Summary
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Naruto exceeded his legendary father, Minato, in power because of his Jinchuriki status and education.
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Minato, known as “The Yellow Flash”, achieved big feats but was limited by his short life.
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Naruto's strong morality and leadership that Hokage exceeded Minato and continued his legacy in Konoha.
Naruto Is home to some of the strongest characters in Shonen Anime. As soon as Naruto was born, he was burdened with the role of a Jinchuriki. But it also meant that he had a huge power at his disposal. He continued to become one of the strongest characters in the series. Did his power allowed him to surpass one of the most renowned ninjas and his father, Minato?
Naruto never met his father, who died and protected him. But he had always heard of the legendary feats from the fourth hokage and strived to become a worthy hokage like him. When Minato lived, he was considered to be the great Ninja in his time and was even called a generation ninja by those as the third hokage. After finally becoming Hokage, has Naruto been able to live up to a similar reputation or has he even exceeded it?
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Naruto: Each Jutsu invented by Minato
Minato invented many powerful Jutsus in Naruto.
How strong was Minato?
A generating wonderful child
Despite his short life, Minato left its name as one of the most iconic characters in Naruto. He was considered to be a wonderful child, as evidenced by him who got the highest points in the Konoha Academy history. Jiraiya also took him as an apprentice after Minato joined his gene. During his early teens, he managed to save Kushina on his own, who was kidnapped by Kumogakure Ninjas.
Minato's incredible feats
Minato was responsible for creating powerful Jutsu as a breed, and his mastery of the flying Thunder God -technology gave him the name “The Yellow Flash”. He had great influence during the third major Ninja war, where he was feared by the opposite ninjas. For fear, Iwagakure even set a “escape on sight” order after seeing Minato. Minato's presence even forced Onoki to sign a peace treaty that ended the third major Ninja war.
But with the pride on our line, we sent 1,000 of our Shinobi.
And I heard that it took only one of them, the yellow flash, to stop the invasion.
And that's the reality of it.
The inheritance of the fourth Hokage
His incredible contribution to the third major Ninja war awarded him the fourth Hokage. When Kuruma attacked Konoha, Minato quickly acted to save the village. He divided the chakra chakra into two halves and sealed it in him and an infant Naruto. During the fourth great Ninja war he was reanimated by Orochimaru and, along with Naruto, defeated Obito.
Did Naruto MINATO pass?
Minato is undoubtedly one of the strongest characters in Naruto. But it is not surprising at all that Naruto really exceeded Minato. Naruto, after being a jinchuriki since birth, had the potential to become one of the strongest characters in the series. He was trained and managed by strong characters such as Kakashi and Jiraiya. At the end of the Shippud, he had access to extremely strong abilities such as:
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Sage mode: A authorized condition caused by mixture of natural energy and chakra.
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Baryon mode: A tail-animal transformation that permanently exhausted chakra.
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Six roads Sage mode: A divine transformation that is gifted to him by Hagoromo Otsutsuki.
Naruto's morality makes him even stronger
Throughout Anime, he helped characters like Sasuke and Gaara to leave their dark pasts and become strong allies. He also reformed villains such as Obito and Konan and changed them to believe in his vision of peace. In the end, he also achieved his long -awaited goal to become a hokage. As a seventh Hokage, he led Konoha and saved it several times.
Minato's greatest limitation
The biggest reason why Minato was surpassed by Naruto is that he never lived so long to begin with. In just his short life, Minato achieved a lot. He became extremely strong and would have continued to become much stronger if he had lived. Often, at times of crisis, the villagers believed if Minato had lived, this crisis would have been easily averted.
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Naruto: 5 Most iconic Minato Namikaze scenes
Here are the best scenes with the legendary fourth Hokage of Konohagakure.
Despite its short life, Minato was definitely an exceptional Shinobi. His son walked in similar footsteps and continued to become even stronger. While they differ, their morals and contributions to Konoha are parallel.
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Naruto
- Release date
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October 2, 2002
- Network
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Adult swimming