on, wow, you may have spawned a whole post I need to do on Naruto's elitist themes. Because you are so right; people's talent and screen time is SO DEPENDENT about the blessings of God/Kishimoto.
Let's see, you have:
Naruto: has a demon put into him at birth, son of the Hokage.
Sasuke: bloodline limit, last heir to a hugely important clan
Kakashi: comes from a ninja family and is given a bloodline limit.
Shikamaru (who gets an insane amount of screen time, considering): bloodline limit, genius (genetics).
Neji: bloodline limit, naturally gifted.
Compare and contrast with:
Rock Lee, genius of hard work: has NEVER won a fight. EVER.
Hinata: bloodline limit - natural ninja talent=works hard to overcome. Never seen from again.
Sakura: no ninja background, gifted with genjutsu: ignored by her first sensei, ignored during the sasuke in a barrel arc, and then has her awesome based-on-her-own-skills strength stolen by the main character, because he didn't have enough gifts, what with the massive chakra reserves, heirloom jutsu, frog summons, and clones weren't freaking enough.
Kishimoto has an ANTI hard work theme. You either get your skills from her family, or you're fucked.
(The Sannin are the only exceptions to this, and I actually think they are better balanched characters than Team 7. First, neither Orochimaru or Jiraiya come from important families, Tsunade is the one with political power and they are all on the same level, power wise.)
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on, wow, you may have spawned a whole post I need to do on Naruto's elitist themes. Because you are so right; people's talent and screen time is SO DEPENDENT about the blessings of God/Kishimoto.
Let's see, you have:
Naruto: has a demon put into him at birth, son of the Hokage.
Sasuke: bloodline limit, last heir to a hugely important clan
Kakashi: comes from a ninja family and is given a bloodline limit.
Shikamaru (who gets an insane amount of screen time, considering): bloodline limit, genius (genetics).
Neji: bloodline limit, naturally gifted.
Compare and contrast with:
Rock Lee, genius of hard work: has NEVER won a fight. EVER.
Hinata: bloodline limit - natural ninja talent=works hard to overcome. Never seen from again.
Sakura: no ninja background, gifted with genjutsu: ignored by her first sensei, ignored during the sasuke in a barrel arc, and then has her awesome based-on-her-own-skills strength stolen by the main character, because he didn't have enough gifts, what with the massive chakra reserves, heirloom jutsu, frog summons, and clones weren't freaking enough.
Kishimoto has an ANTI hard work theme. You either get your skills from her family, or you're fucked.
(The Sannin are the only exceptions to this, and I actually think they are better balanched characters than Team 7. First, neither Orochimaru or Jiraiya come from important families, Tsunade is the one with political power and they are all on the same level, power wise.)