Well the whole role of the editor being considered the boss of the mangkia, what does this mean when we heard stories about how Kishi has gone through 5 editors?
Just hope those changes didn't involve removing NaruSaku as was shown throughout the majority of the series. It makes sense that any manga needs to move out before deadlines and at an even pace but it really sucks to know this could also butcher the story. All we know is that Naruto will meet Minato and the fight between Naruto and Sasuke will be last and Sakura is still going to have some role too, but its kinda a bummer to know that a simple suggestion could tank an enitre story. I still believe NaruSaku will happen, I just hope that it is a part of the ending not removed. I mean we could imagine that Sasuke's new outlook could cause an effect on Sakura between him and Naruto and she ends up siding with Naruto as her full development still. I mean the orginal ending if Sasuke simply would have kept revenge or gone on with it after listening to the kages, it still would have made Sakura take Naruto's side no questions asked. NS can still happen despite the new Sasuke's moderate view rather than emo-revenge driven view, I mean Sakura can still struggle with moving away from Sasuke and be tempted to go back only to mature and go towards Naruto. I believe NaruSaku will happen, its just that if it does not, lots of damage and disappoinement in the fact that people would respect either Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, or Hinata if NH or SS was triggered, SS the whole story is just a merchanised fanfiction.
Naruhina, I would be upset at kishi for these reasons:
1. Years of buildup sidelined for hardly any. Hardly any emotion in NH compared to what we got with NS.
2. People somehow loving a character who is more important in anime fillers than the manga (this is where hinata is sadly)
3. It would damage Naruto's character literally having him give up.
4. Hinata would literally be a fodder romance character, Naruto simply settled for her rather than had efforts.
5. The parallels would be pointless.
6. It would undermine Naruto's role as a cycle breaker, the guy who resolves everything, why should he fail with Sakura? If anything its ironic that the only people he has not yet turned over fully are Sasuke (due to his vendetta) and Sakura (due to her ideal love for Sasuke), is the full circle development of team 7 not a situaiton in which I don't know, Naruto is hokage, Sasuke is acknowling him and his friend, Sakura is happy the promise is fulfilled and happy Sasuke is back and forgives him but goes to Naruto rather than Sasuke, you know the opposite of what we first saw with:
Naruto: I'm gonna be hokage! Argh Sakura stop hitting me! SASUKE YOU JERK!
Sakura: OMG SASUKE-KUN! Idiot NARUTO!
Sasuke: Revenge, F-off both of you.
Don't you expect the ending for team 7 to be the exact opposite this? You know coming full circle.
finally the last reason, I would honestly hate all the annoying banter of the NH or other anti-sakura fans, it would be a grand scale embarresment for this fandom overall, not for the NS crowd, for the entire Naruto fanbase, people would have taken to loving a minor character with overblown proportions, liking a story reduced to a common 3rd grader story, they would have loved essentially a serialized fanfiction. It would give Naruto fans everywhere an incredibly bad name, it would just be an embarresment to see praise over such an event in a story which could destablize so much and contradict so much more and seeing people just enjoy or accept it. This is something I hope never comes.
If NaruSaku is canon, yeah this can still happen with us doing the banter, the only difference, ours is within logic not harming the story and we would have a valid reason for our banter, its cause the manga did this the whole time. (not going to do this even if NS comes true though, I'd rather enjoy the complaints as the undoing of the NH fandom).
Trust me a lot of Sasuke fans on NF wants, Sasuke to TNJ Naruto, Naruto to get beat up so Sasuke can saves his life, Sakura to ignore Naruto once Sasuke arrives and lastly now they want Kishimoto to make Sasuke the next Hokage instead of Naruto.
All of this so they can still keep bashing Naruto, believe me most Sasuke fans excluding 99.9% of SK, SasuNaru, and NS/Team 7 fans really dislikes Naruto, to a point where even some of them even wants him dead.
Honestly, that's all interpretation and if that's the case, that movie sure made a contradiction wouldn't it, especially it's all his 100%. It's not even about NS, it's about the fact she was there in many moments, so this is people's interpretation. Honestly, I believe he still cares for her the most in female. It just so happen that timing is not hers yet, so in a way, we are kind of being spoiled. Granted it's been a while, but patient is the name of the game in this arc. Put it this way, I will come back to this after this next volume is done, ok. I mean come on, he sure has Sakura key chain being for sake of being there. Where's Naruto? Seriously, I do think she is still on his radar, but again, waiting game is the main game in this arc. So yeah, I will leave it that.
Yes is being a while but If I'm honest with you am not that work up about Sakura appearance I know she will eventually show up, but the Sakura getting some supper power up or gating a big role is not something I desperately want doesn't mean I will not well come it with open harms. But I'm more concerned with her emotional development and her weakness since to me the spotlight she got in the Manga cannot be outmatched by any other female character aside from Tsunade, not to mention her FOD performance, her fight against Ino, her completely turn around from part one to part two and her Sasori fight, to me Sakura role is great, but if I did not mention this in the past because I might be seeing the same way another user on this forum was look at, in other words I'm not asking for that much compere to others when it comes to Sakura since most of the heroine I seeing in most Anime s don't get half of the focus Sakura has gotten, I only want Kishi to give the readers a good reason to stop hating on Sakura so much.
Edited by Don-kun, 19 April 2013 - 06:35 PM.