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Why will I not finish watching Naruto not that anyone asked but I wanna ramble? Because since Sasuke and Naruto ended up in marriages to different people (and from what little I've seen, are pretty horrid fathers and also not very good husbands for that matter), I literally Do Not think Naruto Shippuden has a happy ending. Naruto spent the entire anime chasing after Sasuke desperately. He was willing to give up his dream and die by Sasuke's side. Sasuke has never exhibited a single shred of interest in women. And Naruto is one of the few people that has ever kept his interest. They're arguably the most narratively significant to each other, and before Shippuden the show kept saying over and over they might've been good friends if only if only etc. paralleling the two against each other. I GET that they wanted to make Boruto, but literally it would've made more sense to me for Sasuke to have paid someone to carry his bloodline over believing that fruit basket actually fell for someone other than Naruto. And him marrying Sakura specifically was weird to me because I fully believe she deserves better. Not in an "I hate Sasuke he doesn't deserve her" kind of way but because I like them both and I think they're ill matched. Sakura got character development and I feel like making her get together with a childhood crush that never gave her the time of day before isn't progress, it's a setback.

This story ending doesn't read to me as "I got my best friend back and ended up fulfilling my dream and settling down and getting married with the love of my life". It reads to me as, "I'm in love with my best friend and I got him back, but not in the way I wanted. I settled and married because it was expected of me and sure I love her but it's still not the same." And on Sasuke's end, it reads to me as "I've hurt this person too much to warrant staying in his life for too long, he has given up too much for me already. I settled and married because I need to pass on my bloodline gifts but I don't truly love her". There is nothing worse in my books than missed opportunities, ESPECIALLY not for two people who I believe would have a love story FOR THE AGES. You can say Naruto loves Hinata but I think it pales in comparison to what he feels for Sasuke. And I don't wanna hear any fucking complaints about "wahhh they're not gay" - I don't give a shit about sexuality, this is about how narratively, a love story between these two would be so much more interesting than any of the canon couples. If they were a man and woman they WOULD have been canon. Their love would've been something people write epics about and it DIDN'T. WORK. OUT.

They should've ended up together. Naruto Shippuden doesn't have a happy ending. I'm never going to finish watching it.

I know I’m like a decade late to this but Sarada still does not look like either her parents. She still looks like a splitting image of Karin with black hair.

It’s just a bad design choice. Sure it’s humbling that the Sasuke Uchiha didn’t just have a daughter, but a daughter who’s a goody two-shoes tomboy nerd. Not tomboyish like Sakura but in a way where if teenage Sasuke met Sarada, he would think she’s lame/uninteresting.

I don’t know why but I always pegged Sasuke as someone who preferred having a son over a daughter. He’s just not a girl dad you know?

Kinda like how Itachi wanted a younger brother than sister. Women and female beings just aren’t important to Sasuke. Sasuke isn’t going to entertain playing dolls or decorating a room with pink and glitter. He’s a tough parent who is just too masculine for girly daughter father things. That’s probably why he’s just not included in her life outside of battle. Another reason why he struggled to connect with her outside of not being in her life.

I wanna watch challenges because the only two things I know about it is that tennis is somehow involved in the plot and there is supposedly a really graphic scene of Zendaya’s breaking her ankle(?) which was entirely done by a real-sized replica of Zendaya’s lower half and torso.

The director is from bones and all, a movie no one but me has seen so I’m expecting the movie to be secretly a horror movie. Also the writer was like some meme back in early YouTube before 2010?

It sounds promising to me at least.

His second puberty hit him hard. A completely different facial structure. Not even that, compared to his older self, his eyebrows are permanently scrunched up.

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Banana Fish Unpopular Opinions

Banana fish started off good but got repetitive by the end

I always saw Ash and Eiji as best friends but I do see the romantic subtext between them 

Ash is asexual. VERY ASEXUAL.

I wish Eiji was cooler, I never got into his character even until the end

I find Eiji an underwhelming character and I wish he was more confident and acted his age, since he’s older than Ash and gang

Banana fish has not aged well because there is too much shock value and it’s SO 80sss

The anime wasn’t good and a bad adaptation of a decent manga 

The entire fanbase is about shipping the main two leads and I don’t find that productive and I think those fans have missed the point of the story

The fact that the story was post vietnam and ww2, I wish the racial tensions between the characters were more prevalent - imagine if Eiji and Ash didn't like each other at first because of post ww2 tensions??  

I wish the characters spoke like they were from the 80s, what I mean is that people 40 years ago were not PC or mindful of language at all

SAKURA’S CONFESSION

Honest to god, I hate that the Sakura confession scene has been so hated. I never thought it would be so controversial.

But one take I haven’t seen and maybe I’m alone on this was that, when I first watched the scene, I honest to god that it was a test run from the authour’s side to see how fans would ACTUALLY react if Sakura did develop feelings towards Naruto.

I truly do believe even though the writer had his planned final pairings, that he still did test around with toying with the idea of different pairings like Naruto x Sakura.

Remember when Yamato during the bridge arc made a comment towards Sakura about her care towards Naruto? I think the bridge arc was when someone said in one of the databooks, Sakura was noted to be confused about her thoughts on Naruto. It was implied that she was maybe developing feelings towards him post timeskip.

As a NaruSaku shipper, I see the confession scene was the ultimate acknowledgement of the slow romantic tension that had built around the two. I know this is super subjective but still.

Anyway, during her confession, I remember she was blushing and shit, honestly I took that initially as her admitting to herself that “yeah I guess I’m saying something I kinda been feeling lately out loud and it kinda feels good”. I don’t know why so many people took her confessions as super evil and manipulative. Again, I know I’m being bias but my girl isn’t a good liar come on. When she lies, she does that closed smile thing with a voice crack.

Also, remember when Naruto rejected her confession and they started arguing about the validity of her confession and she was like “why are you telling me I’m wrong” moment. To me, that means it was more genuine and if anything she was shocked that Naruto thought she was lying.

Now, I’m not saying she didn’t have ulterior motives or anything. She of course did but I think that she honest to god was okay with “settling” with Naruto. Like at some point in early Shippuden, she started to like both of her comrades.

I know people like to sanitize the romances between the characters because it’s cleaner that way. It is messy if characters marry their partners but the story also acknowledges that they crushed on other people before then. I’ve seen people purposely not acknowledge his long term crush on Sakura because well, he’s married to Hinata but like cmon guys - let’s not do that because that is a narrative change and something you can really downplay because there are 200+ episodes of the guy liking another girl who isn’t his future wife.

FF16 WIPS

Every Naruto Shippuden opening is just:

Establishing shot of a distant scenery of some sort

Naruto in the scenery or staring at it

Sasuke is placed in a mirrored/parallel pose to Naruto

Sakura clutching a kunai looking really really sad about something

Groups doing cool poses. Kakashi is there I guess.

The villains doing cool poses and fight snippets

Naruto running and stopping briefly to stare at something in the distance

The something is Sasuke, and the animation budget has quadrupled to make him look as beautifully tortured as humanly possible

Sakura crying/looking sad again

Naruto and Sasuke moving towards each other or clearly thinking about each other

End it with a group establishing shot. If not that, Naruto & Sasuke staring at each other.

What’s the context of the photo???

It’s so random and so out of character but it’s funny.

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