To this day, after more than 30 years of development, Konohagakure Ninja Academy has grown from a mere 36 graduates in its early days to about 200 graduates annually from the central campus alone.
If you count the other four branch campuses, the number of future graduates each year will reach 1000.
At the Ninja Academy, each grade has ten classes, each class with about 20 students, a total of 200 students per grade, and six grades make up 1200 students.
While the other four branch campuses adopt a larger class size and a more civilian approach, each grade only has five classes, each with 60 students, and each grade has 300 students.
However, because a group will be eliminated, and some exceptionally talented students will also be promoted to the central campus, so the final number of graduates from each campus each year will be about 200.
Therefore, ideally, the five campuses of Konohagakure Ninja Academy combined can produce 1000 graduates annually.
Considering that the current total number of active ninjas in Konohagakure is only around 10,000, a tenth of that number seems a bit exaggerated.
But it must be taken into account that Konohagakure is currently in the recovery phase after the Second Shinobi World War, and the various campuses of the Ninja Academy, especially the four branch campuses, have all been expanded to some extent in order to quickly restore strength.
Secondly, with the outbreak of the two Shinobi World Wars, in the face of brutal casualties, all the major ninja villages are doing their best to expand the number of ninjas in order to gain an advantage in the possible next Shinobi World War.
1000 people a year, after ten years will only increase the number of ninjas by 10,000, this number is still reasonable.
Some even more radical elements in the village even think that's not enough and want to continue expanding.
In addition, while the future development of this world is unclear, during the Fourth Great Ninja War in the original work, the Allied Shinobi Forces were able to directly field an army of 100,000 Chunin.
It can be seen that if the future development of both is similar, the number of Genin graduating from Konohagakure each year will continue to increase.
Currently, in Tsunade's class, the number of admissions to the Ninja Academy is about 200, divided into 10 classes, each with about 20 students.
The reason why it is about is because sometimes there will be insufficient number of people who pass the exam, and sometimes there will be more people.
The class Tsunade is currently in is one of the cases where the number of students is less than 20.
Perhaps in the future, there may be people who will be promoted from the branch campuses to their class.
In the list of over a dozen names, Tsunade glanced through them and was surprised to find many familiar names.
“Sarutobi Asma, Yūhi Kurenai, Shikamaru Nara, Morino Ibiki, Ebisu…”
These familiar names, as well as several others that were not so familiar, but bore the surnames of major ninja clans such as Nara, Yamanaka, Akimichi, Inuzuka, Aburame, Hyūga, and Sarutobi.
And besides Tsunade himself, there was one more member of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Obito.
At the same time, with Uchiha Obito, Tsunade also noticed the names Hatake Kakashi and Rin Nohara.
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“What bad luck, I was put in the same class as that guy Tsunade.”
Just then, Tsunade heard someone complaining.
Following the voice, he saw Uchiha Obito standing in front of the signboard, looking unhappy.
“Ho, Obito, ten people in ten classes, and we two were put in the same class, shouldn't this be something worth celebrating? Why do you think it's bad luck?”
Tsunade quietly came up behind Obito and said teasingly.
“Yaa!”
Obito was startled by Tsunade, and thinking that his words had been overheard, his face flushed red. He said, “I, I'm not afraid of you, you, don't get any funny ideas.”
After speaking, Obito realized that he seemed to be admitting defeat by saying that, so he simply stopped explaining, took a step back to create distance, then pointed at Tsunade and said loudly, “Don't get too cocky, one day I'll defeat you, Uchiha Tsunade.”
“Hahaha, you're killing me, you're a deadbeat and you want to defeat Master Tsunade, are you still sleeping and dreaming?”
A mocking voice rang out from the side, and without looking, Obito had already pictured that annoying face in his mind.
“Uchiha Izumi, you bastard, who are you calling a deadbeat?”
Obito turned back angrily and glared at Uchiha Izumi, who had walked over to Tsunade's side, he hated it when people called him a deadbeat.
“Yeah? Who's the deadbeat?”
Uchiha Izumi pretended to be confused, looking left and right, then looking at Obito, he said, “Oh, it's you who hasn't been able to refine chakra yet!”
He even made a very provocative expression, making Tsunade want to punch him.
And Uchiha Obito himself was furious when he saw this.
Crack——
With one hand resting on the short sword that his family had just rewarded him with last night, Obito roared, “Bastard Uchiha Izumi, I'm going to duel you!”
Of the 50 people in the pre-training class, he was the only one who had not been able to refine chakra within a month, and this was a constant pain for him.
Although he had been comforted by the teacher that it was because he was too young, but thinking about Tsunade, who was even younger than him, he couldn't accept it.
“Hmph, come on then, let me show you just how much of a deadbeat you are!”
Uchiha Izumi did not back down either, with one hand resting on the katana at his waist, he looked at Obito with confidence and thought: This is the perfect chance to try out my new weapon.
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