Posted 30 November 2013 - 11:20 PM
For the current stuff ahead, it makes me wonder for the pairing stuff just what to expect such as
-building on 631, for it hinting the answer of kushinas foreshadow what will occur for naruto and sakura in the future epically since the high moment for them hasn't occurred yet.
-how will Kishi handle hinata for the remainder of the manga if it's coming to a close and the final 2 fights arnt even important for her.
-how will the aspect of sakura not trusting Sasuke and Sasuke resolving to fight naruto go?
Looking back, this whole pairing war was low for a while until Kishi wrote hinata confessing to naruto, that was the event which ignited the pairing war and it intensified with sakura hugging naruto, sai revealing narutos feelings to sakura, the 469 event, Sasuke trying to kill Karin and sakura, naruto saving sakura from Sasuke, 540, 615, and 631. Just looking back at what Kishi did with hinata in that moment, it really intensified to all the stuff fans have been debating and because of it, the way it has gone, Kishi wrote himself into a corner posing problems for the story on both ns and nh ends especially with the 469 events because he left stuff unresolved.
On the ns side, before the invasion of pain he gave us a good emphasis on a growing relation between naruto and sakura due to some events like sakura learning about the nine tails, akaskuti, seeing the 4 tails, it was all going in a solid path. He did put emphasis for impacts on sakura with the land of iron and both seeing how she hurt naruto and saw what Sasuke became, sakura experienced two bad things, though she did try to make up things to naruto. The deal was though, 469 was left with unresolved answers to fans, nothing said on him being past sakura or going to hinata. It was just easier to say naruto loved her until proven otherwise and well 631 gave us a good indicator and kushinas foreshadow is a hint to an ending pairing. The problem for ns though, if Kishi chose to just divert from the emphasis he has shown the audience with the events between naruto and sakura, it would have been completely unusual and like a waste to include many scenes of her crying for him if it was just to end in friendship. If anything Kishi made it clear that naruto loves sakura but also that sakura was highly concerned and cared about naruto for all those events she ended up crying over him. Yes we can name many events she cried over him, learning what happens to a jinchurki if the tailed beast was removed, seeing the 4 tails, lamenting herself for not being able to help naruto, crying over what sai revealed to her, crying silently for lying to naruto, crying over the aspect of him dying. And people say she doesn't care, she shed tears many times for naruto. I'm suprised this isn't mentioned more. But the problem is with things left ambiguous to some fans, should ns not happen then this is a big problem I mean just why bother then?
For nh the problems just for bigger, the other half of kishis problem was for nh, at the time it didn't go much anywhere. It had a lot of potential to just rocket after hinatas confession but naruto never answered her back and it had suffered from not much development even at the point of pain. In the span of the manga to that point, hinata honestly didn't do much, she had a role in the Chunin exams but there were many other important characters in that arc too and hinata didn't have much of a role in the itachi pursuit arc, rather no leaf ninja did. It was Sasuke and itachis arc that's all. Now for her to suddenly take the light, she could have done more but not much happened. Then the confinement arc started sending naruto away so no pairing moments for a while. Then came the war. Naruto met hinata for a small time and gave a memory scene to the pain event but that's it. 615 came but naruto wasn't focusing in the hand holding cause well he has a battle to fight. There hasn't been emphasis on it. The problem here was that Kishi hadn't used hinata to give us enough association with hinata before throwing the confession action with her. And with the time then open which had plenty of opportunity to give them space to build nh, nothing happened. Then 615 came, it was short, then 631 came in and we all know the disaster 631 caused over 615. The problem was Kishi didn't use hinata enough prior to 437 and didn't do enough with hinata after 469 if he was serious about naruto moving on from sakura.
So this is another difference between 631 and 615 and I'm suprised many don't use this either, 631 is bound in a foreshadow. 615 is a short moment, we don't need emphasis on a foreshadow, readers know they persist until either the revelation comes or they get some build. 631 built on kushinas foreshadow yet it's beyond me why people think this doesn't count when it's the only thing to have come so far and even then Kishi still could have either saved it for later, used hinata, or ignored it fully leaving it ambiguous to fans over what Kushina meant. But he chose to use it on sakura. Comic moment, yes but worthless or unimportant, i wouldn't go that far. I can understand why nh fans see the 615 hand holding as important, but the foreshadow is the bigger factor here because well foreshadows tell you what will happen or at least hint it and so far Kishi said there would be one pairing, revealed the foreshadow with Kushina, and brought minato in, the only other who knew kushinas last words. Kishi said it in an interview long ago one pairing of unretiquited love would be returned, brought Kushina in with a similar background to sakura in interacting with naruto, made Kushina say find a girl like her, and then we get to minato asking about the relationship of naruto and sakura and thinking of Kushina as similar. In all this time people still think some big change will occur, that minato will just say hinata is like Kushina or himself. If Kishi really really did this, it would only make things even more of a mess. 631 is potentially the game maker chapter for the pairing wars. If it goes forward then 631 was the dark omen of the end for SS and nh. This chain makes sense too yet it's beyond me why people just need to ignore this to the point it becomes mocked and not simply just enough for fans to say, maybe it can happen, that's all it's saying right now.
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