The puppeteer? I know you couldn't know this but I tried creating an Anti-Ksihimoto Fan Club on NF many times. The only reason I didn't at the very end when I was finally going to be allowed to was I got tired of NF and the Pro Kishimoto fans there after the ending.
I hate the characters because of how they ruined the story. Which I have always placed solely on Kishimoto and by extension on his fans. As I said I know full well Sasuke and Hinata aren't real, which is why I don't feel bad when anyone bashes them for the shallow reasons that their fans love them.
And again, criticizing characters because of what Ksihimoto does to them, and how their supporting fans see them should be clear and open game. They are not real people you don't have to protect their "feelings", they don't have any. Hinata and Sasuke's fans dragged this story down in the gutter because Kishimoto in the end appealed to them, and ruined everything he was setting up in his story for them.
For the love of good he even ruined the main theme of the story (Free will being the true guide to life not "fate".) Just so Sasuke and Naruto would be shown as "soul-brothers" who were destined to save the universe because they were chosen to always do it. Instead of the story being about a spunky little orphan kid, who by hard work and effort save the world, got the girl, lived his life on his terms, and freed people from the chains of slavery of the ninja system, it instead became another retelling of "The Once and Future King" with Naruto playing the role of King Arthur, reincarnated to save the day once again as he was destined to because of his greatness and failures of his past lives.
All of that and more happened just so Sasuke, precious Sasuke, had an excuse to why he was such an asshat. He wasn't a bad guy, oh no not Sasuke! First he is an Uchiha and they "love to much", by their nature. Secondly he is the reincarnation of a prince who in the past choose to rely on his own strength instead of the strengths of others. You see that's why Sasuke is evil, he didn't choose to be a traitor and terrorist, oh no he was destined to react like that, and to take up that mantle. You see it wasn't Sasuke's choice, no it wasn't his fault, it was just the character he has always had inside of him. He's "pure" he doesn't understand the idea of "good and evil".
Which was Kishimoto's excuse to put NH/SS together so he could reap the benefits financially from them. I mean who cares about the freaking story, fanboys and fangirls have been drawing hentai stories about the "hot" couples, can't disappoint them.
Well said my brother. Well said. We speak the same language.
Guys, I understand you might take issue with us bashing the characters, but we do it (especially Tiller, who understood the heart and soul of this series very well, as shown by the above post) because that's how much we loved this series. We had great expectations out of it. Naruto had the potential to become one of the greatest mangas of all time. Kishimoto had all the ingredients to do it and for the longest time, so many of us sat by, hoping beyond hope, that a miracle would happen and that in the very end, Kishi would put all those ingredients together and make this manga blossom into the manga it always had the ability to become. Even at the lowest moments such as when Naruto hyperventilated in the Land of Iron, we still held on; we still had faith.
But every single ounce of that faith has been crushed. To see the series we loved reduced to this dismal state is very frustrating. I cannot help but lambast the characters I was once ever fond of. Perhaps Kishimomto never had the ability to bring this story to the heights it had the potential reach, but he could have very least given us something better than this . . . this . . . I don't even know what to call it. It's that bad and that insulting to me as a reader. It's for this very reason that I have no problem dragging any of these characters through the mud. The love I had for them is long gone. I will always think fondly of what they could have been, but as they are now? I feel nothing but disgust.
Edited by ThroughWithLove, 26 April 2015 - 02:58 AM.
I much prefer to make joke post, because humor can be a great way to make a point, but sometimes you just have to tell it like it is. I'll never forgive Kishimoto for what he did to this story, and the moments of my life he wasted by it, and I will not back down when I discuss it either.
Persona 5 hype 
