Ooh! Many interesting points, particularly about the technology levels and related food production issues.
I have an attitude toward canon that says all character and jutsu information must be respected, but timelines and certain equipment and numerical issues can be disregarded because frankly? They make no sense. Therefore, my private estimate of Konoha's population is a fair bit lower than yours, regardless of Kishimoto's illustrations, and I also tend to assume Konoha is in a bit of a valley, where the Hokage monument and related cliff structure is a sort of upthrust geological anomaly.
(This is probably easier for me since my imagination is primarily non-visual, so I find it easy to ignore pictorial evidence that opposes my private assumptions.)
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Date: 2005-08-05 08:02 pm (UTC)I have an attitude toward canon that says all character and jutsu information must be respected, but timelines and certain equipment and numerical issues can be disregarded because frankly? They make no sense. Therefore, my private estimate of Konoha's population is a fair bit lower than yours, regardless of Kishimoto's illustrations, and I also tend to assume Konoha is in a bit of a valley, where the Hokage monument and related cliff structure is a sort of upthrust geological anomaly.
(This is probably easier for me since my imagination is primarily non-visual, so I find it easy to ignore pictorial evidence that opposes my private assumptions.)