Minato is STRONGER Than We Thought 

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Crazy how one of the most iconic jutsus in naruto was almost named "the ice pop inspired nimbus jiraiya twin whorl sphere"

This manga has shown me how badly we need to have a Minato show. I feel like Minato could be a protagonist that is a lot like Naruto but much more serious and focused through out his journey.

I loved it when Naruto fought Sasuke in the final valley and Sasuke used his ultimate technique "chidori" and naruto countered with his "ice pop inspired nimbus jiraiya twin whorl sphere!" Truly the best moment in all of anime

I didn't realize till yesterday that Kishimoto literally took the only two jinchuriki that didn't make the top99 poll and used them for this one-shot. Gotta love Kishi

I love that it focused on Kushina and Minato instead of just one

This just shows how deeply Kushina & Minato loved each other. Almost all of Minato’s battle arsenal is sealing jutsu which the Uzumaki specialized in. And Kushina helped Minato learn A LOT of sealing techniques. So Kushina was always with Minato on the battlefield due to his sealing arsenal. Plus Minato created the Rasengan for the soul purpose of protecting Kushina. She even named his technique and he didn’t have a single objection. This just leaves me wanting to see more of their relationship. Even if it’s in a slice of life style.

I feel like minato naming things horribly is perfect. Every time he does it makes me actually laugh and I don’t do that a lot😂 I’m thankful he has this goofy side

Loved the last panel with Minato smiling at Kushina & his face is next to the other Hokage. So heartwarming to see them again

We now have more people who know the rasengan. We have: Minato, Kushina, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Naruto, Konohamaru and Boruto. It's a nice touch to have Kushina also know the rasengan as it's a jutsu designed specifically for her. This makes Naruto learning it even more special. The rasengan is his parents' jutsu.

what I find really awesome is that Minato says that he designed the Rasengan for Kushina and her totally out of this world amount of chakra. Which mean that when Naruto throw theses stupidly huge rasengans who almost look like freakin Genkidama from DBZ, THAT is technically the true from of the technique. Which make sense since it's supposed to be the counter to Bijuudamas who are equally huge.

It gets even better than Kushina just naming the rasengan. It's implied that the first time Minato says he loves Kushina is when he's fighting kurama/using the rasengan inside the seal. Kushina naming the rasengan as such represents the moment that her uzumaki became a rasen.

I just read it this morning and I LOVED IT! It was so heartwarming to see even a little bit of their relationship. And to see Kushina hear the girls in the background whispering about inviting Minato and then choose to break the rules and boundaries for love was a total Naruto thing to do. He really is his mothers son. I love this whole story from beginning to boruto and I really hope they do a past stories because im totally here for it.

Kishi really really really wanted to make a oneshot for Kurama, and was super salty he didn't win, so ofc he will find a way to have him in the manga a bit.

Minato was so strong that he was able to clash with Kurama's Tailed Beast Bomb (the strongest Tailed Beast) by simply using an imperfect Rasengan and come back to life to tell a story, not forgetting he did it all while Kushina's hand stabbed right through his body. Naruto's father and Boruto's grandfather are completely different breeds! 🔥

People tend to forget Hashirama was NEVER supposed to be as absurdly strong as he was in the 4th shinobi war, that arc retconned so much and the power creep was ridiculous.

Really puts into perspective Kakashi’s concern with Naruto using the move against Sasuke. Also explains why Naruto’s training during the time skip wasn’t a extensive move list, he probably had to spend allot of that time making his rasengan stronger. Imagine this one shot is the key to giving Naruto a power up in Boruto using the seal and Rasangan

I like that we saw the 2 jinchuriki using their full tailed beast transformations in a way like the avatar mode. I thought that was a much better way of handling it compared to Gaara and Bee who would just turn into their tailed beast.

I'm convinced this guy knows more about the backstory and lore of the Narutoverse than Kishimoto himself 😂

Even tho I’m yet to read the full minato one shot, I’m even more impressed by his shinobi talents. He truly was a prodigy and his skill was second to none. It’s also nice to see how his relationship with kushina develops. This was way better than how naruto’s affection for hinata was done in the movie. I kinda hope we can one day get a white fang one shot to see just how deadly Sakumo was or even Shisui since we really didn’t see much of them in combat

As a Minato Stan… I knew this since I was 12 😎 The 4th had the best reveal when it first released. Sure even as kids we knew he was Naruto’s dad just from context clues and design, etc. but finally showing him off was LIT 🔥

I've always said Minato had to get his arms cut off in the War Arc cause of plot he is too OP so they had to nerf him in that battle. We've seen Minato has high chakra reserves , great counter reaction timing , insane jutsus and feats that are impressive even after all the broken characters that came after him. That man was a Hokage for a reason and had as much natural potential as Hashirama And Madara . Sadly his story was cut short. side note he aint even have a kekkei genkai

When Jiraiya tried giving him the popsicle I got a like choked up. It was honestly beautifully written. Better than most of Boruto

It took me a second to realize why Kurama was able to force a bijufication on Kushina so fast. This is Kurama at his full strength. Unlike with Naruto who only had half of Kurama. Makes more sense why they had her in a barrier to start.

Heart warming as the one-shot showed us how close Minato and Kushina relationship was, everyone is overlooking how powerful Kurama really is. There had to be two methods used to prevent him from escaping, the 1st being sealed inside an Uzumaki, both full blooded ones at that, and the 2nd is having said Uzumaki living inside a barrier so he doesn’t break out of his first seal. GOATED! I wish Kishimoto didn’t introduce Roshi and Han had Full Tail Beasts Avatar Transformation since it created another plot hole as to why Killer Bee never used it, and made Naruto’s own no longer unique if other tail beasts host can also use it. Still cool, but not unique as it also diminishes Naruto and Kumura’s relationship since I and many other fans thought the transformation arise from their bond, or at least only unique to Kurama.

My only disappointment with this oneshot is that it’s shorter than I thought. Especially considering Kishimoto said it was getting longer than he expected. Also it seems like not enough time passed but it’s kinda hard to tell

The one shot really delivered for me personally and I hope we get more of these in the future

It's interesting because the power feats we saw align with what we were initially told about Minato back in the early days of Naruto, which is that he was/is (excluding Naruto) the strongest Hokage. It just doesn't track with everything we've seen from him feat wise thus far, but if it's one thing Kishimoto is going to do it's take a wrecking ball to the world and lore he's previously built lol.

I absolutely loved the one-shot! On the topic of Minato's power scaling? He's GOATed and we already knew that. Lol. I loved that we got some more timeline specifications, too, though. I don't tend to pay much attention to the timeline at this point because we all know it's just such a huge mess, but that bit of info giving us an incredibly good approximation of WHEN Uzushio and the Uzumakis were destroyed was fantastic! We now know that it was very close to right after Kushina came to Konoha. I also liked the lore building with us now knowing that Kushina was generally not allowed to leave a very particular sealed area for the majority of her life and that she didn't originally have as much control over her seal as we once thought. That makes Naruto's seal strength so much more profound, since contrary to Mito and Kushina, he COULD go pretty much anywhere without his seal going berserk, even before he had friends and romantic love. Now I wanna know if Mito had been confined to this sealed area her entire time as a jinchuriki, or if it was only after she started to age to the point that her seal was no longer as strong? And and didn't seem at all that Kushina was confined to this area later in her life, so my guess is that she was able to move around freely after she was able to find love with Minato and that love allowed her to keep her seal more controlled. Seriously, after the release of this one-shot manga, Kishimoto would be an IDIOT not to make an actual spin-off series about Minato. MINATO IS MONEY. He is what we want! He is what we will throw all of our money at! GIVE US THE MINATO SPIN-OFF

Fun thing to consider with what the Pervy sage did with both Naruto and Minato maybe when he started doing that with Naruto it reminded him of all the good times he had with Minato and helped remind him of the closest thing he had to a son with the closest thing he has to a grandson. Also think of how hard it had to be for Jirya when he heard Minato died his basically son died and he wasn’t there to help him. And now I’m sad.

Minato CREATED the rasengan in that manga, he did not perfect it yet, remember Jiraiya said that Minato showed him the jutsu before he perfected it

I am so impressed with the depth of your understanding of the Naruto lore. Us Naruto fans are very lucky and thankfull, to have you explain everything so lovely. If everyone saw your videos there wouldn't be any misunderstanding in the community.

I absolutely loved every second of this and the one shot. So good

Seems like the rasengan being that strong could be a mental amp because he's protecting Kushina, and not something he'd normally be capable of. That seems in line with the overall narrative, love being the power that balances hate and such. Minato acts out of love, cancels out Kurama acting out of hate. Maybe if he didn't die young he would have developed it to be that powerful all the time. But young Minato mental amping way above his level is probably another parallel between him and Naruto.

Minato might not get a full, major manga release like Naruto and Boruto but I'm pretty sure they'd consider a few gaiden manga sometimes in the future. Can't wait.

I’m so glad this came out. I would always say we don’t know enough about Minato and I thought he was more powerful than Kishimoto let on. I used to say I think an all out Minato could rival Alive Madara and used to get laughed at. But now there’s actual Cannon to back my claims.

guys keep in mind that minato is the only characther who can casually seal teleport several tailed beast bombs and still have plenty of chakra left in his base form. thats a very impressive feat i must say.

I think Kishimoto forgot that Minato was suppose to be 14 years old and thought he was suppose to be like 19 to 20 (Kinda near the age of Naruto). We also know he sometimes tends to forget things and who can blame him. Also this doesn't change the fact that this manga made a tons of money for him and gave more content and lore to Naruto/Minato Fan. Kinda win win situation here.

Nick is just on a whole other level, this is what a constantly running and considerate brain does

The way I took the Manga was that this is Minato at the start of the 3 years. He's created the general idea of the Rasengan but now has to spend 3 years perfecting it (how much Chakra to put in, how to use it in combat, possible modifications like Jiraiya's Big Ball Rasengan, etc.)

Awesome as always thanks

I love how kishimoto addresses how Minato has horrible names that are wayyyy too long for his jutsu in the the one shot

It makes more sense now why Minati didn't seal the entirety of Kurama into baby Naruto. Even Kushina, a full-blooded Uzumaki, can lose control when containing full Kurama

It was so excellent and really brought back those feelings I had almost 20 years ago reading Naruto manga each week

It’s crazy that Naruto needed a giant Rasengan to stop Half of Kurama with his chakra taken, while Minato did it effortlessly with a regular Rasengan while facing Kurama with both his Ying and Yang halves together

Nick keeps putting out so much good content so quickly that I'm honestly worried that he's gonna burn out. Remember to look after yourself man

I actually liked getting confirmation that all jinchuriki can have a chakra avatar like Kurama and Naruto. I'm thinking this means Naruto could have a complete tailed beast transformation, that he's in control of, like B and Gyuki. We saw something close when Kurama was escaping Pains Planetary Devastation but Naruto had no control of that situation.

Damns bro. I teared up at the end of it. The classic battle theme starting playing when you what goes down.

I read it before the video but this helps me have more on-site thx man w vid

He’s also tankie as hell. The man took some hits

Hearing this makes me want a parallel timeline where we see Minato lives past 24 and see how much more powerful he can get.. or something.. Minato along with Itachi has always been my favorite characters from Naruto..

I think it's also sensible to suggest that the design of the rasengan was also designed to suppress tail beast balls by dispersing the energy. If the rotation is moving or chipping away at the Chakra then it could reduce the power of it. Therefore he wouldn't need to match kurama exactly.

If Masashi Kishimoto making this kind of back story for every naruto character, i am so in on it. Also Minato is a very lovable character just like himawari i can see why people chose him

Imagine if this Manga gets Animated 👀

When Minato is in the seal, he may be weaker than Kurama but what he was doing was sealing Kurama's chakra weakening the beast.

i love your videos you make me happy!

This was an amazing video

Its about time we have something to shake up the power scaling community. Minato pushing back Karama's tailed beast bomb

Keep in mid the detail on kurama doing the tail beast bomb. Its pretty much still forming which means kurama was still gathering chakra while minato just attacked the tail beasts bomb. The same situation happened when kurama was gathering chakra Naruto hit him and it crumbled the tail beasts bomb. If it isn't released it doesn't really have the destructive power "Yet". Hence why a regular rasenga interrupted the kuramas tail beasts bomb.

Bro this is sick I’m so glad he decided to do this. It’s what the people needed. I really hope Oda does something similar for one piece 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I feel like we learned from Boruto that Rasengan can be scaled not only from size and added elements but also through density. Maybe Minato is not able to consistently pull of a high density rasengan but was so during the fight against Kurama. Scaling this Rasengan vs the one used against Obito at the night of his death feels a bit weird. Then again, maybe there is yet another factor next to the 3 I just named and we will learn about it in the (hopefully) upcoming Minato story...

In the panel that Minato's rasengan clashed with Kurama's tailed beast bomb, Kurama was still forming the bomb. Is it possible that the rasengan was effective not because it's city level but because Minito had timed the attack well, like when Naruto used his rasengan against the 3rd Raikage's arm? Love the video, and I can't wait to see more!

This was such a nice one-shot, and the panel at the end where Minato's face was in front of his future stone-face's spot was 👌

This was dope I’m looking forward to the official release

Great job being humble in the beginning

The Flying Raijin technique, although a super secret advanced technique difficult to master and kept well hidden inside something like the scroll of sealing, is still a technique that was already perfected and documented / written down somewhere in some form that Minato could refer to and study / take inspiration from to make it his own. The Rasengan however, had to be made from scratch. There was no research or material he could refer to, other that seeing the tailed beast balls. And you don't see a tailed beast bomb every other day. So it's understandable it took him years to create the Rasengan meanwhile he had already learnt the Flying Raijin in a shorter time being the genius that he is. It obviously got easier for the others who came after Minato, like Jiraya, Kakashi, Naruto and Konohamaru because they were taught this by someone else / was able to see it and re create it.

Do we not remember that he had enough chakra to warp the Ten Tail's tailed beast bomb?

Im not tryna glaze but man you might be the GOAT anime fans need all your videos my guy

This manga just sounds so cool and I like how it gives details on how uzimaki sealing jutsu works

Edo tensei is based off the Chakra of the person preforming it, not the power level of the person being brought back. Remember that Tobirama could only make 2 shadow clones and not an army

it was a great one shot, Kishi did alot with the pages he had. Would love to have another oneshot of another character

I think that the 2 jonins in Minato and Jiraia's team from the first page, are the same kids from the original (older picture). There is a a difference in appearance for both of them but the basis is still there (for example the girls, from the right side gas the same hairstile as the original picture, and the guy from the back also has the same hair style). Or maybe I'm just imagining things :D

i definitely subscribed. this goated so is minato and the chanel. I guess the short answer to the flaws is that minato is a generational genius

The uzumaki probably sent their strongest, Kushina, to the leaf cause they knew they’d be destroyed and at least a strong line of uzumakis could carry on for the Leaf

Imagine a minato anime opens with the events in the one shot. Then at the climax when things are getting the craziest it switches to a younger minato walking through the leaf village.

LMAOO WE ALL WIN GIVE US ANOTHER !!! GREAT VIDEO🎉

man i really like mashshi kishimoto's style of making a manga, its smooth, delicate, meaningful but full of meaningful moves and action

If kushina was strong than naruto had so much potential without kurama which makes me think if he fulfilled his potential or not

It was Minato who saved Naruto by fixing the 8 trigrams seal during the pain arc, not Kushina, she appeared while Naruto was fighting Kurama on turtle Island 27:58

It's not an NCHammer video without the foam mic cover peppered with lint and doghair. That makes it LEGIT.

I come here for the great vids and then end up getting lost in your beautiful eyes… sir… those eyelashes are MAJESTIC

Minato better be getting an anime!

Maybe the 3 years were for adding chakra nature. Kakashi did mention that adding nature was the end goal.

It definitely shows that the generation that grew up with naruto are feverishly interested in the gaps of history leading up to naruto's birth and i also have a bias for minato. this manga feels like a breath of fresh air after holding you breath for years after kind of falling off of naruto content for a bit

It could also be that, since the Rasengan was made specifically to counter biju bombs, or at the least with them in mind, it is more effective at nullifying those types of attacks

As usual, the unexplained subtext and world building of Kishimoto's work proves more interesting than the story that he's trying to tell.

This One Shot was crazy to read, it was amazing imo but there are a bunch of things that makes little sense, like scaling 11-14 Yo Minato to Hashirama and scaling Minato's just learnt Rasengan to Full Kurama Bijuu Dama, I like the explanation for Kurama's chakra being suppressed by Kushina's Adamantine Chain, it makes mostly sense if the Anime add is canon, otherwise Idk how to explain it. For the statement "Minato scaling somehow to Hashirama" I think Kurama was talking about his potential, like "Minato's potential is somewhere around Hashirama's, considering that Minato is just 11-14, and if he continues growing he might catch on to Hashirama", that's what I think at least. And btw Kushina tells something that you didn't say, that Minato is very fast at learning jutsu, she says "it's also true that Minato learn things very quickly", and considering that Minato's potential is similar to Hashirama's (If we consider what I said before true), is "normal" for him at the age of 11-14 knowing the FTG, assuming he trained for it for a bunch of years while learning Sealing techniques (And we can also assume that it took 3 years for Minato to learn Rasengan 'cause while he was creating it, he was also learning sealing techniques)

That moment in Naruto always fills my eyes with water. The love of a mother is a powerful thing. Are they releasing it in physical form? I'd love to add it to my collection.

When you said Akira Toriyama is only 68 years old it genuinely hurt given that he died at 68 only around 7 months after you posted this video.

I honestly think Naruto's story was so compelling because it covered so much of the past as well as the present. It invested a ton of time into world building and showing us events from well before Naruto was even born. But because of that, I'm not sure any prequel going over these events will really ever feel quite as compelling, regardless of how much they flesh it out... Im sure it could also introduce flashbacks to events we haven't seen before, but if it sticks primarily in the present, it's just showing us detailed versions of events we already know or introduce ones that werent exactly relevant to the story of Naruto going forward. And if they try to introduce new, highly impactful events we didn't previously know about, they run the risk of conflicting with canon, or open up a ton of holes in why characters never mentioned any of these things before.

If kishimoto does another one shot it should be about tobirama or izuna

18:00 i think of it like this FTG was tobiramas jutsu he invented but minato mastered and perfected but rasengan was something completely original he might have had a hard time even conceptualizing it

Also about the rasengan and tailed beast ball clash, the Rasengan was invented to counter tailed beast ball, so the fact one technique was specifically made to counter the other gives Minito even more advantage on top of the seal and chains

itachi yata statement literally says any physical attack or spiritual attack btw would most likely mean kamui would not work on his shield. its better than yagarua water style reflective mirror. His water reflection would likely lack the properties of itachi shield and sword. All and all it just cements that the rasengan is a tier. And the only way you usually survive getting hit by it, is healing hacks, and even than it messes with that as well lmao. If anyone has ever played ninja storm 4 you know what happens if Minato teleports on top of itachi, you just use his ultimate. itachi can use his susanoo as a tag team partner.

But did he master it at that moment though? He just stated it took form. Naruto was able to *form* a rasengan when he attempted to use it against Tsunade but it wasn't finished.

when you mito´s page again i got chills again

Id love a bunch of one shots or single volumes on different individual characters that combined to make an over arching story

Kisame soloed Roshi himself. Very impressive

In essence...a character who was already broken asf,is even stronger than we thought! Let that sink in for a second..bruh😱

I think this new information about Han and Roshi doesn't necessarily negate Roshi's statement about his relationship with Son Goku. It just puts it in a different context. Maybe he wasn't referring to the fact that Naruto and Bee are perfect Jinchuriki but to the fact that their ability to be perfect jinchuriki comes from friendship. He was a jinchuriki during a war, maybe his and Son Goku's relationship was based in shared hatred, they were close enough to allow Roshi to manifest, but they were not friends, which would be another explanation for his words in Naruto.