Masashi Kishimoto might have momentarily lost control over Naruto’s steering wheel with the reincarnation twist, and it should be all the warning Eiichiro Oda needs to prevent One Piece from going down the same path.

While the ‘Chosen One’ narrative is pretty popular in Shonen manga and anime, it doesn’t make the trope likable. After all, it boils down the actions of the ‘chosen one’ to simple fate, as if they never had any control over what was meant to happen anyways.

Masashi Kishimoto’s Reincarnation Twist in Naruto Hagoromo Otsutsuki with Asura and Indra in Naruto Shippuden | Credits: Studio Pierrot

By the end of Naruto, readers find out that Naruto and Sasuke are actually reincarnations of Asura and Indra, the two sons of the Sage of Six Paths. It is revealed through flashbacks that the Sage of Six Paths is actually Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the son of Kaguya.