I read the first few issues of Samurai 8 and it felt rushed. Why set up a story about a disabled kid wanting to be a samurai and then give him a fancy cybernetic body with no downsides in the first chapter? He achieved his goal in the beginning of the series so you were given no time to sympathize with his situation. And I thought it was lame he was able to flex on that other cyborg samurai so easily right after getting his powers. There has to be SOME buildup.
Anyway, my boy Denji is getting that money. GO CHAINSAW MAN!!!!!!
Yea it never sat right with me that his prior disability quickly became an afterthought.
I've seen this take before and I feel it completely misses the point of Hachimaru gaining strength and what that's supposed to mean for his character. It's like looking back at Naruto and saying "well Naruto befriended iruka in the first chapter so his past experience being isolated became an afterthought." Hachimaru does gain strength the first chapter but what Kishi is trying to use Hachimaru to convey is that strength in and of itself is not a virtue. Its just as Daruma says in the story, more important than being strong is why you are strong. Hachimaru Initially wants to be strong just because it seems to cool to him because he's weak. It's very childish and shallow. But as the story progresses he learns there is more to it than that and how he applies that to be a hero is the main arc for his character.
And while he might not be physically disabled anymore his experience with it still plays a big role in shaping how hachimaru interacts with others, There was the fact that he when he initially met ann he lied to her about his past because he was ashamed of ho he used to be and then later uses that same experience to empathize with a Ryuu and kotsuga thereby showing how he's becoming more mature.
Wow @ all the stuff the editor added to naruto
Kishimoto is a borderline hack that got saved by his editor from himself
Honestly when his original editor Yahagi left Naruto. That's when Naruto went downhill
This is another common take but its dumb because
A.) Every magaka has an editor that gives input into a story and most stories to one degree or another change from there inital drafts, so say that since the final product Kishimoto produced was purely the work of his editor is dumb and reductive.
B.) I remember seeing an interview where Kishimoto states that he went to that original Naruto editor for input into samurai 8 while he was working on it. I might have to look up the interview but i'm pretty sure it said that somewhere in there
C.) That same editor was the same one that suggested adding a rival for Naruto would be good for the story and that character was obviously Sasuke so while i don't personally hate Sasuke, its just another wrench to throw at the narrative that everything people like about Naruto was the editor and not Kishimoto.
Why is the manga community so gleeful to call authors hacks, talentless, and other horrible things?
It's one thing not to like something or someone, another to be disappointed in something you used to like, and another to shit all over them with reckless abandon at every opportunity. Reminds me of the Star Wars fandom.
That''s just common of fandoms in general honestly. Hell i'm guilty of this myself but the more i think about it the more i realize personally attacking people because you don't like they're writing is just kinda shitty and petty. I mean obviously if you want to criticize problematic aspects of a story such as the portrayal of women that's one thing but not just because you think they're writing is bad.