Naruto Technology

[sevyfez]

I read the naruto manga had watched the episodes and I began to wonder how advance is their technology I mean they apperantly have electricity and big video screens ( the screen is can be found during the test when they are fighting one on one). There is also the part when Gaara is fighting the people from the rain and the man throws the parasol in the air and states that the needles can focus in on a target like a heat sinking missile! I mean come on a heat sinking missile, now I am an avid fan of naruto so I am not trying to diss on the series I was just wondering thats all. Please leave your thoughts.

[kAi]

Well, I wouldn't call those needles heat seeking missiles but just a jutsu, so that's easily explained.

You do see a TV in Sasuke's room. (I think it was a TV)
They have an electric motor on the boat they use to get to the mist.

They can be up with our technology in some cases, and then not.

[sevyfez]

Oh well in the manga it said heat sinking missiles ( These are previously owned manga that I bought from Barnes and Noble before I knew that they were online) and I do remember seeing th t.v. in sasuke's room also. Also when they are chasing down the cat before they escort the bridge builder they use headsets to communicate and its obvious that they have electricty due to the wires around Konoha. If they do have all this technology how come they dont have guns?

[darkmetal505]

Originally posted by: sevyfez
Oh well in the manga it said heat sinking missiles ( These are previously owned manga that I bought from Barnes and Noble before I knew that they were online) and I do remember seeing th t.v. in sasuke's room also. Also when they are chasing down the cat before they escort the bridge builder they use headsets to communicate and its obvious that they have electricty due to the wires around Konoha. If they do have all this technology how come they dont have guns?

how come we have so much technology and we dont have space travel? They just developed it another way. They use jutsu as guns, the ninja's are the military of the city. If they had guns, what would be the use of being a ninja?

[sevyfez]

Hmmm good point!

[mage]

Originally posted by: sevyfez
I read the naruto manga had watched the episodes and I began to wonder how advance is their technology I mean they apperantly have electricity and big video screens ( the screen is can be found during the test when they are fighting one on one). There is also the part when Gaara is fighting the people from the rain and the man throws the parasol in the air and states that the needles can focus in on a target like a heat sinking missile! I mean come on a heat sinking missile, now I am an avid fan of naruto so I am not trying to diss on the series I was just wondering thats all. Please leave your thoughts.

yes, exactly. he said they focus on a target LIKE a heat seeking missile. following that, it was explained that he controls them with his chakra.

also, kishimoto has said before that naruto is a pretty modern world, just without modern weapons.

Originally posted by: darkmetal505
how come we have so much technology and we dont have space travel?

we have space travel.

[The Heretic Azazel]

How would he know what a heat seeking missile was if it didn't exist?

[heero]

Originally posted by: The Heretic Azazel
How would he know what a heat seeking missile was if it didn't exist?

thank you for saying the most obvious thing that no one seem to notice

no it wasnt a sarcasm

Edit: just because you know how to make a TV doesn't mean you know how to make a gun.

[sevyfez]

Yes that is true in some sense but dont forget the ninja from rain said like a heat sinking missile, now I donk know how you are able to make a heatsinking missile without first making guns! Sense the ninja from the rain did say that it is obvious that missiles do exist because you cant say like "like a heat sinking missile" without there actually having a heatsinking missile or even the thought of one.

[The Heretic Azazel]

SEEKING, IT SEEKS, THE MISSILE SEEKS HEAT.

[6Zabuza9]

they have movies too

[masamuneehs]

Technological skills (as of yet) are not very important in Naruto.

cant you all just accept that it really doesn't matter what the hell kind of technology they have? cuz it really has NO impact on the story at all.

[Assassin]

^ what he said.

They have tv's and head sets and all sorts of technology, but as someone stated above, having ak-47's would sorta defeat the point of being a ninja.

And for those of you how just can't accept the fact that it doesn't really matter......Its entirely possible that the rest of the world has guns and such (though probably not to the extent of giant missles and nukes and stuff) but in the ninja villages such weapons are not required as the kunai's, shurikens and senbon are more effective. Thats why they only have techonology thats useful to them like tv's and headsets......stuff like guns and gernades are useless against ninjas since theu can create clones, or control you with thier shadow.

[anphorus]

Well a missile is just a projectile that is used as a weapon. Technically an arrow counts as a missile, so Ballistic heat seeking missiles may not exist, he could've just been describing a type of jutsu.

In practially every anime technology is weird, like having fully functioning robotic arms, yet all other technology being 1910 era, for example. I think it might be because japan was pretty low tech compared to the rest of the world at one point before the west introduced new technology, which all came along at once. Or it could not, I'm no history buff. Just my 2 cp

[The Heretic Azazel]

An arrow doesn't count as a missile, come on people!

[anphorus]

Originally posted by: The Heretic Azazel
An arrow doesn't count as a missile, come on people!

From Dictionary.com

mis·sile
n.
1. An object or weapon that is fired, thrown, dropped, or otherwise projected at a target; a projectile.
2. A guided missile.
3. A ballistic missile.

ar·row
n.
1. A missile having a straight thin shaft with a pointed head at one end and often flight-stabilizing vanes at the other, meant to be shot from a bow.
2. Something, such as a directional symbol, that is similar to an arrow in form or function.
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Anyways, AssertnFailure is right, we need someone who speaks japanese to skim through the manga or something.

[Assertn]

I'm waiting for someone to prove that kishimoto actually intended on the rain nins to say "like a heat seeking missile"

THIS IS CRUCIAL.

[sevyfez]

Well the fact that they do know what missiles are, it would only be logic to use them sense they are far more advance than any justsu I have seen. Also saying that weapons like missiles are usless and that swords and shurikens are far more effictive is ridiculous! Eventually they will run out of chakra and you can only make so many clones! Also what the hell is a shuriken gonna do to a missile! Missiles blow up things from far distances!

[Assassin]

Originally posted by: sevyfez
Well the fact that they do know what missiles are, it would only be logic to use them sense they are far more advance than any justsu I have seen. Also saying that weapons like missiles are usless and that swords and shurikens are far more effictive is ridiculous! Eventually they will run out of chakra and you can only make so many clones! Also what the hell is a shuriken gonna do to a missile! Missiles blow up things from far distances!

ok...

1. combining physical and spiritual energy to make fire come out of ur mouth, or a clone made out of water that is self-aware would be a tad bit more complicated then making a relatively simple missle.

2. eventually u run out of bullets, and u can only have so many guns. except that chakra can be regained, bullets cant. and what i meant by melee weapons being better then guns was that, with thier speed, they could cut off ur arm before u pressed the trigger.

3. missles dont blow stuff up from a distance. they have to actually collide with thier target (not counting missles that can be detonated remotely...thats a different story). also, a shuriken doesnt need to do anyhting against a missle. You can just do a high lvl fire jutsu, and the heat seeking missle will target the jutsu user instead. after that its just a matter of runnign away from teh city or whatever. As for non-heat seekign missles, a giant water cannon can easily take care of that.

[sevyfez]

Arrows are atually considred a missile type not excatly like a missile.