Board Thread:Naruto 7: Discussion/@comment-120883-20141127101030/@comment-8284722-20141129070347

@Blaze YES! Kishi desperately needed to put more romance in this thing other than stupid fangirl crushes that should NEVER have worked out (My mother once had a crush on Sylvester Stallone - which kinda creeps me out. But did she ever get the chance to even meet him? Nooooooo. She met my father instead. And everything worked out FAR better than the aforementioned pairing could've EVER been - same goes for her British ex.). So what if he was a bit embarrassed by it? So what if it was apparently difficult in Part II? Neither are excuses for the fact you had to give NH its own movie JUST SO EVERYTHING FLOWED!!! Maybe that's why Tenten, out of all the female characters, is his favorite.

@Plane I know, right? Everyone (even herself) thinks Sakura can't do squat, yet she's the only teenage female protagonist that happens to be Kage level. Like, seriously people. Plus - if you guys hate her so much, why did you always pine for the day when she got her definition of a happy ending by getting to legally lip-lock with Sasuke for all eternity?

@Hisana For the record, I'm going into the movie just to see the good action and to judge Toneri as a final villain (though I much prefer Sasuke as a final villain). I don't give a damn about the romance since we already know what happens. As for Sakura being overdone... you are totally confused there. The one who gets all the treatment by SP is Hinata. She gets a waterfall dance. A bajillion fillers. A headbutt scene. AND HER OWN ENDING (complete with a bike). Hell, SP's even poked fun at themselves for totally splattering her everywhere as opposed to Sakura, as seen in episodes such as omake 165.

@Rayzur Not sure what you're point is. All I can say is: from Chapters 3-692, Sakura has developed into a very great character that anyone can actually like. Then Sakura went all "battered housewife" for the majority of 693, and remained a stupid Sasuke fangirl for the rest of the series. I'm near certain that someone other than Kishi was pulling the strings, since that's what the manga/anime staff wants (for her to be a worthless b**** and for Hinata to take center stage), and Kishi has constantly said that he was making Sakura more heroic as the series continued forth. Oh and by the way, it's shy, meek, and flawed < outgoing, powerful, and flawed. Sakura is in no way arrogant or condescending, and both of them are kind and sweet. Oh - and EVERY human, real or fake, is flawed (unless you're Jesus).

@Eric All she did was get a flower from her best friend who recently went Iron Man. How'd she get ruined? Mecha-Naruto was the one that was ruined (though personally I actually prefered the anime version over the game version) storywise. And it wasn't anything we hadn't already seen in Invasion of Pain ("Please, NARUTOOOOOO!!").

@Minasas Building on what you said is what I said to Rayzur. I TOTALLY agree with you!