Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170331010234/@comment-734582-20170521164151

Starscream1998 wrote: It's similar to the gripes I have about time travel stories True, good timetravel stories are hard to do, but if done right can be truly amazing. Which i think is similar to the transmigration thing. I think my point extends to it as well, entire stories have been written solely about timetravel. It's not really something you just want to tack on. Similarly, i think the idea is fine but it needs the right execution, which transmigration lacked in Naruto. This is made worse by the fact that Kishimoto already loves Generation Xerox (IE kids are copies of their parents, which has been a part of the series since the very start), which makes it extremely weird that Naruto is a copy not just of his parents but also of a dead guy from 1000 years ago. Starscream1998 wrote: Using that in the context of Naruto, the story suffered because Kishimoto put limits not on characters (no that would have been easier to fix) but on the very lore of Narutoverse. Suddenly Chakra isn't this mystical life force but now somehow it's alien stuff from an alien tree...this is Midi Chlorians all over again. I liked the god tree idea, but i'm annoyed that a huge part of that story was never really written down. IE why Kinshiki and Momoshiki sought the fruit, why it was forbidden to eat it, what the Otsutsuki wanted it for, how they moved between planets, or how the Shinju came into existence and why only one exists on Earth.

In that sense i think it would've been more interesting if the Biju were the original eaters of the fruit that were corrupted and deformed by it's power, with Hagoromo and Hamura bringing their reign of terror to an end by binding their power to a statue. I really liked how Naruto transformed when using the Kyubi's power, and i'm sad that the animal magic was dropped as a theme more and more.