How To Destroy A Story In One Episode

How to destroy a story in one episode. Naruto Shippuden, and Naruto as a whole is a great manga and anime. However, in the Naruto War Arc, the worst scene in the history of manga happened when Zetsu stabbed Madara Uchiha in the back, bringing Kaguya Otsutsuki into the story, something that ruined Naruto for many different reasons. Today we will explore why the Zetsu Retcon destroyes the Naruto story.

When Zetsu betrayed Madara, this Akatsuki character that was never prominent in the story became essentially the main character in the Naruto series. Let's take a look at what happened after that.

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[DygoKnight]

Who's the WORST Naruto character?

[nathanielreichert]

Kishimito revealing Zetsu was the orchestrator of all of Naruto and thereby ruining the story was all a part of Aizen’s plan.

[veskotalisman]

imo its hilarious that zetsu backstabbed madara, the madara who with no eyes 1 shot SM naruto and dodged all EMS sasuke attacks. now he has 3 of the most powerful eyes in the show, the 10 tails, and is fully adapted to his body, yet he gets backstabbed by a thing that got blitzed by CHOJURO. gotta love late naruto - boruto

[guernica]

I have no issues with Kaguya as a piece of lore in Naruto world, my problem is her being a villain on the main story.

[InfernosReaper]

Yeah, Tobi's reveal as Obito was decently setup. His reveal as the secret leader of the Akatsuki even made sense because Tobi came off as being a bit "too goofy" to the point where he *had* to be someone who was very powerful to even be allowed around this den of murderous lunatics. Also, moments where cracks in the fool facade did appear here and there.

His claim to be Madara was dubious of course, even if we didn't already figure he was probably Obito.

[joelthomas]

The problem was that Kishimoto didn't plan ahead with regards to Kaguya. If we had come across a temple or two that enshrined her as a moon goddess it would have made for a much more interesting story.

[critterbugcharms]

I actually loved Zetsu’s design initially, and was really bummed when it became clear he would not have any significant feats. Oh, how I wish I was still living in that world..

[ClearMindMediax]

ive been saying this for years. The way they handled Madara totally killed the story for me. For YEARS Madara was built up just to be taken down by zetsu and some mother we just found out about. Feels like They did this little plot twist just to make way for the Boruto series.

[Nyrufa]

Itachi being a good guy is absolutely a retcon. If he wanted to protect his brother, he would not have deliberately encouraged him to dedicated his entire life to becoming an avenger for his clan. He would not have explicitly told him to kill his best friend for power, and he certainly wouldn't have traumatized him into a comatose state that could only be healed by Tsunade, who abandoned her life as a doctor after being traumatized by the death of her family! If it hadn't been for Naruto and Orochimaru, Tsunade was perfectly willing to let Sasuke die in the hospital! So much for trying to protect him!

[miguelangelmendez]

Black Zetsu was trying to pull a Aizen Plot, without being Aizen.

[thegreatfusili]

I don’t think that this is what ruined Naruto. The war arc being a bloated mess of retcons, asspulls, clumsily tied together plot threads, and haphazardly shoved in lore ruined the series well before it got Zetsu.

[Brendanj]

There was a retcon with Akatsuki, that being the rings, they made a big importance to the rings, Tobi going for Sasori's ring, along with I believe them mentioning getting Orochimaru's ring.

[Kiluei]

One of my biggest issues with Naruto is how much gets retconned.

So many plotpoints that were adding in later on through flashbacks often were just enormous asspulls.

Like Naruto and Sasuke's friendship didn't feel earned, so Kishimoto had to go back and add flashbacks where Naruto and Sasuke met each other at an even younger age. While in the original story they clearly didn't know each other and met at Ninja academy.

Things like that always just made me dislike the show more and more.

[kimanireid]

Saying it was Zetsu all along also absolves every single villain of their actions

[scottbisco]

I was considering that Itachi being good was a retcon as well... I rewatched the whole series, and read some of the manga to see if the perspective was different. I found that Itachi's scenes in the original series were far more sinister, and they were literally remade to make him seem less of a dick when he says certain things.

[MurasakiTsukimaru]

From Zetsu being a Grass Ninja to being created to Madara to suddenly, he invaded Madara's body and just hung out unnoticed for 50+ years doing absolutely nothing until Madara "created" him.

[kylecronin]

My biggest thing about kaguya is that they did the same twist twice. Madara betraying Obito was crazy then he got played up to be crazy strong. Then when the big fight for him and Naruto come they just say nah let's do the EXACT thing we did with Obito and madara

[andyquinn]

I once read about a rumor circulating around, that Kishimoto actually wanted to add Kaguya to his story, he also wanted to add aliens and samurais to the story, the reason he didn't do that was because his editor at that time didn't allow him, because the story wouldn't make any sense, but at the beginning of the great war arc, his editor got changed, because Kishimoto refused to keep on working with said editor, because he claimed that the editor was restricting creativity and the way he wanted to tell the story, so the magazine accepted and changed his editor, and this new editor is the one that allowed him to do a lot of changes going into that arc, and that's why we got aliens and samurai that came out of nowhere, because he wanted to create a story using those elements.

In fact, he wanted to create a story using samurai and aliens so badly, that he went and created samurai 8, a manga so bad, that it ended up getting canceled, I know that those are just rumors, but once you analyze the way the story went down the drain after the pain arc, and the fact that he created samurai 8, and that said manga got canceled, you just have to wonder, are those really empty rumors, or is there some true and validity in them.

[dominicdo]

I was following the manga as it was coming out. I remember being super confused when I saw black Zetsu take out Madara. More confusion ensued when Kaguya popped out in his place. I remembered having to read the explanation a few times to actually understand what was going on because that shit came out of nowhere. No lead ups, no hints, nothing.

[thaearthquake]

I followed Naruto from middle school to my junior year of high school and that Zetsu plot twist hurt so bad. After years of consistently following the story through it’s highs & lows, it felt like Kishimoto just took all the years of goodwill built up and slam dunked it in the trash. I couldn’t believe it. Like the Tobi reveal was good enough, this last minute Zetsu/Kaguya twist was so unnecessary. All these years later it still irks me. What a shame.