Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170331010234/@comment-27089028-20170524210146

BlazeRelease wrote: @Starscream. Well in a sense both the transmigrants and the child of prophecy were the same people.

I don't have a problem with the prophecy and stuff but I think they shouldn't have made Naruto directly a child of prophecy. They could have done some prophecy already famous in the shinobi world, like mention Indra and Ashura and possibly tell about a return of their return by reincarnation and so give a better to wait and more open for theories. Nope, sorry all of it goes. Naruto won the hearts of it's audience because it told the story of a loser working up the ranks, honing his skills and making his own destiny. This talk of Prophecy and fate went against everything Naruto stood for in Part 1. I want Naruto, Nagato and Minato to be more than Jiraiya's candidates for the chosen one. I want them to be individuals Jiraiya saw potential in and worked towards leaving behind his will (yeah you know will...that thing that actually meant a great deal to the story of Naruto). I want the Uchiha antagonists to pursue their goals not out of some curse but because they are individuals with their own ideas of what is considered right and wrong i.e. compelling characterisation. Finally, I don't want to hear that Naruto and Sasuke's friendship and all that has transpired between them be the effect of being reincarnations of a sort same with Hashirama and Madara. It's not organic or compelling story telling, history repeating itself is fine, but having it be so scripted destroys what made Naruto work in the first place.