Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31492005-20180306150245/@comment-33731988-20180506044226

Look, maybe you haven't grown up in the same society as me. But where I come from, our animated series has comedic violence. Haven't you realized that anime tends to exaggerate every little thing? Have you seen the battles? Any normal human would've died 5 seconds flat in a fight like that. The whole time I was watching those fights, the only thing I was screaming was "HOW ARE YOU NOT DEAD YET?!?!" As for Sakura's violence towards Naruto, it's just an exaggerated version of close friendship. While normally one would sock their friend on the arm, friends in anime punch each other. Sakura can only show her violent side to Naruto is because their close friends. When you're friends with someone, you're allowed to see what they're really like. You don't always have to put up a mask in front of them. Naruto and Sakura considered themselves close friends, therefore they can bear to be themselves around each other. If you're gonna tell me that Sasuke was close friends with them too, yeah they were. But Sasuke was more distant from them. Plus, Sakura wasn't as close to Rock Lee as she was to Naruto. Sure they were nice to each other and exchange small talk, but they're not up to the point where they can show each other their dark sides like Sakura and Naruto. Anime exaggerates everything; fights, nosebleeds, personalities, you name it.

That Boruto video was biased. Everyone has their own opinions. I know a lot of people who find Temari a funny wife and mother. As I said before, matter of audience. Besides, she would've been reported if it was considered abuse to the people in Konoha.

Yes Naruto married Hinata, that's fine and blah blah blah. But what I was saying was that he never stopped being friends with Sakura. If he hated the violence that much, he could've stopped talking to her and just told her to stop hitting him. Lovers may or may not equal friends, but friends does not equal lovers.

Hinata never wanted to be violent to Neji, that was simply self-defense. Their violence was definitely not mutual. Plus when Sasuke tried to kill Sakura, it's also worth noting he was not in the right mindset.

When people abuse others physically, it gives them mental scars. Sakura has neither given Naruto any mental scars nor has she ever sent him to the hospital. As I said before, everything in anime is exaggerated. Normally when annoyed, friends would like, slap each others arms or elbow them in the ribs, but in a world where everything is booom BAAAM and people still live, a punch or two is equivalent to an elbow in the ribs. I'm not saying in the real world, punching is equivalent to an elbow in the ribs. I'm saying a punch in the anime world is the same as a small slap in the real world.

While normally a woman would just yell at a man for doing something annoying to her, anime does its little exaggeration magic and turns it into a punch. But if he is doing something perverted, the first thing that comes to a woman's mind is self-defense. Sure, Sakura acts impulsively, but it's really just an exaggeration of screaming and slapping.

Because I genuinely love Sakura, I don't mind her dark side. If you actually care about someone, you should accept their dark sides. If Naruto couldn't handle her dark sides, then he should never have been her friend or had a crush on her. Besides, I can relate to her in several ways, that one of the reason why I love her so much. I think if she were a real-life person she would've just slapped Naruto on the back of his head instead of punching him.