Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170331010234/@comment-27089028-20170416193053

Tzao wrote: A lot could be changed, here's what I'd do (for a start)

1. less focus on Konoha as the "bestest village there is" (first hidden village, first and migthiest kage, strongest kage in multible generations, best military etc.), the overall importance of this one village was the cause of so many of the problems in the series that it is mind boggling that the other villages didn't gang up on Konoha and wipe it off the face of the shinobi World long ago.

2. in relation to the first bullet: more focus on the other villages and their backstories, their kage, Clans and techniques. The plot could've been so much more exciting if this had happened.

3. More focus on the diverse abilities of the characters instead of their main skills. Also less god lvl characters. The number of OP characters are through the roof by the time of the fourth Shinobi World war. also remove the scene where the majority of the tailed beasts fight the Kyubi and Hachibi and later Madara. A match between two of them can be absolutely breathtaking and super rad, but bringing it to that lvl makes it tiresome and more like grand for the ske of grandiosity rather than showcasing how serious the situation is.

4. excluding the scene during the foruth Shinobi World war where the majority of the Konoha eleven are empowered by Kyubi chakra and correspond with Kuramas nine tails and all use the rasengan, because that was frigthfully tacky.

5. that the characters that were brought back by the edo tensei had returned Again to fight against the Juubi in the climatic battle. Also closure for Neji's dad and uncle (or at least a better one that what we got).

6. Less noble death for Danzo, the man orchestrated the demise of an entire Clan and who knows how many other shinobi from accros the known shinobi World, I can't accept that he got off as easily as he did. In relation to this: more focus on Sais' background, especially the Guys he assasinated, some were bound to have relatives that would show up to get vengeance, giving more substance to the curse of hatred tbesides the Uchiha Clan and Sasuke.

7. More friction between the villages when they Allied, no way everyone just shook hands and got all peachy after Gaaras' speech, especially after the fourth Raikages attempted to kill Naruto (though that one most likely never made it to the vast public).

8. basically more information on the different kage both current and deceased. This covers personalities, abilities, ages and relations aswell as deeds (although this last one might be included under the history of the different villages).

9: more information on the samurai and the shinobi monks, not to mention several teams that were mentioned but pretty swiftly disregarded as merely existing at one point or another, these include: the puppet brigade, the explosion corps, the twelve guardian Ninja and the ginkaku force.

10. Not including the whole reincarnation/messiah/prophecy junk because that sets the reincarnations in a specific mindset and role which makes their actions far too predictable for the reader. its likem a typecast character which has the effect that whenever you see them on the screen, you know exactly what role they're going to play in the movie/series.

11. removing all the stuff about the Otsutsuki Clan and them being the progenitors of all chakra. This includes the Whole arc surrounding Kaguya aka mama-bunny-psycho! ! I didn't mind the whole super chakra tree stuff and that turning into the Juubi, but adding kekkei genkai aliens into the series just degrades it I think.

12. adding a noncanon crossover with One piece, just for laughs :D

all of this would have extended the series to the extreme ofcourse, but I think it would also have improved alot. Sweet, you don't mind if I comment on these right?

1. I would have loved to get to see what the other villages were like as it would broaden the horizons of the reader and when the war arc comes around give us a deeper appreciation for each individual village and how they came together.

2. Seeing the rich history and diversity of this fantastic fantasy world Naruto has introduced would have also been great and I think Kishi would've headed in that direction as he said he wanted to make the series focus more on the world and characters but of course the powers that be pushed him to make the Chunin Exam Arc and since then Naruto's plot has become a standard 'resolve major threat or conflict' kind of story.

3. Indeed, so many likeable characters were pushed away due to them simply not being able to keep up with the OP-ness that was the major battles.

4. I don't know, I kind of liked the spirit of that scene but to each his own.

5. It would have been nice to have allowed some of the poor unwitting souls a chance at some payback at being used maliciously for the goals of others.

6. Again I have to respectfully disagree on behalf of Danzo's character. Yes Danzo has done things that are unforgivable but that was the nature of his job and ultimately what the ideal shinobi is meant to do and although we may not want to admit it Danzo was a 'true' shinobi that toiled in the shadows. You could say he was doing his job properly but again the more simple reason is that he was made to take on all the darkness of the village while Hiruzen became a beacon of light. I can't excuse his horrible actions but in the end Danzo was the man left to shoulder the burden of the village's darkness so everyone else could enjoy the light. His death shows he did have a heart and cared very deeply about what his old friend thought of him he was a human not a tool despite his ideology. I will agree that Sai also deserved more love I'm just glad the novels didn't do him dirty.

7. I like Gaara's impassioned speech and when you look it the friction for what it is it's the current generation holding on to a long line of hatred the older generations built up so really it was just a case of the Shinobi World taking a good look at itself and acknowledging that the reasons for hating one another seem less impressive when cast into the light.

8. Yeah, what's worse is not only do we know little to nothing about a good number of Kages but some of the chronology is skew-iffy as well.

9. Not going to lie the Samurai and Monks were so bad ass. I wanted a little spin-off of Asuma's time in the Guardian twelve to boot, if Kishi ever wanted to make spin offs of that nature he would have so much good material to work with.

10. Admittedly those things are a wee bit too formulaic to be beyond reproach but I'm sure we can all agree that at one point or another there was bound to be a kindly Indra transmigrant and a assholish Ashura transmigrant. The way I see it, prophecies are all about potential and ultimately there's no guarantee that the individual follows it through e.g. Nagato being the chosen one the way Jiraiya thought he'd be, Sasuke's destiny being hatred and nothing else, Naruto and Sasuke dying in their clash, the brother's reincarnation squabble always ending in death were all prophecies that backfired and/or didn't pan out.

11. I actually wouldn't mind expanding the Naruto universe in such a way but I will admit it does destroy some of the magic for me.

12. Could happen as the two rivals certainly have a bond with one another.