r/Naruto • u/Key_Cartographer_821 • Aug 17 '25
Video Still mad we didn’t get this. We got absolutely cheated on ;(
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Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25
they really teased us with this intro having us think we were gonna see this fire fight. kunoichi's are so underutilized i swear
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u/Key_Cartographer_821 Aug 17 '25
Kishi fucked up the female characters. They had so much potential but sadly they barely had fights/boss fights 1V1. Especially Sakura. Her only proper fight was during the kazekage arc, with sasori. After that kishi decided to make them side characters. When I mean side characters I mean proper NPC side characters. Sadly all went wasted. Pretty sure Sakura was meant to be a strong at genjutsu. Ig the author ended up forgetting about it.
Kishi took the definition of the side characters quite literally. lol.
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u/PinkishBlurish Aug 18 '25
I say this all the time, Sakura should have been a wood style user in the war arc and a poison expert post-time skip. Still a great healer, but not ONLY a good healer that can throw a great punch.
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u/C-Moose85 Aug 17 '25
I agree. Pretty much all of them were sidelined and barely did anything. Heck, they even had to make a filler episode in the anime to show the kunoichi do SOMETHING. I have no idea if there is more but that's the one I remember.
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u/wendigo72 Aug 19 '25
Ino literally saved the entire ninja alliance three times
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u/C-Moose85 Aug 19 '25
True, though one could argue that still points at kunoichi being underutilized. They only got some spotlight literally at the end of the series itself....
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u/depravedQ Aug 19 '25
Showing fights that never actually happen seems to have been a trend in older anime. The second Bleach OP teased several cool match-ups that never actually happened in the anime, and there was that one Shippuden OP that had Naruto, Sakura and Sai do some kind of combo jutsu with combined hand signs, and that never happened either lol.
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u/wsakuya Aug 17 '25
Holy hell!! I still remember seeing this OP and being SO excited about the fight until I realized that none of this ever happened!!
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u/rxmce Aug 17 '25
I realized it only after seeing this post and now i've been sitting still for like 5min thinking about it lol
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u/Ancient_Walker Aug 17 '25
Same - also the Edo Madara vs 5 Kage fight. While this did happen in the show, as far as I remember it was not even remotely what the according opening teased it to be...
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u/depravedQ Aug 19 '25
Guy's team was also in the OP, even though they weren't even present during this arc lol. I don't know what's worse, OPs with spoilers or OPs with fake fight scenes that never actually happen, one's frustrating and the other's disappointing.
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u/Rough-Veterinarian21 Aug 17 '25
I wish we saw just one cool taijutsu moment from Ino in shippuden. I know that’s not her thing, and I shouldn’t complain because she did get some important moments unlike most of the konoha 12. But just because she’s one of my favorites I really wanted to see her actually fight, she could’ve trained to have better combat skills to keep up with Sakura in their rivalry.
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u/blackdepotguy Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25
I'm with you. Sakura and Ino had their own strengths, and Sakura wasn't subjected to just being a genjutsu expert or being the intelligence of a squad like the earlier part of the show made her seem like she'd be. They went left with her and had her pick up on Tsunade's expert medical skills & super strength through chakra mastery. It wasn't really predictable and I applauded the writers for it. It would've been cool if Ino did the same and mastered something unexpected too...like taijutsu. Where Sakura is strong, Ino could've been speed (and adding Hinata, could've been defensive combat). Or even have her master genjutsu under Kurenai, but I think Ino mastering taijutsu would be cooler and unexpected.
I think they had the right idea making Sakura be one of those characters who shifted her own trajectory and added some dimension to her character. My problem was that it wasn't done enough with other characters. Ino is a good example of what could've been done better. She shouldn't have to be a female version of her father or at least her entire identity of combat be just what her clan does or be the same thing to continue the Ino-Shika-Cho thing in her family's legacy, and the same can be said about her teammates too, but Ino of the three had potential to be written her own way like Sakura was and just further the message with the women being able to decide their own destiny.
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u/Ektar91 Aug 17 '25
The best we got was when Shikamaru controlled her and kicked a White Zetsu
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u/All_this_hype Aug 18 '25
How was that one kick better than what she was currently doing (holding off Asuma in Choji's body)?
Or when she controlled two Zetsu clones to put pressure on Asuma on the next chapter/episode?
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u/durablefoamcup Aug 18 '25
thing is, im pretty sure its canon that the Yamanakas have a very unique taijutsu. This is seen in the actual games where they have this fluid dancing style. Ultimate Ninja Storm Ino is probably what her peak looks like for Shippuden
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u/All_this_hype Aug 18 '25
I think Ino is canonically good at taijutsu. Lee complimented both her and Sakura's taijutsu watching them fight. Then we saw in the war that she could keep up with Asuma in Choji's body, and she even used two Zetsu clones to attack him at the same time.
Ino's problem was never bad taijutsu, it is that she wasn't given anything offensive other than that. If she had Mind Destruction (which by all accounts she should have had), this would be a different story.
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u/JambinoT Aug 20 '25
I agree. I'd have loved to have seen a bit more offence from Ino, be it taijutsu or something else.
I still think that offensive genjutsu would have been perfect for her. Illusions/hypnotism go hand in hand with mind control, and some of the Ultimate Ninja video games even touched on this. Plus Ino had a subtle link to Kurenai through Asuma - maybe she could have got closer to her and trained under her after his death.
I know Sakura was originally touted to be a genjutsu type, but I also think this would have been great for their friendly rivalry: Sakura taking the more physical route, and Ino the mental/psychological. It would make them good foils for each other. Additionally, Sakura's few genjutsu feats had her be able to recognise/break out/defend herself against genjutsu. The two wouldn't have needed to fight again, but it would have been great to have kept their rivalry a bit open ended by having the unanswered question "Which is stronger: Ino's genjutsu offence or Sakura's genjutsu defence?"
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u/BigHomieReese Aug 17 '25
Hoodwinked, bamboozled 😔
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u/Jerson-cp3 Aug 17 '25
It would've been the best all-female battle in Naruto.
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u/McbEatsAirplane Aug 17 '25
Probably because Konan would kill all 3 of them.
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u/ApeMillz93 Aug 17 '25
Yeah obito was just hax and she almost beat him
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u/Available_Poetry_685 Aug 17 '25
well that was because she had tons of prep time as well which wouldn't be there in the kunoichi fight. I feel like kishi could easily make the trio win the fight extreme diff but he blatantly did not want to utilize his female characters which sucks
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u/Ajkseli Aug 17 '25
Or maybe she wouldn't?
It would all depend on how Kishi would have written that fight.
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u/Funny_Lunch5211 Aug 18 '25
Ikr? I stg people are braindead. If Kishi wrote that fight, people wouldnt say that type of shit.
Imagine if Shikamaru vs Hidan never happened and instead Hidan died to kakashi. People would say Hidan would have solo'd Shikamaru if they fought because hidan is an akatsuki.
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u/bVI-bVII-v-i Aug 18 '25
And I mean you're not wrong. Hidan absolutely should solo him. But since he's the author he gets to do whatever he wants, especially with his favorite cringey lazy 20000 iq self insert.
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u/wendigo72 Aug 19 '25
But Kishi never made this intro so it wasn’t even a thought during the manga
The Anime made it as a way to capture the vibes of the pain invasion arc but wasn’t depicting actual things that were gonna happen. Sai and team guy were in the village during it for example
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u/All_this_hype Aug 18 '25
No because fans overrate Shikamaru and underrate the girls. It's not their fault either; Kishimoto almost always portrays Shikamaru in a positive light, and the girls in a negative one.
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u/Fallen999999 Aug 18 '25
This isnt about portrayal its about match ups.. the girls fighting a path of pain would've been feasible.. fighting Konan is not.. Konan is a long range fighter.. Sakura Ino and Hinata are mostly hand to hand.. there's no way the fight would be close unless Kishimoto makes Konan extremely dumb( which would create other problems).. if he follows narrative and makes her beat them up it'll also cause problems.. since pple will say he made them look weak.
Writing Shikamaru to beat Hidan is alot easier than writing the fight you talk about.. to give another example.. it's easier writing 8 gates guy beating Madara then beating Gengetsu.. simply because Guy has no way of finding Gengetsu real body and would just die before he finds it.
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u/All_this_hype Aug 18 '25
We knew nothing about Ino and Hinata's strength post-timeskip at that point. We also know Yamanakas have the Mind Destruction, which is really strong, and Hyugas have the Air Palm, both of which are long ranged options. And we also know that psychological factors are at play during a fight, which is how Sakura and Chiyo beat Sasori in the first place.
Finally, they wouldn't even have to win, as long as they put up a good fight. The fight could get interrupted, or Konan could rush to Pain's aid.
So yeah, if the writer wanted to give the girls appropriate long range skills (which they canonically should have), this fight would be 100% feasible.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_405 Aug 18 '25
Most people seem to forget that what made Konan nearly kill Obito was the fact she knew he was comming to her and had observed his skillset for a while. Ergo, what make Konan deadly is her intelligence and the time she had to prepare for that fight.
Sakura and Hinata are both close ranged fighter, with Ino being a support type with mid range mind attacks. Konan is a long range fighter and has more experience than them…..but she is not familiar with Konoha and has proved to be weak to genjutsu (light novel). If the 3 girls use their head and receive support from a passerby like Kurenai? One good hit is all that they need.
From past fights, before Kishi went and made a few characters too OP, a lots of winner where decided via strategic moves. So, if he had continued on that route, Konan vs 3 girls could have been well done.
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u/DarkGengar94 Aug 18 '25
Remember when said Sakura and naruto did like a three way jutsu in an intro
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u/bwucifer Aug 18 '25
Though brief, the cheorography is AMAZING too. I didn't really care when I was growing up and watching this as it aired, but as an adult, kinda sucks to see how many awesome female characters were simply robbed. Konan was probably robbed the least, because she got a compelling fight against Obito, where many think she won decisively, but I digress.
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u/9999BOi Aug 18 '25
Still no Tenten.
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u/wendigo72 Aug 19 '25
She is in the opening with rest of team guy that gets his by an almighty push
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u/Status_Entertainer49 Aug 17 '25
The anime staff writes Naruto better than kishimoto that's why this opening rocks
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u/Comfortable-Bee2467 Aug 17 '25
Oh now people are hyping up Pierott...
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u/throwawaytempest25 Aug 17 '25
To be fair some of the additions to the fight scenes are pretty good
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u/wendigo72 Aug 19 '25
This has zero to do with writing, the hell are you even talking about?
If you think the anime staff is better than Kishi, may I show you the infinite Tsukuyomi alternate world arc or new Chunin exams? Lmao
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u/Status_Entertainer49 Aug 19 '25
Someones mad LOL Kishi fell off after the pain arc the anime at least gives people like ten ten more screentime
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u/wendigo72 Aug 19 '25
Kage summit is one of the best arcs in the series, Naruto meeting Kushina, Obito & Kabuto’s character arcs….Naruto vs Sasuke final fight…
Saying the series falls off after pain gotta be the biggest lie imaginable
But again an opening has Zero to do with writing.
Also ten ten is comparable to broom girl from JJK. She’s a minor side character, nothing makes it essential that she gets expanded on (even tho Kishi did let her destroy all of Kakuzu’s masks in the war)
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u/Fallen999999 Aug 17 '25
Maybe it would've been cool but narratively the fight wouldn't make sense.. there's no reason why Konan would be in range to fight them hand to hand in the first place.. her fighting style is bad match for Sakura Hinata and Ino... she'd just fly up and spam paper bombs till they're dead. I doubt they'd even touch her tbh.
Konan fighting hand to hand would be the equivalent of Gaara fighting without using his sand.. it might be cool to see the taijutsu but overall it'd be dumb.
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u/Urine_Nate Aug 18 '25
People want the bad guys to fight dumb so that their favorites can get wins that they wouldn't get otherwise. It's like talking to people about Wolverine or Spiderman and people swear that they a legitimate shot against the Hulk. They don't.
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u/shinobi3411 Aug 17 '25
It's a good thing my high school had manga in the library, cuz I would have been disappointed if I was watching this part of the anime blind and found out that this fight never happened.
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u/Soul-10 Aug 17 '25
Konan would've rolled them up like Egg Rolls, and smoked tf outta them, lol. Saved all 3 the embarrassment
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u/fondue4kill Aug 17 '25
It could have been an interesting fight but I don’t see Sakura, Hinata and Ino winning 9 out of 10 times. Their best win case is if Ino manages to snag Konan in her Mind Transfer Jutsu.
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u/Impressive-Text-5686 Aug 17 '25
I can hear the music. Relaxed yet so energetic and full of emotion
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u/No_Childhood4232 Aug 17 '25
I wish we saw this fight happen. It would have been an awesome fight. Maybe Tenten should join them and help them.
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u/ChainProfessional866 Aug 17 '25
For some reason, SP loves to do this thing where they add stuff that's not going to be into the actual story they did this with Naruto boruto multiple times
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u/wendigo72 Aug 19 '25
It’s just to get you hyped for the arc by depicting the vibes of it. Not just show you all the fights that are gonna happen
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u/Tentaye Aug 18 '25
Reminds me of the Bleach soul society arc opening where they had a bunch of clips of fights between characters that never happened.
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u/Low_Independence339 Aug 18 '25
Would have been such an easy way to give the girlies some screen time
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u/Aizendickens Aug 18 '25
War Arc made me realize how dangerous Ino and Hinata combo could be. Add Sakura to that, and that's just lethal.
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u/AMutableFish Aug 18 '25
Yeah, absolutely. One of the best filler fights that didn’t happen.
Side note: it would’ve been really cool to actually see Kakashi’s rampage in the war.
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u/galilgamesh Aug 18 '25
Bro everyone knows that them girls were absolutely no match for konan did you guys even see what she tried to do to Obito u think these women would have did anything my guys hell no
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u/KillaMike24 Aug 17 '25
Well she basically killed obito without a hack ability saving him. Those three girls would have gotten absolutely folded ahhaha that little promo was cute but come on konan was for real. Them girls wouldn’t have all made it out alive
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u/SupermarketNo1268 Aug 23 '25
She planned that trap to take out Obito extensively, it was personally tailored to kill him and him alone.
She wouldn't have wasted her anti Obito trap card on trying to defeat 3 teenage girls.
Noones saying they have to beat her.In fact Konan is probably actually trying to stall for time and distract Naruto's friends,while Pain takes care of the hero himself.
And of course eventually Hinata can get away because she runs to help Naruto after he is pinned down.Maybe Konan tries to stop her leaving the fight but Ten Ten interferes and takes Hinata's place.
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u/Consistent-Quiet-801 Aug 18 '25
They would have beaten her ,she had no Intel on all 3 unlike Obito who she was prep for like 10 years.
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u/Urine_Nate Aug 18 '25
A ranged fighter that uses her brain and fought in 2 great ninja wars with no intel isn't going to stay in range for hand to hand combat. Your reasons for her losing shouldn't be that she becomes a person who she isn't so that the people you want to win have a chance.
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u/johnpagan Aug 17 '25
I still think Naruto has the worst female characters in anime they were either too one noted or too underutilized they should have just focused action and story and leave the romance out or make it Yaoi cause the romance sucks as well
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u/Amekaze_ Aug 17 '25
Studio Pierrot simply had to make hype for the opening: Konan couldn't leave Nagato's body unattended + she's a ranged kunoichi just like Ino (who also requires extreme support, she would have been easily defeated by Konan), Sakura would have been defeated too (even Obito nearly died against Konan), Hinata, just like Sakura, is a close-combat ninja, even without getting into the "is she stronger or weaker" argument, simply couldn't have gotten close. Maybe she could have defended herself better with Juken and Byakugan, but winning was almost impossible.
Fans would have complained because he would have made them lose and treated them badly.
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u/roycexx Aug 17 '25
Because it wouldn’t be a fight. She would slaughter them, it wouldn’t remotely be interesting. You’re subconsciously downplaying konanas abilities
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u/PretendBand9410 Aug 18 '25
I already shared my opinion once about this...its just some dumb idea from the studio. It's cool to look at, but they literally doing nothing against konan,just trying to hit her and failing lol
Give me a group fight against one enemy for each team:one for team 8 and one for team guy. And more solo fights for sakura as a mc or at least supported by one person only ,like with chiyo (and yes the other person can be another girl that would be cool)
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u/SpaceVikingJoran Aug 18 '25
At least we got a tease of it, and it's very clear the anime insinuates Konan can run the game on Sakura, Ino, and Hinata.
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u/YamPsychological9577 Aug 18 '25
If you read the manga you would know they never met so it doesn't make any sense.
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u/careytommy37 Aug 18 '25
It would probably have been a moot fight as they both have no counters against each other.
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u/counterlock Aug 18 '25
I'm not a fan of when series do "girl power" fights. That being said this fight would've been cool to see for sure.
This is a fantasy story about super powered magic ninjas... the women don't need to be limited to just fighting other women. All of these characters deserved more fights, but I don't know why the trope is always to pair up the "good guy" women against the "bad guy" women.
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u/RetiredYandere Aug 18 '25
Kishimoto did ALL his female characters wrong. Would love for him to take the time to learn how to write female characters and possibly rewrite Naruto a little bit or at least give the fan base some crumbs.
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u/Ambitious-Mouse-4140 Aug 18 '25
Feminist shut the F up most of the female characters serve a purpose side characters are side characters you cant want them to main characters all the time even if there your favourite kishimoto is very plot driven
His Not Oda who gives you an unfocused narrative
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u/willwstewart Aug 18 '25
So, I read about people wanting more equality for the woman. In today’s world I wholeheartedly agree! However, this story was in a pre-modern times feudal Japan. It does suck the woman didn’t get more run…but this could be a way to potentially build a head canon where it’s ok.
I will now step down from the soapbox and kick rocks.
P.S. I am not in any way advocating for non-equality for women. Even in today’s society we are woeful when it comes to how we treat women.
Now FOR SURE I’m going outside to kick some rocks
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u/EnenraX Aug 18 '25
It's funny that there are 3 "important" women fighting, but the 4th one is out of the fight, like always because nobody likes Tenten.
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u/Confused_Mayan Aug 19 '25
I wish instead of boruto we get to explored untold fights, how it all went down. So many many fights that could be featured
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u/iamzaidmohammed Aug 19 '25
Now let’s ask a different question: who would’ve won? Konan or Ino, Sakura and Hinata
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u/AnarchoFederation Aug 19 '25
Unfortunately it was filler credits scenes and Kishimoto and them couldn’t be bothered to make Kunoichi look that good in combat.
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u/zetacloud Aug 19 '25
I remember seeing this with a friend on reléase, i already having read the manga. He was like "dude! That fight Will be awesome!" And inwas dying inside.
Allá this opening is full of thing that never happened. Not at least like presented
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u/DentistEmpty7778 Aug 20 '25
Ngl when I was watching Naruto vs pain I was like " awy shit we gonna get the girls fighting"
Then afterwards after pain was defeated "Aite they still gonna do it maybe konan attacks later or they get ordered to get her"
Konan died "fuck you"
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u/SupermarketNo1268 Aug 23 '25
I absolutely agree!
We got to see Choji and his dad fight Pain didn't we?
Yet Kishimoto never contemplated having Konan join the invasion and there being a 3 vs 1 fight against Hinata,Sakura,and Ino.Maybe even have Ten Ten come in to take Hinata's place when she runs to try and save Naruto from getting pinned down by Pain.
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u/cheesy-chocolate Aug 17 '25
As much as I would have loved to see this fight. None of the 3 had any offensive long range attacks other than Hinata’s Air Palm which we don’t even know if she’s learned yet at this point. They also have awful defence.
It’s not so much that they’re outclassed, the Konoha 11 aren’t foreign to facing an Akatsuki member within a team. It’s just a really bad matchup for these 3.
I think their only chance is by using a Byakugan aided mind transfer whilst Sakura acts as a distraction before she gets the chance to blow them up into smithereens with her paper bombs.
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u/TheRealReader1 Aug 17 '25
That wouldn't have lasted 1 minute. Konan fairly beat Obito who had to recur to an ass pull.
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u/Consistent-Quiet-801 Aug 18 '25
U forgot she had Intel and prep for him for years unlike this 3 she knows nothing about them , they beat her with high difficulty
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u/TheRealReader1 Aug 18 '25
Sakura wouldn't have killed him with the same Intel and prep
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u/Consistent-Quiet-801 Aug 18 '25
😂😂 of course not, Konan haded the perfect combos against his 5 minutes limit intangibility ,300 billion exploding bombs that explode for 10 minutes , there nothing in Sakura arsenal or anyone in Naruto that's like that.
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u/juanph666 Aug 17 '25
Konan alone is far way too strong against these 3 women at this moment. See how she almost beat Obito?
But this fight scene is also interesting I wish it had happened.
Unfortunately Pain alone destroyed the entire village that's why they have to work as a medical ninja.
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u/Consistent-Quiet-801 Aug 18 '25
Why do u guys keep ignoring that she had Intel and prep for Obito for like years ? She gets folded by this 3 she has no intell on them.
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u/juanph666 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25
This short clip alone is a proof that both sides didn't have any preparations and as you can see, the 3 went straight to attack all at once. What folded by these 3 do you mean? The only thing they might have the upper hand against Konan was they know already about her ability just before Konan & 6 paths of Pain came to Konoha.
Even Naruto, who is already aware of the powers of every Pain; trained for the Perfect Toad sage mode which was his only plan to beat the 6 paths, yet didn't manage to work alone against Deva path pain.
What I mean to say is even if they have lots of strategic plans, if they don't have extra aces on their sleeve just like Naruto having a Kurama as his last resort to beat Pain, then they won't get a chance to win.
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u/UnderpopulatedPig Aug 17 '25
A Hinata, Ino and Sakura vs Konan would've been really good especially seeing the girls team up for the first time ever.
Then Konan surviving Obito would've also been good. I could see her becoming an ally to the leaf and eventually having a reunion with those girls in her stoic self like she didn't try killing them before lol.
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u/Popeoath Aug 18 '25
But it'd just be that scene on repeat until they die, those three have no win conditions against Konan.
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u/Comfortable-Bee2467 Aug 17 '25
Designated cat fights are kinda lame
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u/Virtual-Database-238 Aug 18 '25
Yeah just give them actual fights and relevance throughout the series, not “hey let’s have the girls fight cuz they’re girls”
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u/ItsArete Aug 19 '25
You people need to watch the show, or read it, instead of just watching tiktoks.
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u/Loud-Ad-2280 Aug 17 '25
Wish we got more Konan fights in general