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Imagine a Naruto where there were ninja, samurai (besides the Land of Iron, I mean) sohei, ronin and nuke-nin, wokou and hey, maybe even some sort of counterpart of the Dutch and Portugese.

Before I begin, I should note during the Warring States, there was at least one province ruled by ninjas (kinda): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iga_ikki But the thing with ninja is, in a quasi-Sengoku setting like Naruto were, ninja were among the lowest type of people around. But by Shippuden...

That would also require someone in the series not to be a ninja, either. Like, remember when we saw the Daimyo of the Lands for one panel and never saw them again because the Kage were already the de facto rulers.

I didn't say they were crones. Just saying compared to other series like Bleach and Fairy Tale, they aren't really that particularly noteworthy. Also, you've gotten me off the original point I was trying to make about how as bad as Oda could be, Kishi was way worse of a writer for his female...

The Mizukage, sure. The rest...pretty exceedingly average. I suppose that's not the worst thing ever, but compared to some other female casts like Bleach and Fairy Tale, and it's quite noticeable.

So, I guess you forgot the thing with Sakura drugging Naruto so she could try and handle Sasuke and failed miserably and needed Naruto to rescue her then. I'd also argue it wasn't that he avoided fanservice so much as where Oda can only draw two or three faces for women, Kishimoto's female...

And yet, he's still practically a feminist compared to Kishimoto or Kubo.