2011-07-25, 08:31 AM
SolicShooter Wrote:And Asuma would be considered strong now, why? People like raikage would kill him (and hidan) in a second. If you can't actually tell me who's the weakest member then he's definitely the weakest member because I've nothing to argue against... Take your pick between Orochimaru, Sasori, Pain, Konan, Kisame, Kakazu, Itachi, Deidara and Tobi (I think that's all of them iirc). Shikamaru was indeed the first to reach chuunin, but a lot of the other rookies have already surpassed him with becoming jounin.
Shikaku (his father) is the one who is leading all the war strategy currently and shikamaru has become a simple foot soldier in the war. I'm not denying that Shikamaru is definitely more skilled in using his mind for battle, but as I said earlier you've to see this in the context of the manga. Naruto, the manga deals with a lot more strategy then bleach does in my opinion. Therefor it's logical the kid who does the most with strategy in naruto is superior to the one in bleach. Uryuu literally was ichigo's rival in the early times of the manga. If that disgusts you then take it up with the writer not me. I'm simply pointing out the difference that neither one of them could stand up to the characters that we deal with today.
Shikamaru's role in the story is 10x more important/relevent than uryu in bleach. In fact the entire premise of uryu is that he was some extinct race and he'll always hate ichigo for it cus he's a soul reaper. Truth be told he's only won one battle that was important to the story. The other two battles he won were more of gimme's to reflect his power, and his limitations. In fact it's more of a puffing of how much stronger ichigo was to him.
Uryu was a character with a purpose that drifted off.