boruto is probably the best anime ever made... unless you like character development or anime.
Welcome to demo entertainment in today's video we are going to be talking about the tragedy
of rock lee showing his uprise what made him a great character and a little bit about his
past then we will talk about his downfall comparing in naruto, naruto Shippuden, and
boruto.
Then showing why his progression doesn't make sense then last but not least we will provide
a summary for everything we said in this video.
So let's get started.
Rock lee's a shinobi of the hidden leaf village.
He is apart of the lee clan and a member of team guy.
Unlike most shinobi, he lacks pretty much all skill when It comes to ninjutsu or genjitsu.
He overcomes his weakness by practicing his taijutsu.
Taijutsu is body optimization of natural human abilities or martial arts.
His personality is energetic, optimistic, and hot-blooded.
He is pretty much the epitome of a nice guy.
He tries to emulate his idol might guy by wearing green jumpsuit and rocking this awesome
bowl haircut.
Kishimoto the writer of naruto took a lot of inspiration from bruce lee and later down
the line used Jackie chan's drunken fist.
One of my favorite characters in naruto is rock lee, unfortunately, he was one of the
characters that suffered the most when it came to borutos horrible character development.
we know they wanted to show the new generation but why did they have to make every character
we know and love look like a weak cunt.
It's sad to see that they cucked him so hard in boruto I mean for duck's sake sakura has
better parts in it than him.
I mean that's just ducked up.
now don't get me wrong Naruto Shippuden didn't do a great job with him either however he
at least had a little bit more parts before he fell off as a character and a human being.
What makes rock lee so unique is he pretty much redefines what we perceive as strong
in the naruto universe up until now strength has always been associated with ninjutsu,
in fact, the only way to graduate the academy was to use a clone ninjutsu.
This makes him such a fun character to watch we get to see his enemies priceless expressions
when he destroys them with only using taijutsu.
Rock lee's goal is to become a respectable ninja without the use of ninjutsu or genjitsu
he also wants to show that he can beat a natural-born genus by just using hard work and persistence.
rock lee had a great start proving to be one of the strongest genin at the chunin exam
by showing his strength against Sasuke.
By giving him a good old ass beatin'.
While still wearing his ankle weights.
Later he went head to head with one of the jinchuriki also known as Gaara.
At just 12 years old he was able to open 5 out of the eight inner gates which is an impressive
feat even for the most talented of ninja even Kakashi was surprised that such a young boy
could open that many gates with Kakashi himself and most ninja only being able to open one
inner gate.
After his fight with Gaara, he was injured beyond the point of becoming a shinobi.
Soon after he was offered to get into surgery however the catch was that he only 50% chance
to live.
Soon after he probably had one of the most well-known fights in naruto with his drunken
fist against kimimaro.
where he mistakenly took a bottle of sake instead of his medicine speaking about medicine
I need to take my medicine.
In Naruto Shippuden, he definitely had an okay amount of screen time but probably not
in the way rock lee fans would have liked.
He didn't really have any serious fights with the closest one being on episode 401 against
Shira but that was also a filler.
They had many chances to implement rock lee but chose not too which is really frustrating.
It sucks that they made such a great strong character in naruto but then made him a weak
side character later on.
As far as abilities we learn he can open 6 out of the 8 inner gates.
In the following years, we learned that rock lee became a jonin and that he can also open
all 8 of the inner gates his most memorable part in boruto is just being proctor of the
3rd and final round of the chunin exams.
After momoshiki arrived he pretty much disappeared.
Now momoshiki would absorb chakra making the hidden leafs strongest taijutsu master a great
matchup for him but in the end, they just decided to make him useless.
Might guy was very similar to rock lee when he was young he struggled with ninjitsu and
genjitsu.
His rival was Kakashi.
He also wanted to prove that he could beat Kakashi's natural born genus just by perseverance
and hard work.
Might guy had awesome parts in Naruto Shippuden in the 4th shinobi war he went against Madara.
Opening all 8 of the inner gates for one epic fight making even Madara praise him.
It's safe to say rock lee surpassed might guy in boruto we know this because rock lee
mastered all eight of the inner gates, as well as he, could smash a meteor by himself.
it also wouldn't make sense with naruto's theme if he didn't get stronger than his master.
Might guy played a huge role in Naruto Shippuden which makes it weird that they would make
rock lee useless in boruto where he had fights he could excel in like even if he couldn't
beat momoshiki it would still have been nice if he tried or showed up and fought a little
bit.
So this video summed up is that boruto ducked up big time when it came to its character
development and made one of the most beloved characters in the series useless.
We get that they wanted to show the new generation but that doesn't excuse bad writing and bad
character development.
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more videos and il see you next time.