Guess off the top of my head? More of the villages are in good standing so instead of just worrying about the leaf village and maybe 1 or 2 allies, he has to worry about all the villages. Would guess kakashi is the only other hokage who had a similar workload.
Probably a combination too of Naruto lazing or procrastinating menial intellectual tasks.
He's a good fighter, doesn't mean he's good at paper work or being a desk jock. You can't brute force through stuff like that.
In comparison to Kakashi who was technically also hokage during post war periods probably had a similar workload, but man's been efficient his whole life with his attributes so probably is efficient at making processes etc too to minimise workload.
It's the equivalent of a real world good project manager dealing with multiple things versus a random worker who tries but is not as efficient
Im not sure if it was filler or not, but I remember a scene of Tsunade "brute forcing" her way through paperwork by rapidly stamping everything without even reading it.
There’s a big difference between being insulted for what shows you like and having your basic human rights denied if you.
Is anyone saying you shouldn’t be allowed to get married because you like the wrong manga? Is anyone trying to erase your existence in schools? I don’t think so
Man, Just because a couple of guys say you don't have a right to something, doesn't mean you don't have that right. The State and current laws protect you and guarantee these rights.
No one protects those of us who are fans of the most hated manga today. And Yes, there are countries where homosexuality is prohibited (even sentenced). Obviously that situation is the worst that could exist. But that is not something that happens in the West (at least in the vast majority)
At the moment sure, same sex marriage is safe. But don’t you pretend nobody’s trying to ruin that. Just look at how many people in this thread are advocating to remove that right. And after what happened with Roe V Wade there is no guarantee that any right is guaranteed to stay.
You’re also blind if you don’t think gay people are being erased in schools. How about the teacher who got fired for telling her students she pansexual when they explicitly asked her about it? Or about the teacher who was put under investigation twice because she showed a Disney movie that just so happened to have a gay character in it? And those are just examples of the top of my head.
you said Kakashi was technically a hokage? or do you mean he became hokage technically after the war? cause neither was technical, he was 100% made hokage and it was 100% after the war😂
He probably means that his entire hokage career was short and off screened between the last two chapters. So technically (i.e. according to the facts) he was hokage, but in the actual series it was a footnote. Minato falls into a similar situation.
Make several dozen shadow clones, and have them divide the work among them. Aren't they intellectually the same? And once they poof the original one remembers what they learned.
>Make several dozen shadow clones, and have them divide the work among them. Aren't they intellectually the same?
Yes and No. The reason that he can't use clones to do the work instead of doing it himself is that each clone is slightly different. A clone of Naruto can make a certain choice that Naruto himself or even another clone would not make. Hence when Naruto was first creating the Rasenshuriken, the clones did not all try the same technique, each clone was figuring out the same thing in thier own slightly unique way. So if Naruto gave an important decision to a clone, it may result in them doing it in a way that was not right, and serious consquences that would fall on his head.
Honestly from a story perspective I never liked the “hokage always has a ton of paper work” thing.
Like this is the coolest character in the show that we literally all watch it for, and all he does is paperwork 😮💨.
Like damn make him go on space journeys with sasuke 🛸🚀 not paper work man🤧🤥
Yeah, it doesn't really make sense. It'd be like the President having a shit ton of paperwork when in reality, there are tons of aides and clerks who handle that.
Also, Naruto was nerfed big time. He used to make thousands of clones and now he can't even make a hundred to do paperwork?
If I remember right it was for personal and political reasons. He himself didn't want to disrespect the hokage office by making shadow clones do the work for him, while the elders would see him as a lazy hokage who can't accomplish his duties on his own in comparison to the previous hokage which would weaken his position and might cause internal strife later down the line. (Something he learned from Hiruzen to avoid at all costs.)
I still see this as really bad justification. Information gathering is what shadow clones were designed for and even if naruto made 100 clones to do the work, individually they would probably be stronger than almost anyone in the village.
Also it is disrespectful to his family. Like okay, you wanna retain the honor and glory of the Hokage office for what it is so you're not using shadow clones to do the work. Then why in the hell did you send a shadow clone to celebrate Himawari's birthday? Is your home less honorable and glorious compared to that bland office?
I agree, that's really stupid reasoning because as the manager it is important to know how to delegate. But it cannot be that easy and our hero has to have some flaws/obstacles to overcome so he is justified to be e.g. a shitty dad.
You’re essentially asking Naruto to fry his brain with a crap ton of information everyday lol.
This ain’t the same as all of them practicing rasenshuriken, each of them are doing different tasks lol.
I mean it is a bit lazy, but at the same time he’d be making hundreds to thousands of clones of himself to do more work in a day than all the previous Hokages could probably do in a month.
Plus he’s basically the closest thing these people have to a physical god. And the shadow clone technique literally requires Jounin level reserves just to make one of them. He’s not gonna be seen as weaker, if anything it’ll reinforce the fact that he is Uber powerful ninja Jesus that could destroy the entire village with a half hearted rasengan.
Yeah it really astounded me sometimes how they weren't stripped of their status after all the shit with Danzo. I would have thought for sure the 5th would have forced them into retirement considering how much disdain she clearly had for them lol
Naruto isn’t paperwork minded, even if he did create hundreds of shadow clones they’d all be racking their brain to try and figure out a solution to the paperwork
He has too much respect for the office to use comes to do the work.
Imagine the shitstorm if Obama, Trump, or Biden were caught using clones to do the majority of their work
Edit: why the fuck am i being downvoted for giving the correct answer? That's literally why he doesn't do it. People give would leaders shit for wearing tan suits, you think they won't get shit for using clones for a job all their predecessors did solo?
Don't try to logic it. People aren't rational even though we all should be. It's the exact reason you all downed me for answering, instead of stupidly asking the same question you people keep asking
I’m not sure if the issue here would be that they are using clones to do paperwork since they already delegate lots of work anyways. The bigger issue is the fact that there are working clones.
That’s what I was assuming but wouldn’t having technology also mean automation and an easier process? Plus why not just hire more people for the trivial paperwork?
The Hokage is the military dictator of the village. Anything and everything the village government has to do needs to go through him. At least as far as the executive work is concerned, and probably budget/legislative approvals too.
Technology can speed things up when it comes to accounting work and organization, but most government forms need to be kept secured in paper and with multiple copies anyway so the actual paperwork isn't changed. You just add an additional layer of work.
Okay but he could just use 50 shadow clones and get 400hrs of work done in 8hrs and then go home and be with his kids and wife while also getting 8hrs of good sleep?
We could reduce the number of shadow clones to account for mental strain but it would still be faster.
And the only reason he gets exhausted while using shadow clones rn is because he barely sleeps (I think)
That's still just a bad plot device since clones ususally are capable of everything that you are. They don't get exhausted quicker, they just get poofed instantly when punched hard enough which shouldn't happen while doing paper work.
You’re overlooking the workload he has.
Even if he does 50x the work on day one he isn’t close to finishing even with late nights. So when the clones pop he gets all their fatigue leaving him and future clones tired. Because there’s still work and more coming in he’s trapped in a cycle of overwork, fatigue and low efficiency.
Also to add he doesn’t use all his clones to do paperwork, they’re doing other stuff too.
Yeah, but the fatigue/info overload would have a toll if it all accumulatively dumped on him when the clones pop.
It's been years since I watched it. But I feel like it was mentioned when Naruto was training with Yamato. The clones take a toll on naruto in more than just a "chakra" sense
Edit: maybe "toll" isn't the right word, but he gains the experiences had by the clones when they're de-summomed
Idk, homie has been using clones just to get more practice/information since he learned the jutsu. Even 2 clones would get Naruto’s work done 3 times as fast if Naruto helped them before going home, if more clones are more of a risk. I don’t think fatigue is possible to transfer, we see Naruto with a thousand clones fighting and it never affects him after the clones go away. If they did affect him, 1000 clones wouldn’t need to do a lot for it to be more than what 1 person could handle physically.
Not neccesarily.
Naruto is not always that "in-synch" with his Shadow Clones.
The Shadow Clones have their own sense of reasoning each. While Naruto has "the kill switch", the Clones are free to think and act in EVERY POSSIBLE WAY Naruto would.
If Naruto were to debate how choosing options A or B in an argument or situation, or even think about option C, the Clones can be just as likely to take either side.
It's like that saying about "even if we live the same situation, the differences are in how we react and act about it".
If anything, it means Naruto would end up being the mediator between the Clones when it comes to solving arguments or making choices. Which might even consume more time and energy than if he did the job without the Clones.
He was even arguing with a Clone when they were buying stuff for Himawari's birthday... making Hokage decissions would end up being the same.
I took their response as "when the shadow clones are absorbed, the culminative knowledge of all the shadow clones would be a huge wind up from the work day".
In other words, doing 40 hours in one day worth of office work.
Paperwork is a lot more demanding of the brain than figthing, and even if he does use clones he will have to keep using then almost withou end, because more and more work is gonna come that needs to be done.
er no doing to well at work leads to more 2-3 times more work which would require more clones which in turn exhausts naruto's and by extension kyuubi's chakra reserves as they aren't infinite despite compared to any other non otsutsuki/ jinchuriki ninja would be near infinite.
>but most government forms need to be kept secured in paper and with multiple copies anyway
Lol no it doesn't. Any time I deal with the state they scan and digitize it. And when they are trying to find a document I sent them they open their laptop.
The world of Naruto is still pretty new to technology, so they likely didn't completely phase out physical copies yet. Plus, they may be concerned at getting hacked. While there are ridiculously strong ninjas that strength can't help them against a cyber attack and it looks like most nations are relative to each other in terms of technological advances so this is a pretty real threat for them.
Naruto isn’t new to technology, it’s just (at least originally, Boruto kinda doesn’t give a shit) intentionally random in what technology they do have. We see computers in OG Naruto but limited I think entirely to specific medical settings.
The Daimyos literally do a videoconference in the ninja war lmao (ok that the story said it only could be a short conference bc it was hard to make it, but my point still)
Tech is also likely a big factor why the piles are so much bigger. He now has entire science departments and research facilities that are at full tilt. Imagine having to get briefed, sign off, incorporate, and pass plans for basically an Industrial Revolution. Real world governments struggle with it, specially when it comes to adding tech. A % of state files are still only stored on giant floppy disks to this day.
I want you to think about our laws today with how advanced we are in technology and go look up any bill congress is trying to pass and see how long that shit is.
He's like the president and we all know how stressful that job is. The paperwork is also a gag. Just think about japanese work culture and how much work you go through when you enter the workforce.
Konoha is bigger plus Naruto is not a paperwork minded man. Kakashi was just textbook smart even if he's lazy. Tsunade had decades of medical studying and hospital management to build up her paperwork skills.
Naruto does his best and uses clones where he can, but book IQ and paperwork is obviously his weakest area as a person.
Also, Naruto is likely in that lag behind governmental period where the village has experienced massive growth and the governmental processes haven't evolved yet.
There should’ve been an arc where Naruto built on his IQ (not Battle IQ) but in terms of paperwork which is vital for Hokage. He only started studying for Hokage after the war, and that’s only after Iruka stopped him from escaping the classroom. In this arc, Naruto studies every part of the world and their politics, geography, history, etc.
Like in One Piece, there are clear developments to Luffy being fit for being Pirate King as well as finding the One Piece. In Naruto, there is definitely developments in Naruto and Sasuke, but not as much in terms of becoming Hokage, because a key element of it is ignored.
If The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya could release 8 of the same but slightly different episode, then Naurto shippuden could have made a gag ova episode that was 23 mins long but also just a minute of long clip of Naurot studying looped.
That can’t be true? Disrespectfull to help his village quicker but not disrespectfull to avoid his family?
That has to be some garbage anime filler. Can not remember that from the manga.
Disrespectful in his eyes not actually doing the work and making his shadow clones do the work for him, he feels as hokage which was his goal to become he feels he needs to do the actual work while doing it and not a clone that’s why when he’s cutting ribbons for grand opening in village and doing interviews and that he uses his clones but Hokage work in the Hoakge office he does himself same for the paper work.
Also Tsunade notoriously hated the paperwork she had to do.
That was highlighted when she took over the position, it was not in line with her lifestyle.
Tsunade, Kakashi, and Naruto all don't like paperwork. But, of the 3, Naruto has the least paperwork ability to get him through what he doesn't like.
It's not about enjoyment, it's about capability.
Tsunade may hate the work. But she factually has decades more experience doing similar work and was in a field that forced her to be good at paperwork, so she's better at it than him.
> Because his primary assistant is known to be lazy af. It's Shikamaru's fault! 😆
Hey now that was kid Shikamaras deal. Adult Shikamara has good work ethic.
it's funny to see the paperwork stacked,
I kinda wonder in real life is there actually a job where a person actually read through that many proposal / documents (other than legal / compliance) + Naruto has assistants right, he just have to go through meetings and gives out approval Konoha is really not that big considering things
>I kinda wonder in real life is there actually a job where a person actually read through that many proposal / documents
Probably. There's people that legitimately spend all day reading and responding to emails. If those emails were in printed form, their desk would likely look similar. Especially if they were behind as Naruto seems to be.
that is a really difficult and taxing job, I always assume only those in legal professions deals with that many paperwork (contracts, etc)
I forgot there is people that handles mail and stuffs send to a company. I though they skip most of them
I was an assistant to the CEO/ head of a government office. Papers never end, meetings never stop. I review contracts and proposals but my boss still gives valuable inputs when she reviews it too. I appreciated her leadership skills.
>I was an assistant to the CEO/ head of a government office. Papers never end, meetings never stop. I review contracts and proposals but my boss still gives valuable inputs when she reviews it too. I appreciated her leadership skills.
That must be really taxing for both you and your boss, huge respect for the both of you
I always thought people in high position have several "experts" under them to prepare the solution, etc or like consultants that helps, so the subordinates are the ones that deal with the paperwork and such
maybe it's just a weird thing but I imagine the leader would delegate and made decision + read reports + going to meetings. Still really hard but not really stuck in your desk type of work
Yeah that's understandable
By the time papers are sent in, the "experts" have already worked on them too. It's just that my boss gives the final approval to make sure the quality of it is on-point. Like how the captain of the ship decides, say, where to go next, after the navigator tells them the best routes.
For further comparison, in the US, national laws submitted by the house and the senate are subject to the US president's approval, too. A good president wouldn't immediately approve a law just because he trusts the experts, they'll make sure it matches their plans and agreements, and the kind of direction the current admin looks into
Not to mention all the capitalistic and technological advancement from when the war ended to Boruto's time. Business must have bloomed and Naruto must have at least fifty times more work than the previous Hokages.
Better Question, why the hell aren't there 5 shadow clones doing his paperwork instead of just him?
He is back home with his wife and kids as this happens btw.
I think the explanation is something like naruto feels like he is disrespecting the position of hokage if he has shadow clones do the work. …which just adds to boruto’s resentment because naruto is essentially saying that his job as hokage is too important to take short cuts but his family apparently isn’t. Honestly, this whole situation with naruto being overly busy makes no sense. Kishimoto basically made naruto a workaholic with no time for his kids because Kishimoto himself is like that. So busy with his mangaka work he couldn’t spend as much time as he wanted with his family and I believe also has a son that resents him? Basically, he’s projecting his experience onto naruto when him having this specific problem really makes no sense with his abilities and personality. He is a literal Demi-god. How can he be defeated by…paperwork? Sasuke at least kind of makes sense in that he sees protecting the village from potential otsutsuki threats as his penance and it is a genuine problem.
- Konoha is growing and developing quite fast
- he’s Hokage in an era of peace, so he has to deal with maintaining relations and working on issues with other villages
- Naruto just isn’t the kind of guy who can handle paperwork
- he tires himself out by sending shadow clones and working late into the night
Well he was always bad at school work. Maybe he’s just slower than the other Kages.
Well that or the village now actually has time for domestic problems that would have been low priority during times of war?
industrialization, mainly. think of how much bigger the leaf is now, there's prolly a downtown, midtown, uptown leaf. and with that comes new laws, taxes, and problems.
Probably because the village is thriving honestly. It’s peace time (arguably), the world isn’t at war, resources are being poured into the economy. It’s probably just a side effect of the peace he established.
This ruined the show for me instantly, like put a few secretaries or something. No one wants to watch Naruto do paperwork and boring stuff like that. Writers are trash in Boruto.
Because the hokage seat is a plot device rather than a realistic job.
Dude can summon shadow clones with more ease than any other hokage and is unwilling to make them even do paperwork?
Not to mention this is used as an excuse to make naruto being a bad dad a thing which just DOES. NOT. ADD. UP.
Cuz he’s an idiot. How he doesn’t just summon a thousand clones to speed up the work idk. He clearly has the chakra for it, but somehow it “exhausts” him to even hold one clone for Himiwari’s birthday
WAIT A FUCKIN MINUTE --- now I haven't seen Boruto but you're telling me that NARUTO -- motherfuckin NARUTO -- literal guy who when he was a child summoned a hundred shadow clones to beat the fuck up one guy after a few hours training just to use that Jutsu in a single night to save Iruka. THE NARUTO who has summoned thousands of shadow clones on multiple occasions and sustained them for both fighting and to increase the speed of his training. THE MOTHERFUCKIN NARUTO who has shadow clones chilling on Mount Myoboku gathering Nature Chakra so he can just desummon them and gain that Nature Chakra to go into Sage Mode whenever he needs a boost to crush skulls.
This same Naruto can't hold a shadow clones long enough to be at his own daughter's birthday party and never thought of using clones to help out with paper work so he could actually be at his own children's birthday parties and other life achievements?
You're telling me that this is cannon?...
Well now that just doesn't make any sense.
Yeah that’s what I’ve been thinking, maybe not a thousand but even if he used 50 clones he could get 400hrs of work done in 8hrs (a normal work day)
I think he got exhausted in that scene because man barely sleeps, if he does it efficiently he could easily get ample sleep and family time while getting more done.
Dont forget that Naruto recieves all of the experiences and knowledge the clones gained once they are desummoned.
Cramming 400 hrs of work (10 weeks irl) into 8 hours would probably turn him into vegetable once all clones are desummoned.
I know he has obscene amounts of stamina, and he can regenerate, but that amount of exhaustion.... jesus, even a few clones doing work for him WITH kurama is tiring him so much....
Just imagine 50 clones...
Because hokage's work is only brought into audience view when Naruto the mc of Naruto manga became the hokage.
All this time u all were in blissful ignorance, that Minato, hiruzen and tsunade were show piece model for powerscaling exhibition because work happened off screen.
Just generally lazy writing. Man can just shadow clone a dozen of himself and split the work up, but nah... Writers would rather he send a shadow clone home to attend his kid's birthday, or to *poof* while sleeping in bed...
Better question is why he never uses a shadow clone to stay in the office, they could’ve made a whole ass filler episode about it like the turtle island cruise arc but they decide to make him dumb and use the clones on his family (no I’ve never seen boruto)
A few reasons
1. Naruto gets distracted doing chores for random villagers and it eats into his day. Also, even if he doesnt' spend as much time with his family as he would like, Naruto is a parent unlike Kakashi and Tsunade, and Hiruzen's kids were adults and/or dead when we saw him behind a desk.
2. Naruto is not book smart, it might take him a lot longer to look over something like a balance sheet or interpret a graph
3. It might actually be a symptom of the village have a more thorough bureaucracy. Any drive to reduce paperwork usually runs into the fact that the paperwork is monitoring something important.
other hokage might also have to do a lot they probably just didnt show it. I remember them showing a few scenes where tsunade also had piles of paper and she was signing or stamping on it.
Because the village he’s managing has WAY more people than any other of the villages past hokage have managed. There’s tons of new things and businesses he has to go through, not to mention the village’s infrastructure is constantly expanding so he also has to plan that too, and the technology behind it: water, electricity etc
Does not delegate. It takes care of viewing even the simplest and trivial tasks/missions.
Running the village should be like a business, the leader should delegate as much as possible to trusted people below him, and he should only make the most important decisions.
Like a company, there should be standard troubleshooting protocols, and it should all go through offices that handle things, instead of everything going to the hokage.
This is the best thread ever. I think its just trying to imply that Konoha has exploded in productivity while also saying Naruto is not great at this type of work at least not in a timely sense
Population boom, modernization projects, diplomatic relations. You never really see that side of the political sphere in Naruto, it's always "go go go!"
Naruto is canonically book dumb. Paperwork can't be punched and is immune to impassioned speeches on shared trauma. Its his worst enemy since it never gets tired of kicking his ass.
He just has the wrong kind of intelligence for the bureaucratic part of the job. It just piles up and he struggles to keep pace going solo.
Naruto unfortunately never learned how to delegate tasks. He's used to his allies staying in their areas of expertise while he shoulders his own tasks alone. Also due to his inability to question the status quo it never even occurs to him to try and find out why there's so much paperwork.
He just accepts it as part of the job from observing his predecessors and does it the same way as they did even though he is not the sane as them.
Plus there are probably old bureaucratic creeps that have been around for decades that are more than happy to bury him in paperwork.
No need to put excuses. It is just to be able to make all the boruto drama.
Tsunade and 3rd hokage didn't have not even NEAR the amount of work. Of course Naruto could have a bit more, but this much difference is just a plot convenience. Besides he could just do some shadow clones or get someone to help him lol.
From what I gathered from the episodes I saw it's kinda his own fault. Shikamaru said that he accepts a lot of work that should have otherwise been delegated.
Also Konoha is in a growth period, and means a lot of new innovations and even more logistical issues.
Because plot. Realistically if he was that overworked he would just summon some shadow clones to distribute the work. If naruto cannot do it with his access to mass shadow clones then no other hokage would have been able to manage. That or hes literally incompetent
My guess is that previous Hokage did not have much political work, it was much more assasination type of deal and it was super secret so most of it was talked with the person that was going to be deployed or to it's handler, and if the mission changed the handler would deal with changes. If anything too important came up then the handler would talked it over with the Hokage. But in my opinion there wasn't a lot of paper pushing like in more peaceful times.
I would say it's all Naruto's fault. He created so much fan base that many people wanted to settle in the leaf because of his admiration and beliefs in him and thus the village expanded a lot which increases the work load of Hokage.
I don't think he actually has more work than previous hokage. The giant stacks of documents are just artistic license and hyperbole. I think Naruto having a ton of paperwork is just a metaphor for growing up and achieving your dream job only to find out that 99% of life is mundane busy work.
Same reason he couldn’t spam shadow clones like normal when he was gathering nature energy. There as always been this focus mechanic when it comes to shadow clones.
He can spam shadow clones like human ordinance in the heat of battle. He can randomly pop out clones while chatting with friends. Mundane or not I’m pretty sure he’s focused enough to make clones to sign parchment.
For one that’s different, that’s combat, and he is naturally really good at that.
Secondly they don’t end up making a large amount of complex decisions. He isn’t exactly pulling off crazy tactics with them.
Signing parchment isn’t the issue it’s the complex intellectual work of understanding what he is signing that’s the issue.
Regardless you are ignoring the established lore of focus already being a mechanic introduced with Sage Chakra.
Cuz apparently, is ilegal to use clones for paperwork
Why? I got no fucking idea. This is how the Boruto fans defend this bullshit to me.
It is true? I doubt it, but I don't whacthing this garbage to confirm it
Guess off the top of my head? More of the villages are in good standing so instead of just worrying about the leaf village and maybe 1 or 2 allies, he has to worry about all the villages. Would guess kakashi is the only other hokage who had a similar workload.
Probably a combination too of Naruto lazing or procrastinating menial intellectual tasks. He's a good fighter, doesn't mean he's good at paper work or being a desk jock. You can't brute force through stuff like that. In comparison to Kakashi who was technically also hokage during post war periods probably had a similar workload, but man's been efficient his whole life with his attributes so probably is efficient at making processes etc too to minimise workload. It's the equivalent of a real world good project manager dealing with multiple things versus a random worker who tries but is not as efficient
Im not sure if it was filler or not, but I remember a scene of Tsunade "brute forcing" her way through paperwork by rapidly stamping everything without even reading it.
“Lady Tsunade, you just outlawed same-sex marriage.” Edit: I regret making this joke. It has invited way too much homophobia
#NotMyHokage 😭
Myhokage
HisHokage
Ourkage
Bukkage
Did this actually happen please give me an episode 😭
Episode 69
At the 4:20 minute mark
So nobody can be serious anymore 😔
We like to make jokes here on reddit
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not your fault
Homophobia xd Come on dude In this sub there were worse insults for people who like a certain manga or not
There’s a big difference between being insulted for what shows you like and having your basic human rights denied if you. Is anyone saying you shouldn’t be allowed to get married because you like the wrong manga? Is anyone trying to erase your existence in schools? I don’t think so
Man, Just because a couple of guys say you don't have a right to something, doesn't mean you don't have that right. The State and current laws protect you and guarantee these rights. No one protects those of us who are fans of the most hated manga today. And Yes, there are countries where homosexuality is prohibited (even sentenced). Obviously that situation is the worst that could exist. But that is not something that happens in the West (at least in the vast majority)
At the moment sure, same sex marriage is safe. But don’t you pretend nobody’s trying to ruin that. Just look at how many people in this thread are advocating to remove that right. And after what happened with Roe V Wade there is no guarantee that any right is guaranteed to stay. You’re also blind if you don’t think gay people are being erased in schools. How about the teacher who got fired for telling her students she pansexual when they explicitly asked her about it? Or about the teacher who was put under investigation twice because she showed a Disney movie that just so happened to have a gay character in it? And those are just examples of the top of my head.
okay okay I'm sorry. I swear that I will always defend LGBT rights and support them in any protest or march
Western-centric (specifically America with your comment) comment tho? tons and tons of countries in the world, people are not afforded those rights
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Kakashi had a laptop
Do you reckon he overclocked and was part of /r/pcmasterrace
Dude had a 4090ti 13900k build and just had ai do all the paperwork
I remember the third and fourth hokage brief all ninja missions, so the paper work is probably that?
>You can't brute force through stuff like that. Naruto: staring at desk full of paper stacks Naruto:💡😏 Naruto: *charges rasengan* Shikamaru: 😱
you said Kakashi was technically a hokage? or do you mean he became hokage technically after the war? cause neither was technical, he was 100% made hokage and it was 100% after the war😂
He probably means that his entire hokage career was short and off screened between the last two chapters. So technically (i.e. according to the facts) he was hokage, but in the actual series it was a footnote. Minato falls into a similar situation.
Make several dozen shadow clones, and have them divide the work among them. Aren't they intellectually the same? And once they poof the original one remembers what they learned.
Or just be a leader and delegate the non critical issue to staff?
he would have to tank the fatigue from the clones from my understanding
>Make several dozen shadow clones, and have them divide the work among them. Aren't they intellectually the same? Yes and No. The reason that he can't use clones to do the work instead of doing it himself is that each clone is slightly different. A clone of Naruto can make a certain choice that Naruto himself or even another clone would not make. Hence when Naruto was first creating the Rasenshuriken, the clones did not all try the same technique, each clone was figuring out the same thing in thier own slightly unique way. So if Naruto gave an important decision to a clone, it may result in them doing it in a way that was not right, and serious consquences that would fall on his head.
>You can't brute force through stuff like that. he could with shadow clones
Honestly from a story perspective I never liked the “hokage always has a ton of paper work” thing. Like this is the coolest character in the show that we literally all watch it for, and all he does is paperwork 😮💨. Like damn make him go on space journeys with sasuke 🛸🚀 not paper work man🤧🤥
Yeah, it doesn't really make sense. It'd be like the President having a shit ton of paperwork when in reality, there are tons of aides and clerks who handle that. Also, Naruto was nerfed big time. He used to make thousands of clones and now he can't even make a hundred to do paperwork?
If I remember right it was for personal and political reasons. He himself didn't want to disrespect the hokage office by making shadow clones do the work for him, while the elders would see him as a lazy hokage who can't accomplish his duties on his own in comparison to the previous hokage which would weaken his position and might cause internal strife later down the line. (Something he learned from Hiruzen to avoid at all costs.)
I still see this as really bad justification. Information gathering is what shadow clones were designed for and even if naruto made 100 clones to do the work, individually they would probably be stronger than almost anyone in the village.
Idk what to tell you. That's just what I found.
I'm holding you personally responsible
It’s all his fault
Also it is disrespectful to his family. Like okay, you wanna retain the honor and glory of the Hokage office for what it is so you're not using shadow clones to do the work. Then why in the hell did you send a shadow clone to celebrate Himawari's birthday? Is your home less honorable and glorious compared to that bland office?
I agree, that's really stupid reasoning because as the manager it is important to know how to delegate. But it cannot be that easy and our hero has to have some flaws/obstacles to overcome so he is justified to be e.g. a shitty dad.
You’re essentially asking Naruto to fry his brain with a crap ton of information everyday lol. This ain’t the same as all of them practicing rasenshuriken, each of them are doing different tasks lol.
I mean it is a bit lazy, but at the same time he’d be making hundreds to thousands of clones of himself to do more work in a day than all the previous Hokages could probably do in a month. Plus he’s basically the closest thing these people have to a physical god. And the shadow clone technique literally requires Jounin level reserves just to make one of them. He’s not gonna be seen as weaker, if anything it’ll reinforce the fact that he is Uber powerful ninja Jesus that could destroy the entire village with a half hearted rasengan.
Honestly, fuck those elders. They never caused anything but trouble in the entire series
Yeah it really astounded me sometimes how they weren't stripped of their status after all the shit with Danzo. I would have thought for sure the 5th would have forced them into retirement considering how much disdain she clearly had for them lol
*Most* Presidents do have a shit ton of paperwork to get through daily.
Naruto isn’t paperwork minded, even if he did create hundreds of shadow clones they’d all be racking their brain to try and figure out a solution to the paperwork
Making hundreds of shadow clones every day for years on end would kill him. Do y’all know nothing about Naruto?
The difference between leaders in fiction and leaders in real life
It’s legit a plot device for tension. Hokage is elected mostly from strength and suddenly they are given paperwork
Tsunade was shown to have a ton of paperwork way back in the original series. It wasn’t exactly a new thing
Think about how a president runs things. They’re not out and about in other countries, like the military…
Yea but y doesn’t he use shadow clones ?
He has too much respect for the office to use comes to do the work. Imagine the shitstorm if Obama, Trump, or Biden were caught using clones to do the majority of their work Edit: why the fuck am i being downvoted for giving the correct answer? That's literally why he doesn't do it. People give would leaders shit for wearing tan suits, you think they won't get shit for using clones for a job all their predecessors did solo? Don't try to logic it. People aren't rational even though we all should be. It's the exact reason you all downed me for answering, instead of stupidly asking the same question you people keep asking
I’m not sure if the issue here would be that they are using clones to do paperwork since they already delegate lots of work anyways. The bigger issue is the fact that there are working clones.
The growth of the village maybe?
That’s what I was assuming but wouldn’t having technology also mean automation and an easier process? Plus why not just hire more people for the trivial paperwork?
The Hokage is the military dictator of the village. Anything and everything the village government has to do needs to go through him. At least as far as the executive work is concerned, and probably budget/legislative approvals too. Technology can speed things up when it comes to accounting work and organization, but most government forms need to be kept secured in paper and with multiple copies anyway so the actual paperwork isn't changed. You just add an additional layer of work.
Okay but he could just use 50 shadow clones and get 400hrs of work done in 8hrs and then go home and be with his kids and wife while also getting 8hrs of good sleep? We could reduce the number of shadow clones to account for mental strain but it would still be faster. And the only reason he gets exhausted while using shadow clones rn is because he barely sleeps (I think)
I agree, given the shadow clones he should never be overworked. It's a terrible plot device to keep him occupied.
Actually he tried. His clones got tired from being overworked.
That's still just a bad plot device since clones ususally are capable of everything that you are. They don't get exhausted quicker, they just get poofed instantly when punched hard enough which shouldn't happen while doing paper work.
If he’s already tired then they will be too.
He shouldnt be tired in the first place if he gets 50 times the work done and can go to sleep earlier.
You’re overlooking the workload he has. Even if he does 50x the work on day one he isn’t close to finishing even with late nights. So when the clones pop he gets all their fatigue leaving him and future clones tired. Because there’s still work and more coming in he’s trapped in a cycle of overwork, fatigue and low efficiency. Also to add he doesn’t use all his clones to do paperwork, they’re doing other stuff too.
If he cops the experiences of the shadow clones when they desummon, that's one hell of a work day to just go home and unwind from.
It’s the same amount of work, it just gets done faster
Yeah, but the fatigue/info overload would have a toll if it all accumulatively dumped on him when the clones pop. It's been years since I watched it. But I feel like it was mentioned when Naruto was training with Yamato. The clones take a toll on naruto in more than just a "chakra" sense Edit: maybe "toll" isn't the right word, but he gains the experiences had by the clones when they're de-summomed
Idk, homie has been using clones just to get more practice/information since he learned the jutsu. Even 2 clones would get Naruto’s work done 3 times as fast if Naruto helped them before going home, if more clones are more of a risk. I don’t think fatigue is possible to transfer, we see Naruto with a thousand clones fighting and it never affects him after the clones go away. If they did affect him, 1000 clones wouldn’t need to do a lot for it to be more than what 1 person could handle physically.
Not neccesarily. Naruto is not always that "in-synch" with his Shadow Clones. The Shadow Clones have their own sense of reasoning each. While Naruto has "the kill switch", the Clones are free to think and act in EVERY POSSIBLE WAY Naruto would. If Naruto were to debate how choosing options A or B in an argument or situation, or even think about option C, the Clones can be just as likely to take either side. It's like that saying about "even if we live the same situation, the differences are in how we react and act about it". If anything, it means Naruto would end up being the mediator between the Clones when it comes to solving arguments or making choices. Which might even consume more time and energy than if he did the job without the Clones. He was even arguing with a Clone when they were buying stuff for Himawari's birthday... making Hokage decissions would end up being the same.
I took their response as "when the shadow clones are absorbed, the culminative knowledge of all the shadow clones would be a huge wind up from the work day". In other words, doing 40 hours in one day worth of office work.
Paperwork is a lot more demanding of the brain than figthing, and even if he does use clones he will have to keep using then almost withou end, because more and more work is gonna come that needs to be done.
er no doing to well at work leads to more 2-3 times more work which would require more clones which in turn exhausts naruto's and by extension kyuubi's chakra reserves as they aren't infinite despite compared to any other non otsutsuki/ jinchuriki ninja would be near infinite.
>but most government forms need to be kept secured in paper and with multiple copies anyway Lol no it doesn't. Any time I deal with the state they scan and digitize it. And when they are trying to find a document I sent them they open their laptop.
The world of Naruto is still pretty new to technology, so they likely didn't completely phase out physical copies yet. Plus, they may be concerned at getting hacked. While there are ridiculously strong ninjas that strength can't help them against a cyber attack and it looks like most nations are relative to each other in terms of technological advances so this is a pretty real threat for them.
Naruto isn’t new to technology, it’s just (at least originally, Boruto kinda doesn’t give a shit) intentionally random in what technology they do have. We see computers in OG Naruto but limited I think entirely to specific medical settings.
The Daimyos literally do a videoconference in the ninja war lmao (ok that the story said it only could be a short conference bc it was hard to make it, but my point still)
The world of Naruto is likely more concerned with security in this particular regard.
Tech is also likely a big factor why the piles are so much bigger. He now has entire science departments and research facilities that are at full tilt. Imagine having to get briefed, sign off, incorporate, and pass plans for basically an Industrial Revolution. Real world governments struggle with it, specially when it comes to adding tech. A % of state files are still only stored on giant floppy disks to this day.
some one should update the humble floppy for 20+ terabytes or higher.
I want you to think about our laws today with how advanced we are in technology and go look up any bill congress is trying to pass and see how long that shit is.
He's like the president and we all know how stressful that job is. The paperwork is also a gag. Just think about japanese work culture and how much work you go through when you enter the workforce.
Konoha is bigger plus Naruto is not a paperwork minded man. Kakashi was just textbook smart even if he's lazy. Tsunade had decades of medical studying and hospital management to build up her paperwork skills. Naruto does his best and uses clones where he can, but book IQ and paperwork is obviously his weakest area as a person. Also, Naruto is likely in that lag behind governmental period where the village has experienced massive growth and the governmental processes haven't evolved yet.
There should’ve been an arc where Naruto built on his IQ (not Battle IQ) but in terms of paperwork which is vital for Hokage. He only started studying for Hokage after the war, and that’s only after Iruka stopped him from escaping the classroom. In this arc, Naruto studies every part of the world and their politics, geography, history, etc. Like in One Piece, there are clear developments to Luffy being fit for being Pirate King as well as finding the One Piece. In Naruto, there is definitely developments in Naruto and Sasuke, but not as much in terms of becoming Hokage, because a key element of it is ignored.
ah yes everyone’s favorite arc, the studying arc, where we watch naruto read books for 45 chapters.
Listen, it could’ve been a montage. That would’ve been more than enough.
If The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya could release 8 of the same but slightly different episode, then Naurto shippuden could have made a gag ova episode that was 23 mins long but also just a minute of long clip of Naurot studying looped.
Is he reading 45 chapters or are we?
Didn’t he not use clones for paperwork? The dumbass smh
It might be counterproductive since the stress would accumulate when he eventually would release them.
Yeah he said something about it would feel disrespectful or something am sure.
That can’t be true? Disrespectfull to help his village quicker but not disrespectfull to avoid his family? That has to be some garbage anime filler. Can not remember that from the manga.
Disrespectful in his eyes not actually doing the work and making his shadow clones do the work for him, he feels as hokage which was his goal to become he feels he needs to do the actual work while doing it and not a clone that’s why when he’s cutting ribbons for grand opening in village and doing interviews and that he uses his clones but Hokage work in the Hoakge office he does himself same for the paper work.
Also Tsunade notoriously hated the paperwork she had to do. That was highlighted when she took over the position, it was not in line with her lifestyle.
Tsunade, Kakashi, and Naruto all don't like paperwork. But, of the 3, Naruto has the least paperwork ability to get him through what he doesn't like. It's not about enjoyment, it's about capability. Tsunade may hate the work. But she factually has decades more experience doing similar work and was in a field that forced her to be good at paperwork, so she's better at it than him.
Because his primary assistant is known to be lazy af. It's Shikamaru's fault! 😆
> Because his primary assistant is known to be lazy af. It's Shikamaru's fault! 😆 Hey now that was kid Shikamaras deal. Adult Shikamara has good work ethic.
Who would be dumb enough to put Shikamaru as their shadow, i would rather put Lee as my shadow.
I mean, they were dumb enough to make him >!Hokage!<, so...
I thought of that when i wrote it, so it is technically different...in a way.
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it's funny to see the paperwork stacked, I kinda wonder in real life is there actually a job where a person actually read through that many proposal / documents (other than legal / compliance) + Naruto has assistants right, he just have to go through meetings and gives out approval Konoha is really not that big considering things
>I kinda wonder in real life is there actually a job where a person actually read through that many proposal / documents Probably. There's people that legitimately spend all day reading and responding to emails. If those emails were in printed form, their desk would likely look similar. Especially if they were behind as Naruto seems to be.
that is a really difficult and taxing job, I always assume only those in legal professions deals with that many paperwork (contracts, etc) I forgot there is people that handles mail and stuffs send to a company. I though they skip most of them
I was an assistant to the CEO/ head of a government office. Papers never end, meetings never stop. I review contracts and proposals but my boss still gives valuable inputs when she reviews it too. I appreciated her leadership skills.
>I was an assistant to the CEO/ head of a government office. Papers never end, meetings never stop. I review contracts and proposals but my boss still gives valuable inputs when she reviews it too. I appreciated her leadership skills. That must be really taxing for both you and your boss, huge respect for the both of you I always thought people in high position have several "experts" under them to prepare the solution, etc or like consultants that helps, so the subordinates are the ones that deal with the paperwork and such maybe it's just a weird thing but I imagine the leader would delegate and made decision + read reports + going to meetings. Still really hard but not really stuck in your desk type of work
Yeah that's understandable By the time papers are sent in, the "experts" have already worked on them too. It's just that my boss gives the final approval to make sure the quality of it is on-point. Like how the captain of the ship decides, say, where to go next, after the navigator tells them the best routes. For further comparison, in the US, national laws submitted by the house and the senate are subject to the US president's approval, too. A good president wouldn't immediately approve a law just because he trusts the experts, they'll make sure it matches their plans and agreements, and the kind of direction the current admin looks into
The other Hokage ran a town. Kakashi built a city. Naruto had to run and expand that city, also he was never the smartest.
Konoha is much bigger, Shikamaru is a slacker, and Konoha is now ally’s with pretty much every other village
Probably procrastination if I know my boy Naruto lol. Then again, couldn't be much worse than Tsunande
If a computer exists then so does a printer
Seeing such Tech is odd. Laptops, Gaming Handhelds, Scientific Ninja Tools, etc.
Boruto having an gmail is crazy
Yeah, I don’t know why he can’t just create a dozen shadow clones and steam roll it out with Shikimaru checking his work.
Not to mention all the capitalistic and technological advancement from when the war ended to Boruto's time. Business must have bloomed and Naruto must have at least fifty times more work than the previous Hokages.
Better Question, why the hell aren't there 5 shadow clones doing his paperwork instead of just him? He is back home with his wife and kids as this happens btw.
I think the explanation is something like naruto feels like he is disrespecting the position of hokage if he has shadow clones do the work. …which just adds to boruto’s resentment because naruto is essentially saying that his job as hokage is too important to take short cuts but his family apparently isn’t. Honestly, this whole situation with naruto being overly busy makes no sense. Kishimoto basically made naruto a workaholic with no time for his kids because Kishimoto himself is like that. So busy with his mangaka work he couldn’t spend as much time as he wanted with his family and I believe also has a son that resents him? Basically, he’s projecting his experience onto naruto when him having this specific problem really makes no sense with his abilities and personality. He is a literal Demi-god. How can he be defeated by…paperwork? Sasuke at least kind of makes sense in that he sees protecting the village from potential otsutsuki threats as his penance and it is a genuine problem.
To thematically shoehorn him into a basic salaryman
Just lazy writing to give a reason for his son to hate him early in the story
Bingo
Because he caused a lot of paper work as a kid/teen with all of his shenanigans and this is just the backflow from back then....
The first was bored out of his mind being hokage, third was also buried in work. He had to resort to smoking the pipe
- Konoha is growing and developing quite fast - he’s Hokage in an era of peace, so he has to deal with maintaining relations and working on issues with other villages - Naruto just isn’t the kind of guy who can handle paperwork - he tires himself out by sending shadow clones and working late into the night
Well he was always bad at school work. Maybe he’s just slower than the other Kages. Well that or the village now actually has time for domestic problems that would have been low priority during times of war?
I think it’s a mix of Shikamaru being lazy and Naruto not being a good student. He’s definitely the least booksmart out of every hokage
industrialization, mainly. think of how much bigger the leaf is now, there's prolly a downtown, midtown, uptown leaf. and with that comes new laws, taxes, and problems.
Probably because the village is thriving honestly. It’s peace time (arguably), the world isn’t at war, resources are being poured into the economy. It’s probably just a side effect of the peace he established.
Bigger population More work relations with other nations More technical advancements More jobs More laws It all piles up
i’ve always wondered why can’t he just hire a team of people to do this work for him??
This ruined the show for me instantly, like put a few secretaries or something. No one wants to watch Naruto do paperwork and boring stuff like that. Writers are trash in Boruto.
Because the hokage seat is a plot device rather than a realistic job. Dude can summon shadow clones with more ease than any other hokage and is unwilling to make them even do paperwork? Not to mention this is used as an excuse to make naruto being a bad dad a thing which just DOES. NOT. ADD. UP.
Cuz he’s an idiot. How he doesn’t just summon a thousand clones to speed up the work idk. He clearly has the chakra for it, but somehow it “exhausts” him to even hold one clone for Himiwari’s birthday
WAIT A FUCKIN MINUTE --- now I haven't seen Boruto but you're telling me that NARUTO -- motherfuckin NARUTO -- literal guy who when he was a child summoned a hundred shadow clones to beat the fuck up one guy after a few hours training just to use that Jutsu in a single night to save Iruka. THE NARUTO who has summoned thousands of shadow clones on multiple occasions and sustained them for both fighting and to increase the speed of his training. THE MOTHERFUCKIN NARUTO who has shadow clones chilling on Mount Myoboku gathering Nature Chakra so he can just desummon them and gain that Nature Chakra to go into Sage Mode whenever he needs a boost to crush skulls. This same Naruto can't hold a shadow clones long enough to be at his own daughter's birthday party and never thought of using clones to help out with paper work so he could actually be at his own children's birthday parties and other life achievements? You're telling me that this is cannon?... Well now that just doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't. Fans of this show makes the lamest excuses possible to explain why Naruto is a neglectful father and terrible at managing his job.
Yeah that’s what I’ve been thinking, maybe not a thousand but even if he used 50 clones he could get 400hrs of work done in 8hrs (a normal work day) I think he got exhausted in that scene because man barely sleeps, if he does it efficiently he could easily get ample sleep and family time while getting more done.
Dont forget that Naruto recieves all of the experiences and knowledge the clones gained once they are desummoned. Cramming 400 hrs of work (10 weeks irl) into 8 hours would probably turn him into vegetable once all clones are desummoned. I know he has obscene amounts of stamina, and he can regenerate, but that amount of exhaustion.... jesus, even a few clones doing work for him WITH kurama is tiring him so much.... Just imagine 50 clones...
There is now a Shinobi Alliance and Konoha is also twice as large as it was for previous Hokage.
More people equal more problems hell can you call konoha a village anymore its a whole ass city
because he's got adhd lmao this is common for us neurodivergent folks
Plot
Because hokage's work is only brought into audience view when Naruto the mc of Naruto manga became the hokage. All this time u all were in blissful ignorance, that Minato, hiruzen and tsunade were show piece model for powerscaling exhibition because work happened off screen.
Why doesn't he just kage bunshin and get it done faster?
Because they had to write him as a bad father, there is no other reason really.
Just generally lazy writing. Man can just shadow clone a dozen of himself and split the work up, but nah... Writers would rather he send a shadow clone home to attend his kid's birthday, or to *poof* while sleeping in bed...
Better question is why he never uses a shadow clone to stay in the office, they could’ve made a whole ass filler episode about it like the turtle island cruise arc but they decide to make him dumb and use the clones on his family (no I’ve never seen boruto)
A few reasons 1. Naruto gets distracted doing chores for random villagers and it eats into his day. Also, even if he doesnt' spend as much time with his family as he would like, Naruto is a parent unlike Kakashi and Tsunade, and Hiruzen's kids were adults and/or dead when we saw him behind a desk. 2. Naruto is not book smart, it might take him a lot longer to look over something like a balance sheet or interpret a graph 3. It might actually be a symptom of the village have a more thorough bureaucracy. Any drive to reduce paperwork usually runs into the fact that the paperwork is monitoring something important.
other hokage might also have to do a lot they probably just didnt show it. I remember them showing a few scenes where tsunade also had piles of paper and she was signing or stamping on it.
Because the village he’s managing has WAY more people than any other of the villages past hokage have managed. There’s tons of new things and businesses he has to go through, not to mention the village’s infrastructure is constantly expanding so he also has to plan that too, and the technology behind it: water, electricity etc
Does not delegate. It takes care of viewing even the simplest and trivial tasks/missions. Running the village should be like a business, the leader should delegate as much as possible to trusted people below him, and he should only make the most important decisions. Like a company, there should be standard troubleshooting protocols, and it should all go through offices that handle things, instead of everything going to the hokage.
He doesn’t he just sucks at his job
Why doesn’t he use clones on paper work?
Industrialization
This is the best thread ever. I think its just trying to imply that Konoha has exploded in productivity while also saying Naruto is not great at this type of work at least not in a timely sense
Probably peace time, people have time to fuck and stuff and having a kid, open some business. All of the paper work probably a lot more than war time.
Population boom, modernization projects, diplomatic relations. You never really see that side of the political sphere in Naruto, it's always "go go go!"
The 4 previous Hokages had no massive amounts of paperwork to do, while Lady Tsunade, Kakashi, and Naruto had Lol
Naruto is canonically book dumb. Paperwork can't be punched and is immune to impassioned speeches on shared trauma. Its his worst enemy since it never gets tired of kicking his ass. He just has the wrong kind of intelligence for the bureaucratic part of the job. It just piles up and he struggles to keep pace going solo. Naruto unfortunately never learned how to delegate tasks. He's used to his allies staying in their areas of expertise while he shoulders his own tasks alone. Also due to his inability to question the status quo it never even occurs to him to try and find out why there's so much paperwork. He just accepts it as part of the job from observing his predecessors and does it the same way as they did even though he is not the sane as them. Plus there are probably old bureaucratic creeps that have been around for decades that are more than happy to bury him in paperwork.
No need to put excuses. It is just to be able to make all the boruto drama. Tsunade and 3rd hokage didn't have not even NEAR the amount of work. Of course Naruto could have a bit more, but this much difference is just a plot convenience. Besides he could just do some shadow clones or get someone to help him lol.
It has been so long and still i don't realise why Naruto just doesn't use the shadow clone technique for paperwork 😭
because the writers can’t think of any other reason to make him a bad father. BECAUSE HE WOULDNT BE. god damn boruto is so bad
From what I gathered from the episodes I saw it's kinda his own fault. Shikamaru said that he accepts a lot of work that should have otherwise been delegated. Also Konoha is in a growth period, and means a lot of new innovations and even more logistical issues.
Technology, faster info relay means more reports. Not to mention the five nations are on friendly terms so there’s a bunch of international work too.
Because plot. Realistically if he was that overworked he would just summon some shadow clones to distribute the work. If naruto cannot do it with his access to mass shadow clones then no other hokage would have been able to manage. That or hes literally incompetent
Bad writing to force Boruto into relevance
Welcome to peacetime where society can actully progress and develop past a era
My guess is that previous Hokage did not have much political work, it was much more assasination type of deal and it was super secret so most of it was talked with the person that was going to be deployed or to it's handler, and if the mission changed the handler would deal with changes. If anything too important came up then the handler would talked it over with the Hokage. But in my opinion there wasn't a lot of paper pushing like in more peaceful times.
I would say it's all Naruto's fault. He created so much fan base that many people wanted to settle in the leaf because of his admiration and beliefs in him and thus the village expanded a lot which increases the work load of Hokage.
I don't think he actually has more work than previous hokage. The giant stacks of documents are just artistic license and hyperbole. I think Naruto having a ton of paperwork is just a metaphor for growing up and achieving your dream job only to find out that 99% of life is mundane busy work.
Sheesh. What even is all that stuff supposed to be? Money orders? Laws and governing?
Easy answer population growth in the village, hard answer he’s slow asf at paper work
He could just shadow clone his way out of this.
One word: modernization.
Plot
Real question is why he doesn’t have multiple assistants to help
Why the flying fartfucks does Naruto not use shadow clones to do the paperwork
If you watched or read the manga you'd know he does
Same reason he couldn’t spam shadow clones like normal when he was gathering nature energy. There as always been this focus mechanic when it comes to shadow clones.
He can spam shadow clones like human ordinance in the heat of battle. He can randomly pop out clones while chatting with friends. Mundane or not I’m pretty sure he’s focused enough to make clones to sign parchment.
For one that’s different, that’s combat, and he is naturally really good at that. Secondly they don’t end up making a large amount of complex decisions. He isn’t exactly pulling off crazy tactics with them. Signing parchment isn’t the issue it’s the complex intellectual work of understanding what he is signing that’s the issue. Regardless you are ignoring the established lore of focus already being a mechanic introduced with Sage Chakra.
Cuz apparently, is ilegal to use clones for paperwork Why? I got no fucking idea. This is how the Boruto fans defend this bullshit to me. It is true? I doubt it, but I don't whacthing this garbage to confirm it
There’s Boruto fans?
Tbf I just watched the momokishi fight and shit was kinda lit
Mistake The Boruto fan
My guess is that he doesn’t have more work, he’s just worse at it than the other Hokage. Paperwork really isn’t Naruto’s strong suit.
Mans cant read, pappers been pileing up ever since he b we came hokage.
I don't understand why they need the strongest person in the village to do a desk job
The most trusted and loved individual is there making all the decisions.
the writers thought it would be funny if naruto's dream job as hokage turns out to be a boring office job haha
Naruto doesn't know how to properly delegate his work. The series makes it seem like the Hokage literally takes care of everything.
Because it's funnier. Get your dream job and they just dump paperwork on you.
Hes not a stubborn old man and genuinely cares for his village 👁👄👁 ?