on the kage bunshin topic: you bring up cool points. butttt i wanna voice how i always viewed the topic: a chakra problem. since the kage bunshin are solid, they would require the basic minimum amount of chakra to exist. hence, it is "forbidden" for genin to learn because they don't have enough chakra to fuel a shadow clone, so recklessly doing so would end in extreme cases of chakra exhaustion. naruto is the outlier due to the combination of uzumaki reserves and kyuubi. (1/2)
(2/2) well either that or u gotta be able to have v good control over your chakra so there’s less wastage. oh and the technique is more “konoha’s forbidden technique” and less “the whole ninja world’s forbidden technique”. maybe because it’s tobirama’s jutsu thats why konoha restricts its use, but outsiders who know it probably teach it, w warnings of chakra exhaustion. so other hidden villages would have it in their syllabuses.
(follow up to the 2part kage bunshin thing i submitted cuz i had a realisation™) my logic meant that konoha lit put themselves at a disadvantage, esp in the chunnin exams omg. so maybe that theory doesnt hold too much water. still, that’s how i see it *shrugemoticon*
Your view seems to be more or less the official one promulgated by the databooks (and possibly the anime–my knowledge of the anime isn’t super great), but I don’t find it satisfying, which is why I came up with my headcanon instead.
Here’s what bothers me about the official explanation:
What separates a jutsu as a kinjutsu/forbidden technique versus just a high rank technique? Especially because in the databooks, multiple shadow clone jutsu is only an A rank technique, not the highest S rank. “It’s very dangerous” describes all the upper rank ninja techniques, surely? If ordinary ninja don’t have the chakra for the technique, describe the technique as requiring X amount of chakra and so on, but why make the technique forbidden, especially when the other notorious forbidden jutsu in Naruto involves turning a living person into a sacrifice to resurrect the dead and enslave them?
Moreover. This is the Naruto world. A world where they send genin, most of whom are still children, into a inherently dangerous forest where they are encouraged to murder each other. Where their deaths are embraced as a proxy for war.
Concern for genin’s well-being? In my Konoha? It’s less likely than you think.
Moreover, Kakashi “Chakra Exhaustion” Hatake is well-known to not have a great amount of chakra because of his eye, and yet at the end of the battle with Zabuza, he was still able to make lots of shadow clones. He noted that he gave each barely any chakra, but even so: they were impressive in appearance of number. If he could make that many at that point, it doesn’t make sense to me that an ordinary genin with full chakra, with careful instruction (ha!), couldn’t make a dozen or so.
To me, to make a jutsu forbidden, it should be for one of two reasons:
1. It’s too inherently evil even for shinobi. Edo Tensei would be this one. In a universe where Snakebert and Danzo got all their dirty deeds dragged into the light, they probably had a lot of these.
2. Being widely studied would be inherently bad for Konoha. This is the reason my headcanon relies on for why the shadow clone jutsu is so restricted–not despite the apparent ease of learning and using it, but because it’s easy to learn and use, and therefore would be the ninja world equivalent of disruptive technology that threatens to upend the established strategies of war and commerce.
But again, it’s merely my own headcanon that I find better than canon, YMMV. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
