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Naruto Manga |OT2| Not A Romance Manga

Zoe

Member
Kishi's full of shit. Did you somehow miss where he just said he was just teasing with the Sakura/Kushina parallels, like NH is some kind of Shymalayan twist. As far as the movie goes there's nothing to address as far as NS are concerned imo, especially since we're already seeing that Sakura seems to be a NH shipper.

It's one thing to say he's a troll, but he's literally saying one of the purposes of the movie is to address that.
 

EhoaVash

Member
Lol I <3 kishimoto for rubbing more salt on sakuranaruto fans :3

anyway I need essay on naruto last movie plot spoilers nowww q.q

i mean it's the 6th in japan right? are there even midnight launches in japan for movies
>.>?
 

Erigu

Member
Apparently there was some more light shed on the other short stories that we will get post Chapter 700

we know Kakashi is getting a story..... apparently the Akatsuki are getting one as well as Sakura
Source? Are you sure you're not confusing Kishimoto's mini-series with the upcoming novels (the first of which will be about Kakashi)?


At least he admitted he was a troll.
Well, that's what he's claiming, anyway. I'd still call him a poor writer. I don't think he really knew where he was going (see that scene where Sai explained how even he "could tell that Naruto was really in love with Sakura"... and now, according to the movie, nope, never was, actually!).
Kishimoto also claims all the poor Japanese grammar is there "absolutely on purpose". Y'know, 'cause that makes the dialogue "more striking and memorable". Suuuure, Kishimoto.


Has that girl that believes its all a genjustsu seen this.
"It's all a clever ruuuuuse!"
 
Source? Are you sure you're not confusing Kishimoto's mini-series with the upcoming novels (the first of which will be about Kakashi)?

I thought they were novels too but apparently Kishi is illustrating too

:/


likely either it is indeed mini novels but with some art in the end or it is one shot chapters
 
Where did you read this?
here
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1) Kakashi
2) Shikamaru
3) Akatsuki
4) Gaara
5) Sakura
6) Konoha

According to the announcement, the novels will be set 'after the manga', and illustrated by Kishimoto himself (though the books will probably contain just one or two images, so don't get your hopes up too much).

Actual Link
From: http://j-books.shueisha.co.jp/_sp/pickup/naruto_hiden/

tumblr above quote link
http://papasuke-mamakura.tumblr.com/post/104408544014/narutos-novel-about-sakura


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Also some images of Kishi's rough work when he was brainstorming the series




if you wanna know Kurama (or whatever he was called back then... since the tailed fox was Naruto's pop or something) was one of the kages
Edit: THAT or the third was a dog

lololooololololololol

also Minato looks like a psycho
 

Welfare

Member
Hashi and Tobi look the same, but the 3rd was going to be an animal? And the 4th... good thing Kishi changed some things.
 

Turok_TTZ

Member
all kishi done with that interview besides rubbing salt to wounds is proving my reading comprehension remains ahead of the pack. You didn't fool me Kishi.

Though now I guess i should feel pity for the NS fans that were fooled by Masashi Kishimoto, the japanese version of vince russo.
 
So instead of developing the intended, main pairing, he fooled around with another pairing (while using the hero's dead parents as a tool for that, mind you) to throw off another fandom and is now using the movie to show how the planned pairing came to be. Basically admits to suckering the NH fandom into buying an extra movie ticket to resolve something he could have...no, should have resolved on-panel. All the while the movie is shitting on characters (including the titular character) and retcons things in favor of a satellite fan favorite woobie moeblob character. Sensational :lmao A hollow victory. No true fan should be happy about this.
 

Welfare

Member
So instead of developing the intended, main pairing, he fooled around with another pairing (while using the hero's dead parents as a tool for that, mind you) to throw off another fandom and is now using the movie to show how the planned pairing came to be. Basically admits to suckering the NH fandom into buying an extra movie ticket to resolve something he could have...no, should have resolved on-panel. All the while the movie is shitting on characters (including the titular character) and retcons things in favor of a satellite fan favorite woobie moeblob character. Sensational :lmao A hollow victory. No true fan should be happy about this.

We get a movie out of it, more action (somewhat) and something canon that is outside the manga. I'm happy.
 
He equates Hinata's love to his love for ramen. He might be dense and a knucklehead, but never ever was he portrayed this demented when it came to bonds and feelings. Not to mention that part about him only loving Sakura because of his rivalry with Sasuke. That makes him look very shallow and makes Sakura look like a prize. He was always portrayed to be mature about this, but had to thrown under the bus for the sake of princess Hinata.

I'm not even a fan of his anymore, but this is appalling.

And I'm no NS fan, said this countless times now.
 
Man, they really needed to have Sasuke go back and confront Konoha about all of their bullshit. Have Naruto actually have to make tough choices rather than this "Destroy Konoha" silliness that makes Sasuke stupid and wrong instead of having a legitimate reason to be upset. OH WELL.
 
But that's what she is. Pairing fodder, shrinking violet, yamato nadeshiko archtype which Pierrot likes to play up. This whole movie is a pity party for her.

the fact that a ton of people like this character more then the "heroine" even though she had a minuscule amount of story time present in the series speaks volumes
sure she was shy..... but she helped Naruto multiple times when something serious is occurring and she is present


Having a movie for her isn't really that stupid.... she is the person who ends up with the protag.... she has a large unknown clan backstory connected to the sages and she had a ton of other things that were unknown that needed to be addressed

There were of course other ways to solve a ton of unknown questions via movies but Kishi chose to end the pairing timeline (which he has planned a long time ago for the protag)

likely he wanted to at least resolve his NaruHina idea he had before wrapping things up

They're still short stories. That just means he will draw things like the cover and maybe some insert pages.
Assuming that's in order, it will be Shikamaru, Akatsuki, Gaara, Sakura, and then Konoha.

you're right

I read a translation with just the Kishi illustrating bit so I assumed it would be mangalike chapters
that or some pages in the back of the book
 

Welfare

Member
But that's what she is. Pairing fodder, shrinking violet, yamato nadeshiko archtype which Pierrot likes to play up. This whole movie is a pity party for her.

Well, Sakura was just as much Pairing fodder as Hinata was. Pierrot (and others) just like one fodder more.
 

Yado

Member
the fact that a ton of people like this character more then the "heroine" even though she had a minuscule amount of story time present in the series speaks volumes
sure she was shy..... but she helped Naruto multiple times when something serious is occurring and she is present


Having a movie for her isn't really that stupid.... she is the person who ends up with the protag.... she has a large unknown clan backstory connected to the sages and she had a ton of other things that were unknown that needed to be addressed

People dislike Sakura because Kishi took every opportunity to shit on her and take two steps backward every time she took one forward, even at times when it didn't make sense. Hinata is more appealing because she shows up every now and then but not often enough for Kishi to ruin her for the sake of being a female. Kishi could have scaled back on Sakura and expanded on Hinata's story years ago if he was a competent writer, instead he continued to let her character fall to the wayside and only show up when Naruto needed a pep talk, Kishi ignored her character throughout the Manga (despite claiming that NH was endgame) and Naruto wasn't thinking about her when she wasn't in his presence.

I would have loved it if he had switched Sakura's role with Hinata's in terms of panels given and proximity to Naruto earlier in the manga so people could see that the problem was Kishi and not Sakura.
 

Yado

Member
Well, Sakura was just as much Pairing fodder as Hinata was. Pierrot (and others) just like one fodder more.

This is nonsense, Sakura's character could have gone in several directions without being paired off and it would have been believable. She could even have died and that would have been acceptable.


If Hinata wasn't paired off with Naruto what could Kishi have done with her character?
 

Turok_TTZ

Member
He equates Hinata's love to his love for ramen. He might be dense and a knucklehead, but never ever was he portrayed this demented when it came to bonds and feelings. Not to mention that part about him only loving Sakura because of his rivalry with Sasuke. That makes him look very shallow and makes Sakura look like a prize. He was always portrayed to be mature about this, but had to thrown under the bus for the sake of princess Hinata.

I'm not even a fan of his anymore, but this is appalling.

And I'm no NS fan, said this countless times now.
Naruto and mature in the same sentence... forget w/e yer smoking, what the hell have you been reading this whole time?

Naruto was 12 at the start and younger in flashbacks, unless your name is itachi, kids that age have such qualities such as pettiness and shallow simply cuz they don't know any better. especially in the case of Naruto who is a complete idiot when he isn't fighting.

seriously, what the hell have you been reading this whole time? fanfiction?
 
People dislike Sakura because Kishi took every opportunity to shit on her and take two steps backward every time she took one forward, even at times when it didn't make sense. Hinata is more appealing because she shows up every now and then but not often enough for Kishi to ruin her for the sake of being a female. Kishi could have scaled back on Sakura and expanded on Hinata's story years ago if he was a competent writer, instead he continued to let her character fall to the wayside and only show up when Naruto needed a pep talk, Kishi ignored her character throughout the Manga (despite claiming that NH was endgame) and Naruto wasn't thinking about her when she wasn't in his presence.

I would have loved it if he had switched Sakura's role with Hinata's in terms of panels given and proximity to Naruto earlier in the manga so people could see that the problem was Kishi and not Sakura.
Seeing Sakura always go back to her Sasuke-kun self when Sasuke is ever involved in any form just made me not care that much for her character really...
Sure she had great moments but she usually turned back to her usual self after what not chapters so much so that I just put the assumption down that it was her character

but please don't go yammering about what if scenarios seeing as we don't know for sure if he'd do the same with Hinata

Kishi neglected multiple characters and their story and overly focused on some
he wasn't good at managing multiple characters compared to other mangaka who did a better job at it....

There was a post from a fellow gaffer in the last thread that gave a good point with some examples showing that Kishi made/shitted on multiple characters that people had better expectations for.... it wasn't only secluded to females

Get of of your bubble mate.... Just because you learnt that Sakura was not some Goddess character doesn't mean the author is a sexist

Obito rants about Rin all day and Shino doesn't get any panel time at all! Nothing is exclusive to one particular group just because your prized jewel didn't get what you
wanted

I am being harsh but the same bickering is always being used

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found one of the good shutdowns a Gaffer posted

It's not 'Bad writing' that made Karin suddenly forgive and flood her panties for Sasuke after he fucking stabbed her and then asked someone else to kill her to prove something to him. But hey. All is forgiven because..., Sasuke.

It wasn't 'bad writing' that gives us a female Hokage, but only after a man turned down the job, and also has her at the weakest of the Sannin. Of course this strong female character is also a drunkard, compulsive gambler and lazy.

It wasn't 'bad writing' that gave us another Female Kage, supposedly one of the strongest Kages but have her job to a tired Sasuke while whining about not being able to find and good man.

Hinata was a stuttering meek weak willed mess that could only get her strength from Naruto.

Kurinai two big accomplishments were getting owned by Itachi and getting knocked up.

Tenten? What the fuck is a Tenten?

Kishimoto is a bad writer. But in my opinion he also has some backwards ass and sexist views on women. That of course this is just my opinion based purely on the depiction of women his manga.
Really? Tsuande may be the weakest of the three, but being a drunkard gambler is probably be better than a perv that peeks through women bathing houses and Oro...who does whatever he does to people.

They asked Jiraya because there was no one else there and he even said himself he would be worse at the job than her.

Also, Oro also instantly forgave Sasuke after he cut him up in three pieces and Naruto also called Obito the coolest guy after he killed his parents and Neji. And as much as we make fun of TenTen, she had more of a presence in Part 2 than Shino

The Second Hokage was a borderline racist that got mad when the first wanted to give Madara the second Hokage seat. (Which honestly, probably was a good idea) instead he got caught up in something super petty which started the entire mess, he also researched and messed with someone's body after the fact.

A lot of the sexist writing and moments can also be put on a lot of male characters.

Hell, Konan came closest to killing Obito at the point where everyone thought he couldn't even be touched.
 

Yado

Member
Seeing Sakura always go back to her Sasuke-kun self when Sasuke is ever involved in any form just made me not care that much for her character really...

sure she had great moments but she usually turned back to her usual self after what not chapters so much so that I just put the assumption down that it was her character


but please don't go yammering about what if scenarios seeing as we don't know for sure if he'd do the same with Hinata

Kishi neglected multiple characters and their story and overly focused on some
he wasn't good at managing multiple characters compared to other mangaka who did a better job at it....

there was a post from a fellow gaffer in the last thread that gave a good point with some examples showing that Kishi made/shitted on multiple characters that people had better expectations for.... it wasn't only secluded to females


get of of your bubble mate.... just because you learnt that Sakura was not some Goddess character doesn't mean the author is a feminist


Obito rants about Rin all day and Shino doesn't get any panel time at all! Nothing is exclusive to one particular group just because your prized jewel didn't get what you
wanted


I am being harsh but the same bickering is always being used




I don't give a shit about Sakura being a Goddess Character(?) whatever that means, I was addressing why Hinata is popular. It's easy to love a character when they're as shallowly written as Hinata who's only utilised when it's time to worship the Hero of the story (ie, the person all the readers love). Not to mention all the ideal waifu qualities Kishi's target audience is prone to lap up.

& yeah I'm confident Hinata would have been been more useless seeing that she could barely speak in Naruto's presence as a kid and she didn't have any notable skills in battle in shippuden. She would have been off to the side crying out for Naruto Kun or in the fray shielding Naruto with her body.
 
the fact that a ton of people like this character more then the "heroine" even though she had a minuscule amount of story time present in the series speaks volumes
sure she was shy..... but she helped Naruto multiple times when something serious is occurring and she is present

The fact that a ton of people bring up how big her tits are and a nice personality to fuck speaks volumes. We can run these circles if you want.

And she's always there when something big shit happens, but she was never there for him in his early childhood. The same way Sasuke didn't reach out to Naruto and vice versa. Kishi did a weak job with these.

Having a movie for her isn't really that stupid.... she is the person who ends up with the protag.... she has a large unknown clan backstory connected to the sages and she had a ton of other things that were unknown that needed to be addressed

There were of course other ways to solve a ton of unknown questions via movies but Kishi chose to end the pairing timeline (which he has planned a long time ago for the protag)

likely he wanted to at least resolve his NaruHina idea he had before wrapping things up

A movie shouldn't fill in the blanks. Kishi is writing a manga, he should write his story there, not rely an a movie studio. This is poor planning and writing.

Well, Sakura was just as much Pairing fodder as Hinata was. Pierrot (and others) just like one fodder more.

I wasn't talking about Sakura....

Naruto and mature in the same sentence... forget w/e yer smoking, what the hell have you been reading this whole time?

Naruto was 12 at the start and younger in flashbacks, unless your name is itachi, kids that age have such qualities such as pettiness and shallow simply cuz they don't know any better. especially in the case of Naruto who is a complete idiot when he isn't fighting.

seriously, what the hell have you been reading this whole time? fanfiction?

ummm yes? The way he treasures his bonds? The way he left Sakura and Sasuke alone in the hospital? When he made the promise to bring Sasuke back to Sakura even though he liked her (apparently because he considered Sasuke a rival . Yeah bringing him back in that context sure makes sense)? Those were among the more mature scenes from part 1 by him. Who's been reading the series again?

"12 year old are shallow" is a weak argument.
 
I don't give a shit about Sakura being a Goddess Character(?) whatever that means, I was addressing why Hinata is popular. It's easy to love a character when they're as shallowly written as Hinata who's only utilised when it's time to worship the Hero of the story (ie, the person all the readers love). Not to mention all the ideal waifu qualities Kishi's target audience is prone to lap up.

& yeah I'm confident Hinata would have been been more useless seeing that she could barely speak in Naruto's presence as a kid and she didn't have any notable skills in battle in shippuden. She would have been off to the side crying out for Naruto Kun or in the fray shielding Naruto with her body.

and you clearly know that right?


OF COURSE YOU DO

/s


I am being an ass but seriously Kishi made Sakura what she is.... if it was some hated agenda or something we will never know but cheaply tossing the word sexist around or "this female too" is just grasping for straws
 

Fj0823

Member
Just a reminder, the manga is done.
The movie premiered today and no matter how hard you complain. The story is finished.

And will forever be remembered as a good action anime.


Also, Hinata is love and life
 
Just a reminder, the manga is done.
The movie premiered today and no matter how hard you complain. The story is finished.

And will forever be remembered as a good action anime.


Also, Hinata is love and life
story is finished until spring when he does the mini series with the kids!
 

Welfare

Member
This is nonsense, Sakura's character could have gone in several directions without being paired off and it would have been believable. She could even have died and that would have been acceptable.


If Hinata wasn't paired off with Naruto what could Kishi have done with her character?

Now THIS is nonsense. Hinata's character could've gone in any direction without being paired off.
 
The fact that a ton of people bring up how big her tits are and a nice personality to fuck speaks volumes. We can run these circles if you want.

And she's always there when something big shit happens, but she was never there for him in his early childhood. The same way Sasuke didn't reach out to Naruto and vice versa. Kishi did a weak job with these.

the people who just talk about physical attributes are either trolls or just joking

there were a lot of people who liked Hinata way before shippuden (heck she had better interactions prior to shippuden)


A movie shouldn't fill in the blanks. Kishi is writing a manga, he should write his story there, not rely an a movie studio. This is poor planning and writing.

I agree that Kishi is to blame for a ton of things not being addressed properly (Kaguya being one of them)

but I am not going to complain and whine about a movie that is addressing one of the things he neglected.... seriously what would be the point


"Kishi didn't explain this and that".... a movie is there to explain it that thing

"oh but why didn't you do it before?"


I'm just going to be grateful that it was at least finally addressed in some way or form

better late then never
 

Yado

Member
Now THIS is nonsense. Hinata's character could've gone in any direction without being paired off.

Like what? What was Hinata doing in the manga besides trying to be brave for Naruto kun? Her father had already turned to Hanabi to be the heir because she wasn't up to snuff and she didn't have any personal interests in anything (besides Naruto of course)
 
Like what? What was Hinata doing in the manga besides trying to be brave for Naruto kun? Her father had already turned to Hanabi to be the heir because she wasn't up to snuff and she didn't have any personal interests in anything (besides Naruto of course)

her kindness was her weakness
she trained to get recognized by her Father not only Naruto.... she helps out her Team and has concern for multiple people


if she was so Naruto centric she would've ditched her NInja training and just stalk the dude

If Kishi doesn't want to use romance to actually develop characters or advance the plot, whatever, that's fine, he can even troll if we wants to. But he needs to restrain himself from making romantic conflict or awareness so explicit that he has to trot out bullshit explanations to rationalize avoiding the natural consequences. Just make Naruto lose his memory after transforming into nine-tails so that he can't remember the confession at all, don't actually say when The Last takes place to avoid the absurdity of a two year status quo, those are the kind of typical 'outs' one would expect, not crap about "I thought you meant love in a Ramen kind of way".

is the ramen crap a actually quote from the movie or is it some rumor thing

if it is legit then man Kishi could've handled that better
 
If Kishi doesn't want to use romance to actually develop characters or advance the plot, whatever, that's fine, he can even troll if we wants to. But he needs to restrain himself from making romantic conflict or awareness so explicit that he has to trot out bullshit explanations to rationalize avoiding the natural consequences. Just make Naruto lose his memory after transforming into nine-tails so that he can't remember the confession at all, don't actually say when The Last takes place to avoid the absurdity of a two year status quo, those are the kind of typical 'outs' one would expect, not crap about "I thought you meant love in a Ramen kind of way".
 

Yado

Member
her kindness was her weakness
she trained to get recognized by her Father not only Naruto.... she helps out her Team and has concern for multiple people


if she was so Naruto centric she would've ditched her NInja training and just stalk the dude

We saw her feeling down about her family issues in part one and then what? It's been all Naruto Kun since then.
 
If Kishi doesn't want to use romance to actually develop characters or advance the plot, whatever, that's fine, he can even troll if we wants to. But he needs to restrain himself from making romantic conflict or awareness so explicit that he has to trot out bullshit explanations to rationalize avoiding the natural consequences. Just make Naruto lose his memory after transforming into nine-tails so that he can't remember the confession at all, don't actually say when The Last takes place to avoid the absurdity of a two year status quo, those are the kind of typical 'outs' one would expect, not crap about "I thought you meant love in a Ramen kind of way".

This.

There is nothing wrong with NH as a pairing.

But he chose the wrong way to being it to canon.

Mothefucker should've had Hinata played a major part of the story, but NOPE, he chooses to troll instead.
 
So instead of developing the intended, main pairing, he fooled around with another pairing (while using the hero's dead parents as a tool for that, mind you) to throw off another fandom and is now using the movie to show how the planned pairing came to be. Basically admits to suckering the NH fandom into buying an extra movie ticket to resolve something he could have...no, should have resolved on-panel. All the while the movie is shitting on characters (including the titular character) and retcons things in favor of a satellite fan favorite woobie moeblob character. Sensational :lmao A hollow victory. No true fan should be happy about this.

I think the NH fandom takes romance about as seriously as Kishimoto intended it to be taken.

*points to thread title*

In my case, I was satisfied with chapter 615 by itself. Because it was about more than just some foolhardy scene where a girl feeds Naruto ramen, or plays hard to get, or does some sort of tsundere cliche or whatever people constitute as "development". It conveyed the main theme of the story. Never giving up, with a poignant scene. That is why I read Naruto.

I don't need this manga be some sort of pairing soap opera. Actually I'm glad that it isn't. The Promise of Lifetime bullshit is one of the main reasons why the Gokage summit arc was one of the lowest points of the series.
 
Seriously though, how fucking stupid do you have to be to develop a pairing as a red herring and not focus on your intended pair by even given them casual screen time, doesn't even need to be romantic, just them talking doing whatever.

And some are satisfied with this? Come on, now. You already have canonization. You need to start looking at this for what it is.
 

Turok_TTZ

Member
ummm yes? The way he treasures his bonds? The way he left Sakura and Sasuke alone in the hospital? When he made the promise to bring Sasuke back to Sakura even though he liked her (apparently because he considered Sasuke a rival . Yeah bringing him back in that context sure makes sense)? Those were among the more mature scenes from part 1 by him. Who's been reading the series again?

"12 year old are shallow" is a weak argument.

Yes he did treasure his bonds. however, there is no doubt but he could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he were wiser at his younger age, especially with sasuke. too petty and only ended up becoming friends as they became team 7 and had moments together in order to properly bond.

Naruto had a lot of growth and development prior to that Sasuke and Sakura moment at the hospital. I'm arguing @ the start of the manga and to the flashbacks of Naruto in his younger days, he was a petty, shallow kid. add to his suffering of isolation and lack of parents, it would be incredible that he wouldn't be such. You're claiming stuff he didn't have at the start bar the bonds. Naruto's crush on Sakura and rivalry with Sasuke started before chapter 1. started in his younger years where he was much less learned, and lacking all the development that you're arguing he has now because that growth didn't happen yet.

Sakura said in the movie that Naruto only liked her because of her like of Sasuke. @ 12 years of age this doesn't make sense even for Naruto. But remember, he started his crush on sakura at a younger age as is the rivalry with sasuke. around 8-9ish, is very reasonable. kids will be kids. You're telling me Naruto had the same sensitivity and development he wouldn't develop until after the manga started and played out up until that hospital scene? You're not only reaching, you're desperately reaching and it is embarrassing to witness.

Naruto has had fantastic development as a person and as a ninja from chapter 1 and onwards. prior to that. Naruto couldn't develop positively because the things that he had to help him like Kakashi, Sasuke as a teammate, Jiraiya for some examples weren't there for him. he was mostly alone with only Iruka (who he didn't see how positive an influence he was until later on) and to some extent, Teuchi.

I will not waste more of my time with you. go read your fanfictions.

Seriously though, how fucking stupid do you have to be to develop a pairing as a red herring and not focus on your intended pair by even given them casual screen time, doesn't even need to be romantic, just them talking doing whatever.

And some are satisfied with this? Come on, now. You already have canonization. You need to start looking at this for what it is.

The NH moments though few, was a matter of quality vs quantity and imo, quality won out even if Naruto was not very respondent. But I came to expect less with Kishi. I enjoy naruto for what it is. I cannot enjoy it if I put it upto the standards of HxH or say Negima!. Kishi will always has his weakponts. and imo in regards to Sakura, I think it didn't help that Sakura was made the heroine by the editors. She would naturally get a lot of panel time. Kishi decided to just "fuck it" and go the route that he did rather than develop her properly. it also may or may not have helped that since sakura was not of his design, that he may have an agenda against her which played a part.

Personally, I'm gonna go with he hates sakura considering all things. so much burials, surely not a coincidence :lol:
 
I think the NH fandom takes romance about as seriously as Kishimoto intended it to be taken.

*points to thread title*

In my case, I was satisfied with chapter 615 by itself. Because it was about more than just some foolhardy scene where a girl feeds Naruto ramen, or plays hard to get, or does some sort of tsundere cliche or whatever people constitute as "development". It conveyed the main theme of the story. Never giving up, with a poignant scene. That is why I read Naruto.

I don't need this manga be some sort of pairing soap opera. Actually I'm glad that it isn't. The Promise of Lifetime bullshit is one of the main reasons why the Gokage summit arc was one of the lowest points of the series.
this wholeheartedly
We saw her feeling down about her family issues in part one and then what? It's been all Naruto Kun since then.

well the likely explanation to this is the fact that she had even less screen time in Part 2 then 1

so the only times Kishi wanted to reinstate her (that isn't a major scene) was a small panel were she sees the protag and obviously says his name before that said protag runs off with his team before we could get any more screen time with her


other then Team 10.... the Konoha 11 barely got some story driven screen time
 
Seriously though, how fucking stupid do you have to be to develop a pairing as a red herring and not focus on your intended pair by even given them casual screen time, doesn't even need to be romantic, just them talking doing whatever.

And some are satisfied with this? Come on, now. You already have canonization. You need to start looking at this for what it is.

You mean that trolling was prioritized over character development? Yeah it's disappointing and it's more appropriate for the beginning of the series than its end. To compare, it would be like if the Rurouni Kenshin manga held off
Kaoru in favor of Megumi
towards the end. Then again, that series has a way bigger focus on romance than Naruto does.

In Kishimoto's shoes I would have done it differently. But at the same time I take it for what it is, because I can see what he was going for. Like you get to the end of a certain chapter and Naruto's last line is, "I hate people who lie to themselves." I got a good kick out of that one.
 
So there are some new Naruto SD (Rock Lee Springtime of Youth) chapters out where it focuses on Team Taka/Hebi

No Lee involved just Sasuke and his group doing goofy stuff.... there is a final chapter were they go to see the LAST movie


all this is in raw and Chinese... no translations
 
You mean that trolling was prioritized over character development? Yeah it's disappointing and it's more appropriate for the beginning of the series than its end. To compare, it would be like if the Rurouni Kenshin manga held off
Kaoru in favor of Megumi
towards the end. Then again, that series has a way bigger focus on romance than Naruto does.

In Kishimoto's shoes I would have done it differently. But at the same time I take it for what it is, because I can see what he was going for. Like you get to the end of a certain chapter and Naruto's last line is, "I hate people who lie to themselves." I got a good kick out of that one.

Megumi had a crush on Kenshin?

Eh?

What?

o.o

I don't remember this...
 
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