Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26825329-20150727070419/@comment-734582-20170618143647

Ncduru wrote: But even if I wasn't it's just so corny to me that a character will die to progress a ship. So dumb, while not the same impact you could of had Hiashi died and it still would of gave Hinata the same development. I can't remember who gave the argument, but it's like this: the fact that anyone can point to pretty much any other character as a "better" sacrifice shows that Neji was really the only character Kishimoto could kill off to have an impact.

If Choji, Hiashi, Kiba, name someone, died in stead of Neji it would've had a colossal shrug from the fans. Only Neji could really evoke a major response here.