Asuma was the son of the Third and a member of the 12 guardian ninja, so how come he was never a candidate for Hokage?

Asuma was the son of the Third and a member of the 12 guardian ninja, so how come he was never a candidate for Hokage?

because he was weak as heck compared to his dad and the other big hitters.

Probably didn't want to be a desk jockey.

too busy 420ing

He declined.

He had a 35 million dollar bounty on him and was a personal guard of the Daimyo. He might not have had magical hax, but he was definitely regarded as one of the stronger characters.

There were better candidates in the village.

Probably because he was dead

Wasn't he offered it and he declined?

Did he decline? I honestly don't remember him even being offered the position.

He declined and also once he had fled the village because of some discussion or whatever.

He knew the job sucked dick and would cut into his very busy schedule of boning Kurenai.

For being related to one of the major figures in the world, he sure was weak in the end. Had like no hax or broken unique powers.

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Compared to Tsunade, J-man, Danzo, Guy, Kakashi and even pre sage Naruto at that time He was weak as fuck.

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Knowing the character, I'm guessing he didn't want the position.

He was the Boruto of his generation

That actually makes a lot of sense.

Because of that ugly facial hair

>the CHAD beard
>the virgin mask

While there was heavy nepotism, Hokage are elected, not inherited.

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Chakra knives + exploding ash techs is cool but it's just not enough to put him on par with somebody like Kakashi.

Weakling.

He wasn't weak, he just got a terrible match-up. Remember he decapitated Hidan, which would have defeated him even with his immortality.

He only lost because Kakuzu could use his bullshit strings to sew Hidan's head back on.

But Hidan wasn't immortal.

For all practical purposes yes he was

because he dead, and frankly there were way stronger people around his age anyway

>being killed by Hidan

KEK, definitely not Kage material. At least Tsunade would have handled the empaling any time

>For all practical purposes yes he was

No, he was invulnerable (and barely that). Immortality doesn't mean you can't be killed.

Well, ok, splitting hairs a little but you're right.

He's a jobber and nobody cares.

Konohamaru will never be Hokage either because the manga is completely wrapping him in death flags.

In a wild way he was like Boruto, the son of the hokage. Probably he liked do things in his way, not to do things the hokage's son be.
Naruto is an excpetion.

Because a Hokage who smokes sets a bad example.

Cause Jiraiya and Tsunade where first picks, and when the second time came around he was dead.

Tsunade would have been an even worse matchup.

He just wasn't strong enough. Don't know where you guys got the idea that he declined the offer to become one from, he never got it as far as I can remember.

The position isn't inherited, despite Tobrama's best efforts to make it so

The 3rd smoked a pipe

Better question is why didn't Shikamaru's dad or Shikamaru become Hokage?

They're smart and good ninja but not strong enough to defend the village properly. Way better as advisers.

You don't smoke a pipe, you pipe a pipe.

Because he was weak as fuck.
Guy took down Kisame without breaking a sweat.
Kakashi had no problem with Hidan's schyte
This retard lost to fucking Hidan and had help as well and relied on Shikamaru to figure out the curse which was an entry level, extremely easy to read technique.

Are you retarded ? By the time Hidan figures out that he has to cut his own head off in order to kill Tsunade she could just punch him once inside the circle and break most of his bones then regen her own.
And this is considering he got to that point without having his body mangled.

Yeah Hidan would have no chance against Tsunade. One hit and he's done, and she's spent her entire career focusing on the doctrine of "never get hit by an attack no matter what"

He even admitted his attacks are the slowest in Akatsuki. Wouldn't even scrape her.

She would also summon the big snail (forgot it's fucking name) even if he gets her and goes in the circle, which I doubt, while she's regenerating he has to deal with the snail.
A normal shinobi would just kill it with some massive attack, Hidan can't do shit about summons.

Maybe he doesn't like the Hokage job because of his father just like bort. This pages kinda implies it.

He only cared about boning Kurenai

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the bigger question is:
who the fuck is his brother? who is konohamaru father?

pipe down

You know this is actually a good question, i didn't expect this on Sup Forums

>Guy took down Kisame without breaking a sweat.

No he didn't. What Guy did to kill Kisame caused so much pain that afterward just lightly touching him was agonizing.

>Kakashi had no problem with Hidan's schyte
Because he went in knowing what Hidan could do. Asuma didn't.

>Piped a pipe and spied on girls in hotsprings with JMan

>the bigger question is:
>who the fuck is his brother? who is konohamaru father?


Not to be that kind of fuckhead, but we don't exactly know if Asuma had a brother. It's actually pretty 50/50 at this point since it's not exactly been stated which of Konohamaru's parents is Hiruzen's other kid.