Imagines how powerful Neji Hyuuga would have been as an adult if he hadn’t been unnecessarily killed off for the sake of a plot point
Gets super pissed over all the missed opportunities, had Neji lived. Wonders about the change in the Hyuuga clan didn’t have but would have had, had Neji survived. Thinks about how great it would have been for Neji to have been Boruto’s sensei as opposed to Sasuke (tho I do love Sasuke) and how epic it would have been to have incorporated and widened Neji’s potential as a Main rather than supporting character.
Is bitter because the Hyuuga never really did change and seems like it would have had Neji lived long enough to try to change it. How unfulfilling his ending was because his death didn’t even feel like it was about him, rather a plot device used to strengthen Hinata’s character. That apparently the takeaway here is that the caged bird can only be freed by death but hey, that’s fine as long as you die for the people that you love. Yeah okay, that wasn’t dumb at all I mean he didn’t have a novels worth of potential, no it’s fine just kill him off. It’s not like it was a smack in the face to his fans or the character himself. No not at all…
Imma add – I always felt like Hiashi would have been a better sacrifice for this plot. It would have meant all the same shit and more seeing as his brother gave his life for the clan (already locking in that caged bird fate shit).
And he could do the whole “zomg lesson learned clan must be changed” dying wish.
Fucking right! It would have been better and would have meant more that Hiashi would died protecting his child whom he was ambivalent towards at most, and the nephew that was wronged. It would have meant that change was inevitable that it needed to be changed from the ground up and who better to do it than Neji and Hinata. It would have given both a significantly larger role in the next series. Instead of the hot mess of the next series being so close to the original narrative that was Naruto it could have focused on Boruto and his sister being Hyuuga and Uzumaki dealing with where they stand in the clans ever changing infrastructure.
Then again, it would have changed the theme of the series and would have been branded for adult audiences as it would have been steeped in political intrigue but who gives a shit. The point is that it would have been better for Neji to have been given the chance to change his and the fates of the branch families with his own hands, his father’s death would have been avenged with the death of his uncle.
I swear I’ve been saying all this for the longest! THANK YOU!
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