Board Thread:Naruto Gaiden/@comment-4271790-20150625052107/@comment-7878046-20150625150034

Matako wrote: The entire "shipping" thing never made sense to me anyway. This ship is as good as inexistent though. During the entire drama within the frame of the last week's events, I've got to meet a lot of desperate SasuSaku fans, but no SasuKarin fans who reacted this way. Polls in Narutoforums for example show that SasuKarin is one of the least popular pairings. Its fandom is about as inexistent than the ship itself. We didn't even get a reaction from them when chapter 700 was revealed. The ship is as unpopular as the character Karin itself. I don't know why people are expecting reactions from them now. Their ship is already canonly inexistent. Why would they give a reaction now?

While relatively small in number compared to the SasuSaku fans, they actually do exist (especially in social platforms like tumblr). Reactions were actually given, but you know, the SasuKarin fans are a small community, so they probably go unnoticed for the most part. As for the reactions, well, the plot allows them to express them, esp. because Karin was indirectly given the spotlight. Eh. Doesn't matter really though. This chap just showed Sarada overcome the "who is my biological mother thing" anyway.