I mean, presumably once B-ko and A-ko are evenly matched, A-ko practicing isn't going to make her magically better than B-ko anyway. She'd still need just as much practice to learn everything B-ko knows that comes only from practice, which B-ko is ahead of her on, AND she'd have to try and do it with 5 times as many techniques
as was suggested earlier, her parents are basically superman and wonder woman. she is constantly under intense pressure to not only live up to them but surpass them, as is the way of ninjas. and she was managing it! she was doing super well and was effortlessly the best at everything!
and then suddenly she can't beat a loser and now she's under constant scrutiny and people are suspecting maybe she's faking it, maybe she's a cheater, maybe she's not really as good as she says.
but there should also absolutely be really powerful huge giant ones, like the tailed beasts? but the better your magic kung-fu the more people-y you are
To the point the the emperor cast a spell that turned everyone within like a hundred miles of the capital into cursed undead spirits who now guard the ruins of the necropolis
Who have to defend themselves against the cursed land with anime fightmen but also seek to find the incredible magic relics left behind from the golden age
I think in the canon I pulled all this shit from it was specifically cursed in that if you used it you were plagued by jealous delusions and started to turn against everyone around you so like
ten thousand layers of superiority-then-inferiority complex, constant pressure from all sides, impostor syndrome out the ass, crushing expectations, etc
sorry i'm showing my age and actually picturing A-ko and B-ko from Project A-ko in these roleswhen do a-ko and b-ko kissas was suggested earlier, her parents are basically superman and wonder woman. she is constantly under intense pressure to not only live up to them but surpass them, as is the way of ninjas. and she was managing it! she was doing super well and was effortlessly the best at everything!and then suddenly she can't beat a loser and now she's under constant scrutiny and people are suspecting maybe she's faking it, maybe she's a cheater, maybe she's not really as good as she says.SasukeRock Lee