Board Thread:Naruto Gaiden/@comment-1018594-20150610113403/@comment-25402783-20150616214923

Matako wrote: BigBadBruin343 wrote: It's supposed to go on for 15 chapters. So there is plenty of time for more twists and turns. Not in this matter. The whole back and forth thing took over half of the spin-off already. "Oh she lives with Sakura; Oh she has the same glasses as Karin; Oh Naruto says she is like Sakura; Oh her parents act weird when she asks if Sakura is her mother", it was already a huge thing and I'm more than just certain that the DNA test put an end to this. The final result doesn't even seem like something Kishimoto would end up changing. That's so unlike his style. Nothing is ever more accurate than a DNA test, and every emotional moment that was caused by this matter would be the result of a simple and meaningless mistake if Sakura ended up being the biological mother after all, which would be ridiculous. It's like I explained in an earlier comment. This is all about learning about the definition of a mother. Now Sarada refuses to help her mother because she's not her biological mother. I don't think Kishimoto is going to change that, because Sarada needs to learn that a mother isn't defined by who gave birth to her. That's also the point he made through Sakura's speech, and it's dead obvious that this topic is in the center of the current events. Sarada learning to love her mother for what she has done and not for whether she has given birth to her or not, THAT sounds like Kishimoto. Sarada finding out that Sakura is the biological mother and being like "Oh, so she is my mother. Alright, we can go save her now. Now I can love her" doesn't sound like Kishimoto. Even if it gets revealed after Sarada reawakens her feelings for her mother. It would ruin it all. It would ruin Kishimoto's very own message that motherhood doesn't necessarily have to do with biology. Given Sakura's speech about how a family is connected through feelings, not through genes, it's beyond unlikely Sakura will end up being the biological mother, because the message Kishimoto is delivering would be pointless if that happened. Then it's a horrible way to deliver the message. I think over-all it's a nice message but for it to come at the expense of Sasuke and Sakura's character is really fucking stupid. You have Sasuke, who's finally becoming a better person, only to cheat on his wife and dump his bastard on her. Do you see the problem with that? And I've heard some people say: "well maybe she was born before Sasuke married Sakura", even then he's a bad person for taking the kid away from Karin in the first place and dumping it on Sakura and leaving her for 12 years (which was already a dick move). And the whole talk that Sakura had with Shin, at first I thought the same thing you did, that Sakura was talking about how you don't have to have the same blood running through your veins to be parent and child. But then looking at it again she's says the bond between child and parent is more than blood. Ok, but then she says he wouldn't understand because he's not a parent. Which I took to mean that because he doesn't have any real children of his own that he couldn't understand. But my main reason for believing that Sakura is the mother is that it ruins both her character and Sasuke's as well. And if Karin is in fact the mother than that's just shit writing. A message shouldn't come at the cost of other characters development.