Why Is Konoha The Strongest Hidden Village?

Lets not forget that the First Hokage supposedly used his Kekkei Genkai to help grow the huge forest around Konoha. The ability to more or less terraform an area was a massive boost to the Land of Fire.

They don't make shadow clones in the academy, it's just clones that are entirely illusions.

I'm a Tobirama Stan for LIFE. You're one of the only people who recognizes how great and important he was. He's severely underrated and I think it's on purpose so he doesn't take away from Hashirama.

12:08 The academy clone jutsu is actually separate from the Shadow Clone Jutsu. Naruto failed the exam because the clone jutsu he did make was pitiful, then learned the Shadow Clone Jutsu from the Forbidden Scroll which allowed him to make physical copies of himself unlike the academy clone which was not physical, an illusion.

Tobirama is the greatest and most important Hokage in the entirety of the Konoha's history. His ideas to have the Senju marry outside of the clan, the police force, the anbu, the ninja academy, the chuunin exams, his eventual trust of the Uchiha and his R&D work make him the most effective hokage in history. Plus my guy was a total badass

Fun fact the thrid mizukage was probably the oldest kage living until his death. He was an adult during the first kage summit and was the kage during the third shinobi war because we know the mist put isobu into rin confirming yagura wasn't its host yet.

Dude you r the best informational speaker I swear, you have a way of explaining things in a way that keeps me hooked. Thank you for all your hard work!

12:10 'Think of how you pass academy. You have to create a Shadow Clone' actually, shadow Clone is a Chunin level technique because the Chakra consumption of cutting your reserves in half is too dangerous. I think for Genin it's a kinjutsu. (Actually, since it was in the Forbidden scroll, it might've just been a straight up kinjutsu that people might've already known) The one to pass the academy is the genjutsu Clone technique that just makes a fake double with no substance

Glad you pointed out Tsunade and Ino's contribution for the village, Past and Present respectively ⭐

So technically, Konoha is the US in Naruto.

I just realized that kurama is stronger than all the other tailed beasts combined, that means that the difference between 9 tails and 10 tails is 49% stronger at most

"The taste of Sakura is subtle and sweet." -Sasuke Uchiha

Because the 2 most powerful clans worked together. Most concentrated sage of 6paths chakra

On top of everything you listed, the Leaf got Ashura and Indra who guaranteed two shinobi with massive potential.

I'm hoping we get more backstories about characters that don't have one yet. Fingers crossed to see how much you can find out about Deidara!

So, this begs the question: why were so many Akatsuki not ex-Leaf nin? A majority were from the other villages.

Remember when Kiba use to be stronger than Naruto? Yeah crazy times

While I do love all your videos, and specially your "Academic" perspective into analysis of Japanese drawings cartoons fictional universes, I must add that you made a common mistake regarding the tropical/equatorial climate and its soil. I'm a Brazilian geographer, and we often have to deal with the misconception that our equatorial rain forest holds fertile soil. It doesn't. It can't. It rains too much. All of the "fertile material" drains down meters and meters down to the water table, to be taken eventually to rivers that indeed hold an incredible fertility. The soils end up a mass of washed up metallic material - in the Brazilian rain forest, iron. What holds the fertility is precisely the rain regimen and the forthcoming biological material that sits on top of this infertile land. Like 5 meters deep of it, sometimes more. So it goes: fertile organic material, then 50m of infertile soil and then bedrock. Rain forest kinda sustain itself due to the rain and the previous generations of biomass.

My guess as to why the other villages don't adapt the idea of 1 medic per squad is because they just don't have the medic strength/ability to go around, so they more so go the field hospital route of keeping a team(s) in strategic locations and having the wounded brought to them. Especially the hidden sand since they don't have enough human shinobi and utilize their puppets to bolster their strength in general.

I was able to get 5 Hidden Stone characters but only barely. Onoki, Kurotsuchi, Kitsuchi, Mu, and Deidara were the characters I could name but hell if I could name even one more!