Sometimes I think about how amazing everything past 699 could’ve been if it focused on the political and economical side of things post-war and ways to actually go about reforming the shinobi system and how Naruto and everyone would deal with the conflict between tradition and modernization and what it would be like for the next gen to grow up NOT having to be soldiers but maybe that’s not possible yet and we could’ve seen that conflict too and it could’ve been so much so I just… I just cry.

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Realistically, I know a really politically/economically focused sequel to Naruto would never fly in the shounen genre, or even the seinen, since it would need to be action-focused, but it is nice to think about, and the sequel could have done so so so so so SO much better in this regard.

Certainly, a very modest initial reform–raise the minimum age of genin to, say, 16–would have been totally doable and maybe even preferable to another series starting at age 12. A sequel starts off with the standarards where they were at the end of the previous show. In Burrito, this results in the new Team 7 (blech) of Burrito, Salad, and Musubi being basically already at jounin level (or even higher!) at age 12, which feels unearned, Mary Sue-ish, etc.

A main hero who always thought he’d be able to choose to NOT be a shinobi, but there’s so much unrest and as Naruto’s kid he has so much power that yep he’s got that Spiderman responsibility? Sign me the fuck up for that please. A reluctant hero would be a great contrast to Naruto’s brash personality.

You could start out with ordinary missions and we could see the contrast between original Naruto and the new Actually Good Sequel: instead of civilians scraping together money they don’t have to pay for protection, Hero is going on a government-funded mission to rescue people who couldn’t afford to pay. Because nobody lied to save money, the mission is correctly geared to their skills. Thanks, actually competent Hokage Naruto!!! Sure do appreciate you changing the shinobi system!!!

A possible major villain could be foreign, non-ninja countries that got swept up in the God Tree nonsense and decided that shinobi need to be wiped out once and for all before they destroy the planet for real. This would be an excellent villain because unlike the Burrito movie’s Totally Evil Aliens, these foreign countries made up of humans would actually have a point.

God I can’t fucking stand it when Burrito stans go “hyuck hyuck but u don’t understand sweety 🙂 everyone in Burrito has to be shitty 🙂 because otherwise there’d be no plot :)”. How fucking unimaginative do you have to be to believe that?

tl;dr It would be easy to make an exciting sequel to Naruto where Naruto was a good and happy Hokage. Fucking BELIEVE it.