Posted 09 November 2014 - 09:43 AM
I've made peace with the ending of Naruto but the lack of closure is going to haunt me for years to come, and I know that if we'll ever get it, it's probably going to be extremely dissatisfying and/or years from now when it simply won't matter.
This isn't quite like Harry Potter for me. I never really shipped any pairings in that. I still don't, though I prefer H/Hr over anything else. I knew whilst reading the final book that there was something potentially there, but I also knew that wasn't going to be endgame, and that didn't bother me at all in the end.
Naruto and Sakura are different. These two were made for one another by design. He was the hero that loved her, and she was the heroine that loved the wrong guy and was looking for love in the wrong places. They had a wonderful dynamic; they were so similar yet different in ways that strengthened their relationship and each other. It's a shame they didn't end up together, but more than that, it's a shame they were saddled with partners that weren't right for them and they were given no closure whatsoever.
Honestly what was Kishimoto even thinking? He must have been rereading his manga. He must have been aware of the implications of what he wrote. How he enforced that in the data books.
I just can't figure out why he wrote this ending. This awful, uninspired, betrayal of an ending. That more than anything will make it difficult to accept and get over all this.