i see your hatred // watching you perish

me as a therapist: I see what you’re saying. *starts writing something down for you* here, there’s an episode of Naruto that I think would be relevant and extremely healing for you,

*wakes up in a cold sweat* Madara Uchiha was so insanely powerful that Kishimoto had to pull an entire plot point out of his ass to have any chance at defeating the villain he himself had created

all uchihas do is activate sharingan, use fire jutsu, eat hot chip, and die

as much as child soldiers are fundamentally fucked up i think it’s really funny that there are adult ninjas getting their shit rocked by 12 year olds

naruto fails utterly as a political allegory because it does not even come close to recognizing WHY shinobi are motivated to do battle in the first place - economics!!! it’s not just that there’s hatred between clans; it’s manufactured hatred designed to keep the shinobi subservient to their feudal lords, while maximizing the feudal lords’ own power, land, personal wealth, etc. and once hashirama and madara throw a wrench in that plan the daimyos quickly realize they can recover by simply continuing to increase the scale of these fights until it’s nation fighting nation, rather than just family fighting family. this is why madara and hashirama’s falling out makes NO sense in canon. madara going into despair after learning that humans continually fight each other because moon fruit is insulting tbh and you would think that the uchiha leader would have recognized that the root of the problem was the feudal lords meddling in shinobi business for profit. but no, kishi had no intention of tackling the economic exploitation of shinobi past the land of waves arc apparently

we see this in so many shonen manga’s that for some reason the author just refuses to tackle the systemic problems in their story world even though they have spend decades of setting them up and made originally the big choice of using those core themes in the first place. Instead of being honest with the real world implications they rather have an easy magical solution that feels just intellectually dishonest. So instead of exploring why feudal states manipulate military clans we get magic fruit making people violent. In FMA mangahood we get little magic man with a god complex pulling the strings as the source of fascism and genocide. It’s just really disappointing and pointing this out will make some of the fans say “well it’s for teenage boys, what did you expect?” like umm better? It’s like the authors wanted to have big boy themes but the end solution is more fitting for a small child.

imagine thinking naruto blogs actually like naruto