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At least as far as Part 1 is concerned, that fucking Konoha girls joke during the Sasuke Retrieval Arc really sums up the problem the problem with some of the most visible female characters around that time period; as far as the narrative is concerned, the female Genin have literally made zero improvements since they jobbed out of the preliminary tournament of the Chunin Exams. For frame of reference, that's 2 entire arcs and several months of time in-universe where they have remained static entities to the point that they may as well be literally T-posing whenever they're offscreen. Even fatass Choji knows how to utilize new jutsu like the partial expansion tricks after taking his Akimichi-brand super drugs, and lazy bum Shikamaru learned how to do his dad's shadow strangle technique in the meantime as well, let alone Naruto learning Rasengan and Kiba turning into a borderline Cerberus fusion monster. They would definitely get smoked in a 4v1 against the base forms of the Sound Four (5 [actually 6 niggas]), they'd probably even lose a 4v1 against the SRA team themselves.

They're not proactive characters, they're not reactive characters, hell, they're not even good eye candy because Kishimoto's sense of fanservice is complete ass. Also, bonus shoutout to Tsunade's decision-making, all that alcohol must've killed some of her brain cells.