My 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.
EtheVoice
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