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personally i think the kaguya thing happened because masashi wanted to copy adventure of dai. sakura from what i remember knocks the same horn that dai knocks off (the right horn) and both have final villains that change because of black goo. i also think he had to bs his way into bringing naruto's dad back to match with dai's dad being present for the final battle

Does anyone remember where I can find the source to when kishimoto said he had no idea how to beat madara, as I want to prove it to some guy I'm debating

he basically just combined different things from the adventure of dai, yu yu hakusho, hunter x hunter, and ninkuu from what i can tell. naruto doesn't chase after the hokage title because his predecessor didn't care about that his predecessor cared about saving his friend and masashi just lifted a bunch of stuff in ninkuu (substitution jutsu, body flicker jutsu, rasengan, sakura chasing guys who aren't interested). of course being the top of the pack like the king of the pirates was probably also an element important to naruto but he probably didn't think it as important
adventure of dai probably inspired even other stuff for instance tanjiro cutting a boulder or the demon slayer mark that can resonate. some other possible things it inspired are rurouni kenshin and the sailor moon live show

I haven't finished Demon Slayer, (idk why, I started it, it was good, life just got in the way, lol) but I got the feeling like he was the Naruto Kishimoto was trying to write. An untarnished hero.

 

But...Kisihimoto always made Naruto the but of jokes too. Stupid or falling behind as a kid/teen/young adult, then a terrible dad as an adult. And not much of a hokage either. (I didn't watch Boruto. Just. Can't. Do. It. So, let me know if my opinion is wrong about that.) He was supposed to overcome his terrible past to become the hero, but Kishimoto just kept screwing him over.

 

Maybe it's just me. Anyway, when I watched Demon Slayer, Tanjiro felt like Naruto, without Kishimoto tripping him up all the time.

yeah ninkuu and the adventure of dai were also kinda like that. i think masashi was probably unhappy with the ending perhaps other people thought was good (he does say around the land of iron arc that people were trying to tell him hinata was the heroine which he pushed back on at the time) and deliberately was making naruto this terrible person at the end. the beginning makes sense since masashi himself was bullied with his twin and he wasn't a good student. it might explain why he's criticizing boruto right now
 

there's a leak that the naruto episodes announced in 2023 are out of the production phase but take it with a grain of salt