Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-9782468-20140711025221/@comment-1512913-20140711120933

I feel that Minato being Naruto's father hinders him a lot. Almost like Kishi purposely makes him look bad when Naruto is around with: "hey look, son has surpassed the father" not to mention the only reason for revival of Minato was so Naruto could get revived with Yin Kurama.

But I wouldn't say Minato is overhyped, he indeed is a prodigy. It's just that the plot doesn't favor him much :P So yeah, he is there to make Naruto look better.