Hi I'm Emb3rs
For Starters as of this post, its been a little over a month since I started and became a fan of Naruto.
Second this is not a post meant to bash any fandoms so i apologize if it does.
So for the past week since I caught up with the most recent episode of Naruto, I watch dubbed, I have been looking all over to see opinions from all sorts of fans in the Naruto fandom. The most common argument next to NaruSaku is hate towards Sakura. I initially avoided them because I love Sakura in Naruto. Other conversations that I had entered all led me to those videos though so I put my personal opinions of Sakura aside and watched the videos by Double4Anime and ForNeverWorld. What I found behind the mean titled videos were very well thought out explanations. The summary that I got from these videos is, “ I could have like Sakura, she had potential but Kishimoto never gave her the chance because he didn’t want her to be the tsundere or heroine of the his manga.
My Question is how do you feel about this? Do you think it was fair that Kishimoto used Sakura as a meaningless character to throw under the bus as he pleases yet has the audacity to call her a main character? Do you think he might work with Anime directors like in Road to Ninja to solve these loose ends he left behind now that the manga is over?
So I dug a little deeper and found an interview from 2006. In this video he says something that enraged me a bit because of how terrible a choice it turned out to be. In the interview he is told that One Piece creator already know the end to his manga and asked if he had made one for Naruto yet? His answer was this:
“ Yes, I have the last episode clearly drawn in my mind. I’ve already decided on the layout, text and scenes. Not just the story ideas, but the visual ideas are solid. All I have to do is just head toward the ending I have, but there are still so many things that need to be resolve before reaching that point. Maybe I have thrown in too many ideas, so I need to wrap them up neatly.”
So here we are years later and were is this neatly wrapped masterpiece that is your last chapter? Any decent writer will learn to alter there ending if his work up to the ending contradicts what his final piece was suppose to be. Sakura, unfortunately seemed to be used as a red herring, a full time Sasuke fan girl, and the idiot girl who married a man who attempted to kill her several times.
He made her joke around with Narutos feelings for her to bring him back to the Konoha village. Made her sound terrible by basically saying, “ you are famous now so I like you.” Finally also making her seem cold by disregarding for a long time what Hinata said to Naruto during the pain fight and making it seem as if she just needed him to get back with Sasuke. And the neatly wrapped up ending is resolved by her telling Naruto, her almost lifelong Friend and the guy who’s crush did in fact turn to love later, he only ever liked her because of his rivalry with Sasuke.
Even if he didn’t want to make NaruSaku something he didn’t have to ruin such an amazing character. There is so much to compare team 7 and the great Sannin but it’s tied up so bad that it’s an insult to compare Tsunade with what Kishimoto made of Sakura in the end.
I hope the anime team pushes Kishimoto to at least help out absolve Sakura from the horrible way in which he depicted her. It doesn’t matter if its canon or not because look at the movie Road to Ninja. That is my favorite Naruto movie and its not canon. Kishimoto worked with directors to write this very emotional and awesome story that seemed canon. I’m sure if he could re do it he would have worked it in to fit the timeframe in his manga.
He has time now to reconsider his mistakes or write alternate endings that fit better with the manga he created that went in an almost completely different direction to what Naruto The Last says he wanted to do.
I really want to hear your opinion of this subject. Like i said i'm new so i do like to learn from everyone.
And Yes I still want NaruSaku in these haha its hard not to want it and it would make a large number of fans happy to see he does care to see his fans happy with his creations.
Here are the links to the Interview of Kishimoto and the reviews from Double4Anime and ForNeverWorld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jXdTyNYOc8
The Interview of Kishimoto 2006
http://www.naruto2.c...iKishimoto.aspx
Edited by Emb3rs, 04 November 2015 - 06:45 AM.