Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-2156952-20141204150215/@comment-8284722-20141206215830

@Mcpowa I don't hate Hinata. I don't. She does sometimes irritate me, though, that's all.

@Habibi Oh boy, here come the rants. Anyone can see Hanabi is getting a huge role in the movie. We, quite literally, don't see her at all in the manga outside of an IT. And yet here she is now playing a huge damsel-in-distress role. While Hinata isn't completely and utterly self-absorbed (that's Ino's job), it is really all so she can believe in herself. That's not necessarily wrong, but obsessing over it and trying to drag people into it makes everyone question your sanity. You also don't really have to *#(@ someone to always be there to help them; you just have to, well, help them. I never called her subservient. She's always been trying to be independent, which is great, if it doesn't involve also completely and utterly relying on a soulmate that isn't yet or never will be your soulmate. The thing about Naruto being an inspiration to carry on is spot-on, but having it unexpectantly transform into what everyone thinks is her goal is just lazy writing at its finest. As for females, everyone knows Kishi writes them terribly. Though for the record, Hinata isn't all that strong to be frank. Just saying. And people don't like Hinata because she's strong nor because she's addicted to Naruto. They like her because she's so quiet and so unassuming compared to Sakura that no one really has to worry about her doing much.

And then the shonen thing - I couldn't stress enough how stereotypical you just made Hinata look. Like all of the Naruto characters, Hinata is basically a rip-off of the usual shy, meek, side-girl that all of a sudden is paired up with the protagonist despite initially being a joke in several regards. Probably the best example of this is Chi-Chi from Dragon Ball, who was a really shy girl that just happened to like Goku and tricked into getting him engaged to her (though it's hilarious how she later became like a Sakura), with Goku eventually doing so. But unlike there, we didn't really need any romantic drama thanks to what came from it - Gohan and Goku's amazing bond. Boruto can't do a sixteenth of what Gohan did, due to the manga being over. In the end, it just goes to show that Naruto, despite having a promising middle run, suddenly swooped right back down into what it started as: a stereotypical, lazily-written, and unrealistic shonen manga. Why couldn't it just be ORIGINAL? God only knows.