@@TheDrAntman in Boruto yes, but Boruto is entirely new story with a new theme and vibe. Neji was left behind in regards to power long before the war arc. And the power scale in Boruto would have made him even more irrelevant
I mean it wouldn’t take 2k to at least do the basics, the konoha 13 is supposed to be the main friend group like the Strawhats, but the strawhats are way more explained and were shown more care is way less time than 700 chapters, like we don’t know abt almost any of them besides team 7, hinata/neji, and shikamaru
@@Swagjutsusolosfictionthe thing is kishimoto didn't plan the entire story and he actually wanted to have more arc before the chunin examp and more mission but they told him to cut down that why we don't see other village
@@Swagjutsusolosfiction it wasn't his fault because it always happened in shonan once your manga becomes popular they will force you to continue they don't care about story and mangaga health just look what happened in the hidan arc and bleach ending they will force you to change things why do you think the reincarnation exist to keep guy alive because he was too popular kishimoto wanted to kill him after using the 8 gate
Kishimoto hates the byakugan so much. It was hyped up as a rival for the three great dojutsu but then the sharingan and rinnegan got broken powerups out the ass while the byakugan got nothing. Yes there’s the tenseigan but no human can unlock that. Neji died. Hinata was never relevant. Himawari and Boruto don’t have byakugan even though Hinata is their mother and we’ve literally never seen a hyuga that hasn’t been born with the byakugan. Hinata, Hanabi, and every other hyuga weren’t relevant whatsoever in Boruto part one. And now in Boruto part two Himawari is finally relevant, but not because she has byakugan, but because she somehow is now the 9 tails jinchuriki and it looks like that’s going to be her new moveset instead of byakugan.
@@LXV-e9d Dont get it twisted Himawari will be able to fully master the 9 tails and the byakugan lol. she one shot Hokage Naruto and Kurama at 5 years old. You say for some reason but its been clearly explained why she has Kurama in her now.
@@dakota8381 Yeah the fight would have been best during the Chunin exams. After Shippuden Sasuke was beyond all of the Konaha 11 by far. He was basically kage level being able to fight against Middle Akatsuki members
This makes no sense. No one would know about neji. They would all have been dead. He would have seen everyone and even attacked and possibly killed them way before they knew he was there. Lol.
Definitely. Neji being one punch man in this series was too OP from kishimoto 😂. 64 palms is 64 bullets in the chamber 😂. Normal ninja only need to take one
I mean, if Haku can hit with Senbon so precisely that he can shut down Zabusa's lively functions without killing him, a fully developed Neji should be able to do mure than that xD
And not just Neiji, but Tenten, the weapon specialist/"genuis" too. Heck, if you want some of the characters figthing using weapons (ex : Neiji with the senbon idea or Sakura with those massive axes she is sometimes depicted with in cover art and all), you could have the implication (or even more daring... show) Tenten teaching them a few tricks, because she is supposed to be very gifted with weapons. (I can understand not wanting to do it because weapons are supposed to be her thing... but she could also have some craz weapons onl her can wield with unique abilities)
Considering the Sharingan and Byakugan are sides of the same coin, I’d expect the Byakugan to allow for some insane taijutsu abilities similar to how the Sharingan has in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. The ability to fire elemental releases out of tenketsu points to nullify attacks at close range, mimics that of the Susano, while allowing for close combat and more precise chakra use. Then you have the ability to more effectively use gentle fist with elemental releases to shut down more points in one strike (ie. Lightning release precision spread a strike or fire release as a shotgun strike) Then there’s the idea of using it with shuriken and even kenjutsu where you can apply very precise elemental releases to break through just about anything
The final battle would've been much more intresting if it was all of Kaguya's descedents were the ones to seal her - Tsunade, Neji/Hinata, Naruto & Sasuke. It would've been sweet irony, if a member of the brench family was the one to helped save the world.
I've said it before. The original series should have ended with Sasuke and Naruto defeating Madara before their fight. Then Kaguya should have been freed from the moon in The Last, leading to Naruto and Hinata defeating her, the ones bearing the chakra of the two sons that sealed her in the first place.
Actually, Neji's visual range was minimum 1.3 kilometers in early shippuden (500 + 800 meters from Lee and Neji's respective positions). But it goes farther. Kakashi had remarked that he and Naruto were out of Gai's radio range, and Neji still found them from his original position, after they had been in pursuit of Deidara for like 4 entire chapters. This means Neji had a canonical range of anywhere from 2-30 km in early shippuden. Very VERY few people understand this.
Thank you for this video! I’ve always wondered why there wasn’t a broken Hyuga character that had something like the Byakugo seal or flying raijin senbon or any chakra nature related abilities. Hell, even using chakra scalpel with the gentle fist. Or if you want to get really wacky, since we know the hyuga can thread their gentle fist chakra through objects (or @ the very least chakra treated material see: neji v. kidomaru) use an array of wires that are made of the same material asumas blades are, set up traps that ensnare enemies & finish them off with a jolt of chakra from afar. Kind of like a spider/jellyfish combo. & he could hide the wire in places only he would be able to see via his byakugan. There’s so much potential for broken ninja combinations, it’s kinda crazy. I also believe that the puppet master jutsu was severely underutilized.
Other cool abilities Neji could have had were: "eight trigram: Asura Assult" (Neji uses his chakra to strike two additional points, while using 128 palms), Eight trigram: Burning palms (basically just palms strikes but with fire nature chakra used to burn the chakra points that are hit), Eight gates bursting palms (strikes the 8 chakra gates of his opponents, forcing them open)
These aren't to mention the cool stuff he could do if he learned to open a couple of gates himself. Image Neji opening the second gate, and attacking with a mix of Hidden lotus and palm strikes
@@caperthecatDude at that point if he tapped you one time you’re done😭 He would essentially be a Naruto level trump card if you could just get him one single hit.
Neji & Hinata should've learned medical ninjutsu. With their byakugan, they would be basicly x-ray machine. 💚🔷🐌 Tsunade should've made mandatory that every genin team needed to send a member to learn med-nin. Unless Tenten wanted to try again, team guy only option would've been Neji.
It was made mandatory that each 3 man squad have 1 medical ninja or a member knows medical ninjutsu. Team 7 has Sakura. Team 10 had Ino. Team Kurenai had Hinata. Team Guy was the only one where we didn't see any member show even basic medical ninjutsu. I guess woman = support & healer. Rin also knew medical ninjutsu.
@@susear5939 If team guy does bot have one, then is not mandatory. Tenten tried, but she did not have chakra control for it and Lee cant mold chakra, so sending Neji to lear to be a med-nin would've made sense. His byakugan + chakra control, thanks to gentle fist, would go really well med-nin. The same applys to Hinata. Kiba's sister, Hana, is a med-nin that specializes in nin-kan. With how much Akamaru gets hurt in combat, it is odd he did not try to learn it.
@@taylor.river7 yeah. Tenten couldn't perform Mystical Palm Technique (Healing Jutsu). While she couldn't perform medical ninjutsu. She did study medical ninjutsu. She is the only trained medic on the team. Hinata can perform Mystical Palm Technique. It's the green chakra used for healing. Just having good/great chakra control doesn't mean you can use the Healing Jutsu. You have to have an aptitude for it. That's why characters like Neji, Kakashi, Naruto & Boruto can't use it. Sarada can perform the jutsu but can't maintain it properly. However Sasuke can perform it. Every 3 man team having 1 trained medic was the mandatory system Tsunade got set up during the war. Only a few medical-nin themselves can perform the Mystical Palm Technique.
@@susear5939 Hinata performing the mystic palm tecnique is not canon, I beleive. Either way, I am of the opinion that either Neji should've been send to learn med-nin or Tenten should'be tried again. Team Guy has 3 gand to hand combats and 1 weapons user. They more anybody need a medic in the cell. Tenten, in my eyes, should've been a kenjutsu specialist, similar to Yugao and Tsubaki (In Boruto). She would've been much more badass.
Neji never came back after the L he took from Naruto. Neji should've never lost that fight and his only spotlight after that was against Kidomaru. It's crazy how the video games give more respect to him, Shino, and Lee than Kishimoto
He did actually he was made a Jonnin in Shippuden. My guess is the loss to Naruto showed Neji the error of his ways but he was the best from Naruto’s class with skills and battle IQ just his arrogant ways held him back. He should’ve been Chunnin over Shikamaru but he was a hot head and had a big ego.
Neji’s Character had no where to go after losing that fight.Fighting A long range fighter was the only place his move set could go.Kishimoto should of had him keep his mind set and be a villain honestly.He needed more then additional jutsu. Imagine if he got close to sasuke during the chunin exams.They’d be a horrible influence on each other and both run off with orochimaru.
Neji is literally Naruto’s version of tien shinhan. Strongest young character (beat goku in a tournament) never stopped training but the creators disregarded them…
It seems like Kishimoto forgot a lot of the manga’s original themes when writing the second half of the story and Neji is the biggest example of that. He went from “I hate everything bc im destined to die for my weaker cousin simply because thats my predetermined role” to “I will now happily die for my weaker cousin because thats my predetermined role”. Really kinda makes it seem like Neji was right for thinking everybody’s destinies are predetermined by their birth
Thats the whole point, Neji was always right. Told Naruto that you need to be somebody and that a nobody cant become Hokage, but at that time he was the son of the strongest Hokage ever and ended up being an Alien descendants reincarnation
@dakota8381 many of villains were right pain was right about the cycle of hatred madrara was right about the shnobi system being hell zabuza was right about shnobi being used by thier village and people and neji was right about destiny naruto is the child of destiny they had a better understanding about life than naruto his too naive and idealistic
@@dakota8381 Except that ISNT isnt the whole thing. Naruto was always supposed to be about how hard work is what matters but Kishimoto got lost in favor of a power fantasy.
@@Austib_ naruto was never about hard work. You either didn't watch Naruto or you're easily influenced by these idiots who call themselves naruto fans. Naruto was always About bringing peace to the world. If naruto was about hardwork lee would've beaten Garra and neji, naruto would've beaten zabuza and haku. Naruto since the very beginning was about him ending the hatred and violent world that he lives in. If you have basically comprehension skills you would've known this.
My proposition for the byakugan is that it should be like a counter / opposite to the sharingan. Both eyes come from Kaguya, so there should be a link between them, as they are suppose to work best in tandem. I think an evolved version of the byakugan should exist, like MS, however, it should only be accessed by a person who has achieved completely spiritual neutrality (talking about achieving zen or nirvana). That is why no one has ever achieved it, as humans are by nature emotional. You need to be a real world top level Buddhist monk or a sage, completely detached from earthly attachments to achieve this Mangekyo Byakugan ( think about Aang's training with the Guru and how he opened chakra points by passing certain mental blocks and in the end letting go of his earthly attachments completely). It could be like a Hyuga's version of achieving the 8 inner gates. (also the gentle fist is based on the airbender's bagwa style, so more points to that). While the sharingan creates illusions or other bs overpowered jutsus, the byakugan should be able to break them. Think Kohinata Mukai and how he split fireballs with his gentle fist and apply that to Neji breaking down a Susano'o with his bare hands, even sealing Edo Tensei corpses with his fists. As to what a mangekyo version of his eyes could do is up for speculation. I would suggest a complete mastery of the chakra network of your opponent from a distance (blood bending of course) or just being able to leech of chakra from anywhere (like you put your hands on the ground and just suck the chakra from the world around you, like Kaguya did from her dimensions).
I had a similar thought, but I didn't lean so much in the bugghist kind of spiritual awakening... but more so on a more personnal awakening, kinda. Because the Hyuga seem to be very linked to tradition, which, in itself isn't bad... but it could loud their vision of the world. So, by being able to open your ees to the world, and grow further, would be able to evolve their byakugan. So, for example, Neiji could see his eyes changing near the end of part 1, due to Naruto opening is eyes on the fact he should pick his destiny and all this and that his eyes cannot see anyone's fate, even his own. For Hinata, it could also happen due to her fighting her shyness and inferiorit complex (and by Hinata fighting her shyness, I do not critize her being shy, but she is so shy it is a handicap for her. So, being able to grow into a less shy and more confident version of herself is a good thing for her) You could even argue it is a slower process than that of the Sharingan that seem to happen in the instant. While, mabe the Hyuga would hange slowly and surely, so Neiji aand Hinta would just think : "Oh, I became better with my byakugan" which... yeah, but not the way they think. (and the visual change would maybe make the eyes become blue, opposite tothe red of the sharingan) But, totally side with the bloking genjustu as a result. Especially visual ones. And, as a result, the "mangekyo" equivalent ability would have to do with what enlighten them. (For example : Maybe for Neiji, one of them would be able to actually immobilize/paralyse someone or something, to represent how he used to think he was a bird in a cage... and the other ability would have to do with him breaking out of the cage instead.)
Neji at his full potential would be able to have a shield around him that will repel physical attacks just like rinnegan's eternal push. Makes me realise how all the dojustus are related and why the byakugan is so strong
Love It!! This was fantastic!! I'm glad Neji finally got some well-deserved love. Your breakdown was fantastic and if they made your rewrite into canon I wouldn't be mad at it at all. Thanks NCHammer
My friends and I have been saying for years that Neji was a calculated sacrifice. Not as major as Sakura, Shikamaru, Lee, or Hinata. But not as minor as Tenten, Kiba, Shino, Chouji, or Ino. Plus, with two of the elder Ino-Shika-Cho members just dying, Ino and Chouji were safe anyway. Neji was the only character that was big enough to matter, but not so big as to be overly devastating. Which despite me understanding, he deserved so much better.
they are incredibly dumb to say that he is a calculated sacrifice it was unnecessary. Jirariya was calculated because at least Konoha got information thx to him even if he could have lived. Another example is Kushina and Minato against Kushina to stop the nine tails
@chadbrad8100 Calculated not from a plot standpoint, but a storytelling standpoint. We are at the worst war in history, in a series where stakes barely exist. Before Neji died, we only lost the 3rd, Asuma, and Jiraiya.... across a whole series that is based on shinobi dying, grief, and consequences. I would mention Itachi, but given that he was a unique circumstance removed from the zeitgeist of us growing with these kids, he doesn't count. And all three that we lost were from the older generation, which is to be expected in this world. But not one person their age has died, if we made it through this without a single casualty from the Konoha 12, this war would have felt even emptier and more safe than it already did. Remember how every other war in history was against other nations and with casualties on both sides each with their own reason to fight? Nope, not this one. The only actual living enemies were purely in the wrong and there were only TWO of them, three if you count Zetsu 🙄 I'm not saying I liked how they handled Neji's character prior to his death, his death itself, or that I wanted him to die. But you can't create a situation like this and the highest deaths to take place are Ino and Shikamaru's dads, people we've barely spent any time with.
And the fact that he was supposed to die during the retrieval arc means he's just been a walking corpse, waiting for the story to finally allow him to stay down.
@@coblamoration1102still not convincing enough to kill off the protege of one of the major clans. There were so many other weaker characters that should not have survived in the war.
on the 64 palms thing - Hinat BARELY achieved the technique when Neji perfected it and performed it in mid air as a child. It's only plausible that he could extend it to 128. Even if it isn't official, it's equal to manga canon given his genius and previous feats.
And if you add some light novel stuff it gets really crazy: Mukai kohinata being resistent to sharingan genjustu (shisui needed to use mangekyo to catch him), the same guy used gentle fist to litterally cut the uchiha's fire ball in half and also sakura is able to use precise chakra control (which a hyuga should be able to do better) to grab a jutsu and throw it back. So basically immunity to genjutsu and ninjutsu and possessing the best kind of taijutsu makes a pretty damn strong fighter.
I said it before, Hyuga should train in medical ninjutsu like kabuto. Having scalpel hands that shutdown chakra points as well will fully disable all chakra powers as well as cut & separate their muscles tendons and ligaments. Combine that with 64 or 128 palms and you have a decimated opponent
The way you described Neji's potential, I saw an edit in my imagination of it being Neji instead of Madara versus "all the dudes", cause, seriously, thats what it should have been.
I honestly HATED how Neji and the Hyuga fell back into the shadows. They had so much potential to be more prevalent and yet…. Nothing… till like boruto Neji is one of my TOP 5 and wish he got more time to show his power and have cooler abilities
Fire Flies is my answer. If Neji can change his chakra nature and fire it from all of his points. Then instead of a great fireball Uchiha style, he should be firing tons of them at once like the gattling gun that Boruto faced off against. Make each of them microscopic, but hot enough to melt flesh and bone and just pour them over targets in medium range. Maybe do something like Hinata for long range, piercing points at a distance, but likely making them dense enough you could do the same at long range. And boy would minute burns all over your body suck, break your concentration, and likely destroy your chakra points in a way that even regen doesn't easily fix.
An advance application of gentle fist could be a more controlled version of rampage Jugo; shooting chakra from specific points to make fists and kicks go faster
Of all the characters in Naruto. Neji had always been my favorite. I loved his design. His personality in the start made him feel like an anti hero til he got beaten by Naruto and got humbled. His abilities always felt so cool even when he wasn’t supposed to even learn them. Such a cool character. I also mained him in every Naruto fighting game i played during the Gamecube/PS2 era
since Hinata was learning ranged attacks I always imagined neji to become even BETTER at taijutsu gentil fist. Neji learns how to apply nature transformation to the chakra he injexta with gentle fist. he then can inject small bursts of water, fire, air or electricity into the chakra points of his enemy. he can also directly counter attacks by using small bursts of the opposing nature type to defend against incoming attacks.
@@adrianbrown8899 I mean, in part 1, Hyashi was like "He will never be able to use chakra again" when Neiji touched all of Naruto's chakra points. Naruto just forced them back open thanks to Kurama's enormous chakra
This is a good video, burt there's still so, so, sooooo much more to the Neji potential rabbit hole. He doesn't actually need elemental release at all in his full potential; naked chakra would be enough to make him high kage level. I have to make a video sometime. It goes much deeper than even this. His speed, chakra control, visual prowess and combat dexrterity were already among the top feats in the naruto universe. No. It's not an exaggeration. There's just an issue with data comprehension among naruto fans.
Neji learning the rasengan and puppet master jutsu would have been the greatest upgrades , being able to run up to 361 puppets at once and being able to precieve all of them and your opponents and the same time, there would be less lag that most puppet masters have because they know how the opponent would move based on chakra flow. And putting mini rasengan on the end of chakra threads that are suppressed to near invisibility to increase range but not only shutdown opponents chakra points but damage them or redirect the opponents chakra to that point after its damaged by the mini rasegan damage that area with their own chakra. He could run gentle fist through the puppets thus expanding his range. This would be a very effective and well rounded fighting style
My take is pretty much the same with a few additional steps: I see a fully realized Neji working with lee to improve his speed and with Tenten to improve his long range attacks and precision. this leads to him being able to use gentle fist at a distance as you stated. Plus with more speed i see him being able to improve on the 128 palm and create a 256 palm where he would be nigh untouchable and wreck absolutely every thing in the area around him. I also see him using his precise control over his charka points to be able to recreate Sakura's ability to catch and repel ninjutsu. If Kishi really wanted to give the Byakugan the respect it deserves, he could give Neji the ability to use his advanced Byakugan to see the punctuality of active ninjutsu and be able to dispel it by attacking it in certain ways. This would give him a near otsutsuki level of resistance to ninjutsu. Or this could be tweaked to create a defensive shield around him that shuts down ninjutsu that could be the smaller Hyuga version of the Susanoo. An lastly, I see him using his precise control over his chakra points and ability to expel charkra from specific points to be able to augment his movement in battle. Similar to how Nick suggested he could block a punch with his chakra from anywhere in his body, what if he blasted chakra from his body in a similar manner to a boil release user to amplify the speed and force of his taijutsu or allow him to move in ways that would seem almost unnatural. So you would have a character that could go toe to toe with the top teirs in the verse by using overpowering gentle first speed and precision, using gentle fist from a distance, being almost otsutsuki level ninjutu resistant and having insane ability to maneuverability on the battle field.
1:18 You're absolutely right Nick, we gotta see Shino's full potential next! He was done so dirty in Boruto, and knowing Yōji Aburame, Shino should've become a legitimate menace to all shinobikind... I can't wait to see what you're gonna make of Shino's story!😍
The Neji you just built could probably do one of those one-versus-one-thousand fights that only a couple of legendary characters have ever done, such as the Raikage. The infinite precise blocks, the inability to be caught off-guard even if fully circled...what a beautiful fight that would be. And his long-range options...makes me imagine him taking that iconic stance, where the circles that appear extend to cover fully fifty percent of the combatants at once.
I saw an argument the other day that bringing back Neji as Kashin Koji rather than Jiraya would have been the better call. While the series attempts to call back to Naruto and Jiraya's relationship by having KK teach Boruto, it doesn't really work because he doesn't really have any connection to Boruto as a character, let alone anything comparable to the relationship Naruto and Jiraya had. In comparison Neji, the guy Boruto was literally named for, would have more of a connection. Not only that, the idea of Neji, the character who was introduced as a kid tormented by what he saw as destiny based on ones birth, now becoming an agent trying to defy destiny is a really good character arc. It would also fit with the idea that the Byakugan is a sight based power that was stated by Momoshiki to allow him to see fate. It would work better thematically and make more sense for Neji's clone to be the one seeing the future.
Nick, I feel if you end up going through the konoha 12's full potential (minus team 7), you could get an extra video out of it by then ranking them based on said potential. But it's just a thought.
Kishimoto wasted neji's potential..tbh he wasted everyone's potential who wasn't named naruto or sasuke The hyuga's who are claimed to be the strongest clan in konoha literally play no role in shippuden except for being fodder to madara and obito
It would’ve been cool like how sharingan can manipulate reality to a certain degree, the Byakugan should’ve been able to control someone’s or their own fate to a certain degree. Example of this could be that someone is destined to lose a fight but the byakugan bending fate allows them to set certain conditions to overcome that fight kinda like a luck factor. Almost as what we kinda see in boruto right now on how in multiple timelines he was supposed to lose and the world destroyed but he doesn’t because fate has something else for him
So in short Neji could either be a machine gun or sniper or both with a forcefield in maximum potential. With the ammunition of like tranquilizers but permanent. That is quite literally an amazing asset in so many fights. With many of them ending far before becoming close range.
Neji had great character development. He went from tryin to kill Hinata in the Chūnin Exams to sacrificing himself for Hinata in the 4th Great Ninja War.
Too bad we never get to actually see that character development. It goes from he hates her to give his life for her, and dont try to tell me we see it because Neji figuring out why his father did what he did isnt enough to go from trying to kill a bitch to giving your life for that bitch
Doesn't it make sense for the Hyuga to actually be long-range specialists, considering their 360-degree vision and the distance they can cover? They could essentially be the snipers of the Naruto universe.
In my opinion, the Hyuuga clan is the most underrated clan in all of Naruto, with untapped potential. We really know little about their techniques. They are based on taijutsu... but would Neji be able to defeat Rock Lee at the level of taijutsu?
I wrote an article a couple years back fully exploring his potential, and send it to Bandai Namco and Masashi Kishimoto, who confirmed receipt in email. As a result, they added the Neji DLC to Shinobi Striker, taking the suggests I had made in the article.
0:14 they get introduced, have some cool moments and we never see them again despite them being in the same village as konoha and even those who appear don't do jack shit.
I believe Neji should have learned medical ninjutsu. That knowledge and skills paired with the Byakugan's x-ray vision would make him a deadly medical ninja. Especially if he learned skills like Kabuto's chakra scalpel. Not to mention heal himself he would be the ultimate support ninja with combat capabilities.
Kiba is the only one out of the Konoha 12 that I look at and think "I don't know how you improve this." Without inventing a bunch of new jutsu for him, it seems like his clan techniques have a low ceiling. I don't know how I'd get him to even Jonin level.
Because not every ninja is gonna nuke you in a fight. Kibas whole team is information gathering and he is one of the best out of the 12 at that without having a gods powers
Either just add elemental jutsu to his arsenal (I am thinking earth release, probably something similar to Kakuzu's skin hardening) or just give his wolf transfrormation more upgrades or even a humanoid version that trades of speed and power for being able to use rudimentary jutsu and weapons.
@@matijasostojic4288I mean give him and Akemaru different elemental releases that support each other like Wind and Fire that they could infuse into their Fang Over Fang. Their giant combined form could then become a massive tornado of amped up fire and blades. Have him train and fuse with more ninja dogs and he could end up being able to form a 5 headed beast wielding all of the elements at once and the combined chakra pools of all involved.
I wish I could like this video twice. Already follow, love the videos in general, but this was one of the best hypothetical anime theories I've never heard, ever.
THERE HE IS!!!!! Nick back in his bag of great video ideas. I really enjoyed this one and would like to see more potential joints 👌🏽 keep up the great work my guy
you GOTTA do more full potential videos NC. this is a whole ‘nother aspect of information you could speculate upon. I’m nerding hard af 😂 but I’d be shocked if it didn’t do well
Byakungan should have surely have true precognition, genjutsu, and they should have be able to go "rotation" with spinning because they can shot out chakra from their body. I wish Kishimoto gave them more power like they did with the Uchiha clan
Now that i think about it. It would be so much better to have killed hiashi(hinatas father). Imagine the sticks are raining down hinata protects naruto neji tries to protect hinata but in the end hiashi protects them and dieds and with his final words he make neji the next leader of the clan and says that he is proud of both his daughter and niece
Great video, really enjoyed it!. And here's the thought, although more related to Hyuga clan as a whole rather than Neji alone. Wouldn't the Byakugan be like super usefull in Medical Ninjutsu? Like using the tenketsu points to heal someone faster or more efficiently or something?
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The way Kishimoto wasted the Hyuga clan needs to be studied
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The Hyuga had nothing to do with the core theme of the story.. uchihs vs senju
@@runredramboi mean in boruto it’s transcended just uchiha vs senju
@@TheDrAntman in Boruto yes, but Boruto is entirely new story with a new theme and vibe.
Neji was left behind in regards to power long before the war arc. And the power scale in Boruto would have made him even more irrelevant
Agree so dumb we didn't get more from them
By this point we are starting to love Naruto for what it could have been more than it did
I mean it wouldn’t take 2k to at least do the basics, the konoha 13 is supposed to be the main friend group like the Strawhats, but the strawhats are way more explained and were shown more care is way less time than 700 chapters, like we don’t know abt almost any of them besides team 7, hinata/neji, and shikamaru
@@Swagjutsusolosfictionthe thing is kishimoto didn't plan the entire story and he actually wanted to have more arc before the chunin examp and more mission but they told him to cut down that why we don't see other village
Look up Dygoknight Naruto rewrite
It's really good
@@Swagjutsusolosfiction it wasn't his fault because it always happened in shonan once your manga becomes popular they will force you to continue they don't care about story and mangaga health just look what happened in the hidan arc and bleach ending they will force you to change things why do you think the reincarnation exist to keep guy alive because he was too popular kishimoto wanted to kill him after using the 8 gate
Really just inspire more kishimotos and Toriyamas to be born 👌
Killing off neji was a disaster. He could’ve been the one to show us the next levels of the byakugan etc.
Kishimoto hates the byakugan so much. It was hyped up as a rival for the three great dojutsu but then the sharingan and rinnegan got broken powerups out the ass while the byakugan got nothing. Yes there’s the tenseigan but no human can unlock that. Neji died. Hinata was never relevant. Himawari and Boruto don’t have byakugan even though Hinata is their mother and we’ve literally never seen a hyuga that hasn’t been born with the byakugan. Hinata, Hanabi, and every other hyuga weren’t relevant whatsoever in Boruto part one. And now in Boruto part two Himawari is finally relevant, but not because she has byakugan, but because she somehow is now the 9 tails jinchuriki and it looks like that’s going to be her new moveset instead of byakugan.
He didn't really do much in shippuden so how was he going to show as the full extent of the byakugan
@@LXV-e9dI believe Himawari will use Byakugan in fights in the future
@DominicAduGyamfi-pz5qi by giving him more screen time which Kishimoto failed to do
@@LXV-e9d Dont get it twisted Himawari will be able to fully master the 9 tails and the byakugan lol. she one shot Hokage Naruto and Kurama at 5 years old. You say for some reason but its been clearly explained why she has Kurama in her now.
Kishimoto once hyped up a Neji vs. Sasuke rivalry in the Chūnin Exams, but did absolutely nothing with it.
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Everybody wanted to see that fight back then
because after Shippuden there was no point Sasuke dog walks him everytime
I need a filler where this happens
@@dakota8381 Yeah the fight would have been best during the Chunin exams.
After Shippuden Sasuke was beyond all of the Konaha 11 by far.
He was basically kage level being able to fight against Middle Akatsuki members
Neji Easily woulda been “run on sight” level in “The Last”
This makes no sense. No one would know about neji. They would all have been dead. He would have seen everyone and even attacked and possibly killed them way before they knew he was there. Lol.
Definitely. Neji being one punch man in this series was too OP from kishimoto 😂. 64 palms is 64 bullets in the chamber 😂. Normal ninja only need to take one
I could imagine Neji using fire release out of certain tenketsu points to produce thrust like Jugo to enhance his speed or even fly as well
Imagine hime using elemental release plus his rotation attack, he could make a fire shield.
I'd rather Neji die against Madara or Obito in combat rather than a stick.
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He actually was supposed to die in the sasuke rescue arc but they forced him to keep them alive that why they do nothing
Bruh Lee never even got to fight neji again all we see from Lee is his 7th gate opening just to throw a Minato Kunai wtf
@@ayhamahmad2277 thats a reddit rumor lil bro lmao stop spreading misinformation
@@ayhamahmad2277if he would have to anyone other than saskue it would have been even more stupid
I mean, if Haku can hit with Senbon so precisely that he can shut down Zabusa's lively functions without killing him, a fully developed Neji should be able to do mure than that xD
And not just Neiji, but Tenten, the weapon specialist/"genuis" too.
Heck, if you want some of the characters figthing using weapons (ex : Neiji with the senbon idea or Sakura with those massive axes she is sometimes depicted with in cover art and all), you could have the implication (or even more daring... show) Tenten teaching them a few tricks, because she is supposed to be very gifted with weapons. (I can understand not wanting to do it because weapons are supposed to be her thing... but she could also have some craz weapons onl her can wield with unique abilities)
What more he sposed to do xd
Lol I was thinking the same thing.@haku7335
It's kind of tragic. Neji, a side branch member was basically a slave to the main branch. And he died giving his life for the hyuga family heir
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Nah but it’s ok because he “chose” to do that 😂
Died to a branch he could’ve pushed to the side almost poetic
@@LXV-e9d 😂 right. Fn lazy a$$ writers.
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Yea many fans use this cope lol
Neji was my fav character since og naruto and the way he died I will never get over it !!!!
He actually was supposed to die in the sasuke rescue arc
We in the same boat 😭😭
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Considering the Sharingan and Byakugan are sides of the same coin, I’d expect the Byakugan to allow for some insane taijutsu abilities similar to how the Sharingan has in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu.
The ability to fire elemental releases out of tenketsu points to nullify attacks at close range, mimics that of the Susano, while allowing for close combat and more precise chakra use.
Then you have the ability to more effectively use gentle fist with elemental releases to shut down more points in one strike (ie. Lightning release precision spread a strike or fire release as a shotgun strike)
Then there’s the idea of using it with shuriken and even kenjutsu where you can apply very precise elemental releases to break through just about anything
Team Guy was the coolest and most ninja-like team in the series, it's heartbreaking how far it fell from where it was.
The final battle would've been much more intresting if it was all of Kaguya's descedents were the ones to seal her - Tsunade, Neji/Hinata, Naruto & Sasuke.
It would've been sweet irony, if a member of the brench family was the one to helped save the world.
I've said it before. The original series should have ended with Sasuke and Naruto defeating Madara before their fight. Then Kaguya should have been freed from the moon in The Last, leading to Naruto and Hinata defeating her, the ones bearing the chakra of the two sons that sealed her in the first place.
Actually, Neji's visual range was minimum 1.3 kilometers in early shippuden (500 + 800 meters from Lee and Neji's respective positions). But it goes farther. Kakashi had remarked that he and Naruto were out of Gai's radio range, and Neji still found them from his original position, after they had been in pursuit of Deidara for like 4 entire chapters. This means Neji had a canonical range of anywhere from 2-30 km in early shippuden. Very VERY few people understand this.
Just like how Sasuke used Chidori-Symbon, it would be awesome to see Neji use Water Style Symbon to shut down chakra points.
Why did Neji start a gardening business after his death?
Because he finally learned how to "branch" out.
Neji is dead and TenTen is alive. I'll never be over this.
Thank you for this video!
I’ve always wondered why there wasn’t a broken Hyuga character that had something like the Byakugo seal or flying raijin senbon or any chakra nature related abilities.
Hell, even using chakra scalpel with the gentle fist.
Or if you want to get really wacky, since we know the hyuga can thread their gentle fist chakra through objects (or @ the very least chakra treated material see: neji v. kidomaru) use an array of wires that are made of the same material asumas blades are, set up traps that ensnare enemies & finish them off with a jolt of chakra from afar.
Kind of like a spider/jellyfish combo. & he could hide the wire in places only he would be able to see via his byakugan.
There’s so much potential for broken ninja combinations, it’s kinda crazy.
I also believe that the puppet master jutsu was severely underutilized.
Neji & Tenten look like the gender bend version of Kaguya & Tenji. They would've made the cutest couple. 🐇🐼
Other cool abilities Neji could have had were: "eight trigram: Asura Assult" (Neji uses his chakra to strike two additional points, while using 128 palms), Eight trigram: Burning palms (basically just palms strikes but with fire nature chakra used to burn the chakra points that are hit), Eight gates bursting palms (strikes the 8 chakra gates of his opponents, forcing them open)
These aren't to mention the cool stuff he could do if he learned to open a couple of gates himself.
Image Neji opening the second gate, and attacking with a mix of Hidden lotus and palm strikes
@@caperthecatimagine him unlocking 8 gates and doing 8 trigrams rotation, bro would literally destroy a country doing that
@@caperthecatDude at that point if he tapped you one time you’re done😭
He would essentially be a Naruto level trump card if you could just get him one single hit.
Neji & Hinata should've learned medical ninjutsu. With their byakugan, they would be basicly x-ray machine. 💚🔷🐌
Tsunade should've made mandatory that every genin team needed to send a member to learn med-nin. Unless Tenten wanted to try again, team guy only option would've been Neji.
It was made mandatory that each 3 man squad have 1 medical ninja or a member knows medical ninjutsu. Team 7 has Sakura. Team 10 had Ino. Team Kurenai had Hinata. Team Guy was the only one where we didn't see any member show even basic medical ninjutsu. I guess woman = support & healer. Rin also knew medical ninjutsu.
@@susear5939 If team guy does bot have one, then is not mandatory. Tenten tried, but she did not have chakra control for it and Lee cant mold chakra, so sending Neji to lear to be a med-nin would've made sense. His byakugan + chakra control, thanks to gentle fist, would go really well med-nin. The same applys to Hinata.
Kiba's sister, Hana, is a med-nin that specializes in nin-kan. With how much Akamaru gets hurt in combat, it is odd he did not try to learn it.
@@taylor.river7 yeah. Tenten couldn't perform Mystical Palm Technique (Healing Jutsu). While she couldn't perform medical ninjutsu. She did study medical ninjutsu. She is the only trained medic on the team. Hinata can perform Mystical Palm Technique. It's the green chakra used for healing. Just having good/great chakra control doesn't mean you can use the Healing Jutsu. You have to have an aptitude for it. That's why characters like Neji, Kakashi, Naruto & Boruto can't use it. Sarada can perform the jutsu but can't maintain it properly. However Sasuke can perform it. Every 3 man team having 1 trained medic was the mandatory system Tsunade got set up during the war. Only a few medical-nin themselves can perform the Mystical Palm Technique.
@@susear5939 Hinata performing the mystic palm tecnique is not canon, I beleive. Either way, I am of the opinion that either Neji should've been send to learn med-nin or Tenten should'be tried again. Team Guy has 3 gand to hand combats and 1 weapons user. They more anybody need a medic in the cell.
Tenten, in my eyes, should've been a kenjutsu specialist, similar to Yugao and Tsubaki (In Boruto). She would've been much more badass.
Neji never came back after the L he took from Naruto. Neji should've never lost that fight and his only spotlight after that was against Kidomaru. It's crazy how the video games give more respect to him, Shino, and Lee than Kishimoto
He did actually he was made a Jonnin in Shippuden. My guess is the loss to Naruto showed Neji the error of his ways but he was the best from Naruto’s class with skills and battle IQ just his arrogant ways held him back. He should’ve been Chunnin over Shikamaru but he was a hot head and had a big ego.
@@CarlosSilva-sc4iu Being a Jonin didn't matter because he barely showed anything in Shippuden. Being a Jonin doesn't mean much in Naruto anymore
@Swagjutsusolosfiction I was mostly talking about the original storm games, but either way, Kishimoto could've given them respect they deserve
@@micah459 yeah but he was the best from Naruto’s class no doubt if he didn’t have a big ego.
Neji’s Character had no where to go after losing that fight.Fighting A long range fighter was the only place his move set could go.Kishimoto should of had him keep his mind set and be a villain honestly.He needed more then additional jutsu.
Imagine if he got close to sasuke during the chunin exams.They’d be a horrible influence on each other and both run off with orochimaru.
Neji could have realisticly been able to destroy a susanoo if he mastered his gentle fist well
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Neji is literally Naruto’s version of tien shinhan. Strongest young character (beat goku in a tournament) never stopped training but the creators disregarded them…
It seems like Kishimoto forgot a lot of the manga’s original themes when writing the second half of the story and Neji is the biggest example of that.
He went from “I hate everything bc im destined to die for my weaker cousin simply because thats my predetermined role” to “I will now happily die for my weaker cousin because thats my predetermined role”. Really kinda makes it seem like Neji was right for thinking everybody’s destinies are predetermined by their birth
Thats the whole point, Neji was always right. Told Naruto that you need to be somebody and that a nobody cant become Hokage, but at that time he was the son of the strongest Hokage ever and ended up being an Alien descendants reincarnation
@dakota8381 many of villains were right pain was right about the cycle of hatred madrara was right about the shnobi system being hell zabuza was right about shnobi being used by thier village and people and neji was right about destiny naruto is the child of destiny they had a better understanding about life than naruto his too naive and idealistic
@@dakota8381 Except that ISNT isnt the whole thing. Naruto was always supposed to be about how hard work is what matters but Kishimoto got lost in favor of a power fantasy.
@@Austib_ naruto was never about hard work. You either didn't watch Naruto or you're easily influenced by these idiots who call themselves naruto fans.
Naruto was always About bringing peace to the world. If naruto was about hardwork lee would've beaten Garra and neji, naruto would've beaten zabuza and haku.
Naruto since the very beginning was about him ending the hatred and violent world that he lives in. If you have basically comprehension skills you would've known this.
@@Austib_lee lost to gara so hard work was not the main them
My proposition for the byakugan is that it should be like a counter / opposite to the sharingan. Both eyes come from Kaguya, so there should be a link between them, as they are suppose to work best in tandem. I think an evolved version of the byakugan should exist, like MS, however, it should only be accessed by a person who has achieved completely spiritual neutrality (talking about achieving zen or nirvana). That is why no one has ever achieved it, as humans are by nature emotional. You need to be a real world top level Buddhist monk or a sage, completely detached from earthly attachments to achieve this Mangekyo Byakugan ( think about Aang's training with the Guru and how he opened chakra points by passing certain mental blocks and in the end letting go of his earthly attachments completely). It could be like a Hyuga's version of achieving the 8 inner gates. (also the gentle fist is based on the airbender's bagwa style, so more points to that). While the sharingan creates illusions or other bs overpowered jutsus, the byakugan should be able to break them. Think Kohinata Mukai and how he split fireballs with his gentle fist and apply that to Neji breaking down a Susano'o with his bare hands, even sealing Edo Tensei corpses with his fists. As to what a mangekyo version of his eyes could do is up for speculation. I would suggest a complete mastery of the chakra network of your opponent from a distance (blood bending of course) or just being able to leech of chakra from anywhere (like you put your hands on the ground and just suck the chakra from the world around you, like Kaguya did from her dimensions).
I would make a Byakugan chakra mode where the user opens all chakra points on the body
I had a similar thought, but I didn't lean so much in the bugghist kind of spiritual awakening... but more so on a more personnal awakening, kinda.
Because the Hyuga seem to be very linked to tradition, which, in itself isn't bad... but it could loud their vision of the world. So, by being able to open your ees to the world, and grow further, would be able to evolve their byakugan.
So, for example, Neiji could see his eyes changing near the end of part 1, due to Naruto opening is eyes on the fact he should pick his destiny and all this and that his eyes cannot see anyone's fate, even his own.
For Hinata, it could also happen due to her fighting her shyness and inferiorit complex (and by Hinata fighting her shyness, I do not critize her being shy, but she is so shy it is a handicap for her. So, being able to grow into a less shy and more confident version of herself is a good thing for her)
You could even argue it is a slower process than that of the Sharingan that seem to happen in the instant. While, mabe the Hyuga would hange slowly and surely, so Neiji aand Hinta would just think : "Oh, I became better with my byakugan" which... yeah, but not the way they think. (and the visual change would maybe make the eyes become blue, opposite tothe red of the sharingan)
But, totally side with the bloking genjustu as a result. Especially visual ones. And, as a result, the "mangekyo" equivalent ability would have to do with what enlighten them. (For example : Maybe for Neiji, one of them would be able to actually immobilize/paralyse someone or something, to represent how he used to think he was a bird in a cage... and the other ability would have to do with him breaking out of the cage instead.)
Neji at his full potential would be able to have a shield around him that will repel physical attacks just like rinnegan's eternal push. Makes me realise how all the dojustus are related and why the byakugan is so strong
this could be an exciting series. can’t wait for rock lee and shino
Love It!! This was fantastic!! I'm glad Neji finally got some well-deserved love.
Your breakdown was fantastic and if they made your rewrite into canon I wouldn't be mad at it at all.
Thanks NCHammer
The problem isn’t that Neji didn’t evolve, it’s that the byakugan as a whole didn’t evolve. Or even be relevant.
My friends and I have been saying for years that Neji was a calculated sacrifice.
Not as major as Sakura, Shikamaru, Lee, or Hinata.
But not as minor as Tenten, Kiba, Shino, Chouji, or Ino. Plus, with two of the elder Ino-Shika-Cho members just dying, Ino and Chouji were safe anyway.
Neji was the only character that was big enough to matter, but not so big as to be overly devastating.
Which despite me understanding, he deserved so much better.
they are incredibly dumb to say that he is a calculated sacrifice it was unnecessary. Jirariya was calculated because at least Konoha got information thx to him even if he could have lived. Another example is Kushina and Minato against Kushina to stop the nine tails
@chadbrad8100 Calculated not from a plot standpoint, but a storytelling standpoint.
We are at the worst war in history, in a series where stakes barely exist. Before Neji died, we only lost the 3rd, Asuma, and Jiraiya.... across a whole series that is based on shinobi dying, grief, and consequences. I would mention Itachi, but given that he was a unique circumstance removed from the zeitgeist of us growing with these kids, he doesn't count.
And all three that we lost were from the older generation, which is to be expected in this world. But not one person their age has died, if we made it through this without a single casualty from the Konoha 12, this war would have felt even emptier and more safe than it already did. Remember how every other war in history was against other nations and with casualties on both sides each with their own reason to fight? Nope, not this one. The only actual living enemies were purely in the wrong and there were only TWO of them, three if you count Zetsu 🙄
I'm not saying I liked how they handled Neji's character prior to his death, his death itself, or that I wanted him to die. But you can't create a situation like this and the highest deaths to take place are Ino and Shikamaru's dads, people we've barely spent any time with.
And the fact that he was supposed to die during the retrieval arc means he's just been a walking corpse, waiting for the story to finally allow him to stay down.
@@coblamoration1102still not convincing enough to kill off the protege of one of the major clans. There were so many other weaker characters that should not have survived in the war.
on the 64 palms thing - Hinat BARELY achieved the technique when Neji perfected it and performed it in mid air as a child. It's only plausible that he could extend it to 128. Even if it isn't official, it's equal to manga canon given his genius and previous feats.
And if you add some light novel stuff it gets really crazy: Mukai kohinata being resistent to sharingan genjustu (shisui needed to use mangekyo to catch him), the same guy used gentle fist to litterally cut the uchiha's fire ball in half and also sakura is able to use precise chakra control (which a hyuga should be able to do better) to grab a jutsu and throw it back. So basically immunity to genjutsu and ninjutsu and possessing the best kind of taijutsu makes a pretty damn strong fighter.
I said it before, Hyuga should train in medical ninjutsu like kabuto. Having scalpel hands that shutdown chakra points as well will fully disable all chakra powers as well as cut & separate their muscles tendons and ligaments. Combine that with 64 or 128 palms and you have a decimated opponent
The way you described Neji's potential, I saw an edit in my imagination of it being Neji instead of Madara versus "all the dudes", cause, seriously, thats what it should have been.
I honestly HATED how Neji and the Hyuga fell back into the shadows. They had so much potential to be more prevalent and yet…. Nothing… till like boruto
Neji is one of my TOP 5 and wish he got more time to show his power and have cooler abilities
Do EVERYONE!!! Konaha 12, the gate dudes, the sand siblings, Haka/Heavy, etc. Great series ahead, I'm excited
I would like that
Taka/hebi* hawk and snake respectively ❤
Fire Flies is my answer. If Neji can change his chakra nature and fire it from all of his points. Then instead of a great fireball Uchiha style, he should be firing tons of them at once like the gattling gun that Boruto faced off against. Make each of them microscopic, but hot enough to melt flesh and bone and just pour them over targets in medium range. Maybe do something like Hinata for long range, piercing points at a distance, but likely making them dense enough you could do the same at long range. And boy would minute burns all over your body suck, break your concentration, and likely destroy your chakra points in a way that even regen doesn't easily fix.
An advance application of gentle fist could be a more controlled version of rampage Jugo; shooting chakra from specific points to make fists and kicks go faster
Of all the characters in Naruto. Neji had always been my favorite. I loved his design. His personality in the start made him feel like an anti hero til he got beaten by Naruto and got humbled. His abilities always felt so cool even when he wasn’t supposed to even learn them. Such a cool character. I also mained him in every Naruto fighting game i played during the Gamecube/PS2 era
since Hinata was learning ranged attacks I always imagined neji to become even BETTER at taijutsu gentil fist.
Neji learns how to apply nature transformation to the chakra he injexta with gentle fist.
he then can inject small bursts of water, fire, air or electricity into the chakra points of his enemy.
he can also directly counter attacks by using small bursts of the opposing nature type to defend against incoming attacks.
Neiji could have totally redo the thing Tsunade did to Kabuto in part 1, where she deranged all of his nervous system.
The hyuga themselves could’ve been the avatar and the clans to be able to stop ppl from using chakra permanently
@@adrianbrown8899 I mean, in part 1, Hyashi was like "He will never be able to use chakra again" when Neiji touched all of Naruto's chakra points.
Naruto just forced them back open thanks to Kurama's enormous chakra
This is a good video, burt there's still so, so, sooooo much more to the Neji potential rabbit hole. He doesn't actually need elemental release at all in his full potential; naked chakra would be enough to make him high kage level. I have to make a video sometime. It goes much deeper than even this. His speed, chakra control, visual prowess and combat dexrterity were already among the top feats in the naruto universe. No. It's not an exaggeration. There's just an issue with data comprehension among naruto fans.
Neji learning the rasengan and puppet master jutsu would have been the greatest upgrades , being able to run up to 361 puppets at once and being able to precieve all of them and your opponents and the same time, there would be less lag that most puppet masters have because they know how the opponent would move based on chakra flow. And putting mini rasengan on the end of chakra threads that are suppressed to near invisibility to increase range but not only shutdown opponents chakra points but damage them or redirect the opponents chakra to that point after its damaged by the mini rasegan damage that area with their own chakra. He could run gentle fist through the puppets thus expanding his range. This would be a very effective and well rounded fighting style
My take is pretty much the same with a few additional steps:
I see a fully realized Neji working with lee to improve his speed and with Tenten to improve his long range attacks and precision. this leads to him being able to use gentle fist at a distance as you stated. Plus with more speed i see him being able to improve on the 128 palm and create a 256 palm where he would be nigh untouchable and wreck absolutely every thing in the area around him.
I also see him using his precise control over his charka points to be able to recreate Sakura's ability to catch and repel ninjutsu. If Kishi really wanted to give the Byakugan the respect it deserves, he could give Neji the ability to use his advanced Byakugan to see the punctuality of active ninjutsu and be able to dispel it by attacking it in certain ways. This would give him a near otsutsuki level of resistance to ninjutsu. Or this could be tweaked to create a defensive shield around him that shuts down ninjutsu that could be the smaller Hyuga version of the Susanoo.
An lastly, I see him using his precise control over his chakra points and ability to expel charkra from specific points to be able to augment his movement in battle. Similar to how Nick suggested he could block a punch with his chakra from anywhere in his body, what if he blasted chakra from his body in a similar manner to a boil release user to amplify the speed and force of his taijutsu or allow him to move in ways that would seem almost unnatural.
So you would have a character that could go toe to toe with the top teirs in the verse by using overpowering gentle first speed and precision, using gentle fist from a distance, being almost otsutsuki level ninjutu resistant and having insane ability to maneuverability on the battle field.
1:18 You're absolutely right Nick, we gotta see Shino's full potential next! He was done so dirty in Boruto, and knowing Yōji Aburame, Shino should've become a legitimate menace to all shinobikind... I can't wait to see what you're gonna make of Shino's story!😍
The Neji you just built could probably do one of those one-versus-one-thousand fights that only a couple of legendary characters have ever done, such as the Raikage. The infinite precise blocks, the inability to be caught off-guard even if fully circled...what a beautiful fight that would be. And his long-range options...makes me imagine him taking that iconic stance, where the circles that appear extend to cover fully fifty percent of the combatants at once.
Neji is on my Mt. Rushmore of Naruto character.
Saw his video right when I sat down for lunch break. Rock Lee will always be my favorite character.😊 Take it easy my dude you rock!!!!! 👊
I saw an argument the other day that bringing back Neji as Kashin Koji rather than Jiraya would have been the better call. While the series attempts to call back to Naruto and Jiraya's relationship by having KK teach Boruto, it doesn't really work because he doesn't really have any connection to Boruto as a character, let alone anything comparable to the relationship Naruto and Jiraya had. In comparison Neji, the guy Boruto was literally named for, would have more of a connection. Not only that, the idea of Neji, the character who was introduced as a kid tormented by what he saw as destiny based on ones birth, now becoming an agent trying to defy destiny is a really good character arc. It would also fit with the idea that the Byakugan is a sight based power that was stated by Momoshiki to allow him to see fate. It would work better thematically and make more sense for Neji's clone to be the one seeing the future.
That's a sick idea, fans be writing better ideas than the original show
Nick, I feel if you end up going through the konoha 12's full potential (minus team 7), you could get an extra video out of it by then ranking them based on said potential. But it's just a thought.
Kishimoto wasted neji's potential..tbh he wasted everyone's potential who wasn't named naruto or sasuke
The hyuga's who are claimed to be the strongest clan in konoha literally play no role in shippuden except for being fodder to madara and obito
*Insert joke about neji getting killed by a stick*
Like the stick inserted in his chest
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It would’ve been cool like how sharingan can manipulate reality to a certain degree, the Byakugan should’ve been able to control someone’s or their own fate to a certain degree. Example of this could be that someone is destined to lose a fight but the byakugan bending fate allows them to set certain conditions to overcome that fight kinda like a luck factor. Almost as what we kinda see in boruto right now on how in multiple timelines he was supposed to lose and the world destroyed but he doesn’t because fate has something else for him
Could be an ability for something like an evolved byakugan transformation (like mangeku sharingan)
So in short Neji could either be a machine gun or sniper or both with a forcefield in maximum potential. With the ammunition of like tranquilizers but permanent. That is quite literally an amazing asset in so many fights. With many of them ending far before becoming close range.
The fact that we never saw a byakugan vs sharingan showdown is one of my biggest disppointments in the series.
Every time you hear "strongest" take a drink 😂
I loved Neji. he had MC vibes throughout the whole show. he is basically Sasuke except with the Byakugan!
Neji had great character development. He went from tryin to kill Hinata in the Chūnin Exams to sacrificing himself for Hinata in the 4th Great Ninja War.
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@@AhmedHussain-ju6xd😂 yo for real
Too bad we never get to actually see that character development. It goes from he hates her to give his life for her, and dont try to tell me we see it because Neji figuring out why his father did what he did isnt enough to go from trying to kill a bitch to giving your life for that bitch
Almost entirely off screen
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Please keep this series going. I enjoy it
The definitive example of wasted character potential in Naruto
Doesn't it make sense for the Hyuga to actually be long-range specialists, considering their 360-degree vision and the distance they can cover? They could essentially be the snipers of the Naruto universe.
Bro gave Neji
Gojos infinity and I love it😂❤
Never understood why the hyugas weren’t given bows.
In my opinion, the Hyuuga clan is the most underrated clan in all of Naruto, with untapped potential. We really know little about their techniques. They are based on taijutsu... but would Neji be able to defeat Rock Lee at the level of taijutsu?
Neji can defeat Lee all day until 7 gates. If Lee pulls out the Gates of Hell they both die.
No one gonna talk about the disrespect to Neji at 2:10
So im not the only one who heard Kiba 🤣
I wish he got some of the Naruto video games abilities like the Hyuga style Sky Palm & the mountain break attack
Right
I challenge you to make kiba cool and powerful I don't think even you could do that without completely rewriting the character
I wrote an article a couple years back fully exploring his potential, and send it to Bandai Namco and Masashi Kishimoto, who confirmed receipt in email. As a result, they added the Neji DLC to Shinobi Striker, taking the suggests I had made in the article.
This series is gonna be awesome, please don’t drop this. 13 great vids, I honestly can’t wait for tenten, she has so much potential
0:14 they get introduced, have some cool moments and we never see them again despite them being in the same village as konoha and even those who appear don't do jack shit.
I think Kishimoto wants to forget about the Byakugan users!
2:43 bless you
So an advanced revolving heaven technique should just be... the Susanoo?
Neji is so much cooler than Hinata it's insane how dirty he was done 😭 truly one of Kishimoto's biggest fumbles 🙏
Still waiting for Neji vs Sasuke 😅
Because of his ability to process and relay info, Neji would've been a perfect wingman for Shikamaru.
Sad we never got many dynamics between the konoha 11 outside Thier teams
@@AhmedHussain-ju6xdthey have many
I believe Neji should have learned medical ninjutsu. That knowledge and skills paired with the Byakugan's x-ray vision would make him a deadly medical ninja. Especially if he learned skills like Kabuto's chakra scalpel. Not to mention heal himself he would be the ultimate support ninja with combat capabilities.
Can Neji get the Jiraya treatment? Brought back to life in a clone body with all his memories in tact.
Neji had the coolest costume design
Kiba is the only one out of the Konoha 12 that I look at and think "I don't know how you improve this." Without inventing a bunch of new jutsu for him, it seems like his clan techniques have a low ceiling. I don't know how I'd get him to even Jonin level.
I would have him fuse with Akamaru to be a humanoid wold
Because not every ninja is gonna nuke you in a fight. Kibas whole team is information gathering and he is one of the best out of the 12 at that without having a gods powers
Either just add elemental jutsu to his arsenal (I am thinking earth release, probably something similar to Kakuzu's skin hardening) or just give his wolf transfrormation more upgrades or even a humanoid version that trades of speed and power for being able to use rudimentary jutsu and weapons.
@@matijasostojic4288I mean give him and Akemaru different elemental releases that support each other like Wind and Fire that they could infuse into their Fang Over Fang. Their giant combined form could then become a massive tornado of amped up fire and blades. Have him train and fuse with more ninja dogs and he could end up being able to form a 5 headed beast wielding all of the elements at once and the combined chakra pools of all involved.
Fire release
Make Akamaru a ninja hell hound
Or add more forms to their fusion transformation like a werewolf
Neji’s death gives the same vibes as quicksilver dying in age of ultron. His death felt pointless and “unrealistic”
Uncle Neiji was a really missed opportunity 😢
I wish we got to see Neji become Toph basically from Avatar since he knew Earth Release
I wish I could like this video twice. Already follow, love the videos in general, but this was one of the best hypothetical anime theories I've never heard, ever.
I proposed that if Amado made a clone/cyborg of Neji he would be incredibly powerful. I was laughed at🤷🏽♂️
THERE HE IS!!!!! Nick back in his bag of great video ideas. I really enjoyed this one and would like to see more potential joints 👌🏽 keep up the great work my guy
Definitely would’ve been one of the best uncles to Boruto and Hima
I love this idea! Can't wait for the next one!
I just realized how similar the air palm is in essence to the hirudora
you GOTTA do more full potential videos NC. this is a whole ‘nother aspect of information you could speculate upon. I’m nerding hard af 😂 but I’d be shocked if it didn’t do well
Video actually starts at 5:00
Shits crazy
Byakungan should have surely have true precognition, genjutsu, and they should have be able to go "rotation" with spinning because they can shot out chakra from their body. I wish Kishimoto gave them more power like they did with the Uchiha clan
I’m genuinely so excited for the Tenten video
Love your videos broski big fan for years
Damn yeah I would love to see a whole video from you on Haku!!
this is a really cool concept for a series
I thought Mukai was the strongest Hyuga ever.
Now that i think about it. It would be so much better to have killed hiashi(hinatas father). Imagine the sticks are raining down hinata protects naruto neji tries to protect hinata but in the end hiashi protects them and dieds and with his final words he make neji the next leader of the clan and says that he is proud of both his daughter and niece
Great video, really enjoyed it!. And here's the thought, although more related to Hyuga clan as a whole rather than Neji alone. Wouldn't the Byakugan be like super usefull in Medical Ninjutsu? Like using the tenketsu points to heal someone faster or more efficiently or something?