Your ideas for Sakura are spot on! One thing that I absolutely hate in the series is her shallowness and how much she humiliates herself for Sasuke, I wanted to break the tv every time she cried over him. Having her become immune to Sasuke's genjutsu and beating the shit out of him and kinda getting over him would make him respect her and would make him fall in love with her, in the end, more believable.
Another underutilized aspect of the series was seeing individuals (or ninjas) using their abilities to other means besides war. I'd imagine there would be a firemen batallion with water users, puppet ninjas who travel and gain money by doing shows to people and daimyos, stone ninjas who use their earth jutsus in order to be sculptors (yet we only just see random carpenters in the series). We didn't see, for example, some feudal lord who can't sleep and pays a genjutsu user to make him sleep. We only see war war and war, but I'd imagine many ninjas would rather seek some entrepreneur opportunities for themselves. Imagine how much money the Nara clan would make with their jutsu, by stopping animals people want to hunt. Which makes me wonder if a ninja is forced to do a mission by his village regardless, because it'd be much better for some ninjas to just seek daimyos offers for themselves. Sadly, this wasn't much worked in the series. Ironically, we see some of that in Boruto when Sasuke and Boruto go to the past and fool Tsunade saying they're both circus artists and only use their ninjutsu for entertainmet.
It would be interesting to show that jutsus (magic) is the reason why this world is retrofuturistic. There has been no industrial revolution but on certain points there is advanced technology (camera, television and so on). Science is not perceived in the same way as in our world.
I think the biggest issue Naruto has is with its World Building. We go from Ninjas going on a Mission to having Kaiju Battles and fighting Literal Gods. Kishimoto also ditched a lot of cool aspects that the Original Naruto series introduced. we don't even see hand signs anymore, remember how long that hand sign sequence is in the Zabuza arc with the Water Dragons, now it's just you make a singular hand sign and you can throw fucking Meteors from Space, yeah, makes sense. Naruto's World Building just went out of wack after the first arc in Naruto Shippuden or maybe in earlier than that, but that's just a huge aspect of Naruto which often gets overlooked because "Naruto has great story" or whatever. In terms of World Building, even Dragon Ball does it better, which isn't saying much
Kishimoto wanted to tdo that he wanted to have more arc before the chunin exam but the editor forced him to cut down and having a long hand signs well be terrible because kishimoto need to save time and page look what happens to hidan arc that arc was supposed to be longer but the editor was rushing him to end because of time remember to he was working in the weekly manga and many Naruto issues because of that because they don't give kishimoto enough time to focus and long hand signs well effect the pacing the anime has already pacing problems
Blame the editor for that because kishimoto wanted to have more arc before the chunin exam but the editor forced to cut down and complaining about hand signs is stupid because it won't kishimoto can't waste page and time on them and the long hand signs in the first arc it's just the anime not in the manga
Here’s the other changes suggested by the editor: -Cutting out a ton of exposition. -Putting in Sasuke. -Making the Wave Country arc (with Zabuza/Haku). -Stopping him from making the hokage and teachers animals. -Having all the characters take the Chunin Exam all at once. -The models for Rock Lee and the other Chunin Exam characters. -Turning Naruto from a fox into a human. -Changing Zabuza’s partner Haku from a bear into a human. -Giving the protagonist narrow eyes and the rival wider eyes. -Having him make the names of jutsu consistent for worlbuilding’s sake, rather than random and all over the place. ... We have to thank the editor because Kishimoto doesn't know how to stay focused.
@@trorisk not allowing kishimoto to aid more arc which creates a word building problem and just look what happens to the side characters in the end and you should not introduce too many characters in one arc and the female characters lack screen time and not killing neji and the others in the sasuke rescue arc and ruined them and tusnade was supposed to have a fight in the pain arc but they told him to cut down most of these problems won't exist if they allowed him to aid more arc i am not saying that the editor are bad because by not allowing kishimoto to aid more arc to the story they killed any hope for the side characters and the world building and kishimoto has to come with everything like characters design and jutsu name as well
We could have seen a rivalry between Kurotsuchi and Temari. They're very similar in almost everything. They're both "virago" who have an agressive and arrogant personality, they're both literal royal and the best kunoichi from their generation (the only female jounins). Considering the rivalry and proximity of both villages too, there was all the ingredients for it. Sadly, like you said, the other villages were so little worked out.
Yeah, that's a lot more interesting that a lot of do-little semi-fanservice battles that are basically padding. New characters can be introduced and built on. It also would help explain why the Akatsuki were so successful when not all of them are unbeatable.
One idea I had is that Naruto should have achieved the rank of Chunin during the 2 year time skip. Tsunade could have sent them various missions and by completing these missions, Naruto would have learned how to deal with killing, gained experience and then a promotion so when he comes back to Konoha, he is much more mature and even seen wearing the Chunin uniform, similar in appearance to Minato's which would look great with the read cloak he gets after his sage training. Also, it would have been better for Naruto's skill set to have improved more after the timeskip too. He already has the big gun jutsu that is the Rasengan and the Kage Bunshin so there is no need for more of that but maybe more subtle jutsu and skills like a water jutsu that purifies water so it's safe to drink when he is out on extended missions away from civilization. Or a camouflage jutsu and other simple elemental jutsu that don't seem useful but in various situations, turn out to be invaluable. It would make Naruto seem like he's become more resourceful in seemingly small but essential ways as a shinobi. I dunno, I am just overall disappointed with how he turned out after the timeskip. The very fact he still wears bright orange anywhere on his body pisses me off to this day.
Honestly I'm upset that Sakura doesn't get a Sage mode and a special Jutsu of her own. Her being so intelligent and a master of chakra control, it would only make sense that she'd be able to make Jutsu and master sage mode insanely quickly.
I just finished reading the series today and hurried to watch this series immediately, and I love most these ideas! Only ones I disagree with are the ones relating to the Edo Tensei and generally who the fourth war includes on the opposing side. I liked the point that this wasn't like the other wars that involved nations fighting eachother and therefore breeding more conflict for later generations; it was all of humanity finally putting their differences aside and banding together to stop zombies and literal monsters from ending the world. I feel like making the "fodder" of this war into vengeful and manipulated people from the Hidden Rain goes to make the conflict more nuanced, but also takes away that hopeful message that was there originally. I do agree that the Edo Tensei should have been way more restricted though, like don't bring EVERYONE back, just the previous Hokage and the important Akatsuki members would have been enough.
Years ago, when I was still really a fan of Naruto, I used to wish that Hinata was in the same group as Naruto and Sasuke instead of Sakura, not necessarily because she was in love with Naruto, but because I thought it would be funny if the only girl in that class that *wasn't* in love with Sasuke was in his group. I considered writing a fanfic where I rewrote the Naruto story where Hinata and Sakura had switched groups. Never got around to doing it though, but this series of yours made me remember that silly little idea I had.
@@billiondavid Yes, I did. A few clips got copyright stricken last time around and blocked it in most countries, so I edited some stuff and reuploaded.
1 - I think one of the ways to fix the weird non-sense romances would be to never tackle any at all, and then start Boruto with all the couples there with their kids as a surprise to what happened while "we were not watching". Actually very believable because in real life we don't necessarily need to flirt for decades to make couples. Honestly i wouldn't encourage a "more believable" set of events for us to accept some of these couples. Scrap sasuke and sakura entirely and give rock lee to sakura. Make Hinata get over Naruto when shippuden start and let Naruto flirt with someone on the Boruto era, making another shinobi's offspring the main character (i vote Mirai Sarutobi) and the anime should be called Naruto: Mirai datebbayo! (translates to naruto: future yahoo!). 2 - I do have a problem with power scaling so much. We went from ninja anime to battle of Kaijus to "aliens explain our existance". Tone down the power to just genjutsu, taijutsu, ninjutsu with the 4 base elements and MAYBE stick with the kekkei genkai and stick with it being rare. Give EVERY shinobi an element (does tenten use fire? sakura water?) and let's have some enemies use the 8 gates power, and that's just scratching the surface of what's possible. 3 - Tied in with the previous point: Naruto goes TOO MUCH SUPERNATURAL! We have undead, past ghosts talking, aliens, a shinigami taking souls.... All of this seem like the author didn't know how to trust in a compeling story with the ninja world alone despite not grasping that his world building was fcking genius and didn't need all this shit! Scrap the whole kaguya story, make the 6 path shinobi just be a normal Jesus christ figure that spread the word of love thy neighbor without being the whole fountain of chakra! Let chakra be humans innate life force and finally either get rid of all eye powers or make them just as strong as byakugan is. I guess having an X-ray vision isn't too impactful so that's cool.
... I'll take the $8? If looked at closely Naruto was okay at best and I really appreciate the work you're putting into "altering" these franchises, they have been very inspirational.
That tends to be with most shonen series. Naruto was simply mediocre to just meh at best. Good concepts but terrible execution and it wasn't even kishimoto's fault at times since he had to follow SJ and editor's demands
we don't simply say "megan fox was ok" just because she got older and pregnant... Naruto had one of the best world buildings in all fiction at the beggining. And the fights were as good as the best animu in town. It just fell flat the longer it stretched xD
@@oponomoblame shonan for not giving kishimoto enough time to focus and freedom to aid more arc like he wanted to that the problem with shonan they don't care about the creator health the reason hidan arc was rushed because the editor told kishimoto to end it because of time to deliver and kishimoto was in the hospital
in regards to Naruto not getting a new arm, what about puppet arms like what Chiyo and Sasori's one childhood friend had? I always thought that would've been a better choice for a replacement
I wish there was a paralell universe where Kishimoto didnt have to bang out pages week by week and we couldve had better overarching story development from the start. - better character development of Sakura (she shouldve defeated one of the sound three in the 2nd part of the Chuunin Exam, and maybe also Ino, Sakura was shown to be very smart, could easily see through Genjutsu etc) - better character representation for everyone except Naruto/Sasuke (like TenTen and Shido?!!) - also all the Jinchuriki, the other Konoha ninja etc. - less power creep and lean more into the fundaments established in the beginning of the series, information gathering, spy stuff, ninja tools) The whole Madara/War Arc part was the final nail in the coffin for me. I remember stopping watching the show at that point, and came back a while after just to watch the end. Edo Tensei was cool when Orochimaru used it to defeat Hiruzen, but the fact that more named characters died in OG Naruto than in Shippudens War Arc is still hillarious to me. The Chunin Exam established the ninja world as a covert, lethal world, that functioned as a checks-and-balance system between the nations, the Zabuza arc established that there were other forces at play in the nations other than Ninjas. Chuunin Exams feeling more tense than a freaking War is hillarious. All of this was thrown out of the window in Shippuden, and then blown completely away after the Pain arc. A real shinobi war wouldve been so much better and tense. I.e not a war vs Zetsus and a ton of reanimated dead characters ad nauseum. At several points the story had good things going for it, but good things were cut short. Like getting the story of the capture of each jinchuriki. More fights vs the Akatsuki. The Sharingan super power up is probably my least favorite thing. Also, completely irredeemable murderers becoming "friends"? Orochimaru in Boruto? Did we forget who he is? So weird to me.
Also, een if naruto did get an arm made out of Hashirama cells, why didn't Sasuke pop one out using his Asura path ability (being able to morph your body and all that)? Like....WHY WOULDN'T he?!?! I get that it's also because he wants someting to constantly remind of his past mistakes, but that just means that Sasuke still has no self-confidence that he has truly deflected to the good side and needs something as a reminder, which, in my opinion, hinders character growth.
As I get older the reason of great war existing just bcs rin died etc is just so bland and selfish. I agree with ur point of view how things would be better.
Most of the way to fix Naruto is to remove what was introduced after the time skip. 1. Do not introduce the concept of tailed beasts but stay with (good or bad) giant beasts with chakra. That 9 tails fox and Shukaku are no different in nature than Gamabunta, Manda and Katsuyu. And the concept of jinchuriki. Naruto and Gaara are the prison of giant beasts that risk causing harm the humanity. That's all. 2. Remove Danzo and the explanation that Itachi killed his clan to avoid a coup. Itachi must remain an antagonist. 3. Remove the concept of elemental affinity. Keep the kekkei genkai from birth. 4. Stay more focus about shinobis (chuunin and genin) who do mostly assassinations, infiltration and espionage missions for their country rather than being super-heros soldiers with magic. Much more focuses on the politics and economics of countries (daimyos). Suna is a desert and therefore would have to import most of its food. 5. Completely remove the Ōtsutsuki story. Pain's Akatsuki who wants to impose peace by force and fear is much more interesting. 6. Making Sakura an interesting character from the start. And make the members of genin 12 grow more. 7. Don't make the shinobi world a puritain world with so many 30-year-old virgins. I mean Kakashi, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochi, Iruka and so on. If it's a retro-futuristic world almost always at war, where we risk our lives every second, then there is a high birth rate and at 16-20 years old we start having children. 8. More deaths all the time.
From the previous video from like 5 years ago, I'd add to make Iruka give Naruto the talk Itachi about the Hokage gives him in the original, now that he has no doubts about Naruto's chance at becoming Hokage.
5:14 Here's what I would do to buff the Hyuga: 1. The problem isn't the Byakugan, but rather the way it's used. Specifically, the issue with the Hyuga is that they ONLY use the Byakugan for Gentle Fist, and don't learn outside techniques like nature transformations, shadow clones, genjutsu, nintaijutsu (i.e. the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release Armor), fuinjutsu, body flicker, or Flying Raijin. Just imagine how strong a Neji or Hinata with Shisui-tier body flicker, Itachi-style exploding shadow clones, Raikage-style lightning armor, Flying Raijin, and/or total mastery of 2-3 nature transformations (complete with the ability to use one-handed hand seals) would be. I am guessing that Hiashi, Neji, or Hinata (with any of these powers IN ADDITION TO TOTAL MASTERY of Gentle Fist) would be very high Kage level (especially as the Byakugan could increase reaction speed to the point where even the fastest taijutsu speeds become usable, as my headcanon regarding Taijutsu speed is that what limits a shinobi's speed is not the ability to use chakra to increase speed, but rather the lack of precognition-related abilities needed to use it in a controlled manner), and with just a base Byakugan, never mind a fanfic-created Mangekyo equivalent, which leads to... 2. Introduce a Mangekyo equivalent for the Byakugan. In this case, said Mangekyo equivalent is one that I am borrowing from the fanfic White Eyes, called the Gokei Byakugan. This confers 4 jutsu, those being Kokosora (an anti-Tsukuyomi sensory-deprivation genjutsu technique), Hiragekoma (which disables seals and jutsu), Kesshotoketsu (which creates crystalline structures that are basically impervious to jutsu) and Vishnu (basically a human-sized equivalent to Susano'o, coating the user's body in the same opal-white as the Kesshotoketsu crystals, granting the user 2 additional arms for a total of 4 (for the Imperfect Vishnu) (and later increasing the total number of arms to 8 for the Semi-Perfect Vishnu and 16 for the Perfect Vishnu), making it so the user no longer has chakra points and is thus impervious to Gentle Fist and other chakra draining techniques (basically like the user is permanently using the Rotation as armor), and increasing the user's speed by the equivalent of Naruto's Mastered KCM2 cloak). With this power, Neji and/or Hinata would be at a power level at least comparable to canon EMS Sasuke and Edo Itachi, possibly even stronger (BASICALLY WAY ABOVE SANNIN TIER). 3. Give Hinata the Tenseigan, and change the Tenseigan's powers (again per the fanfic White Eyes) to being complete mastery of 4 subtypes of anti-chakra, those being Voracious (which consumes chakra, and when combined with Fire Release creates Amaterasu), Adamantine (which suppresses chakra, and as is the case with the Uzumaki Clan's Adamantine Sealing Chains can suppress Bijuu), Obdurate (which chakra slides off of like oil, as is the case with Kesshotoketsu crystals and the properties of Neji/Hinata's Vishnu transformation), and Edacious (which absorbs chakra, as is the case with Yoroi's chakra absorption in the Chunin Exams, Pain/Nagato's Preta Path, Kisame's Super Shark Bomb Jutsu, and Hinata's Twin Lion Fists). Also increase the power of Vishnu yet again, by creating a new form that enables the user to fly and increases the total number of arms to 32 with a quartet of orbs hovering around the user's back (like SO6P Naruto's Truthseeker Orbs), each carrying one of the 4 subtypes, and with it being possible to combine the 4 subtypes into a Yin-Yang Release equivalent known as Void Release, which can be used like a Truthseeker Orb or fired like a laser. This is EXTREMELY powerful, as Void Release can basically delete chakra from existence. With this power-up, Tenseigan Hinata would be of at least comparable power to Rinnegan Sasuke.
I really like most of these points of correcting the Naruto-verse with all the many understandable yet somewhat avoidable mistakes that were made ,then I looked look back on other certain's fan fictions that stuck with the original material and try to make the best out of what was already there especially that's cannon with certain Filler and one movie. One the best examples I could find that 1 of my favorites Is this particular one where Jiraiya actually does his job as a godfather to raise naruto alongside Tsunade where things actually go way better than what happened in cannon and some bloodlines and techniques were put into better use as well as characters actually having better developments overall even the side & filler characters Played a bigger role down the line without dragging things out. th-cam.com/play/PLyTfbEDtGF1g9D_VcUmlOEb5wc_8LezhG.html Then there's a What-if Storyshift that only change 1 thing of the main character that allowed a butterfly effect from the very beginning that later snowballs into various changes to Many characters Development and choices as well as some orders that Alter the conflict & narrative while keeping the primary plot the same. th-cam.com/play/PLm01AeJLjC9x7jGMZqJBsxyLji7eBlD5S.html I would like to know if your opinions on these 2 Storyshifts by the fans?
Don't make naruto or sasuke reincarnation they arent even reincarnation they are transmigration just do something like inherited will and curse of the the fore fathers and progenitor of the clan and every clan has something like skeleton under the closet.
one thing I hate is the entire Indra hating on Ashura, because after the black zertsu twist that becomes completely stupid. Like the reason Indra became evil was because of Black zetsu, and Madara became evil also because of black zetsu, Sasuke became evil because his entire clan was hated because Obito let Kuruma lose, because it was black zetsus plan. Like the entire cycle of hatred was just Black zetsu making the uchihas evil, not something connected to Hagaromoos children, it just happened to start with them. a problem with your idea of Ashura and indra going to characters that just fit right also doesn't make that much sense, cause Obito would than become Indras cause after rins death he became emo and hated everything, and Rock lee is more Ashura cause he was completely useless in the talent category, so he overcame it with his hard work and help from his friends
So quick comment; so far as I'm aware, godfather isn't a thing that exists in Japan. The word used is supposedly 'naming parent' or something, and has absolutely no responsibility to the child. Just what I'd heard, and you may think he should have been involved regardless, but it's not like he betrayed minatos trust by it.
Not gonna lie Naruto was always special he literally learned a jutsu that took years for even Jiraiya to use Naruto also made a S-rank jutsu in a short amount of time Naruto was never about being a underdog in the sense of power he was destined to kill Sasuke like Hashirama killed Madara plus a story is allowed to have multiple themes
I really hate the idea of "next generation would always surpress the previous" Nope.. The theme should be like the each coming generations are becoming weaker as the chakra continues to dissipate from shinobis body, that's why hasirama and madara could act like demigod and become legendary but modern shinobis can only produce fraction of the strength, that why handsigns are becoming more and more important to use the remaining chakras more efficiently. With more chakra releasing into atmosphere it's becoming easier to master sen-jutsu now, like how jiraya wasn't a full sage but using similar efforts Naruto can be a full sage 2 generation later.
you cant fix naruto halfway .. you have to go back to the original tone of the show pre naruto gaara fight the early vibe of a steampunk dystopian alt 80s japan.. the setting and fights were grounded the ninjas were made of flesh they got realistic injuries felt fear and pain the fights were intimate and personal weapons had weight ands could hurt even the design of characters was unique and mean looking.. it was a dystopian world where teenager were raised to be killers.. the stakes are high because of the consequences of each fight which made the tension high despite the scales being smaller.. looking at early naruto you would think the story would be about tactical ninja espionage guerilla warefare with psychological elements but when the show got popular the editors made it more family friendly to be marketable..the tone and themes and level of violence were all changed.. the early themes of naruto were poverty .. corrupt goverment.. using poeple are disposable tools.. sexual comeptition and social acceptance..but kishimoto changed it to idealisitc buddist philosophy... and all the villains were retconned to be misunderstood good guys deep down.. every fight became a therapy session.. take itachi for example he was never meant to be a good guy.. appaerently he spared sasuke because hes a kid and had nothing to do with the revolution but he killed all the other kids in the clan ? im not even going talk about the ditched magic system or the contradictions in ideologies or the whole cast being forgotten to focus on naruto and sauke only..censorship and lack of preplanning killed the huge potentiel of the early story
Alright, I know nothing about Naruto, but Idgaf about spoilers. Anyway, even with the lack of knowledge of the franchise, I get the idea that you jump around the story a lot in all three parts, so may I suggest for now on you could add at what point in the story these changes are taking place? Since you were talking about filler in this part, how about using anime seasons and episodes?
Your ideas for Sakura are spot on! One thing that I absolutely hate in the series is her shallowness and how much she humiliates herself for Sasuke, I wanted to break the tv every time she cried over him. Having her become immune to Sasuke's genjutsu and beating the shit out of him and kinda getting over him would make him respect her and would make him fall in love with her, in the end, more believable.
Sakura wasn't supposed to end sasuke to begin with
Another underutilized aspect of the series was seeing individuals (or ninjas) using their abilities to other means besides war. I'd imagine there would be a firemen batallion with water users, puppet ninjas who travel and gain money by doing shows to people and daimyos, stone ninjas who use their earth jutsus in order to be sculptors (yet we only just see random carpenters in the series). We didn't see, for example, some feudal lord who can't sleep and pays a genjutsu user to make him sleep. We only see war war and war, but I'd imagine many ninjas would rather seek some entrepreneur opportunities for themselves. Imagine how much money the Nara clan would make with their jutsu, by stopping animals people want to hunt. Which makes me wonder if a ninja is forced to do a mission by his village regardless, because it'd be much better for some ninjas to just seek daimyos offers for themselves. Sadly, this wasn't much worked in the series. Ironically, we see some of that in Boruto when Sasuke and Boruto go to the past and fool Tsunade saying they're both circus artists and only use their ninjutsu for entertainmet.
They abused Yamatos Wood Style for building Houses 😅
It would be interesting to show that jutsus (magic) is the reason why this world is retrofuturistic. There has been no industrial revolution but on certain points there is advanced technology (camera, television and so on). Science is not perceived in the same way as in our world.
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I think the biggest issue Naruto has is with its World Building. We go from Ninjas going on a Mission to having Kaiju Battles and fighting Literal Gods. Kishimoto also ditched a lot of cool aspects that the Original Naruto series introduced. we don't even see hand signs anymore, remember how long that hand sign sequence is in the Zabuza arc with the Water Dragons, now it's just you make a singular hand sign and you can throw fucking Meteors from Space, yeah, makes sense. Naruto's World Building just went out of wack after the first arc in Naruto Shippuden or maybe in earlier than that, but that's just a huge aspect of Naruto which often gets overlooked because "Naruto has great story" or whatever. In terms of World Building, even Dragon Ball does it better, which isn't saying much
Kishimoto wanted to tdo that he wanted to have more arc before the chunin exam but the editor forced him to cut down and having a long hand signs well be terrible because kishimoto need to save time and page look what happens to hidan arc that arc was supposed to be longer but the editor was rushing him to end because of time remember to he was working in the weekly manga and many Naruto issues because of that because they don't give kishimoto enough time to focus and long hand signs well effect the pacing the anime has already pacing problems
Blame the editor for that because kishimoto wanted to have more arc before the chunin exam but the editor forced to cut down and complaining about hand signs is stupid because it won't kishimoto can't waste page and time on them and the long hand signs in the first arc it's just the anime not in the manga
Here’s the other changes suggested by the editor:
-Cutting out a ton of exposition.
-Putting in Sasuke.
-Making the Wave Country arc (with Zabuza/Haku).
-Stopping him from making the hokage and teachers animals.
-Having all the characters take the Chunin Exam all at once.
-The models for Rock Lee and the other Chunin Exam characters.
-Turning Naruto from a fox into a human.
-Changing Zabuza’s partner Haku from a bear into a human.
-Giving the protagonist narrow eyes and the rival wider eyes.
-Having him make the names of jutsu consistent for worlbuilding’s sake, rather than random and all over the place.
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We have to thank the editor because Kishimoto doesn't know how to stay focused.
@@trorisk not allowing kishimoto to aid more arc which creates a word building problem and just look what happens to the side characters in the end and you should not introduce too many characters in one arc and the female characters lack screen time and not killing neji and the others in the sasuke rescue arc and ruined them and tusnade was supposed to have a fight in the pain arc but they told him to cut down most of these problems won't exist if they allowed him to aid more arc i am not saying that the editor are bad because by not allowing kishimoto to aid more arc to the story they killed any hope for the side characters and the world building and kishimoto has to come with everything like characters design and jutsu name as well
We could have seen a rivalry between Kurotsuchi and Temari. They're very similar in almost everything. They're both "virago" who have an agressive and arrogant personality, they're both literal royal and the best kunoichi from their generation (the only female jounins). Considering the rivalry and proximity of both villages too, there was all the ingredients for it. Sadly, like you said, the other villages were so little worked out.
I really liked your idea of the Hidden Rain and Sound uniting!
Until they try to backstab each other 😅
Yeah, that's a lot more interesting that a lot of do-little semi-fanservice battles that are basically padding. New characters can be introduced and built on. It also would help explain why the Akatsuki were so successful when not all of them are unbeatable.
You are my favorite person to make videos about fixes on naruto, I like a lot moore than dygonight's and Mchammers'
One idea I had is that Naruto should have achieved the rank of Chunin during the 2 year time skip. Tsunade could have sent them various missions and by completing these missions, Naruto would have learned how to deal with killing, gained experience and then a promotion so when he comes back to Konoha, he is much more mature and even seen wearing the Chunin uniform, similar in appearance to Minato's which would look great with the read cloak he gets after his sage training. Also, it would have been better for Naruto's skill set to have improved more after the timeskip too. He already has the big gun jutsu that is the Rasengan and the Kage Bunshin so there is no need for more of that but maybe more subtle jutsu and skills like a water jutsu that purifies water so it's safe to drink when he is out on extended missions away from civilization. Or a camouflage jutsu and other simple elemental jutsu that don't seem useful but in various situations, turn out to be invaluable. It would make Naruto seem like he's become more resourceful in seemingly small but essential ways as a shinobi. I dunno, I am just overall disappointed with how he turned out after the timeskip. The very fact he still wears bright orange anywhere on his body pisses me off to this day.
Honestly I'm upset that Sakura doesn't get a Sage mode and a special Jutsu of her own. Her being so intelligent and a master of chakra control, it would only make sense that she'd be able to make Jutsu and master sage mode insanely quickly.
Didn't think this would come back
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After watching Dygo's rewrite videos and your 3 videos (just watched the last one), it looks as if you bounced ideas off of each other. :'D
Yes sir he is back
I just finished reading the series today and hurried to watch this series immediately, and I love most these ideas!
Only ones I disagree with are the ones relating to the Edo Tensei and generally who the fourth war includes on the opposing side. I liked the point that this wasn't like the other wars that involved nations fighting eachother and therefore breeding more conflict for later generations; it was all of humanity finally putting their differences aside and banding together to stop zombies and literal monsters from ending the world. I feel like making the "fodder" of this war into vengeful and manipulated people from the Hidden Rain goes to make the conflict more nuanced, but also takes away that hopeful message that was there originally.
I do agree that the Edo Tensei should have been way more restricted though, like don't bring EVERYONE back, just the previous Hokage and the important Akatsuki members would have been enough.
Years ago, when I was still really a fan of Naruto, I used to wish that Hinata was in the same group as Naruto and Sasuke instead of Sakura, not necessarily because she was in love with Naruto, but because I thought it would be funny if the only girl in that class that *wasn't* in love with Sasuke was in his group. I considered writing a fanfic where I rewrote the Naruto story where Hinata and Sakura had switched groups. Never got around to doing it though, but this series of yours made me remember that silly little idea I had.
yea tech in naruto is kinda weird, but the fights with powerlines in the background look sick asf
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He reuploaded?
@@billiondavid Yes, I did. A few clips got copyright stricken last time around and blocked it in most countries, so I edited some stuff and reuploaded.
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@@cryptonix02Dude I’d highly recommend watching DygoKnight Rewriting Naruto Series.
1 - I think one of the ways to fix the weird non-sense romances would be to never tackle any at all, and then start Boruto with all the couples there with their kids as a surprise to what happened while "we were not watching". Actually very believable because in real life we don't necessarily need to flirt for decades to make couples. Honestly i wouldn't encourage a "more believable" set of events for us to accept some of these couples. Scrap sasuke and sakura entirely and give rock lee to sakura. Make Hinata get over Naruto when shippuden start and let Naruto flirt with someone on the Boruto era, making another shinobi's offspring the main character (i vote Mirai Sarutobi) and the anime should be called Naruto: Mirai datebbayo! (translates to naruto: future yahoo!).
2 - I do have a problem with power scaling so much. We went from ninja anime to battle of Kaijus to "aliens explain our existance". Tone down the power to just genjutsu, taijutsu, ninjutsu with the 4 base elements and MAYBE stick with the kekkei genkai and stick with it being rare. Give EVERY shinobi an element (does tenten use fire? sakura water?) and let's have some enemies use the 8 gates power, and that's just scratching the surface of what's possible.
3 - Tied in with the previous point: Naruto goes TOO MUCH SUPERNATURAL! We have undead, past ghosts talking, aliens, a shinigami taking souls.... All of this seem like the author didn't know how to trust in a compeling story with the ninja world alone despite not grasping that his world building was fcking genius and didn't need all this shit! Scrap the whole kaguya story, make the 6 path shinobi just be a normal Jesus christ figure that spread the word of love thy neighbor without being the whole fountain of chakra! Let chakra be humans innate life force and finally either get rid of all eye powers or make them just as strong as byakugan is. I guess having an X-ray vision isn't too impactful so that's cool.
... I'll take the $8?
If looked at closely Naruto was okay at best and I really appreciate the work you're putting into "altering" these franchises, they have been very inspirational.
That tends to be with most shonen series. Naruto was simply mediocre to just meh at best. Good concepts but terrible execution and it wasn't even kishimoto's fault at times since he had to follow SJ and editor's demands
we don't simply say "megan fox was ok" just because she got older and pregnant... Naruto had one of the best world buildings in all fiction at the beggining. And the fights were as good as the best animu in town. It just fell flat the longer it stretched xD
@@oponomoblame shonan for not giving kishimoto enough time to focus and freedom to aid more arc like he wanted to that the problem with shonan they don't care about the creator health the reason hidan arc was rushed because the editor told kishimoto to end it because of time to deliver and kishimoto was in the hospital
in regards to Naruto not getting a new arm, what about puppet arms like what Chiyo and Sasori's one childhood friend had? I always thought that would've been a better choice for a replacement
Don’t kiss me, but you have an excellent singing voice from that how to fix kingdom hearts video.
I wish there was a paralell universe where Kishimoto didnt have to bang out pages week by week and we couldve had better overarching story development from the start.
- better character development of Sakura (she shouldve defeated one of the sound three in the 2nd part of the Chuunin Exam, and maybe also Ino, Sakura was shown to be very smart, could easily see through Genjutsu etc)
- better character representation for everyone except Naruto/Sasuke (like TenTen and Shido?!!)
- also all the Jinchuriki, the other Konoha ninja etc.
- less power creep and lean more into the fundaments established in the beginning of the series, information gathering, spy stuff, ninja tools)
The whole Madara/War Arc part was the final nail in the coffin for me. I remember stopping watching the show at that point, and came back a while after just to watch the end. Edo Tensei was cool when Orochimaru used it to defeat Hiruzen, but the fact that more named characters died in OG Naruto than in Shippudens War Arc is still hillarious to me. The Chunin Exam established the ninja world as a covert, lethal world, that functioned as a checks-and-balance system between the nations, the Zabuza arc established that there were other forces at play in the nations other than Ninjas. Chuunin Exams feeling more tense than a freaking War is hillarious.
All of this was thrown out of the window in Shippuden, and then blown completely away after the Pain arc.
A real shinobi war wouldve been so much better and tense. I.e not a war vs Zetsus and a ton of reanimated dead characters ad nauseum.
At several points the story had good things going for it, but good things were cut short. Like getting the story of the capture of each jinchuriki. More fights vs the Akatsuki.
The Sharingan super power up is probably my least favorite thing.
Also, completely irredeemable murderers becoming "friends"? Orochimaru in Boruto? Did we forget who he is? So weird to me.
Man i would love to see an actual rewrite from you!
Also, een if naruto did get an arm made out of Hashirama cells, why didn't Sasuke pop one out using his Asura path ability (being able to morph your body and all that)?
Like....WHY WOULDN'T he?!?!
I get that it's also because he wants someting to constantly remind of his past mistakes, but that just means that Sasuke still has no self-confidence that he has truly deflected to the good side and needs something as a reminder, which, in my opinion, hinders character growth.
Holy shit I literally just watched the first 2 a few minutes ago this is awesome
As I get older the reason of great war existing just bcs rin died etc is just so bland and selfish. I agree with ur point of view how things would be better.
Most of the way to fix Naruto is to remove what was introduced after the time skip.
1. Do not introduce the concept of tailed beasts but stay with (good or bad) giant beasts with chakra. That 9 tails fox and Shukaku are no different in nature than Gamabunta, Manda and Katsuyu. And the concept of jinchuriki. Naruto and Gaara are the prison of giant beasts that risk causing harm the humanity. That's all.
2. Remove Danzo and the explanation that Itachi killed his clan to avoid a coup. Itachi must remain an antagonist.
3. Remove the concept of elemental affinity. Keep the kekkei genkai from birth.
4. Stay more focus about shinobis (chuunin and genin) who do mostly assassinations, infiltration and espionage missions for their country rather than being super-heros soldiers with magic. Much more focuses on the politics and economics of countries (daimyos). Suna is a desert and therefore would have to import most of its food.
5. Completely remove the Ōtsutsuki story. Pain's Akatsuki who wants to impose peace by force and fear is much more interesting.
6. Making Sakura an interesting character from the start. And make the members of genin 12 grow more.
7. Don't make the shinobi world a puritain world with so many 30-year-old virgins. I mean Kakashi, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochi, Iruka and so on. If it's a retro-futuristic world almost always at war, where we risk our lives every second, then there is a high birth rate and at 16-20 years old we start having children.
8. More deaths all the time.
From the previous video from like 5 years ago, I'd add to make Iruka give Naruto the talk Itachi about the Hokage gives him in the original, now that he has no doubts about Naruto's chance at becoming Hokage.
Literally the last part is enticing since it's basically the clone wars version of Naruto.
10:31 hahaha 😂
5:14 Here's what I would do to buff the Hyuga:
1. The problem isn't the Byakugan, but rather the way it's used. Specifically, the issue with the Hyuga is that they ONLY use the Byakugan for Gentle Fist, and don't learn outside techniques like nature transformations, shadow clones, genjutsu, nintaijutsu (i.e. the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release Armor), fuinjutsu, body flicker, or Flying Raijin. Just imagine how strong a Neji or Hinata with Shisui-tier body flicker, Itachi-style exploding shadow clones, Raikage-style lightning armor, Flying Raijin, and/or total mastery of 2-3 nature transformations (complete with the ability to use one-handed hand seals) would be. I am guessing that Hiashi, Neji, or Hinata (with any of these powers IN ADDITION TO TOTAL MASTERY of Gentle Fist) would be very high Kage level (especially as the Byakugan could increase reaction speed to the point where even the fastest taijutsu speeds become usable, as my headcanon regarding Taijutsu speed is that what limits a shinobi's speed is not the ability to use chakra to increase speed, but rather the lack of precognition-related abilities needed to use it in a controlled manner), and with just a base Byakugan, never mind a fanfic-created Mangekyo equivalent, which leads to...
2. Introduce a Mangekyo equivalent for the Byakugan. In this case, said Mangekyo equivalent is one that I am borrowing from the fanfic White Eyes, called the Gokei Byakugan. This confers 4 jutsu, those being Kokosora (an anti-Tsukuyomi sensory-deprivation genjutsu technique), Hiragekoma (which disables seals and jutsu), Kesshotoketsu (which creates crystalline structures that are basically impervious to jutsu) and Vishnu (basically a human-sized equivalent to Susano'o, coating the user's body in the same opal-white as the Kesshotoketsu crystals, granting the user 2 additional arms for a total of 4 (for the Imperfect Vishnu) (and later increasing the total number of arms to 8 for the Semi-Perfect Vishnu and 16 for the Perfect Vishnu), making it so the user no longer has chakra points and is thus impervious to Gentle Fist and other chakra draining techniques (basically like the user is permanently using the Rotation as armor), and increasing the user's speed by the equivalent of Naruto's Mastered KCM2 cloak). With this power, Neji and/or Hinata would be at a power level at least comparable to canon EMS Sasuke and Edo Itachi, possibly even stronger (BASICALLY WAY ABOVE SANNIN TIER).
3. Give Hinata the Tenseigan, and change the Tenseigan's powers (again per the fanfic White Eyes) to being complete mastery of 4 subtypes of anti-chakra, those being Voracious (which consumes chakra, and when combined with Fire Release creates Amaterasu), Adamantine (which suppresses chakra, and as is the case with the Uzumaki Clan's Adamantine Sealing Chains can suppress Bijuu), Obdurate (which chakra slides off of like oil, as is the case with Kesshotoketsu crystals and the properties of Neji/Hinata's Vishnu transformation), and Edacious (which absorbs chakra, as is the case with Yoroi's chakra absorption in the Chunin Exams, Pain/Nagato's Preta Path, Kisame's Super Shark Bomb Jutsu, and Hinata's Twin Lion Fists). Also increase the power of Vishnu yet again, by creating a new form that enables the user to fly and increases the total number of arms to 32 with a quartet of orbs hovering around the user's back (like SO6P Naruto's Truthseeker Orbs), each carrying one of the 4 subtypes, and with it being possible to combine the 4 subtypes into a Yin-Yang Release equivalent known as Void Release, which can be used like a Truthseeker Orb or fired like a laser. This is EXTREMELY powerful, as Void Release can basically delete chakra from existence. With this power-up, Tenseigan Hinata would be of at least comparable power to Rinnegan Sasuke.
I really like most of these points of correcting the Naruto-verse with all the many understandable yet somewhat avoidable mistakes that were made ,then I looked look back on other certain's fan fictions that stuck with the original material and try to make the best out of what was already there especially that's cannon with certain Filler and one movie. One the best examples I could find that 1 of my favorites Is this particular one where Jiraiya actually does his job as a godfather to raise naruto alongside Tsunade where things actually go way better than what happened in cannon and some bloodlines and techniques were put into better use as well as characters actually having better developments overall even the side & filler characters Played a bigger role down the line without dragging things out.
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Then there's a What-if Storyshift that only change 1 thing of the main character that allowed a butterfly effect from the very beginning that later snowballs into various changes to Many characters Development and choices as well as some orders that Alter the conflict & narrative while keeping the primary plot the same.
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I would like to know if your opinions on these 2 Storyshifts by the fans?
as long as it ends in fucking, sure.
Good Idea Bro Your Version Of Naruto Is Good
12:14 People often just lose potential in naruto, like, oh? vilalge racist? lets FIX that! NO. KEEP RACISM. RACISM = PLOT. YES.
Bro you should try working with dygoknight if possible, your ideas seem to align, he's doing the rewrite in long format
Don't make naruto or sasuke reincarnation they arent even reincarnation they are transmigration just do something like inherited will and curse of the the fore fathers and progenitor of the clan and every clan has something like skeleton under the closet.
Thanks for this video❤
one thing I hate is the entire Indra hating on Ashura, because after the black zertsu twist that becomes completely stupid. Like the reason Indra became evil was because of Black zetsu, and Madara became evil also because of black zetsu, Sasuke became evil because his entire clan was hated because Obito let Kuruma lose, because it was black zetsus plan.
Like the entire cycle of hatred was just Black zetsu making the uchihas evil, not something connected to Hagaromoos children, it just happened to start with them.
a problem with your idea of Ashura and indra going to characters that just fit right also doesn't make that much sense, cause Obito would than become Indras cause after rins death he became emo and hated everything, and Rock lee is more Ashura cause he was completely useless in the talent category, so he overcame it with his hard work and help from his friends
For all things bad: an Uchiha did it
So quick comment; so far as I'm aware, godfather isn't a thing that exists in Japan. The word used is supposedly 'naming parent' or something, and has absolutely no responsibility to the child. Just what I'd heard, and you may think he should have been involved regardless, but it's not like he betrayed minatos trust by it.
you wild for that outro lmao
awesome ideas
Not gonna lie Naruto was always special he literally learned a jutsu that took years for even Jiraiya to use Naruto also made a S-rank jutsu in a short amount of time Naruto was never about being a underdog in the sense of power he was destined to kill Sasuke like Hashirama killed Madara plus a story is allowed to have multiple themes
I really hate the idea of "next generation would always surpress the previous"
Nope..
The theme should be like the each coming generations are becoming weaker as the chakra continues to dissipate from shinobis body, that's why hasirama and madara could act like demigod and become legendary but modern shinobis can only produce fraction of the strength, that why handsigns are becoming more and more important to use the remaining chakras more efficiently.
With more chakra releasing into atmosphere it's becoming easier to master sen-jutsu now, like how jiraya wasn't a full sage but using similar efforts Naruto can be a full sage 2 generation later.
Some fanfics have produced some content better than canon. Basically theu
They should have more of the Uzu(maki) village
Was Naruto a story about being an underdog or was it about changing your destiny making a better choice for yourself
you cant fix naruto halfway .. you have to go back to the original tone of the show pre naruto gaara fight the early vibe of a steampunk dystopian alt 80s japan.. the setting and fights were grounded the ninjas were made of flesh they got realistic injuries felt fear and pain the fights were intimate and personal weapons had weight ands could hurt even the design of characters was unique and mean looking.. it was a dystopian world where teenager were raised to be killers.. the stakes are high because of the consequences of each fight which made the tension high despite the scales being smaller.. looking at early naruto you would think the story would be about tactical ninja espionage guerilla warefare with psychological elements but when the show got popular the editors made it more family friendly to be marketable..the tone and themes and level of violence were all changed.. the early themes of naruto were poverty .. corrupt goverment.. using poeple are disposable tools.. sexual comeptition and social acceptance..but kishimoto changed it to idealisitc buddist philosophy... and all the villains were retconned to be misunderstood good guys deep down.. every fight became a therapy session.. take itachi for example he was never meant to be a good guy.. appaerently he spared sasuke because hes a kid and had nothing to do with the revolution but he killed all the other kids in the clan ? im not even going talk about the ditched magic system or the contradictions in ideologies or the whole cast being forgotten to focus on naruto and sauke only..censorship and lack of preplanning killed the huge potentiel of the early story
This. All of this
For your final change, you could introduce a bunch of rouge ninja from other villages who took refuge in the hidden rain.
I’m early to one of these.
the rewrite would be great
Alright, I know nothing about Naruto, but Idgaf about spoilers. Anyway, even with the lack of knowledge of the franchise, I get the idea that you jump around the story a lot in all three parts, so may I suggest for now on you could add at what point in the story these changes are taking place? Since you were talking about filler in this part, how about using anime seasons and episodes?
3:44 - 3:49 said this on another channel that talks about Naruto
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fix boruto manga/anime canon 🥺🙏🙏🙏🙏
This has to be a reupload
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