I was trying to find any significance to CPR in Japanese fiction, but I found almost nothing new. I reconfirm the fact that kissing of any kind is sort of taboo in Japanese culture, yet I couldn't find any good examples of CPR being used in any romantic context in Japanese fiction. The reason why I looked up on it is because I want to know if the CPR in 663 can be consider romantic, since I did not interpretate it as such. However, when I googled "CPR in manga", I kid you not, but several of early articles where discussion forums on the recent Naruto forums. It wasn't like the top article, yet I was quite surprise how many articles I found in the early pages of my google search.
About the forums themselves, there wasn't really much being said that hasn't been said already. The primary argument I saw was the fact if the CPR would be consider romantic, and most posters argued it wasn't. However I did come across some interesting perspectives on the whole situation. One of which came from a fan who argued that Naruto and Hinata's hand holding was far more romantic and important to the manga because physical contact (particularly hand holding) is very romantic in Japanese culture, and the hand holding itself was consider important enough to justify it being on the cover of the manga volume. I don't necessary disagree with that statement, since we have all discussed before how intimidate contact is a lot more romantic in Japan than it is to the western world. It also brought up the interesting point that Kishi did thought the hand holding important enough to have it on the cover of the manga volume.
Another post that I thought was interesting was from a different forum, who argued that he/she does not believe NS will happen because they will find it weird for Sakura to suddenly fall in love with Naruto after just a few short chapters. This poster did not seem to be a shipper per say (it could still be argue that he is bias either way), and that one post made me come to epiphany; fans honestly don't see Sakura changing her feelings. It is just because they are against the pairing itself, they just don't see any kind of development for NS to come off of. While I personally find that ridiculous, especially since NH and SS shippers expect Naruto and Sasuke to unexpectedly fall in love with Hinata and Sakura, it does give me better understanding towards other shippers and anti. Most of us have painstakingly analyze the whole manga, and not only do we see the growing development between Naruto and Sakura's relationship (romantic or not), we are also able to logically understand why not only NS is the most likely pairing but also how it relates to the themes and pattern that that Kishi has been laying out.
Other fans don't do that, and I guess they just see Naruto and Sakura's relationship as purely platonic. That is actually something I find silly, especially because of the fact that they went on a freaking date in the Road in Ninja AND the fact Minato made a clear-cut connection between Naruto and Sakura with himself and Kushina when thought to himself that Sakura reminded him about Kushina, meaning he directly compared Naruto and Sakura's relationship to the only DEVELOPED romantic couple in the whole series.
I like how people in Japan are much less uptight about pairings than in the West.
