Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20170920093317/@comment-25643824-20170924211106

AsianReaper wrote: I can really say Naruto wasn't really talented. Because that's what Kishi has written. Literally, Naruto was an unskilled and slow learner. Then he kept working at it til he accomplished great things. That was the whole point of the series and his parallel with Asura. He was one of the academy's "dead lasts."

You could say that but you would be wrong, in the beginning of the series this was the general consensus because of how unbelievably terrible naruto was at learning ninjutsu kuruma being the main reason which I have gone to lengths to prove and which you for some reason ignore.

It's not that he was a slow learner but that he appeared to be really dumb, people made fun of him because of it, and he became a trouble making recluse. Until he met Iruka and to naruto's credit he worked extremely hard despite actually knowing it was his fault things were difficult for him and he overcame.

The parallel with asura was there but wasn't necessary as we have seen with hashirama.

Naruto was actually above intellectually (note I'm note saying genius) as discovered in shippuden and surpassed many geniuses.

But I do agree that boruto is a prodigy.