The west took over.
I thought Hinata was popular in Japan though? Isn't she the traditional Japanese wife moe type while Sakura is the liberated western girl? No offense to Japan.
Well Kishimoto said Bolt was the "Bolt" keeping nH together. It is quite obvious that kishi hates the ending by this point. He most likely knew the ending was a bad idea but he wanted out and SJ and SP own the rights to the story. So what can he do? And he probably hoped that nH was what the fans really wanted and that the clowns at sp actually had the ability to tell a love story.
Pathetic how it took a child to keep Naruto and Hinata together. That doesn't even happen in real life. I think there's one thing we can agree on: Kishimoto didn't love and care for his characters and story in the way that we did.
sometimes i wonder if narusaku would have happened if naruto were made from korea, or china. do the chinese, or koreans' use honorifics' to? i wonder what naruto, and sakura's names' would have been?
I dunno, "Naruto" and "Sakura" still sound pretty Asian to me.
Edited by Aizen-Sama, 20 March 2016 - 02:57 PM.