Naruto Kakashi's special training
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Hm...I think I may have an explanation for Kakashi's dismal record regarding his leadership of team 7: it's his first genin team.
I'm not trying to excuse his lack of command; especially since most of the bad things that happened his team can be attributed directly or indirectly to his mistakes,(GH is right, showing favoratism is always asking for the wholesale dissolution of anything resembling trust, cooperation and basic civility among the team) but it start to make sense considering that he's rejected every group of new genin candidates up until Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura graduated.
I'm not trying to excuse his lack of command; especially since most of the bad things that happened his team can be attributed directly or indirectly to his mistakes,(GH is right, showing favoratism is always asking for the wholesale dissolution of anything resembling trust, cooperation and basic civility among the team) but it start to make sense considering that he's rejected every group of new genin candidates up until Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura graduated.
Hm. I think you may be on to something there.
It's not just his genin-training record, come to think of it. He's been a career assassin since his first mission as a Jounin (possibly earlier), and he's spent time as ANBU, which implies more of the same. It's further implied (though it may just be me) that the majority of his missions were solo ventures.
He's still not excused, though. Should have refused to be a teacher more thoroughly if he can't hack it.
It's not just his genin-training record, come to think of it. He's been a career assassin since his first mission as a Jounin (possibly earlier), and he's spent time as ANBU, which implies more of the same. It's further implied (though it may just be me) that the majority of his missions were solo ventures.
He's still not excused, though. Should have refused to be a teacher more thoroughly if he can't hack it.
But, he was also lazy. It seems that ever since he was told to take a genin team he's been off duty. His battle against Zabuza should have been a breeze. He was obviously out of practice. Whatever he learned from the last war was obviously forgotten. Virtually all of his faults, beyond his own arrogance, come from Obito's death.
It also may have had something to do with Sarutobi thinking since Sasuke had the ability to create a Sharingan, only a few of the Uchiha could so there was a possiblity he couldn`t, Kakashi could train him to use it .
This would goad Naruto to do better...even though the Ninja academy may have very well screwed Naruto over royally in his training,save for Iruka byut by then Naruto may have been jaded in his learning also Naruto has excellent stealth skills...rewatch the opening ogf the series...he was leading and escaping from Chunnin that were chasing him down. Either he is good at stealth or those Chunnin stink at searching for an escaping enemy.
So Kakashi takes team 7 and Naruto and Sakura get the short end of the stick.
This would goad Naruto to do better...even though the Ninja academy may have very well screwed Naruto over royally in his training,save for Iruka byut by then Naruto may have been jaded in his learning also Naruto has excellent stealth skills...rewatch the opening ogf the series...he was leading and escaping from Chunnin that were chasing him down. Either he is good at stealth or those Chunnin stink at searching for an escaping enemy.
So Kakashi takes team 7 and Naruto and Sakura get the short end of the stick.
....Wait, wait. I've been hearing that argument for far too long. That sequence where Naruto was escaping from chuunin and jounin is anime only and not relevant. Naruto has not shown such skills in the manga I believe.
And on another topic, does anybody here think that Kishimoto may have been influenced by the anime? I was looking at old covers, and noticed that Sakura's original hair color wasn't the pink it is in the anime. PTS however, he changed it to match the anime. Is this the case with other things that have happened I wonder?
And on another topic, does anybody here think that Kishimoto may have been influenced by the anime? I was looking at old covers, and noticed that Sakura's original hair color wasn't the pink it is in the anime. PTS however, he changed it to match the anime. Is this the case with other things that have happened I wonder?
Early manga pink-haired Sakura:
Chapter 48, Page 1
Chapter 48, Page 2
Earliest I could find. There are more.
Chapter 48, Page 1
Chapter 48, Page 2
Earliest I could find. There are more.
While the shade from part two is closer to the anime's by a large margin, it isn't exactly the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Haruno_Sakura.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Haruno_Sakura.jpg
One, animators often screw up or get lazy on hair colors. E.g.: Shampoo's hair in Ranma 1/2 (it's black in the manga), Lum's hair in Urusei Yatsura (according to Takahashi, it's supposed to show different rainbow colors depending on the angle that light hits it), and many notables in the Negima TV series.
Two, print qualities change in manga, so specific shades/tones of hair color aren't reliable. Sakura's hair is pink, and is supposed to match sakura blossoms - that's all you need to know as a reader/watcher.
Two, print qualities change in manga, so specific shades/tones of hair color aren't reliable. Sakura's hair is pink, and is supposed to match sakura blossoms - that's all you need to know as a reader/watcher.
Shampoo is far from the only character in Ranma 1/2 whose hair color was changed for the anime. Ranma's girl form hair is black (with a glint) in the manga and red in the anime. In the original colored prints of the manga, all the Tendou girls have black hair, while in the anime Kasumi and Nabiki have brown hair and Akane has dark blue. And that's just the ones I can think of quickly.
Well, the changing of black hair colors to something else is understandable - it has to do with the limitations of animation cels, back when they still had little in the way of CG assistance.
As I understand it, excessive use of black in animation cels resulted in the entire image suffering some ink bleed-over, darkening the entire image. This wasn't such a problem in the "darker" anime, but in something like R1/2 it went against the grain. Thus, in those days, many "black-haired" characters underwent a color shift to blue.
Also, having everyone with black hair was too "boring". This is also why colors like pink and green became acceptable colors for hair.
As I understand it, excessive use of black in animation cels resulted in the entire image suffering some ink bleed-over, darkening the entire image. This wasn't such a problem in the "darker" anime, but in something like R1/2 it went against the grain. Thus, in those days, many "black-haired" characters underwent a color shift to blue.
Also, having everyone with black hair was too "boring". This is also why colors like pink and green became acceptable colors for hair.
About the latest chapter. How sad is it that after all of this training, Naruto needs Kakashi to tip him off that to finish this uber Rasengan he's been working he needs to use kage bunshin like when he first learned the jutsu. Especially since he's been using kage bunshin for most of the timeskip when he's needed to make a Rasengan...
Combined with the Akatsuki's suckage, chapter 329 quite possibly beats out Sasuke's mary-sue return as the worst chapter in any manga...
Combined with the Akatsuki's suckage, chapter 329 quite possibly beats out Sasuke's mary-sue return as the worst chapter in any manga...