The Second Great Shinobi World War EXPLAINED

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With how big of a roll Tsunade played in the 2nd war, I'm surprised commoners around the Leaf aren't in awe when she arrives to be Hokage. She should have an entire section in the history book dedicated to her after all. And by the time she steps down from Hokage, she hands down has one of the best feat profiles around.

Let’s gooo, right in time for my lunch break

Tsunade is such a grand character all things considered. She was the Naruto of her time. Her generation heralded a change of time. Aside from fighting, all Sannin members developed a unique speciality (espionage and talent scouting for Jiraiya and scientific experiment for Orochimaru). But among all legends, hers was the most dazzling. Primarily a combatant, she was the only one visionary and adaptive enough to take on the era-defining role of a medical specialist. And she revolutionized it, epitomizing what her clan symbolizes. And nope, she did NOT just heal. According to Jiraiya, the woman fought and healed and her skills in both domains are unchallenged. Her accomplishment was so profound that (unlike her peers) most fans cannot fathom the concept of being so potent both in fighting and healing despite the notion being carved in monologues, dialogues and databooks. Tsuna's the fucking goat.

Sakumo hatake choose his friends over the success of the mission and that is why he was shunned and dishonored. I believe leaf Shinobi had already died on the mission so people looked at it like so what if you saved some of your friends when others fought and gave their life for the mission, there by failing the mission meant their sacrifice was meaningless.

Here’s my own theory on Hatake‘s failed mission. Hatake’s failed mission was the one that started the 3rd Ninja War. The way I have this going is that his squad was deployed as a counter force against an Iwa/Kiri attack on Uzushirogakure (which we know was still around in Kushina’s lifetime). He failed due to not knowing the other nation (Kiri/Iwa) was also attacking thus being underprepared. This would also explain why Nagato claimed Konoha started the war. Konoha would’ve started it in response to the attack, and utter annihilation of their closest ally. The White Fang didn’t fail a mission. He failed THE mission.

I believe you should had mentioned whatever the hell Mifune and the Samurais were doing in the Hidden Rain, as suggested by the reanimated Hanzo.

Hanzo probably found a way to use the poison in a similar way to mustard gas. this is actually in keeping with the whole WW1 comparison as the first shinobi war would serve as an impetus for the smaller villages to find some way to mass kill their much more numerous enemies or at least make the losses so great that they would avoid them. it always seemed odd to me that out of a whole platoon only the 3 sannin survived especially when you consider that they had literally the best posible , and only at the time, medical-nin with them. it also plays into the whole fighting strong opponents as if they were already singled out as among the best konoha had, it would provide the motivation to single them out for one-one or one-three fights as all others were immediately disposable and useless in his quest for greater strength.

Hanzo was absolutely goated. Manz in his prime could probably sweep most of the Naruto verse

Well, Sakumo abandoned a mission to save his friends, who later ostracized him leading to his suicide. It wasn't a mission TO save them, it was something akin to intel gathering, iirc. And Sasori was a child when his parents were killed. He wouldn't leave the Sand until after he had become Sasori of the Red Sand, a title he gained in the Third war.

If you ever get a chance exploring the battle abilities of Prime Chiyo vs Prime Hiruzen that would be awesome. Danzo could also be a contender.

It is truly frustrating that the series has so many plot holes, when you deep dive into it. I stand by it that Kishimoto is a brilliant artist dropping flawless artworks with really difficult perspectives like it's nothing, but when it comes to planning his stories he is truly lackluster.

If you were wanting to go over the 4 Great War you could do the unsung hero’s. Like everyone knows Naruto, gui, sauske ect. But the earlier skirmishes could be cool to talk about?

I love Swagkage and all them, but THIS MAN'S ENERGY is what I needed in my experience.

this guy is literally The Game Theorists just the info part but for Naruto i swear he’s just an encyclopedia of naruto he has everything at his fingertips that’s why i watch him plus his personality is amazing for what he’s doing

Isn’t Obito technically the first one who awoke his sharingan out of love? Cause it was in the moment when his wanted to protect Kakashi and also Rin that he loved 🤔. I was actually thinking about the situation Sarada could awake her MS, when the feeling of love would that strong and the only situation I could think of was that she would need to protect someone she really loves and get this power to do so

I'm liking your videos on the war, and how you've added your own elements to it, like Hashirama's death, Hanzo being modified etc. You've placed Sakumo's failed mission here, though my personal headcanon is that Sakumo's failed mission was one of the main contributing factors to the Third War. You've also left out the destruction of Uzushio.

i love how you look at both sides of the assumptions especially in the first half of the video, following it up with logical conclusions to support each side too!!

We have the 2nd great war to thank for the most unintentionally hilarious death in the series with Nawaki exploding

Thank you for making these videos. I'm sure 90% of Naruto readers/watchers never put together all of this back story. It brings some more appreciation to the Naruto-Verse and story line!