Board Thread:Boruto: Naruto the Movie/@comment-27457951-20151223181333

SPOILER: ONLY READ IF YOU WATCHED THE FILM AND ARE CAUGHT UP WITH SHIPPUDEN.

I'm sure i'm not the only one who was dissapointed by Hokage Naruto. Yeah he's super strong but lacking in his personality trait that part 1 and 2 focused on: his almost naive unbreakable heart and inextinguishable livelyness that made EVERYONE (even his enemies) believe in him. This characteristic is what made the show and character what it was. Naruto without this quality (at least not in the same degree), gives the show a very different feel and makes Naruto, for the first time EVER, seem spiritualy defeated. SO sad... If you don't know what I'm getting at, consider the following. Firstly as a father. The fact that Naruto didn't have parents should make him even more dettermined to succeed as a father, but he hardly spends any time with his kids and there's growing resentment from his son because of this. The writters tried to sell us this by pointing out several times that a Hokage must view the entire village as family, so Naruto is doing the right thing by not favouritising his own blood. That's all well and good but i'm reminded of Naruto's encounter with Itachi inside a genjutsu. Itachi poses the dilema: either you kill sasuke or he destroys konoha. Naruto, true to character, rejects this dilema and says "i'll save sasuke without killing him and protect konoha aswell". Based on that and the entire manga series, its pretty hard for me to buy that Naruto doesn't have the belief that he can put the village first and be a good father. More than that, he's constant feeling bogged down and like he's lost his way are completely out of character. Think back to one of the most shocking scenes. it's his daughters birthday and the kagebunshins poofs into thin air and crushes the cake. Then we see him in his office, on the floor, symbolising his rock bottom. I know you might say, "well its 15 years later, you can't stay the same forever". Well think about how many times they tried to sell us on the whole "I WILL NEVER CHANGE. THATS MY WAY OF THE NINJA". Especially since the whole obito vs naruto thing, which lasted soo many episodes, was centered around obito's constant pressure on Naruto for the purpose of testing his resolve because obito simply could not believe that someone could stay the same forever. He even said something to the effect of "how can you be so sure that after so many years will pass, you will not change". Naruto explains he will never change and everyone who died believed the same about Naruto and that's why they entrusted the future of shinobi to him. AMAZINGLY obito has turned. WOW Naruto really seems to be the wonder kid that nothing can get down... apart from 15 years aging.

So what do you think, was his portrayl as Hokage a mistake? 