She's popular in Japan and was ranked 3 in the 2014 JP polls, posted by ramen from 2ch on Chattes old thread. And her hidden novel was soldout because of April 3 (the day Naruto fell in love with Sakura) and Shuiesha's false advertisement about Sakura's hidden feelings yet to be spoken of and SJ putting a Naruto banner on her novel cover shoes that the summary was directed at Naruto. And when SJ announced the novel to promise to tie up SS, many fans canceled their orders and the novel never sell well in its first week with only 46,000 + copies sold. Light novels dont produce that much in numbers like manga but copies can be produce up to 500, 000 at the most as I was told by someone.
I suspect Kishi and SP's treatment of her character has made her more popular and I think depending on the numbers SJ lost during the refunds of the Sakura Hidden, SJ might just force Kishi to go back with NS for the time being to drawn in more fans.
There were wrong advertisements regarding the Sakura novel like the "Hidden feelings thing" and the day of it's release being "April 3rd"
however SJ also announced a short summary and as expected it focused on Sasuke, the fans who cancelled t the novel were probably SS because of some spoilers that were revealed and it pretty much confirmed SS had zero interaction in the novel outside of Sakura's delusional thoughts
"force Kishi to go back..." I finda that highly difficult to happen, going back on the canon they estabilished they will just bring more haters, and will most likely not bring NS or other pairing and neutral fans back, it's a risky move
Edited by Nar123, 28 April 2015 - 10:43 AM.


















