It's so frustrating that so many fandoms have a huge amount of shippers who only see things as 'cute'. Doesn't matter if one of the characters is less interesting than a blank piece of cardboard.
Bonus points if the girl:
>Has a tragic backstory that quickly gets resolved and/or swept under the rug
>Is cute
>Doesn't do much
>Has a crush on MC
>Has zero personality
All it has to be is very cute. Only requirement.
And people seem to LOVE ships where the girl is like that. They just CAN'T GET ENOUGH. They don't have the reading comprehension or skill to understand that those traits are 1000000% bad. It's like consuming sugar. You love it. It's addicting. It's appealing to your senses. But man, it's actually horrible. Just the worst.
I've seen series where a girl who fits that exact frame was purposefully made the *main heroine*. Literally had nothing going for her but being an assistant and having a crush on MC. In a series where everything is compelling and deep, she's the stain. I hate her as much as Hinata.
Hinata *actually* had a chance at one point to be more compelling. It was right there, in the story, laid out before her and everyone. Her. Clan.
Where she beat the odds, grew up and actually fixed the clan as the head.
But Studio Pierrot and her fans laughed and said "Screw that!", threw it into the garbage dump and boiled her down to "nawooto-kooooon uwu" all while saying that's *all* she needed to be the perfect princess goddess moeblob. To sit there with her legs spread and call for Naruto the entire time.
If I didn't hate Hinata with my entire being, I might have actually felt sorry for her that everyone just kind of ripped everything actually worth something and meaningful from her character so she can be a brainless house mother with zero personality and zero purpose other than stealing everyone's oxygen.
a hot sexy bimbo that always loved the MC. That's what these fans wanted, and Hinata filled that requirement, though whether she is hot is debatable to say the least. I for one, am of the assumption that her fans only say that because of HOW she is a mindless Naruto fan girl/bimbo AS NARUTO DESERVES, for being an unloved orphan. The same reason that they call her the most powerful and wonderful goddess in the franchise if not in the history of all manga/ anime simply for breathing and existing.
Now that I think about it, there is some double standard here, because Sakura is such a divisive for that same reason. She is hated for not being that for Naruto, and she is liked AND HATED at the same time for being that towards Sasuke. But her detractors HATE her for breaking character when she starts to develop from that. Again, the doubles standards of this franchise IS AMAZING
Edited by Phantom_999, 21 March 2021 - 10:04 PM.