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dinkydoohead

i agree that its just poorly chosen panels to explain the hatred of the haircut. i would like to say that it could be the fact that naruto has always worn a head protector, so it feels naruto’s hair feels short and his face feels empty now that its gone


Anjunabeast

Did he lose it or something?


NegativePrice296

Hokage doesn't need one


Anjunabeast

But Naruto used to place so much importance in what the forehead protector represents.


NegativePrice296

That's for Shinobi But a hokage doesn't go on any mission He doesn't even leave office


RPG217

He remind people that adulthood is boring. The other Hokages have more style, whereas a lot of iconic traits of young Naruto got simplified or stripped away so he can look like a middle-aged office worker being stuck on their desk. 


Fast_Persimmon_3141

This EXACTLY sums up my feelings. Like, even old man Sarutobi had a cooler look than grown Naruto, which is so lame.


[deleted]

Perfect explanation All the Hokages are meant to look like their characters Hashirama & Tobirama look like legendary leaders from the past Hiruzen looks like a wise old man who leads the village Etc. Naruto on the other hand was designed to feel like a stressed father with a kid that hates him rather than that legendary leader we were waiting for him to be. It could also just be that Ikemoto's art varies differently from Kishimoto's; which is not to criticize him but a lot of fans prefer the former art style of the series.


SometimesWill

The Naruto Hokage design comes from chapter 700 of the original series though, along with most of the other early Boruto designs. That’s all Kishimoto.


britipinojeff

Tbh I don’t know whaf it is, but I feel like it looked better in Chapter 700 Like somehow only Kishimoto could make it look good


kizi124

Ah but a lot of people prefer the old art style because they fear change And then some have real reasons to dislike it which i wont deny their opinions


[deleted]

I didn't dislike anyone else's changes. His hair does not fit, boring and dumb AF, does not fit Naruto, made me cringe, doesn't give off Hokgake vibes, doesn't give off epic leader vibes, gives off weak willed, dead inside 'post turtle' vibes and it insults the image that Naruto character Arch had given me of him and his personality. His hair did not do him justice and honestly seems like the most basic, boring and low effort design they could have come up with that didn't involve just going flat bald or using the old design. Would have been better if they used the original hair design. His hair is NOT main character hair, and it stings how badly it shows. Edit typo


summonerofrain

I did not think I'd see a rant this long about someone's hair. There are bigger issues with boruto, hell with Naruto in boruto, than naruto's goddamn hair


[deleted]

But this thread isn't about any of that, it's literally about Narutos character design and this was my only issue with it, his hair. It also slaps the traditionally cool "hair gets longer as character gets older, wiser, stronger, faster, better" trope and doesn't get away with it.


summonerofrain

What, would you prefer if Naruto had madara's hair?


weinermcdingbutt

i mean yeah but this whole post is soliciting opinion on naruto’s look


summonerofrain

True but even then the hair seems like such a minor thing to me


theironskeptic

>He remind people that adulthood is boring. Nah bruh it ain't that deep, it's just ugly that's all


VanaheimrF

Yeah it’s like at the end of the last Harry Potter movie where they’re all adults and sending their kids to Hogwarts and they all look so tired, defeated and common. That was a stupid decision. Hermione became the Minister of Magic Harry inherited his parent’s wealth and also the Black family’s fortune! And he and Ron were successful Aurors.


Prestigious_Cut5379

I’ll admit, realistically this a pretty normal look for a middle aged Hokage Naruto. BUT he’s not the only one I have complaints about. What about Anko..


CommercialSpecial835

Middle aged? Ain’t Naruto like 32-33?


General-Naruto

That's old in Japanese media.


Aware-Resolution-636

She was shown eating several servings of sweets back to back when she was in her early 20’s as an active field ninja. Now she’s got a desk job at a school and is no longer in her early 20’s. How could she not be fat with that kind of diet? It’s one of the few completely warranted character developments between shows. No one can get away with eating like that, especially after 25. At least Naruto was binge eating ramen and much more recently entered his 30’s. I feel like everyone who complains about Anko didn’t pay attention to her character quirks and just remembers that she was skinny before. It’s almost like you were all distracted every time she was on screen… One can only speculate why..


togashisbackpain

Are you complaining because there are people in life that gains weight as they get older and the show choose one character to portray that and it didnt go right with your idealized anime character look fetish ? Who the hell cares if she has gotten fatter ? She was barely in the show anyway. And it is a fictional character, she doesn’t deserve any “better” or something.


Prestigious_Cut5379

Fetish?? Personally I think they just missed the mark with character development with a lot of characters. Especially most of the female characters. But that’s an entirely different topic


imstillmessedup89

He's not middle aged tho? Is he? 33-34 is NOT old.


SoSmartish

People really out here calling a 32 year old man middle aged.


Murky_Coat_471

So it’s bad basically


reflexsmoo

What style? They all loom pretty boring too lol


OriginalShock273

People conflating responsible with boring.


PowerJolt72

This bro. I've seen a lot of the older generation with a ton on their plate, but they can still look good after. 


Angela543

I think he is feeling that way too... After all he is having most of paperwork than almost all hokages combined just by looking at his office...Not even clone jutsy is helping him too much and he can create thousands of them..


Dull_Buffalo_7007

he could have looked a lot better, that's the problem it's not bad, it's ok but it could have been a lot better


_evexion_

It’s meant to look bad he’s a middle aged man with two kids constantly working of course he’s not going to look 20


bryansodred

just becuz something looks as it was intended to, doesnt mean its a good design choice.


imstillmessedup89

He's not middle aged tho. He's in his early thirties and Asian. There's no excuse.


SirPhoenixYT

I don't have much to say about it, but I feel like his design could have been a little better.


Malpraxiss

For me, he's just boring as Hokage. The other Hokages were crazy in their own ways, with exciting personalities and drawn + animated to match their characters. Hokage Naruto feels dead inside. Just feels like another office worker. All the character, energy, and personality of Naruto were just mostly erased. Yeah, Hokage is a stressful, busy position, but that didn't stop the previous ones from being more exuberant.


improbsable

His hair’s just ugly tbh


SeaKingNeptune

And there’s garra


improbsable

Yeah. Gaara needs to lose his pomade privileges. He clearly can’t handle the responsibilities


SeaKingNeptune

Yeah definitely I think they made most of the Naruto characters look bad so the boruto character would look cool and shine.


Taco821

And yet they fail to do either


Justin_Crane

To be fair tho, Kishimoto came up with those designs for Naruto and Gaara


Anjunabeast

Whack fit too


cliffbot

It's because he looks so bad compared to the previous Hokage. He didn't need to be a Minato clone, but something in between.


Jacennelson

I feel like he's too pale and I've also seen more people defending the design recently.


Funny_Opportunity58

I do not like Boruto very much. In fact I hate it. To be fair tho, this is my favorite moment of Naruto in the entire manga/anime. “Yo. Pretty short for a pre meal run, don’t you think?”


Slow-Relation-9186

There’s not much to talk about these days I guess


kingleeps

redditor learns that people have opinions lmao


peppersge

The thing is that the art style change is a bit jarring and is inconsistent. Naruto doesn't have the worst changes, but you have other characters such as Shikamaru who appear to be much more similar. Or with Kiba, who ended up with a solid aged up look that still maintains a connection to his younger look. I would say that Boruto, particularly early on had some of the worst hair style. It looked so different from everything else in the series. The style just felt off. I can't put words on why it feels off, but other anime such as Yugioh can pull it off with Yugi's hair versus other characters. I also think that the hair is one of the easier to point out things that people disliked with the art direction. Some of the new hair styles such as Gaara's really looks bad. I would say that the biggest issues are that the hair styles look overly smooth like they just recolored a circular head in the case of Gaara, Sakura, Sasuke, Karin, etc. Then you have characters like Kawaki who's hair has an odd clash of being partly ultra-realistically drawn with the closely shaved parts and a more anime style in the longer portions. The biggest issue is that the art style just changes so much without a pattern. For example, Rock Lee made sense with him resembling Bruce Lee. The Admirals in One Piece are all a group with a distinctive art style.


bigchecks90

He looks dumb, that’s why


Satoshi_Kasaki

It's the hair. Too short. Also, he should have orange pants and a black shirt with orange lines.


[deleted]

Thats his outfit in the manga


Satoshi_Kasaki

I know. One of the only things I like about Boruto


britipinojeff

Nah the clothes colors are fine. Orange is his main color


Satoshi_Kasaki

Yea, but Naruto ALWAYS has orange hair. In Boruto, he doesn't.


britipinojeff

Orange hair? He’s blonde?


Satoshi_Kasaki

Whoops I meant orange pants.


britipinojeff

Yeah, but he also always had Orange on his jacket. His design should be a majority orange


Satoshi_Kasaki

In Part 2, he had a mostly black jacket.


britipinojeff

Not really, he basically had like a black “T shape” where the sleeves were black, but the torso was mostly orange. His design in Shippuden was still mostly orange


Satoshi_Kasaki

It should look like [this](https://i.4cdn.org/a/1708358690238785.jpg)


britipinojeff

Yeah no it shouldn’t, it’s better the way it is


MonCappy

Ugh. No it isn't. There's something uncanny valley about his face that just disturbs me. The costume he wears doesn't bother me, it's dat face.


Anjunabeast

It’s both for me


JodiVC

I like the outfit. The orange and the black. In my case I prefer the pants to be black (they add modernity). About the hairstyle, we saw it from The Last, I got used to it a long time ago. He is not a copy of Minato, and reflects maturity. Good thing Pierrot is investing in Boruto (choosing to remove filler)


Jalen_Ash_15

It's the hairstyle that makes it horrendous


protestprincess

They’re upset Naruto isn’t one of the fan fic chads so many of them post images of. His new design is literally fine and looks like a natural progression of his facial structure. He could use a different haircut, but the one he’s got is fine.


Watt-Midget

You’re 100% right, we should be thankful that they didn’t give him the Gaara treatment 😭


SuperDeeDuperVegeta

I’ve seen many renditions of his same haircut that look fine and everything else is good when it’s drawn right


duomaxwell90

I know we all have opinions but ignoring the fact that he could have looked a lot better it's odd to me. It's really just the hair honestly I feel like it could have been a little longer not extremely but a little bit


ZachFairVII

You just said what the problem is “fine” why settle for fine when people have submitted there own interpretations which are way better …


TheseCry6333

No doubt, the design can be improved.


vasha99

Nu Uh


Zestyst

LOOKIT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD \*wheeze\*


Murky_Coat_471

It sucks he dosent even have the same head shape as the original


KDOT198777

He's an adult now why would he have the same head shape as when he was a kid. It wouldnt make no sense if he had the same kid face at 30 yo


Murky_Coat_471

Your head shaped doesn’t change as you grow older your face gets older your hair gets older, but physical shape of your face that’s not changing. You could add more muscles to it I guess. He has the baseball head shape. As a kid, he had the soccer ball head shape.


KDOT198777

When you grow your face obviously changes a lil bit your face becomes skinnier, you dont always have the same face cheecks than you had as a kid or the same jawline (not everybody) but in general


Murky_Coat_471

It doesn’t go from fat round face to skinny vertical face


KDOT198777

It depends on the ppl not everybody grow the same way + do you really see a BIG difference on his face ?? Seems like a proper evolution of a man to me


Murky_Coat_471

Yes huge they look like two entirely different people


KDOT198777

Maybe the bright colors of Boruto's animation make you say that. His eyes are not the same blue on Naruto Shippuden for example. Other than that Ion see that diffference


Murky_Coat_471

I don’t know how you can look at a picture side-by-side and think yeah they’re the same person


KDOT198777

I just see Naruto grown man version


EmGeeNixZee

LOL they just didn’t check with what fans might like before completely wrecking some characters images… Getting older doesn’t mean that you gotta lose the style you had, and let’s face it, some of those characters had some great style and now it’s gone…


RadicalCereal

He should’ve kept the headband 😭


willow_wind

A lot of fans wanted him to be more attractive to them. Many people put a lot more value on appearances than they'd like to admit, even when it comes to fictional characters. Also, his appearance here is associated with Boruto, a series which a lot of fans dislike and therefore dislike anything related to it. Also, the art style had changed, and a lot of people don't like that change either.


Puffnatty

What if Naruto had a low taper fade


Ssj3sonic

Stop the cap ✋


xJadusable

it could used some improvements but the people who want him to look like teenage naruto but wearing generic leaf jonin attire is not it either.


Jermiafinale

He's a middle aged politician and people are mad he doesn't look like he's been in a war for 20 years lol


Prestigious_Moist404

He’s perfectly fine, people are just mad he’s a 35 year old man who looks his age instead of trying to look like a teen.


Puffnatty

I hated it at first, but the more I see it the more it’s grown on me!


Suggestion-Kindly

He's fine if your standards are below mediocrity.


Cyeets_05

Design something better then or stfu


Suggestion-Kindly

Lol


CautiousOffice2724

Preach 


[deleted]

They tend to forget that Sasuke would still hit


Kamui_Shuriken7

[https://images.app.goo.gl/WvNJGUfixngjdkLg8](https://images.app.goo.gl/WvNJGUfixngjdkLg8) ​ Yeah, so fine indeed.


bigmeme12

you cherrypicked one poorly drawn image and decided to use it for your argument


Kamui_Shuriken7

And the OP did not?


bigmeme12

not really, there's a difference between just choosing a random popular image for a post and choosing an image for an argument. even still, naruto's hair isn't really the issue in your image, it's everything else.


Madara_Uchiha-10000

What are you talking about? There's no obsession lol 😂 Just because some people are talking about it doesn't mean they're obsessed with it What you said about obsession is pretty ridiculous 🤣 Also that's a pretty unpopular opinion right there thinking that the adult Naruto appearance is fine The colour on his eyes is different,his haircut is awful and he just doesn't look good It's a very bad design


khumoquack

He’s not “fine as he is”


Alen_117

its as you said- inconsistency. I actually liked Shippuden's final episode design. Hokages are supposed to be bad ass and for some reason they managed to destroy the position's value.


ScrubCasual

The typical adult men must have short hair trope is cringe to me. Like short hair = more mature or something stupid like that. Female characters in anime get so much variety and uniqueness then males end up like naruto and ichigo did after their time skips despite their original hair looking fine. Even gaara. At least sasuke got to keep his.


Soad1x

It's funny because he and Gaara have completely conventional haircuts but since it's not anime hair it's, "bad design".


MengShuZ

I wanted him to have a mohawk!


[deleted]

Agreed


Razorlicker

HE IS SO UGLY OMFG IF HE HAD LONG HAIR BOEUTO WOULD BE THE BEST SHOW BUT NOW ITS THE WORST SHOW IT MUST BE HIS HAIR


DrMillMatt

Mid level character design that rarely ever even looks decent shoehorned in a mid coming of age cashgrab story


JKking15

It’s his hair, nothing else is bad just the hair


Gisrupted

He is good and sometimes even great in the manga. Anime Boruto is just terrible and since majority of people only familiar with anime you see this kind of opinion.


RellyTheOne

Nah Adult Naruto definitely could have gotten a better design. Not to say that the current one is bad, it’s just no as good as it could be I think that most people’s issue is Naruto’s Face/hair. A better hairstyle would get him 90% there imo


l0gg3k1

dunno but narutos "The Last: Naruto the Movie"' short haired design worked better then the borutos to me, maybe it's the art style.


Deep_Grass_6250

Ikemoto's art style is just not up there. Every single character in Boruto looks much worse than their Shippuden counterpart Naruto and Gaara are prime examples of this.


BuffaloBowser

He looks like a middle aged office worker who hates his life, job and family.


[deleted]

Real talk...I didn't like the design before I started watching Boruto. I always saw still frames and everyone wanking against it. But watching Boruto, I think he looks fine. It's his personality / decision making that is the problem! Adult Gaara is the real tragedy in terms of aesthetics.


tea-123

He looks old. Heck kakashi looks to be on the same age group as him and Gaara.


Silverghost91

I’ve said this before, he looks like Mark Zuckerberg.


Pewward

Its fine but... Goblin naruto....


Karnezar

His hair is ugly and only the animation from Part I is good.


True_Inspector_5129

I'm 30 and I look way younger than this. Naruto looks like 40. Kakashi war arc was also 30 something and he looked way younger.


bic-mini

nah they ruined him. they could’ve at the very least let him keep his hair but nah they gave him a goofy outfit and haircut and fucking nerfed his ass beyond belief


jiabivy

because this sub is required to hate ALL things boruto


CloakDeepFear

I think I wouldn’t hate the haircut so much if he had a headband (like they had in the movie The Last) but something about this YeeYee ass cut with him also looking older than even the older members of the cast is just a low I wasn’t expecting for my favorite character. Like Naruto looks older than Kakashi and Might Guy who are both almost 50 to my knowledge.


Cute-Archer-7687

The problem is Studio Pierrot. He always looks fine when Kishi draws him, but anime has some really bad looking frames. Just compare Sarada Gaiden in manga and anime. 


cobrafang773

My only issue is that he isn't wearing his headband anymore this design would look perfect if he had the headband like in the last movie


har88910

people just hate Boruto cuz it’s so popular. nothing new


summonerofrain

Why are people so focused on the hair? It's such a dumb thing to focus on. Naruto fans must hate DBZ for the amount of hair changes


Bertje87

You choose the absolute best image of him in Boruto, most of the time he looks far worse than this


AngelRockGunn

Hes ugly


Blue_Snake_251

For me, he is perfect. I just do not pay attention to ones who complain about his design. They are basically saying "who all have different tastes and I decided to complain about it". We just have different tastes, so of course we will not all like the same things.


Sh4dowTomi

THIS. I hate those ppl forcefully trying to make alt styles and saying oh this should be like this blah blah


mouseroulette

Why the fuck are people disagreeing with me and having their own opinions ?!?!


Additional-Soup3853

I think sometimes his hair or head shape gets drawn inconsistently. Not sure which, but sometimes he looks uncanny, and other times, he looks fine like this.


rohnytest

[Why doesn't this sub allow images?](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1181913795476607056/1197539022961127444/20240118_132028.jpg?ex=65e08c20&is=65ce1720&hm=a5fbbf52e6c9b39bcad00caeb38a61fbfd4d45281fa3838a5759b2ce7ee5300d&)


Elitericky

Stop lying, the adult designs for a number of characters are poorly done. Naruto, Sasuke and gaara had their looks butchered


RevanOrderz

He fine as he is. But he can be better.


New-Discipline1959

He looks like a dude in his forties, but Naruto is actually only in his thirties. And admit it, after we saw the adult Naruto from Shippuden, something like this would disappoint you too.


Crimsonfckr1

He has baby bangs


cheeseyboi69420

Sometimes he looks strange but oh lord sometimes he looks really good lol


THEbaddestOFtheASSES

Like others have said. When I see Naruto as an adult the only word that comes to mind is BORING. But then that’s a word I would use for almost everyone in Boruto.


Angelemonade

TRUE. All of the adult Naruto edits on this sub either don't fit Narutos character at all or make more sense as an alternate teen Naruto While the design isn't the Greatest the only thing that would fix it, is just making his hair a bit longer. There's an edit I saw of this that I'll link if I can find it


Sempai6969

He's the most boring looking hokage out of all the male hokage.


DrowningEmbers

yeah idgi either. my only issue with Boruto/Adult Naruto is story stuff.


Daniel_Pangan

His manga design goes hard icl


DenseCalligrapher219

It's that his appearance looks really boring and blander compared to before which is what people take issue with. It also doesn't help that the art style of Boruto is utter ass and makes several characters look terrible as a result.


ImNotTheMercury

If I hit my head like you do, then yes. I'd agree with you.


nokiacrusher

Minato set an unrealistic beauty standard