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You won’t get it if I explain both at the same time. As your teacher, I’m sorry.

This broke me when I was a kid. Had me sobbing.

As much as we all love to tease him, Naruto’s actually real fucking smart. I do it, too, in no small part because I see a lot of myself in him. Having ADHD, growing up fighting desperately to be able to learn on even ground, with the same opportunity as my peers, and never really having exactly what Kakashi is being here. Most of us never have so much consideration into changing how instead of what is being taught. Yet, here was a well-known, beloved, and even respected character across the world doing what all teachers should do.

For context, the gif above is from one of the first scenes where Kakashi is taking Naruto’s training more directly and teaching him foundations of pieces Naruto already uses. Initially, he goes to explain this in a very direct, technical manner as he would for Sasuke or Sakura, and quickly realizes that is the wrong approach for Naruto. He then, as he will continue to do throughout training Naruto, breaks things down differently or shows him in a tangible way. Teaching him how to access the full extent of the shadow clones is a perfect example of this.

And the biggest reason it made me cry my fucking eyes out is because as he does this, there is not a single implication that he’s looking down on Naruto for needing a different approach. Not even a little.

Now, this is emotional for even more reasons, because we have a much better understanding of Naruto’s parents and a significantly better idea of what Minato was probably like as a teacher. Minato also had a brilliant student who was almost certainly ADHD, I mean we have joked about him being like Naruto since he was introduced, and in all honesty, I’m am really fucking sure that Minato understood a bit more first-hand than it would appear. We see how similar their ways of impulsive thinking are, and how absolutely unintentionally ridiculous Minato is if he isn’t focused. Kakashi being Kakashi was probably aware of these things, probably saw for himself this same example set by his teacher. In other words, Kakashi is a real good fucking teacher and has made me cry for the only reasons a teacher should ever make someone cry, which is still a very foreign experience.

in case anyone’s wondering, this is how Kakashi doodles lol. he drew Yamato with a flower growing out of his head. look at akamaru. look at the insects. i’m dying.

(from the omake after Naruto Shippuden episode 108. the creature on the upper right side is Isobu) 

I didn’t want to make it as dark as the original.

But damn he’s so fine in that shot that couldn’t resist redrawing it 🥵

Fun fact: when I first saw this shot (I still haven’t seen the episode or where is this from? The movie? 🙈) I noticed myself since then folding my arms this way 🤦🏼‍♀️

What traits have you ever picked up from your fictional crush? 🤭

no shade but wanting to fuck anime characters is weird even if youre good looking

no offense but i don’t give a fuck!!!!! kakashi can hit it raw!!!!

“For some time, Hollywood has marketed family entertainment according to a two-pronged strategy, with cute stuff and kinetic motion for the kids and sly pop-cultural references and tame double entendres for mom and dad. Miyazaki has no interest in such trickery, or in the alternative method, most successfully deployed in Pixar features like Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3 and Inside/Out, of blending silliness with sentimentality.”

“Most films made for children are flashy adventure-comedies. Structurally and tonally, they feel almost exactly like blockbusters made for adults, scrubbed of any potentially offensive material. They aren’t so much made for children as they’re made to be not not for children. It’s perhaps telling that the genre is generally called “Family,” rather than “Children’s.” The films are designed to be pleasing to a broad, age-diverse audience, but they’re not necessarily specially made for young minds.”

“My Neighbor Totoro, on the other hand, is a genuine children’s film, attuned to child psychology. Satsuki and Mei move and speak like children: they run and romp, giggle and yell. The sibling dynamic is sensitively rendered: Satsuki is eager to impress her parents but sometimes succumbs to silliness, while Mei is Satsuki’s shadow and echo (with an independent streak). But perhaps most uniquely, My Neighbor Totoro follows children’s goals and concerns. Its protagonists aren’t given a mission or a call to adventure - in the absence of a larger drama, they create their own, as children in stable environments do. They play.”

“Consider the sequence just before Mei first encounters Totoro. Satsuki has left for school, and Dad is working from home, so Mei dons a hat and a shoulder bag and tells her father that she’s “off to run some errands” - The film is hers for the next ten minutes, with very little dialogue. She’s seized by ideas, and then abandons them; her goals switch from moment to moment. First she wants to play “flower shop” with her dad, but then she becomes distracted by a pool full of tadpoles. Then, of course, she needs a bucket to catch tadpoles in - but the bucket has a hole in it. And on it goes, but we’re never bored, because Mei is never bored.”

“[…] You can only ride a ride so many times before the thrill wears off. But a child can never exhaust the possibilities of a park or a neighborhood or a forest, and Totoro exists in this mode. The film is made up of travel and transit and exploration, set against lush, evocative landscapes that seem to extend far beyond the frame. We enter the film driving along a dirt road past houses and rice paddies; we follow Mei as she clambers through a thicket and into the forest; we walk home from school with the girls, ducking into a shrine to take shelter from the rain; we run past endless green fields with Satsuki as she searches for Mei. The psychic center of Totoro’s world is an impossibly giant camphor tree covered in moss. The girls climb over it, bow to it as a forest-guardian, and at one point fly high above it, with the help of Totoro. Much like Totoro himself, the tree is enormous and initially intimidating, but ultimately a source of shelter and inspiration.”

“My Neighbor Totoro has a story, but it’s the kind of story that a child might make up, or that a parent might tell as a bedtime story, prodded along by the refrain, “And then what happened?” This kind of whimsicality is actually baked into Miyazaki’s process: he begins animating his films before they’re fully written. Totoro has chase scenes and fantastical creatures, but these are flights of fancy rooted in a familiar world. A big part of being a kid is watching and waiting, and Miyazaki understands this. When Mei catches a glimpse of a small Totoro running under her house, she crouches down and stares into the gap, waiting. Miyazaki holds on this image: we wait with her. Magical things happen, but most of life happens in between those things—and there is a kind of gentle magic, for a child, in seeing those in-betweens brought to life truthfully on screen.”

A.O. Scott and Lauren Wilford on “My Neighbor Totoro”, 2017.  

This took me way longer than I thought 🫠

Separated full size under the cut...

Do you have any links to posts that analyze how old Kakashi was when Sakumo died??? Be they your own or other people's

I explained Kakashi's ages in different stages of his life before in one of my reblogs but since I did it in a reblog, I'll do it again here.

Here are the facts that were directly stated in the manga:

• Kakashi graduated the Ninja academy and became Gennin at 5 after spending only one year in the academy, which means that he started the academy at 4.

• Kakashi became Chunin at 6

• Kakashi was promoted to Jounin 5 year after Sakumo’s death

Right before the kannabi bridge incident, the day Kakashi became Jounin Minato said that Sakumo died 5 years ago

Now in Naruto Shippuden episode 483, Kakashi visited Sakumo’s grave for his first death anniversary when he was still in the academy, and since we’ve seen Sakumo with him the day he got accepted in the academy, the only explanation for an entire year to pass before Kakashi graduate from the academy (since he only spent one year in the academy and graduated at 5) is that Sakumo died shortly after Kakashi was accepted in the academy.

So this means 2 things.

1- Sakumo died when Kakashi was 4.

2- Kakashi became Jounin when he was 9 (since Minato stated that Sakumo died 5 years ago on the day he got promoted to Jounin)

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thank u for requesting gaalee @zakuramoloss this is exactly what my heart needed 😤💕🏖