I took the Hokage's reaction as being a reaction to Kakashi apparently trying to drive Naruto out of the village by being a stupid jerk. There are advantages of Naruto having the Hokage on his side so much.
Yes, the Japanese are screwed up but that is a large part of why they are so entertaining. Its like a nation that is train wreck T.V.. However, they arent the only ones with screwed up cultural things the youth does take English youth, who have come up with a new game that I believe is called 'Happy Slapping'. This consists of one guy coming up behind some random person at a dead run and pimp slapping the victim in the back of the head. Another person records the attack on a cell phone and they laugh at it and sometimes put it on the internet. Considering the shots I've seen this is much like thinking its funny to walk up behind someone at random and smacking them in the head with a baseball bat. Also, they sometimes do it in time with someone sipping hot coffee or so that the person takes a face first nose dive into the pavement. Biting your tongue hard is one of the better results for the victim. So the Japanese arent the only ones with screwed up habits. They are just experts at coming up with them.
Also, I've notice more and more reports coming out of Japan that make me think the Japanese women are taking the stance that I've heard of from random Australian women mostly through my brother's random online dealings and chats, but also in random places otherwise... Some of who are working on that ova fusion thing so they can eliminate Australian men from the reproductive cycle. Its not a feminist thing over there... its just virtually all their men are jerks and the women don't like them. Its not that they don't like men... its they don't like Australian men.
I've heard reports of the women only cars to prevent gropers. I've also heard that the Japanese women are increasingly not getting married... which is to the point the society is getting increasingly top heavy in age. So in a few decades Japan will have to start importing people that aren't Japanese or they are going to have a massive price drop in real-estate due to decrease demand.
Which is also why 'nice guys' end up with hoards of women chasing after them in anime... 'He is not a jerk or sleaze... such traits must be bred into the gene-pool.' reaction... I know that Ranma was this way, because it was written by a female. Someday I'll bother to research which are written by females trying to trick the male population into not being pricks... and which are copycats or parodies.
Relevant to Naruto, the first thing you have to realize is that the main reason Sasuke had all those fangirls in the first place is that the writer decided that Sasuke was his favorite character and as such needed perks. The one with the most reason to actually be in love/ a fangirl ofa person in the pre-genin class is Hinata... who likes Naruto because 1) he has confidence in himself regardless of the things that come his way and she wishes for that to rub off on her. 2) Naruto is not a pervert or a jerk. The rest of the girls all what Sasuke... which I think is in the same category as why they hate Naruto... parental input. The parents hate Naruto so the kids do... the parents want that spiffy bloodline, so the girls emulate this want. In otherwords: Sasuke's fangirls are just being tools, for their parents.
One way to look at Naruto is that this charisma power of Naruto's is in part Naruto not being a jerk. People are attracted to him not being a prick, despite the villagers best efforts to fix that. One of the things about Leaf is that its upper most leadership is trying to teach its people that wonderful revelation of Jesus' "Wouldn't it be great if people stopped being scum to each other and were nice and helpful on general principal for a change?"
Which is why Pedo-Snake-Sennin didnt get to be Hokage he sort of missed the memo that said treat the people of Leaf as family and dont form a dictatorship that cannonfodders its ninjas. Actually, he missed the memo that said if your must perform horrific experiments on people at least use people from enemy villages Lazy really.
Not that Mist is any better with its Bushido like genin entrance exam nothing inspires teamwork and long term bonds like having to kill one of you class mates at random in cold blood. Considering that the selection exam for genin finalists excluded a ninja trainee that could slaughter the entire selected class by himself. Then they get the bright idea to drive off or slaughter all there ninja families that have bloodline super powers There is a reason that random outcasts and ninja clans entered up forming Leaf in the first place. Which is probably why they have so many clans with bloodline, in the first place. The whole thing about not killing them off and giving them credit for their powers thing. Now if only the bloodlines clans could all get over themselves.
As for telling her to steal 8-15 ninjas through whatever means she can? The head Cloud ninja and /or institution apparently did tell her that they caught the guy, who kidnapped, Hinata, and unmasked him before executing him, regardless of diplomatic immunity rather than he got owned by a poke of death and then got unmasked. So Im guessing its a bizarrely complicated form of political assassination rather than expecting her to succeed. But hey if she does they get super ninjas genins and bloodlines so no real loss for Cloud.
Oh and the Hokage doesnt know she is there he kind of saw Naruto improving Sexy no Jutsu and decided it wasnt worth the risk spying on Naruto at home. Blood loss can kill you know.
Yes, the Japanese are screwed up but that is a large part of why they are so entertaining. Its like a nation that is train wreck T.V.. However, they arent the only ones with screwed up cultural things the youth does take English youth, who have come up with a new game that I believe is called 'Happy Slapping'. This consists of one guy coming up behind some random person at a dead run and pimp slapping the victim in the back of the head. Another person records the attack on a cell phone and they laugh at it and sometimes put it on the internet. Considering the shots I've seen this is much like thinking its funny to walk up behind someone at random and smacking them in the head with a baseball bat. Also, they sometimes do it in time with someone sipping hot coffee or so that the person takes a face first nose dive into the pavement. Biting your tongue hard is one of the better results for the victim. So the Japanese arent the only ones with screwed up habits. They are just experts at coming up with them.
Also, I've notice more and more reports coming out of Japan that make me think the Japanese women are taking the stance that I've heard of from random Australian women mostly through my brother's random online dealings and chats, but also in random places otherwise... Some of who are working on that ova fusion thing so they can eliminate Australian men from the reproductive cycle. Its not a feminist thing over there... its just virtually all their men are jerks and the women don't like them. Its not that they don't like men... its they don't like Australian men.
I've heard reports of the women only cars to prevent gropers. I've also heard that the Japanese women are increasingly not getting married... which is to the point the society is getting increasingly top heavy in age. So in a few decades Japan will have to start importing people that aren't Japanese or they are going to have a massive price drop in real-estate due to decrease demand.
Which is also why 'nice guys' end up with hoards of women chasing after them in anime... 'He is not a jerk or sleaze... such traits must be bred into the gene-pool.' reaction... I know that Ranma was this way, because it was written by a female. Someday I'll bother to research which are written by females trying to trick the male population into not being pricks... and which are copycats or parodies.
Relevant to Naruto, the first thing you have to realize is that the main reason Sasuke had all those fangirls in the first place is that the writer decided that Sasuke was his favorite character and as such needed perks. The one with the most reason to actually be in love/ a fangirl ofa person in the pre-genin class is Hinata... who likes Naruto because 1) he has confidence in himself regardless of the things that come his way and she wishes for that to rub off on her. 2) Naruto is not a pervert or a jerk. The rest of the girls all what Sasuke... which I think is in the same category as why they hate Naruto... parental input. The parents hate Naruto so the kids do... the parents want that spiffy bloodline, so the girls emulate this want. In otherwords: Sasuke's fangirls are just being tools, for their parents.
One way to look at Naruto is that this charisma power of Naruto's is in part Naruto not being a jerk. People are attracted to him not being a prick, despite the villagers best efforts to fix that. One of the things about Leaf is that its upper most leadership is trying to teach its people that wonderful revelation of Jesus' "Wouldn't it be great if people stopped being scum to each other and were nice and helpful on general principal for a change?"
Which is why Pedo-Snake-Sennin didnt get to be Hokage he sort of missed the memo that said treat the people of Leaf as family and dont form a dictatorship that cannonfodders its ninjas. Actually, he missed the memo that said if your must perform horrific experiments on people at least use people from enemy villages Lazy really.
Not that Mist is any better with its Bushido like genin entrance exam nothing inspires teamwork and long term bonds like having to kill one of you class mates at random in cold blood. Considering that the selection exam for genin finalists excluded a ninja trainee that could slaughter the entire selected class by himself. Then they get the bright idea to drive off or slaughter all there ninja families that have bloodline super powers There is a reason that random outcasts and ninja clans entered up forming Leaf in the first place. Which is probably why they have so many clans with bloodline, in the first place. The whole thing about not killing them off and giving them credit for their powers thing. Now if only the bloodlines clans could all get over themselves.
As for telling her to steal 8-15 ninjas through whatever means she can? The head Cloud ninja and /or institution apparently did tell her that they caught the guy, who kidnapped, Hinata, and unmasked him before executing him, regardless of diplomatic immunity rather than he got owned by a poke of death and then got unmasked. So Im guessing its a bizarrely complicated form of political assassination rather than expecting her to succeed. But hey if she does they get super ninjas genins and bloodlines so no real loss for Cloud.
Oh and the Hokage doesnt know she is there he kind of saw Naruto improving Sexy no Jutsu and decided it wasnt worth the risk spying on Naruto at home. Blood loss can kill you know.