2 Years from now on, NH and SS is the real pairing while NS is the fake pairing.
Actually, it has been the new direction since November last year. Or even much earlier than that when The Last was in pre-production.
After all, the author himself was the one saying that we're the red herring.
That's why the new movie due in August plays a pivotal role. And many people placed a huge bet on it. Kishi said that it will be his last activities for Naruto franchise. He even said it's his masterpiece. The studio is willing to invest 2 million copies of colored manga as a promo.
The Last didn't even have such marketing promotions.
If the new movie succeed and surpasses The Last, this sort of trend in storytelling will dominate manga/anime industry in the next 5-10 years. The Naruto anime will be milked over and over again in the next couple of years. It will be the de facto standard of success, as viewed by animation studio and the publishers. It will also proof the claims that NS fandom is small, and the anti groups are not the general audience financing the series. It will also proof that Kishi and studio has made the right decision, and you'll see that the franchise will be alive in the next 5 years or so with the new era...
However, if the new movie fails, Kishi will lost his face even more than now --after he claimed that this is his masterpiece. The Naruto franchise will demise within a year or so. Bolt will not get his animated series. And it will proof the claims that NS and the anti fandoms were the ones financing the series in the past 15 years to be 100% accurate. Those rumors about no refund for the last and people upset for misleading advertisements will be proven to be correct. It will also proof that Kishi and the studio has made a huge mistake, which costs their fortune, just for the sake of people who never spend a dime on the franchise and read the manga freely from the internet.
Facts and numbers speak louder than words. And these proof, whether it the new era will succeed or not, will make a closure for the most of us in NS fandom. To know for sure we were the right one or the wrong one will serve as the final 'bonds' we have for this series...
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"I'm sorry I didn't believe. But I'd given up believing in so much, until I met you. From the first day I saw you, you were everything I ever wanted to believe in. You can do this, Diana. I know you can...But I have to go."
"What? What are you saying?"
"It's okay, this is what I came here to do. I can save today, but you... you can save the world."