To be honest it was more of Pierrot that overhyped nh, especially with episode 166. Plus frankly I think Al of fans biased towards the ship just kept ignoring narusaku moments because it wouldn't fit their agenda.
I'm pretty sure that samurai 8 flopped was because no one trusts him after what he did for the ending of naruto, kind of like how no one wants to see any new works from d&d after they ruined game of thrones for many people with season 8
Back to the the topic of the chapter so is sasuke using ice style or not? Also the raptor have now become a pet dog?
Like I said in the summary, he didn't use Ice style, he used wind style to freeze mist. Pretty much the same thing but I guess they weren't allowed to give him ice style for some reason. And yes, he has a pet raptor now. I'm expecting him to ride it in the next chapter or something.
So i think you are saying the main Heroine is determined by the Arc or moment.
Gohan was the "protagonist" for this short time. So Videl was the Main Heroine as his partner at this time.
(I think most of the Videl moments are anime fillers)
Sasuke was the main Character for many arcs and fights in Manga. Ignoring the Part 1/Gaiden/Retsuden Moments with Sakura.
Karin was the Main Heroine in Part 2 in these arcs? Hinata was the Main Heroine in Pein Arc?
Ino the Main Heroine in Immortal Arcs? I don't think so. Sakura still is the main heroine.
Videl was only introduced as a future baby maker to Gohan nothing more or less. Bulma was the one who helped Goku in the entire classic DB, built a spacecraft and travelled to Namek and building a time Machine send his son to the past to save the future.
Not to mention the GT/Super arcs. Bulma was the franchise main Heroine.
About the Digimon Tri thing. Toei even introduced a new girl only to serve as a love interest to Taichi.
So correct the "Yamato-Sora" pairing isn't the intention.
This just shows Kishimoto learned to don't turn the "red herrings" pairings more famous than the supposed Main one and don't make unnecessary and long love triangles in a Shonen. Only Hardcore NS fans will see these "underneath" evidences like the ForeHead thing while most of the casual readers will think otherwise with Sakura/Hinata declaring their love to Sasuke/Naruto.
This turned in a point he was forced to make SS/NH canon and ignore his plans if NS was really his original pairing.
Samurai 8 floped harder than Boruto even with him following this rule. People aren't interestent in him outside Naruto franchise and characters.
Too late for him.
There are rules and there are exceptions to the rules. In the case of writing, it is not uncommon for a writer to go against a rule to make their story more interesting. Let's use a famous example. "Luke, I am Your Father." Before that, the big bad's faceless dark knight second in command was just something a hero defeated in story. It was a shock at the time, when Vader turned out to be Luke's father, also the wise mentor lied.
So an established rule in shounen is the heroine and love interest are often the same person.
Now to Dragonball. Do you believe Toriyama planned everything out till the end of the Buu arc from the start? How about till the cell saga? The Freeza/Namek arc? The Saiyan arc? The true answer is he only planned for the first arc at the start and was convinced to continue by his editor.
Goku is the main character/hero. Bulma is the Heroine, but not the love interest. Why? Because its clear if you watch/read Dragonball. Goku has no interest in sex. He likes food and fighting not fucking. So, Bulma was given Yamcha as her initial love interest, who was her intended. Until Toriyama wanted more Saiyans, and well there aren't that many female characters. So Bulma ended up with Vegeta to have Trunks. Ending her as being anyone else potential love interest. She is an important character and often the heroine just not the love interest for anyone else but Vegeta.
Gohan after the Cell saga was the hero into the early stage of the Buu arc. Do you honestly believe then, he must get with Bulma for the rule to work, or is that just you being pedantic? So, he was as the new main character quickly given his own love interest/heroine in Videl as Bulma was move to support character during this time.
Now the current manga arc for Dragon Ball Super is Trunks clearly from its first chapter, and it also makes clear his love interest in Mai. This arc will be focused on Trunks, Goten and Mai going up against Doctor Gero's grandson Hedo. Or do you believe he must have sex with his own mother?
Now GT the main character was Goku and the heroine was his granddaughter Pan. Do you believe Goku must have sex with his granddaughter for the general rule to hold up?
Now to Naruto. The intended plan was always for the forehead comment to be used to win over Sakura's heart. She was Naruto's love interest as well as the heroine. Just because you don't get it doesn't mean that Japanese didn't. As he was the main character. Sasuke and Shikamaru was given their own arc.
Sasuke was given his own arc during the hunt for Itachi arc where he formed his own team. Karin was introduce to make clear she was now his intended love interest was given traits similar to both Sakura and Naruto.
The immortals arc. Shikamaru was already set up with Temari long before Asuma's death. Ino was likely suppose to get with Chouji before Sai's introduction.
During the Pein arc the new editor that replaced Yahagi had Kishimoto give Hinata that moment with the intention of making her the heroine. Which led to a the mess that came after it.
Yamato and Sora getting together was always the plan from the start of Digimon. Again, because the creator was going against the rule they have said this many times in interviews. Tri was attempt to appease Taichi fans by giving him the best girl in the form of Miko.
Samurai 8 shows how badly Kishimoto regretted going along with the last minute change and tried to protect his new manga from suffering the same fate. If it was his choice alone why did he keep going on and on about how Hachi and Anna must get together? If its just his lessoned learned, just move on. Instead it was constantly going on about it, in order to protect it from an editorial decision later on.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 05 February 2023 - 01:24 AM.