apart were playing the exact same flashback. iirc it was towards the end of shippuden we were at.

Hard work does get you far, but doesn’t get you to the finish line alone

Another stereotype (or is it) is that Naruto has too many powers and abilities with very little restrictions. Bloodline limits and Tailed-beast chakra can be mad science into multiple people (Hashirama is the most egregious example). The introduction of cloning means lost powers can be resurrected and integrated into practically anyone. Pretty much any Naruto-verse power is up for grabs.

Maybe it's not hardwork beats talent, there's no denying that hard work is a theme. Naruto may have had a bunch of advantages, but if he didn't work hard, he never would've been able to take advantage of them. Like he had the Chakra to do the rasengan as a kid, but he still couldn't really do it properly until well into Shippuden. Really the only technique handed to him was Shadow Clones in chapter 1. He mastered it in a day, which is kinda BS. Part 1 has Naruto fairly balanced imo, he's not really on the level of a Jonin or Genin. And not even close to a Sannin or Kage. But he's definitely among the best of his peers.

I definitely don't share most of these peoples opinions, but at the same time I honestly think Pain should have been pretty close to the peak of power. If Shippuden ended after the Pain arc I totally wouldn't complain because it was so well rounded. At most I'd say Rinnegan Madara could have been stronger. I think powercreep is eventual in most anime but plenty have ways to negate powercreep for the most part like JoJo. There the characters improved their intellect. I think power creep in Naruto could have ended at high Kage level instead of slapping Aliens in.

"3rd Hokage never took care of Naruto" Bruh naruto did not have time for Boruto, his own SON in a time of peace. The 3rd had a lot of problems to deal with when Naruto was young. Plus we can see Naruto's flashbacks at the 3rds funeral where they spent alot of time we didnt see

I think the fighters pre-shippuden were more nuanced, and had more of a risk of failure to it. When people complain about the power scaling, it was more about the intricacy of the fight - not necessarily a broad yes or no to whether there was a strategy. We do not see the intricacy of insect jutsu, because how could it be relevant in the war arc? What about the ability to copy moves, or anything that facilitated a problem-solving strategy that required diversity of jutsu to be successful. The byakugon is useless, weapon mastery is useless - there isn't much that is unknown, and we know everyones limits pretty well. There isn't any organic cleverness like in a Shikamaru fight, or an underhanded way you'd expect a shinobi to fight. Much more overt. Its a clear transition, don't try to gaslight us >.>

Really liked this video especially the hard work vs talent bit

the most misleading stereotype is that Hikaku Uchiha is non canon

I mean: "Hard Work" is required to develop your talent further, if you have one. Still it can work wonders even without talent.

Admittedly, I thought Naruto vs Neji pulled the "hard work beats determination" but, looking back on it, what Neji was arguing is that winning/lose is fated to happened, which is a different thing.

Ok, the last one got me, great work 😂

As someone who had natural talent in track and field, I can say that hard work beats talent. My lifetime 4-minute 25-second mile, 100-meter time of 11.2 seconds, and 200-meter time of 23 seconds were all the result of hard work and dedication. However, there was a kid whose father trained military vets, and every day he got faster and faster. I wanted help, but nobody would help me since I already had natural talent. He beat me, and that same day I hurt myself to the point of not being able to run anymore. I felt his progress, and it was frustrating. Being a runner for so long, you learn to scope out your opponents easily. He was always much stronger than me, and I just had natural talent. I was such a clown that I'd sometimes flex and run with my hands in my pockets, so I got the nickname 'Hot Pockets' on my track team. Anyways, the saying goes that if you have a gift, you need to do whatever it takes to improve it. I tried, but I failed. I don't want anyone else to fail. I sometimes wonder if my rivals are still running. I definitely repaired my hip flexor enough to maybe be better than I was, but I wouldn't know how to start running again.

I am one of those people who feel like the Boruto series isn't canon. First of all, how was Boruto able to travel back in time and be in the same scene as a 12-13 year old Naruto? That's like when Albus and Scorpius travel back in time in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (which also isn't canon in its universe but the author says it is) with a time turner which should have been destroyed with all the other time turners. Another stereotype is the philosophy of "creating your own destiny vs having your destiny determined for you before you are born". All throughout the first Naruto series, Naruto wanted to become Hokage so that everyone would respect him after everyone basically rejected him due to him having the very beast that attacked the village and killed thousands just after his birth inside of him. Even characters like Neji and Hinata were reminded that they weren't as much of failures as him (though Hinata was pretty close to being a failure as she lost a duel to her younger sister of all people). However, as Shippuden continued on, it felt like Naruto was destined to become Hokage anyway, as he was the only child of the 4th Hokage, like Neji believed during the Chunin Exams (he believed that Naruto's destiny was already laid out for him, but didn't know what that destiny was).

When a story is old enough and ended a long time ago, misconceptions began to naturally pop. Its like this with DBZ, Naruto, BLEACH... One Piece after ending will go through the same thing for the next generations.

8:22 My problem is that since this story focuses on Naruto SO MUCH, all you ever see is huge explosions. You never see Ino using her juts in a cool way, you never see Hinata use twin lion fists to do anything. So all we ever see if Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura etc summoning Kurama, Katsuya, Susanoo etc. Additionally even if only a few characters do that it makes every other characters nearly useless like in the Pain fight,or how no one would have done anything to Juubito since they didn’t have sage mode, how no amount of strategy could help Hinata contribute to defeating Isshiki. There are some good moments when characters use thier smarts to contribute but you know you’ll never see them actually fight unless the plot demands it (Sakura punching Kaguya). Temari will never fight Obito, it’s just Naruto, Hashirama, Hiruzen, Kakshi etc.

Naruto : fate doesnt exist Neji Also Naruto : son of fourth, child of prophecy, reincarnation of ashura and jinchuriki of nine tails. Neji was ultimately proven right. He just sucked at reading Narutos fate.

"Naruto has immense talent!" **Mentions precisely every reason why he has no talent**

The Chidori being loud is a mute point When you use the chicory you move so much faster than sound you'd hit your target before they could even hear it. Kakashi Said this when he decided to teach Sasuke it Its why he also says the weakness is also its speed because you become tunnel vision during use

people really debating about hard work vs talent. Quote from hajime no ippo says it best "Not everyone who works hard is rewarded, but all those who succeed have worked hard" No matter how much talent you have, you will always lose to the guy who works hard if you dont work hard. Do you honestly believe the "genius" neji even during the chunin exams could touch Lee if he went all out.

can kyuubi killed ghidorah from monsterverse easily?

I mean, I agree that they still use strategies. It just isnt as unique and interesting as it used to be. Before battles used to feel like a chess match, now they kind of feel like a rock, paper, scissors match.

If a kid can enjoy it on the surface level, then a big kid can understand it on a deeper level. Yes, I consider it childish to dismiss something purely based on its targeted or main age demographic.

The tension generated by people getting injured in Naruto goes away when you remember that in Naruto, people exchange eyes and limbs like if it's nothing with that "medical jutsu" crap.

Lol, the end of the video had the most true misconception 🤣

The full quote is _"hard work beats talent where talent fails to work hard"_ That's more relevant to Naruto.

hard work beats natural talent “watches kid naruto do random pointless missions for 100 episodes”

Okay, one thing I'll tell you - they do *not* fight like shinobi. At all. They aren't assassins. That stereotype is absolutely correct.

The idea that there was NEVER a hardwork vs. genius theme or that it was ONLY really attached to Lee and Gai is a myth that needs to die. You could say that it wasn't the main theme. I'd agree with that. But it was definitely a major theme early in the series. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s-gcHD_-21U.html The truth is that early on, this was a MAJOR theme of the story and it existed with a bunch of characters (Naruto, Lee, Gai, Jiraiya, Hinata... hell even Sasuke relative to Itachi). Kishimoto just bungled it and that's okay.

Love the videos, but can you release your next Naruto rewrite soon? I need my fix man...

Guy won every fight he had except against Madara. I'd say that hard work was kicking ass.

The "kid's show" thing is very common in anime fandoms unfortunately. Especially with shows like YuGiOh or One Piece that got censored by 4kids.

The "Hard Work" stuff pretty much became useless after Kishimoto and the anime paid nore attention to the whole Clan and kekkei Genkai abilities.

dygoknight 2024- "it's not something you would see in backyardigans."

The theme of Rock Lee & Gai: Hard Work Overcomes Natural Talent. The theme of Naruto Uzumaki: The Guts to Never Give Up and Believe (It!) In Yourself. Theme of the Naruto Narrative: Through Bonds and Teamwork, you can edure and overcome all obstacles.

The idea of "hard work vs natural talent" never having been a core theme rings kind of hollow when the entire beginning of the series was almost entirely about Naruto- the screw-up of the academy- working hard to measure up to Sasuke's natural talent. It was what made him a compelling character to watch, so I'd argue that "hard work vs natural talent" is a prettty important theme. Therefore having the rest of the story shit all over it really sucks. Neji was genuinely right. You think every other person in the village over the years didn't become Hokage just because they _didn't try hard enough?_ Hokage, like Naruto who himself is the son of a Hokage and a reincarnated demigod, are _born._

4:20 I mean, that is not a lie. Shippuden is not awfull, but it wasn't the same, most of the fights you mentioned as examples of good fights were nothing spectacular for the most part. Its not that there are "nos trategies" is that the strategy becomes meaningless and pointless, because in the end the winner is the most powerfull one regardless.

I believe that it’s not more mature than mob psycho 100 just because its art style & plot elements are more traditional for shonen anime to have.

people when they find out adult swim isnt for kids the same people that have never watched family guy

The awesome thing about Naruto is how well it's aged. Unlike Dragonball, Pokemon, Yugioh, and others, I can literally watch OG Naruto over and over again. I can appreciate the series MORE as I've gotten older. Other anime are cool, but this is the main one that's really stuck with me. So, it certainly isn't simply a kids show. It isn't, because lots of these themes, you wouldn't even get at 12/13 years old

You forgot to mention Naruto vs neji was hard work beats talent everyone thought neji would win because he had all the talent and was from a more prestigious clan and everyone thought Naruto had no hope but he worked hard and didn’t give up to prove neji wrong because neji believed that once your born you can’t change your fate so if your a weak ninja starting out from a nobody clan you can’t ever hope to become one of the strongest ninjas ever and Naruto winning was supposed to be symbolic of hard work beating talent until we find out Naruto is the re in carnation of basically a god

When people complain that Naruto isn't stealthy anymore my first thought is always, "Since when was Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu stealthy?"

Tip: invalidating your own conclusion by admitting to a lack of understanding gives listeners a sense of betrayal or distrust as the speaker technically states that he has no idea what he talks about. Don't do that.

bro there is alot of unnecessary flashbacks. dont just say its anime only.the flashbacks was a huge problem. they showed the same itachi flashback twice in the same fight. (sasuke vs deidara) land of waves we heard haku sob story 3 seperate times.

I disagree with the whole "Hard work beats Natural talent" argument you are making. Because its True and False at the same time... At the start of the series it was absolutely true, hard work/determination/tenacity CAN beat Talent/Fate. I think that is what the show was going for in the beginning, it was an anime about a talent-less, skill-less, orphan that was shunned and hated by everyone in his village, and that by working hard and being persistent he could achieve all the things everybody else had. He was an UNDERDOG, his parents were nobodies, he had zero friends, everyone kept him at arms length, wanting nothing to do with him. THAT was what made people relate to Naruto at first! He had everything going AGAINST him but he kept going, pushing himself, wanting to prove himself to everyone. Turning his curse (Nine-tails) into a blessing, and by the end of his journey he would finally be accepted by his peers and recognized for his efforts and contributions to the Village. [See Neji VS Naruto fight in Part 1. Neji was proven wrong about Talent/Destiny/Fate, whatever you call it!] But as the series went on, cracks started to form, it became less and less about hard work/determination/tenacity and ALL about Talent/Destiny/Fate. We find out that Naruto is a VERY SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL after all. His father was the 4th Hokage (a position that Naruto strives for) and a Top-tier Ninja overall. His mother, an Uzumaki, was from a very special clan, a group of people that have a gigantic amount of chakra, a thing he inherited from her. (Herself having connections to the 1st and 2nd Hokage through her ancestors). He was trained by the very best teachers that were available (Kakashi, that would later become the 6th Hokage. Jiraiya, student of the 3rd Hokage and teammate to the future 4th Hokage. The Toad Sage, who taught him Sage Mode, that gave him an even BIGGER amount of chakra. And then you have the reincarnation part... I am not even going to comment further, it speaks for itself... [See Neji VS Naruto fight in Part 1. Neji is proven RIGHT about Talent/Destiny/Fate!] The reincarnation part is the final nail in the coffin, that was the part that crossed the line for me. And I can't watch the show the same way as I once did unfortunately. Its a anime that is RUINED going back and watching it knowing the things we now know. Things that don't add up, that make NO SENSE whatsoever. That is why Part 1 makes no sense now, because we know that NO ONE would shun and neglect the SON OF THE FOURTH HOKAGE! Naruto is an UZUMAKI, he is ROYALTY for God's sake! He wouldn't be treated like he was in the beginning of the anime. Its a show made worse with the 2nd part. It is a contradictory series that never figured out what it's core message and themes were, a series that wasn't well planned out. Watching this video reinforced my point about Naruto and what a terrible protagonist he truly is. This video is an argument against the series' quality. Because nothing Naruto did is earned (or very little of it is), the vast majority of powers etc, is just handed to him, either by his heritage, teachers and Gods... Making your protagonist the Chosen One is a pitfall MANY authors fall into, (One Piece being a good example). It lessens your character's autonomy/free will. DON'T DO IT! EVER!

Rock Lee and Might Guy not being talented is... a lie on it's own. It is stated multiple times that Gates manipulation and unlocking them requires a very peculiar capabilities and extreme endurance.

Rare to see a vid posted 8 mins ago. Glad to be here early!

Flashbacks are good, but when they happen every five minutes in the middle of an intense battle and the flashback takes up the entire episode, AND it's something we've ALREADY SEEN it's obnoxious. I usually skip it.

Those were actually really good points about hard work vs talent, I agree

I like the core theme you made it connects to everyone

The reason I believe the "misconception" that Shipuuden is like DBZ (apart from the obvious increase of durability and ridiculous abilities) is because there are so many retcons, asspulls, bad revelations, and in general terrible writing that makes the "good points" of those fights worthless. -"Hey! Sakura's getting screentime vs Sasori", yeah but she's being pupeteered almost the whole fight. -"Sasuke vs Itachi is great" First part is a boooring illusion fight and the Itachi retcon is horrendous in of itself. -"Naruto vs Pain is the pinnacle for Naruto" The fight and Naruto's "arc resolution" are not enough to justify that horrendous evangelization no jutsu, because if it wasn't for that, Naruto would not be able to deliver its message. -"Sasuke vs Danzo is good" It's not, Danzo just tanks everything Sasuke throws at him with Izanagi when he could've saved sharingans with the GODDAMN substitution jutsu. And if this is only regarding the first half, imagine how horrendous it feels to watch the rest of the show/read the manga when now Naruto is Jesus Christ

@DygoKnight what did Obito Uchiha did to Danzo's body after he realized that Danzo took Shisui sharigan eyes with him?

Hard work doesn't beat talent. But it damn sure does bring respect, admiration and success.

“A flashback within a flashback.” I was thinking of joke that exaggerates this by having a flashback within within a flashback within a flashback within a flashback. Infinite flashbacks.

Bro is smoking. Naruto and Sasuke can literally kill everyone in their generation that used to be their power level with a dirty look. Naruto has the worst power creep in anime

8:20 og naruto felt way more realisitc like oh i can conduct lightning to my hand oh if i rotate my chackra in a sertain way i can do this not I HAVE THIS HUMANOID MONSTER THAT BY UNSHIEVING HIS SWORD CAN DESTROY A MOUNTAIN

That last stereotype...about people believing Boruto is canon... it totally cracked me up😂😂😂 "obviously it isn't" like are you serious man 😂😅

The "hard work beats natural talent" theme has another character supporting it: Naruto. He starts the story as a boy with no talent, that can't even do a simple transformation jutsu, but has a dream of becoming Hokage and will work as hard as he can to achieve that, something stated when he injuries he's on hand, or when he can reach the top of the tree competing with Sasuke. Rock Lee vs Gaara made that theme a lot more important, while Naruto vs Neji really made that theme solid because Neji was saying all the time that hard work doesn't matter, your fate is established when you are born, and Naruto beats him because he can't believe in that because himself wasn't born with anything special. That should be one of the main themes of the series, but then Naruto is the reincarnation of a demigod destined to be powerful and the whole theme is blasted away. And "never give up" is just another way of saying the same thing. It would be really curious if Naruto kept saying that he would never give up on his dreams while sitting all day without doing anything for it and suddenly becomes Hokage because he never gave up.

Also, If Kakasi was already that strong why the hell was he having a hard time getting out of that water ball? You telling me he needed the help of those Genins to get out of that when we see him fighting againts God-like enemies and him doing Jutsu's that don't even use hand signs?