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[Catwho]

Have your friends and family been asking why you are depressed and/or freaking out?

 

I tried to avoid getting into too much detail at work.  I just said, "A comic series I really like ended this week."  Got a few sympathetic nods.  I really did not get a lot done at work on Friday because I could not concentrate. 

 

Around my anime and manga savvy friends I was a lot more blustery.  Thankfully, my non-ship and even my NH friends were all like "this ending is bull."  The only people who were satisfied were people who hadn't even read the chapter - they were just glad it was over because it had been running too long!

 

I posted the cryptic Facebook status update of:  "So it appears that the ending of a manga series can hit you like the death of a relative or an old friend."  Lots of understanding agreement.

 

But I think the best explanation went to my husband, who was having trouble comprehending just how devastated I was until I put it in terms he could understand.

 

Me: "Hey honey, remember how depressed you were after you saw the world premiere of the Oreimo OVA with the producer and stuff at Otakon, and it turned out to be a steaming pile of incestuous dookey?"

 

Him: "Oh god.  I didn't realize it was that bad."  

 

And I got a hug and a shoulder to sniffle on for a bit.

Edited by Catwho, 09 November 2014 - 05:56 AM.

[Codus N]

Oh god.... Your explanation to your husband kills me. This is why I love you so much. So mature and yet so funny. You really should get in touch with jhayni-in-the-rain at tumblr. She's a fellow FT fan and semi-professional writer like you. I have a feeling you two would get along smashingly.

But yeah, I've known a couple of people I follow agree that the ending sounds bull, and they haven't read it yet!!! But they do agree that it should've been open ending, since there weren't enough developments for all pairings involved.

[Catwho]

Hah!  I actually did a bit of work on my Tumblr.  It's no longer a one shot page for a contest entry.  (I won an Ahriman choker for those little boxes, by the by.)

 

 

I've decided to just stick to shoujo from now on (excepting Fairy Tail.)  Even if the end result is a pairing I don't agree with, I know the support for the pairing will at least be included in the final resolution. 

[tricksie]

Yes, several times I catch myself thinking of the manga, mind drifting to the plot and the what-ifs and the future...then I hit the brick wall that its over. There will never be those little moments that I've waited for. There will never be an answer to Kushina's request to 'find a girl like me.' Naruto will never surpass Jiraiya and succeed where he failed. He will never get his heart's desire. And Sakura will never be recognized fully and loved, in spite of and because of her faults. Her perfections, as Naruto might have put it if the bench scene were to ever be revealed. Naruto will never confess his true feelings, like he told Sai he would. Yamato will always be wrong in whatever he saw in Sakura.

 

There will never be another Sakura-chan. All hearts are broken in the end.

 

I saw the spine of a volume in the library today and I had to remind myself that it's over. There's nothing more to look for or forward to in the books. If I'm going to find a resolution for Naruto and Sakura it's going to be in fanfiction or art. But not in the manga. 

 

Maybe one day, like a bad break up, Kishimoto will admit that he was wrong. He should have done things differently. But it will be cold comfort. Because there was never any doubt, to us, the ones left behind, that he was wrong. That he gave up on his story, not us. That he betrayed our trust and threw out the steady, built up romance for something new and careless. The "shocking ending" that's a fool's gold, flash in the pan.

 

It's not a satisying sunset on a long and winding story. It's a slammed door. And we all feel the stunning finality of it. We can't go back. We can't go through. We just have to move on. 

 

For a character who was a lifeline, a bright spot, a hopeless love and an unrelenting hero, his ending was nothing less than a tragedy. He didn't get what he wanted. And neither did we. 

 

 

 

 

edit: okay maybe I'm being a bit melodramatic. I've had two terribly late nights after two exhausting days and I think I'm getting punchy. But I'm not taking it down! I'm honestly more sad than I thought i'd be. I think if it hadn't been such a swift pull of the plug to the whole series I'd feel differently. But I feel like no one won in the end. It just ended. *sob* *goingtobed* *sob*

[MangaReader]

To be honest... the fact I haven't gotten over it yet might just mean I shoulder this burden for life. Basically I've become a master of hiding my emotions since childhood (not going into too much detail about that) so no one's been asking anything. At the same time... I'm not really depressed, despite all the questions I keep asking myself, so much as I've come to terms that 699 and 700 don't exist or that the real chapters have just been lost never to be found. In that regard, NaruSaku is canon to me

[It's Deidara Hm]

Maybe one day, like a bad break up, Kishimoto will admit that he was wrong. He should have done things differently. But it will be cold comfort. Because there was never any doubt, to us, the ones left behind, that he was wrong. That he gave up on his story, not us. That he betrayed our trust and threw out the steady, built up romance for something new and careless. The "shocking ending" that's a fool's gold, flash in the pan.

 

The ending with NH and SS somewhat reminds me of how Harry Potter ended. The supporting main characters (aka the sidekicks) get together and the main character marries a girl outside of their team who has had a crush on him for a time. 

 

Recently news had broke out that J.K. Rowling regretted her choice of pairings and would have preferred Hermione and Harry to end up together. Perhaps Kishi, at some point in time, will think that too and regret his ending. Let's hope so.

[Saku-chan]

At work on Thursday I purposely took on a job in the back that wouldn't have me dealing face to face with customers because I was so out of it. I got texts the whole day from people who aren't even fans asking me if I was ok. (lol a bit much, but I appreciated the thought)

 

I just explain it as, "You know fanfiction where people are written terribly OOC and everyone gets paired off with people just because the author wants to hamfist fluff? That was made canon."

 

The lack of resolution between Naruto and Sasuke alone is killing me. The pairings were the icing on the poop cake tbh. 

[Niky]

But I think the best explanation went to my husband, who was having trouble comprehending just how devastated I was until I put it in terms he could understand.

 

Me: "Hey honey, remember how depressed you were after you saw the world premiere of the Oreimo OVA with the producer and stuff at Otakon, and it turned out to be a steaming pile of incestuous dookey?"

 

Him: "Oh god.  I didn't realize it was that bad."  

 

And I got a hug and a shoulder to sniffle on for a bit.

 

Sooo CUUUTTTEEEEEE!!!       

[alexander]

An day before the chapter, I was feeling pretty crushed when I witnessed those raw scans. Then it was time for the family to eat and the food just wouldn't go down. My folk don't share the same tastes as me, nor they would even barely understand it even if I explained. So I decided to just shove down the food the best I could, so they wouldn't start worrying. It was pretty tough that day. After the chapters were out I started to feel much better, actually. I just came to realize how bad this endings were, not only on an romantic point but also story one. At that point I wasn't feeling bad anymore, but actually, I was feeling silly, realizing how this series was not really worth my worries.

 

Actually, I could say this ending actually had an positive effect on my life. It brought back my inspiration to draw and write my own stories once again. Because if Kishi can still do well even after he **** it up so badly, then so can anyone if they try hard enough. I can do better then him, and so can others if they put enough dedication.

[Zatheko]

Unfortunately most of my irl friends like NH so now they keep rubbing it in my face...

 

I've just kinda been reacting with "Naruto? What's that?"

 

If it doesn't exist it can't bother me

[Catwho]

 

Sooo CUUUTTTEEEEEE!!!       

 

Hehe!  He was a MUCH bigger Oreimo fan than I was, but we both were rooting for Kuroneko until the end.  She's still the best character of that entire series, perhaps because she valued her friendships above her own feelings and was willing to sacrifice her love to avoid destroying them.  (And for me it was because of that that she deserved happiness.)

 

He was depressed for a month after that. 

[nikki1314]

Im Lucky. Most of my friends arent jerks and did not rub NH To my Face. albeit they werent really shipping types. and im so happy that tumblr doesnt appeal to me. 

[TouKen4Life3g]

I got to say, yesterday's podcast recording made me feel a lot better, but yes, it's a tragic to have this in your mind for the rest of the life. You can hold it back, but it's not gone. So you can move on or be bewildered of the series. Memories remain.

[danittebane]

I tell them truthfully that I'm upset because my childhood has ended and it's more upsetting because my childhood ended in a very disappointing way. And then I tell them because my ship sank (but that part's okay since I've accepted it) and because the ending had a lot of empty parts, it didn't answer the things that were needed to be answered. 

 

Then I tell them atleast Sakura's kid (or Karin's, idk) looks good and that Hinata's children didn't inherit the byakugan and I'd be disappointed if I was Neji and blablabla. Then I'd tell them with intensity that Yamato didn't even had a single appearance on the last chapter (Yamato is my favorite male character in the series) 

 

So there.

[Iwantbuns]

Oh yeah. It was hard explaining to people my reaction. It's like I just sort of shut down, but I wouldn't admit it to anyone. I actually tried to act like I was totally fine with it... I didn't want to seem like it affected me the way it did. Because if I did people would start jumping on me. I try to avoid the subject these days. Don't want to deal with it. But if people try to make me deal with it, I'll happily express my opinions. 

[Fyuria'sLeo]

Im laughing about it with all my friends, some who even ship NH and SS.