I intended commenting because these two chapters have been so good shipping-wise, but first of all...
Top 10 best anime/manga heroine character of the past 50 years.
http://www.animenews...sults-announced
http://blog.esuteru....es/6841394.html
You know, I consider top lists and opinion polls like a ridiculous waste of time and nothing to get upset about, but...
Worst poll EVER. The best heroines of the past 50 years? Of the past 50 months is more like it. Voters are SO young or Japanese otaku are so easily led by fads? I am sorry, I do not buy no female anime/manga character older than 1995 is worth of appearing on a "the best of all time" list; or those characters are the best fifty years of anime has to offer. I know, I know, de gustibus non est disputandum, but this list does not sound like "I have researched about all possible candidates and I sincerely believe these aare the best ones", but like "I do not know other female characters. They are older so they must suck anyway". Voters must be very young, little knowledgeable or easily impressed by fads and flavour of month characters.
Okay, rant over. On topic now.
I have been a bit out of touch but I read chapter 662 and 663 after hearing what happened in them. 663 has been especially intense.
I agree CPR is not on and of itself romantic -and the panel does not give romantic vibes off-, but given the circumstances it is. Sakura is giving her all to save Naruto, even becoming her lifeline.
Some posters have mentioned similar scenes in other mangas. I also remember some fewer examples: In Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba (by the same guy created Detective Conan/Case Closed), the male hero has to give CPR to the girl was totally NOT his girlfriend (please, note the sarcasm). However she woke up right when he was about of doing it, believed he was taking advantage of her fainted state, and slapped him. In Ranma 1/2, Ranma has to manage an artifact and douse Akane in hot water before she dies by dehydration. And in Battle Angel Alita, main character lover's is dying, so she -being a cyborg- uses several cables to connect his head with her heart in order to keep his brain alive. It was both tender and bloody -Battle Angel Alita is a seinen anyway-.
I have no much more to tell. Karin getting a new never-shown-sooner-despite-it-being-incredibly-convenient power out of nowhere raised a brow out of me. Hinata running toward Naruto and slipping in a stone came across like borderline bashing to me (seriously, was that necessary?).
By the way... every time I check these threads there are people talking about Hinata -even if she does not show up in the chapter-, NH and her/its fans. It is REALLY tiresome.