concrit-type reactions follow, as read.
Note that I have essentially no experience with the original material, so my grasp of canon vs fanon is poor at best. Likewise my understanding of which bits of information were revealed at which points.
Well, he does come out and break the Hokage's Law pretty blatantly right up front. Given the number of Konoha political enemies he's likely to develop in the relatively near future (and, indeed, the number he's likley to have *now*)...
(later correction - given the enemies that he is *actively* *cultivating*.)
He's been here for 20 years, he hangs around Ichiraku's frequently, he's got read-the-manga levels of knowledge on things, and he hasn't made any significant changes before now? He didn't stop the Uchiha massacre, didn't take Naruto under his wing earlier, didn't use his foreknowledge to minimize the damage of the nine-tailed fox, none of that?
(okay, the "not adopting Naruto" bit is explained, but....)
"As I finished my bow" should be "as I finished my bowl"
Naruto doesn't know what chakra is? Unless I'm really missing something, that fails the common sense test. He does have *some* jutsus by this point, people would have mocked him for not having any control, etc, etc, etc.
The idea that people had been doing this sort of thing a lot, to the point of actually "perfecting" the technique seems really odd to me. The impression I'd always had was that the Fourth had basically pulled the seal together out of base principles and being Really Good at what he did, and that people hadn't really had any idea what he was doing.
"that's how /samurai/ do things." - delightful.
more later
Note that I have essentially no experience with the original material, so my grasp of canon vs fanon is poor at best. Likewise my understanding of which bits of information were revealed at which points.
Well, he does come out and break the Hokage's Law pretty blatantly right up front. Given the number of Konoha political enemies he's likely to develop in the relatively near future (and, indeed, the number he's likley to have *now*)...
(later correction - given the enemies that he is *actively* *cultivating*.)
He's been here for 20 years, he hangs around Ichiraku's frequently, he's got read-the-manga levels of knowledge on things, and he hasn't made any significant changes before now? He didn't stop the Uchiha massacre, didn't take Naruto under his wing earlier, didn't use his foreknowledge to minimize the damage of the nine-tailed fox, none of that?
(okay, the "not adopting Naruto" bit is explained, but....)
"As I finished my bow" should be "as I finished my bowl"
Naruto doesn't know what chakra is? Unless I'm really missing something, that fails the common sense test. He does have *some* jutsus by this point, people would have mocked him for not having any control, etc, etc, etc.
The idea that people had been doing this sort of thing a lot, to the point of actually "perfecting" the technique seems really odd to me. The impression I'd always had was that the Fourth had basically pulled the seal together out of base principles and being Really Good at what he did, and that people hadn't really had any idea what he was doing.
"that's how /samurai/ do things." - delightful.
more later