Board Thread:Naruto 7: Discussion/@comment-120883-20141127101030/@comment-8284722-20141129070347

@Blaze YES! Kishi desperately needed to put more romance in this thing other than stupid fangirl crushes that should NEVER have worked out (My mother once had a crush on Sylvester Stallone - which kinda creeps me out. But did she ever get the chance to even meet him? Nooooooo. She met my father instead. And everything worked out FAR better than the aforementioned pairing could've EVER been - same goes for her British ex.). So what if he was a bit embarrassed by it? So what if it was apparently difficult in Part II? Neither are excuses for the fact you had to give NH its own movie JUST SO EVERYTHING FLOWED!!! Maybe that's why Tenten, out of all the female characters, is his favorite. As for the manga thing - isn't that what truly mattered in the end? Why the hell did we need all this Naruto Project stuff just to make NH work? Kishi should've just done it throughout the manga! But noooooo - now it's just a rushed ending that feels out of place on so many levels. Disgusting. As for her personality, I'm kinda iffy, but here's how I think it should've worked. Naruto's dream to be the Hokage, once a selfish quest for love and attention, turned into a selfless desire to protect his loved ones and create world peace. Sasuke's dream of rebuilding the Uchiha by means of Itachi's death changed to destroying a city to creating a new world order, and finally to just roaming around. So why couldn't Sakura's dream to get Sasuke's attention evolve from trying to get him to kiss her 24/7 evolve into a simple desire to bring him home and reunite her surrogate family? It was wasted potential in my opinion.

@Plane I know, right? Everyone (even herself) thinks Sakura can't do squat, yet she's the only teenage female protagonist that happens to be Kage level. Like, seriously people. Plus - if you guys hate her so much, why did you always pine for the day when she got her definition of a happy ending by getting to legally lip-lock with Sasuke for all eternity? Anyways, I also agree with you on the whole Angry Sakura thing.

@Hisana For the record, I'm going into the movie just to see the good action and to judge Toneri as a final villain (though I much prefer Sasuke as a final villain). I don't give a damn about the romance since we already know what happens. As for Sakura being overdone... you are totally confused there. The one who gets all the treatment by SP is Hinata. She gets a waterfall dance. A bajillion fillers. A headbutt scene. AND HER OWN ENDING (complete with a bike). Hell, SP's even poked fun at themselves for totally splattering her everywhere as opposed to Sakura, as seen in episodes such as omake 165. But what's this thing about Naruto being depressed? According to the synopses, he's having a normal, fun time with his friends at Ichiraku.

@Rayzur Not sure what you're point is. All I can say is: from Chapters 3-692, Sakura has developed into a very great character that anyone can actually like. Then Sakura went all "battered housewife" for the majority of 693, and remained a stupid Sasuke fangirl for the rest of the series. I'm near certain that someone other than Kishi was pulling the strings, since that's what the manga/anime staff wants (for her to be a worthless b**** and for Hinata to take center stage), and Kishi has constantly said that he was making Sakura more heroic as the series continued forth. Oh and by the way, it's shy, meek, and flawed < outgoing, powerful, and flawed. Sakura is in no way arrogant or condescending, and both of them are kind and sweet. Oh - and EVERY human, real or fake, is flawed (unless you're Jesus). But if what you say about no changes in her personality, then I am seriously gonna get Phoenix Wright to shove tons of Objections in all the faces of SP (we know all too well they made the film's story - nice try trying to cover it by saying "From Masashi Kishimoto" in your trailer). If the polls prove anything, though, it's that Sakura is far from being the worst shonen lead ever. There are plenty of worse ones. WAY too plenty.

@Eric All she did was get a flower from her best friend who recently went Iron Man. How'd she get ruined? Mecha-Naruto was the one that was ruined (though personally I actually prefered the anime version over the game version) storywise. And it wasn't anything we hadn't already seen in Invasion of Pain ("Please, NARUTOOOOOO!!").

@Minasas Building on what you said is what I said to Rayzur. I TOTALLY agree with you!