Naruto Shippuden: Road To Ninja

Does it really matter why people want to watch the movie? I think the most important thing is that everyone who wants to see it enjoys it. I don't care if they're excited to see shipping service, or awesome battles, or a good story, or certain characters, or whatever. As long as everyone enjoys it, the rest isn't a big deal.

How do you know the plot of this movie won't be 10x more amazing than the last 5? It certainly wouldn't be getting so much hype if it didn't have good structure. We've got the main villain of the cannon series launching an attack on Konoha, an all out battle between Konoha 11 and the Akatsuki members, the hero and heroine of the story being trapped in an illusionary jutsu, the legendary 4th Hokage fighting at his son's side, AU-characters acting *way* OOC compared to their RW counterparts, bonding between Naruto and the Kyuubi, dark Kyuubi vs light Kyuubi, and that may not even be everything. What more could you be looking for? Wait until you actually see the movie before deciding that the plot, which none of us know any details about, is going to suck.

Also, stop criticizing people for discussing possible interactions between characters. Anticipating pairing service is just a bonus for fans who enjoy the couples.

@ dovahkiin

You keep saying that events in this movie don't make sense, but my point is that you don't know all of the details yet, and you won't until you actually see the movie. You're making judgements based off of the few teasers we've seen so far. How can you make a clear judgement of the plot without ever having seen the movie before? The trailers and teasers are going to be filled to the brim with elements that strike fans 'taste' in order to draw attention to the movie and get them talking - it's to build hype. No film creator is going to throw the entire plot of the movie in the trailer so you can decide if it meets your standards before watching it. Wait until you've actually seen the movie before being so critical of it.

sinopsys u statements are base on character reactions, the synopse already show what the plot the movie is, the genjutsu simple does not fit because even u say that it changes the reality itself does not explain why naruto parents are alive and plus somethings that happened to sasuke nad AU'naruto.
but no he said a genjutsu , ok but u and i would love to see the interactions but the plot itself is bad written it's not going to be an epic movie but something made to please fans.
and i understand kishimoto he had problems with his hand plus the extra mangas he had to write because of a naruto's game and htis movie i will understand that is was the best he could do but no one will save naruto's movie from the critics it will clearly receive after it will be released.

the genjutsu simple does not fit because even u say that it changes the reality itself does not explain why naruto parents are alive and plus somethings that happened to sasuke nad AU'naruto.

ナルト　「サクラちゃんを頼むってばよ！」
Naruto: "Take care of Sakura-chan!"

EDIT: Holy kitten LadyGT just made a post on this forum!

EDIT: Holy kitten LadyGT just made a post on this forum!

LadyGT you have good eyes to read that script lol

What else does it say?

She figured that out a long time ago. Naruto, and even has outright said so (chapters 469-70). Look at chapters 245, 297, 343, 450, 469-70, 474, and how Sakura reacts to Naruto's rescue of her for absolute proof. I get a bit annoyed at the people who go on about chapter 540 as if it says Sakura is still the swooning 12 year old Sasuke fangirl- does she look happy? Nope, she looks sick and ashamed that she failed Naruto and wasn't able to eliminate every bit of the memories of her feelings for Sasuke, and feels sick and ashamed of herself as a person-beating herself up as some sort of sick person for having even the remnant of the memories of those feelings. Instead of trashing Sakura as still being a swoony Sasuke fangirl, you are supposed to feel sympathy for her agony. She didn't realize it would be harder than she thought to eliminate all those feelings.

It's more like Sakura will be kind of freaked out by seeing this Sasuke that acts like what the naive 12 year old Sakura thought she wanted. To 16-17 year old Sakura it will feel overblown and creepy. Sakura is a calmer person than Naruto when she is freaked out. As I pointed out before "doki doki" is also attributed to someone panicking inside. And considering she flinches back, clutches her hands tightly on her robe and her eyes look kind of freaked out, I think it's obvious that she isn't getting all swoony about it.

And Slextrem, I see that as a misinterpretation of the scene- People are reading it as if Sakura knew Hinata made her confession, we know Sakura did not. Sakura didn't even know the sequence of when Hinata went out and when Naruto went 6 tails. I see it more as it brings back to the fore Sakura's own romantic feelings for Naruto (Note the kind of romantic image of Naruto in Sakura's thoughts...) Sakura has known for certain that those confusing affectionate and concerned feelings she has had for Naruto since sometime before chapter 245, was romantic love since Yamato made it clear to her in chapter 297.) From Sakura's perspective Hinata did exactly the same thing she had done in 296. She probably thought Hinata got hurt in something of the same way Sakura had. She figured Hinata cared deeply for Naruto too, it was more a reminder of her own foolish act and she was telling Hinata to not put her life in danger for something she couldn't fix that way. It reinforced to Sakura that she indeed was in love with Naruto... Thus the romantic hug of Naruto in front of the whole village in chapter 450.

It's almost exactly like how the love letter nin reminds her in a painful way of the girl she used to be who crushed on someone who had no feelings for her whatsoever, and how she thinks how awful and sick a person she is to still have any feelings whatsoever for the monstrous person she sees as the real Sasuke- It draws her inside herself, makes her dwell on her own feelings. Both moments are painful, but regarding her feelings for Naruto, just mildly so, and it motivates her to show her feelings openly to Naruto yet again. Thinking about the remnants of the memories of her feelings for Sasuke makes her start to get depressed. Luckily this is part 2 Sakura and it doesn't affect her mind and skills as a ninja and she quickly takes down Zetsu Neiji with a combo of sharp intelligence and physical strength...

@ dovahkiin

You keep saying that events in this movie don't make sense, but my point is that you don't know all of the details yet, and you won't until you actually see the movie. You're making judgements based off of the few teasers we've seen so far. How can you make a clear judgement of the plot without ever having seen the movie before? The trailers and teasers are going to be filled to the brim with elements that strike fans 'taste' in order to draw attention to the movie and get them talking - it's to build hype. No film creator is going to throw the entire plot of the movie in the trailer so you can decide if it meets your standards before watching it. Wait until you've actually seen the movie before being so critical of it.

Anyway, my horrible script writing aside, by point is basically that this movie might give Sakura the necessary push towards that "love epiphany" that some other members have already talked about. I know this theory is a bit sketchy since we can't really be sure if this movie can be counted as canon or not, but with everything that's been revealed so far, I don't think it's completely implausible.

At best, we can say it is a show of author intent. Unless Kishi writes a special chapter like Kubo and Oda did, we won't be able to know where we can put the context of this movie in canon.

powerful genjutsu such as the Uchiha possess has been shown in the manga to alter reality, if you cannot accept this then you haven't been following the manga very well

Yeah, I want to say that Sakura's parents are canon. So, what I want to think is that plot is not canon, but the characters in the plot are. Since this is more of an alternate universe, I want to think that the elements that make it up are real since Kishimoto is making them if you know what I mean and not sound confusing.

I have to say, I am VERY interested in seeing a movie about a universe where Sakura was the Jinchuriki and not Naruto.

Actually, I don't think it's Sakura who's the Jinchuuriki here. Naruto still stays as the Jinchuuriki but however, her parents were the one who died sealing kyuubi in this AU world, judging by what's been shown so far.

ナルト　「サクラちゃんを頼むってばよ！」
Naruto: "Take care of Sakura-chan!"

Actually, I don't think it's Sakura who's the Jinchuuriki here. Naruto still stays as the Jinchuuriki but however, her parents were the one who died sealing kyuubi in this AU world, judging by what's been shown so far.