Why sakura is the most popular lovable female character? Part1โค
After naruto ended with sasusaku I was like "ON your face SP"๐ and already moved on with my life but this animated "sasuke retsuden" reminded me how much I hate SP for what they did for sakura and made me want to talk about what was on my mind all these years.
So, to move on again, I'll drop all of it here.
FIRST: let's talk about sakura and the hate she gets from the fandom. it almost become a tradition at this point.
I saw almost 5 years ago some YouTuber's reaction to the naruto series and his chat was spamming hate on sakura. She is this and that "don't be fooled by this episode she is going to be useless" he was forced to hide his emotion for her and once he spoke his mind they start bashing him like he committed a sin. And some YouTubers actually hated sakura influenced by those comments. And some of them started watching naruto knowing already she is supposed to be hated.
I guarantee that you reach this point thinking: "aren't you supposed to tell us why sakura is the most loveable character in naruto and admit the opposite?
I'll give a short answer for those who are not interested in reading more, then I'll take my time explaining it.
Short answer: those haters are treating her like an ex-girlfriend who cheated on them.
Long answer:
Let's talk about it statistically first. The biggest 3 ships in naruto are narusaku, naruhina, sasusaku. And sakura is on 2 sides of them, ALSO naruto is on 2 sides of them.
And there are 3 types of people who like Sakura.
1- People who like her for her not related to any ships
2- People who like her because of her relationship with Sasuke
3- People who like her because of her relationship with Naruto.
For me: I was number 2 because my favorite character is "Sasuke" but she grew up on me and I become number 1. A legit sakura stan "thanks to SP"
And there are 2 types of people who hate sakura
1- The extremist bunch of feminist who is not like the other girls and can't enjoy a show without getting offended because of some personal issues.
2- People who hate her because she is in the way of their ship "reason related to shipping"
What can we get from that?
The only people who hate sakura for "I suppose a good reason" is the feminist. At least they really hate her personality. They didn't like the idea of holding on to one-sided relationship, they don't want to see her suffer and to move on with her life "don't teach young girls that!" And they want her to do more than the hero of the show in a shonen manga (and there is nothing wrong with that am I right?๐ฐ "
Even with that, it is a questionable hatred. Because they seem to want the best for her "from their point of view"
No 1&2 on people who like her are still like her obviously. But those who liked her for naruto are the problem along with No2 in the hater's type. Because sasusaku is the endgame and their ships fail. So let's discuss these two.
Firstly: People who hate Sakura for getting in the way of their ship and there are 3 of them.
Narusasu and sasukarin and naruhina.
And it's all caused by the comparison of who loves who more and who deserve this and does not deserve that. I've known a naruhina fan who liked sakura in the end because she ended with Sasuke. So they don't mind her, they are either naruto fans and feel that Hinata deserves him or a Hinata fans who are rooting for her.
So, they were forced to bash sakura to some degree to show how good and better their ships were compared to it if it was with sakura.
Secondly: the worst of the worst: NARUSAKU who loved sakura for naruto. No one had praised sakura more than them. She was the trophy that they deserves to get. And because of that. They are the ones who become the extremist haters. They started bashing her looks, her character, her development, and her whole existence calling her useless for the sin of "rejecting the hero".
And they are the ones who treated her like an ex-girlfriend who cheated on them. They find another girl and told the world that she is better than her. Overly sexualize her big chest. Creating stories to upgrade their new girl and downgrade their ex. (yes I am looking at you SP)
BUT
Looking at those hater's reasoning, you can see that they don't actually hate her. they just wanted sakura to be in their ship or away from their ship.
I feel like I proved my point by this part but there is a part2
And I'll add my conclusion there.