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>What a stupid hack to justify your protagonist achieving 1000 times more than others despite putting in 1000 times less time and effort
I kind of feel like Kishi really wanted his own setting-appropriate method to quickly boost up Naruto in a way that doesn't break suspension of disbelief a la DBZ's gravity training, and I kind of get what he was going for with the Shadow Clones on a conceptual level, but man you can really feel that weekly crunch stopping him from really thinking about how the logistics work