Quote Originally Posted by Assertn View Post
meh, asuma's been a fountain of emotion spewing out recycled words of wisdom ever since he died the first time. I've grown numb to it.
are you trying to say they're killing his character?


that aside, it's another case when Naruto is held back from helping, even at the cost of many others. I'm not sure if it's for the sake of having the other realize they can't win without him and therefore they accept him as their savior, or if it's simply Kishimonto's reluctance to play his hand and test his 'new naruto' character. so he prefers to keep it in the same fun zone of turning frog and watching strange animals wing-wongs.

it's actually the same explanation, now that I think about it.