Akatsuki Redesign for Naruto: Rogue
Added 2025-01-06 12:44:40 +0000 UTCMy best friend and I were discussing how to improve upon some of the concepts in the Naruto story, such as dialling back the mountain destroying abilities and Kaiju sized Yokai and condensing the shinobi abilities down to be more in line with what shinobi are supposed to be.
One of them involved re-contextualizing the Akatsuki group.
The Akatsuki when they were introduced were like the boogeymen of the Naruto world and clearly the end-game villains. They were very mysterious and very scary, with Itachi and Kisame giving us a glimpse as to their potential in Part 1 of the series when we knew almost nothing about them.
Don't get me wrong, they are an amazing group and perhaps the most recognized group of bad guys in Shonen, but we felt there were some things missing that could've made them so much more as antagonists in a shinobi story with shinobi magic.
To keep Naruto more in line with the mystic and fantasy elements of shinobi, here was the idea we came up with.
The Akatsuki members each stay the same as they are portrayed- HOWEVER- each member of the Akatsuki has a form of immortality related to their abilities. Since some of them already possessed a form of pseudo-immortality, it seemed only natural to redress the others to make them more scary, more intimidating, and more in-line with what the other members were going for.
The first image ABOVE lists each members' personal motivations for joining the group from Naruto canon. These are their original designs.
The second image ABOVE has the changes I'm proposing to make to them.
Let me know what you guys think.
Comments
I have to say I am impressed of this concept of each and every character for this story. Plus putting in the true ideal of immortality into it with the right amount of elements from all different type of ninja elements makes it all worth while to see how each of them are gonna be taken down. Also kudos on Itachi sad but also interesting new idea given in the circumstances he will face in the story.
EtheVoice
2025-01-09 08:42:56 +0000 UTCUuf. That sounds very dark... more edgy than Boruto.
TWF
2025-01-09 08:23:05 +0000 UTCNooo my Konan! How will she be bedded and claimed now? 😭
MDD
2025-01-07 20:37:47 +0000 UTCI've read a fanfic where Naruto had the Jiongu (to save his life as a baby), with him having more than 5 hearts by sealing additional thread creatures in scrolls. He also took an Uchihas heart when very young, which somehow transformed his eyes into Sharingan.
Julian Fratzscher
2025-01-07 16:27:16 +0000 UTCFrankenstein Obito makes perfect sense
De'Andrae White
2025-01-07 08:17:09 +0000 UTCMy favourite is between him and Deidara. :) I also like Itachi, but everybody likes Itachi, so you can't count him.
TWF
2025-01-06 23:52:38 +0000 UTCLove the idea! 😆 Here are some thoughts and idea on the Akatsuki: Deidara being Living Clay Statue is good and scary idea as he is most likely going have powers and abilities like Clayface from the 2004 "The Batman" animated series, but with an explosive element added to it; Sasori's puppet body could be super high tech with Scientific Ninja Tools seen in Boruto, hell this version of Sasori could actually be an AI copy of the real Sasori's mind and powered by his chakra; Hidan would be interesting due him being Voodoo Vampire and possible sacrificing himself to summon his god; Kakuzu could have more than five hearts and possible steal the hearts of bloodline clans while also adding the scientific benefit of having multiple hearts; Zetsu reminds how Eroninja used the filler character, Furofuki.
SparkyZinger
2025-01-06 16:23:16 +0000 UTCI like the idea, as it also brings back that original monster group idea that Akatsuki had. Also, you got a favorite among the Akatsuki? Mine is Kakuzu.
Julian Fratzscher
2025-01-06 13:50:17 +0000 UTCThis is a flash forward to what will inevitably happen in Chapter 4-5.
TWF
2025-01-06 13:27:15 +0000 UTCItachi and obito has interesting concepts now I remember in one of the chapters Naruto was fighting Obito and so I wonder what had happened between then and now.
Joshua Johnson
2025-01-06 13:16:52 +0000 UTCLeagues better than the original. This is the type of thing I expected to see in some way when they were introduced
Omni
2025-01-06 13:13:45 +0000 UTC😁 I love it
GamerLegend09
2025-01-06 12:52:02 +0000 UTC
