Hey founded this thread on sakura that might be interesting though I'm not sure if what will everyone here thinks of it https://twitter.com/...B-3lQRA9RA&s=19
The inferiority complex of Haruno Sakura, a thread.
By comparison, I feel like such a...”
This is the typical thought that come out someone’s mind suffering from an inferiority complex. A person suffering from this complex sees only their failures — their failures take over their qualities and the comparison with others is systematic.
The author Masashi Kishimoto had implemented it with such a great subtlety that catches my full attention. So I’m making this thread in order to analyze this interesting aspect of genin Sakura.
Well before I start, I want to inform you that I’m going to make threads about all Naruto’s female characters and I’m starting with Naruto’s tritagonist “Haruno Sakura”.
Inferiority complex is a fundamental sense of inadequacy and insecurity that leads to express a bad opinion on oneself, this subconscious opinion is usually an “obscure feeling” rather than a lucid judgement as a result of painful memories of mistakes made or external influences — parents for example.
The essence of this complex is to have a set of negative thoughts, feelings, behaviors and tendencies. To explain this more, lemme work out some complex’s major signs on Sakura’s
character.
1. Exhibit personality traits such as perfectionism and neuroticism :
→ Sakura has shown a perfect superficial façade, polite — which contradict with Inner-Sakura (her true self), studious who would only be satisfied by obtaining the highest results at the academy. She also doesn’t want to hang out with noisy people who could ruin her reputation which explains why she didn’t want to be friend with Naruto — a noisy Kid.
Fact:
Sakura “disliked” Naruto for his stupid pranks in the village and not because he was the demon fox, she didn’t even know what a bijū or a jinchuriki was until her the Gaara arc.
She did never really hated Naruto. In fact, she didn’t know her feelings towards him.
→ Neuroticism characterizes a persistent tendency to experience negative emotions. It’s also associated with low emotional intelligence, which may involve decreased motivation and interpersonal activities — death.
To be honest, I think it's pointless to analyze this point further: Sakura is expressive, it’s a striking feature especially in the first part whether in her thoughts but also through the way she manifests her insecurities.
2. Shutting down out of shame, guilt, embarrassment or an inward sense of defeat:
Afraid to face reality, she ran away; claiming that she couldn’t be a friend with Yamanaka Ino because of Sasuke which was Ino’s point of view.
With Sakura’s point of view, it was because her of her inferiority which is confirmed by the author himself in the Databook. Sakura used Sasuke as a lame excuse.
3. Demeaning others as way to transfer their own feeling of failure and isolation:
Sakura made fun of Naruto, it’s a way to transfer her own failure. A person suffering from an inferiority complex tends unfortunately to exhibit this behaviour a lot.
Sasuke shows some great maturity with her later; he understood that she didn’t do this on purpose. That’s why he complimented her, reminding her that she wasn’t alone and she must never downplay herself and to be proud of the progress she was making. There's also a striking proof for this; Sasuke pretended to forget the moment when she made of Naruto which clearly shows that he understood her.
There’s something I noticed, Sakura envied Naruto’s loneliness, if we look at the canon information about her parents from the Road to Ninja movie, they had humiliated her but I am interested in is their words.
One of the major origins of this complex is family, a child whose highly critical parent repeatedly says things like “You’re stupid”, “You're a klutz” or “You never do anything right” may internalize this complex maybe even up to their adulthood.
Without even mentioning the fact that Sakura’s deepest desire was her parents’ death in canon which makes me wonder the horror she endured to come to wish this and it will remain a mystery forever.
Sakura seems to be no longer close to her family since she leaves always her daughter Sarada with Iruka sensei when she goes on missions.
(Source : Sasuke Retsuden)
Informations :
Sakura will have 7 threads and this is the first part. In the next thread I'm going to analyze her major thematic.
Here, just incase they delete this and I'm not dealing with images. Oh looks like they are going to have even more.
All of team 7 is a basket case of psychological issues. Sakura is merely the most normal out of all of them. Or, Naruto depending how you look at it. I will say the analysis is fair for the most part.
Let's go through the four groups they analyze: Her parents, Ino, Sasuke, and Naruto.
They are putting too much thought into why they aren't around in the sequel. The reason her parents aren't around in the sequel is that same reason that of the rest parents/grandparents aren't around in Boruto, besides Hinata's father. They just aren't being used and are being ignored by the writing team. Another reason they aren't around is they are another awkward reminder of NS because they were another parallel pairing, 'a high strung woman marries the clown she finds funny.' The Road of the ninja illusion world was made when she was complaining about her parents while Naruto was wishing for his, by not even the half way mark she missed her parents after enjoying her temporary freedom from them. Her parents were probably like they guess her father makes jokes to try to make her forget about her forehead insecurities and her mother probably just told her to ignore them and focus on her school work.
Ino, they are right about. She was the girl that gave some help to Sakura when she was in a bad spot and gave her confidence and companionship. But, Sakura felt she was living in her shadow, so to escape she wanted to rival her in a match to see who could get Sasuke first who they both had a crush on. Ino understood this and became bitter that their friendship ended because of that. So, neither to attempt to meet each other to resolve the issue until the chunin exam where they had a draw.
Sasuke is an antisocial ass not a malicious prick. Yes, he thinks most people are beneath him to the point he doesn't want to be around them or care about them, but he doesn't go out of his way to express it, and he does have standards. When he was rude to Sakura it was because he was getting to the point; often about how he doesn't like her. Doesn't help that he can't understand why she even likes him, she just reminds him of the bench scene, and all he can think is, "you liked the time I basically called you a kitten?"
Naruto was the annoying unpopular brat that wouldn't stop bugging her. Then as she got to know him more she started to find admirable qualities and slowly fall in love with him. What prevented her from falling in love with him were realizing she was and her lingering feelings toward Sasuke. Neither which could be fully resolved till after Sasuke returned to the village and which Kishi refused to do because he became obsessed with making the SNS rematch the final battle. Sakura did in a way admire and envy Naruto's freedom even early on and did often have similar thoughts to his own. Which is likely why her façade dropped with him and she acted more naturally with him.
Funny how this fandumb simps over Hinata’s inferiority complex. But Sakura’s is not a blip on most viewers’ radars.
That's because to them Sakura is a kitten who doesn't put out and beats up their insert character (or denies their insert character the man she is entitled to have.) So she is an oppressor and therefor can't have suffered being the one who causes suffering, cannot have anything that makes she sympatric, and ultimately is just evil and you should feel no guilt when something bad happens to her because it is justice to them.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 08 May 2022 - 05:19 PM.