Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31492005-20180306150245/@comment-33731988-20180520024300

Look, UFF (TBH I liked Mako better) you aren't here to tell me how I love my favourite character. Nobody's is perfect and you have to accept that. Everyone is with their faults and you can't blame them for that. "iT's aBoUt wAnTiNg yOuR fAvOuRiTe cHaRaCtEr tO bE a mArY sTu oR gArY sTu" no it is not. My favourite character is my favourite character, whether she has dark sides or not. If one cannot accept their favourite character's dark sides or not, then that character shouldn't even be your favourite character because then someone else who is perfect is supposed to be your favourite character. You are in no position to tell me how to love my favourite character. And if you like someone as a favourite character, you should come to accept them. Sure, sometimes I find her hitting him funny, sometimes I don't. At the times I don't, I think she should just try to do it less. You cannot expect people to be perfect.

I'm not here to tell you that Sakura is the best character, which she's not. I'm just saying you take things way too seriously. "nO, tRuE fRiEnDs wOuLd nEvEr dO tHaT" yes they would. It's because slapping them is fine that's why you are true friends. You're close enough to know that they mean no harm. As I said, punching in anime is just an exaggeration of close friendship, close enough that you know that they don't want to hurt you, just either want you to focus, be sensible or just doing it playfully. Sakura never meant to hurt Naruto, just wanted to beat some sense into him, but as a friend who doesn't harbour any intentions to harm.

"Countless people get physically abused at places like school, public areas, etc, yet they don't end up in hospitals or get mental scars. Physical abuse is ANY amount or type of violence against the victim. Simple as that." Yes they do get mental scars, but it's never obvious. Sometimes when people get abused at places like school or public areas, they harbour strange behaviours such as flinching when being touched, anti-social behaviour etc. It's never that obvious but it's still a mental scar. Does Naruto flinch when Sakura so even has pats him on the shoulder? No.

"Due to Japan's double standards of "women can abuse men, but not vice versa", the writers don't allow Naruto to defend himself from physical abuse from women. Sure he never stopped being friends with Sakura, but he still stopped loving her and began loving Hinata because she treats him infinitely better than anybody else." No. Naruto didn't love Hinata because she treats him better than anyone else. He fell in love with her because he realized how dedicated to him she was. If he only loved Hinata because she treated him better, then in the filler episode where she kicks him and Boruto out for not behaving, BAAM NaruHina gone.

I feel like you're getting the sense that I ship NaruSaku, which I don't. I just wanted to point that out.

"Doesn't change the fact that deliberately hitting your husband is abusive and thus makes an abusive wife." It's an anime. Simply yelling at a lazy husband like that isn't going to whip him into shape.

"Well, I remember she always treated Rock Lee with gentleness and kindness and never once physically abused him, but when it come to Naruto, she would usually complain to help him or yell at him for unjustified reasons." Unjustified reasons? He was being annoying and perverted. You act as though being perverted to a woman is fine, which it's not. She treated Rock Lee with kindness because she wasn't as close with him, therefore Lee wouldn't understand that if she hit him, it's just her nature. Only Naruto can see it because they are close friends. You don't always have to put up a mask in front of everyone. At least let the people who are close to you know who you really are.

"That makes no sense. True friends don't beat each up for no reasons. The only good reason for friends to hit each other is when they're sparring in martial arts or training to become stronger." Like I said before, only close friends hit each other because they know they mean no harm and that's just in their nature. as I said before YOU CAN'T EXPECT EVERYONE TO BE PERFECT! I'm not saying Sakura is perfect. Every person, even anime characters, have flaws. You have to accept their flaws because that's how their written. If you love a real life person, you have to accept that THEY'RE NOT PERFECT and that IT TAKES TIME TO CHANGE!!! Besides, friendships aren't perfect either. It's not always about HAPPY and NO FIGHTS and LALALALA HAPPY RAINBOWS AND SUNSHINE BECAUSE FRIENDSHIPS ARE THE ROAD TO HEAVEN!! There are ugly sides to friendships too, you know? But because of those ugly sides your friendships become stronger. If you can't accept, then you shouldn't even be friends with them.

"The same man who saved your life multiple times doesn't deserve any mistreatment even when he's acting perverted." And Sakura has saved Naruto's life multiple times. Even if they're not a couple, Sakura still heals Naruto when necessary and does have a soft spot for him. It's not like she hates him and wants him to get hurt, she just gets annoyed and wants him to you know, stop being perverted around women because that's creepy, even if she does overdo it sometimes.

Look here, you cannot expect everyone to be a Mary Stu or Gary Stu because no human is ever going to be like that (I said HUMAN). Of course, that doesn't stop you from wanting them to be a better person, but that doesn't mean you have to blame them for every single fault they've had from the day they were born. Sakura never meant any harm, but she does overdo it. Sometimes it's comedic relief, sometimes it does get a little annoying but it's fine for me because I like her. As I said before, you can't berate me for liking my favourite character this way and you can't expect everyone to be perfect. Everyone has their flaws and you don't need to act like they're stupid and unacceptable because we're all human here (hopefully because if not, that's concerning) and we all have flaws. Even if you do want people to be at their best, you still have to accept the fact that THEY'RE NOT PERFECT.