Heat, you touched here on one of my favorite motifs of this story, and something I’ve had conversations with others about before.
One of the biggest complaints people tend to voice about Kishimoto’s narrative structure (apart from his weak female characters) is how basically the entire story is just about Naruto and Sasuke, and everyone else takes a backseat, unlike Oda’s characters, who essentially all have autonomy across the world. This is true to an extent, in that Naruto and Sasuke are clearly the main characters, so the central storylines (the akatsuki and the uchiha) revolve around their motivations. However, in truth, the real major driving motif behind the narrative is the way naruto affects the people around him. Yes, he takes center stage constantly repeating himself with lines like DATTEBAYO! And “that’s my Nindo,” not to mention the Talk no Jutsu, but he does these things to serve as a framing device more to other people’s character arcs than his own. Not that that is totally absent or anything, hell, we just saw in this very episode how, despite being developmentally disabled, he’s able to master an S rank jutsu nobody other than the 4th and Jiraiya ever have in a week. But in truth, he more serves as the catalyst to Tsunade’s arc. And Gaara’s. And Hinata’s. And rock Lee’s, and Jiraiya’s, and perhaps most of all, Sasuke’s.
This is a theme which will continue for the next 600 chapters, and it’s something I think the title of the story belies when people say shit like they don’t like him as an MC. Even if that is true, the story isn’t really about him as a character in a vacuum. It’s about the way his personality, and ideals, and unwavering resolve affect those he meets in his lifetime, and how their stories change for the better. That to me has always been one of the major bulletpoints of Kishimoto’s narrative style, and something that synergizes quite well with his world building too, although we haven’t really seen a whole lot of that yet tbf
AMetalWorld
2024-04-30 20:04:24 +0000 UTC
Check out heats media on twitter too! They’re a couple of clips he shared there Definitely grab the haikyuu ones
Karheem bamboo
2024-04-30 08:25:18 +0000 UTC
Edit your post with a discord invite link if you can. That will help people get over there easier.
AstralWisdom
2024-04-30 06:37:43 +0000 UTC
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT: Light & myself on the heat & hus discord are making a "best of heat & hus" video. We could use ya'll help, join the discord and post time stamps and/or episodes of your fav moments/reacts from heat & hus. When you join the discord, just @ preetchi001 or you can @light.ira and we'll get you directed to the right channel for your timestamp/moment post. Or if you're already on discord, just post the timestamp and/or episode name in the very first channel called clips-timestamps. You can also use the clip function on the youtube vids and send those in discord. Here is the discord invite link: https://discord.gg/dSKfJNSw Thanks! any help is appreciated : )
Preet
2024-04-30 01:39:08 +0000 UTC
⏸️⏯️. 🙌🏿 *i rebuke you in the name of Jesus* 😣
madmax
2024-04-29 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
pause lol
Fantom Limb
2024-04-29 13:26:22 +0000 UTC
Nah I second this cuz it would take a min to get through Naruto with all the filler
Shawn
2024-04-29 11:51:12 +0000 UTC
Can someone hook them up with a filler list or do they have that already?
Karheem bamboo
2024-04-29 07:14:39 +0000 UTC
Idk if y'all have recorded past it yet, but I highly recommend checking out Naruto Episode 101. It's a classic episode even though it's filler.