Konohamaru Quotes

1 quote from Naruto, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.

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“No one ever sees me for who I am... Just who I'm related to. And I hate it!”

Konohamaru, Naruto Source / locator: Manga, chapter 2, p. 70 (Viz); two consecutive balloons; the preceding balloon, "It's always just 'Honored Grandson.'", and the following one, "But it'll be different when I become Lord Hokage, and that's gonna be real soon!!", are omitted Viz · Publisher source

Ebisu supplied both labels on a single page, five folios before this complaint. He looked at Naruto and called him the village disgrace, the human form of the demon fox, then ordered him to unhand the boy who happens to be the grandson of the Third Hokage. Two children, two categories, and the chapter needs that page for the complaint to be anything other than a rich kid whining. It also needs the punch. On folio 66 Naruto hits the grandson on the head for daring him to, the one person in town not too afraid of the title to do it, and the boy follows him out of the building. He says he wants the Ninja Centerfold; the page before shows what else he got. The chapter's last spoken word is the name. Naruto, freshly fired as his teacher and hired as his rival, turns and says Konohamaru, and the caption takes over. By the boy's own account, nobody in the village ever had.

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