Sakura Fandom’s “Claims”.
Man, every day you just come across pointless claims by Sakura Fandom that have zero basis in canon. Here are a few:
1: Sakura was at the top of her class!
She wasn’t. This is literally stated explicitly by Iruka when their team was being made. Sasuke was the year’s top rookie. Before him, it was Neji. Naruto was dead-last. Sakura and Choji’s grades were the same. Ino was at second place, not Sakura. So guess what? Sakura was right in the middle; the mediocre one out of the group. She was so pointless that Hiruzen didn’t even bother mentioning her to Kakashi when he took him to Naruto’s house. (Anime makes a silly claim about her here, but it’s not canon.) I hardly doubt that he even knew her name, as Kakashi was assigned to the Team specifically for Sasuke and Naruto. Sakura was just a side-piece to balance the team out. You people act like she was so fucking important, when she was the only one out of the team who was completely unimportant and had no bearing whatsoever on Kakashi’s assignment, which was spelled out by Hiruzen. Move on.
2: She’s the academic of her class.
Based on what? What information did she know that others didn't? What insight did she offer? What opinion did she forward that was unique? Did Sakura ever research on anything to include it in the field of academics? The answer to all of that is a huge no. (And no, there's no proof that Sakura ever got a single question right in the Chunin Examinations, when Naruto passed it with a blank sheet of paper; and in which godforsaken universe is a kindergarten-equivalent class some sort of proof for being an academic? Go outside and touch grass regularly.)
3: Her chakra control is perfect, so that means that she can learn anything!
No? Chakra Control (CC) is just that, CC: ninjas control the flow of chakra so that it isn’t wasted. It’s beneficial for the ninjas that have poor reserves (like Sakura and Tsunade; yes, the latter has poor reserves; otherwise, she wouldn’t have used the seal to store the chakra and would’ve just drawn on her own like Hashirama; the seal literally compensates for her pitiful reserves); and it’s essential for ninjas when they’re low on chakra as CC allows them to use the precise amount and not waste any and get killed. That’s it. CC has no other use. It serves no other purpose. And it’s got squat to do with learning jutsus or talent. Heck, shinobis, especially the Uchiha, are shown to use more chakra and make the jutsu more powerful and deadly. Which manga have you read where CC means anything outside specific context that’s irrelevant to medic/non-elemental jutsu, anyway?
Where do you lot even keep getting this from? Sakura’s CC is also precise, not whatever it is that you lot keep peddling. Not that it means anything because of the aforementioned. You people act like she’s this big-shot ninjutsu master because of it, when it makes no fucking sense to even make this claim. Especially when her “super strength” is an extension of her healing jutsu. They’re literally the same Jutsu used for two different things; so basically, she only knows 4 jutus in the entire manga (healing, chakra scalpel, poison extraction, and byakugou). 5 if you count summoning. Is my jaw supposed to drop?
4: She’s the most observant member in her cell; even Sasuke said so!
Yeah, no. The answer is Sasuke. Again. And the difference is so vast that it’s funny. There’s an entire context about that “compliment” Sasuke gave her, as only about 10 hours prior to this, he’d shredded her about wasting her time on flirting and having skills that were poorer than Naruto’s. So, according to you lot, in under 10 hours she became the most observant from the least skillful member in their cell? What kind of crack are you all on? That makes no sense!
Sasuke gave her a pep-talk. He cheered her up as she was threatening to drop out of the examinations, and that would’ve been a major set-back to Sasuke, given that their entire squad would’ve been disbanded, and Sasuke would’ve ended up back to square one, scrambling to find another team. He didn’t want that, hence, the pep-talk. This is backed by Sasuke scolding her when she tried to rat him out over the Curse Mark at the preliminaries. He explicitly tells her to butt out as, by that time, it didn’t matter whether they were a squad or not as cells disband as soon as they attain the chunin rank! With that hurdle out of the way, Sasuke had no reason to coddle Sakura anymore, so he spoke his mind. Context. Matters. You people are just so fucking annoying about picking out one random scan and dropping all context about it and expecting everyone to take you even remotely seriously.
Besides, Sasuke figured out the genjutsu before her. Before everyone. So did Lee, a dude that was terrible at everything, including Taijutsu (yes, Lee fandom, he’s bad at that, too; it’s just that he works really hard to get good). And how’s she more observant than a Sharingan holder? It sounds comical as Sharingan offers the pinnacle of insight to the wielder, as proven during VOTE 1 and only the entire fucking manga! Is Lee just as observant as her now, too? Going by your logic, he ought to be. Give me a break! Don’t cherry-pick scans. It’s irritating.
And her “masterful” skills at being observant are shown time and time again: she couldn’t figure out that Zabuza was still alive (Sasuke did); she had no clue about any part of the examinations whilst Sasuke had great insights into the military system; she fumbled with the traps and got humiliated and figured out by Dosu and his team. (There are about 5 panels dedicated to Dosu making fun of her poor decisions at making a single successful trap; she couldn’t even camouflage them right; guess who made a great successful trap that nearly caught Kakashi, a jounin, not some genins like Dosu? Uh-oh, it’s Sasuke again!) They beat the living shit out of her as she couldn’t even make one decent trap to pair with the ones she found. In the forest of death, she nearly got the team killed thanks to her harebrained bullshit to not pay attention to the simplest details. First it was the Sound Nin. Then it was Orochimaru. She was practically being carried from location to location by Sasuke. Are you fucking serious about this?! And that happened over and over again; furthermore, Sasuke was the only one who never trusted Kabuto. He knew something was off about him. Not even the jounins had this level of insight. Sakura? She was grinning like a fool the entire time. I can keep going, but good lord! What you people claim is made up and doesn’t exist in canon!
5: She’s the genius in her cell!
Fucking really?! What are you basing this on? How many people, prodigious people, praised Sasuke for his genius, talent, and feats? Who didn’t? Just in part 1, Kakashi (several times), Gai, Lee (who outright admits being jealous of Sasuke’s genius), Shikamaru (yes, he called Sasuke better than him in every way), Haku, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru (quite a few times) and Kabuto. And they cite databook stats for it, which is fucking hilarious. Here’s a little secret: databook stats mean jack as they aren’t there for comparison, but illustrate the room for improvement. A character that’s close to being maxed out has no room for improvement; a character that hasn’t does. This is literally mentioned in databook 3 that stats exist to showcase the rate of a character’s improvement. That’s it. Heck, “boy genius” is literally mentioned in the same section for Sasuke. Seriously, who thought Sakura was a prodigy? Based on what? Care to share her prodigious feats? (Hinata’s intelligence stats are higher than Neji’s in databook 3, when the latter is once in a generation prodigy and Hinata is a fucking dunce; Jiraiya’s stats are very similar to Tsunade’s and Orochimaru’s, when only Orochimaru’s the prodigy of the group, and Jiraiya is a talent-less hack who leeched off his own student, Minato; Boruto’s intelligence stats are lower than Sadara’s by quite the margin, when the manga’s entire selling point is that Boruto is a prodigy; etc.) Are we done here? Good.
6: She’s a medic prodigy.
No, she's not. Kabuto is. You lot can get back to me when she perfects Edo Tensai; incorporates Kekkei Genkai into her own body; masters Dragon Sage Mode, and operates as a spy for Akatsuki, Orochimaru, and Konoha, taking away perfect intel every single time. What has Sakura invented, improved, reinvented? Nothing. Do you know who's mastered all chakra types (normal, bijuu, and senjutsu), the only person in the manga to do that, and done the aforementioned (invention, improvement, and reinvention, even of Sage-rivaling Jutsus) with perfection? Sasuke. It's no wonder Kabuto decided to fight a war and blackmail Obito through Madara's ET so that he'd get Sasuke as a compensation. That's how valuable Sasuke is. No body cared about Sakura. She's just one large headcanon these days.
And as I mentioned before, her basic healing Jutsu is a direct extension of her super-strength. They're literally the same Jutsu! That means that she's got just 4 Jutsus in total. Just 4! 5, if I count Summoning. That's it? Tsunade has two extra jutsus on her (Raiton jutsu and Byakugō's parent Jutsu), and even her arsenal is nothing to write home about as it's a very cheap knock-off of Hashirama's healing as hers takes her life-span from her, ages her at an accelerated rate. And to add insult to the injury, when the war ended, Tsunade was the one who created an arm (created from Hashirama cells) for Sasuke, which he refused, and Naruto, not Sakura. What has she done for the field of medicine that you lot wank yourselves silly over? She's at the bottom of the barrel in this regard. I know it hurts your fee-fees, but you've got to let this go!
7: She’s got the best genjutsu kai and “potential” for Genjutsu.
No? People reference that stadium incident, but that genjutsu didn’t affect Sasuke, Suna siblings, Shino, and Shikamaru, either. Why’s she the only one who’s cited when many other genin overcame it? And the latter is just a reference to the Yin Seal. At no point in the manga did Kishimoto claim that Sakura had any talent for casting Genjutsu. Not once. And genjutsu kai was made fucking irrelevant by Sharingan, anyway, along with Genjutsu casting. And frankly, many people have broken genjutsus. It’s pointless to even cite Genjutsu Kai as her specialty, when it’s just completely false.
Then they claim that Sakura broke Naruto out of Itachi’s Sharingan Genjutsu, and yada, yada, yada; and it’s a classic case of extremely poor reading-comprehension: Itachi was using an Akatsuki lackey from Suna, so all his jutsus were locked at 30% of their power (literally mentioned word for word in the manga); he never cast a Sharingan Genjutsu on Naruto to begin with, just a measly Genjutsu with his finger, which, by the way, was at 30% of its power; and still, Sakura and Chiyo broke it, not Sakura alone. Just quit it.
I mean, really, why’s this character one elaborate fan-fiction at this point? It’s so obnoxious as nothing you lot claim is backed by anything. It’s just a whole lot of bullshit passed around as facts to one-up Sasuke. She’s not anywhere near as talented as Sasuke. Get over it. His feats, accomplishments, and the compliments he received from prodigious people who’re experts in their fields prove it. He absorbed an entity and used its abilities right off the bat, all the while he kept it suppressed without any seal. Just with his chakra and chakra alone. (That’s what perfect control over chakra looks like as we’re talking about maintaining the stability of three chakras simultaneously here.) No person in the entire manga has ever done that. Without any training. Without any outside help. And also controlled the CS’s Senjutsu that eroded his chakra and psyche. At the same fucking time. He did all that perfectly. That alone puts everything Sakura has ever done to shame. Tell us, what has Sakura done that comes anywhere near that? She’s not a prodigy. Not even close. She’s not an academic. She’s not some very insightful person. Orochimaru has no reason to give one lousy fuck about her when he’s got Kabuto and most of all Sasuke. And then you people get very upset when all this is pointed out to you. Huh, I wonder why Sakura is so hated. Gee, I wonder.
