And you all keep forgetting one big major detail. SS wasn't created because Kishimoto wanted it to be so. He created it because NaruHina had to be canon. I want you all to really think about this and I can even back this up with facts taken from Kishimoto's own mouth.
Kishimoto said that he had no reason why Sasuke and Sakura are together and any reason outside of Sakura being a drug addict is going to be contrived. Now why would an author say such a thing if his intention was for Sasuke and Sakura to be together the whole time? "Bad at romance" is not really a good excuse because even 5th graders can write a cohesive fairy tale where two people fall in love and have tons of development in the story itself. So why did Kishimoto fail at it?
What is easier to believe?
"Sasuke and Sakura were meant to be together since chapter 1"
"Sasuke and Sakura were put together to push Naruto to HInata by way of showing that since Sakura was taken, Naruto only had one other choice."
The second theory sounds more believable given the fact that Kishimoto said he had no reaosn why they are together and one other quote that I seem to mention. You guys can look it up yourself where he said that he thought about NS and making them canon, but ultimately decided on NH because he saw a bunch of youtubers praising and seeing Hinata. It is also evident that he copied their reasoning too because his reasoning is almost exactly word for word with what the like of Sawyer and Forneverworld say: "She was there from the beginning, she supported him, and blag blah blah." Again, proven false on all count. Hinata wasn't there for a good chunk of the manga and never even existed on Naruto's radar.
So Sasuke and Sakura being together is a product of forcing NH to be canon and they are basically the ultimate form of "pair the spares." And since Naruto the Last started production around 2 years before the manga ended....I would say that Kishimoto had his hands tied. Imagine ending the manga with NS and the movie is about NH getting together and it was supposed to be canon.
Actually, that would have been funny to see...too bad Kishimoto didn't do that.
Next, you all are again bashing Sakura about what she does...what she doesn't do and just like pro-enders, you ignore everything else.
Naruto is WORSE to his friends than Sakura could ever be. If we are to take Naruto the Last as canon, then Naruto has been both lying to Sakura and Sasuke for a very long time. We are to take that everything Naruto did was not in the name of love and that he cared about them, but because Sasuke was far more popular than he was no matter what he did and he was extremely envious and he wanted to take everything away from Sasuke. We also take into account that Naruto never speaks to his friends or family that he once knew and even in the light novels we get an even bigger picture of Naruto being hypercritical and down right mean and nasty to everyone who formally called "friends." We have Naruto telling his own son that he needs to suck up the fact that his father is a workaholic and that he should see the village as his family and not him. Why? Because Naruto didn't have parents when he was growing up so Bolt not having his father to him seems like it is "no big deal."
"Quite being a brat, Boruto" says Naruto the biggest brat of them all and who only cared about people because he was an envious little cretin.
To me, Sakura is an angel compared to Naruto and his kitten change. You know maybe Naruto and Hinata were meant to be with each other. They are both spoiled, selfish brats that wanted everyone to pity them and are so pathetic that instead of actually being a decent human being, they were more like massive coveters for attention.
Hinata even more so than even Naruto. Proof? Well, let me ask you this...how many times has Hinata attempted to save anyone else other than Naruto? She didn't even care about her own sister and cared more about a damn scarf. She even says this in the movie. SHE SAYS SHE IS SELFISH BECAUSE SHE CARED MORE ABOUT A SCARF FOR NARUTO THAN SHE DID HER OWN SISTER. How kittening pathetic and selfish can you get?
But we are being told to believe that she is the most selfless person in the entire manga. HINATA LET NEJI DIE SO SHE COULD HAVE HER TIME WITH NARUTO.There is nothing more selfish than putter her own desires over other people's lives.
That's how the Last wants me to see this story and that is how I see it.
Since Boruto is not written by Kishimoto...it is not canon since "it was never his intention." Kishimoto never planned to make Boruto its own series.
He never planned it at all. At one time he was going to make a Minato Gaiden and showcase how Minato became who he was and you know what? I would have enjoyed that more that Hinata the Last Scarf with her children of the corn Burrito and Hepititis. And at least we know that gaurenteed he was going to end up with Kushina and not some shy background character that did nothing more than hinder Minato because she "lurves him so much."
Edited by James S Cassidy, 29 November 2017 - 04:08 PM.