#dattebane

The dattebayo/dattebane thing I’m willing to let slide, personally. It’s more of a stylistic thing than a realism thing, it’s cute, meant to be funny, etc.

Part of my headcanon for dealing with canon’s plot holes regarding 1. why didn’t anyone know who Naruto really was and 2. why did people shun/hate little Naruto is to abandon the idea that adults in Konoha don’t know he’s the fourth’s son, it’s just they also know he’s Kushina’s son, and that Kushina was widely disliked in Konoha. Little Naruto looks like Minato, but he acts and speaks just like the hated Kushina, confirming in their prejudiced minds that he’s just like the hated fox-spirit woman who cavorted with an Uchiha and somehow seduced their beloved Fourth Hokage.

Foxes/fox spirits in Japan and the larger East Asian sphere are associated with trickery and especially seduction (狐狸精, hulijing, “fox spirit”, is a long standing Chinese slur for “slut”).

From Wikipedia: Stephen Turnbull, in “Nagashino 1575”, relates the tale of the Takeda clan’s involvement with a fox-woman. The warlord Takeda Shingen, in 1544, defeated in battle a lesser local warlord named Suwa Yorishige and drove him to suicide after a “humiliating and spurious” peace conference, after which Shingen forced marriage on Suwa Yorishige’s beautiful 14-year-old daughter Lady Koi—Shingen’s own niece. Shingen, Turnbull writes, “was so obsessed with the girl that his superstitious followers became alarmed and believed her to be an incarnation of the white fox-spirit of the Suwa Shrine, who had bewitched him in order to gain revenge.” When their son Takeda Katsuyori proved to be a disastrous leader and led the clan to their devastating defeat at the battle of Nagashino, Turnbull writes, “wise old heads nodded, remembering the unhappy circumstances of his birth and his magical mother”.[75]

So we see here a Japanese historical/cultural idea of the good leader bewitched by the fox woman who gives birth to a bad son.

Anyway, I like the dattebayo/dattebane connection between Kushina and Naruto and so I don’t care that it isn’t realistic per se in the real world. Re: Boruto: