The Cold War allegory and Communism symbolism in Naruto
The Naruto series is my favorite anime/manga series of all time. There is a lot of symbolism, allegories, and life lessons present here. Let's talk about my favorite allegory in Naruto Shippuden. This allegory is present during the Pain arc, when Pain and Konan attack and destroy the hidden leaf village. But to understand the allegory you must first understand what happened in the series. So the leader of the organization the Akatsuki, Pain has a goal to gather all of the tailed beasts in order to create weapons. Pain had a very traumatic past, his home country was ravaged by war, his parents died in front of him. He also had to kill his best friend to save Konan. Pains real name is Nagato and he was very idealist, he wanted to create world peace but after he lost everything he became a realist. He was going to achieve world peace through pain, he was going to make everybody experience the same pain so that they can understand and sympathize with each other. The way he was goin...