I hope this Hiruzen is 100% of the original, with the exception of the skills. In fact Hiruzen is so incompetent, Danzo so crazy and Itachi so blind that if it weren't for the script Konoha would have been eliminated with absolute certainty after the massacre of the Uchiha clan. The argument is very simple and logical: remember the succession of public displays of weakness and massive losses after Sakumo's suicide, the third war, the Hyuuga incident, and the massacre caused by the Kyuubi with the death of Minato and Kushina, now add the Uchiha massacre and Konoha is so weak that Iwa or Kumo can destroy it. And then comes the second point, most of these losses were caused without any of the other major nations losing anything or losing something insignificant (Hyuuga case). Because of minor things nations invade others in the real world, Kishimoto created a volcano in the script in favor of Konoha and even put some logic into this collective attitude so bizarre that the story involving the Uchiha.
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