Refer back to my earlier comment: "I highly doubt Kishimoto is motivated by money, but I think he likes to tease pairings for fun." I wasn't referring to this movie only, but the manga as a whole. Remember, there was the yaoi sasusai scene, kakanaru, kakairu, and so forth.
And I was referring to the movie specifically, as this thread obviously pertains to this subject.
I'm confused about your comment. He didn't animate the movie, but he write the script. There's sasusaku, sasu/everyone, hinanaru, itasaku, nejihina, and leetenten. He's not "giving hope" per say; he didn't make the trailer, just like most scriptwriters don't make their film trailers.
Kishimoto didn't make the cologne, his publisher or whoever owns the license did -- I'm not sure why in your statement is contradicting itself.
Allow me to explain further. He obviously didn't animate the movie simply because he does not have the skills to do so. But, since he is the creator of the series that the animators are animating for the movie, logic dictates that has plenty of authority in the studio to see fit however he pleases. He did not animate the official trailer because he does not have the skills to do so. But, since the official trailer is one of the big crucial parts that draws in viewers, he will at least have a say so in how it looks because it's the "official trailer" that will leave an impression on us viewers if whether or not we will take money out of our wallets to go see it. He created the script and the character designs for this movie, his opinion will most definitely have large value in the studio with the animators of his movie. Now, if you understand this, I'm sure you're intelligent enough to apply this logic to the creation of the cologne, yes?
The official trailer is obviously a mirror off of Kishi's Rtn poster that had the seemingly complimentary couples that is NH/SS. They were the apparent poster couples of that movie, and the official trailer made it even more so by having a SS interaction, and then right after that it had a NH interaction clip. Negative or positive their small clips may look in that official trailer, fans jumped for joy the moment they saw that, just like they did in the promotion poster of Rtn that had SS/NH side by side. They were the couples that fans were more obviously focused on, not sasu/everyone, itasaku, nejihina, and leetenten. Why do you think you have the NH/SS fandom upset over the revelation that this movie is a NS movie? He gave them hope in the movie, just like he gave the NH fandom hope in 615. Hopefully I made myself clear because I hate explaining things.
Edited by luffyq1, 13 February 2013 - 11:39 AM.