Characters that would be better MC than an actual MC
Anonymous
11/6/2025, 11:09:08 PM
No.283588516
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fuck off man. that asshole was wanked to death as a side character. imagine if he was a main character. he would make solo levelling look tame.
Anonymous
11/6/2025, 11:22:08 PM
No.283588822
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>>283589554
Naruto, Shikamaru and Rock Lee would be annoying as MCs for different reasons. One has a ton of secret bloodline powers to pull out of his ass, one has a ton of super secret strategies to pull out of his ass, and one has new ways of punching people in the face to pull out of his ass. They're all unable to be compelling characters under Kishimoto.
Anonymous
11/6/2025, 11:30:03 PM
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>>283589689
>>283588418 (OP)
The only good MC would be Kakashi because his generation was the only one that was actually interesting
Anonymous
11/6/2025, 11:31:06 PM
No.283589033
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shikamaru would have died without his egregious plot armor and blatant author bias
Anonymous
11/6/2025, 11:32:10 PM
No.283589054
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>>283589143
>>283588418 (OP)
He was such fantastic MC material that a different mangaka took him in and made him his manga's deuteragonist for over half a decade.
Anonymous
11/6/2025, 11:56:11 PM
No.283589586
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>>283588418 (OP)
Are you Kishimoto? Fuck you for writing Naruto you asshole.
Anonymous
11/7/2025, 12:00:48 AM
No.283589689
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>>283589861
>>283589006
Kakashi is literally the best character and the only time he breaks down is 100% justified.
Anonymous
11/7/2025, 12:08:07 AM
No.283589861
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>>283589689
I can agree with that. Kakashi is by far the character with the least flaws that I can think of in Naruto, though I never finished reading it. Even his "death scene" was good, talking with his dad at the campfire.
Anonymous
11/7/2025, 12:08:22 AM
No.283589869
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>>283589554
It'd replace bigger Rasengans with more gates. We'd see him unveil the inverted eight gates and threaten us that Lee will die this time (he won't)
Anonymous
11/7/2025, 12:11:07 AM
No.283589926
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>>283589943
By his own admission, Shikamaru was the hardest character for Kishimoto to write, for two reasons.
>Shikamaru is supposed to be a 200 IQ genius, and Kishimoto obviously isn't that smart himself, because no one is
>Shikamaru's powers are so specific and limited that any enemy he fights has to be specifically designed for him to fight. All of his fights are against enemies whose powers are designed up to be a "puzzle" for him to solve and figure out how to counter (Kin, Tayuya, Hidan) . They're more like games of shogi than actual fights. By contrast, protagonists tend to have more general power, all-purpose powers that can be used in a wide variety of ways and interact with lots of the character's powers, you don't need to design other characters powers specifically around theirs.
Anonymous
11/7/2025, 12:12:17 AM
No.283589943
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>>283589926
By his own admission, Shikamaru was the hardest character for Kishimoto to write, for two reasons.
>Shikamaru is supposed to be a 200 IQ genius, and Kishimoto obviously isn't that smart himself, because no one is
>Shikamaru's powers are so specific and limited that any enemy he fights has to be specifically designed for him to fight. All of his fights are against enemies whose powers are designed up to be a "puzzle" for him to solve and figure out how to counter (Kin, Tayuya, Hidan) . They're more like games of shogi than actual fights. By contrast, protagonists tend to have more general, all-purpose powers that can be used in a wide variety of ways and interact with lots of ther character's powers, you don't need to design other characters powers specifically around theirs.
Anonymous
11/7/2025, 12:13:19 AM
No.283589961
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By his own admission, Shikamaru was the hardest character for Kishimoto to write, for two reasons.
>Shikamaru is supposed to be a 200 IQ genius, and Kishimoto obviously isn't that smart himself, because no one is
>Shikamaru's powers are so specific and limited that any enemy he fights has to be specifically designed for him to fight. All of his fights are against enemies whose powers are designed up to be a "puzzle" for him to solve and figure out how to counter (Kin, Tayuya, Hidan) . They're more like games of shogi than actual fights. By contrast, protagonists tend to have more general, all-purpose powers that can be used in a wide variety of ways and interact with lots of ther character's powers, you don't need to design other characters powers specifically around theirs.
