Now let’s not kid ourselves here, the ending that the Kishi told us was going to happen through his own writing wasn’t going to be something amazing. It wasn’t going to blow our brains out and makes us think about life or some deep meaning about it. The ending that he foreshadowed was going to be exactly like the rest of his story, mediocre at best. But it would’ve been an ending.
Now how to fix this? What’s the correct way to fix this?
Hey Kishi/SP/whoever was in charge of this and is in charge now. Listen to me very carefully this is what you guys have to do in order to properly fix this.
Take responsibility for your actions, apologize for what you did say that you’re forced to do this, say you had no clue what you’re doing, say whatever just admit that you screwed up and take responsibility for your actions. Then redo the ending in a movie or a manga whatever but start from chapter 690 and redo the Naruto vs. Sasuke fight or even better go even further back around chapter 640 and erase Kaguya and Hamura from existence. Because those two characters if you can actually call them characters were only created in order for Hinata’s power-up to not look contrived, but it still is.
Not to mention that Kaguya’s so called backstory made no sense. It was said that she used IT on the entire world to create an army of Zetsu. And that raises the following question: an army to fight against whom? Oh let me guess the Martians right. Because at this point with people living on the moon anything goes. And if you’re really lazy and don’t want to redo the Naruto vs. Sasuke fight something that should be redone, then just erase the last two chapters from existence and redo them. And when you redo them bring back the real Naruto Uzumaki with his real haircut and his real smile, the real Sasuke Uchiha, the real Sakura Haruno, the real Hatake Kakashi as well as the rest of the real characters that we’ve been following for the last 15 years. Not these doppelgangers that replaced the real characters.
Don’t make the entire journey pointless, don’t insult us, and don’t resolve the plot then immediately destroy it. Don’t introduce new characters that no one cares about. Erase Boruto and Salad as well as all those kids from existence because no one followed the story for those characters. Don’t turn Naruto into a scumbag like you did. And as for pairings either don’t make them at all or just do the two pairings that actually have foreshadowing behind them. Naruto and Sakura; and Sasuke and Karin. That’s it. No pairing extravaganza. Characters don’t need to be paired up with someone just because.
And as Hinata you only have three choices, you either show her as the Hyuuga leader and that’s it, she doesn’t end up with anyone, she’s just the Hyuuga leader. Or you don’t show her at all because shoving Hinata down people’s throats only makes people hate her even more. Or kill her. Those are the only options you have with her. And don’t screw it up. And actually end the story.
So here we are at the end of this rant but before I leave you I do want to mention a couple of things.
For those of you that call people that didn’t like the ending salty. Because well you “won”, I have to remind you that no one won anything here. We all lost you morons. We the fans lost.
If you’re a fan of the story you lost, if you’re a Naruto fan you lost, if you’re a Sasuke fan you lost, if you’re a fan of any of the characters you lost. You’re all losers here; the only people that “won” here are the people that made money from this ending, the people behind “Naruto” those are the winners. Not us. And as for you pairing fans, you NH and SS fans what exactly do you think you won?
You NH fans got a brand new character that borrows Naruto’s name and then you got a brand new character that borrows Hinata’s name and you got those two brand new characters together. Then you got the writer himself coming out and saying he went with that pairing because he left pity towards Hinata. Which if you don’t know what that let me translate that. It means that he was always planned to put Naruto together with Sakura; and all those moments that we got in the manga between Naruto and Hinata were just there to attract you idiots. To make you keep reading his story. That’s what it means. From day one he planned Naruto and Sakura but changed it at the last second on a whim. And then you got Naruto and Sakura’s kid passed as a NH kid. Oh yeah you definitely won. Wake up you lost just like everyone else that read this story.
And you SS fans you got Sasuke and Karin’s kid passed as a SS kid. It doesn’t matter what we’ll find out in the last chapter of Gaiden if we find out anything. Like I said before Kishi’s going to either say that because Sasuke sucked Karin’s chakra all those times that resulted in that kid having Karin’s DNA or when Sakura gave birth the kid almost died and Karin saved the kid by letting the kid suck her chakra or maybe Kishi’s going to go all Obi-Wan on us. And go “This is not the DNA test you were looking for.” And by that I mean ignore it entirely. Regardless anyone with half a brain can instantly see that the biological parents of Salad are Sasuke and Karin. No matter what they say it will never change who those kids were originally designed to be. They can lie as much as they want.
What I said about changing the ending will happen sooner or later but it won't happen today or tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or a couple of weeks from now. Right now they're going full throttle with this pedal to the metal until the hit a wall. I'm speaking of course metaphorically here. The wall being them spending money and not making a profit. The Boruto movie will have some success because the ending is still fresh and people still have some faith that maybe this catastrophe can be saved but anything pass the Boruto movie is a big no no.
Now when they’ll change the ending if we find out that Kishi releases the real ending as an independent or working for a different company or we know he has full power over the ending then that will be a confirmation that he was indeed forced to adapt to someone else’s decision.
But if everything is exactly as it is today, meaning he still works for Shueisha and he still has a contract with SP and everything is farmed out to different individuals like the movie and the novels were. Because that’s exactly what happened here, everything was farmed out and then Kishi with his canon stamp declared all as canon. If this happens then we’ll get our answer that he wasn’t forced to do this and this is really how he ended it. Until that day comes I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because we don’t really know what the hell happened. Neither of us do, unless you have his contract in front of you so you can see who has the power over “Naruto” we can’t say for sure who is behind all of this. Does that mean I forgive him or see him as a victim here? No of course not. He is still responsible for this.
Now I know what I’m about to say now is arrogant and that’s because it is. But I don’t need proof to know I’m right.
Like I said before the only way they’re not going to change the ending is either if the Japanese decide that Gaiden and Boruto are absolutely amazing and they continue to support them or if the people behind “Naruto” decide to just end it. Neither of those plausible, do you know honestly believe Boruto and Salad and scumbag Naruto and Sasuke wannabe Madara and all the rest are actually going to sell? Come on, come on, and come on.
Or that the people Shueisha or SP are going to stop using the “Naruto” name? They’re going to milk it until there’s nothing to be milked and then start again. They created a brand; they’re not going to stop using that name.
Now when exactly are they going to change it? Well my guess is about 2-3 years from now, that would be a best case scenario. Worst case scenario would be 10 years from now and worst worst case scenario is that they’re not going to change it at all because either people love this crap and continue to support them or they stop releasing “Naruto” related stuff.
Oh and before someone says “Well they’re not going to change the ending because they’re committed to this now.” Might I remind you that this is a business and if changing the ending equals money, then they’re going to do it. Period there are no if and buts here.
Oh and one last thing to be honest I seriously doubt they're actually going to change it the proper way. Most likely they're going to redo the ending and act like Gaiden and The Last as well as everything else never happened. Without any apologizes or anyone taking any sort of responsibility.