The Deepest Character in Naruto - Kakashi of the Sharingan & The 6th Hokage

in the Ninja world those who break the rules are scum that's true but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum for the very beginning of this series there was an extraordinarily faint idea of Kakashi's past but from the impression given it was not a pleasant one during his time off he would mourn by the villages memorial stone and despite the passive-aggressive assholey practical joke II annoying actions he constantly took to have a fun time pissing off his students and the entirety of the Naruto series we did not see him laugh once of course his backstory was revealed to be duly tragic many hundreds of episodes later but until that point we still see that sense of foreboding in Kakashi's weary eye I in singular because aside from the fact that the character design of his eye is different than every other character I in the entire series it's done very particularly to articulate a looming sadness but even more fascinating is his other eye today we'll be decoding the tragic metaphor behind Kakashi's shot and gun as well as the thematic philosophy of his entire character today I'm gonna put my hand on the table why I consider Kakashi's narrative to be the main focus of the entire Naruto franchise and I hope maybe some of you will see Kakashi in a different light than you did until now from the very beginning of the series it was made perfectly clear that this shining on eyeball thing he is an addendum to his person it ain't new Chia he can't turn it on or off he has a scar around it and even initially his body can't stand the strain of using it for too long it despite all this he's world renowned as Kakashi the copy ninja Kakashi of the Sharingan a master of a thousand jutsu copied due to the power of his shining eyes even his own personal jutsu hi cutie the lightning blade can only be properly utilized in conjunction with his Sharingan this results in an interesting situation Kakashi as we know is a total beast even without the ultimate eyeball he was a tuning at six joning at ten and ambu at 13 these are some pretty legendary stats in fact it's the best in the series to our knowledge it took you touchy until 10 to become a Chunin and who we know how bad as that guy is yet despite how insanely skilled Kakashi was by his own right it's his shining and that really gave him access to the ranks of the untold power of the bingo book of legend yeah I watched the dub the bingo book Kakashi's Sharingan was clearly not part of himself but outwardly seemed to be a vital aspect of his being due to slight daddy issues Kakashi was a loner as a kid and despite being surrounded by rin guy and obito he forced himself away from them to do everything himself so the first time he welcomed Obito into his heart when they were finally working together as best friends for a common vital goal Kakashi went through the mental trauma of believing he caused Obito's death and that's when Kakashi of the shining gun was born that enveloped his identity and became a constant metaphor for the emotional upheaval of his life The Shining on itself represented the emotional weight of Obito's loss that he carries with him every day and that he's constantly reminded of and of course the mangekyo sharingan which he acquired through the loss of rin act as a constant reminder of that little bit of tragic past he constantly bares the grievances of these two losses with him on a physical level because he literally has that red thing lodged in his face but also metaphorically it's a burden to his past of his two best friends the three major recurring themes from his past that will continue rearing their ugly heads throughout his life are completely reliant on the three characters he once loved first was his father the White Fang of the leaf someone who he initially loved but in the end felt betrayed by but that trauma left Kakashi even as a child as a morally disingenuous stoic the second was Obito a character that he initially vehemently disliked both in his last moments became Kakashi's best friend the initial distaste was sparked by his father's betrayal air quotes because his father did the right thing and the honorable thing but being all moral and preachy didn't really help him out so Obito fighting for light-hearted simple-minded honorable goals was the bane to Kakashi's new-formed ideology that's where the rift between them started and the third major theme was Rin he liked Rin and was liked by Rijn but was not only unable to protect but instrumental in her death his powerful lightning jutsu would represent his father's legacy his shining on would represent his self pounding past and obito and his manga keel represents his pain and loss in R in these three recurring themes are constantly showing up in his life if you'd looked just slightly past the superficial and it's this little detail that kept Kakashi has consistently in my top three Naruto characters so that's when the outline bits and pieces of his life and a possibly slightly different light then he may have been seen before and inevitably time to get taken over by fields Oh Kakashi became renowned via using his friends shining on constantly bearing that weight even though whenever he would use the shining on for too long or the mangekyo sharingan it would leave him bedridden delving too far into the burdens he still carried from the friends he lost Obito the friend he lost and mourns to this very day ended up resurfacing in the series as the main ish villain pulling all the strings in the entirety of the story up till the war arc Kakashi's failure to save his friend resulted in not only his friend's death but Kakashi yet to witness his death twice each time done to save Kakashi himself but before his second death Kakashi had to watch his pure hearted friend completely driven mad and seek the destruction of the entire Ninja world that same world that Obito died protecting twice oh it really makes the reoccurrence of evil Obito so incredible from Kakashi's perspective was because the other major trauma in his past was how he failed to protect rin taking her life with his own hand no matter the circumstances but he sees the brutal extent to how badly he failed because he failed Obito as well yes and the series proper was infuriating that Obito decided to drop some nukes on the universe because the universe killed his girl but in Kakashi's character writing it was spectacular his meeting Obito in the war art as a relatively evil dude tore opened the wounds of two of his greatest losses obviously Obito's but even more powerful in rin i've had this idea in the back of my mind for a long time superficially the war art especially the Kaguya climax was a bit of a disaster i poked fun at it in my honest description series for like 30 minutes straight at its multiple plot holes and inconsistencies and well so do most youtubers even swag tag a my personal favorite Naruto burr and bona fide hoochie Attard extraordinaire videos on how to fix the war Ark making fun of the war Ark I will link a PHY them in the description and the points he made in both of those videos were not only just valid but they were prudent we can all make fun of Kishimoto x'b ad superficial writing decisions all we like but it's clear to me at least that the ending he was gunning for all along was the soul of what took place don't get me wrong I'm not coming to say I forgive you for superficially screwing up the entire ending because though I believe he wrote himself into situation where he needed to perform the various as polls to retain this soul he was searching for and the reason why I am mentioning this here in Kakashi's video is because even though Naruto is obviously the main character of the series being that you know it's kind of named after him Kakashi's thematically the most developed and explored character through the ending climax so while I may do a in defense of the Naruto climax video today will be Kakashi focused hit the way I like it and there's two specific aspects of the Kaguya fights that served as a beautiful ending arc for Kakashi story even after obito's death I guess we as viewers never anticipated it to hold any emotional weight which it did but he used this dimensional distorting calmly to literally warp his Sharingan from the dimension of the dead to the dimension of the living as I mentioned superficially he made no sense this hole was there and I'll try man guys please all these years of Kakashi's fighting using obito's shining on it served the purpose as a remembrance of his old friend he used it to help his nation but he carried the pain it reminded him of along with him for his whole life now it's time to use that pain and to accept your past because Obito is rooting for him even past his own death so Kakashi using the shining on at full power isn't as an heirloom of his friends that sits on his chest as a burden but at this point at least it's a full-blown entrusted legacy that was given to him to exact vengeance and to save the world but even more so it was for Obito's ultimate repentance this wasn't some plain old shouting online to you it came along with the mangekyo as well and a pretty perfect one at that as I've mentioned earlier the manga keel represents the loss of Rin now losing Rin served two interesting purposes in Kakashi's life in regard to Obito firstly it was the breaking point of Obito Rin dies Obito goes nuts destroyed the planet makes sense but secondly in Kakashi it was him failing to protect the Rin that he promised the dying Obito that he would protect so with Obito literally giving over his everything to Kakashi it came along with his longest dormant and finally emergent will of fire to do what's right and forgiveness for RINs death solving both of these Obito issues RINs death would no longer be shackles to Kakashi's life because the past happens there's no use running away from it because there's no use trying to change it and there's no use trying to suppress it Obito giving Kakashi the full power shining gun wasn't to help him run away change or suppress the past it was the ultimate push forward from the past to move forward and move forward he does by the end of the fight Kakashi is finally comfortable with himself for the first time in his whole life since his father's death his Sharingan is gone with the burdens of the past it carried finally being left to rest and Kakashi in the future still becomes one of the most legendary ninja alive he becomes a Hokage of extraordinary might and he's no longer famous as Kakashi the copy ninja and he's no longer famous for his shining gun he's a total badass and moral ninja from the third recurring theme of his past White Fang of the leaf where a wise morality would trump honor and where Kakashi is known as a total beast from his own lightning style jutsu but as I mentioned Kakashi Shawnigan and past was only one major theme of Kakashi's narrative finally aligned during the Kaguya climax but there was one other as well because old beauty of the shining on metaphor throughout the series that's finally wrapped up here is basically telling you start looking forward fam the future matters too so let's talk about what team seven truly means to Kakashi Kakashi has not accepted students until team seven arrived because each team he de says was lacking teamwork this isn't sad but clearly alluded to and there's another reason why he grew extraordinary close to team ten as well Naruto was the number one knucklehead ninja of his generation he wanted to become Hokage and he wallowed and his childish mentality despite having such straight-laced morals at a young age all those attributes I've just described the Naruto is exactly what made him a bit annoying I'll give you that but they're also the exact identical focal attributes Obito possessed in his childhood and I'll get back to Naruto in a moment but if you look at Sasuke the kid with the sad past of his family dying and in his eyes he was betrayed by his greatest role model who brought disgrace to his entire clan as he wiped it out because of this past Sasuke only had the mindset to grow stronger and he was arrogant to the point that he looked down at his childish contemporaries these attributes of his despite yeah being slightly annoying I'll give you that are the exact identical focal attributes to Kakashi as a kid as well and then of course the Naruto Sasuke Sakura love triangle thing is a basic mimic of the Kakashi Obito Rin one where Sasuke was Kakashi Naruto is Obito and of course Sakura's grin because uh both medical both in the same love triangle thingy at both useless I feel like I'd just ruin a good moment there anyway the point is there are these three superficial seeming differences dividing Sasuke situation took Kakashi's despite their basic philosophies resonating with each other perfectly the first is Sasuke had a focal point for his anger being Itachi while for Kakashi his father was already gone so while he had something to focus on to exact revenge that focal point was not getting any closer with Itachi still insanely easily overpowering him in that Tsunade arc making Sasuke's steady growth in strength seeming pointless the second was the welcoming hand of Orochimaru which was not tempting Kakashi and the third was Kakashi witnessed Obito's demise and he felt responsibility causing him to reconcile from his arrogant stoicism while for Sasuke he saw Naruto surpass him in many ways which only is fuel to the fire of helplessness these are situational differences that were due to life experiences that's what made their individual past so extremely dissimilar if not for that they're one in the same and Kakashi saw that very well Kakashi taking Sasuke for private training between the third rounds of the Chunin exams were yes pretty terrible since a ship the Naruto but we're in Kakashi's mind it was pivotal to Sasuke Kakashi assumed lightning blade was the only solution to gaara's invincibility and Sasuke needed to win desperately but he did not get that win not only did he lose he got to see Naruto take that victory another situational difference between Sasuke and Kakashi that Kakashi saw coming tried everything to avoid and still failed miserably team seven was Kakashi's past thrust into a different situation and Kakashi would get it right this time but Kakashi didn't get it right this time Sasuke due to these experiences deserted to seek counsel by Orochimaru and Kakashi lost resolve in training team seven Kakashi once again saw his family crumble Naruto getting adopted by Jiraiya Sakura receiving training by Tsunade but this is why I call Kakashi's narrative the focal point of the Naruto series the Kaguya climax was for him throughout the greater narrative Kakashi's soul was at two points of time at the same time and was living in the past carrying his past with him wherever he went with the burden of the Sharingan and mangekyo in every action of his life constantly grieving and going to the village memorial stone and the second half of his soul was in the present reliving these same attributes that made him who he is vicariously through the lives of team seven but this time the outcome was unforeseeable different it wasn't Obito and rin that didn't make it represented by Naruto and Sakura but it was the Kakashi of the generation who was Sasuke who didn't make it and it was clear to Kakashi that he only is who he is today because of the losses he suffered and the experiences he's experienced for a lot of people one of the high points in Shippuden was when Naruto first met Sasuke since the time-skip it was cool and all but I vehement lee in putting my foot down that Kakashi meeting Sasuke did the 5k summit was far more powerful of a moment Kakashi saw himself inside Sasuke but a version that went terribly awry but again he felt responsible for another loss as the sensei figure he was responsible for something becoming a monster and it was completely at this point out of his hands to rectify both halves of his soul that were brutally battered into tatters were simultaneously regenerated in the Kaguya fight Obito completely gave Kakashi perfect closure by giving him a purr a spool Susanoo saying the past cannot be changed but the future can as I've mentioned so with his site set forward team seven which played the role as his precious students as well as his vicariously living family did the impossible and came together for the first time fully respecting one another and overcoming the greatest evil known to the ninja world neither team Minato nor team Kakashi ever successfully managed this in the past has never a single point in time for the squad of Obito Rin and Kakashi or Naruto Sakura and Sasuke that they ever fully worked together trusting each other and from this point on in the series even in boruto Kakashi's eyes are not drooped with a stoic sadness but their vigilant with a prideful contentment we now close the book on Kakashi's past multi-generational somber thematic narrative and we can crown him as a successful oka gay no longer bearing the metaphoric burdens of The Shining gun but be badass nonetheless finally accepting the hero white fangs legacy as a moral leader and a master of none kekkei genkai basic but powerful lightning style jutsu Kakashi only after all this time can finally have a future if you all so much for watching I hope you enjoyed I'm personally really happy without this video came out and I would love to hear in the comments what your thoughts on it also because it took a lot of time to put together and honestly I'm curious to hear if your opinion of Kakashi has changed even a little slightly feel free to leave a like if you did like and feel free to subscribe if you want more weird enough to focus on extremely deep philosophical analyses and super light-hearted satire stuff so if you liked any of that you're more than welcome to join the ranks of the fan base also 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most wonderful evening and remember to stay weird fam in the Ninja world those who break the rules are scum that's true but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum [Music]

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Published: Mon Jul 16 2018