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Narusasu as this pose

OMFG

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grounding

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SNS and Attraction

I decided to look at the OG Japanese text for a meta I was working on and imagine my surprise when I saw how VIZ absolutely butchered the translation of this page. Sasuke thinks HE WAS BORN TO BE ATTRACTED TO NARUTO (Image 1 is the more accurate translation, image 2 is the VIZ translation, and image 3 is the more accurate translation along with other proof that Naruto and Sasuke are a pair).

In the VIZ translation, Itachi gives Sasuke a speech about how two who are seeming opposites are actually two sides of the same coin and can only succeed together. Sasuke later thinks about Itachi's words after Naruto discussed the way they cooperated to take down Kaguya.

It's still very gay and significant that Sasuke thinks he and Naruto are a pair (in fact, the EN version was one of my favorite scenes), but it absolutely doesn't show how powerful the original version is. Because this moment reflects an awareness on Sasuke's part that he and Naruto are fated ("born to...") in a positive manner ("attract complementary things...").

It is yet another egregious example of VIZ removing the nuance from SNS moments. Things like SNS' heart symbolism and the pattern of Naruto's feelings for Sasuke being regarded as bizarre are downplayed by VIZ (Note: In the fourth image I posted, the original nuance is that Naruto and Sasuke's hearts are able to connect with each other, and it's a direct callback to Sasuke's words to Naruto during VOTE 1 (互いの心)). It's unfortunate that even when you opt for the manga, many moments are lost in translation.

Additionally, 引き (which means to draw) is also used by Kabuto to describe the way Naruto clung onto Sasuke.

And according to the person who interviewed Kishimoto for Aera Magazine, Kishimoto and his first editor conceptualized the plot as Naruto and Sasuke being attracted/drawn to each other and then fighting in the end.

So there's a significant running theme of Naruto and Sasuke being incredibly drawn/attracted to each other.

rzklh

⚡storm🌀

tarrielrae

🍥🍅 i see the light // sasunaru layout: naruto ending 38 🍅🍥

themidnights0ngart

heated rivalry x narusasu !!

hano0onat

Fortnite Sasuke is such a diva

cloudabserk

like it or not. sasuke says if you love me you have to be willing to kill me. everyone around him is constantly lying to him and manipulating him. and sasuke says naruto if you really love me if you’re really being honest with me. fight me to the death. and naruto absolutely no hesitation agrees and follows through on trying to kill sasuke and then himself because he can’t bear to live without him. and THATS why it’s real.

hano0onat

Catsuke

tamsylum

sns fucks me up to a degree i cant even verbalize anymore. i just sigh out of nowhere like im yearning for a long lost lover but really im thinking about the way sasuke only accepted naruto's affection & care once naruto described it as pain, because the one thing that sasuke understands is suffering. so when naruto tells him that it hurts to think about what sasuke went through, he finally gets it

man. his fucking face

dobe-and-teme

what destroys me even more is that after all this, naruto refuses to watch sasuke die and give up on, and he adamantly makes it clear that he would still chase after him no matter how often sasuke goes against him, but that he is convinced that sasuke wouldn’t do that anymore.

sasuke, who asks what makes naruto so sure of that, just starts crying when naruto talks about how sasuke still isn’t getting it.

sasuke, who barely ever cried in all of the 700 chapters, was moved to tears by naruto’s love for him and the length he was willing to go for him. because of the absolute trust naruto had in him.

he cried because he felt loved.