#kage bunshin

[ifeelalot]

[i-left-my-room-tidy]

not for the first time i wish shadow clones were a thing in this reality

i can't tell if i want to draw, read a fic (maybe several), write a fic, cry, edit my scripts, make a new script, binge on media, or try to shift and throughout all of that the passage of time never stops 😭😭

[poquito-burrito]

My mom bought me a Naruto t-shirt as an early birthday gift which is SO cute of her, and the design is Naruto doing the shadow clone mudra which I explained to her after she told me "I thought he was doing the shush sign, as if he's shushing someone"

[lazy30]

Someone please give me motivation to finish my animations

[not-so-rosyyy]

If Hollywood insist on live action why can they do Monster instead it something that can thrive on Netflix and appeals to American cause they won’t even know where it from like I’m Asian I seen live action webtoon and manga all my life and some are shit but see how they mainly adapt slice of life ones or things that look realistic why not skip the battle shounen Japan has so much nobody wants to see non Japanese people in orange jumpsuit doing shadow clone jutsu

I vaguely remember there was supposed to be a Monster adaptation in HBO that was to be directed by Guillermo del Toro but it's been so long since I've heard anything from it, so that's probably been scrapped

anyway: "nobody wants to see non Japanese people in orange jumpsuit doing shadow clone jutsu" - TRUE but did they listen to that when they gave me Dragon Ball Evolution in 2009 and permanently scarred my childhood?? 😭

[folklord-myth]

Self Insert (??) Magic

Where I write myself or a off shoot of myself into my fandom/source practicing magic in that world. I’ve done it a few times with Pokémon, and spells and rituals come to me a lot quicker. PC and non-PC magic. And it’s fun. So when I start to watch a bit more Naruto, I’m gonna attempt to figure out seals.

[rosedosed]

not willing to accept any version of the ezra-sabine reunion that doesnt involve her putting him in a headlock

Ahsoka show 2023 probable Ezra Sabine reunion: "Oh my god!! I missed you so much!! I can't believe I've found you after all these years!!"

Ezra Sabine reunion that I know to be true in my heart and soul: Running at each other weapons drawn screaming like this but they're both ugly crying

[huskymaine]

Unpopular opinion: Kakashi wasn't wrong when he tried to tell Sasuke that he shouldn't seek revenge because he can see how it was dragging Sasuke onto the darkness and effecting his mental state and there's nothing similar at all between Sasuke's revenge and Shikamaru's revenge who had everything planned and wasn't getting consumed by i like Sasuke, and Sasuke leaving the village wasn't Kakashi's fault either, Kakashi's words were actually getting to him but the sound 4 showed up and ruined everything and then took advantage of the fact that Kakashi left for a mission and won't be there to stop them.

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

As expected, I strongly agree with it. In fact, I am quite vocal about that topic and made 2 separate post about it, on here and here. I’ll not repeat myself on this post but to summarize the main point of those two posts is :

REVENGE IS NOT WRONG, BUT OBSESSING WITH REVENGE IS HARMFUL

Why? Because one-minded thought (obsession) of revenge made Sasuke like this :

and this 

“I don’t care what happens to me or others as long as I have my revenge”

Dunno about the you guys, but if my kid or someone I love has this kind of mindset, I’ll try to make him look and treasure other things apart from revenge. Because revenge is like addiction. It can consume you, it can make you sacrifice many things that you deemed not as important as revenge, and most importantly, you don’t gain any new from revenge except personal satisfaction and perhaps peaceful mind. The deed is done, the dead stays dead. If you obsessed with revenge to the point that you deemed any other things unimportant, what’s left to you after the revenge is fulfilled. Emptiness. That’s what Kakashi warned to Sasuke and why he desperately wanted Sasuke to look once again on his heart to find anything except his revenge inside him, because for him, Sasuke is not a ball of revenge, but a kid who had future and bond awaits him, unshackled from his past. I am not saying that Kakashi handled it perfectly. Sasuke needs long-term motivation and careful treatment to handle his issue. The thing is, Kakashi has such a limited time for that (I already said about this on my other post iirc).

While I understand those crowd who crave hard-fulfilled revenge, but Naruto ain’t the correct media for that. That’s not the moral lesson that the author tried to deliver. In my observation, in last couple of years entertainment medias like comic or drama who have revenge plot flourished so much. In medias like webtoon, kakaopage, even manga I found tons of titles that has summary like this :

And that’s okay. There’s no harm on fictional hateful chopping-chopping as a treat XD

But when the time Naruto is released, majority of medias, especially kids media, are more accepting at “anti-revenge” as moral lesson. If you think Naruto are extreme about this topic, then look at Hunter x Hunter. There’s a character who has revenge as his main goal too, named Kurapika Kurta. His clan was massacred by Phantom Troupe and his clan members’ eyes are taken because they’re pretty and expensive on underground sale). At some point, Kurapika managed to capture the leader of Phantom Troupe, but the Phantom Troupe gang managed to capture Killua and Gon a.k.a Kurapika’s friends. Both side proposed an exchange, then came this scene :

So here Kurapika has his desire person to avenge on his palm, but he valued his friends so much so he’s willing to trade his dream for his friends’ safety. And the said friends, although they can escape, used this moment to stop Kurapika’s revenge, because they don’t want Kurapika to be a murderer. Compared to any moments in Naruto, that scene above is the most blatant example of “stopping revenge because the characters thought that revenge is wrong”, and the show painted this scene as good and heartwarming moment. 

Personally, while I understand Killua and Gon’s feeling, I can’t help but feel annoyed by them. Mind you, one kid is literal elite assassin since birth and the other kid once used a random person’s life as a bait to grab his opponent’s tag. And they both never felt the loss of someone important to them, then when Gon (the black haired kid) finally experienced it, he went berserk in rage. So like, what’s so wrong with Kurapika became murderer in the world where murder is so normalized? But that’s the lesson that the author tried to instill, so I as audience accept it and search for other media if I want more murder-murdery revenge plot, not forcing my mindset and accusing the author for bad writing while they already made their moral stand clear on the media that they create by their own hands. That’s rude and ungrateful, imo.

Anyway, on the other hand, before Pain arc, Naruto franchise doesn’t have this moral lesson. Team 7 has no problem when Sasuke said that he wanted to kill certain someone, Kakashi gave him his arsenal jutsu and advise him for the sake of his power growth to defeat Itachi, Jiraiya let him has his first fight with Itachi out of respect toward Sasuke’s feeling. There’s no sabotaging on Sasuke’s attempt on revenge like the HxH example above. BUT, when the said obsession of revenge made Sasuke tried to endanger himself and his comrade, that’s the point where Kakashi draw the line and discouraged his revenge. At that plot point, when I put myself in the place of someone who was concerned for Sasuke’s well-being, I can’t help but agree with him completely. I honestly can’t understand those who claim they love Sasuke yet support this kind of self-destructive mindset.

As for whether Sasuke left the village is Kakashi’s fault or not,  I admit that his talk to Sasuke is clumsy and not as impactful as the talk Iruka did to Naruto. But it’s not failed completely. That clumsy talk went through Sasuke’s mind, and he contemplated it from noon till night. Sasuke who on hospital dismissed Sakura and saw Naruto as power measurer, consider them as people whom he doesn’t want to lose.

The main reason why the talk was failed in the end is because Sound 4 deliberately attacked Sasuke when Kakashi is absent. Also means that Sound 4 know Kakashi’s presence potentially can make their mission failed.

Blame Kakashi when the Sound 4 deliberately attempted to move after he went out the picture is unfair, don’t you think? It’s not like he’s to lazy to supervise Sasuke or something, he was assigned to mission and the man didn’t even have much time to recover himself from Tsukuyomi coma. And immediate after he came back from the mission, he immediately tried to track Sasuke, even disregarding direct order from his Hokage. But then the rain came washed all Sasuke’s track and he was too late to arrive on VotE.

Like, guys, what more can he do? What more do you want from him? Why did he have such a bad luck? XD

[atqh16]

Trying to find a way to properly interpret Naruto’s attachment to the Kage Bunshin no jutsu in a modern setting that truly reflects the context and depth that comes with it. The closest I’ve gotten is where Naruto does this thing where he writes short stories where the main character is an unabashed self insert (that he’s not ashamed of admitting). I have a headcanon that Jiraiya encouraged Naruto to write stories during the 3 year gap to help him properly express his feelings and emotional conflict in a healthy way because he’s always been an imaginative and creative person.

So I’d love it if that was carried into a modern au where even before Jiraiya came into his life, Naruto likes to draw and write stories for himself. Any kind of stories. Fantasy, mystery, horror and when he started to recognize his feelings for Sasuke, even romance. Just him using his writing and art to not only make himself feel less alone but also help him make progress in understanding himself the way the jutsu was a core factor in helping him fight and master the rasengan.

Might make a short ficlet about it. Sasunaru being a part of the plot of course because I will die with this ship

[bansenshukai]

want to make beautiful paintings w super delicate edge control and simplified abstracted brushstrokes but also I want that animation exaggerated shapes and clean linework but also I want that sexy semi-realism smoothly rendered w dreamy pastels and funky colors but also I want clean and crispy anime boys with trad flats and dramatic comp but also want to paint keyframes and draw storyboards and make comics and animate and

[bananaman-mp3]

naruto canonically having adhd moment

[ifeelalot]

[rsmrymnt-tea]

I pulled Satan’s ninja card too cus I wanted the pint challenge UR but his devilgram… so much secondhand embarrassment omg 😅

that devilgram is genuinely the one and only satan devilgram i have that i just could not finish ;o; i couldnt take it... i couldnt... i never thought id scream into my pillow from the agony of it all but i did and satan's the one to make me do it

[opera25]

What do you think they would specialise in combat wise?

You know how Tenzo's wood style is often used from a distance, and for trapping people? What if Bdubs used it more in short bursts and closer to the enemy? Focusing more on combat than trapping people. Also Bdubs can toatally grow his own moss cloak now :)

Etho uses his fishing rod but also has zero shame in running away. Probably focuses more on stealth and avoids fighting in general. Maybe he manages to make something similar to the ender pearl and trap door thing (forgot what it's called) in this life.

-🥣

Yaaaaasss Bdubs going feral with mokuton

Maybe!! His is definitely way less refined than Tenzo's, well more like he doesn't bother to refine them in battle. Outside of battle is when he cares about aesthetics- and boy does he care a lot about that kshfisdi and honestly the moss cloak thing was one of the reason I went 👀 at the idea of Bdubs having wood release.

You've pretty much nailed it for Etho!! He's the perfect espionage. In my head Etho's technically not that strong. He's a bit.. frail. If you compare his chakra to Bdubs', he's pretty much a civillain lmao- though he fully embraces this and knows his own limits so yeah! Running's totally a okay. Not that they'll be able to follow him if he uses his enderporter. Wherever he lacks in strength, he makes up for it with his inventions and his ability to adapt. Also he's very good at disguises. So he's a copy ninja too! Just in a different way :)

Now that I think about it, enderporter is sort of similiar-ish to hiraishin huh?

[rjbrk]

naruto is love

[reccd]

Naruto, Chapter 2