I actually don't mind the flashbacks. The flashbacks are more enjoyable than the recent Naruto & Alliance VS. Tobi & Uchiha Madara fight,
Yeah, I feel the same way. The current time fight chapters since the good dramatic one of the Ino-Shika-Cho have been what was far less interesting for me, every flashback has been far more interesting to me than the current time battles.
Was thinking about the point someone else brought up a couple of chapters ago about the Haruno clan symbol being the same as the forehead symbol of Hashirama when he called on a jutsu. I think it does have a definite meaning. I don't think that the Haruno clan is closely related to the Senju, but my guess is they had a connection to the Senju very much like the Ino-Shika-Cho clans had to the Sarutobi clan.
I also find it interesting how Kishimoto has incorporated the real world history of ninja into his fictional world. Yes, there were real historical ninja villages. They also elected their leadership council from the elite members of the clans, and that leadership in turn elected the village leader. They were very (emphasis on very) loosely allied to various Daimyo. The Koga and Iga villages are the best known of the historical ninja villages, but there were numerous smaller ninja villages.
These villages are first noted in historical records in the Kamakura period (1185-1333), but certainly go back further. Back to the earliest historical records there are more scattered references to similar groups of independent families or possibly small village compounds, these appear to be the precursor of ninja. By the Kamakura period they had organized to full-fledged villages, and did indeed train and rank their ninja with the same three levels you see in Naruto: Genin, Chunin, and Jonin. There was also near gender equality in ninja villages.
Now, unlike in Naruto, the actual historical ninja rarely were involved in major battles- although it’s known the Koga and Iga villages did fight in battles alongside samurai in support of the Daimyo. (likely the smaller villages did as well). The pre Kamakura period proto ninja groups seem to have more involvement with actual battles and don’t seem to have ties beyond their own people. The historical ninja actually did far more spying for hire than fighting or even assassination for hire. (Both male and female ninja)
Kishimoto is now showing the prehistory of ninja villages in Naruto’s world. I love how Kishimoto has gradually revealed more and more of the pre chapter 1 history as the story has continued. (largely through the flashbacks). There’s always been far more to this manga below the surface- something readers were clued into early on when Kakashi tells a young Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke to “look underneath the underneath”. Indeed.
Hashirama’s flashback story is giving us a fuller image of the pre ninja village world than the brief references we've seen prior. This looks to be Kishimoto’s speculation about how those historical proto ninja families became ninja villages. Hashirama’s father is just as cold and brutal a man as Madara’s father. Young Hashirama is full idealism- wanting a better world and showing even at probably around 12 years old or so, the village system he initiated (as an adult) was already taking form in his head. I’m hoping we’ll also get a deeper insight on Mito and Hashirama’s meeting, and her choice to go with him and believe and support his dream.
Dream you dream alone is only a dream, but dream we dream together is reality- Yoko Ono 1971
When you go to war, both sides lose totally- Yoko Ono
Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison- Yoko Ono 2009
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