Something is telling me that kishimoto thinks just because he failed to pair naruto and sakura up together in his first work, He messed everything up in his story. I dont think kishimoto understands the general toxic relationships regarding friendship and the messed up views of the ninja system is what made the audience realize how terrible his manga really is. Its not just romance that was poorly handled its everything that kishi wrote.
when i read samurai 8 i still see the problems that he wrote for naruto Like too much expositions, flat stereotypical cliches/ tropes and characters that isn't too fleshed out, main character converting a views of that one loner character too what the main characters thinks is right instead of having genuine sympathy and helping/understanding the loner and not forcing the mcs views onto the loner.
I even read somewhere that the japanese fandom does not like samurai 8 and there getting annoyed that its getting over advertised and overshadowing the advertistment for the new one piece movie. And the manga volume isnt selling too well ether compared to how naruto was sold in its first few volumes.
Edited by rikakim94, 27 December 2019 - 07:16 PM.