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2012-12-28, 03:15 | Link #143 | |
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If Kishi is really thinking of paring Naruto with Hinata. Then I wonder how will he resolve Naruto's feelings for Sakura. If Naruto is now suddenly madly in love with Hinata out of nowhere. This manga will hit it's rock bottom. In a logical sense no man or woman is required to love someone just because the other party is in love with them. But seeing how this manga lacks some common sense. We'll see how it goes down.
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2012-12-28, 03:50 | Link #144 |
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Pretty ok chapter but you know what would have been nice? To have a better chapter to close 2012 with something of more substance .... like what Sauske and Orochimaru are doing
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2012-12-28, 05:44 | Link #145 | |
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I would say the action of holding hands standing together with Hinata is a sign of friendship and respect rather than romantic love. As for Bee-san, how about a bijuu-dama in the Sharin/Rinnegan rather than the mouth if you're trying point blank attacks. |
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2012-12-28, 07:13 | Link #147 | |
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I also would like to point out that while Sasuke is targeting people you and I may view as innocent, it's no big secret that Sasuke does not view them as such. So the point is moot. |
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2012-12-28, 07:43 | Link #148 | ||
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Pretty sure if they had cut away from the current battle right after Neji's death to show Sasuke's shenanigans, people would've raged. |
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2012-12-28, 08:00 | Link #149 | |
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Not sayin Naruto loves Hinata now. But they certainly pointed out it can happen. Chances are NO pairs are going to happen on screen.
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2012-12-28, 08:47 | Link #150 |
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Sakura may as well not exist, and it's been this way since she falsely confessed to Naruto, betrayed her team, tried to kill Sasuke (another betrayal towards Naruto) and then chickened out of that too. All those events had absolutely no purpose other than to ruin her character.
I can only speculate that, to Kishi, Sakura represents someone that he knows IRL whom he is not particularly fond of. I can't think of another reason why he would senselessly destroy a character like that. I can't imagine that in some part of his mind he could've thought that this would make for good drama or development. He practically killed her off without killing her off. Anything that involves Sakura since then is a non-issue, just a page filler. Shame, since I liked her in part 1. |
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2012-12-28, 09:48 | Link #152 |
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I was dissapointed from the start of part 2, when Kishi decided to make her into a weaker version of Tsunade (since Sakura is the only one who still hasn't surpassed her mentor) instead of going with the genjutsu type he made her out to be in the beginning.
To begin with, superstrength is probably the most unimaginative ability, and she doesn't even have any of Tsunade's special jutsu that make her stand out. It looks like Kishi really didn't care at all. If she just had to be a healer, she still could have been a genjutsu healer. But, as it turned out, genjutsu is overpowered against anyone who doesn't have a sharingan or a tailed beast in them. That would've made Sakura a little bit too useful for Kishi's liking. Of all the things he could've done with her he went with superstrength, the one thing that was guaranteed to be obsolete within an arc or two. I used to like Sakura in part 1 because she was the only character who didn't come from a ninja-clan or have some special ability, let alone a bloodline-limit. But she was talented with chakra control, so at that time I thought that Sakura might not have the chakra to pull off something like chidori, but she could master basic techniques better than anyone else and fight with her brain like Shikamaru. Give her some decent genjutsu and she could get by and still be relevant. Once I saw her in part 2 I was disappointed with what Kishi did with her. Her fight with Sasori was the highlight of her character's whole life but I didn't really care for it. Btw, it seemed to me that Naruto was supposed to succeed where Jiraiya failed. I had expected Naruto to end up with Sakura for no other reason than Jiraiya failing to win Tsunade. I was curious what Kishi would do with this. Would he pair Naruto with Sakura the failed character, to prove the point that Naruto will succeed where others failed, or would he cop-out with Hinata? We finally have the answer |
2012-12-28, 09:51 | Link #153 | |
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But you're right, this manga is not really realistic about that. And we saw after the timeskip that Naruto didn't change, he was still after Sakura. But i think Sakura's fake confession which was one of those moments where Naruto was unusually smart had the opposite effect on Naruto, Naruto clearly gave up on Sakura since he would never want to live in a relationship where the girl feels it's a sacrifice for her to be with him. So from that moment Naruto was free to be taken by any girl Will the author show a moment where Naruto "falls in love" with Hinata? If he can't find a proper way to do it then he'll just do it off panel, for example after a timeskip Hinata is already Naruto's wife, or something like that, that would be similar to what happened in DBZ with Bulma and Vegita. Or do you prefer an awkward way of things that happened to Goku and ChiChi? Actually that was even worse than this situation, Goku had no feelings for the girl, he didn't even know who she is, he just accepted that it's his fate. Maybe it would be awkward only for western audience because in the east arranged marriages still exist If i compare DBZ, One Piece and Naruto then Naruto still wins when it comes to romantic stuff, something is more than nothing |
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2012-12-28, 10:09 | Link #154 | |
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Personally, I would like to see Sasuke steamroll over Obito and Madara's plans. I didn't like Obito's fight and interactions with Kakashi tbh, and imo he isn't even really out for vengeance. He's more like Nagato in that he experienced a tragedy and decided that the world needs to change, where Nagato wanted to change the system and Obito wants to change the nature of their existence. As for Madara, the only interest he holds for me is the chance to see Madara vs Hashirama. I'll be very disappointed if he's defeated by the alliance. If Sasuke can unseal Hashirama from the deathgod, then maybe he can also unseal the kyuubi's Yang chakra and become it's jinchuuriki. Then he'd be even with Naruto. In the end, it's about the Sage's sons fighting it out. Madara had his chance with Hashirama. Now it's Naruto and Sasuke's turn. |
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2012-12-28, 10:56 | Link #156 | |
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So while Naruto giving up on Sakura could make Naruto out to be a failure in one sense, being able to move on emotionally and to mature enough to find and acknowledge the one person who's believed in him the entire time (even when no one else did, including himself), could be considered a major success in its own right. In the case of Jiraiya, I think his biggest failure in this regard is that he ultimately didn't end up with the one he loved. So as long as Naruto can eventually come to realize who his true love really is and find happiness with that person, it doesn't matter if it turns out to be Sakura or Hinata, or hell, even Sasuke, he'll have succeeded where Jiraiya failed. (IMO anyways) |
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And did you even read what Casshern wrote?
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