I mean really small rant by my standards.
Now I’m not sure you’ve noticed this but I’m quick to judge. When I read a comment or hear something my first reaction isn’t always the best one or the correct one. It’s my fault and I should probably learn not to jump to conclusions so fast.
That being said let’s continue with this small rant, I know I’ve called my last rant “One Last Rant” but truth is I just like to do these things. And I hope you like reading them and if you don’t well don’t read them, no one is forcing you. This is just a small rant.
Now like I’ve said in my last rant I believed Kishi sold out to part 3. However I’m not so sure anymore since his recent interviews. Now don’t think I’m here to defend poor little Kishi because I’m not.
What I’ve always done is try to understand things. To understand why things work in a certain way. I’ve always tried to follow logic.
I believe he was forced to do this by his bosses or his contract with SP. I don’t really know what power an anime studio has over a manga artist/writer, but it’s a possibility that SP had more power than we thought. Maybe some of you know if you do please let me know. Now why do I say that he was forced to do this?
Well simple. Truth is many of you noticed this or not but we didn’t get an ending at all.
What we got chapter 699, chapter 699.5 aka The Last and 700 are nothing more than pathetic and horribly executed excuses in order to “reboot” the story with a main character that is similar to Naruto. He’s lonely just like Naruto, he’s neglected by everyone just like Naruto and he seeks acknowledgement just like Naruto. Basically it’s done so we can follow the same story all over again but this time more modern.
This is the reason why the lore is just broken and we have skyscrapers, laptops, cellphones, facebook, you name it. It’s all done to appeal to a much large audience. To be more precise the west.
We all know that NH is the most popular pairing in the west, no one can deny this. Even in my own country even though Naruto isn’t popular, NH is amongst the few people that followed it.
Now if you read the manga until chapter 698 that’s also the end of the story because in that chapter the main plot actually got resolved, and you read Kishi’s previous interviews the ones that were done before what we got as an “ending” to the manga and the movie. You’ll notice exactly how the story was going to end. It was clear that Naruto will end up Hokage because everyone noticed him and because he work his ass off for it, it was clear that he will be one that will finally put an end to the cycle of hatred that the Ninja world was in, he will be the one that will succeed where everyone else failed. And that also meant ending with the girl he loves Sakura and having a family and give his child/children what he didn’t have a real family. And not what we got.
Now this is just me but I really don’t think Kishi sold out. For two simple reasons I don’t think this.
First of all I find it really hard to believe that someone who wrote a decent story actually a good for good portion of the time, yes since the war arc started everything started to go downhill and they never went back again but it still had a few good moments. I find it really hard to believe that someone that wrote so many emotional scenes and inspired so many people through his writing will all of sudden destroy all of it and telling his readers that they read it wrong.
I can’t even find the words to describe how insane that sounds.
And the second reason and this is truly why I believe he was forced to do this. Are his recent interviews. Because if he actually sold out in order to make more money from the continuation then why does he say stuff that pisses people off?
It makes no sense if you want to make more money then you say things to please people so they will continue to support you. Not say stuff that will drive people away from it.
Seriously coming out and saying that NH is a just done out of pity is not going to drive people to part 3. Saying that Neji died as a cupid and he killed him because Hinata was popular or whatever crap he said is not going to make people continue. And all the other stupid things that come out of his mouth.
I don’t know about you guys and girls but to me this doesn’t sound like a man that sold out and he’s only after our money. This sounds like someone that was told to do this when he didn’t want to do it. Most likely it was in his contract. Thing is we don’t really know his contract, we don’t know how much he’s truly in control of “Naruto”. And to me by the looks of it he doesn’t have much control at all.
Again don’t think I’m defending him because there’s also the chance that he really is a sick kitten and this is truly what he always wanted. But again I have to point out it doesn’t make sense.
I just think we should give him the benefit of the doubt. To me if at Jump Fiesta he comes out and says even more stupid stuff that will make everyone hate “Naruto”, well to me that will be a confirmation that he was forced to do this and now he’s “fighting” back so to say.
The only way he knows how by making sure people won’t continue the abomination that is to come. Maybe he’s hoping just like I’m hoping that part 3 will be a failure and whoever was in charge of this will see it and give him the possibility to actually to give the audience a real ending to this story.
Let me know what you think.