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Anyone else seeing alot praise for the kaguya and madara twist lately I'm wondering what's up with that?

Narusaku will never die

On twitter chatte pointed it out

Hope everyone enjoyed Sakura's birthday

Yeah I saw, apprantly they are nh fans though

Yeah I think you are looking to negatively into this, as I don't think Kishimoto only starting to like sakura at the beginning of part 2, pretty sure he was fond of sakura from the beginning of part 1.

Also I don't think sakura held too long of a grudge against naruto for the womanly comments, as she show great concern for his wellbeing when she learnt that naruto was a jinjuriki and if he is captured by the akatsuki and has his tailed beast extracted he will die. Along with the tenchi Bridge and seeing naruto in his 4 tailed transformation followed up by yamato hinting that she feels something more for naruto.

Arguably afterwards kishimoto did afterwards was slow burning development with the sakura trying feed scene and her showing having a similar pervey side like naruto when kohonahamaru showed of the sexy no justu before doing the big hug in the pain arc.

Now arguably doing the slow burn for a series as long as naruto caused long term problems as many fans failed to see and ended up thinking hinata was the love intrest due to that big pain moment. Heck this tends to be a problem for many series that do slow burn like avatar the last airbender, as not everyone saw it coming despite obvious hints.

It probably didn't help that around this time new editors came in with an anti sakura agenda to replace sakura with hinata which probably effected the writting around sakura so much that it ended up the mess that it did. Also didn't help that kishimoto became very insecure with Sakura's popularity in the west.

Pretty sure kishimoto post ending interviews are just damage control by jump to avoid the backlash with how he made the canon couples and the not a romance manga is just a poor exuse to as to why the canon couples are so bad.

I think its fine if a series makes it that one character is in love with more than one person though they got to make it eventually clear like nisekoi did. Also kishimoto should of really addressed the love confession much sooner to make it clear that sakura was in love with naruto, but also still had some feelings for sasuke.

Rest in peace the father of morden shonen

I wouldn't say the pairing's behind us... (Sp recently released a acrylic of sakura confessing to naruto) Yes some people watch boruto but many people don't like the sequel series much like people don't like the new star wars... Will disney do something to make amends for their actions? It might be unlikely. Or look at the way ash's story in pokemon ended. Many things not addressed and ash never even meets his dad. But it doesn't matter enough it seems. I still wouldn't claim all of ash's fans put the series behind them. Sakura was also a lot higher than hinata in the recent poll (higher than naruto and sasuke even). Sakura vs chiyo also won the fight poll as well.... Kishimoto was likely copying the love triangle in dragon quest: the adventure of dai but probably didn't do a great job but even so i don't think sakura was hated to a huge extent. There are youtubers nowadays who openly say sakura and naruto should've been together so at least some fans know it should've happened

They did when?

In regards to Western films and media while 2023 wasn't really a good year, mainly for Disney and superhero films. There was still some great things that came out like across the spiderverse, oppenheimer, Mario movie, the last of us TV series, live action one piece and arguably barbie depending on who you ask.

Disney films arguably have gotten a bit too repetitive in the type humour tropes and story telling they have done so they are in a bit of a decline, though hopefully films they do this year like deadpool 3 will do really well. Superheroes marvel got a bit lazy with the humour, their standard formula minus gaurdians 3 and loki season 2 and arguably the effects though that genreally been a problem with studios in genreal with how they treat effect artists. While dc failures are partly due to the fact the are rebooting under James gun, so no one wants to see them until then at least.

Granted films have also been affect by the writers and actors strike and that has probably effected alot ofbbehind the scenes for most films, hopefully now that's been sorted you can get back to better quality, with dune part 2 being a promising start.

Now for one piece live action many of the first time fans are probably those who may have wanted to try out one piece, but never could because they were etheir put off of oda's art style or episode length. Because let's face it for some a 1000s chapters or episodes is alot of time and commitment. An 8 to 10 episode season can be alot more easier to digest.

Also the casting is very great for one piece, inaki in particulary really captures the character of luffy, heck even oda comments that he make lines work for his portrayal of luffy work that he think wouldn't work in the manga.

For the naruto live action movie quality, well at the very least I can see being decent at least sine the action in shang chi was good. Whether or not it will attract new fans or old one depends, if it stays true to most of the things that made naruto originally great I can see it drawing them in or if it does changes that are better than in the managa I can see some prefer the live action movie over the manga. Mainly the romance and portrayal of the female cast, if it does them better than what kishimoto did, I could see some people checking it out to perhaps see something they wished the manga did.

I don't really see the point of making a live action movie of Naruto, yes I know the One Piece show was said to be good therefore it's the new thing to take a manga and take it into a live action show or movie, but I have to ask for those who read OP was it really good or was it that western stuff just took a massive nosedive in the last couple of years?
 
I haven't watched the show, I've heard from people it's good, but I've only heard from people who never checked the manga.
As for the Naruto movie, I have so many questions and dilemmas. Like when exactly will the movie take place? What about the casting since they're kids so you have to get child actors which will be a lot more difficult, I mean for part one they're around 12 and part two I think like 15-16 can't recall exactly. So depending on the time period the movie is set you need to cast them appropriately. You can't have a 16 year old play a 12 year old. Then you need to get the look just right, the setting, what about special effect like the insane number of clones making that look good in action will be tough.
Also correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't OP still going on? So if so why make a movie about a franchise that is basically dead? If they wanted to resurrect it, then they know what must be done, not investing more money in a project which personally I think it's going to flop.
Know when you are beaten.

The live action of one piece is well received nearly everyone who watched enjoyed the adaptation, so far I have only seen one youtuber being mixed on it grandline reviews. The only real criticism I've seen people have for the show is the marine subplot they included in.

One piece is still on, infact it's getting a second anime on Netflix adapting the East blue saga by studio wit.

  

One Piece was not the first live action anime adaption Netflix done, just the first one that was successful.
 
Both. One piece has a good story, and the writing quality in the West has decline so much that people become overjoyed at something that could be even average.
 
Lets see FF7 gotten a lot of buzz this past week or so. Why? They had a trailer that showed Tifa pretty and in an appealing swimsuit. People are so used to female characters being ugly and frumpy at the best of time, gamers were overjoyed. 
 
As for why they are doing this. Naruto was huge a decade ago. They probably hope the movie could revitalize viewership and interest. Will it? Who knows but doubtful. Naruto has more problems than just its end pairings. Naruto's obsession with Sasuke, his eventual lack of growth, his quest to become hokage becomes forgotten about, and so on.
 
It depends what they want to do with it. if they want to do a "Naruto Universe," they will probably start from the beginning. If it just one movie, it will probably be the most popular arc or just some original story that is a weird amalgamation of Naruto. Or it will just be Naruto in name only to get people in seats. 
 
Still the most likely out come is this: Imagine a gay transgender Steve Urkel chasing after Edward Cullen, when he not constantly moaning about how oppressed he is, while Ken Watanabe playing Kakashi keeps pulling his mask down to show his face every five seconds, and  Awkwafina playing Sakura will constantly quip with a smug look on her face as well as she will on social media declare that all fans of Naruto are sexist that shouldn't complain about anything as well as saying they shouldn't watch it.

Yeah is doubt they do that type casting they are likely to do what Kishimoto said in an interview, naruto played by an American, sakura a European and sasuke asian


  

Battle  shounen anime don't translate well into live action if you follow the original storyline. For example, if you attempt a live action adaptation of Dragon Ball sticking to the manga's plot, it would feel odd and likely fail. It would be better if they focused on the stories of Master Roshi or Grandpa Gohan, mirroring Bruce Lee's films. In Naruto, they would need to choose a ninja who doesn't seem out of place in live action for adaptation, but the title of the work complicates this. I have the feeling that the same will happen with Naruto as it did with Saint Seiya in Latin countries. It was very popular for decades but lost ground to Dragon Ball. In Naruto's case, it will be to One Piece

I can see them being able to adapt the land of waves arc at least for a movie, with the only changes I see is perhaps sakura getting more involved

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Looks like with have an actual update on the live action naruto movie in that the guy who did shang chi is do it https://www.google.c...1235833511/amp/

Somehow boruto has done a friendship more yoai than narusasu

Some of those trials could invole death to help them grow, like I said hiashi for neji and hinata or guy for Lee.

I think you need some deaths in for some suspence otherwise the conflict wouldn't look threatening. Heck it could even just be some recurring minor characters like those minor leaf chunin or jonin we see, some of the relatives like hiashi dying to protect neji and hinata or at least maybe knowing because he is old. As for the case with guy would of served the mentor death for Lee to grow and frankly naruto nre healing power made sakura look irrelevant for alot of people.

So no deaths in the war, including might guy?

I meant who should have died in the war in genreal, not only among the k11

Okay then let me rephrase who should of died in the 4th great ninja war?

Here is a naruto topic for the thread, if you could kill off one member of the k11 who would it be? Also let's not do it for shipping reasons as that's why we hate neji's death.

I'd be up for joining depending on the day

Haven't seen anyone post this yet, but I figured since season 2 of the series recently ended people might like to talk about it here.

You joking?

Arguably because black clover moved to jump giga

Happy New year 2024, hopefully a big one for NaruSaku