Try to send a message to another user on deviant art, and see if he/she something about it.
I did and finally found out. YAY!
Only that I have TONS of things to modify. Oh, God...
Chatte spread it to the world! more people should read this!! It made me realize so many sides of Sakura that I hadn't noticed and made me understand the purpose of her in the story. I always thought that Kishi hadn't given much attention to her character but he did and I must say he did a good job when we realize that she is there to represent that human side. We have so many examples of perfect heroines out there, those flawless and incredible in everything they do and then Kishi creates that human heroine who makes mistakes and has flaws but she also has qualities and the best intentions, he made her just like us so we could understand her and appreciate her development, This is just brilliant. I think I respect Kishimoto more as a writer now and his audacity to create such a character, even though I still hope that he develops her more and more in the future.
Sakura is brilliant as a character, her meaning in the story is deep and probably because of that I got a little sad because she isn't and probably never will be admired by the fandom as she should because people are more willing to admire characters so common in other stories like Hinata than characters like Sakura.
I think I love her more now and that's thanks to you! I cant wait to read the rest of your analysis of her character! keep up the good work!
Awee, thank you sweetie!
Well, For now, I have it spread on my Tumblr and DeviantArt. And those who read it said kinda the same thing.
That she has no relevance to the story whatsoever. Actually, I started doing this analysis after a 'fight' I had with another user or another forum who said to me that Sakura is kinda nothing.
Let me copy what he said here, I'd like to hear some opinions.
So, in that thread, my initial opinion was this:
ME: One of the major themes in Naruto is holding on to your humanity. As Kishimoto stated himself, he wanted to show her off as an irritating character with good intentions. He even told that he is fond of Sakura because from all the characters, she has a more human feel to her than the other characters.
But putting that aside, as I said it's about holding on to your humanity, emotions and, as well, protecting the ones you love. Becoming a tool in this old idea which seems to be discarded by many, but getting back in time look at Haku and Zabuza, Sasori, it was all about being a ninja tool and in order to be able to do that one must kill his emotions, yet, in the end, was that humanity that they came back to and they sacrificed themselves in order to make a way for a hopeful future where ninjas are more humanized, when all put aside their pains, hatred so on and so forth - and here we relate to Pein arc. Once again, great example of holding to your humanity.
Sakura revolving around Sasuke's existance? While this might be true up to a certain point, she developed more than that, she put aside her weakness for him and started working to get better and better. If you're going to bring me that thing with killing Sasuke, that once again represents an example of where emotions come in play.
Sakura failing to kill Sasuke happened because her emotions got in the way, yes, but look at the decision she had to make here. She took it upon herself to try and kill the boy she loves, the boy she previously sworn to protect, which goes against a major theme in Naruto. If Sakura killed Sasuke, she would have lost a part of herself that made her human and destroyed the ideal of protecting her loved ones. Since she is the EMBODIMENT of this ideal, it would have made no sense, story wise, for her to actually kill Sasuke. This is very obvious.
Sasuke represents that weak part that we all have. It's balance, yin and yang, you name it.
While Naruto is her strong part, Sasuke is her weak part. In Team 7 she always was the balance between Naruto and Sasuke.
While she was some sort of genius in her own way, like Sasuke, and untalented ninja as Naruto.
Genius because out of K11, Sakura's been noted the most intelligent. Intelligent as in book-worm, not tactician as Shikamaru, don't misinterpret that and untalented as Naruto because we saw that she didn't have anything special, she was just literally applying the teachings from ninja classes and Naruto was as well, untalented at the beginning, if you remember.
Wasn't able to do a proper bunshin.
So, next time when you say she has no plot-relevance, I'd advise you to think twice. You can hate her how much you want but that doesn't mean she's not belonging to this story when she is centered around the most important idea in this manga.
But people usually see the surface of stories rather than the depths.
HIM: I think you are misinterpreting the term humanity, which simply means human-like and nothing more in its original and main contextual meaning. It has nothing to do with growing better or becoming a better person. Most of your analysis of her character is just your own opinion and is not a very insightful one. I mean no disrespect, but i will be blunt here.
You want to understand why I said her existence doesn't grow beyond Sasuke? Let's see, her original reasons to even become a better ninja were to impress Sasuke, and not become a hindrance and contribute to his fights. An author only has to show the core motive once. He/she doesn't need to write it over and over and over again to make a point. The core motive for Sakura was and always has been Sasuke, never anything else.
Let's see her so-called character development. Don't put aside her core motive, and look at this; In the first part of manga, all she wanted was Sasuke to like her. She worked hard, and tried to not get in his way. This was more profound during the fight with orochimaru and afterwards. Her Sakura blossoms episode elaborates on this fully. The part where she cuts her hair off is shown as painful because Sasuke liked long hair. That part is accentuated in the manga and aligned with her growth; that even if she destroyed the perfect image of a girl Sasuke had in mind, she fought for him.
After the fight, she repeatedly tried to force him to stay out of the competition. Link the previous point with this; Character growth based on the fact that she wanted to be strong for Sasuke. During her fight with Ino, her entire reason for even striving harder were to get close to Sasuke. And both of them vowed this during the match, that who will be the better of them.
When Sasuke chased Gaara and she got injured. She was only going after him and was unworried for anything else around her. Even if Naruto saved her, she was persistent that it was Sasuke. Showing her desire that she stood up for him at the forest, so he must have in return cared for her while she was knocked out; acknowledging her efforts. She kept going to nurse him daily, showing her one-sided, growing infatuation. When he decided to leave, she even said she would join him, and when he left anyway, she selfishly turned to Naruto; the only person she knew who wouldn't turn her down.
Naruto failed, but kept his promise. So at the closing of the first part of her development, she wanted Sasuke to acknowledge and love her back, hence the reason she worked hard to not become a hindrance and be liked by him by achieving something. The promise of hers is a point of movement character-wise to the next arc, and the second core point of her development; become stronger to get Sasuke back.
Now, you cannot just simply throw away all this development for your own convenience. Keep all these points into consideration and let's look at her part two development. She worked hard to become a decent medic-nin to become a support for Naruto's team, as she knew he would return and they would set off to start their search again. During all this time, she never, not even once cared what Naruto was going through, But Sai noted her selfishness to blindly run after Sasuke.
They reunited and if Orochimaru had not stepped in, the whole team would have been killed by Sasuke, including her. She knew he was not sparing her, and yet, she STILL wanted Naruto to continue on with his promise. Never-mind the fact that her over-boiling emotions were always met with complete indifference, Sasuke always thought she was annoying and irritating - which is obviously she is - and the team 7 reunion would have been the death of her. It never wavered her resolve to seek his love and acknowledgement.
She continued on with the team and when she found out he was an ataksuki member, we all know how she reacted. Naruto still wanted to get her acknowledgement and love, hence he still decided to go on with the promise. Sai reasoned with her seeing Naruto's misery, and she decided to kill him herself in some sort of lovers suicide, as according to her, she loved him, so he must die by her hand. In doing so, she would save him and grant him redemption.
After he almost killed her the second time, she is still at the same point where she started from; one-sided love, desire for Sasuke's love, his acknowledgement, and the hope to get more strength to save him because she loves him. Which part of this were you not able to understand in the manga?
If garbage ever had a name, it would be Sakura, Ino, Karin, Hinata and a few others. But Sakura comes to mind first somehow.
So after his response, I decided to start doing the analysis as one of my biggest responses to Naruto fandom, ever.
This will be my response to him, once the analysis is finished.
Anyway, I'd like to hear opinions.
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