Talk:Manato/@comment-38861977-20190404163545/@comment-37649486-20200505030218

I don't know where this Manato being a seriel killer nonsense came from, but I don't think he died on purpose. Manato, more than anything else, was a plot device in human form. He was supposed to be this perfect mentor-like figure, which the team depended on, and to die tragically, to showcase the reality of death for the central characters. He's like Anko from Naruto. Does she have characterization, yes. She had just enough backstory with orochimaru (specifically a matching curse mark) to say with certainty what was about to go down with Sasuke. And then she goes to a tower which phases into the events with Gaara's introduction. The next time she makes a notable apperance it's to hunt down Kabuto, where he uses her seal to revive orochimaru. Then she gets forgotten about. Manato was little more than a dramatic build up.