Sakura a main character?
#1
Posted 29 May 2012 - 11:23 PM
#2
Posted 29 May 2012 - 11:28 PM
#3
Posted 29 May 2012 - 11:46 PM
I think it's similar to Harry Potter in a way. The Golden Trio, Harry, Hermione, and Ron, the story would be at fault without one of them.
Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura are both very important to the story in a whole.
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#4
Posted 30 May 2012 - 01:04 AM
She doesn't have a super tragic past other than being bullied for her forehead and I think that's how Kishi wanted it. She's supposed to be the most normal out of everyone. While she doesn't have a tragic past, that does not mean she doesn't make hard decisions or is facing some hard circumstance in the present. Kinda like Shikamaru didn't have a terrible past, but in more recent times, he had to deal with the death of his beloved teacher.
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#5
Posted 30 May 2012 - 01:10 AM
Still you got a point, she isn't showed enough.
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#6
Posted 30 May 2012 - 02:08 AM
heroines seem to be a step behind the hero.....and we got 2 heroes.....so 2 steps.
Edited by merryGOflava, 30 May 2012 - 02:09 AM.
#7
Posted 30 May 2012 - 02:37 AM
I think it's similar to Harry Potter in a way. The Golden Trio, Harry, Hermione, and Ron, the story would be at fault without one of them.
Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura are both very important to the story in a whole.
In word, but not in deed.
Hermione was critical to the plot. Maybe not as much toward the end, when the story really focused more on Harry, but if you removed her from the story it wouldn't be the same story.
Sakura's plot importance, however, has been dwindling for a while. Currently, I can't think of any ways she is crucial to the plot. Meaning, if we were to remove her from the story, would it be the same? Early on, when Sakura had a bigger role, her removal would have drastically altered events. But now, she's just a face in the crowd for Naruto. Someone he thinks of, but not someone who actively shares the plot. Now, if she were removed, it would hardly make a ripple.
(Even the confession and her attack on Sasuke. What became of that? Nothing. There was no fallout, no reprecussions. Nothing. It just happened, and then went away.)
I'm not looking at this from a sentimental perspective, but from just the bare-bones facts of her involvement.
Yes, she's Naruto's love interest, and yes, she has a part to play. But her role as a character in her own right, with a relevant plot line and a dramatic tension has been severely diminished. (Then again, it's the same for all the original cast of characters. The only one who has gotten a boost in activity (though she's still not relevant) is Hinata.)
It remains to be seen whether Kishimoto brings Sakura back into the spotlight and gives her a plot line again. Or if he just limits her to being Naruto's love interest, with the occasional bout of action or shipping suspense.
#8
Posted 30 May 2012 - 04:45 AM
That's right off the top of my head, I know there's more.
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#9
Posted 30 May 2012 - 04:53 AM
That's right off the top of my head, I know there's more.
I think they're referring to the fact what's happening currently in the Story, Sakura doesn't have much of an impact on. It doesn't have anything to do with past deeds.
#10
Posted 30 May 2012 - 07:07 AM
Edited by Darth Krypt, 30 May 2012 - 07:42 AM.
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#11
Posted 30 May 2012 - 08:51 AM
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#12
Posted 30 May 2012 - 08:55 AM
Sakura did the take down of Zetsu in the current arc. Her saving of Kankuro and fighting Sasori, thus playing a crucial role in Chiyo being there to give her life for Gaara has a profound effect on the current story arc.
I think what people are missing is Sakura's crucial part in the manga isn't some big flashy thing like the guys, but her deeds turn out to be crucial in the long term. Readers also tend to overlook Sakura's effect on people, because again, it isn't as flashy as Naruto's effect. Naruto had the flashy final effect on Chiyo, but Chiyo's last words, and her actions when they fought Sasori made it obvious Sakura had a very profound effect on her over a very short period of time. Sakura also had an effect on Sai's change, not just Naruto.
And Sakura attempt to take down Sasuke did have a crucial effect on the plot. It changed Naruto, it broke down his own "lying to himself" not just the lying to himself of refusing to see how Sakura had left behind the 12 year old Sasuke fangirl, and lying to himself about depth of Sasuke's darkness. Look at the effect of that when Naruto faced his self-doubt and repressed anger at the adult villagers, his self-created pain of the POAL was gone, there was nothing about that at all. (Where when he was genjutsued by Itachi in early part 2, his distorted image of Sakura made it easy for Itachi to distort and play on Naruto's feelings) Naruto knows she loves him, that made his victory over his "dark side" that much easier. Sakura has played a crucial role in Naruto's character growth, and even moreso in part 2 of the manga than in part 1.
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#13
Posted 30 May 2012 - 10:29 AM
#14
Posted 02 June 2012 - 12:05 AM
I'm with you, but I think this Man (Kishi) is focusing more on his male characters and sometimes Hinata to boost up her fanservice.
You would think that after he find out that many fans hate Sakura character, he would focus a little more on her just to silence the fans, but like how he say that he hear people saying Hinata, Hinata even if he don't know why, he just replys to thier request.
#15
Posted 02 June 2012 - 04:01 PM
I have a good feeling Sakura is going to get this major spotlight put on her when she rejoins Naruto at the Tobi fight.
#16
Posted 04 June 2012 - 01:41 AM
Edited by Phantom_999, 04 June 2012 - 01:46 AM.
#17
Posted 04 June 2012 - 02:18 AM
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Posted 04 June 2012 - 03:31 AM
#19
Posted 04 June 2012 - 02:06 PM
Kishiception.
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#20 Guest_Kim_*
Posted 05 June 2012 - 08:22 AM
Yeah I have really been hoping Sakura would play a crucial point in the final fight but somehow... the stage has been set only for Sasuke and Naruto so far. Even thought she was also part of the old Team 7 once, it seems that she doesn't have a lot to do with it now.
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