*delurking*
How do you hide the scent of people from Inuzuka/sensitive ninja/ninja with summons? Or of gunpowder?
How do you see in lowlight conditions, or sneak into their proximity?
Whence comes your intelligence of their travel routes when they have no need to take the roads?
Where do you get the weapons?
The Brown Bess was an 18th century weapon, the result of several hundred years of evolution in warfare, and required skilled artisans to make.
When genin can walk in and stab your artisans to death under henge, since the materials for making this in quantity is easy to track, and the knowledge is passed down from master to apprentice?
And that's without considering the incredible durability of even mook ninja; look at the kind of brutalization that chuunin like Iruka can take.
Or the fact that genin like Zaku in the Chuunin Exams survived having his arms blown off.
Or the size of the cavity that Kidomaru blew in Neji's chest.
2)We have no idea what percentage of the population can be trained to become active chakra users.
Even if you assume only 1% of the population has the potential, and the ninja only get half of that, you'd need only a population of 2 million people to support a force of 10,000 ninja.
And given that I recall you comparing the Land of Fire to the UK in size, I will point out that IRL, England alone had a population of ~3 million by 1350.
Demography of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That's without counting Ireland/Scotland/Wales
Japan, OTOH, had a population of between 7-9.5 million by 1300 AD
Demographic history of Japan before the Meiji Restoration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How do you poison people with superior medical knowledge and personnel?
Even without Tsunade, consider the medical and pharmaceutical knowledge necessary to cook up an Inuzuka soldier pill. Or one of the Akimichi ones. Or for a chuunin to perform an eye transplant under field conditions.
You need industrial amounts of lead to poison a watershed, and that again is conspicuous as hell.
If shit was this easy, ninja villages would do it to each other.
How do you make longterm plans against an enemy with superior command and control, as well as the ability to decapitate your command structure at will?
The way you've been describing this world, all the force multiplication abilities are on the side of the ninja, and they compound that by being orders of magnitude better at asymmetrical warfare to boot.
Only chance a civilian insurrection would have is if it was basically someone else's proxy.
is probably the one thing that I approve of from filler.
Of course, given that it's rumored Studio Pierrot has a hardon for Hinata, perhaps it's not so surprising she gets the only halfway decent thing from it.
Would a Japanese-derived setting do so?
You'll find that pre-modern Japanese history was into periodization, and measured things in Eras or nengō; still do, actually
List of Japanese era names - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As you can see, the damn things changed anywhere from 3 years to two decades; only in modern times are we having nengō last upwards of four decades.
I find that we miss a lot of cultural cues we don't have the background to know are there, even in stuff as seemingly simple as shounen.
We only see it,IIRC, used on Naruto .
The dude with a sapient chakra entity stuffed into his stomach, and a cutting-edge Death God-approved seal on top of said cage.
There is no reason to assume that said crystal ball has unlimited range, works on anyone else, or indeed can work on someone without a given beacon on him.
Consider the history of Konoha's jinchuuriki.
Mito was a grown woman, and too badass to be fucked with when she became one.
On the other hand, Kushina was first kidnapped as a teenager(by Kumo), and then later lost bijuu confinement during delivery of Naruto.
Certainly, if I was the Hokage, I would want to be personally capable of keeping track of Naruto's whereabouts inside the village, and unlike both Jiraiya and Minato, Sarutobi was neither a Sage nor a sensor.
I was under the impression that ninja throw weapons harder and further than bows can.
Which is why we only ever see one bowman in canon(Kidomaru), and he crafted his bow out of specialty chakra-reactive material.
Same reasoning with spearheads; something with a wood shaft is not going to work very well against chakra-using wildlife, let alone ninja.
Unless you simply want to use the spearheads as kunai/makeshift daggers.
*Meisaigakure no Jutsu engaged*
Yeah, methinks that you underestimate just how badly the civilians have things stacked against them.
How do you hide the scent of people from Inuzuka/sensitive ninja/ninja with summons? Or of gunpowder?
How do you see in lowlight conditions, or sneak into their proximity?
Whence comes your intelligence of their travel routes when they have no need to take the roads?
Where do you get the weapons?
The Brown Bess was an 18th century weapon, the result of several hundred years of evolution in warfare, and required skilled artisans to make.
When genin can walk in and stab your artisans to death under henge, since the materials for making this in quantity is easy to track, and the knowledge is passed down from master to apprentice?
And that's without considering the incredible durability of even mook ninja; look at the kind of brutalization that chuunin like Iruka can take.
Or the fact that genin like Zaku in the Chuunin Exams survived having his arms blown off.
Or the size of the cavity that Kidomaru blew in Neji's chest.
1)We actually see the Alliance had some 80k active duty shinobi during the 4th War, which works out to at least 10k for each of the Big Five.
2)We have no idea what percentage of the population can be trained to become active chakra users.
Even if you assume only 1% of the population has the potential, and the ninja only get half of that, you'd need only a population of 2 million people to support a force of 10,000 ninja.
And given that I recall you comparing the Land of Fire to the UK in size, I will point out that IRL, England alone had a population of ~3 million by 1350.
Demography of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That's without counting Ireland/Scotland/Wales
Japan, OTOH, had a population of between 7-9.5 million by 1300 AD
Demographic history of Japan before the Meiji Restoration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How do you blow up their schools? Explosives are not the provenance of civilians, and processing large amounts of gunpowder is conspicuous as hell. And that's even assuming you have the trained personnel to do so. Or to move it, and get it inside a ninja village.
How do you poison people with superior medical knowledge and personnel?
Even without Tsunade, consider the medical and pharmaceutical knowledge necessary to cook up an Inuzuka soldier pill. Or one of the Akimichi ones. Or for a chuunin to perform an eye transplant under field conditions.
You need industrial amounts of lead to poison a watershed, and that again is conspicuous as hell.
If shit was this easy, ninja villages would do it to each other.
How do you make longterm plans against an enemy with superior command and control, as well as the ability to decapitate your command structure at will?
The way you've been describing this world, all the force multiplication abilities are on the side of the ninja, and they compound that by being orders of magnitude better at asymmetrical warfare to boot.
Only chance a civilian insurrection would have is if it was basically someone else's proxy.
Do note that Naruto filler also gave us Hinata's Chakra Laser Field of Defense, which
is probably the one thing that I approve of from filler.
Of course, given that it's rumored Studio Pierrot has a hardon for Hinata, perhaps it's not so surprising she gets the only halfway decent thing from it.
Would a ninja village keep the same numbering scheme over ~60 years? Instead of swapping things around every decade or so?
Would a Japanese-derived setting do so?
You'll find that pre-modern Japanese history was into periodization, and measured things in Eras or nengō; still do, actually
List of Japanese era names - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As you can see, the damn things changed anywhere from 3 years to two decades; only in modern times are we having nengō last upwards of four decades.
I find that we miss a lot of cultural cues we don't have the background to know are there, even in stuff as seemingly simple as shounen.
Point of order:
We only see it,IIRC, used on Naruto .
The dude with a sapient chakra entity stuffed into his stomach, and a cutting-edge Death God-approved seal on top of said cage.
There is no reason to assume that said crystal ball has unlimited range, works on anyone else, or indeed can work on someone without a given beacon on him.
Consider the history of Konoha's jinchuuriki.
Mito was a grown woman, and too badass to be fucked with when she became one.
On the other hand, Kushina was first kidnapped as a teenager(by Kumo), and then later lost bijuu confinement during delivery of Naruto.
Certainly, if I was the Hokage, I would want to be personally capable of keeping track of Naruto's whereabouts inside the village, and unlike both Jiraiya and Minato, Sarutobi was neither a Sage nor a sensor.
Why?
I was under the impression that ninja throw weapons harder and further than bows can.
Which is why we only ever see one bowman in canon(Kidomaru), and he crafted his bow out of specialty chakra-reactive material.
Same reasoning with spearheads; something with a wood shaft is not going to work very well against chakra-using wildlife, let alone ninja.
Unless you simply want to use the spearheads as kunai/makeshift daggers.
*Meisaigakure no Jutsu engaged*
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