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Things People Don't Talk About Regarding ChoKarui

Disclaimer: I am indifferent about ChoKarui. I am not making this post to bash them or their fans.

I know, I know, I'm beating a dead horse.

"ChoKarui had no build up or interaction."

"Choji and Karui's relationship was unexpected."

"Kishimoto needed to pair Choji off with someone and Karui was the only one left."

These are all the usual talking points fans bring up when talking about ChoKarui. The thing I want to discuss is how you guys feel about ChoKarui given the canon evidence provided for Choji's preferences in women. Additionally, why do you guys think Kishimoto and the team didn't try to hint at ChoKarui even when they had arguably decided they would make ChoKarui canon. This hinting could come in the form of Karui displaying some of the elements Choji likes in women or vice-versa.

Here's an example:

Manga: Tsukuyomi Dream Girl

Anime: Tsukuyomi Dream Girl

Choji's ACTUAL wife, Karui

Correct me if I'm wrong, the tsukuyomi dream sequences took place in Volume 70. ChoKarui is revealed at the end of Volume 72. According to Wikipedia, Volume 70 and Volume 72 were released only about six months apart. Two volumes from the final volume and Choji's dream girl looks nothing like Karui.

Unless the editors made him write an epilogue with everyone married, I'm not sure why Kishimoto decided to write a future married couples ending and not bother to hint at ChoKarui. He foreshadowed Ino and Shikamaru's future spouses in the same volume. Why not Choji? Why wouldn't he make Choji's dream girl look more like Karui? Did he really not plan on pairing him with the cloud ninja?

Don't get me wrong, I like that Choji actually married a woman that he met later in life rather than as a kid. It feels more realistic to most people's experiences. What I don't understand is depriving the fans of ChoKarui shipping content when you know Karui is the only available woman for Choji who needs to carry on the Akimichi/Ino-Shika-Cho lineage.

It would have been easy to show Karui as a great cook or Choji finding darker skinned women attractive.

I am honestly shocked that no one is talking about how according to the manga or anime, Karui does not fit his ideal woman either in looks, demeanor (dream girl is seemingly sweet), or occupation.

Check exercept below:

Shippuden S 8 Ep 406: The Place Where I Belong

Ino:

By the way Choji, I heard all about it. How you were flirting with all of the nurses the whole time.

Choji:

Ino, I'm going to tell you one universal truth about men. There isn't a man alive who doesn't go crazy over nurses.

I think it's interesting that both Sakura and Ino have medical ninjutsu experience which is related to nursing and Choji finds hot, but Karui is not shown to have any healing arts training.

The only mention I could find of Karui's preference in a man is "a rich, tall, famous ninja in addition to being super-handsome." You would think that the writers would try to mention something about her wanting a man with a big heart or a clan leader. This is more evidence to me that they did not plan on putting Choji and Karui together until the very end of the series.

Some person wrote that they should have just left the characters single by the end of the series and for one, I actually agree. If you aren't cut out to write romance or couples, then don't.

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WIP Big Bang/WIP Reverse Bang 2026 - Round 4 Of Fic Claims & Art Claims Are Now Open - CLAIMS CLOSE ON THE 16TH!

Round Four of art claims for WIP Big Bang/fic claims for WIP Reverse Bang is now open! You may claim as many fic projects and/or art projects as you want this round, and you may claim something for both event (ie, you can claim a fic for WIPBB as well as an art project for WIPRB). We currently have 60 projects up for art claims for WIPBB and 4 projects up for fic claims for WIPRB.

Here's one of our offerings!

Naruto #081 Title: There's a war Shikamaru Pairing/Characters: Akimichi Chouji/Nara Shikamaru Rating: Teen | T Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply. Summary: While going through Asuma's things after Pain's attack on the village Shikamaru finds a picture that shifts his understanding of what he's allowed to want. What he wants just so happens to be his best friend who he's pretty sure wants him too. Which is great except that there's a war on the horizon and no one will let him forget it. (or Shikamaru tries to be with Chouji but keeps getting unintentionally brushed off)

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ino - shika - cho is forever

there is something quietly beautiful about ino, shikamaru, and choji growing older together and realizing that perhaps they were never meant to be each other’s only great love they were meant to be each other’s constant. now, years later, they stand beside their spouses, watching their children run around them, and there is a strange kind of tenderness in knowing that they each found someone to come home to without ever losing the friendship that first taught them what home could feel like.

they have built separate lives, fallen in love in different ways, and yet somehow, when they look at one another, they are still those three children beneath the trees, sharing food, secrets, arguments, and dreams. their spouses may hold their hearts in ways only lovers can, and their children may carry pieces of their futures.but ino, shikamaru, and choji will always carry pieces of each other.

perhaps that is what soulmates can be, too not always the person you marry, but the people who knew you before you became who you are, who stayed through every version of you, and who will still be sitting beside you when the years have finally turned you into old friends with a lifetime behind you. they found their loves, they found their families, they found their own paths but they never stopped finding their way back to each other.

and isn’t just that beautiful? to know you’ll love someone forever amidst the petty fights amidst the tide.

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Drawing the Konoha 12 pt. 3: Team 10

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I wish we got more of this trio. They’re so cute gah!!

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WIP Big Bang/WIP Reverse Bang 2026 - Round 4 Of Fic Claims & Art Claims Are Now Open

Round Four of art claims for WIP Big Bang/fic claims for WIP Reverse Bang is now open! You may claim as many fic projects and/or art projects as you want this round, and you may claim something for both event (ie, you can claim a fic for WIPBB as well as an art project for WIPRB). We currently have 73 projects up for art claims for WIPBB and 5 projects up for fic claims for WIPRB.

Here's one of our offerings!

Naruto #081 Title: There's a war Shikamaru Pairing/Characters: Akimichi Chouji/Nara Shikamaru Rating: Teen | T Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply. Summary: While going through Asuma's things after Pain's attack on the village Shikamaru finds a picture that shifts his understanding of what he's allowed to want. What he wants just so happens to be his best friend who he's pretty sure wants him too. Which is great except that there's a war on the horizon and no one will let him forget it. (or Shikamaru tries to be with Chouji but keeps getting unintentionally brushed off)

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Brief Continuation on "What About Ino-Shika-Cho?"

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After uploading this post, I realized I focused almost exclusively on the child aspect that intra-Team Ten ships pose. In this brief post, I'll touch on the housing and clan leadership issues.

Housing

I've tried to find a conclusive Konoha map to figure out where all the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi compounds are relative to each other, but it seems fans can't conclusively agree. Needless to say, I found maps with varying results including these placements. However, these maps do show the clans residing relatively close to one another.

Based on the Ino-Shika-Cho alliance's importance and connection dating back to before Konoha's existence, it's fair to assume that the clan leaders would choose to have the clans close in proximity to one another. Therefore, whether an Ino-Shika-Cho couple resides in one clan compound or near them should not be a huge issue. If there is an emergency at the compound, the non-clan leader is able to head to their clan compound quickly. Not to mention all three clan leaders would just meet up anyways since they are allies.

Besides, clan leadership does not require clan leaders to be on the premises at all times. In Boruto, Shikamaru works a full-time job as Naruto's advisor while Ino runs her flower shop when she isn't doing intelligence work. The same goes for Shikaku, Choza, and Inoichi. We see them always together whether it's at the bar, doing ninja work outside of Konoha, or in meetings. Inoichi also works at the flower shop. If an emergency were to happen during the day, clan members would have to go find their leader wherever he is located anyways. Two clan leaders choosing not to live on the premises or live near the compounds should not be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Clan Leadership

This is objectively the larger issue that I failed to discuss in my last post. Just like how Temari's connection to Suna and the Kazekage posed political conflict interests for Shikamaru's role as the hokage's advisor, what about an inter-clan leader marriage?

We can't really compare this to historical monarch marriages where the princess of one country marries the king/prince of a different one. In those marriages, the man is the sovereign monarch and the woman is merely a political token used by both countries. All the participants in this ship are sovereigns to their respective countries.

There are people from the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans who probably would question their leaders' loyalties to their own clans due to their marriage. The one thing that Ino-Shika-Cho ships do have on their side is that their clans are such close allies.

In the last post, I referenced the Shippuden episode "The Legendary Ino-Shika-Cho." Within that same episode, we can hear Team Ten's fathers refer to their relationship as a "brotherhood." This implies that they consider each other family. They also trust each other's children to take care of one another.

When a Yamanaka member uses the mind possession jutsu and someone from Ino-Shika-Cho has to protect their body, they are literally putting their life in their hands, ex: Ino and Shikamaru or Inojin and Chocho.

If the clans and clan leaders cannot trust one another in a marriage involving their own members who they have been allied with for 16 generations, there is no outside clan marriage they can trust.

Side note: It doesn't seem like outside spouses are taught their spouse's hiden even when they do join the clan. I know Karui isn't doing expansion jutsu. Thus, a person with a hiden marrying someone without their hiden is not as scandalous as people think. Also, you're telling me that nobody ever got drunk and showed their buddy how to do their "super secret technique." Come on.