Right so I figured that I'd go into more depth about my opinions on the talk-no-jutsu. It is a hit or miss, in all honesty depending on how you view it, sometimes it is done well enough, others it feels like an excuse to again promote the war is bad propaganda as I have said. Gaara, as brought up before, is one of the well done ones because while Naruto relents on how similar he is to Gaara that they were both hosts of monsters that never asked for and were viewed as monsters themselves and therefore isolated and alone Naruto also says he won't let Gaara kill what matters to him. As Nate already stated, It is one thing to come to an understanding, but even so sometimes two people just can't compromise, that is the nature of humans. Naruto's talk-no-jutsu is just a convenient all solving hammer in direct conflict that PAINTS him as compassionate, yet he does nothing to solve the underlying problems because there was not any thought put into it beyond having Naruto say it will work out because I say so, instead of offering proper solutions. In fact Naruto contradicts him self or the story contradicts these damn talk-no-jutsu morals later down the line. Naruto said to Nagato that he will achieve peace so others won't have to suffer from war anymore, he later said Sasuke is all that matter s to him and he will (not gayly I suppose) die together with Sasuke despite saying to Nagato that he will achieve peace. Kishi had Naruto lose Jiraiya so he could understand Sasuke's pain but show he chose the moral high ground to not be consumed by revenge. YET he still kisses Sasuke's kitten and says that excuses everything Sasuke did and hypocritically accepts it plus will just go down Sasuke instead of pointing out he went through everything Sasuke did but is not taking it out on everyone and everything in anger. He could have said that yes he didn't have a family to begin with but he never asked or wanted for his parents to die before he could ever know them just like Sasuke never asked for his family to be murdered by his own brother. He could have said that both he and Sasuke both lost their families but still have a home with people waiting for them, Sasuke just chose to reject it. Naruto is not compassionate towards Ssauke of all people, he is showing condescending pity on him and says everything Sasuke does is okay because they are friends instead of knocking sense into him, like a true friend would and is only forcing his desires onto Sasuke. Not to mention the whole war is bad schtick is turned on it's head by the very nature of the 4th great ninja war. What was the reasoning of the ninja alliance going to war? to protect their world. sometimes you cant compromise on something because it means you lose everything, perfect example right here. You promote war as a bad thing, yet you made a war because one side has something they want to protect? And on that note, If Naruto's talk-no-jutsu is so effective on it's intended targets, how serious are the villains in their goals I wonder? They are willing to escalate to outright genocide to achieve their goals yet Naruto acts like they are misguided children that have no idea what they're doing. But are they not adults making their own choices like Naruto is?
Honestly my issue with the talk-no-jutsu is just how hypocritical it was and how lazily it was used. It says one thing but the writing undermines and contradicts it in the next moment. Boruto is the definitive proof of that. Naruto showed he talked a big game but didn't back it up.
Which ties back to what I said about how the Talk no Jutsu obviously was meant to be to show Naruto's empathy, but with the crappy direction the series began to take, with the story being changed a lot in many cases, it became less about that. It just shows that with the way things are in Boruto if nothing really has changed.
And it ties also to how the backstory also hints of how things didn't become like how Hashirama wanted decades before, due to the other leaders as well as influence from others, which to me shapes Naruto and his current time in Boruto as well, considering Shikamaru and Kakashi, due to their fanaticism for the system even as much as it screwed them up, prevented Naruto from executing any real changes.
Edited by Bryon_Konoha_Ninja, 18 October 2021 - 04:42 PM.
