Board Thread:Wiki Discussions and Support/@comment-25977287-20150106122617/@comment-25991349-20150123211813

Seelentau wrote: Why's the opinion of us admins so important, anyway? I doubt that any of us would seriously care, honestly. It's such a minor issue.

I think he just assumed that the people in charge wouldn't have huge sticks up their asses but I guess that's wrong in one case.

I feel that Minato is equally skilled in both Shunshin and Hiraishin, and I feel that he had to master Shunshin to get to Hiraishin, and the only reason that he developed Hiraishin was to add an element of control over the technique. I've always gotten the impression that Shunshin was a somewhat generic technique that was hard to be very precise with, except in the case of possibly Shisui and probably Minato as well. Hiraishin mixes the element of instantaneous movement with the control, precision, and ability to travel long distances that sealing techniques provide. I've always seen Hiraishin as an evolution and improvement upon the admittedly generic Shunshin, and while they are definitely two distinct techniques, with one being obviously superior to the other, there is a definite relationship such that you could refer to Hiraishin as an advanced form of Hiraishin. This is about the only time I will use Kishimoto's stupid Blaze/Fire relationship as an adequate analogy but it is appropriate here