Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31492005-20180306150245/@comment-33731988-20180410093616

Thekillman wrote: Jentaisenpai wrote: You're right, Sakura didn't get enough of the spotlight that she deserved. She got enough time in the spotlight. It's not about how long she was featured, it's about how she was featured. Naruto and Sasuke got maybe one, maybe two cases where they found new power only to fail to overcome the next challenge. Every single time Sakura goes "Now i can fight on their level!", she can't. Her spotlight moments exist solely to remind us that she's useless. Other characters are way weaker, but that weakness is never emphasized. Sakura's insanely strong, yet always in a situation where that strength is useless. Not one panel is dedicated to Zetsu being confused about that guy they just beat hard, coming back with no injuries at all and easily kicking his ass because Sakura just healed a guy back from the brink of death.

She could keep an army on the move for hours, days on end. But it's barely ever mentioned, barely ever thanked, barely ever considered to be a massively OP thing. It's always shown to be natural, obvious, logical. Nobody ever seems to care that she's the reason they're alive.

I didn't mean that she didn't get enough time in the spotlight. What I was trying to say is that her strengths and usefulness wasn't more brought to people's attention because of Kishimoto being bad at writing good female characters. She does so many things for the series and the people of Naruto but nobody ever seems to care about that. Yeah you're right, Kishimoto should've written an arc where Sakura is turning from book smarts to street smarts and she's struggling and then she develops a strategy better than Sasuke's.

I think that there is no real female hero to the story because they're always at some point useless. Unlike Naruto and Sasuke who are always on top and the best, the female characters are pretty flawed. Even so, they're pretty badass.

I think Sakura's skills are not appreciated enough by the audience and the people in the story.