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The hell is Saruto? WTF?

Recently (well, a couple of years ago), I started to watch The Witcher. I stopped for a moment as I recommended it to my mother, so we both got into it.

Geralt x Yennefer was so freaking obvious! Lots of banter, great chemistry, even during Yen's "betrayal" so she can get her magic back, they were meant for each other. I especially like them being foster parents to Cirilla. 

A shame that Henry Cavill left the series though. I'm not sure if Liam Hemsworth can keep up as Geralt for Season 4.

The only reason why many people believed Sasuke was Masashi's alter ego because of the damn screen time he hogged up for majority of the story. Remember I stated back then that because of Sasuke's screen time about the Uchihas, there wasn't a balance and it made Naruto a bit more inferior, which led to the jokes and memes that the franchise should be named "Sasuke". It was that reason I stated someone on his writing team or editor (if they weren't on Hinata lust mode) should had suggested to make a Sasuke spin-off so Naruto, Sakura (especially her) and Kakashi would've gain more screen time on the main franchise while Sasuke get his in his spin-off until Masashi decides to bring him back for the major fights. That would've guarantee money and income. 

I'm still confused as to how NaruHina parrellels MinaKushi. Hinata is NOTHING like Minato at all. 

I don't know why they used Hinata into the equation. Obviously we knew Kushina = Sakura with a bit of Naruto in her, but now we're seeing Minato in his younger years more like his son in terms of weirdness (his long naming for example) and we knew Naruto has that quality. Hinata doesn't even fit into anything at all!

Is Ikemoto trying to make Sarada a fashion model? 

Wow, color me surprise. Minato's story was on point. Masashi, you had one job. Where was this writing during the end of Naruto?!

You see, THAT was a true Naruto story! Everything flowed well, no nonsense whatsoever. Everything and everyone was correct in terms of character. 

However, I see how Naruto got some of his "lameness" from Minato, with the weird long name for the Rasengan! Like father, like son. 

Although:

A bit of a shocker of cameos, so watching Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, I noticed a certain trio appeared on one screen:

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If he wants to continue the franchise, he can always rely on his team that does the spin-offs, i.e. Team-Up Missions. Horikoshi-sensei can do the writing/supervisor role.

I think the biggest issue Narusaku would have faced as a married couple with kids is actually finding time together. You'll never convince me that Orphan From Birth Naruto would prefer paperwork to family time even as Hokage--that man would be using Kagebunshin to do the village work and nagging his workaholic wife to come out of the hospital for a few hours and play hookey with him and the kids  

Actually, they can work. First off, you will definitely have Naruto NOT do paperwork and he will definitely bribe Shikamaru or maybe Kakashi to do it. He can still be mischievous as an adult. Also, ignoring the Kage Bushin, because he will definitely abuse the jutsu, work and at home. Plus, at least it would showing him as a diligent husband towards Sakura, especially either playing hookey or even showing up at Sakura's office lunch/break hours. Even with their kid(s), at least he won't be as ignorant as how Masashi and Ikemoto portray him in Boruto by being the doting and loving father without the BS that was showing in this current canonicity. I think many will question or concern about NaruSaku as a married couple with kid(s) is their issue of balance (but it can potentially can solve straight away).

Glad Sakura claimed the top 3 and Minato stayed in 1st. Rather have stuff about him instead of Hinata. Speaking of her, I wasn't surprised her fans managed to get her to the top 10. She doesn't deserved it though.

funny i feel that filler arc is what most hinata fans go to for her which is creepy 

 

That's the general consensus for a lot of us.

I felt the same way too... like are they really attempted to "sexualize" a 12-13 year old girl and why she had to be naked? 

It reminded me what was going on with the Dead or Alive series with its creator, Tomonobu Itagaki, when he was leading Team Ninja for Tecmo. During his run of developing the games and spin-offs, Itagaki made a weird comment that "it is okay in Japan to sexualize girls like Kasumi as opposed to the West". Back then, Kasumi and Ayane were 17 and 16 year old respectfully. However, when the games were localized for the West, their ages were stated N/A. Same for Kokoro when she debuted in DOA4 as she was 16. This all changed when 5 came out, thanks to the 2-year time skip for the plot (but then again, we then have Marie Rose, Honoka and later NiCO, legitimate lolicon characters).  Promotional materials for DOA1 (PS1 and Saturn Openings) and DOA 2 had Kasumi nearly naked. And also Kasumi's "controversial" 4 ending of her dreaming as a mermaid, topless. At one point, hackers managed to find a naked 3D model of Kasumi in DOA2 and made her playable which caused Itagaki and Tecmo legal actions.

So I don't know how people let their taboo fantasies to come forth without controversy. Come to think of it, why didn't anyone shot back at SP back then for the waterfall scene?

The First Naruto chapter came out on October 4th, 1999, and if we skip to when Hinata first showed up in chapter 34, which came out on June 19th, 2000.

 

Now if we look at the anime which started in 2002 in October, the 3rd had Hinata in the first episode.

 

Clearly, this shows right from the start, SP had favoritism toward Hinata. Now this might not be true, and I could be overthinking this, but I think SP was trying to set up Hinata the moment they got their hands on this manga thanks to all the filler that had Hinata and painted her in a better light than all the other girls.

I wouldn't count that. I mean because not only her, but Sasuke, Sakura, Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Shino and Kiba was shown on the first and 3rd episodes to give more clarity of who were Naruto's classmates in the Ninja Academy before he became a Genin.  It made sense canon-wise because none (except a "cameo" of Sasuke) were shown on the debut manga chapter, they were just random kids (especially the clone final exam scene, both Shikamaru and Ino were the replacements of 2 random boys complaining at Naruto for Iruka's pop exam). We knew Sasuke and Sakura's official debuts were in chapter 3. The others came in later during the beginning of the Chunin Exams.

 

Yup, which irritates me too that they had to do that. And shows how the writers of The Last knew jack and crap about "Naruto" as a franchise.

Exactly. Those people disrespected the franchise. It's fine to add filler but not the kind of filler to make your own changes that would screw up plots.

And in the filler flashback, didn't they show Naruto creating actual Shadow Clones to use on bullies? Y'know, the technique that he never knew about until he was twelve and whose lesser variation he sucked at?

I don't remember but then again, if it did happen, then they were basically rehash that filler flashback for The Last to be "canon".