

In general, anyone with a lick of sense was either a villain, killed off, or transformed into a state bootlicker. Team Seven pursues someone the moral is the exact opposite of "If you love something, let it go"ĮDIT: another theme: 'the system relies on nepotism and this isn't explicitly called out as wrong - it's mostly ignored. Things that make the village look bad should never see the light of day. Traitors to the village should be killed, protect the will of fire. Itachi was right, the Uchiha clan earned their own genocide. The Hidden Villages, giving into a jutsu armsrace, have decided to weaponize these natural forces by way of human sacrifice. Primordial demons have plagued humanity are and often sealed into containers to, well, contain them. If you have a bloodline, you can be abused and killed for your body and talents (Haku) on a micro-level, you can face isolating discrimination (Sasuke).

Maybe it's wrong that force can be purchased by the powerful? If Konoha accepted the Gatou contract, we could be the ones beating up these bridgebuilders.

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In general, it's a difficult life - it even prompts people to crack and massacre their own families. Shinobi are reduced to their instrument value. You could argue that Sasuke's flaw here is listening to Itachi or relying on anything that Itachi said - since Sasuke looked up to Itachi so much - because despite how the narrative tries to paint him Itachi was not intelligent, good, wise, noble, or really anything anyone should follow at all. He wanted to destroy the corrupt system starting with the existing dictators. Sasuke was inspired by Itachi's example (somehow) but discarded Itachi's specific allegiances at the end. Even then, it's a better idea than letting the shinobi system survive. Nagato had to be retconned away from controlling warfare (I think the example of the pacified and enriched Ame is a good test case for this.) to giving away nukes like candy just to make him unsympathetic. With Obito, at least Moon's Eye is credibly ludicrous enough, as a plan, to be resisted, and Obito shows several times before being converted that he, deep down, doesn't really believe in it. Naruto just used ninshu to brainwash Nagato into supporting Konoha, the prime locus/trendsetter/example/perpetrator of the shinobi system, warfare, and the existing order. What themes do you think the first 250 chapters had?Ĭlick to shrink.Naruto's answer for Nagato was basically 'trust me' convincing Nagato through sheer force of will, which, while it's how TnJ works, is disappointing - why would someone so committed. What makes you think Naruto isn't happy? He is overworked, but he is extremely happy with his role and position. He chooses not to for a multiple of reasons Sasuke's plan was a path to tyranny and terror, since his plan hinged on him living forever and being able to just find and kill everyone who was a problem. Just as Sasuke was more important to Itachi than everything else, when Sasuke learned the truth he realized Itachi was more important to him than everything else. I mean Sasuke basically agreed with the village and Itachi the moment he learned the truth? Sasuke's problem with the village system wasn't they killed the Uchiha clan. His plan was to nuke a country, everyone is so horrified and feels pain so wars stop, pain fades and another country gets nuked by someone new, repeat for all eternity. Its not like Nagato had an actual plan for world peace either. Naruto however, even after experiencing great pain, still stuck to believing peace is possible. Nagato, and most others, end up giving up on their goal and compromising. It was Nagato's original idea as well, where the idea is that you just have to keep working towards peace. Naruto had an answer for Nagato by the time they had the heart to heart that convinced Nagato. Click to shrink.I'm super confused at how you took this away?
