Kat *ੈ❀

hi, I’m Kat :) 21, Uni Student I’m going to post about anime here lol Also add me on airbuds ig lol

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Gonna need artists to start yuri-fying more of my fave ships ASAP

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Real talk, to all the Toji fans out there, what was Toji planning to do with Tsumiki if the Zenin clan actually bought Megumi? Like I get that she isn’t literally his so fair enough but what actually would have happened to her?

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I’m still a firm believer that Sakura should have actually had a real fight with Sasuke. I’m a little biased sure because Sakura is literally my favourite in Naruto, but I’m not entirely delusional and I won’t try and say that Sakura is stronger than Sasuke or that she would have beaten him flat out.

BUT….

I think what they do to Sakura especially with her ‘fight’ with Sasuke, is just straight up disrespectful.

These moments are just pure poor choices.

Again, I’m not saying Sakura like easily beats Sasuke or anything. What I do think though, is that the anime/manga does a lot of telling us how strong Sakura has grown, versus showing us. They talk about all this training she does and the most payoff we see is in hers and Naruto’s bell test in shipudden. I’d actually go as far as to say that Sakura NEEDED this fight with Sasuke, and that she even had a chance of winning it.

Sasuke in his current state at this fight had just fought with Danzo. He was worn out and not prepared for another fight. Just that fact alone should be enough that Sakura should actually have been able to go toe to toe with Sasuke. Because yes, at his peak Sasuke is stronger than Sakura. He can use kenjutsu, his taijutsu (while not as physically strong) is more skilled than Sakura’s, his arsenal of ninjutsu is wider and more heavy hitting and to top it all off he has the sharingan. Sakura, however, is smarter than Sasuke and her endurance is higher, based purely on the fact that she has the ability to heal herself and isn’t using excessively draining ninjutsu. She should have been able to, at the least, wear him down further, if not force him to retreat entirely.

I think that frankly, my biggest issue with the Sakura and Sasuke confrontation is that a lot of things happen which directly contradict almost all elements of Sakura’s character growth. For one, she has just vowed to kill Sasuke to take the burden from Naruto. Not only is she not given to opportunity to actually fight Sasuke, but Kakashi and, more importantly, Naruto are forced to save her from Sasuke. This immediately puts Sakura back in the position of damsel, which she is working hard not to be. Sakura does not like being saved by everyone else and she acknowledges, particularly in og Naruto, that she has been useless in the past and doesn’t want to be anymore.

I just think this fight with Sasuke could have done so much for Sakura’s character growth in so many ways, and sure it might be a little heavy handed, but demonstrating that Sakura is getting stronger. I think as well, that if Sakura were allowed these moments, then when we have scenes like this…

…Sakura’s character won’t get absolutely ridiculed because people misunderstood her.

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The Toji pr is insane because tell me why I actually did not realise this man was some kind of womaniser. Like all those memes and posts about Mamaguro ‘fixing’ him had me genuinely convinced.

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Somewhere in the multiverse, there exists a world where almost everything in Naruto was the same.

Except…

Sasuke becomes a medic and trains under Tsunade and Sakura trains with Orochimaru.

(Or better yet, Kakashi actually gives her individual training and turns her into an absolute demon)

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In the squad barracks, straight up testing it. And by it? Let’s just say, my Zanpakuto.

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So obsessed with airbuds spaces

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Lowkey think I aced this whole airbuds thing

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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about Naruto, yes the anime/manga as a whole but honestly I’ve been really thinking about it. When I first watched Naruto I was probably about 13/14 and only really cared for the cool fights and cute characters etc. Now that I’m like 21 and looking at it with new eyes, it’s so insane just how many of the kids in the show were failed by the adults in their life. Like there are so many characters who, for a large portion of their story, are failed by the grownups in their life, by the village or their teachers and so on.

It’s not like this is a new take or anything, far from it, it’s just not something I ever really thought of as a kid and the more I look, the more I see and the harder it is the ignore.

On a real, I’d be interested to make a deep dive post about it, especially about maybe Orochimaru and the cycle of grooming-of sorts that happens with his protege.