It's just the short version of exactly what Triksie, Shauna, ShippudenGirl and I were saying on the chapter thread.
The last chapter the dude just sounds like he's attracted to her, so a polite neutral rejection was all she thought was needed "I'm already in love with someone else". But then in this chapter it become painfully obvious to Sakura this dude has put her on a pedestal and is worshiping her because he thinks she's attractive and very talented, nothing about her personality or background. She just says "gomen nasai" (I'm sorry) no direct reply to his praise this chapter, and her expression changes to looking very depressed. It makes her depressed, because it's a painful reminder that she had done exactly the same thing when she crushed on Sasuke and look what kind of person he really is... Some people are conflating her reactions and assuming what she said last chapter in reaction to the guy's simple attraction comment last chapter applies to her reaction to his fanboying comment this chapter. Kishimoto made a chapter break in that scene for a reason, you are meant to split one from the other. No, Kishimoto doesn't troll, but he will throw things out at readers from time to challenge them to pay better attention to the story.
As soon as I saw that panel though, I groaned because I knew many readers wouldn't catch that and knew that out would come the Sakura bashing....
I didn't bash Sakura because I've always liked her but yeah its true i didn't catch any hidden meaning however I didn't Bash or hate on her because I'm a TRUE fan

though it was devastating to my NS esteem at first

I admit
Edited by Phantom_999, 12 June 2011 - 12:08 PM.