From what I read of the series (literally only till like sasuke left) and just clips I could never stand Sakura with her behaviour. Reminds me of all those shitty Tsundere that physically abuse other characters rather than actually talk things through or clear up misunderstandings, it's tiresome. Hinata I liked from the start as it felt she had more in common with Naruto and treated him decently from the start unlike a lot that saw him as a stupid troublemaker or as something to fear. Found she was also a more interesting character to boot if I'm comparing her to how boring (and useless) Sakura was most of the time.
I don't know, I'm very biased against shitty Tsundere characters and can't stand many popular shows that feature them because I don't find their behaviour endearing in the least. Only time it kind of works is when it's male tsundere since they're less likely to use the physical violence crutch.
i'll be completely honest here. sakura is, as people have said a million times, a terribly written character, but all of her redeeming moments came in her interactions with naruto imo. like when she was forced to reflect on how much of a piece of shit she was to him and the times she genuinely believed in him (and even one time forced sasuke to realize he was being a bitch compared to naruto). and on the other side, aside from the aggressive bullshit she did reign his autism in now and then.
whereas all her interactions with sasuke she remained flat, littered with horrible decisions, and completely unlikable personality traits.
so i can see where you come from regarding narusaku. if more care was given to her character then i could see some interesting growth from it. but that's not the focus of the series.
kishimoto says he's shit at writing romance, but it could have saved a lot of character issues if he would stop looking at female characters as obligatory romance partners. but that's just how shonen is and always has been. i personally don't have a problem with any of the end game couples, there are worse things about the end parts of naruto's writing than irrelevant shit like ships. i find the kaguya shit to still be one of the most bullshit reveals and it invalidated so many important parts of the series. and any screetching from fangirls crying that naruto isn't getting his asshole rammed by sasuke was drowned out by my own despair from essentially feeling like i wasted time caring about this series for as long as i did just to be given such a disappointing payoff to the story.
but that's completely on me. i do know that kishimoto, like many manga authors, are at the mercy of editors and shit so it's not fair to place the blame on him. and at least from what i can tell they just wanted a way for naruto to be a cashcow, therefore it couldn't have a perfect ending. hence boruto, which i haven't touched because i am honestly just too scared to from all the shit i've heard.
This is a very, very, very, unpopular take but I like Sakura more than Hinata but i'm not gonna go whiteknight for her. It's mainly cause I like what Sakura could've BEEN than what we got.
I'm not saying Hinata is bad or anything thought, hell my favorite girl is Tenten and TonTon lady Tsunade's PIG get's more screen time than her.
If anything, like
@janedoe said, Kishimoto needed to stop lookin at the girls as romance tbh. I'm still watching Shippuden and the Og series, but i've played the games to know end game and everything like bullshit Kaguya.
Speakin of Kishi, he said he wish he spent more time developing Sakura or made Tenten the main girl I think? I swear I heard something like that.
If anything, I think my gripe with Hinata it's mainly like any romance between her and Naruto felt like plot convenience? But to a degree it kinda made sense, since anything Hinata did impacted Naruto and the plot directly, and if it didn't it was Hinata touching her fingers going "N-Naruto-kun..." and Naruto goin "whats your problem?" So it kinda just felt wasted on the down time I guess, compared to Sakura who was "Sasuke Sasuke Sasuke" and any NaruSaku was in filler.
"Oh Naruto you beat my team mates ass here's some medicine"
"Wow Naruto spoke to me time to kick Neji's a- winds up in the ER"
"Naruto ILY *gets killed by Pain*"
"NEJI MAY HAVE DIED BUT NARUTO'S HAND IS SO WARM OMG HIS HAND QUQ"
Honestly the Neji died for NaruHina development pissed me off a lot. That with the bird formation kinda felt like it shit on Neji's whole thing since he felt like a caged bird all his life, and the fact the entire shinobi forces went in a bird formation for his memory, fucking hell man wtf.
Compared to Sakura who I LOVED during the Sasori arc. Like that was PEAK Sakura and I wish we kept that momentum up since Sakura would've been AMAZING.
Sakura really went thru being a good character, only to suffer from terminal Sasuke cum brain.
I think the biggest "are you s e r i o u s?" moments really was Sakura's fake love confession to Naruto right after the whole 5 kage summit arc with Sasuke. Even as a Sakura girl I wasn't into that shit, that was bullshit but I understood why.
Then the whole fact Sakura was going at Sasuke with a fucking knife? C'mon man.
Another "what the hell" part was in a filler moment from Road to Ninja where Sakura was bitching about her parents and went "if Sasuke was here, he'd understand." I get that movie was filler (and personally I loved it) but Sakura did you forget that WHOLE conversation you had as a kid when Sasuke called you annoying?
Like if we kept Sakura far away from Sasuke, we could've had a badass kunoichi, esp since she trained under Tsunade and that was a HUGE deal.
For some reason fangirls love to argue Sakura is abusive and thats why NaruSaku is shit but legit, her CHAAAA is for the funnies and tard wrangling, I don't see it as abuse but ok let's glance over Sasuke and Naruto trying to kill each other cause that's not abuse alright.
Personally, Boruto isn't THAT bad but maybe it's just me it gets on my nerves when boruto fags go "OMG THAT HAPPENED?" when shit happened months ago. For example, anime wise
kurama died last month, but that shit was old news cause it happened back in like February or April of this year cause Boruto is monthly instead of weekly. Boruto isn't my favorite, but I like the Sasuke being a dad moment's cause he's so fucking lost but I would've rather had something like the Kakashi anbu filler in shippuden as a new series. Minato previous generations or some shit.
Or oh I dunno, ANIMATE CHIBI SASUKE SHARINGAN LEGEND. That would've been great.
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