and i'm also going to say something perhaps controversial so it's a good thing i expect no one to look

but someone posted a "who is the best dad in anime" graphic and i would just like to say, for the record

that Minato Namizake, The Fourth Hokage, can get fucked

kushina: "hey you don't have to also seal yourself away, you should raise our son"
minato: "nah nah nah, it'll be way better for him to have the opportunity to talk to you once for five minutes, maybe, when he's a grown teenager and only if he can both live long enough and also master communication with the nine tailed fox - "

minato: " - which he will fully have no help in doing and, frankly, will be next to impossible, especially as he is scorned and hated by everyone around him, and also almost anyone who'd know anything useful to teach him will be dead or awol"

minato: "that sounds way better than having a living parent to take care of him at all, right? being a war orphan is so much better"

also filed under reason #376 that masashi kishimoto is a bad writer and i hope he has a permanent hangnail

also am i aware of the deep and powerful hypocrisy that is me ranting about Naruto's Deadbeat Dad while playing the kind of deadbeat fathers, toji fushiguro? yes

but at least literally no one has ever pretended that toji did a good thing

anyway the real best anime father is isshin, the mournful wife guy who got over it to raise three kids and be a supportive and loving presence in their lives

get fucked yellow flash i hope getting your soul eaten sucked