“To be Hokage is your dream Naruto, isn't it? One more time, just one more time, for the last time, I want those words to be true.”
Tsunade Quotes
2 quotes from Naruto, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
Two people told her they would become Hokage and both died young. Her phobia of blood is written as a medical fact rather than a flaw, which is why recovering from it costs her something.
“Do you see him, Nawaki, Dan? Be at peace, my beloveds. Your dream is still alive.”
Addressed to a dead brother and a dead lover, in a series that usually leaves grief to the flashbacks. What makes it land is that Tsunade's phobia of blood is presented as a medical fact rather than a character flaw, so recovering enough to fight is not a decision but a symptom clearing, and the two names are the reason. Her arc costs her exactly as much as it gives back.
Read Tsunade's story from the start
Every line above is a fragment. The manga is where the fragments come from, and the print edition is the one this site checks its quotes against.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page are affiliate links, which cost you nothing extra. They never influence what appears on this site or what the commentary says about it.
Two people told this woman they would become Hokage and both died young, which is why she spent the intervening years drunk, in debt and out of the village. The repetition in the sentence is the whole character: she is not encouraging a boy, she is asking a third person to survive the same promise, and she says one more time three ways because she does not expect it to work.