Sharingan - Dojutsu Kekkei Genkai of the Uchiha Clan
Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan - The Advanced Form of the Sharingan
Rinnegan - Known as the ‘Eye of Six Paths’
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i find it frustrating how people still misunderstand sakura’s statement of her finally catching up to sasuke and naruto. no, it’s not even a misunderstanding, it’s just deliberate ignorance. you’d think after all of these years they’d understand what she meant by that. they hate sakura so much to the point where they’d take everything she says in an entirely different way. i suppose they’d do absolutely anything to find an excuse to throw some slander at her, huh? they don’t even bother to attempt to understand her character and it’s sad
I know right? I mean, her entire speech was filled with very explicit indicators of how she wanted to be able to fight alongside them on the battlefield. How she hated whenever she was made to hide behind them while they protected her:
And how Tsunade made it clear to her that she had no excuse to not be able to at least fight and defend herself on the front lines:
The image of her at last reaching her goal, and fighting side by side with Naruto and Sasuke on the battlefield, with their backs to each other, rather than with her watching them from behind is telling:
Because that was her goal all along. She had no desire to surpass or even match them in terms of combat, she just wanted to be able to fight with them, and she finally became strong enough to accomplish that. A noble goal distorted by typical fandom nonsense.
A talking point I’ve run across in all my years in Naruto fandom is that if Naruto or Sasuke had been a girl there would be no question – NaruSasu would be canon. It’s often said in context of how bad a canon pairing is. I’ve always found this really odd when it comes to NaruSasu because of the nature of their relationship, which is canonically violent as hell.
Let’s also assume, for the sake of argument, that if one of the boys were a girl they’d be equally popular as they are now and thus the editors would allow for Kishimoto to spend so much time on their characters. And let’s also assume Kishimoto would feel comfortable enough writing a female character enough to make them either the first or second most important character in the narrative.
If you don’t think that Naruto, as a girl, wouldn’t get mocked and bashed for his devotion to his rival love interest who tried to kill him more than once – I don’t know what to tell you.
There would be so much outrage that Naruto is sending a bad message to girls for falling for such an abusive and toxic man. Alternatively, Naruto would be bashed as terrible Female Character because so much of her character is tied up into a male character who is her love interest. In addition, despite how much there is in the narrative exploring and explaining his feelings for Sasuke, her feelings would be dismissed as ‘just a crush’ and she would be called ‘a stupid fangirl’.
Think, for a minute, about how early manga Lee’s feelings were treated in fandom as compared to early Sakura’s. Both Sakura and Lee’s feelings started from a similar place: cute person they found attractive and a crush formed. Lee’s feelings were generally accepted as genuine love while Sakura’s were dismissed as just a fangirl crush. Male feelings are almost always more validated than female ones. Girl Naruto’s feelings would be dismissed as shallow at best and abusive at worst.
But I honestly think the more ‘problematic’ relationship would be Naruto/Girl!Sasuke. Naruto is canonically possessive, threatened to break all of Sasuke’s bones for not listening to him, is quick to dismiss what Sasuke clearly says he wants (which, often, is leave me the fuck alone you nut), and there are pages dedicated to how only Naruto can fix Sasuke – who called is a blank slate that can be fixed by a man who knows what’s best for her.
Sasuke, abuse victim, would end up with a man who threatened to break her bones and consistently acted like he knew what was best for her. The narrative would have completely supported Naruto’s goal in dictating how Sasuke lived her life.
I can hear fans grinding their teeth because I’m taking so much out of context and ignoring how the narrative is a whole lot more complex than Naruto Bad and Sasuke Good (or vise versa). Yeah. I am. Because that’s how female characters and their relationship are interpreted writ large.
i keep imagining itachi with super thick glasses that make his eyes look huge bc his eyesight is so bad.. just imagine his Pretty Eyes tm but like doubled in size
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