HeloemyHelloemy's post
Okay let me start by saying I don't believe he will give us open ending. Why? Let me elaborate on this first.
First of all people argue that NH fans will know the ending so they won't watch the movie, vive-versa for NS fans. This argument, althought not stupid, I don't think there's much reason to it. In the first place people who want to know the pairing will know either through others who watched the movie or through the supposed premiere on November that some fans will attend to. So, the problem with this argument is that we're expecting Kishi to milk the pairing by doing what: 1 month of slightly more merchandise sellings and a few more people in the first session of the movie? Really? Like this is enough to make a difference in 10+ years of working and bringing money home
And yes I'm saying slight difference in money because I firmly believe that most Naruto fans aren't that much concerned with pairings, and mainly because, supposedly (so I heard from people here) NS fans are a bigger fanbase in Japan. And where's the movie again? Japan, sursprise!
Then some also mention this: Oh! But the NH fans are a bigger fanbase in western countries... Yeah so? SS is bigger than NH/NS (again according to some members in here) in Japan (and is also kittening big in western countries) and I don't see them milking the pairing, so what's the point in this argument then? And by believing in this argument your basically saying you believe in NH happening
Want to know why? Because those fans will know the ending before the movie gets to their cinemas, so what's the point I ask you? If this is how it's supposed to be then there's nothing stopping Kishi in making NH in the epilogue
So in the end the benefits from TROLLING your readers aren't enough to compensate the costs (1st principle of economics: the agent is rational). I believe there will be a pairing, most likely NS, but there will be one. Of course I don't exclude open ending because there's also another "principle" my teacher thought me in college: "Don't underestimate human stupidity".
It just wouldn't make sense to leave an open ending if we have an epilogue in my opinion. After all, isn't that what an epilogue is for? :/ But I also won't deny that possinility. I just think we will get something conclussive in the original work.

















