If this was true, just realize how much shorter all mangas would be, more fighting and events would go faster, not many pauses in action for hero dialouge, villian dialouge, have half a page just for facial expressions, ok I mean there is nothing wrong with this but this is one of the reasons manga and anime are made fun in general, short events which take a few seconds take 15 minutes somehow.
Anyways 615 is a NaruHina moment, but its Hinata's high mark and you really cant do much beyond the high mark. It was romantic for Hinata, not Naruto. Naruto was busy thinking about all those who gave their lives for him in some way, early like Chiyo giving her life for Gaara due to his influence to Jiriaya who died having faith in him etc. The "you've been by my side the whole time" is what set fans into overdrive, its not meaning he acknowledges her love suddenly even though he knows Hinata loves him, it means how he knows she was fighting by his side the whole time since the fighting started. The way she and several others were protecting him and Bee was proof against Obito that people were willing to give their lives if Naruto and Bee being the Jinchurki could save it. Even then the hand holding part is simple for 2 reasons 1. the chakra transfer 2. comforting and thanking hinata, then naruto lets go and starts passing out chakra to everyone. Many fans still argue that it makes a difference that it was the real naruto who gave her power, she had it first, etc. Not so special if most others have it. While we do prefer Sakura here, its just that cause it was neji who died, yes its true Sakura would have been wrong giving the speech, Sakura does not have much connection to Neji, if it was like Ino who died then yeah maybe there but otherwise its Hinata who gave the speech because Neji died, they are close in their relation, if anything 615 ended the Naruto, Hinata, Neji sub story things being the opposite of when neji tried to first kill Hinata to having defended her on his own free will. If this is the high mark for Hinata, as many said, NH cannot outdue itself if this is the high mark, nothing left for developing Hinata aside from what she does when it comes to Naruto. Even then I cant imagine Naruto just saying he loves Hinata, I can see him saying though he knows Hinata loves him, he does no feel the same way about her but thanks her and Hinata can be mature about that.
Only problem with 615 for many, they just glossed over many things and jumped to the canon conclusion, Sakura's lone panel reaction is a major reason against this along with her view on Sasuke from 540. Not saying Sakura is jelly, but the reaction to Hinata's speech had to impact or make her realize something, ironically this recent 615 panel is also the last time we have seen Sakura. Sakura has not been seen with the power, but Sai as well. This makes many suspect kishi has something big in store for Sakura at least. NaruSaku has been around depiste no canon moments, I mean there have been RTN and the 2 fillers showing Naruto still loves Sakura after the events of the 5 kage summit, yet although these are filler, at times can attribute current attitudes back into the canon storyline, plus there is nothing so far in the manga to say where his feelings lie. Just that beyond no direct answer yet, for NH naruto would have to jump over Sasuke as his goal, this includes sakura, just to get to hinata, naruto cannot just go to Hinata, Sasuke is his goal so obviously Sakura takes a backseat, this also includes Hinata. Even then there are many reasons NaruSaku is still alive, after the confession we got Kushina with obvious parallels to Sakura and the early relation, there are story elements and plots of importance such as the promise, many claim naruto abandoned it at the fake confession but that would be damaging to his character, plus even after the reunion of team 7 naruto again gives the i cant save one friend speech, we found out that this is tied into his promise to sakura. Not to mention, this is the only thing Sakura ever heavily asked him for, its not like he would abandon it, narutos character is based on will and resolving those problems and ultimately breaking cycles, this includes him giving team 7 a better fate than the sanin and team minato, mainly by sasuke coming back and sakura coming to him (if the cycle is to be different for naruto) just why should naruto succeed in everything save the girl he has so much development with? One major reason NaruSaku lives, plot points, character development and consistency, and basic logic. Sakura still loves Sasuke yes, but she was depressed by it and she has close feelings for naruto, its not like when it comes to the fight with Sasuke she would ignore Naruto again, shes going to put her faith in him cause well he is the only one who can do anything. Its funny how fans think its impossible for sakura to change, if she did not change, then its a lack of development and sakura goes back to square one, defeating her purpose in the journey, sakura is a mainly mental character and sasuke is her biggest mental obstacle kinda like how her biggest physical obstacle is trying to do something big for naruto.
Many fans think Naruto should just go to hinata because of her confession, how about this? Naruto cannot do that because he feels he cannot become hokage or tell Sakura his feelings until he gets Sasuke back. Sasuke is first, yet Naruto feels undeserving of these, he cannot just drop it for Hinata, that would harm his character, if NH were to happen, it would need to start now but it would still damage much of the story and risk putting damage onto Sakura's character if she was to go with Sasuke, same time NH would be too short, rushed, and crammed. Hinata's role as a character is also impacted for the worse, given more development as the circle of importance shrinks as we approach the climax is really asking for trouble, when it comes to the Naruto Vs Sasuke fight, Hinata cannot be here, not at all, she is been cut out from basically anything Sasuke related, it would really be out of place for her here. Hinata has no purpose in the inner areas of team 7 as many want her too. She is not part of team 7. Main thing when it comes to Hinata is her lack of screentime, she is not even in 100 chapters, not even 1/6th of the manga and yet people expect her to be some extra important character, shes just a side character, only real arc was the chunin exams, after that we only have 2 real events with her, pain and 615. Nothing else, she could have died in the pain arc, the story could have gone as normal no impacts. Sakura dies, lots of impacts to the story. Only saying when it comes to NS and sakura being in a majority of the story with development and interaction with Naruto really does seem insane to just suddenly abandon for NH which is hardly touched upon, much less developed in comparison, and for the fact that Hinata is not even in 1/6th of the series with only 3 real events, neji fight, pain, and 615, thats it. Even Shikamaru has done more and he is a proper major character like Tsunade. If Hinata were more important, I would imagine she would have had a role like Shikamaru or Tsunade, yet she does not.
What she meant was that there will always be different mangas that follow different rules and put some twists into the preexisting paradigm and tropes of shonen mangas. That's the point she was trying to make. It doesn't mean the existing paradigms have to be radically changed thoroughly.
You guys keep bringing up 615, but what about 617?? is that not a big moment for her as well?? she even
stole what was usually supposed to be
Sakura's role. I could understand about Naruto's one track-mind being a "guarantee" for NS. But that doesn't cut it for me if it's not reinforced enough time and again.
I'll give you several examples: Natsu going "I'll save Lucy!!"
or "I won't let anyone take away Lucy's future!! *berserker tears* " or Ed's "DON"T YOU DARE LAY A FINGER ON HER!!!"
All the above examples show the heroes' devotion to their girl. Now, if Naruto were so one track-minded about Sakura and devoted to her, wouldn't we be seeing moments like that to reaffirm his feelings?? The Kage Summit is one example, but if Kishi wants the
idea of NS stuck in our minds, then he should be showing it more through Naruto's actions.
Something simple like "Everyone, Sakura-chan... wait for me!! I'm coming!!" would've done the trick. Shipping moments are supposed to give a certain push to one pairing. If Kishi wants us to accept the idea of NS, then he should be pushing it more.
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