I'll give Kishi credit where its due, he could have easily made a flashback of Danzo being a poor little orphan and him being saved by the Leaf and that is why he is so dutiful to the Leaf. He didn't make Danzo this very tragic character but instead just chose to show his relationship with Hiruzen.
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Naruto is pretty messed up in the sense that he doesn't try to change other people that aren't like him, he didn't bother TNJ with Kakazu, Kaguya, Black Zetsu, or Madara.
I think the defeat of Danzou might have been the first arc the new editor for Kishi fully worked on. If you consider the build-up till that point, how it was hinted he was involved in so many of the other antagonists reasons to hate Konoha, his end felt sort of anti-climatic. There was so much stuff he was involved in from working with Orichimaru, to keeping Hanzou in power to surpress Ami, to ordering the end of the Uchiha clan, to ordering Sai to spy on Naruto etc, this guy was built up as someone more and his end was kinda bleh, all his other actions never came up, or anything...That felt like the biggest hint that Naruto is going in a completely different direction. The fact they made it out that he did it for the betterment of Konoha never set well with me, because if he was doing all this for Konoha why did he and his Anbu all leave when Negato attacked, instead of defending the village?
Naruto was messed up in that sense, the only people he really ever changed were those who were turned evil due to circumstances and were good people in the first place, but were lost, he never tried to work on those that needed more work. Though if you look at his TnJ's after the pain arc and before, there was a big difference, his talks with Gaara, Pain, and Zabuza were more emotionally fuelled, and believable. His talks with Kurama and Obito never made as much sense, I still don't understand how Kurama changed his mind after one day with only one sentance from Naruto, I had thought we'd get more moments before they worked as a team but it just sort of happened, and Obito's change of heart never made sense to me.
I see.
Question time for everyone. If someone would've shown you 699, 700 and the movie 4 years ago or 5 years ago or after 631 or hell immediately after you started "Naruto", what would've been your reaction, what you've said?
Also which is correct "showed" or "shown"?
That's a good point, I think I would have dropped it, there have been plenty of stories, TV shows etc I have dropped because I disagreed with the direction it was taking or how it ended, (I'm not someone who will drop a series because the end got spoilt.) I would still keep up with the storyline, by reading bried summaries etc, but I'd drop the manga from my 'must follow' list.
Also I think it's showed. If someone would've showed you, or if you were shown.
Edit: Or am I wrong and it is shown?
Edited by harry4e, 18 April 2015 - 12:24 PM.