Questions & Mysteries Who are the creator’s pets of Naruto?

[Shiroyru]

Itachi and Minato are the most obvious picks imo, but who are some other ones?

 

[ZenZu]

Sasuke and Shikamaru. That's it I think.

 

[Mr. Reloaded]

Shikamaru definitely

 

[Roo]

Sasuke is his favorite character per his own words irrc

and he used to draw himself similar to Obito whenever he did ama

So the correct answer is the Uchiha clan

 

[moreha9685]

Itachi, Sasuke, (famous rapper) Killer Bee.

 

[ZenZu]

Sasuke is his favorite character per his own words irrc

No Hidan is. He said so in an interview before Hidan is his fave character. The editors just forced him to wrap that arc up.

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

Jiraiya for sure. The fact Kishi didn’t even attempt to bring him back or sully his reputation says a lot.

 

[Roo]

No Hidan is. He said so in an interview before Hidan is his fave character. The editors just forced him to wrap that arc up.

@TheAncientCenturion pull up the interview before he starts spamming the databooks stuff

 

[soupongo]

I think there´s a lot of different accounts of him saying who his favorite is, but outside of Itachi, Shikamaru is probably the creator pet, which is why Shikamaru ended up as the only chunin out of all the people taking the exam. A lot of characters are hyped as strong, but few are hyped as 1000 iq lazy geniuses.

 

[Rumble]

Sasuke
Kakashi
Shikamaru
Jiraiya
Itachi
Minato

All for different reasons and in different ways.

 

[soupongo]

Jiraiya for sure. The fact Kishi didn’t even attempt to bring him back or sully his reputation says a lot.

Are you under the assumption that Kishi was aware that bringing these characters back as edo tenseis would make them look lame, lol? He probably just thought it was a good idea

 

[Elder Lee Hung]

The people still discussing Naruto in 2025

 

[Welkin]

The Uchiha clan in general

Never seen a group get sucked off more in any manga I’ve read

As a fan of Neji and a Byakugan believer since P1 I used to go to war on forums as a kid swearing up and down that Kishi would do them justice

You can imagine how I felt about the latter half of Shippuden

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

Are you under the assumption that Kishi was aware that bringing these characters back as edo tenseis would make them look lame, lol? He probably just thought it was a good idea

By its very nature bringing them back undervalues their deaths, I think Kishi understood that quite well. It’s why all the Edo Tensei who had sentimental deaths were given respectful endings during the war arc.

Zabuza, Haku, Nagato, Asuma & Itachi all come to mind.

And I think Kishi knew that Jiraiya coming back would never reach the same peaks and would only downgrade character.

 

[ZenZu]

@TheAncientCenturion pull up the interview before he starts spamming the databooks stuff

My bad he said his favourite villain was Hidan. So Sasuke can still be his favourite character. He did say Sasuke was the toughest for him to draw because of his hair.

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

@TheAncientCenturion pull up the interview before he starts spamming the databooks stuff

My bad he said his favourite villain was Hidan. So Sasuke can still be his favourite character. He did say Sasuke was the toughest for him to draw because of his hair.

Sasuke confirmed the true protagonist

 

[ZenZu]

Sasuke confirmed the true protagonist

We already knew this when Naruto never defeated him, and came out the timeskip weaker than Sakura.

 

[Shiroyru]

We already knew this when Naruto never defeated him, and came out the timeskip weaker than Sakura.

Naruto won their final fight tho

 

[soupongo]

Naruto won their final fight tho

Bro it was literally an exact tie lol

 

[Shiroyru]

Bro it was literally an exact tie lol

Naruto woke up first