I know lately there’s been a strong wave of hate against Sakura I myself have taken part in it. I’m making this post to kind of defend Sakura in a way and give her some credit she deserves.

For starters I do in fact like Sakura and I think she gets a whole lot better in Shippuden. I specifically don’t enjoy her in Part 1 due to how she treated Naruto, she constantly abused him whenever he was nice to her. Not to mention, she chastised him for being an orphan, something he couldn’t control, and never once shown any concern from him.

She also was rude as hell to Lee when they first and immediately hated him because he looked a little goofy yet he’s the same dude who saves her from Team Dosu. All she did in Part 1 was get angry, punch Naruto and scream internally.

In Part 2, to me she is vastly different. She’s a complete different girl, she shows how much she’s grown and improve being able to replicate Tsunade’s monstrous strength and master the basic principles of a ninja. She also displays actual compassion for Naruto showing off just how much she cares for him, she threatened Sai multiple times whenever he spoke badly of Naruto and criticized him and she even sat in the rain to watch him train showing just how mature she was. The only complaint is that after the Pain arc she sort of reverts back to her Part 1 self in terms of approaching combat. She even risked everything to save Naruto and didn’t stop for a moment until he was breathing again after Kurama was ripped out of him.

Anyways, to sum it up I think Sakura shouldn’t be hated because of her past actions, she’s shown to have grown past that and has matured enough to where we can all agree she’s much better.