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[Michi]

that was great.
 
right after the NH panel....
 
naruto: "THIS IS A LIE"

NEVER.EVER. Am I going to forget this moment.

/whisper/ never.

[Chucky-kun]

Noragami opening version 2     If anyone wants an OTP and a new manga go read Noragami it's good. 

But i ship general girl and Yato in that ;_:

[Strangelove]

So I guess Mr Kishimoto sold out to what was supposedly popular then...The Naruto manga will not be remembered in the many years to come.

[luffyq1]

You're Erwin! You're leading us! 

awwww :(

[StriderC]

and in the IT, everybody's "dreams" came true.

exactly. I'm not with it. Too many pairings happened and there all in the main circle.

[Atheck]

it's all just too damn convenient! I mean he paired up everyone with a main/sub character. I can't get with Naruto giving up on Sakura especially considering he never voiced how he felt. Everything led up to this moment. Naruto saving Sasuke and Naruto finally feeling ready to express his feelings. This isn't right.

Exactly! There's just no logic, no positive incentive or message that's being conveyed here - that is what Kishi set out to do, right? To allow an underdog who grew up emotionally and socially ostracised from people to overcome the obstacles that life sets in front of him and accomplish everything through his indomitable willpower. How is obliging the wishes of a girl you barely knew and had no romantic sentiments for so they can accomplish their dreams setting a positive standard for the youth who read this manga? None! By the logic of these so-called "spoilers", everything that has taken place between you and the woman you love to build up to a climactic reciprocation will have been for naught. You would have effectively failed what you set out to do.

[Chatte]

OKAY PEOPLE HOLD IT!!! I need you guys to discuss with me because this leak knocked down my iQ, not to mention my reading comprehension skills (I was passing these with A's when I was little).
 
Something doesn't add up here. Here I'm thinking this thing is legit and forcing me to leave this series alone...yet in the back in my mind, there are some very obvious kitten going on here:
 
First, its the NH kids, especially the son.
 
Now didn't we know that the Byakugan is an "aggressive trait"? It will show on all of the kids.
 
Plus, Naruto got the whiskers because of Kurama's influence during Kushina's pregnancy. And looking at Ginkaku and Kinkaku, they got the whiskers while being in Kurama's stomach, eating parts of his insides. How that's become an aggressive trait? I highly doubt Naruto's sperm were fused with Kurama's influence.
 
Next is the names: Bolt/Boruto... uh... first, its an english item... sounds VERY unoriginal, unlike Kishimoto's statement of naming the child Shinachiku and even Menma. And because those names associate with Naruto, not to mention his favorite food, ramen. Then we have to go to the "SS" girl who's name is Salad/Sarada... wouldn't a better name be like Setsuka or Yuri (common Japanese female names, especially they associate with flowers aka Sakura) Then she looks strikingly similar to Karin... how we gotten from a flower or a smell to food?
 
And the rest of the kids, especially the Chouji/Karui kid... Now that's crack at its finest! How's that even possible, especially Karui is from Cloud. Yes, she expressed feelings for finding handsome men in the Leaf, but went to Chouji of all people?!
 
Sai and Ino's kid: looks uh very similar to Sai... wait she has strawberry blonde hair? How we got black and platinum blonde to strawberry? (Unless... forgot about Fuu Yamanaka...)
 
I really don't know... this is like torturing my brain...

I so feel you...

[Liu bie]

NEVER.EVER. Am I going to forget this moment.

/whisper/ never.

Cierto nunca lo olvide con School Rumble

[Michi]

So I guess Mr Kishimoto sold out to what was supposedly popular then...The Naruto manga will not be remembered in the many years to come.

Oh trust me, it will.

For having the biggest asspull of the millennium.

[deviouslyChaotic]

awwww :(

Ayyy you should be honored to be commander handsome

[Fenris]

awwww :(

I vote him being Levi, instead.

 

We all know what happened to Erwin..... 

[Pyretech]

You know, now that I finally got past my first post, I need to get this off of my chest. I'm not as mad as all of you guys because I expected crap. It was way worse than even my low expectations. Whatever. It's not like this manga was special to me like you guys.

 

This section is all backstory into how I got into Naruto.

 

I started watching Naruto as an 11 year old boy when it started airing on Toonami. I then learned that there was a manga release and instantly picked up all the volumes up until I think volume 12. I loved the Zabuza arc and think to this day that the Chuunin Exams Arc is the best in the series. That had the best battles as everything was tactical and all of these interesting characters like Rock Lee and Temari appeared. Everyone was badass! The Kabuto betrayal was a great twist too. Hinata was one of my favorite characters because she was shy and had major confidence issues like I did at the time. I also thought she was cute (and I also accidentally stumbled onto a very... interesting... drawing of her wearing only her coat and told all of my friends  ). Naruto's speech to her was actually one of my favorite moments in any manga.

 

Anyways, I followed it hardcore until around the time Tsunade was introduced. Then I stopped reading because I was focused on other matters like my mother who was diagnosed with cancer. I met new friends both online and in real life, both of which liked anime and manga. I talked with my friends in real life about Naruto but they were all the group of people I considered the "creepy part" of anime lovers. One would talk about how she was drawing people she knew having sex with Rock Lee and generally weird topics like that. I pretty much stopped talking to them too. My online friends and the three friends I had that weren't into anime were pretty much all I had left. My friends online were into Naruto but after all of the other people I met I was bored with it. Finally around the time Naruto Shippuden episode 16 was released, I caught up. I didn't talk with anyone about it because my online friends were still way ahead of me and my real life friends were not into that at all. Again I stopped paying attention due to other matters.

 

I got into football and video games heavily and tried to change my image from the awkward kid. I stopped talking with most of my friends online save for a few (the others were a bit mean). They were into anime and manga but they never talked about it either it seemed. A long time passed and I got back into anime like Eureka Seven, S-Cry-Ed, and Samurai Champloo. I dealt with a lot of drama in my personal life like my mother passing away and closed back into my awkward shell. Finally after hearing my friends talking about the war arc, I caught up on the Naruto dub and read every chapter of the manga in 3 weeks' time.

 

This section is pretty much why I came to this site and what I believed how the manga would end.

 

Since it was years later, I essentially reset everything I knew about Naruto. I found love for Gaara, Lee, Sakura, and Ino. I've never considered myself a shipper, but I found myself thinking about what pairings would make the most sense thematically. The themes I thought Naruto presented to the audience was surpassing the previous generation, the will to never give up even in the face of adversity, and Naruto being the catalyst for personal growth of the characters. I knew Sasuke would be redeemed as that was the biggest goal of our protagonist. I figured that Naruto would either be Hokage or well on the road during the ending. I also figured that these following pairings would be either be canon or these characters wouldn't be paired at all:

 

Shikamaru and Temari

 

This made sense to me because Shikamaru has screentime with 3 characters pretty much. Temari who was his rival in the Chuunin Exams and saved him, Ino who was his teammate and longtime friend, and Shiho who was a girl that had a crush on Shikamaru. I figured that since Shiho was not important (although I liked her) and Ino was a teammate and part of the InoShikaCho formation, he'd end up with Temari. Plus there's that scene where Naruto thinks they're a couple (might be filler).

 

Chouji and Ino

 

I really didn't think of this as a serious pairing, but it would show that Ino got over the shallow part of her that was only interested in the cool Sasuke and "hot" Sai. This breaks the InoShikaCho argument but it wasn't a pairing I was concerned about.

 

Sasuke and Karin

 

Now this one is a hotbed here. I like Karin's motivations for liking Sasuke even if I dislike Sasuke myself. Sasuke did stab her which is horrible, but he learned to control Amaterasu from her and apologized for said stabbing. If figured if anyone would even be remotely close to Sasuke besides Naruto, it would be Karin.

 

Naruto and Sakura

 

Now everyone here knows why I like this pairing. It's obvious in my opinion. Sakura in part 1 was this selfish person who only seemed to care about Sasuke at first. She slowly grew from hating Naruto to being willing to sacrifice everything to save his dreams. Sakura also needed to get past her insecurities and obviously Sasuke doesn't help there. I never believed that the bench scene would come up and make Sakura realize that she loves Naruto would happen. I figured it'd either be open-ended with hint or during an event like the end of Chapter 698. Plus the comparisons to old, failed relationships made me feel like the surpassing the next generation theme would come up.

 

Now I don't dislike NaruHina, I like Hinata even though she hasn't been developed since Part 1. I dislike SasuSaku because it cancels Sakura's developments unless next chapter she clocks Sasuke in the jaw. Sasuke also hasn't cared about Sakura at all since the end of Part 1. SasuHina didn't make sense to me either.

 

In closing, I'd like to say that good job NaruHina and SasuSaku fans. While I don't agree at all about any of these "developments", you won assuming this is real (no reason to believe otherwise at the moment). It was fun reading Naruto, but the entire war arc is horrible in every way. I've been at work all day and haven't been focusing on all of this so I probably left a lot out I meant to say. If so, I'll talk about it later.

[Luna]

[narusakunojutsu]

Noragami opening version 2     If anyone wants an OTP and a new manga go read Noragami it's good. 

speaking of it, I actually started noragami thanks to your sig. I actually googled your sig to discover which anime is it from, and I finished it in a day

[alexander]

How many hour till the spoilers, more or less? Maybe there is still some hope, however faint it might be. This wait is killing me. I shouldn't have used an computer today 

[Nate River]

Fun facts you need to consider:
 
it was stated in the latest databook that naruto still loves sakura
 
sasuke just said team 7 was his family and singled out naruto. sakura is not exclusive.
 
 
that is all

Then I would think that the movie must be the shift in feelings for Naruto. It would certainly square the circle as it were.

[Xan]

A manga that needs a movie to make it more believable is no real manga ending.

[Aeria7Gloris]

I vote him being Levi, instead.

 

We all know what happened to Erwin..... 

 

Is it a trend in mangas to not be... Whole

[tesfayyy]

In my mind Kishimoto was forced to do this, how could he ruin his own manga otherwise? As bad a writer as he might be, it's obvious he was building up to a NaruSaku ending.

[Chucky-kun]

Then I would think that the movie must be the shift in feelings for Naruto.

aka the asspull