Wow. There are so many feelings that I have from reading this manga. It feels very very nostalgic with the team 7 reunion. My favourite scene featuring Sakura-chan thus far. She looks really fierce and I was literally trembling when the diamond in hear forehead started to form. That same feeling when Naruto arrived to Konoha after Pain attack.
That was really worth the wait to see our favourite heroine shine. It feels very natural and the dots are clearly connected. It feels that the story build up set up from Part I is starting to form a full circle. As if we're slowly walking back from our walk in the park, with the topic being revisited in reverse order.
- Asuma with his team (Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino)
- Neji and Hinata resolve (he died protecting Hinata and Naruto)
- Sakura's resolve when she was in the chuunin exam for Naruto and Sasuke to watch her back.
I think Kishi is currently setting up the foundation for the triangle love to be revisited. And we will know how it will turn out in the end. The foreshadowing is in place (Naruto and Sasuke are racing to save Sakura). The good old rivalry between the two. Naruto being a little jealous --yet, while the three standing there, Sakura only spoke to Naruto and tease him dearly.
I hope that Kishi will keep this 'reverse order revisit' approach... it'll nicely form a full circle... and of course, here I'm hoping that the bench scene will be revisited as the final resolution for the triangle love, which leads to NS (a woman can hope :))
Nonetheless, like many others, I'm bracing of possible SS moments which will be concluded with NS moments. Kind of like revisiting the sequence of Sasuke leaving the village, Sakura plead him to stay and nicely closed with Promise of a Lifetime from Naruto (and Sakura's thoughts thereafter)
When the story touches these three, somehow it feels very nostalgic and feels that the manga was back on its roots of a solid storytelling.
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"I'm sorry I didn't believe. But I'd given up believing in so much, until I met you. From the first day I saw you, you were everything I ever wanted to believe in. You can do this, Diana. I know you can...But I have to go."
"What? What are you saying?"
"It's okay, this is what I came here to do. I can save today, but you... you can save the world."