Even DBZ, who had long kept having the cast matching/surpassing characters who were supposed to essentially be "god tier" (King Kai, Grand Kai, Supreme Kai and such) in the universe still kept managing to live up to the "there is always someone stronger" thinking. Naruto Gaiden AND the Boruto movie literally had to dumb down Naruto and Sasuke in one or more ways JUST to make Shin looking the least bit threatening and/or to allow the next generation to shine rather than making Shin a legitimate threat (with good and/or understandable motivations) or actually making the next generation stronger.
This also made it plainly clear just how little Hinata truly knew about Naruto, and how she completely lacked faith in him when it really counted.
You know, you're right.
When NS fans pointed out that Sakura and Kakashi were the only ones shown to believe in Naruto, during his fight with Kiba, NH fans tried to argue that Hinata did as well. But with that panel her her telling Naruto to stop, proves that she didn't believe in Naruto back then. Because to her things looked bad and SHE couldn't watch Naruto fight anymore, because she thought he was too hurt and going to lose.
Also, I find it interesting how when Naruto did beat Neji, Hinata wasn't there to give her own little thoughts on the matter. If she was so important to the conflict between Neji, his family, and Naruto,then Why couldn't she be shown congratulating Naruto? Kishimoto didn't need to show her collapsing and being healed by Kabuto, because it did nothing for the story.
Little things like this, show that NH was never meant to be canon, because Hinata was never there for Naruto's character growth and even when the story was about Hyuugas, she was not the main focus, but Neji.
Edited by redrose3443, 17 August 2015 - 05:53 AM.