00:00You know what the thing I'm most looking forward to in Naruto Shadow Rising is?
00:04Well, in reality, it's the Konohamaru versus Naruto fight.
00:08But Konohamaru isn't on Arcos' level, and besides, why would you want the two of them to fight?
00:14?
00:14I love imitating you.
00:15It's one of my biggest pleasures on the entire internet; I've been doing it for years.
00:19I'll never get tired of it.
00:20At the very beginning of Naruto, Konohamaru became Naruto's rival.
00:23Many people disagree with this, but it's true; it's stated in the manga noir.
00:27On white, you are my rival.
00:29Rivals to become Okage, Naruto and Konohamaru both wanted to become Okage, so they are rivals in the goal of becoming Okage.
00:37Sasuke and Naruto were never rivals because their goals are not at all the same, they
00:41are not rivals in the goal of being Okage.
00:43It was right at the end of the 4th Great Ninja War that Kishimoto thought, "Oh shit, this
00:47It would be good if they were truly rivals one day for the same goal, so Sasuke arrives and
00:51He says, "I'm going to become Okage too."
00:53So there they are, rivals, stupid rivals, but they are rivals.
00:56Kiba is a rival of Naruto, also aiming to become Okage, anyway, you get the idea
01:00the message.
01:00So at the very beginning of the Naruto manga, Konohamaru and the hero promise each other a fight at the very end for
01:06the position of Okage.
01:07And that's a promise that's made at the very beginning of the manga; the manga starts from there.
01:11There's Naruto's dream of becoming Okage, and then a rival shows up and says
01:15"I want to be one too, and one day we'll fight to see who will become one."
01:19So Konohamaru was destined to be a major character in Naruto, but as you know, he was sidelined by
01:26The arrival of Sasuke, who was much more handsome, much darker, with a greater style, a much richer backstory
01:30darker.
01:31And so, Sasuke has taken Konohamaru's place in the importance of the story, which is extremely unfortunate.
01:37Moreover, Konohamaru alone is a huge flop in my eyes because instead of becoming the
01:43'Heir to Asuma, Hirozen, and the Sarutobi clan, he unfortunately became a mini-Naruto who has the same
01:49techniques from A to Z.
01:51So the reader had less importance in following Konohamaru because it was a pale copy of Naruto, then
01:56that if they had made Konohamaru, heir to the Sarutobi clan, with unique techniques from the Sarutobi clan, we would have
02:02I had more of an attachment to him, very clearly.
02:04In short, at the end of the Naruto manga and even in the Boruto manga, we never saw the fight.
02:08Konohamaru vs Naruto, the fight that was promised.
02:11And Kishimoto has an extremely good grasp of his storytelling, so logically, in Naruto Blazing, it would be good if Kakashi told Naruto,
02:19You will become the 7th Okage, and Naruto will tell him,
02:22Well, before getting to that point, I have something to do; there's a promise I made.
02:25It happened a long time ago, and Naruto goes to see Konohamaru in a "we have to fight" kind of way.
02:30Because I am going to become Okage, I have been elected.
02:33And for Konohamaru to tell him, anyway, I'm not at that level, I am
02:37Too young to be one, so come on, let's still have this fight we promised each other.
02:41And if we had a Naruto vs. Konohamaru fight, that would be extremely cool, it would conclude the very first
02:48Naruto thing,
02:49which was never resolved; that's one of the major flaws of manga in my opinion, not to
02:52to fulfill the very first promise of the manga.
02:54Thank you for watching this video!
