I saw the typical mention of "The ending was well received".
Uh, no. Haha, no nono no no. Unless you were actually there and witnessing the shizstorm while it was actually happening then you have no say on that because all you have are current fans and previous and current "data". The original % of Naruto fans dropped by at least 80% after the ending.
The Last's theater ticket sales aren't even to be trusted since at least 80% of the preorders were tricked into thinking it was going to focus on Sasuke and Kakashi. I mean, geez. I remember seeing the earliest trailers with the pre-order bonuses. There was no Hinata to be found. At all. Funny considering it's a movie that is all about her and her fairytale ending. Studio Pierrot knew people wouldn't buy tickets if it was Hinata-centric so they played the fans like a fiddle. I'm seriously still disgusted about what they pulled today. They waited until the pre-orders to slowly reveal that it was all about Hinaturd and her shallow crush. At that point, the fans realize they'd jump the gun only to find that they couldn't get refunds.
Comments from the fans would post about their experience watching the movie. I recall one saying how terrible it was and remembered some other theater goer shaking their head and going, "Why?"
There are some old posts archived from that time. Screenshots, texts, ect. 2ch exploded with Hinata hatred. It was the greatest thing ever
All you have are old pairing fans and the newer fans that more than likely have started out with Burrito. Along with a small handful of old fans that stick around for the fighting and don't give a flying crap about the pairings. (But will still say that the canon pairings suck. Yes, they do exist.)
The very last Naruto volume didn't even meet top ten sold manga in Japan. (For the week? I don't remember, but Naruto never had an issue in the past.)
Where are all the other haters? Most of them have moved on. Some of us, like me, just can't.
As for the Sasuke part, it's a hopeless situation. Pairing fans have their pairing goggles on so tightly it cuts off the blood circulation to their brain. I've seen several SasuSaku fans claim as if it were fact, "Sakura was made to be Sasuke's girlfriend since the very beginning."
@Kagomaru
Hey, I support SasuKarin. :C
Edited by Moon_Girl, 23 September 2017 - 02:36 AM.