So why do some NaruSaku fans here bash NH/SS fans for liking eye candy when they get an ending that suits their pairing?
As for the ending, it's eye candy indeed but I will not get hype about it. Why? Because it's just the anime team trolling the pairing fandom.
Why do you see it as trolling? It's not inconsistent with anything else they, or Kishi, has done. Which is to have some focus on Hinata's feelings for Naruto, Sakura's feelings for Sasuke, Naruto's feelings for Sakura, and Sakura's feelings for Naruto. Naruto and Sakura's feelings for one another just receive more focus comparatively, and are the only ones to have some shown mutuality.
I'd be more inclined to agree it was trolling if there were an equivalent number of NH and SS OPs/EDs, but there aren't. There are more for NS by far. SS has two (Lovers, and where Sakura draws her and Sasuke's names in the sand then crosses out Sasuke's name) -
possibly four (her on the beach at night looking at someone, but we only see their chin, and the one before the current one where Sakura and Hinata are by the waterfall and the boys are fighting), and NH has possibly one - (i.e. the one before the current one).
Sasuke and Sakura don't interact in any of those (hell Sasuke's not even present in two), and neither do Hinata and Naruto. There's nothing from the boys to the girls' either. Just from the girls to their respective love interests.
Where as for NaruSaku, you have stuff like little Naruto being pushed towards little Sakura, Sakura blushing/smiling reaching out to cup Naruto's face, Naruto running up to Sakura and almost hugging her, naked Sakura drawing Naruto on her window, and entire special version of an ED made just with Naruto and Sakura meeting up and smiling at one another.
So while I agree the anime team caters to all of the pairings, its just as true that the NaruSaku fan service tends to have more to it.
Not really. It's the fact they always try to use it to support their pairing when they know it's not supposed to be canon. It's fine if they enjoy it as fanservice, but to use it as evidence for their pairings makes them look desperate.
We, on the other hand, prefer not to use these as evidence (since we already have enough evidence in canon to begin with). But that doesn't stop us from enjoying it as simple fanservice.
Exactly. Everyone is happy to get fan service for their pairing, its just knowing not to take it too far (i.e. using it at canon material).
Edited by Paptala, 28 September 2012 - 03:43 PM.