“The Exact Copy of the Parents’ look”
After getting an ask about how Inojin and Sai are looking alike, it made me want to talk something about the anime troupe called “The child is the carbon copy of parent” or should I say “The mash-up of the mom and the dad look” lol
Last time , I saw a post about it and people agreed that they didn’t like that troupe at all. Especially when that’s not how genetics work. But for me I think I don’t mind that at all? I think it is a really easy one for the narrative to follow too. Especially when you only have a chapter to introduce the new kids into the story. (you can call it lazy writing too)
You can see new gen InoShikaChou are all mash-up versions of their respective parents and we never seem to question who their parents are ...because.. like can it be any more obvious??
But now unfortunately, let me talk about Sarada. In the Naruto Chapter 700, we see the black haired girl with the glasses who was following around Boruto and observing him, later on we found out that it is Sakura and Sasuke’s daughter.
Uchiha genes seem to be taken over in Sarada and we don’t see any trait of Sakura in her at all, even more she is wearing the freaking glasses that no uchihas(sasuke) nor sakura seems to be wearing!!! As far as I remember, in the initial sketches of new gen kids which is on Sarada’s profile, Kishi put a description that Sarada was wearing glasses because she didn’t want to look like her dad (in the end he never bring that concept back into the narrative). But then after Chapter 700 came out ,the audience got mind-blown and left with huge confusion.
like what?? Why are you asking a question like that when Sakura is next to her at the end of Shippuden, pfft of course Sakura is the mom! Shouldn’t you be asking the question of “Who’s the Dad?” instead, since Sasuke isn’t even around the village??
>>But Sarada has dark hair and dark eyes! She is an Uchiha for sure!THere is no Sakura’s trait on her and most of all she is wearing “tHE gLAssES”
“pftt! It is just the glasses, why would it matter?”
......No.... It matters..... It matters so much that Kishimoto had to write 10 chapters long of Gaiden explaining why Karin isn’t Sarada’s mom. lmao.
......You get what I mean?
To be honest even thou I am like saying “it is essential in the narrative part for the kids to have some obvious traits of both of the parents to avoid confusion”. My fav new gen Kid’s design is Sarada afterall (and Mitsuki) They stand out so much and they are very unique.
So continuing on this, Something like Boruto/Himawari having “marking” on the face will make you immediately know who their parent are without even adding any information at all. Let’s see Boruto without having any markings or blue eyes, and give him Red hair and purple eyes (Yes exactly like Kushina)
That’s kinda Cool! His Spiky hair seems to be giving the vibe of Kushina’s Nickname (Red Habanero) It’s not so bad really. But do you guys think it will work on the narrative part without anyone saying “Did Naruto cheat with Karin?”. But well, the answer is Kushina did have a lot impact on the readers and she is an Iconic character (Red Hair Uzumaki) in “Naruto”. so It will probably work and I think it would be quite interesting path for the authors to follow since the story has provided all the facts And it seems to add on a lot of depth of the character’s background too!
But it just make me think about the characters who didn’t have enough facts (the uchiha wearing glasses) and development. I don’t think it will work. Just imagine If Inojin didn’t have any trait of Sai or maybe just exactly like Sai (Black hair dark eyes) or something out of like Sai’s parent trait? I am like 100% sure people are gonna say Ino cheated with Sasuke or someone else .lmao since My girl’s reputation seem to be bad and saiino wasnt real before 700 But unless Kishi wish to give all the gaidens to newgens. xD
So considering, if the mangakas didn’t plan to have a sequel of new gens but just to introduce the kids of the Characters out of blue, “The child is the exact copy of the Parent” troupe is not really bad at all. Clear and Clean cut explanation.