You should - loved to read it and bounce ideas back. I'm thinking of making a thread too, just to put some of my scraps up to be read and hopefully get them worked into one-shots.
So...she's contorting to show that she has a weapon in her hand. Specifically that it's a ninja throwing star and not some random silver edge. Because if her hand was the other way it would look like a hair clip.
WITHOUT IT, THERE WOULD BE NOTHING ABOUT HER THAT SAYS SHE'S A NINJA. Literally. That throwing star is the only thing. She looks like a friggin hooker or a standard Naruto come-hither girl-villain. No ninja clothes. No sharingan. No action pose. Just the visible throwing star.
I'm not even going to talk about her pose, her clothes or the positioning of the belt over her exposed crotch. It's disgusting. All of it. I know it's a Japanese thing with the pany shots. But I will never be ok with it. Especially when the only thing Kishi consistently did right was to protect his characters from being sexualized. It just makes it all the more offensive.
Anyway, taking a wider view of this image, the first impression of the placement and emphasis reads that Boruto is a kid and Sarada is a full-grown women. In fact, the highlights on the leg, and the fact that she's showing more skin than clothes almost force you to look at her first. Boruto in his muddy colors (despite the fact that he's in the center of the pic) gets looked at second. And the third character — the one you initially mistook for a scrap of sky in the background? — yeah, he maybe gets picked up on the third scan of the image. He literally is background.
So if you knew nothing about this series, from this image you would think that the story is about a kid, a sexy woman, and a shadowy blue villain.
None of it reads 12yos or teammates. Or even the old Naruto manga. It's just eye candy, aimed at boys, designed to sell.
Your right about the focus. Every time I look at it my eyes are drawn to Salad first, then maybe Bolt if I force myself to, and then maybe notice Cups is there. Also the background looks like the villages is suffering from an explosion by cherry blossoms.
The contortions are not their to show us the ninja stars. She like that so she fits into frame and so there is no over lap between her and Bolt. If her arms were position normally. Her left arm would be out of frame. While her right arm would bump into Bolt or at least his kunai.
Also what is with that lighting on Salad should be far more in shadow then she is? Bolt should (by looking at the image and see where the light source should be) be blocking most of the light that is hitting Salad. She has various shades of light on her like Lux says, while Bolt and Cups are lucky to have two.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 27 April 2017 - 05:31 PM.
