Naruto Shippuuden Episode 55

[Abdula]

Well, if there were 2 of you, do you think you would both think the exact same thing at the exact same time? No, you wouldn't and since this training apparently relies on trial and error this looks like the way to go.

That is the problem, its not two different people trying to figure out the same thing its just one person. Its just Naruto and his clones and as we've seen before either in previous training sessions or in battle it doesn't matter how many clones of him there are they all think and act exactly the same, which is why they have never been effective. With Naruto its not as if your fighting multiple people as it is when, say Kakashi or the third used it, its just more like you're just fighting the same person over and over. Its one of the many examples of things in Naruto where Kishi purposely doesn't explain how it works so he can apply it however he wants later.

I mean Naruto has been using his clones since the very beginning and not only has he been unaware of this little nugget but he never seemed to have benefited from it at all. Anyway this is just Kishi's way of making up for the apparently wasted 2.5 years Naruto spent with Jiraiya. Rather cheap if you ask me because Sasuke, Sakura and everybody else spent that time actually improving now Naruto is just going to take a shortcut and most likely surpass all of them. Funny thing is they are probably going to just give him another superpowerful jutsu that he can't use properly and his basic skills are still going to suck. This is just as bad as when Ichigo cheated to gain Bankai and then went talking big to Byakuya, even though he still didn't even know how to use it properly.

Btw from what I understand about the way this works I don't see why anyone else couldn't use the same method. I get that no one else would be able to make as many clones as Naruto but all jonin level ninjas are supposed to be able to use shadow clones, I mean all you have to know is a single seal, so why couldn't someone else just use that training method. I mean even if its one clone they would still accomplish their training in half the time. Reminds me of rasengan because I still can't understand why other people can't do that either.

Good point about the butterfly effect though, I suppose it wouldn't have much effect on Naruto since this is more than likely just Kishi's way of making up for his lack of talent. I guess it really is just trial and error in which case, numbers would make a huge different but it couldn't possibly be just that simple.

Rant over, for now anyway.