Radra

Isn't it obvious? Hinata's popularity is all thanks to Sakura.

Whether you agree or not the fact of the matter is Sakura was very annoying at the start of the story. Her Sasuke fangirlism and her initial treatment of Naruto made a lot of fans hate her character. The anime team did not help matters as the exaggerated Sakura's behavior for comedy. Even though sakura changed, the damage was already done.

Hinata is basically the polar opposite of Sakura (and all the other females for that matter) and because she had a crush on the main character which a lot of people consider to be cute, that ultimately made her more appealing to the fandom. The anime also doing all the Hinata fanservice played a huge part in Hinata's rise to popularity.

Because a lot of people hated Sakura (the female lead), they moved on to the next best thing which is Hinata (her feelings for naruto is what made her stand out fro the other females).

I'm sorry but this fandom is something else right now. Are we not allowed to critize Naruto or Sakura but we can bash Hinata and Sasuke all we like? Both of them are just as guilty. The whole excuse of "it's not their fault it's kishimoto's" can literally be applied to any character. 

100% agree with this.

Kishimoto as the writer is ultimately guilty for everthing but if I forget Kishimoto and have to blame a character, I blame Sakura only for the way the pairings played out.

Naruto loved Sakura.

Sakura loved Sasuke

Sasuke had zero romantic interest in Sakura

Hinata loved Naruto

If Sakura had simply dropped her feelings for Sasuke, NS would have been canon and we will be the ones enjoying all the new era stuff. Sakura had good reason to move on from sasuke but she never did and that was the problem.

Hinata was a side character so her feelings never really would have mattered if Sakura had moved on and fell in love with Naruto because NS would have then been mutual. 

Simply put, the moment NS was mutual, Hinata would have been the one to move on from Naruto.

So unlike most people here, I don't blame Naruto for moving on from Sakura. I dont see it as him giving up. Naruto can't force Sakura to love him and If Naruto did not move on, he would probably have been like Jiraiya or Kakashi. Single.... and i personally dont see that as a happy ending for Naruto.

I see Kishimoto just cant help himself with all the pairing drama lol

So now it is SasuSaku vs SasuKarin now 

Well, my money is on Sarada being Sakura's daughter. I refuse to be baited. I will be laughing at the SasuSaku fans though. I mean, did they really think that SasuSaku would be a happy perfect relationship like "naruhina"? then again, all the kids seem to have one issue or the other with their parents. lol

I would be lying if I said I wasn't interested in this stuff. Say what you want about Kishimoto but he knows how to get people talking 

The first thing is that Kishimoto should not have made her so "annoying". I was among the fans that hated sakura in part one.

The second and most important thing is that he should not have made Sakura fall in love with Sasuke. Her feelings for sasuke made her seem shallow and it added to her annoying personality.

The third thing is he should have made her much stronger in part one. I mean, she becomes a beast at the end of the story but by then, the damage had already been done.  

I am kinda expecting Kushina to show up somehow...

First, Minato showed up in Naruto's belly and the later Kushina did the same thing.

Chapters later, Minato was brought back and he spend actual real life time with Naruto. It wont surprise me if kishi finds a way to have Kushina have the same experience in the mini series... 

Obviously a fake interview.

Let me say this at least:

Perhaps the romance is lackluster. Fine. But illogical? I don't know. Difference. NH got both. If you get both, then it's the top quality bad. From what I see, there's no battle struggle who's getting Korra or what. Naruto had that and it was God awful.

Carry on.

Honestly, I get your point but the thing is, a kitten up is still a kitten up. 

The romance was lackluster and that makes it no different from Naruto. the illogical bit depends on personal opinion. NaruHina/SasuSaku and even some "neutral" fans will tell you that the naruto pairings where logical even though that is far from the truth.

Korra x Asami is illogical for me because these characters wew never shown to be bisexual. They were only attracted to the opposite sex and then boom! they are now lovers and I have to go back to search for the supposed subtle hints (which is me just twisting the friendship and bonding moments into romantic moments because why not? lol). If they had hinted early on that Asami and Korra could be bisexual, then a lot of fans like me won't have viewed all the Korrasami moments with "Hetero" lens. Imagine if Bolin turned out to be bisexual after we have seen him only show attraction to the opposite sex with no strong hint of him liking the same sex. Would that be logical? This is how I feel about the Korrasami.

Saying that they could not show us more stronger hints because of west restrictions is a convenient excuse. Unless there are deleted Korrasami scenes, I don't buy that excuse. 

I just realized that people recognise the issues with the ending and the pairings in general. They just don't care lol  So in the end, people where not as invested in the Legend of Korra like they were with Naruto. That is why I think people are giving these Korra writers a free pass.

They are better than kishimoto.
No one can come close to Kishimoto's level of ruined endings

Korrasami had build up, if you didn't saw it, as the authors put it, you were seeing the series through hetero lens.
Makorra was finished at season 2, it was the canon pair for book 1 but when they found out Nick wanted more seasons instead of animating "the search", separating mako and korra in season 2 was their main idea.
Bryan said he was the first Korrasami shipper back at season 1 he toyed with the idea. He build both of them as very close friends in season 3 and added more hints about the progression of their relationship in season 4, their past relationship with mako was just one of the many things that made the two related


Seriously guys, makorra could have been endgame but it would see as a bigger asspull than Korrasami. Makorra romantic relationship finished back at book 2, now they are past that and really close friends.


Honestly a clean slate with everyone as friends ending would made more sense but I can understand what was the foundation for this Korra ending we got and it didn't destroy the main characters feelings, used retcons, destroyed and regressed other characters like kishimoto despicable ending.

Difference in opinion, I guess. They are no different from Kishi.

That is just a convenient excuse. Hetero lens was the logical way to look at the Korrasami relationship because there was nothing that pointed towards them having a romantic relationship. Asami and Korra both dated a dude afterall and they never had any attraction to any female character in the show. 

The creators are getting away with Korrasami because they messed up the Makorra/MakoAsami pairings and also the fact that relationships between two characters in general can be twisted to fit peoples fantasies.

I said it earlier, all the pairings in LOK are kitten. The best ending like you said would have been for all of them to end up being close friends or maybe if they had  introduced a new character that would have just fixed the crap they did to the characters.

This is why I said they wrote themselves into a corner with the romance that they decided to just make the Korrasami pairing canon. They have already admitted to making kitten up as they go so I don't see why people are acting like it was so hinted and we were all blind to it lol

And some people think these guys are better than Kishimoto? 

Their comments(Bryan and Michael) just confirmed to me that they basically just came up with stuff as they went along with the show. That is why we now have two girls who never showed signs of being bisexual end up in a romantic relationship that was apparently "hinted in two seasons" lol.

The proof is even when one of them talked about Asami's character on how she was supposed to be part of the Equalist back in season one.

You see, in season 1, Makkorra was the obvious pairing I spotted the moment the characters where introduced. However, they had Mako go out with Asami. That was fine because I actually assumed that Asami was "bad". I assumed she would turn out to be working for the equalists which will give Mako reason to dump her ass and go for Korra.

From reading their comments (Bryan, I think), it turns out I wasn't too far off with my assumption. They however changed their minds half way and made Asami a good person which was fine until her character had to suffer for it. 

The result was the nonsense we got. Here is a summary of the LOK romance now.

1.  Mako took a huge dump on Asami's feelings.
2.  Korra also took a nice hot dump on Asami's feelings too. 
3. Asami went full retard and kissed the guy who took a lovely dump on her feelings.
4. Mako and Korra break up because their romance was founded on the huge pile of kitten they took on Asami's feelings.
5. Korra and Asami become close because of their kitten situation.
6.  Korra and Asami become canon because.... why the hell not?

A+ Romance guys. Definitely better than Kishimoto lol     

Trying to figure out why Hinata has the Sasuke's sharingan...

There is nothing to make sense of. Kishimoto trolled all of us. 

He outright confirmed all the crap NaruHina  and SasuSaku fans were saying for years with this ending.

Kishimoto in a recent interview said he was "embarrassed" when it came to writing romance.  The way I see it now, he always intended NaruHina and SasuSaku but he simply kittened up in fore shadowing them especially when it came to SasuSaku with the murder attempts.  

From the ending, NaruSaku was clearly meant to be a friendship bond which I find extremely stupid. You don't parallel a romantic pairing with a non romantic one. 

Kishimoto did not change his mind at the last moment. That just doesn't make sense. He just sucked at foreshadowing his intended pairings.