I thought I should share this here. Enjoy.
Why did it have to end this way? Why?! I can make fun of the sheer craziness of the ending, I can blame Kishimoto, I can mock SP and everyone who had a hand in this but it doesn't really help. Its been weeks since the ending but I still get a feeling of sadness whenever I think of this series. I guess I really really loved the series and all the characters a lot.
Why Kishimoto? Why did you write this manga in a way that made so many of us become this attached to the characters only to wreck everything in the very end? How could you destroy your own characters?!
To be honest, the world may never know what exactly happen down there. The movie really don't feel like it was always planned or even connect to the main story. You only got that Hinata loves Naruto and everything else is brand new, which begs the question, why not have it in the beginning to the end of your own work. No matter what, those don't have to be romance at first. It can be character developments for them, but instead it comes off as a brand new yet highly questionable scenario. In movies or other series, these moments are there to be friendly terms because it's all about the buildup, then when they're both close to each other, depending on the situation, it will bring them together to something more.
Here, it comes off the way how Cinderella works: see her and you feel fated. Like if it's true about fangirls, then that's really off from Cinderella. Except Cinderella has a different target while this movie has the target of the fans, and it would seem like it will fail to deliver. People will go there and buy, but the aftermath won't be long. It's like what I said before. I go to the Avengers movie and after that, I feel like I want to read the comics for the first time. Here, I feel like nothing will occur. It's come and go.
The main problem with this movie is that it's based on a series, a series with already established characters. If the target audience is the fans, then trouble can ensue. Again, SasuSaku fans are now enraged against their fellow friends. That's not what you want to do. Don't be surprised if the first week is great at box office but next week won't. Internet is a small world but can be a large at a great rate, and all it takes is one person. The premiere can weakened the hype to the fans in a small to large doses. Say you would have gotten 5 millions on day one. Now with these leaks, you lose that. Lastly, remember the talk of embargo? If I recall correctly, there wasn't really any with RtN. Perhaps they learned the effect from it. It was a big deal. Now, they want no one to know, especially the massive disappointment of Sasuke not being there for a minute.
The person who went to see the movie and translated ladygt's work come off saying, "Not into love, this movie isn't for you. I rather have manga do the work," so in other words, you got to be a fan of that. To me, I see it as a problem, because RtN didn't require me to like NaruSaku, it didn't require me to like Minato and Kushina, it only require me to like the series. That's it. And I enjoyed it a lot because it feels connected and you feel the actual developments and struggles of our main characters, especially Naruto. In here, it's coming off as "Oh I got an easy jackpot, so all I really need to do is to love her." No struggle. No, I don't count her being kidnapped. It has to be genuine and it has to be a standalone reason, like other movies that they love each other because real developments from the beginning but then with both of them not knowing what's going on, such as one is villain or one tried to one of them, they already have a situation and it's that they need to realize that they fallen in love with each other. So yeah, maybe I'm too smart for this.
Don Bluth has done great movies in the 80s, though sadly, 90s seems to be where he declined pretty bad. In fact, they believe he wasn't the same after a death of a very close person. Now, people starts to wonder for Kishi. Keep in mind, Kishi's dad past away around the same time chapter 662 releases. No joke. Chapter 663 was already done, but releases later. After that, the series never hit the right peak. Now again, this is just assumption, but it does happen. I mean it does sound reasonable because the art wasn't the same as before, the story starts to show a lot of inconsistency, plot holes, asspulls more often than ever, which says a lot, and worst of all, feeling empty handed by the end. Is it true? Again, it's only a assumption. I even heard story that Kishi didn't feel comfortable at the premiere according to one person, with pictures.
If only we know the true story behind everything. It's clear that something have went wrong and it really feels like everything never truly got concluded the way it needed to be. But the damage is done and the fandom were outrage to the point they burn the stuff. It did much worse than any other series did because this wrecked the characters, the most important aspect of a story, wrecked the theme, also important, wrecked the story, and wrecked the feeling of satisfactions. And that's why fanfic exist.
Edited by NaruSaku4Life3g, 27 November 2014 - 04:09 PM.