We don’t have to overanalyze things to know that situation that creates a child soldiers is terrible and have to be stopped at all cost. Ok, I get it - it’s something that most of the readers can somehow comprehend. This whole motive makes absolutely zero sense. No, he says, it was because of child soldiers. But, Kishi says, it was not because of lack of food, medicine and shelter, as well as collateral damage and war crimes. That’s actually believable, cause neverending war is not exactly the best time and space to be a kid. So - talks Kishi via Hashirama’s mouth - the warring states era was so terrible because of the high mortality of kids.

I’ll do what I can to make myself as clear as possible. Actually it’s my first that long text written in english, so pls excuse my mistakes. But as a piece of the world-building - I mean as a part of a answer for the question “what was the genesis and the purpose of Konoha (and the village system per se)” - it makes no fucking sense.

Yes, it had a couple of nice scenes and the dynamics between kid!Madara & kid!Hashirama were really good as for a Kishi’s standards. I know that this particular flashback is sort of a pinnacle of Kishi’s writing and it could have been - dear lord - so much worse than it is and the hashimada fandom decided to roll with the story it creates, but I’m rather disappointed with it and the overall theme it created for the Hashirama & Madara relationship. So i would like to talk to you about why the whole Hashirama’s flashback was the utter garbage. August 3rd, 2015 Minibang day 03: war/peace

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