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Boruto/Naruto centric long text blog, pro KSa, BSu; KSu, BSa, NH, SS critical: trying to understand Naruto characters better original posts and opinions tagged with '#tf54 thoughts'

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #15,626:

"Why would people ship this? They hate each other!"

Yeah, just like the beginning of 90% of romcoms.

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #15,740

You people understand you can criticize something and still like it? I hate when someone points out an issue with a certain piece of media and everyone goes "WELL IF YOU HATE IT SO MUCH THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE????" Being a fan doesn't have to mean pretending it's perfect.

[squigglesthebunny]

Kawaki and Code shenanigans

[yuenai]

☀️🌕Day 1: Memory

MitsuBoru week is here!! :D

[yuenai]

Here are the illustrations!

[tigerfire54]

https://www.tumblr.com/raveneira/822806173667426304/what-do-you-think-of-the-idea-that-sumire-is-a?source=share isn't this your theory ?

Hmm. I guess so. I think Im the only one who called her Koji's foil in this post (screenshot below)

@raveneira is also right in their interpretation because they likely considered the first definition listed below. I just meant the second definition: I used the word while trying to compare and contrast Koji's reliance on knowing the future and Sumire's lack thereof in coming to the conclusion that she did, respectively.

(link)

thank you for the ask!

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[skullusmakzart]

My brother has been following what’s going on in Boruto on ig reels and told me that apparently Sasuke is just, stuck in a tree or something.

All I could think about was this former terrorist and one of the highest ranked ninja’s, up in a tree like a fucking cat in one of those hang in there posters.

Boruto, like help ur uncle down from there!!!! He’s stuck 😭😭

[mochidoodle]

big bro/uncle Neji would have been the most beautiful man in Konoha, I just know it 🕊️✋✨

[r0semultiverse]

I want to start off by saying that I think us Amado antag truthers were correct and I think we should all feel very vindicated right now.

Him tampering with Koji’s anatomy wasn’t just to be “fatherly” and help him out, this smells like absolute bull shit. Us as the audience knows his one big motive is to bring his daughter back. It’s all been for Akebi.

Sure we gotta wait for the official translations to drop, but also omg? Wtf is he about to do with Kawaki? I am so concerned for this kid even if he’s been such a rude boy lately.

We know this man will hold anyone hostage to achieve his goals and that Kawaki currently has Naruto & Hinata trapped within the Daikokuten via the powers from the karma marking that Amado controls.

Amado basically holds the keys to the finale of this entire series and I personally find that terrifying. Regardless of what happens to the Shinju, Amado Sanzu (if that’s even his name) is in one of the positions with the most power right now because of his Chekhov’s Gun potentially Otsutsuki daughter and his control over Kawaki.

Also I can’t help but feel like there’s a distinct possibility that he was checking what Kashin Koji could see after being altered, especially regarding his daughter. Now we really don’t know what we can trust from Koji and trust was already quite low with him in some regards. Wouldn’t want him seeing the futures where Miss Otsutsuki wakes up and becomes the end-game antagonist or whatever (if that’s the route the story is headed).

Also, how are they just now identifying the fact that Jiraiya’s chakra signature has been entering & editing the village? Guess they got better security after Naruto “died.”

This is one of those chapters in a long time now that I’ve been so excited to see the official translation of. Genuinely on the edge of my seat.

ALSO BORUSHIKI?!

[tigerfire54]

If Boruto Two Blue Vortex has a happy ending

Kawaki: Lord Seventh, just kill me. I did a big mistake. I sealed you and Hinata, left Hima alone, tried killing Boruto many times. Konoha should kill me. Naruto: Nope. I wont. You are staying alive. And no, you can't kill yourself either. Kawaki: Let me leave the village then. Excommunicate me. Naruto: No. Kawaki: Let me leave the family. I'll give up the Uzumaki name. Naruto: No. Kawaki: Oh COME ON! Give me some punishment. Boruto: Uh... we got broken photoframes, a vase, some glassware from the time when you sealed my parents. Fix them. Kawaki: . . . Kawaki: ISTG I should try killing you again. NVM Lord Seventh, you can actually kill me after this. Naruto: Kawaki, NO!

[thena0315]

Before: Naruto Episode 142

Moegi looked up to Temari after she taught at the academy

After: Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Episode 113

Moegi would eventually become Temari's son's sensei

[kurawastaken]

Playing with Himawari’s new design to make it look a bit more like the original Naruto outfits

[thena0315]

Before: Naruto Episode 142

Moegi looked up to Temari after she taught at the academy

After: Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Episode 113

Moegi would eventually become Temari's son's sensei

[axtrowrld]

I had to draw Sarada holding Kawaki Rod while wearing his sleeveless jacket in his colors 🤗

[lost-in-love-maze]

south indian wedding zutara

commissioned the lovely NiahtiArt to recreate rashmika and vijay's adorable wedding pics and could not be happier with how they came out.

[axtrowrld]

You guys!! I MADE A BSU AND KSA DISCORD SERVER. You can join! Make sure to invite other bsu and ksa shippers in as well.

Check out the Borusumi/Kawasara server community on Discord - hang out with 1 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[slayninjaslayyy]

This is the shit I’m talking about bro what the fuck are you talkingggg about THEY ARE TEENAGERS. Genuinely I hope every character in boruto dies so that they’ll be spared from the shipping wars and sexualization ESPECIALLY the girls. These ppl talk about their ships like they’re playing fucking merge dragons or something

[nacre-chimerical]

there’s genuinely such a eugenics undertone to the Boruto fandom. Like it’s everywhere, even the basis of the series comes from 2 ships (sssk & nrhn) that are a bit controversial and the whole plot line of Sarada thinking Karin was her mother led to a whole slew of people talking about how Sasuke and Karin would have a “strong child”. Boruto has that whole thing of apparently the combination of his parents’ respective bloodlines determining his fate.

it’s also got terrible shipping culture.

[mayakonoha]

The problem is that eugenics has been foundational to the Naruto series. Orochimaru & the hyuga practiced it blatantly. The jinchuriki ritual, even things like sasukes dad favoring Itachi for his skills over Sasuke. Kishimoto used to use these examples as condemning eugenics. I don’t think he handled it perfectly himself especially towards the end of Naruto but at least there were blunt condemnations. Lee’s whole arc and character (as well as Neji’s) was also a testament against eugenics & that who you choose to be determines who you are, not just who your family (& their power) is.

Ikemoto, on the other hand, seems to actually promote eugenics. The way characters only talk about their clans now in relation to their power, the way having blue eyes is constantly emphasized in the story for no discernible reason. (The jougan isn’t a blue eye so it’s not even referencing that power, it just sounds like Aryan race talk. Notice no other eye color gets mentioned ever lol)

Kawaki’s whole character is built around eugenics and in Naruto this would’ve been acknowledged. But in Boruto it’s only used as “otutsuki bad”. Eida, daemon & even Koji has been around for way too many chapters and they haven’t voiced any real concern over the eugenics used against them nor has anyone else. It is not good writing to dump something crucial to a character in one talk 100 chapters into a story if Ike ever addresses it at all. Amado is the head Eugenics guy in Konoha now and the only voiced concern about him in story is “he’s untrustworthy bc otutsuki allegiance” when orochimaru was this guy it was blatantly discussed how his eugenics was evil and how it harmed people.

There’s a huge undertone of “these characters are special bc of their genetics” that’s pushed in story. The way Ike writes about it yet distances the characters from their actual lineages is the issue. The hyuga blood makes hima & boruto strong only bc of genetics, not bc of the culture, the bonds, the techniques or even skills. They spend 0 time with their hyuga family or clan (or even just the culture) and only the genetics is mentioned. Uzumaki is clung too for genetics only, the don’t even bother letting Karin teach anything about the culture that she may know. Not even scrolls about Uzumaki culture or techniques mentioned for Hima & Boruto to develop. Uchiha is the same way. The story only cares about clans for genetics now, which is PURE eugenics. People without clans are powerful, ‘special’ & relevant bc of their genetic compatibility with karma & otutsuki genes.

This is the only direct eugenics pushback we have in Boruto

Contrasting this very mild & purposely vague pushback with how eugenics was condemned in Naruto

Notice how Hiruzen talks about how Orochimarus THINKING is the problem, he also calls him inhuman, instead of just ‘Orochimaru crazy’ which he is but directly attacking the idea is condemning the ideology rather than brushing it under the rug as a charcaters personal flaw.

They never condemn Amado for his heinous experiments esp on children., it’s actually praised and seen as a benefit. Their problem w him is that he worked w Otutsuki, not that he was performing eugenics experiments.

So with Ikemoto subtly pushing all this pro-eugenics rhetoric, it’s no shocker the fans ran with it. They are constantly told characters are only important depending on their genetics, so of course characters like Sumire get called useless and ‘boring’ bc this is the eugenics factory!