Board Thread:Chapter and Episode Discussions/@comment-4271790-20141108071032/@comment-25672343-20141112231146

I'm not completely caught up with the story but I did (unfortunately) get the last chapter spoiled for myself due to internet..

..and.. I have to say, I'm a bit unhappy. I feel that Naruto should not have ended with a bunch of pair ups. Or a time-skip, for that matter.

I know that Kishi wanted to illustrate that they had moved on and gotten their lives in order but.. I just don't feel that this was the way to do it. It felt like it was just catering to the popular shippings. As someone who never really cared about the shippings I was a bit underwhelmed.

I would've much preferred if it ended with Sasuke coming back to Konoha and making his resolutions, and Naruto becoming Hokage. (Which had, from the spoilers I had read, already happened, right? So I'm not wishing for something impossible). That would have honestly been enough for me. I don't like that there had to be a time-skip.

But alas, I'm probably alone in my opinion. I still respect what Kishi wrote, but I'd really just like to pretend that Epilogue never happened. I'm not keen on any of the pair ups.

(And no, just to clear things up, I am not a NaruSasu or SasuNaru fan, ok >_> I felt like people would assume this. I just don't care about any pairings in the show and rarely have I ever had)