[badgalsasuke]

A directory of my posts and posts that I've reblogged from other blogs with some contribution of mine, for those interested in reading them:

On Kishimoto's misogyny [LINK]

Kishimoto's literary influences from Edo Period Japan [LINK]

Naruto's chapter 698 as a tribute to Devilman [LINK]

Sasukekys' how the homosexuality and romance in naruto and sasuke’s relationship is textually supported inside the story [LINK]

Naruto and Sasuke being capable of reaching each others' hearts [LINK]

What did Sasuke mean in his letter to Naruto in ch. 699 [LINK]

Twomiddlefingersforthehaters on the significance of Naruto and Sasuke being right-handed and left-handed [LINK]

Debunking Sasusaku theory Ninigi no-mikoto & Sakuya-hime [LINK]

The difference between また今度だ (matakondo da) used by Itachi and また今度な (matakondo na) used by Sasuke? [LINK]

The Forehead Poke as a symbol of lies and distance [LINK]

The Sharingan as the true symbol of love amongst the Uchiha [LINK]

The difference in Sasuke trying to kill Sakura and trying to kill Naruto [LINK]

Why Sakura doesn't feel unconditional love for Sasuke [LINK]

Why Obito called Karin "Sasuke's favorite" [LINK]

Kishimoto breaking his own writing rule for Naruto & Sasuke's final battle or why he decided to show their faces while fighting [LINK]

Similarities between Narusasu and Spiderman's PeterMJ [LINK]

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima and Narusasu similarities [LINK]

The possible reasoning behind Sasuke thanking Sakura [LINK]

Sasuke and Sakura's lack of physical contact during Gaiden [LINK]

Naruto vs Sakura as ninjas pt 1 [LINK]

Naruto vs Sakura as ninjas pt 2 [LINK]

My thoughts on the Naruto ending [LINK]

My thoughts on the Naruto ending pt 2 [LINK]

[badgalsasuke]

Hi badgal! I just want to start with saying I love your analysis on Naruto and narusasu so so much and all your work you put into every single post, you’re one of the best blogs on here for sure! You’ve definitely inspired me to get into research as a hobby and learn new things not to be dramatic lol but I really love your blog🥲

So…I plan on getting a sns tattoo very soon this year and it’s hard deciding because there’s so many good moments between them sooo I would appreciate any ideas or the moments you adore the most, literally anything. So far I’m leaning towards the scene of their blood flowing from their missing arms in ch698..just the blood though🤫 No pressure btw !

hi!

thank you so much for your words, I really appreciate them.

omg idk what to tell you because tattoos are like a very serious commitment and I also don't know what style of tattoo you like best so I'll just try to give you as many diverse ideas as I can.

if you're going for a quote then:

I know your heart and you mine, right?

or

It's kind of like a prayer. To keep enduring until it comes to be, no matter what.

If you're going for a sort of minimalist shape/design then Naruto and Sasuke's intertwined blood from chapter 698 like you said.

if you actually intend to get the characters tattoed then the iconic panel of Sasuke looking at an unconscious Naruto before leaving Konoha

[nawohh]

[slotheyes]

It's gonna be ok, kid.

You'll be alright.

Extra:

[badgalsasuke]

https://chatte-georgiana.com/2013/09/14/shikamaru-nara-the-silent-observer-between-sakura-and-sasuke-and-sakura-and-naruto/

shikamaru as a sasusaku fan? 🫢

Shikamaru does not give a fuck

[badgalsasuke]

Well everybody, the actors for Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura live action won’t be white. They’ll be either Asian or wasian

I mean, the mixed race Asian doesn’t specify with which race they gotta be mixed with but it usually means white+asian

[badgalsasuke]

If you were to write a time travel sns fic how would it go?

I hate the tt fics because they write the characters soo OOC, the age gap is ignored and sometimes they make a ship with kakashi(which is..), alot of times the plot is cheap cop out fix it and adds ntg of value. And it also feels weird to see little kids dealing with adult issues, especially when show's theme is around being used as child soliders. The romance is also rushed because watching bunch of below 16 years olds having sex feels weird (thats a me one, but maybe im just old and dont wanna see kids fuck). Not to mention the stakes are a joke atp But that being said I think the idea of one finally achieving their goals and thinking finally their struggles have come to end only to be mind yeeted back into your pre teen body and now left with ordeal of starting everything again and crashing out at that aspect is a good spin on the trope. It would also be interesting when they are fully convinced it is genjutsu and in denial that they are yeeted back would be funny spin too.

But honestly if it were to be sns i would want them both to be yeeted back and for a long time they did not realise the other is back too because they want to follow their past closely cause they don't want timelines too fucked up, but at the same time they can't tell if other is back or it was just side effect of them somehow fking up the timeline.

But even with all that I would rather take after war adventure fic any day of my life

hi!

well, idk because I'm not a fanfiction writer or reader :/

but I guess it depends on how far back they go? like to when they're 12 or 16 or right before Sasuke leaves the village for his atonement journey. Depending on this I suppose they would handle it very differently, although going back to their 12 year old selves would be the most traumatizing thing imo

[actuallyshion]

Is it still allowed listening to Flesh by Simon Curtis while drawing yaoi in the glorious 2026?

[badgalsasuke]

Hello, Badgal

Honestly, I like Kishimoto because he always ends up giving the fandom material to argue about and, at the same time, leaves SasuSaku and NaruHina fans looking pretty bad. People got extremely upset when he drew the Mario manga, because even people who barely know Naruto started pointing out that Mario and Saori looked very similar to Sasuke and Naruto

Of course, NaruHina fans tried to claim that Hinata looked like Saori, until someone edited an official illustration of Sasuke drawn by Kishimoto himself where he was wearing a blue kimono, adding long hair to him. And honestly, that made a lot of people realize that Saori looked far more like a female version of Sasuke than Hinata ever did

SasuSaku fans were also pretty upset because, for many people, it reinforced the idea that Sarada is not really a “female Sasuke.” I even saw edits where people tried to give Sarada more features similar to Saori just to maintain that comparison

At the end of the day, Kishimoto is an incredibly talented artist. His art style has a very strong visual identity, and he knows exactly how to spark conversations within the fandom without even saying much. And honestly, he almost seems to enjoy dropping little visual bombs that end up destroying NaruHina and SasuSaku fans’ illusions,You can always count on what he writes

hi!

at the end of the day, there's nothing Kishimoto enjoys more than trolling the readers (also ridiculing Sakura)

[badgalsasuke]

I’ve been thinking about the over all dynamic of team 7 lately.

If we were to say Naruto and Sasuke got together after chapter 699, no Boruto or the last, like somehow after, what would Naruto’s stance be with Sasuke and Sakura? Knowing he knows Sakura likes Sasuke too do you think it would cross his mind?

Rereading the 5 Kage summit arc and it genuinely made me think on the overall reactions of many if sns were to get together. How would Sakura react? I assume pretty badly but it’s not like she didn’t know Naruto was the only one Sasuke opened his heart to. She herself acknowledges that in both Vote 1 and 2 when she compares herself to Naruto, at vote 1 she straight up said she couldn’t do it as in only Naruto can and vote 2 she acknowledged she can’t fight—understand— Sasuke like Naruto. So she must know she isn’t dumb. But how would Naruto handle that i don’t think he wouldn’t take Sakura in mind. Do you have any thoughts?

hi!

I feel like at the end of the day, Naruto doesn't care that much about Sakura's feelings for Sasuke, like they've always been an afterthought for him.

I mean, Naruto would completely forget about the promise to bring Sasuke back because to him it was never about Sakura; when Sasuke almost killed Sakura Naruto tried to scold him but ultimately moved on because he didn't care that much; or whenever he and Sasuke reunited and Sasuke asked why he did all those things for him, Naruto not once mentioned Sakura and the promise. So, overall, Sakura's feelings for Sasuke have never occupied space in Naruto's mind (like, we don't see Naruto vouching for Sakura's feelings the way Kakashi does).

So, to answer this question, Naruto and Sasuke would get together and neither would think about Sakura and her feelings or what she wants just like they never did before.

Sakura, on the other hand, would indeed react very badly and I wouldn't put it past her to get depressed or stop talking to Naruto altogether.

[badgalsasuke]

Hi,

Was just reading some of your posts and came across your views on the forehead poke and would like to know more about it because i have some questions.

(I don't know how to provide links to a post i recently came across so i cant show you a digital copy or anything) But the (sasusaku) post took the forehead poke out of context and compared it to the forehead flik which is when a man and woman who have feelings for one another (usually in a kdrama) flik eachother on the forehead as a sign of affection and love.

I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on this if possible unless you've already answered a similar question in which case could you provide the link.

Thank you and hope you have a nice day.

Hi!

I don't watch kdramas so I had to google what you meant by forehead flick and I got this

I mean what else can you say other than this being an extreme reach?

Kishimoto doesn't watch kdramas, he has never mentioned kdramas as a source of inspiration, in fact, he has never mentioned anything from korean media as an influence to his work. His work is very clear on what the forehead poke means and how he chose to frame it.

To me, tying the forehead poke to some random forehead flick you see in kdramas is just a stupid sasusaku shipper who doesn't read thinking all media is the same and she can just create links and connections from series that have nothing to do with one another. Also, and I'm sorry to kdrama watchers out there, but a of course a sasusaku shipper would be a kdrama slop enjoyer lmao

[actuallyshion]

Such good coworkers!!

[narutouzumakiarchive]

Made a collage about the pain Naruto and Sasuke felt over losing each other. Just the thought of losing Naruto's smile caused Sasuke to transform the sharingan (he needed to lose BOTH his mom and dad to awaken it). Naruto cried REPEATEDLY. It is their MOST FRIGHTENING experience.

Sasuke's grief is characterized by rain. It rained when Sasuke visited the Uchiha district and after he killed Itachi. When Sasuke left Naruto, even though Naruto hadn't been killed, it rained. When Sasuke walked from Naruto's light, it rained.

Because they were separated for so long, returning to each other gave Naruto and Sasuke mutual special feelings... something Kishimoto built up to by showing Naruto and Sasuke being impatient to meet each other and not needing excessively formal communication to work together.

[narutouzumakiarchive]

I love the repeated pattern of Sasuke having to close his eyes because his emotions toward Naruto are overwhelming to him.

[manhu]

Parallels

[badgalsasuke]

Can you explain to me why Kishimoto said he want Naruto and Sasuke to be more than blood brothers? And the end when Sasuke says he understand the feeling that Naruto means when think about him as a brother? (I just need a better explanation about this)

hey! sure

So here's the excerpt of the interview in which Kishimoto talks about it [here's the LINK to the full interview]

Now, if you're familiar with samurai tales (and the fact Kishimoto has expressed multiple times he's a big fan and nerd of everything related to Edo Japan but particularly samurais and kabuki theater) or if you've read this post of mine, you will realize pretty quickly Kishimoto is yet again referencing samurai homosexual love, specifically this practice where the union between two samurai lovers was known as "brotherly troth"

In the Samurai tale "The Boy Who Sacrificed his life" we're told the story of Senjuro and Sazen two samurai who're in a romantic and sexual relationship with each other, their union it's referred to as a brotherly troth they consumate by having sexual intercourse, it was some sort of equivalent to heterosexual marriage

When Sazen believes Senjuro has betrayed him (had an affair with another man) he complains Senjuro broke their vows of brotherly love (Senjuro did not betrayed him and instead had given his life to protect Sazen)

Another thing that's very commonly found in Samurai tales is having samurai lovers refer to each other as brother like we see in "They Waited Three Years to Die"

The whole more brothers than blood brothers comes from this Edo Japanese thing where the closest people to you were your blood-related family until youmeet and love someone deeper than that, someone with whom you share a bond much more stronger than that.

In Sasuke's own words Naruto is the only person whose pain he can feel as his own besides his actual blood family's pain, that's another callback to the "more brothers than blood brothers"

That's what Kishimoto is referencing but Naruto fans are too ignorant to catch the reference, that's why he also says he's struggled to explain this to his readers.

[actuallyshion]

what movie are they watching to end up like this?