BlueStarSaber

Yeah I wouldn't really consider kishimoto to be realiable when it comes to planning the ships post ending as he has stated different times of when he planned the couples. Frankly it's more telling that his wife was not happy that naruto and sakura did get together, as she was compared to sakura particularly mangaka like oda and did not buy that hinata was like her.

More sad news as the voice actress for kushina has died.

https://x.com/Karosh...424112087367765

Fair enough

Yahagi comments on western fans
https://x.com/DBZimr...774946712686829

Frankly I think Kishimoto changes his reason for nh with each interview

Misty was the first anime girl I liked.

Like as in genreal or crush

Also rest in peace

Doubt it's ture. Also totherpage95 what the heck the live action was good!

Well its kinda difficult to promote this due to the association with its creator

I am now 30 years old

I love the prequels

Hope everyone enjoyed Sakura's birthday

Yeah I think you are looking to negatively into this, as I don't think Kishimoto only starting to like sakura at the beginning of part 2, pretty sure he was fond of sakura from the beginning of part 1.

Also I don't think sakura held too long of a grudge against naruto for the womanly comments, as she show great concern for his wellbeing when she learnt that naruto was a jinjuriki and if he is captured by the akatsuki and has his tailed beast extracted he will die. Along with the tenchi Bridge and seeing naruto in his 4 tailed transformation followed up by yamato hinting that she feels something more for naruto.

Arguably afterwards kishimoto did afterwards was slow burning development with the sakura trying feed scene and her showing having a similar pervey side like naruto when kohonahamaru showed of the sexy no justu before doing the big hug in the pain arc.

Now arguably doing the slow burn for a series as long as naruto caused long term problems as many fans failed to see and ended up thinking hinata was the love intrest due to that big pain moment. Heck this tends to be a problem for many series that do slow burn like avatar the last airbender, as not everyone saw it coming despite obvious hints.

It probably didn't help that around this time new editors came in with an anti sakura agenda to replace sakura with hinata which probably effected the writting around sakura so much that it ended up the mess that it did. Also didn't help that kishimoto became very insecure with Sakura's popularity in the west.

Pretty sure kishimoto post ending interviews are just damage control by jump to avoid the backlash with how he made the canon couples and the not a romance manga is just a poor exuse to as to why the canon couples are so bad.

I think its fine if a series makes it that one character is in love with more than one person though they got to make it eventually clear like nisekoi did. Also kishimoto should of really addressed the love confession much sooner to make it clear that sakura was in love with naruto, but also still had some feelings for sasuke.

Rest in peace the father of morden shonen

Happy New year 2024, hopefully a big one for NaruSaku

Personally I can see naruto trying to be the fun dad trying to get shina to have more fun than he should, before Sakura becomes the strick mother and has to discipline both shina and naruto

Merry Christmas