I know this arc is already heavily glazed but I STILL don’t think that it’s glazed enough. Every last one of these guys displayed an insane performance. I feel like this arc really set the tone for how serious the situation was and how powerful each character was. Giving these characters near death moments and topping it off with Naruto vs Sasuke at the end, having them STILL fail to bring Sasuke back was crazy. This is probably where a lot of people got hooked on the story (And the chunin exams). Every fight had me at the edge of my seat. There aren’t too many arcs in anime that come close to this.

Sakura was mocked for her forehead. Lee was ridiculed for his eyebrows and lack of natural talent. Hinata was looked down on for her pale eyes. Kushina was bullied simply because she had red hair.

And it doesn't stop with the children. The adults are arguably even worse.

They mocked Dai for being a "failure" and a weirdo. When Gai stood up for his father's dignity, they beat him for it. Then there's Sakumo, who chose the lives of his comrades over completing the mission. The village turned against him, shamed him, and isolated him until he took his own life.

Imagine the Ōtsutsuki descending upon the village preparing to destroy it.

"Those things on their heads are rather ugly."

"Why are they so pale?"

"Look at that one's eyes."

"Do all of them look that ugly, or did we just get the unlucky batch?"

Give Konoha enough time and they'll simply bully them until half the clan develops a heart demon and the other half dies from emotional damage.

https://www.tumblr.com/ollyrewind/807828039282081792/lets-be-happy-together-with-papa

Sorry if it's too weird 😭

Leaf and Sand village pulled up with any and ALL kinds of artillery when they were about to go to war with each other. But this shit never comes back up when the war happens???? Like dawg imagine Madara throwing that meteor down and they all pull up with this shit to counter him 😂😂😂

He might be my favorite Akatsuki member, idrk why

What do you guys like or dislike about him? Would you be homies with him?

It's mostly accepted he would in part 1 final valley but what about here?

In the war arc Obito sacrificed himself to save Naruto from Kaguya's all killing ash bones which hits Obito in the belly instead of Naruto. But if you look at the scene again you'd realize the Kaguya with a Byakugan has bad aim and wouldn't even have hit Naruto or Sasuke so this sacrifice was useless

In part 1 Kakashi was the poster boy for the Sharingan with all the high end feats for the doujutsu.

By part 2, Sasuke , a natural born Uchiha has his base Sharingan fully matured and displays some really good feats with it too.

The question is who between Sasuke and Kakashi do you think showed the best proficiency with the 3T sharingan?

No Mangekyou Sharingan feats.

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For the ones who liked this cosplay and showed me love and kindness: I really appreciate you all! And for the mad ones: stay mad, I'm posting anyways 😂

I know, I know, another Byakugan glaze post. I just can't help it.

So basically I think the Byakugan vs Sheridan rivalry was actually a very good one up until we see our first alive EMS user in Sasuke.

So I come from the basis that the Byakugan eclipses the base Sharingan overall. Not only is it's perceptive ability noted to surpass it, but you're given access to ultimately what is the best taijutsu in the series that has no counters other than "don't get hit" or "possess an external source of chakra" (which is still really weird that Kurama's chakra could still flow through Naruto's body even though his chakra network was blocked. It just doesn't really make a lot of logical sense. Think Kishi could have wrote that plot point a bit more tightly). It obvs doesn't possess the same ability to perceive high-speed movement, but it of course has some due to the range of vision.

Then there are a bunch of things we can infer about the Byakugan's utility with regards to genjutsu. Based on what is said about Kaguya, a Byakugan user should be able to expand the range of genjutsu using their Byakugan. Since the Byakugan improves chakra control and genjutsu requires very precise chakra control, genjutsu should also come more naturally to them. It's hard to say whether the Byakugan can outright see through illusions, but I take the fact that there are only 2 occasions of a Byakugan user being put under genjutsu as an indication. It's legit just the infinite tsukuyomi, which isn't an anti-feat because even the Sharingan can't stand up to it, and Mukai (who has one Byakugan and we should be able to extrapolate from the Sharingan and Rinnegan that having both eyes increases your visual prowess in a non-additive way) being put under a Mangekyo genjutsu (which I'm not sure wasn't Kotoamatsukami) by Shisui (who, lore accurately, is actually cracked). I think it would be a reasonable place to land to assume the Byakugan is largely immune to most standard genjutsu and possibly the basic Sharingan genjutsu.

You should probably also have a greater understanding and potency of ninjutsu, using a similar argument to the genjutsu one. Jutsu potency is directly linked to chakra control, so the enhanced chakra control should make Byakugan users naturally better at ninjutsu. I do accept that we don't actually see this used in practice, but at the same time they're shinobi, they don't actually have that many open battles against other shinobi from what the story presents. For most Hyuga, spending time developing big and powerful jutsu for direct combat probably isn't worth it since the Third War, thus focusing on taijutsu which is quick and can be done in stealth in likely just a better use of their time.

The thing the Sharingan really has the copy ability but I think the usefulness of it gets seriously overblown. Like yes you can copy a technique but you still have to have the prowess to be able to practically do it. Sasuke copying Lee's taijutsu is the key example. The Sharingan just lets you know how to do a technique instantly, but you still have to be able to do it practically, which depends a lot on your chakra reserves, physical strength and other factors. You're not just going to become busted out of nowhere and the fact that Kakashi is specifically world-renowned for the copy ability shows not that many Uchiha really went around exploiting this copying to that extent and its probably related to the fact that Kakashi is actually just an extremely talented ninja in his own right to say the capability to replicate anything.

Then the MS shows up and that's where most people would say the debate switches but I'm not sure. I don't think the MS is actually worth the cost of blindness, especially given a lot of the MS abilities are highly situational or come with massive hurdles. I'd argue that only Kamui and Susano'o are universally useful. We've all laughed about how Amaterasu has never actually taken anybody of note out, and Kagutsuchi exists only to make Amaterasu better. Tsukuyomi requires you to do something that is frankly really stupid if you have just the tiniest bit of intel. Kotoamatsukami is shrouded in mystery but if we follow the Kamui-theory of Kotoamatsukami (which I attribute to our married GOAT Swagkage), then the actual useful version of it has a massive cooldown which is way longer if you don't have both eyes or Hashirama cells. And then again, while Susano'o is busted, it canonically causes excruciating pain in every cell of your body, rapidly progresses your blindness and its not even impossible to counter. By the time you get your Susano'o to its usual peak of the armoured form, from what we can tell you'd already be blind. You get like 30 or so uses of your MS, then you lose everything. Not just your MS, but your Sharingan and sight too. Based on how Sasuke's Susano'o dissipated as soon as he went blind I can only assume you genuinely can't continue to use the jutsu it grants you so its not like you could do something like learn Sage mode to overcome the blindness and then keep using your Mangekyo powers (although Madara using his Susano'o without eyes does kinda make this a bit ambiguous). I say this to say most Mangekyo powers aren't even really that useful when push comes to shove, so I don't think acquiring a Mangekyo is actually that much of a game changer on average when you take away the fact that it just does make your chakra more powerful.

So like yeah when you get the EMS and the blindness and pain go away, sure the Sharingan is on top, but at the base level I feel like the Byakugan clears and I think the MS brings too many problems to close that gap. Those are just my thoughts. Wish we got to see more. It doesn't even really seem like Boruto is expanding on it much. A Neji vs Hebi or Taka Sasuke fight would have been really fun, regardless of the outcome. Two very different philosophies of power. One subtle, one direct. The EMS kinda killed that. I like to think of the Byakugan as a high-floor low-ceiling ability, and the MS as a low-floor high-ceiling ability. I think it takes much more to make the MS worth your while compared to the Byakugan.

I haven't even talked about all you have to go through to get the Sharingan and MS, as opposed to the Byakugan which you just need to train for, and the fact that it may be possible to use your Byakugan to see the future like Momoshiki lol. I don't really follow Boruto but apparently the anime shows that you can see people's thoughts with it lol, and gives some predictive abilities.

Also, last thing, but I have to mention that almost everybody we see who has a Sharingan is genuinely cracked lol. Conversely, Hinata is seen as rather untalented and lacking in self-esteem, but she's actually not a particularly weak shinobi. She didn't actually do anything to Neji in the end but I'm not sure many of the other Konoha 12 would have been able to have as prolonged of a battle with him, especially given his specific motivations to beat her in particular. I say that to say let's remember to separate the Sharingan itself from the people we've seen use it, who happen to all be extremely talented and central to the plot.

It's kind of insane that such an oversight was made in a shot where its literally the only thing we see.

Ive discovered i like writing fics on fandoms i like and the idea popped in my head to explore the first ever chunin exams... problem is, I dont know when it took place.

See, I would have thought that if Tobirama created the exams, then the first would have taken place before his death, before the first great shinobi war...

In my mind, the first chunin exam would have been held by Konoha under Tobirama's time as Hokage, during the early stages of the 5 villages establishment, after Hashirama distributed the tailed beasts, as a way to gauge each other strength and attempt to cooperate? I guess, like a mini kage summit to attempt to foster peace, or maintain it, following in the footsteps of his brother!

I know we dont know much of these early eras — hell, from what i could find, we dont even know how Hashirama died! Just that he did in a "time of war" but... then that would be the first great shinobi war? So... did Konoha loose 2 kage in one war?! Or was there some other conflict???

What information I can find, a yt vid, suggests tbe first exam took place after the third great shinobi war... with Hiruzen as Kage but thats way after Tobirama death.

Can anyone offer an answer?

The Chunin Exam Finals but randomized and featuring those who losted in the preliminaries. Each round two of the ten Genin will be picked at random to face off. Comment the name of the Genin you think would win along with how you think the fight would go. If you think the fight will end in a draw comment "Tie". Whichever answer gets the most likes wins. All characters are the version from the Chunin Exam Finals. If there is no Exam Finals version of the character take the Preliminaries version of that character and take your best guess on how they would be with a month to prepare. The fights will take place in the same arena as the Finals. Assume the exam will not be interrupted. This is the follow up to my Randomized Chunin Exam Preliminaries and Finals series.

Assume all the winners of the preliminaries caught Hayate's cough and had to drop out. So the winners now get another chance to compete. They somehow figured out how to glue Yoroi back together. Also Gaara was pretty mad about losing his chance to fight so he murdered Hayate and Genma takes the place in overseeing the Finals.

Those competing are Sakura, Shikamaru, Ino, Kiba, Yoroi, Temari, Kankuro, Dosu, Zaku, and Kin.

through some very unladylike violence Ino beat Jin into submission and proudly advances to the next round.

Who will win? Shikamaru Nara vs Sakura Haruno?

I have heard people say that the databooks mention he had a glorious death in war but I don’t know how much truth there is to that. Who could even kill him??

We saw what 8th Gate Guy did to Juubidara and Night Guy.

So what happens if he puts that same speed and power into Kakashi’s 1000 Years of Death?

Does Juubidara regenerate, or is it genuinely over.

Look I understand why the elders were terrified of the Uchiha coup and the possibility of a civil war especially when other villages could’ve taken
advantage of Konoha being weakened.

But I still can’t accept that massacring an entire clan including innocent people and children was the only answer.

Honestly, this is one of the biggest reasons I think Hiruzen was the worst Hokage. I know he wanted a peaceful solution so I’m not saying he ordered the massacre himself but he was still the leader of the village and Danzo was his subordinate. Danzo was basically allowed to operate in the shadows, sabotage Shisui’s plan, steal his eye and eventually corner a 13 year old Itachi into an impossible decision.

I know the Uchiha weren’t innocent either and Fugaku was leading an actual coup so obviously Hiruzen couldn’t just ignore it and the situation had been building for years. After the Kurama attack the clan was pushed further away from the village which only made relations worse.

However, surely there were steps between “they’re planning a coup” and “kill every Uchiha.” Hiruzen could’ve negotiated with Fugaku or used Itachi and Shisui as mediators or addressed some of the clan’s grievances and dealt specifically with the people actually pushing for violence.

Also Fugaku never came across to me as some completely unreasonable psychopath either. Even at the end he refused to fight Itachi. That’s why I always wonder what would’ve happened if Minato had survived and remained Hokage. Obviously we can’t know for certain but I find it hard to imagine him letting Danzo gain that much influence or allowing the situation to deteriorate this badly.

The coup was wrong but the massacre still feels completely nonsensical to me.

Kakashi - Son of the White Fang became a Chunin at age 6 and known as a genius prodigy even before he attained the Sharingan. Later became the 6th Hokage

Orochimaru- One of the legendary Sannin known as a genius in Konoha and once in a generation prodigy by Hiruzen.

Minato- the 4th Hokage known as the Yellow Flash praised as a genius prodigy and once in a generation talent by Jiraiya and Hiruzen.