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 was how it should have ended. 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 too keen on any of the pair ups.