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It literally has nothing to do with Japanese culture, considering that the Japanese fans were just as baffled and pissed by both the result and his reasoning.  He himself derided the pairings as toxic or done out of pity (in Hinata's case).  It was his dumbass attempt at covering SP and WJS's asses for them because he couldn't just say that "My editors and the animation studio in charge of the production of my manga's adaptation have been gaslighting me about the alleged popularity of this minor character that I barely care about and kept coercing me for years to replace Sakura because they have a bizarre fetish towards her, and wouldn't leave me alone to craft the story as I intended.  Also, they took advantage of the fact that my father just passed so that I would be more emotionally susceptible to their needling." 

I mean think about it: when SP asked kishi to do a filler arc in the war he came up with that ninja asking sakura out and him asking if the guy she likes was a great person (and you see sakura having this unsure expression). I really think he was attempting to show naruto fans that sakura loving sasuke wasn't a good thing. also he spent the rest of the war arc having sakura have a fake smile when she was around sasuke to the point where sai noticed it and on top of that had the part where karin and sakura went and saved sasuke and naruto respectively and of course the toxic behavior and rejection sasuke gave sakura

Again, I just want to point out that the message Sakura gave in the Last was. "Women are incapable of moving on from their first crush." Also, "Naruto never had any feeling towards anyone until Hinata, and should never have any feeling towards anyone but Hinata; except the children they have together." Now then, remember that the movie was not the work of Kishimoto, but SP, and there is only so much that can be done with a red pen.

 

Both of these are complete opposite of what is even shown in chapter three. Naruto has feeling for Sakura, and the story of Sakura was a girl moving on from her first crush Sasuke to a guy that loves her Naruto.

 

Also in, Sakura's false confession she uses the concept of, "women's' feeling changing like the seasons," to explain why she was over Sasuke and in love with Naruto. This is clearly a phrase know and used by the Japanese, so the concept of women moving on from their first crush isn't a foreign concept to them either.

not even sp's normal writer they hired some romance tv person who knew nothing about naruto
 

Oda also said Masashi liked people like Sakura and he thought she was similar when he met her in real life. I've also heard Nami has some basis on Oda's wife irl but it's true it could be some fanservice since we don't have firsthand evidence. Kishi did write several versions of sakura (rin, tsunade, kushina) and complained in a interview people told him they didn't like sakura so he spent hours drawing a cover or something trying to improve her appearance. apart from Masashi seeming to prefer sakura (more than hinata) seeing as he has a sakura keychain at his drawing desk also his twin brother who's manga seem to have a lot of similarity with his brother's manga also have elements of ns. Masashi also said his wife helped write kushina and minato's story so it seems she was involved in some way (he also married her as he was working on naruto i can't see how she would have no knowledge of what he was doing)

And Kishimotos wife was disappointed Naruto ended up with Hinata. Then Kishimoto his wife felt better when he said Hinata was based off of her.

It makes no sense when even Minato even said Sakura resembles Kushina. But no, Kishis explanation was that narusaku moments were just a red herring.

Well he tried to make her feel better which didn't work 😂

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some similarity

I think naruto is in a similar situation as star wars right now but i don't know how either series will end up. There are some fans who support the star wars sequels but many don't

i checked the poll results again and i didn't even realize sakura went up a little in north america to 2nd place and she also got 1st place in south/central america, pretty amazing

https://youtu.be/Y_jPwiHdy2o
Hard to believe this happened saturday and i absolutely would have been there if i knew it was happening 😑 well with any luck I'll go to japan in October and watch the play

Something i noticed at the recent sakura matsuri in dc was that there was some popularity for naruto's orange adult outfit with his long hair which is something I'm pretty sure only is a fan design so I get the feeling at least some naruto fans reject how naruto's canon adult hair looks

Is it just me or does ns and sakura seem a bit more popular than I expected I see more merch for sale but now sp is stuck with the ships the manga went with (and apparently endless boruto spinoff)

Still so funny that junko and chie agreed that naruto and sakura have a bond greater than one from marriage 😆

https://myanimelist....topicid=2041382
Seems they are airing naruto in india again and this person had an epiphany 😅 i guess the development can't be ignored

my condolences to you luckychi and vanitas

I went to sakura matsuri in washington dc and it was a blast, especially the music. i also bumped into a sakura cosplayer there

well i'm hopeful on dragon quest: dai no daibouken's ending