QUOTE (tricksie @ Jan 4 2012, 09:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I would be interested in a short arc about the future generations. Not super long, but hey, I'd read it.
However, I would definitely read another manga about Kushina/Minato/previous generation shinobi. In fact, I'm almost expecting it. There has been so much background info on the whole world leading up to Naruto's generation that it seems likely.
The introduction of new character or the background has mostly centered around older characters, not younger. So it's not like the reader will be coming out of reading Naruto wondering about this whole new cast of younger characters that the Konoha 11 have met from the other countries. There are a few, but outside of Gaara and those few, everyone is older.
Which is surprising, when you think about it. Because the other countries should also have their young guns as well. But to introduce same-age competition/talent would dilute the storyline, blur it's focus. Naruto might have other rivals, Sakura might have other love interests, etc. Anyway, for a manga that focuses on surpassing generations, it sure is bogged down with the last generation of characters!
However, I would definitely read another manga about Kushina/Minato/previous generation shinobi. In fact, I'm almost expecting it. There has been so much background info on the whole world leading up to Naruto's generation that it seems likely.
The introduction of new character or the background has mostly centered around older characters, not younger. So it's not like the reader will be coming out of reading Naruto wondering about this whole new cast of younger characters that the Konoha 11 have met from the other countries. There are a few, but outside of Gaara and those few, everyone is older.
Which is surprising, when you think about it. Because the other countries should also have their young guns as well. But to introduce same-age competition/talent would dilute the storyline, blur it's focus. Naruto might have other rivals, Sakura might have other love interests, etc. Anyway, for a manga that focuses on surpassing generations, it sure is bogged down with the last generation of characters!
I'd feel a bit cheated if we just got the standard single epilogue timeskip chapter, but that's highly likely what will happen. I'd like to see an epilogue timeskip volume (around 10 chapters) there's enough left hanging after the war is over, Naruto and Sakura get together (and which other ones of the Konoha 11 generation Kishimoto chooses to show.) I want to see how this change Naruto makes alters the world, and want to see Naruto and Sakura and the Konoha 11 in their 20's dealing with parenthood and the new world they live in. That it's not the perfect utopia but it's a much better world than what they grew up in, with more mundane type conflicts between the various countries and the diplomatic efforts to resolve those conflicts.
I definitely hope we get a Minato and Kushina prequel series to follow this.