if I had a penny for every time a male character's love interest in a kishimoto work was compared to his mother, I'd have 3 pennies, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice
I find it hilarious how the previous generation in konoha is mostly unmarried and without kids, with the exception of asuma and kurenai (and at least they got married in their 30s) while naruto’s generation were all married and pregnant by 19