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I really dont like Sakuras portrayal in the anime. Itd be strange for me to include the manga as well, but- and its sad- Kishimoto intended for Sakura to be the way she is, obviously. But the anime especially gets on my nerves because it makes her look worse.

Take Road to Ninja as an example. Ive been thinking about it recently and how it makes me feel.

The good? There are some NaruSaku moments. The ending with Iruka and Naruto. Naruto getting a chance to see his parents alive and well. Interesting concept with a sort of reversed world. And the filler episode Road to Sakura is spawned from it, which blesses me with this gem

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The bad? The way Sakura acts for the first half of the movie. And considering I like Sakura and shes one of the main characters, it almost turned me off. In the beginning, Sakura is complaining to Naruto about her parents. At first I shrugged. But then she wished her parents were gone. In front of Naruto. Who, consequently in an orphan.

And then when calls her out for this, she says that Sasuke would understand/agree, to which Im like... What? Its despicable that they had her say that considering she learned from her mistake years ago, when Sasuke called her annoying and said she wouldnt understand. Didnt she learn from this? And she KNOWS Naruto is an orphan.

And its not even that she isnt compassionate overall. Which is why it feels so OOC for her to say something like this. Finally, when she experiences being an orphan in the genjutsu world, she wants to go home, and Naruto wants to stay, bit for obvious reasons. It kind of peeved me how when things went bad for her, she wanted to leave. All though its an understandable feeling, it hit me as kind of selfish.

Thats the biggest example of her portrayal in the anime. There are also little unnecessary things they add, such as how she hits Naruto way more often than not, and after the bench scene, where a second after she says shell treat Naruto nicer, shes shown being disgusted by him (correct me if Im wrong on this).

Overall, I wanted to see what other thought about this. Thoughts? Correct me if Im wrong on anything.

Have any of you read the Naruto pilot? What are your opinions on it? The premise seems basic put entertaining to me, at least.

http://theanimeaddict1.blogspot.com

Heres the link. Anyways, I can see the similarities some characters have to the actual product.

Kuroda is like Tazuna, Takashi has a bit of Mizukis appearance and Irukas kindness, the Chief at the beginning is like Sarutobi, and Teuchi is Teuchi, except his name isnt stated.

I also found it interesting that Narutos father was the nine-tailed fox instead of being the one who defeated it.

Does this seems like a better premise than the final product? I think I like the ninja premise Kishimoto created better. Theres more potential there. But I cant really compared 700 chapters to a pilot. I wonder what it wouldve been like.

Thoughts?

My goal is to read every single NaruSaku doujinshi that I can possibly read. But I think I read all I can find... I read all of Lady GTs comics, a few by Minamishi, and Ive even read all the, um... lewd... ones that I can find. If anyone has any to suggest, please feel free~

So, Sasuke seems to be a really controversial character on this forum. So I decided that it'd be pretty nice to have a discussion about him. 

 

My personal opinion is a bit torn. I really didn't like him during Shippudden, I liked him when he wasn't so obsessed with revenge. Early Part 1 was really good for him. Alhough I could understand his reasons for his downfall into revenge, I wish he had handled it a bit differently. 

 

Overally, I'm pretty neutral about him. I don't hate him despite what he did. What about you guys?

Now... I'm not going to beat around the bush. I would be scared. Like, really, REALLY scared.

If I were to one day just drop into Konoha, first things first.

I'd RUN to the Hokage's office and tell Hiruzen EVERYTHING. OBITO, MADARA, OROCHIMARU, AKATSUKI, E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.

Ahem...

Anyways, I'd try to stay close to the main characters, maybe their plot armor would rub off on me... I'd train and train, even though I'm really lazy. So with that in mind, I'd go to Shikamaru for advice. Or Rock Lee, so I could train really hard in taijutsu.

Yeah, yeah, I'd go to Kakashi for Ninjutsu, Kurenai for genjutsu, and Gai for taijutsu (I don't think I can handle it but I could try...)

I wonder what Kekkei Gekkei I'd get, if I got any at all.

Ooooh, but most importantly, I'd try and get Naruto and Sakura together, hehehehe~

What about you guys?