Minato is ACTUALLY a Senju?! 

Explains why Kushina fell for his wood. The release must have been crazy.

Honestly I'm cool with Minato being a genetic anomaly. He was badass and deserves to be remembered like that

While it’s cool that he could be related to the Senju, I also like the idea that a no name clan could produce one of the strongest ninja in history

I will always prefer the idea that characters like Minato, Jiraiya, and Might Guy are just powerful characters from no name unimportant clans. I think it adds a lot to the whole concept the early series tried to set of your innate talent doesn't matter as much as your determination and effort that was lost by the end of the series

You should do a list of all the questions you want answered from Kishimoto by the end of Boruto.

Since a lot of Senju just married into various families in Konoha. I would not be surprised if Minato is a Senju in some way. Namikaze could just be those Senju who specialized in whatever jutsu Minato used prior to making the Rasengan. So i support Tobirama being his ancestor since a lot of stories follow with the idea of one dead character being reborn through their relatives lineage. Like Rengoku being reborn as a descendant of his younger brother. In thia case, Hashirama being reborn as Naruto. Keeping all Ashura rebirths in the Senju connection.

Does anyone agree that if Kushina is as strong as Minato, should she have a better skill set in the storm games? She throws wooden spoons and beats people up with pots and pans, it's so rubbish and it needs to be sorted out.

I actually find Minato and Tobirama quite similar physically, especially the haircut even though the hair color is different but decolored hair to blond isn't so different, it's still a very light hair color. For the eye color Tobirama was most likely an albino because of the red eyes so we can't really take the eye color into account, not even the hair color when you think about it. Tobirama could have been blond without albinism. Psychologically speaking though, those two characters couldn't be more different lmao.

My theory is that all the Senju married into the clans and families that joined Konoha in order to reinforce the bonds among them but leading to more tensions with the Uchihas, that explains things like Moegi being able to use Mokuton.

Jiriya and Minato and Guy being from non-famous clans was always a bright spot for me in Naruto. Being great despite your bloodline was always more relatable than being a spoiled kid with with all the genes and connections. (i.e Boruto)

Namikaze means wave so maybe hes from "Land of waves" its located in a Konoha island.Senju probably proposed marriage to main clan in Land of Waves to strengthen their bond like the Senju did with the Uzamakis. Could be why they went to the land of waves on their first mission with kakashi sakura and Sasuke

I also think Kakashi's father and Kakashi himself are also from Senju Regarding Minato, I have always suspected that he is a Senju, especially since his son Naruto or the child of the prophecy Ashura, who throughout their existence have always been a Senju.I am not surprised by this because apart from the clans, you will find that approximately 75 percent of Konoha's citizens have Senju blood Or one of their ancestors from Senju, so you don't find the Senju clan anymore because it has become too big to be just a clan.

Tobirama and Hashirama are brothers. Their children are cousins. Their grandchildren are second cousins. If Tsunade was Hashirama's daughter instead of Granddaughter, they'd be first cousins once removed, removed being the technical term for a generational gap. But because they're both grandchildren of two brothers, they are second cousins. You're welcome.

This theory also makes sense when you think about the Konoha symbol being a fusion of the Senju and Uzamaki. If Naruto is derived of both clans, it adds gravity to his love for his headband, his village, etc.

You know, I actually rather like the idea that Minato just comes from a random clan and ended up being this prodigal. It gives it that edge of reality, quite frankly.

I always considered the clans of konoha being descended from the Senju , going from the “ clan of 1000 skills” to clans focused on one specific technique.

Disagree... Tobiram was able to sense that Karin was Uzumaki. He would have probably commented on Minato.

Minato and tobirama are not the only people who know the flying thunder god. The leaf village had a whole squad of joinin who knows the jutsu as well as in the 4th great ninia war they had a teleportation squad using the jutsu. Tobirama and minato are the only MASTERS of the jutsu so they can perform it solo

Senju = Thousand tasks Kakashi = Thousand jitsu That was the first person I ever thought was half senju. That most likely tobiramas child or grandchild had married into the hatake clan.

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Honestly I thought everyone in kohona was a senju beside the uchihas. You looked at hashirama family? If that was the average looking senjus I don’t think it was too hard to branch the blood out. And I think the senju blood is 100% incorporated in boruto on the genin that seem to have way more potential than the parents. Maybe lack drive to become great but it is there

I always find it weird when characters in anime seemingly have no family, for no particular reason. You look at something like A Song of Ice and Fire, and everybody's got families; huge families, with long lineages, multiple siblings, and often several generations of concurrent, relevant members exist at any given time

I completely forgot that Tsunade is an Uzumaki though Mito.

This makes me wonder.... If Sakura comes from a nonshinobi family, why is she so skilled with chakra control? To add to the questions, in an alternate world, Naruto's parents are alive and active Shinobi.... but Sakura's father died as Hokage. Even though the worlds are different, they are also fairly similar.

"he's a senju, shes a senju, I'M A SENJU! Are there any other senju's i should know about?" Minato: *meow*

The Namikaze clan could have branched off from the Uzumaki clan or Senju clan,just like Mukai Kohinatas clan split from the Hyuga clan. I Believe they settled in "Land of Waves" since Namikaze means "Wave"

I think the greatest arguments for them being closely related has to do with the fact Hashirama and Tobirama's part of the clan seemed to be much more talented than the rest, the timeline fits for Tsunade and Minato being cousins and Tobirama most likely being in his prime as a Senju in his late fifties when he had a child and this would actually add more evidence to how and why Minato is so talented, even if Tobirama is Minato's father (which, apparently Tobirama died in his sixties and Konoha was founded at least forty years prior to that?) If you do the math then if Tobirama died the same year Minato was conceived, this would not only mean Tobirama had a child in his later years (it's highly probable since he's a Senju, so it's possible even in real life some older people can have children over fifty to sixty years old), but it makes sense as to how Minato would've been born in the second great shinobi world war, Minato would've been around twenty-four to twenty-five at his death, so if Minato is fourteen in the one shot manga flashback with Jirayah and that was the end of said war, the third war would've only been around almost a decade long? At the very most, the war would've lasted eight years and Minato would've been twenty-two when inaugurated as Hokage, so he'd have only been Hokage for two years, maybe three if you think he was twenty-five at his death but it still fits in the timeline, Madara's official death was in his early to mid seventies, Tobirama at maximum is six years younger, so he'd have to have been mid to late sixties at his death because he supposedly is minimum thirty years or so older than Hiruzen, Hiruzen was in his late sixties at his death, Minato would've been around thirty-seven to thirty-eight during part one of Naruto, making him about forty in part two if he were alive and it does seem to add up, but then it's kind of weird to think in a technical sense that Minato would be Tsunade's uncle if he's Tobirama's son, making Naruto her cousin..but this also would make sense why Nawaki and Naruto look so similar, since they'd be in the same generation of family in a technical sense and based on genetics, if they're the same amount of family members removed they're bound to look similar, also generally if you're older, your children will look more like you..which could possibly explain why Tobirama and Minato look alike enough to be considered related, with Minato most likely having a fake last name..another possibility for Minato's other parent is that maybe she just so happened not to be an Uzumaki, but a Sarutobi? Minato is one of the few characters who we know for a fact has over five different nature types, Sarutobi were known for their talented Shinobi just like the Uchiha and Senju, so it's possible Minato is a Senju and a Sarutobi, it's not unheard of and both Sarutobi and Senju clans have people with brown or blonde hair, so it could've been a trait from either the mother or grandparent of Minato from the Sarutobi side if not from Tobirama himself.

Japanese handles surnames similarly to the west by the male primagenature, but when the child isn't claimed by the father they keep their mothers surname. This is why Naruto is a Uzumaki instead of Namikaze. I have hypothesized that Minato's mother is a senju related to Hashi/Tobirama, but he could potentially be Tobirama's son but his mom was preggers with him when Tobirama died.

"this isnt how it works.... you know" IM DYING OF LAUGHTER

Anyone else think it’s weird how Hash & Tobi Senju never passed down their unique kekkei genkai/skill set to their progeny. You’re telling me there wasn’t another Senju with wood release or proficient use of water jutsus? Every Uchiha has the ability to awaken the sharingan but none of the Senju descendants even came close to Hash & Toji?

10:24 i might have actually died from laughter for alil after i saw your face lol "that's not how that works" lmao

I believe he could have Senjo blood. I mean the clan did breed out. Not really break up or disband, more Mary out of the clan. But I like this theory, keep making awesome videos

I'd actually love it if Minato didn't have a great background. Makes his rise and incredible talent that much more impressive.

3 things 1) The Senju were more than Hashirama and his siblings, we’ve seen that most clans have many members who are only distantly related to each other, he could be descended from a minor member. 2) Asuma and Kurenhai weren’t married, and were attempting to keep their romance a secret, so it’s entirely possible that Tobirama had a secret child, just like most of the world was kept ignorant as to Naruto’s relationship to Minato. 3) If the Senju in Minatos ancestors was a daughter, she could have simpler taken her husbands name, namikaze, and maybe even lived their life as a civilian. Minato could even be the great grandson of tobirama if he had a child early in life, and his daughter chose to not be a Shinobi once the village was established

“It’s about a 4 yr old with an apartment” that sounds FANTASTIC 🤣

An idea not explored enough with the "nameless" or "non-family" characters is; maybe they were conceived with people outside of the village, which could explain why unknown family names have high power AND why they lineage may actually be purposefully hidden . Tobirama especially would be against people having children with ninja from other nations. The 'kaze' in "Namikaze" always makes me think of some familial involvement with the sand village. Just a thought 🤔

Appreciate the update. I've been watching this series for close to 17 years now and it just gets better and better. The lore and legends are solid.

This could have been a great theory that could have made since if we knew about Tobirama’s love life

8:26 **Guy hits both** Sweet Home Alabama! 🎸🎵

I also found it interesting that he was able to use the flying ragin to teleport kurama and then use the Reaper death seal on top of everything else fighting obito transporting the kyuubi attack using summoning technique and never ran out of chakra

i always thought that the fact that Minato knew flying raijin was odd, like wasn’t it a forbidden jutsu??

I mean if minato was a senju then it definitely makes the hokageship much more of a monarchy type situations seeing as then 5 of the 7 hokages were senju.

To be fair there was already a fan theory that namikaze was a distance branch of senju like how the sharingan is a distant cousin to the rinnegan at it can transition into one and both are clan specific kekeigenkai to each clan. Son basically this means they were on to something the entire time lol😅

Where did Madara get another rinnegan? How was Madara able to transform his dead eye (The one he used izanagi with) into a rinnegan? Can the rinnegan just overwrite the cost for Izanagi because it's a 6 paths do-jutsu? And if that's true is that why we never see Pein use susanoo, because he never had two Mangekyō?

I like the idea that yes Ashura created the Rasengan the technique itself may have been lost for generations and Minato merely recreated it the same could be said about the thunder god technique the tobirama created it as far as we know and didn’t pass it down so either Minato created the technique from scratch or may have found some old work of Tobirama and decided to recreate this technique it would explain how he was then able to take it further perfecting the technique as Tobirama himself said that Minato was more capable with the technique than he was

If Minato was Tobirama's Grandson that would make Minato and Tsunade "Second Cousins" and Naruto and Tsunade "Second Cousins Once Removed" helps to think of it as Siblings being what you would call Zeroth Cousins and their kids are First Cousins. So you track down the family line from a common ancestor via the shortest leg for the "Place" in front of the word cousin, then you count how many EXTRA steps it takes to get from the common ancestor to the other relative. Tsunade is the third generation down from Hashirama's Dad (Papa Senju), and if this was true Naruto would be the forth generation down from the same Papa Senju

The term you’re looking for to describe their relationship is first cousin once removed. As in Minato’s Senju parent is Tsunade’s first cousin

The idea that naruto has "less chakra than a full blooded uzumaki" never sat right with me. Naruto ALSO has a lot of chakra BECAUSE he is a reincarnation of Ashura. Sure the Senju and the Uzumaki are know for their chakra pools but that doesnt even begin to compare to the chakra inherited through Ashura. Hashirama, a full blooded Senju, was known as "God of Shinobi" clearly having way more chalra than any other full blooded Senju. It should be the same for Naruto. I dont believe that Naruto has less chakra than a full blooded Uzumaki. Not by a long shot.

When translating the name Namikaze from Japanese, it means wind and waves. What if this is what is meant by the two vortex ! Two clans are a branch of the Senju

A very compelling argument for Minato being Senju and further being related to Tobirama, is the fact that Naruto is Asura's reincarnation... As far as I know, Asura reincarnates in the main line of the Senju and Indra in the main line of the Uchiha... with the "main" line Uchiha terminated with Madara, the closest relative to the main line would likely become the new main family leading to Itachi and Sasuke. At the same time, the "main" line of Senju "terminated" with Tsunade, with Tobirama's hypothetical line being the closest relation assuming no other descendants of Hashirama exists. Furthermore, while it could be argued that the "closest to main line" could have "propagated" through Mito to make Kushina the closest relation, we know(Not sure if it is canon) that Butsuma(Hashirama and Tobirama's father) must have had siblings due to Hashirama and Tobirama having a known cousin(again not sure if it's canon), which would likely have spread their bloodline into Konoha, making "close" Senju descendants exist. Therefore, unless the birth timing was way off(like the reason for why Itachi isn't Indra's reincarnation), it is highly unlikely that no Senju descendent existed with a relation closer to the main line Senju, than the Uzumaki progenitor(assuming it didn't "propagate" through Mito's side), which could support Minato being a Senju descendent, though not necessarily from Tobirama, as he could be one of said descendants of Hashirama's cousins which shed the Senju name, making Minato the person with the closest relation to the main line Senju, explaining why Naruto was the "chosen one", as well as his enormous chakra pool.

The fact that you made a Tasmania joke and actually knew about what we mainland Australians stereotype them with had me rolling! 😂

I've always considered Minato as having a Senju parent. Reason being that Indra & Asura are the founders of the Uchiha & Senju clans respectively. As far as I can tell Indra & Asura only reincarnate inside their own clans. So Indra only reincarnates in the Uchiha clan & Asura only reincarnates in the Senju clan. My hypothesis for this is the fact that Indra only reincarnates from members of the Uchiha clan & the only other Asura reincarnation I know of besides Naruto is the First Hokage (& if Indra only reincarnates in the Uchiha clan then I'd expect the same for Asura).

Grandcousins are a thing, though we tend to call them "First cousins twice removed", aka the first cousin of a grandparent/your cousins grandchild.

Hopefully we get these answers in the near future with more Minato content from Kishimoto! It would be so cool to see the namikaze be expanded on

Hes a Senju, You're a Senju, I'M A SENJU!!!! Are there anymore Senju's I should know about!?!?!

Since flying raijin is basically summoning yourdelf to somewhere, did jiraya accidently flying raijined himself into mount myobuku when he tried to summon something without a contract when he was a genin? And if thats the case could it be that thats how tobirama thought about creating this jutsu? Like not when jirayay did it but when he himself or somebody close to him did it

I used to have the perspective that anything that isn't stated in the manga isn't canon and that has changed. Now it is: So at 20:54, unless Kishimoto has written/co-written a manga/novel adaptation about this, then Ashura did not create the Rasengan.

Hi Nick Thank you for work and effort :) I have one question and I think it might lead to an interesting video: "what would you ask Kishimoto (naruto wise) if you had the chance to talk to him ?"

“You know😉You know😈This isn’t how it works.” Sent me😂😂😂

Personally, I like the theory, but I also like the theory that Minato embodies the original theme or Naruto of hard vs family born as well. Minato being a no name with a bunch of potential is always a fun concept. Or a lower level Senju/ other clan who didn’t carry on the nepotism of the first 2 Hokage.

"gray hair man" !!!!!!!!! tobirama was slanging water 🐉 tequila at them baddys ❤😂

i'd love to see Nick get a chance to ask kishimoto himself about things like this, the reincarnation factor is pretty compelling in particular. Also bonus video about Nick's ninja dogs when?

Lol I like how he kinda glanced of Fast and Furious at the very beginning😂

So I'm curious to know what would have happened if Sasuke was brought back. If the fight between naruto and Sasuke ended not with a gut punch but rather naruto grabbing sasukes arm and pulling him into a headbutt, knocking him out until Kakashi arrives. Sasuke is brought back to the village but would Sasuke stay

Bro, it LITERALLY shows Minato battling his dad

So flying raijin skips a generation, and after the time skip, we're about to see Boruto and/or Himawari poppin' off with it? Also, is it just me? Or does flying raijin with a byakugan sound pretty lethal??

Random what if idea, what if the konoha 13 were born in each others clans? Like tenten as an inazuka or neji as an Uchiha. Basically shuffling around the clans the same way you shuffled around the teams

As an Australian, I appreciate the jab at Tasmania coming out of left field.

Imagine if Tenten was a Senju.

I think it makes more sense that Minato makes the first Rasengan cuz he made it based on a tailed beast bomb, hence it’s findementally different than a similar Jutsu made before the prevalence of tailed beasts

Hey Nick, is there any point where it's explained what makes Kuramas Chakra special? You often say that Narutos strenght comes from KCM and Kurama, but shouldn't he be able to access that even without Kurama, or anyone else for that matter? Or is tailed beast Chakra somehow "better" then regular Chakra?

Minato being tsunade and Jiraiya’s secret kid just blew my mind!

I have one dispute with this theory, and that's when Nick says only Tobirama and Minato know the flying raijin technique. Hiruzen also knows it, and uses it to get to the battlefield of the 4th great war. I'd say Hashirama knows it as well, but I'm sure he just ran there while they all teleported.

Minato was around the age of 20 in the one shot.

Guy became the strongest non-SOSP character by a landslide (granted, for a short a time), and my guy is just Guy!

It's actually awesome that you referenced Tasmania correctly :p

In Sasuke's and Naruto's last battle, Sasuke used Indra's Arrow. Indra's Arrow was only seen in filler, but used by Sasuke in cannon.

The series does make a point to say that one way to increase your chakra pool is through physical training. It's possible that one reason Boruto has much less chakra is because he just didn't train as much or start as early as previous generations. He didn't have to because they were building an era of peace. Naruto himself at the start talks about how Boruto doesn't train like his generation used to at that age because his clothes always look clean and new.

I always figured he was Yamanaka orphan, his fighting style is a product of fuinjutsu.

12:47 lmaoo Nick talkes about uchihas like they are wild dogs

8:00 In this theory, Tsunade and Minato are 2nd cousins. In this theory, Tsunade would be Naruto’s 2nd cousin once-removed. With cousins, how far “removed” you are is equal to how many generations you cross, and being “removed” does not cause the degree of cousin to increase.

The fact you said that the second hokage has the best drip is crazy🤣🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

There was that conversation between Tsunade and Jiraiya before he fought pain when they were reminiscing about how she raised the 4th Hokage. I only know it from the anime, and it is only brought up once

Outside of Minato and Tobirama, there are three others that can use the Flying Rajin technique. Raidō Namiashi, Genma Shiranui, and Iwashi Tatami. You can see them using this to teleport Tsunade. What's more is they acted as Minato's Body Guard when he was Hokage.

Hashirama could have a political marriage but also a partner on the side he loved and had kids with and the offspring couldn't officially use the senju name

Also in Boruto, Boruto himself mentioned Minato more than once, imma guess he mentioned him at least 2 or 3 times

That would make sense if the Namikaze was a branch of senju!!

Ey next vid, do clothing over the years! You got hashirama and tobirama in armor and then everyone just wears regular cloth.

i like this cause it fixes alot of the plot holes in the later naruto story lines

Im Aussie and as soon as i heard you say Tas, i had to rewind and check that i heard it. LOL...

16:14 that math never did math for me, because we're still talking about 1/2 of Kurama at this specific point

I have a big family so I gotchu on the cousin thing. If you share parents you’re siblings, if you share grandparents you’re cousins, great-grandparents 2nd cousins, etc. Removal refers to whether you share a generation, and it always travels downward. My 1st cousin’s kid is my 1st cousin once removed, his kid 1st cousin twice removed, etc.

22:30 This whole convergent evolution thing happens a lot. The one I remember best is that the crossbow is invented by by the Chinese and the Greeks independently

The only flaw in his logic is the flying rajin theory. Minato taught his hokage guard the technique. It's how Mei arrived to the fight with Madara

This is an interesting theory but I will have to reject it on the basis that I have already accepted the "Kakashi is Tobirama's grandson" head canon 😂

Love the dom fast n furious drop in the intro 😂

*minato*- "hey baby have you ever seen wood release?"

My dad kicked me out the house when I was 12.... True story

CGP Grey has a video "Your Family Tree Explained" that is a good reference for those hard to describe family members.

low key lost track of what was happening so i started watching youtube shorts