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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2013 18:28:23 GMT -8
Okay, so I told myself I wasn’t even going to go this route, but you know what, I don’t care anymore, and I’m just going to be straight up about this and say it… I think Sakura loves Naruto, and she wasn’t lying about that. What I saw was Naruto blushing until she ended up talking about Sasuke, and how she was over him. I think that’s what she was lying about. I feel she sincerely loves Naruto, but she was lying about not having feelings for Sasuke, which is clear here, Naruto even sees it and that’s what he calls her out on. feel like Sakura is bashed because she makes a bunch of mistakes, and that’s because she’s portrayed as a teenage girl (for me, one of the most realistic characters on Naruto), but that just tells me she’s a flawed character like any good character should be in my opinion, but I feel that’s what people hate her for. But I’m going to stop myself now before I say something I shouldn’t say. U sound like me lol. I say keep going. This rarely happems
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2013 18:36:38 GMT -8
Okay, so I told myself I wasn’t even going to go this route, but you know what, I don’t care anymore, and I’m just going to be straight up about this and say it… I think Sakura loves Naruto, and she wasn’t lying about that. What I saw was Naruto blushing until she ended up talking about Sasuke, and how she was over him. I think that’s what she was lying about. I feel she sincerely loves Naruto, but she was lying about not having feelings for Sasuke, which is clear here, Naruto even sees it and that’s what he calls her out on. feel like Sakura is bashed because she makes a bunch of mistakes, and that’s because she’s portrayed as a teenage girl (for me, one of the most realistic characters on Naruto), but that just tells me she’s a flawed character like any good character should be in my opinion, but I feel that’s what people hate her for. But I’m going to stop myself now before I say something I shouldn’t say. I thought realism was thrown out the window when a ninja can actually do stuff other than hiding in the shadows and using flashy techniques to kill someone... In all seriousness, my belief is that she doesn't truly think of Naruto like that. She only did that to protect him from the anguish he has been having because of her and him. Remember, she only had that epiphany when Sai confronted her on it. It was not her idea, at first. She makes mistakes because, while she is realistic, she is in a world where she let herself be the weakest link and only focusing on being there - to which she even admitted. She loves Naruto, but in either the way of friends or as something similar to siblings.
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Post by Wubbzy on Mar 22, 2013 18:38:49 GMT -8
Nope, I'm not. Thanks to @multishipper, I calmed down a bit, so there will be none of that here.
But I will say something else about the confession.
The way I see it, she was trying to steer Naruto towards not chasing Sasuke, as stated before. Sakura knew what she was doing, she thought it wasn't a mistake, even though in hindsight it was. But if it meant that it would release Naruto from his burden, she'd do it. That's how I see it, and frankly, I find that kinda beautiful in a way.
Like, it's kinda hard to explain all that well right now without reading through it, but that's how I feel.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2013 19:46:28 GMT -8
Alright so here's the translation of the Kishimoto interview at Jump Fiesta between Sakura's seiyuu and Kishi of course, this should clear things up:
Seiyuu: "Sakura had always been worried about Naruto, but her actions towards Naruto seem to have a different feel from before, she seems very anxious about Naruto... How does she feel about Sasuke-kun?"
Kishimoto: "As for Sakura... Sasuke... what about Sasuke? Naruto is close and she worries about Naruto as well, but as expected, she [loves] Sasuke.
Seiyuu: Because of this, she acted quite haughty towards that guy. She used Naruto's love for her and told him she loved him.
Kishimoto: On the contrary.... I felt like depicting an honest girl, with a surprisingly stubborn impression. So... she became such a character, but... well... from here on, maybe I should draw her showing a bit more spirit. I figured I had placed her in a heroin-like situation But from the readers I was told harshly that she wasn't heroin-ish at all Perhaps I should show depict her a bit more like a heroin Because you say 'Hinata Hinata,' I say 'She's not Hinata' "
Seiyuu: "When I first saw her hugging Naruto, my heart beat throbbed a bit."
Kishimoto:"Well, an unpleasant person is an unpleasant person, but the feeling I was trying to depict is that you could say "after this, [my opinion of her] has gone up a bit... yeah"
He said that he was portraying an honest girl when she was doing her confession. So that means that Sakura wasn't lying when she said that she loved Naruto.
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Post by Wubbzy on Mar 22, 2013 19:56:04 GMT -8
Alright so here's the translation of the Kishimoto interview at Jump Fiesta between Sakura's seiyuu and Kishi of course, this should clear things up: Seiyuu: "Sakura had always been worried about Naruto, but her actions towards Naruto seem to have a different feel from before, she seems very anxious about Naruto... How does she feel about Sasuke-kun?" Kishimoto: "As for Sakura... Sasuke... what about Sasuke? Naruto is close and she worries about Naruto as well, but as expected, she [loves] Sasuke. Seiyuu: Because of this, she acted quite haughty towards that guy. She used Naruto's love for her and told him she loved him. Kishimoto: On the contrary.... I felt like depicting an honest girl, with a surprisingly stubborn impression. So... she became such a character, but... well... from here on, maybe I should draw her showing a bit more spirit. I figured I had placed her in a heroin-like situation But from the readers I was told harshly that she wasn't heroin-ish at all Perhaps I should show depict her a bit more like a heroin Because you say 'Hinata Hinata,' I say 'She's not Hinata' " Seiyuu: "When I first saw her hugging Naruto, my heart beat throbbed a bit." Kishimoto:"Well, an unpleasant person is an unpleasant person, but the feeling I was trying to depict is that you could say "after this, [my opinion of her] has gone up a bit... yeah" He said that he was portraying an honest girl when she was doing her confession. So that means that Sakura wasn't lying when she said that she loved Naruto. Thank you so much!!! ;______; This is why you're so especially awesomesauce!!!!! <33333333
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Post by LuciferIX on Mar 24, 2013 15:09:13 GMT -8
Such a discussion about a character Kishimoto didn't even think would become that big of a deal when he was first writing the series, mainly because he has said that his confidence in drawing out and designing females is inferior to him drawing males. And that might have something to do with her and Ino's fangirl type crushes on Sasuke. Oh well, entertaining to read from a third party's end nonetheless.
Personally I think that, as of right now, Sakura's head is pretty fucked up with what's all going on inside. Because of the way he left and her guilt of thinking that she was unable to stop him when he first left the village, her crush for Sasuke hasn't really faded considering he's always on her mind. It may not be really love anymore by this point but I doubt even Sakura herself knows the boarder between love and deep bonds when it comes to him. The few times that they have met up after he defected she even commented that he wasn't like the Sasuke she used to know. At that point she would be loving the memory of him more than the real person until things got sorted out.
On the other side of things she was always looking down on Naruto until the mission in the Whirlpool country and she started to get a look at his determination. Flash forward to Sasuke leaving and then she entrusts him to a huge piece of her mind because he is the only other person she can rely on. All before the time skip she was looking at both of their back and was putting her faith that those two would be able to pull anything off. Eventually she decides to try and help Naruto with the mission and not rely so heavily on him, so that she can pull her own weight, and it was their first real mission back together that she then learned of his own burden of having Kurama sealed inside him. And at that point she wanted to try even harder to pull the burden off his shoulders so that he could live easier. Yamato also noticed around that time her feelings for Naruto probably went further than simple friendship. But it wasn't until Sai revealed the blunt truth about Naruto's feelings for her that she started to put a few things together.
So now that the long-winded bit of backstory between the two is over we get to the real point. Her confession to Naruto was definitely used in a way to try and relieve him further of the burden that he carries, and she probably reasoned with herself that this was it as well. Everything that she did since right before the time skip was literally to lessen the load that he has so it's not hard to conclude that this was along the same lines. But even if she consciously might have been thinking more along those lines there is obviously far more to it that just that. Part of her has to know that a confession like that would be somewhat long lasting considering that she already knew Naruto's feelings and thus she also has come to one of two conclusions. First is that living with a man she doesn't love for possibly the rest of her life is preferable to a friend continuing on with a promise he made to her. Second would be that even if they didn't rescue Sasuke she wouldn't have a problem living with him as such. It's hard to say which one it actually is right now but it has to be one of those two, and while I think her self-loathing at the time would be enough to consider the first one I personally kind of doubt that it would be. And when you include the look that she had when she found out Hinata really loves Naruto, there is something there that she might not completely understand.
Okay to wrap this stupid rant up, I personally think that the confession was purely to get Naruto's mind off of Sasuke. Most of the evidence supports that she is willing to do a lot just to accomplish this so this is nothing new. If it was really nothing but a confession the reaction after Naruto's response, along with her sudden wanting to kill Sasuke right after, would have probably been much different. But there is a silver lining. Since she knew Naruto's feelings already she had to have accepted the fact that a confession to him would lead to more than just getting his mind off of Sasuke. And when you add in the rest of the hints there is something there that she probably hasn't accepted herself either with her mind on Sasuke as well. She cares very deeply for Naruto and even though she knows that she can't be right up next to him in bringing Sasuke back she'll support anything that he says without much thought.
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Post by chloe on Apr 10, 2013 20:55:21 GMT -8
I like to think she was practising for the real thing.
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Post by Kudo on Apr 11, 2013 2:48:32 GMT -8
I like to think she was practising for the real thing. A horrible way to do that, though.
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Post by CC on Oct 27, 2015 21:46:36 GMT -8
That's why I kinda ship SasuSaku, because I dislike both of them :D Oh my god~ That's the best reason to ship those two I've ever heard of!
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Post by Boost on Nov 5, 2015 3:25:15 GMT -8
I wasn't too sure whether the confession was real or not but then afterwards she tried to kill Sasuke which made me think it was real.
If she was in love with the Teme, Why try and kill him?
Add in everything else he's done to her up to that point, constantly putting her down and asking her to kill Karen to prove herself then just after that he tries to kill her.
Going over everything I'd seen/read to that point I came to a decision. I take the confession to be real and heartfelt.
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Post by Hi aquadrop on Oct 24, 2017 12:48:29 GMT -8
What was your whole interpretation of it? Does it make u like narusaku more and consider a hint, or do u think it was a botch move? sakura's a hoe
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Post by Aquadrop on Oct 25, 2017 15:18:00 GMT -8
um, 'hi aquadrop' who are you? lol
Also, Sakura aint no hoe
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