Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-8284722-20141202185718/@comment-8284722-20141214192912

Sorry for double posting, but I wanted to cover a couple of things. First, about Hinata dying. For real NHers - isn't that BETTER? The girl freaking dies for him right before his eyes, and she still comes back anyways. Outside of just Hinata, there are also the other characters. I feel it is purely necessary to give them a temporary death, and could go on for a while talking about it. But here's the gist. The whole point of Konoha's destruction and Naruto losing his bonds to death was in order for him to experience Sasuke's pain. Sasuke lost his family. How best to make Naruto experience it? By killing HIS family of course. And then we see Naruto, unlike Sasuke, endure the pain and create something good out of it - Nagato and Konan's redemption and the resurrection of the villagers. That's REALLY important, and it shows that Naruto truly can understand and redeem Sasuke.

I also wanted to go back to catchphrases. Since everyone hates "Believe It", I'm not going to use it. If it gets used at all, it'll only be a few times in each movie, and only when it truly matters. I will, however, use it for the first film's tagline. After that, "Believe Again" will be the tagline of the second film, and "Believe Once More" for the third.