When Did It Start?
#1
Posted 18 December 2007 - 08:11 PM
For me, i first started supporting NaruSaku after an Amv i saw about them, i figured they'd make a really cute couple, based on what i saw, i don't really remember what song was in the Amv and i don't really remember the amv itself, but i do remember that i started liking NaruSaku after that.
I did support other couples before that, and they were, obviously, NaruHina and SasuSaku, see for me, Naruto was sort of like the first time that i really got into anime, before that i read mangas occaisionally, but i didn't really know what it was or anything. So when i supported NaruHina and SasuSaku it wasn't really how we think of supporting couples, it was more like i thought they were just the couples in the story, ya know, everyone else around me liked those couples, so i thought it was like a done deal. That's when i got introduced to Fandom and realized that pairings and couples, at least for this anime, was actually a huge debate thing, that there are hundreds and probably thousands maybe millions(idk) of fans out there that all have different opinions on the matter that even the craziest pairings in the world (ex. GaixSaku) could happen, we just don't kno. Now i'm not saying i take pairings seriously at all, i mean, really when i think about it, i could really care less about what pairings actually happen, if any do at all.
Okay, we sort of steered off topic there i think but please tell me when you started supporting NaruSaku and what triggered it and all that jazz, i'd really like to hear your stories on this matter
#2
Posted 18 December 2007 - 09:30 PM
#3
Posted 18 December 2007 - 10:01 PM
#4
Posted 18 December 2007 - 11:12 PM
#5
Posted 18 December 2007 - 11:20 PM
Or, no, wait, it's when Naruto get's up and gains some guts, and tells Sasuke his plan, and Sakura starts to blush and says "Whats..This feeling?" or something like judging from teh subtitles
#6
Posted 18 December 2007 - 11:57 PM
I was like damn, he really likes this girl!
#7
Posted 19 December 2007 - 01:32 AM
Haha, it was the scene against Zabuza, and Sakura blushes for Naruto, right?
"What... whats this feeling? Naruto is so..."
I really love that scene. I still re-read it from time to time, actually. I really love how Sakura slowly begins to realize what an amazing guy Naruto is. >w<
Anyway, to be on topic... I actually kind of supported the idea of Naruto and Sakura together from the start, because I'm all for main boy/main girl relationships. It's a cliche that I grew up with, so it really means a lot to me. But it really wasn't my OTP at the time - I was just joking with the idea of them together. I thought it was completely hilarious how Naruto would say something stupid and Sakura would beat the r0xorzZ out of him. xDD But I layed off pairings in the beginning anyway, because at the time I was heavily enjoying the action instead. Some of my friends were trying to convince me to like SasuSaku, but I was never that desperate to pair anyone up. Besides, I'm the type to like the GUY crushing on the girl than the other way around. It was also around the Zabuza arc, obviously, that I began to like the pairing. I thought it was cute how Sakura blushed for Naruto when he was standing up to Zabuza.
And, part II was obviously too much for me to handle, especially around chapter 297. I thought it was just adorable how Sakura seemed helpless around Naruto, and how she said she could only do the smallest things for him. Then Yamato comments and says, "It's not about how big or small... its how you feel for him that counts." <3 I read that chapter more than a hundred times, its probably my favorite chapter to date. >w< When I kept reading and re-reading the manga, I fell in love with NaruSaku more and more, and realized they have this incredible spark, an amazing chemistry, and a beautiful working ethic. <3 And I just love their firey interaction. And thus, I became a NaruSaku shipper. It's my biggest OTP now actually~.
#8
Posted 19 December 2007 - 02:10 AM
Then a couple years pass, and low and behold, Shippuden came around. I became an hardcore NaruSaku fan at the point where I saw her talking to Naruto (and later send him flying into the ground). It was classic, the whole overly-aggressive girl beating up on our clueless hero. Anyway, the pairing seemed to hold so much potential that I had supported it from the beginning. Mind you, I started watching the series a bit late in the game, so I had some catching up to do. In the end, I saw the whole situation with Sakura after Naruto goes to his fourth tail state, and I knew something was there...
Now...I silently wait...hoping for one of them to come to terms with each other...preferably Sakura beating Naruto in because she's having difficulty telling him how much she cares.
#9
Posted 19 December 2007 - 02:25 AM
I've read a lot of shounen manga.
#10
Posted 19 December 2007 - 02:58 AM
Then I read Training for the Job, by desaix.
I became a full-blown shipper from that moment forward.
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#11
Posted 19 December 2007 - 06:48 AM
Right there.
#12
Posted 19 December 2007 - 06:07 PM
Well, my first introduction was this anime my best friend was telling me about. Full Metal Alchmeist good? We'll see.
Well, he was right and I enjoyed it. When I first saw Sakura and Sasuke I thought Naruto and Sakura would be together (main guy/main girl). But that ended REAL quick when I saw a rerun with Hinata in it.
To me it made everything clear cut. NaruHina and SasuSaku and everyone would be happy.
And I became a big fan of NaruHina. But some things always bothered me.
I couldn't really see them together as they currently were. But no matter. Hinata did want to change after all.
Also, there were some major NaruSaku moments that seemed off to me. Sasuke's remarks to Sakura about Naruto saving her from Gaara. Returning from getting Tsunade in the hospital. The Promise of a Lifetime. These all suggested a deep feeling for Sakura on Naruto's part. But I ignored it. I had my NaruHina blinders on.
I should point out this before I got into forums so I was never forced to look into the logic of NaruHina, nor what the certain scenes (like the ones I listed above) truely were showing. Also, I watched the Sub and didn't know what was filler and what wasn't.
But then I started reading the manga. And I got to Shippuden, it was too much for my blinders to stay on. Their first meeting, Naruto's confession* which is in fact the only confession he has ever made about the Kyuubi, Chiyo's talk of the Junchuuriki. And the final nail in the coffin was when Sakura ran at Kyuubi Naruto.
Those were the two panels that turned me into a NaruSaku fan. It truely shows how deep her feelings really run.
After that, I couldn't not be a NaruSaku fan. Then I found forums and started debating. Being forced to really look at the evidence of NaruHina and NaruSaku made me even more certain I made the right choice to switch. Not only because it is more likely, but because it is really deeper and more beautiful than the rather generic NaruHina (not saying the idea is generic, just what Kishimoto has done with compared to the depth of NaruSaku).
Then I found Mizura's essay which only helped me love NaruSaku even more.
*I want to point out Naruto's confession was spoiled for me. I read a NaruHina fanfic who spoiled that Naruto had confessed to her, but the way she explained it and presented it in her version (which was fully understood not to be how it happened in the manga, but the reaction was the "same") made it seem like Sakura had a hard time accepting the Kyuubi in him.
So, when I read the actual manga, I realized that's not why she was silent, but instead reflecting on the hard life Naruto has lived. Because of that, out of the early Part II scenes, this one was probaly one of the bigger ones that started getting me to see the light because the actual evidence didn't jive with the NaruHina "interruptation." Though I was still a fan at that point, and simply considered her a bad fan fic writer (she was).
This did however kinda ruin the certainity of NaruHina for me.
#13
Posted 20 December 2007 - 12:05 AM
I didn't actively support it until the PoaL though. That's really what set it in stone for me.
#14
Posted 20 December 2007 - 12:47 AM
I didn't actively support it until the PoaL though. That's really what set it in stone for me.
Same here.
#15
Posted 20 December 2007 - 12:57 AM
From the first episode I took to the character Naruto, but for couple of episodes when you first get introduced to Sakura, I originally didn't think much of her. She was loud, annoying and violent like many of the other anime girl cliches. But Naruto liked her and I could tell she was never gonna get Sasuke, because he was too absorbed in his own little world. But then the Chunnin Exam episodes came and the episode when Sakura cut her hair and her match against Ino, really changed my opinion on Sakura to one of my favorite female cast members.
But I think the moment I became an official Naru/Saku supporter was Sasuke's leaving Sakura and Naruto's promise of a lifetime to her. Sasuke's leaving cemented for me that he had no intentions what so ever to Sakura and Naruto's promise told me how much he truly cared for her.
Part 2, has just been gravy for me, because its been showing that purhaps she's fallen for him too.
#16
Posted 20 December 2007 - 01:52 AM
#18
Posted 20 December 2007 - 02:13 AM
And, if I may be so bold, what the hell is "PoaL"?
PoaL - Promise of a Lifetime!
When the Sasuke retrieval arc started and Nartuo promised to bring back Sasuke
#20
Posted 20 December 2007 - 05:14 AM
Riiiiight, right right right.
SAfE. (Stupid abbreviations for everything).
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