Naruto The Naruto Question Thread

Knyght

The Collector
Altered Nova said:
Could it be that the exam actually involved three separate tests administered over several days, one for each of the three "core" e-rank jutsu taught in the academy (substitution, transformation, clones), and we are only shown the final of the three exams in the manga? This makes the most sense to me (why would they only test the students on one of the three basic jutsu that form the foundation of all ninjutsu?) but I have a hard time believing that Naruto failed the substitution and transformation tests. Clones are the only one of those three techniques he's ever been shown or said to have trouble performing.
He said he failed because of the Clone Jutsu each time.
 
I'm somehow sceptical of the early chapters translations.

Naruto is ignorant and a moron, but he's not properly STUPID. Unless he got REALLY unlucky to get Bunshin as RANDOM practical exam three times straight, even him would get better at it if it's a standard exam request
 

Altered Nova

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Honestly nothing about the academy graduation exam makes sense to me. It's unlikely to be a random jutsu, since Naruto apparently was tested on clones three times in a row. But it kind of has to be random, or else it makes no sense that Naruto was shocked to hear that his third final exam would be the clone jutsu. Naruto had to have taken the graduation exam early since he didn't get held back any grades, but then it seems strange that no one else in his peer group took the exam early. And it's frankly ridiculous that they wouldn't test the students on all three of the foundational jutsu.
 
I don't see the need to blame Mizuki for anything beside what he did in the first chapter.
Especially because we don't know if he was Naruto's teacher before the last year.

Naruto was a shitty student because his own faults and lack of a family forcing him to study things he didn't like(which is anything boring)
 

AoMythology

Apparently a report-er
ankokudaishogun said:
I don't see the need to blame Mizuki for anything beside what he did in the first chapter.
Especially because we don't know if he was Naruto's teacher before the last year.

Naruto was a shitty student because his own faults and lack of a family forcing him to study things he didn't like(which is anything boring)
I'm not talking about Naruto's faults, but Kishimoto's - potential plot holes, that is.
 
he most likely changed many things between the first chapter and everything else
 

Knyght

The Collector
Do you think there are benefits to having an affinity other than it being faster to learn nature transformation for it?
 

Altered Nova

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Perhaps it might let you push a nature transformation to a higher level than you ordinarily could? For instance, I wouldn't doubt you if you claimed that the Hydrification Technique requires an unusually strong water affinity to master. That jutsu is kind of amazing.

My headcanon is that extremely high affinities are one way to awaken elemental bloodlines. An example - if a clan of ninja were to practice eugenics and engineer their own DNA for generations to maximize their water and wind affinities, eventually some of their members may start manifesting the ice release kekkei genkai.
 
I'd say the difference between Zabuza's Water Dragon Bullet and Tobirama's.

Except it's usually on a smaller scale.
 

Knyght

The Collector
When Sasuke got three tomoe and was able to anticipate Naruto's attacks, was the only difference that he could see the predictive shadow or did his perception speed up so that Naruto looked slower as well?

Are the genjutsu performed with Genjutsu: Sharingan essentially just ordinary genjutsu that the user has learned how to perform but specifically cast through the Sharingan? So aside from a few specific jutsu, the genjutsu cast with the Sharingan are pre-existing ones that technically anyone could perform?
 
knight504 said:
When Sasuke got three tomoe and was able to anticipate Naruto's attacks, was the only difference that he could see the predictive shadow or did his perception speed up so that Naruto looked slower as well?
I'm going to guess a little of both. Or, IMHO more likely, the improved predictive shadow is the consequences of improved visual perception

Are the genjutsu performed with Genjutsu: Sharingan essentially just ordinary genjutsu that the user has learned how to perform but specifically cast through the Sharingan? So aside from a few specific jutsu, the genjutsu cast with the Sharingan are pre-existing ones that technically anyone could perform?
Probably techniques anybody could use.

The Sharingan has natural hypnotic abilities, though, which I believe are the reason we've seen almost only Uchiha and Orochimaru vs Team7 using eye-genjutsu:
the Uchiha can lower the defences of their targets, making otherwise RELATIVELY weak genjutsu more effective.
Orochimaru was just horribly overpowered compares to Forest of Death Team 7 and could had genjutsu'ed them with a fart.
 

Knyght

The Collector
Why is Hinata's Twin Lion Fist called "Gentle Step"?

All that comes to mind is that it's an ongoing jutsu instead of fire-and-forget so it's classed differently and there might be other Gentle Fist jutsu along the same lines.
 

Knyght

The Collector
I wonder what other kinds of jutsu they could have along those lines.

Some of Neji's tricks might qualify like when he surrounded himself with chakra to slow down and deflect projectiles or extended blades of chakra from his fingertips to cut webbing.
 

Knyght

The Collector
When Sai creates explosive tags by drawing them attached to his birds, do you think he could create explosive tags by themselves or was it only because they were a part of one of his animal drawings?

When Sai says his information reports can turn into little animals, does he can make anything he writes turn into animals or does how somehow combine written information with his animal drawings like he did here? Not sure if the latter is meant to be an example of the former or slightly different methods of sending info reports.
 

Knyght

The Collector
Does anyone know where it's said that Konoha lost half of its forces after the Konoha Crush?

I could swear that I read that in the manga but I've no idea where it is. :hmm:
 

AoMythology

Apparently a report-er
Half the strength they once had? If we have included the Third in the military strength, they can't have lost THAT many.
 

Altered Nova

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The kage is supposed to be the last line of defense who protects the village while all the other ninja are out fighting wars and completing missions, so they probably aren't normally considered when discussing a village's military strength. The kage isn't going to be doing missions after all, and if the kage is on the battlefield then you know the situation is desperate.
 

Knyght

The Collector
Why do you think Hana has three dogs when the other Inuzuka we've seen only had one?
 
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