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But that supports the Sasuke x Sakura paring. The moon and the star= Sasuke x Sakura if you go by that.
The only simbology has been explictly confirmed in this manga pairingwise is: Naruto & Sakura= Heaven & Earth; Hinata & Neji= Yin and Yang (well, the second example isn't quite a pairing, but you know what I mean).
You can trying finding more simbols, but you don't know if that is the creator's intent, so I consider it a futile exercise.
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Kishi got the gender bender idea from Ranma ½ which was the first Shounen to popularize it.
Sure? I don't think it's farfetched thinking Naruto's oiroke no jutsu comes from old legends about kitsunes morphing into women in order to seduce men. And Naruto doesn't use his transformation constantly, neither his character is built around it.
Anyway, Ranma 1/2 is far from being the first Japanese comic-book uses gender-bending characters (I think the first one was Ribbon no Kishi, by Osamu Tezuka. But I can be mistaken).
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I never got around Ranma... It started when I was born.)
(I got hooked into Gundam and Mazinger-Z and other robo anime... XD)
Someone else in this board knows -AND LIKES!- Mazinger Z and other robot anime?
Cloud, if you weren't a boy, I would kiss you.