Hmmm....well...I am convinced now.
Before Kishimoto's father died he created Road to Ninja. A movie about family, bonds, and and real love and care. The movie was a hit and chances are his father saw it. After his father's passing, I am convinced Kishimoto just gave up. All the interviews, the words he speaks, it doesn't feel like him. There is no passion in his words and all he speaks now is in circles. Everything makes little sense and now we have this.
I am certain Kishimoto is utterly depressed and lost all will to create. With Naruto, maybe he had a connection with his father through it. I don't know. When his father died, so did Naruto. So Kishimoto just kept writing and writing and writing. Putting whatever on the page to suit his investors. He stopped caring and let others take control. He let them ruin Naruto and now he is just saying whatever answers that come to mind to "explain things." This whole "Hinata is most popular" was nothing more than a fabrication by SP. The movie, the ending, it all was just a huge fabrication by SP themselves because Kishimoto just didn't have a heart to finish it.
He was just a robot who followed orders and probably fed his depression through the likes of Obito which explains why Obito's insanity seems so....genuine. Yeah, people will say it doesn't make sense, but depression does that. What doesn't make sense to you, will make sense to them. I know, I live through Bi-polar disorder.
It makes me feel sorry for Kishimoto. Maybe he is torturing himself. Maybe he just stopped caring. I don't think it is about the money anymore. If it was, he would have done so many things differently. SP was all about the money, but I believe Kishimoto just stopped caring. He just hates himself now which is why Naruto looks so bad now. Why Naruto is not the same anymore. Kishimoto changed due to depression and now Naruto has to. It explains also the lackluster kind of depressing ending.
Well.. As far as my opinion goes, the man simply does not deserve any sympathy. Why even try to make far-fetched excuses for such an unworthy person ?
'Father's death'-- Perhaps, but Kishimoto is over forty years old and is a father himself. I find it hard to believe his father's death would make him depressed to such a degree that he'd completely give up on what he loves.
Maybe I could still be open to the idea that Kishimoto is not entirely responsible for this atrocity, maybe I could still feel a little bit of sympathy for the man BUT the words that keep coming out of his mouth tell me that I shouldn't.
Here's what I think-- Its not that Kishimoto gave up on his work or he was forced or that he's trying to purposefully wreck his work. No, this travesty of an ending is simply due to the fact that the mangaka has a twisted view on women, love and criminals. The warning signs were there when Obito-- a heinous criminal who deserved to rot in hell-- was declared as 'the coolest guy' and even managed to get Rin the end.
You say 'Father's death' but how does being depressed by his father's death lead to him making abhorring, degrading comments about women ?
All of Kishimoto's interviews make it clear-- He is simply a guy with a twisted view who believes that women are tools for men to use, that love is all about irrational clinging on to one sided feelings despite every hint pointing that moving on is the logical thing to do, that obsession and fangirling are defining traits of 'true love' while trust and gradual growth in chemistry are a joke and that every criminal deserves a happy ending, sometimes even at the expense of more deserving characters.
And here's one more food for thought-- Kishimoto is the guy who openly admitted that he used the words of a dead mother and father merely to mislead people ! Quite telling, is it not ?
Edited by ns.Believe.It, 22 December 2014 - 06:09 AM.