Masashi Kishimoto's new one-shot manga, NARUTO Gaiden ~Uzu no Naka no Tsumujikaze~ , featuring Naruto Uzumaki's father Minato Namikaze will run in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump 2023 magazine issue #33 on July 18, 2023. The new one-shot will have color pages to commemorate the results of NARUTOP99 and the 55th Anniversary of the magazine.
Minato Namikaze won the worldwide character popularity poll "Narutop 99" that was held in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Naruto franchise earlier in 2023.
new headcanon time! previously the redness of an uzumaki's hair was connected (or believed to be connected) to their special chakras and sealing prowess.
This raised a BUNCH of questions for me. It seems like Kushina couldn’t ever really leave this radius without permission from the third Hokage, was she confined to this space her entire life? Which means she never saw Konoha in its entirety.
She was taken from her home country as a little girl (which was destroyed later on), brought to a different one for reasons she was not told and then forced to stay in one area forever?? She wasn’t even able to fully see her new “home”. Konoha made her a prisoner in a sentence. It’s so fucked up
This all begs the question why wasn’t Naruto given the same treatment? Here’s what I think. I think they took these precautions with Kushina because she was an outsider, she had no real allegiance to Konoha which would have made to easier to just leave the village and never return had she wanted.
But bc Naruto was a Konoha citizen that incentive to leave was something to worry about as he would have been easier to control through propaganda and mold into Konoha’s weapon. I hate it here.
The smile on Minato's face, the twinkle in Kushina's eye, and the placement of Minato: everything is just perfect.
This entire one-shot was like a breath of fresh air and makes me yearn for more previous generation stories -- not war arcs and battles, but simple everyday life and significant events