Even IF you were to take anime fillers of Boruto into account, There is barely anything supporting the TRUE LOVE NH and SS fans imagining themselves seeing. It doesn't change the fact that Sasuke left his family for 12 years of his own volition and pops up once a blue moon and during those times is more interested in training Boruto than spending time with Sarada. It doesn't change the fact that Naruto ignored a home made lunch from Hinata and doesn't seem the slightest bit interested returning the affection she shows even during the rare occasions he's home. Well what else is new? It was the exact same thing with Naruto where the so called moments between NH and SS added nothing but fuel to their one-track minded cultists' imaginations, as it didn't affect actual story events.
Even the filler arcs in Boruto is more interested in trying to make them seem like (slightly) better fathers than they are husbands to their wives. Sure putting your kids before a romance IS true for many parents but I see manga/anime married couples every now and then show SOME romance aspects still, so I don't what the excuse is here. Same thing for When SS and NH ACTUALLY MARRIED, nothing was stopping them from having moments, but Kishi just straight up wasn't interested.
Well I haven't seen anything in the anime for awhile...which I am very happy with. Sasuke popped into the village every once in a blue moon to talk to Naruto. He avoided talking to Sakura or Sarada for 12 years. Once he started training Bolt he was in the village far more often.
They put up with the boys not caring for the girls throughout Naruto because they figured they would return the love once they realized how wonderful they were they would have this great romance filled with sex. While relying on fanfiction and sexual fantasies to sustain them. Instead they got blue balls.
As for the focus of trying to make them better fathers over being better husbands? Well, this is an anime that is targeted at young kids. Parents will tolerate their kids seeing a loveless marriage but they don't want their kids seeing the children neglected because then the kids may draw parallels to their own rearing.
In summary studio pierrot is a dog chasing cars and NaruHina is the car. They never had any idea what they would with it upon catching it. Which is why Boruto (nor even the original anime) spends ZERO time actually showcasing the dynamics of Naruto and Hinata's relationship. That's because there are NONE. It's so bad that they've had to outright STEAL personality quirks from Sakura (i.e. Hinata is a "scary" mom, LMAO!!!!).
Little wonder that a man who can literally be in one thousand places at once (as well as simultaneously fight 1000 different highly complex ninja battles ) never seems to find the time to be home. There is quite literally NOTHING there for him. He'd rather drown himself in paper work than spend time with someone whose entire personality can be boiled down to "naruto-kun."
This also explains why he gets his @ss handed to him so much in Boruto. He no longer has any motivation to perform like he did in the original series. Sakura-chan is gone, so what's the point in putting up a fight against lame akatsuki ripoffs? Perhaps there's a part of him that actually WANTS to die, which is why we never see him showcase any of the busted abilities he gained during the war arc. He keeps hoping and praying that one of these lame villains will finally put him out of his misery, but they're just too lame to accomplish that.
In their minds, there wasn't anything else they needed to do but put Naruto and Hinata together because Hinata getting everything she ever wanted is perfect and people should just realize this. Problem is the person overall in charge of writing said story and setting up the sequel doesn't get Hinata's appeal. And for some reason or another decided to add drama into what is suppose to be a perfect flawless relationship.
He did seem pretty indifferent even accepting when he thought he was going to die, and only because Ikemoto can't display emotions on the characters that we didn't see shock horror remorse regret or any other emotion when Kurama informed Naruto he would live while the fox died instead.
Hinata can't be dynamic. She's the perfect background character. She shows up, does something typical, you react to it (usually by laughing, let's be honest here), then leaves. She doesn't have depth and can't survive being the focus for long. Just brief periods and it is easy to appreciate her in that context because again she's narrow, you know what to expect from her, and it's like "lol, of course".
Trying to take her very seriously or make her a protagonist doesn't work because no part of her is like that. She was usually played as a joke. Are there little girls who admire Hinata and want to be like her?
From a neutral fan perspective, making Sakura look like s** doesn't help with this because Sakura already looked like s***. But Sakura was never played as a JOKE.
I don't think it works well to pair the hero with a joke character. They've stopped playing Hinata as the joke but it doesn't help because she had very little to offer beyond this.
Pretty much. Kishimoto wasn't interested in her so he didn't really add anything to her even once he started using her more. While SP loved her the way she is and even stripped her personality down even more till all she was nothing but 'in love with Naruto.' That's fine when you just leave her to her supporters' fantasies. However, putting as the new heroine means displaying her to the general readers who will have to now form an opinion of her when they didn't have to before, and see how lacking she is.
I think, the main problem Pierrot is facing off, are the personalities of both Naruto and Hinata. In almost every shonen there is the hero sometimes selfish, dumb, an hyperactive and the main girl who controls him. But Hinata don't have the personality so make something like that is just too OOC. It's like if Piccoro start to be a pervert or Robin starts to hit luffy instead of nami.
Most shounen go with the moron and the Tsudere because their interactions can be interesting or funny or something else. The shy girl isn't as interesting as normally all they do is fret and panic on the sidelines while the main character does something stupid. Also since they are more polite they tend not to get involved in situations unless dragged in means they don't tend to do anything that can be seen as interesting unless it happens to them.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 16 March 2021 - 08:43 AM.
