if the only way you know how to add tension to a fight is by using the circumstances to build a character's relevance DURING the fight, your writing is trash and you're a hack...But that leads to another complaint cats be having in shows about “Bu Bu Bu Bu Bu why should we care about so and so dying or getting hurt”
All that’s done to give the so called “weight” that so many demand.
I ain’t think I gave a fukk about Guy Sensei till I saw his past and it’s a reason why no one cares about Tin Tin
Martha
its always bad in shonen, but naruto takes the cake with how they like to insert shyt constantly to either ambush the audience or validate whatever fukkery is coming through the pipeline
every once in a while? sure. it happens. and it happens in a lot of shows. but the problem with naruto's take on it is that it almost never adds anything that couldn't have been introduced before. its convoluted for no fukking reason and then shyt they add even contradicts previous information provided to the audience