</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Death BOO Z @ Jan 29 2004, 05:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (mage &#064; Jan 29 2004, 05:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> and what the hell? how are they on par with jounins trained by orochimaru? not to mention the sound nins have cursed seal level 2. naruto and the others arent THAT special. I dont see how this can happen unless oro&#39;s henchmen are incredibly weak. the cursed seal was shown to give you super speed/strength when they showed it on sasuke vs the three sound nins, but now these 12 year olds are able to defeate jounins at level TWO curse seal? </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
welcome to the world of anime, where kids who train for a month can defeat experts who put thier whole life into fighting...

Kishimonto doesn&#39;t have enough plot writing experince to make the &#39;super powered kids&#39; sympthome seem half beliveable.
I can stand Neji (a super genious) and Naruto (a monster) winning against all the odds, even chouji can pass with his last resort sacrifice pills, but there&#39;s no way i&#39;m gonna buy it if Kiba and Shikamaru win a one-on-one fight. Kiba is an loud mouth idiot, who is probably the &#39;avarge&#39; male genin, and Shikamaru is &#39;good only in running away&#39;, he couldn&#39;t even beat the sound nins who were after them in the forest, and i don&#39;t think he&#39;ll be able to do shit against any of the sound five, even without the curse seal lvl1.

but still, i&#39;ve seen worse cases of &#39;kid overpower experts&#39;, just think about Flame of Recca (&quot;look&#33; i have a madgou which makes me ultra strong&#33; i can kick you legendary ass in no time&#33;&quot or Dragon Ball (&quot;sure, you are the strongest guy in the world and you won the championship many times, but i trained the last eight months&#33; and so i can beat you in no problem&#33;&quot.

that&#39;s one of the problems of Kodoma animes, you can&#39;t write normal kids as heros if you want it to be a reasonable and intersting story... </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Kiba seems pretty average so I don&#39;t think he can win, but he does know the terrain more than anyone else there and can track people down. Shikimaru isn&#39;t so average he is a super genius after all and I don&#39;t think the sound nins are Jounins.

This is off topic but in Dragon Ball about the tournament thing Goku doesn&#39;t win all the time, he only won the tournament once and that was at the end of DB after 17(or however old he was) years of training and fighting because he has been training all his life(even in teh first episode he goes out when he wakes up and starts training). I agree that Neji and Chouji had a reason to win against them, one being the heir to one of the best clans in his village and the other only winning against the weakest of them using pills. Not sure if it&#39;s mentioned what rank the sound nins are.