And maybe also "the new generation surpasses the older one"
I still personally don't like the whole "New generation surpasses the older one" simply because it is such a broad idiom. It also doesn't apply to everything. For example, isn't Kakashi's generation after say Tsunade and Jiraiya's generation? He didn't succeed, especially not Obito. What about Nagato's generation which seems to be somewhere between Kakashi's and Naruto's generation, did he succeed? Itachi's generation? Did they succeed?
From the way everything looks, no generation we know of has succeeded where the past have failed. They just keep failing, and failing, and failing. I know what they want to say when saying this, but in reality how can you truly apply this in a broad definition?
Unless it would be more accurate to say "Naruto's generation surpasses the older ones."
Edited by James S Cassidy, 04 November 2012 - 06:20 PM.