Sakura Hate is not Justified.

[Eternal Storm]

Is not that she cannot fight, the thing is her character, her behavior, how she acts.​

Which you must admit has improved a lot.^^ The hatred for her should've at least reduced.
Overall,most of the women in Naruto are fleshed out very well. Sakura falls under the same category.
I'm not really a Sakura fan,but I don't see why people should hate her so much and call her 'useless' when she has helped so many people in this war.

 

[Shadow Phantasm]

I agree with her point,but I don't see why it's a reason to hate Sakura. She may not be a good lead,but you shouldn't hate someone because of that.
The fact is,she is a formidable opponent,in her own right. She is at least high jounin level now. That's really good for a 16 year old who was previously a fangirl.
I understand,I bet you wanted someone OP. Someone who could make a difference in the battle against Maddy. Even I want a strong heroine like that. People hate Sakura for what she isn't,more than for what she is.

That's exactly one of the reasons to dislike Sakura though,despite me being a fan of hers I hate the fact she does'nt get the development that a main heroine deserves.That should be a criticism of her character but not hate as you said.

 

[iNotorious]

Which you must admit has improved a lot.^^ The hatred for her should've at least reduced.
Overall,most of the women in Naruto are fleshed out very well. Sakura falls under the same category.
I'm not really a Sakura fan,but I don't see why people should hate her so much and call her 'useless' when she has helped so many people in this war.

Besides healing, what she can do?

She has improved quite a bit, not a lot. She still acts like part 1.​

 

[Shadow Phantasm]

Well i can't dislike her that much, at least she can heal, i wonder if she didn't have the ability to heal, that would suck so bad.​

If she did'nt have any healing then Sakura would be like her Part 1 self in terms of usefulness.Sad but true.

 

[iNotorious]

If she did'nt have any healing then Sakura would be like her Part 1 self in terms of usefulness.Sad but true.

Tenten 2 ?​

 

[TheTailedSage]

Lets just be dead honest here and all "hating" aside. There isnt much for anyone to "hate" on.

For starters her character is terrible and that's not my opinion, its a fact. She has gained no sense of individuality since part one and her motives for doing things are shallow and selfish. For example, Since part 1 she has lusted after Sasuke despite him not once showing any interest or care for her well being. INO, for god sakealso liked Sasuke but she isnt drooling over him anymore is hse? she moved on and even though she isnt one of the best characters, she has shown some progressing. Why do you think no one has anything bad to say about ino despite her being not very useful? She can work in a team. Sakura has no sense of teamwork.

in Danzo arc, she put her comrades to sleep just so she could go alone. Why? they would have captured Sasuke if she hadn't done that and to top it all off, she failed to even do that, all she does is stand there with gormless face. She is confused. Kakashi had to save her from having a hole in her chest and almost endangered Kakashi. her motives are absolutely ridiculous. When is she going to get the picture that Sasuke doesn't like her? Even now shes looking to see if he cares and he's firing shots at her like no ones business.

She hasnt moved on and thus, regardless of her power ups, is still just a burden. Recent chapters prove this as she rushed in for a "diversion" . She had no knowledge on the current battle field and didin't even at least discuss a brief plan with the team. Make things worst, her distraction didn't really work because all Madara did at that time was cast CT after that.

Another reason why i say she is a terribly confused character is she also said she loves Naruto in kage submit arc, even Naruto was like STFU. The only moment she has really forfilled was Sasori fight. And even then she had someone helping her. The one simple thing she got asked to do by obito, she could even do that and AGAIN got saved, by obito.

Im not "hating" i just dont liek her and her character, she is in the way and Plot shield has guarded her ass way to often.

 

[Shadow Phantasm]

Tenten 2 ?​

Probaly higher than Tentent but lower than anyone else,she would be like Tsunade with the strength but would lack the healing to be asset on the battlefield.

 

[iNotorious]

Lets just be dead honest here and all "hating" aside. There isnt much for anyone to "hate" on.

For starters her character is terrible and that's not my opinion, its a fact. She has gained no sense of individuality since part one and her motives for doing things are shallow and selfish. For example, Since part 1 she has lusted after Sasuke despite him not once showing any interest or care for her well being. INO, for god sakealso liked Sasuke but she isnt drooling over him anymore is hse? she moved on and even though she isnt one of the best characters, she has shown some progressing. Why do you think no one has anything bad to say about ino despite her being not very useful? She can work in a team. Sakura has no sense of teamwork.

in Danzo arc, she put her comrades to sleep just so she could go alone. Why? they would have captured Sasuke if she hadn't done that and to top it all off, she failed to even do that, all she does is stand there with gormless face. She is confused. Kakashi had to save her from having a hole in her chest and almost endangered Kakashi. her motives are absolutely ridiculous. When is she going to get the picture that Sasuke doesn't like her? Even now shes looking to see if he cares and he's firing shots at her like no ones business.

She hasnt moved on and thus, regardless of her power ups, is still just a burden. Recent chapters prove this as she rushed in for a "diversion" . She had no knowledge on the current battle field and didin't even at least discuss a brief plan with the team. Make things worst, her distraction didn't really work because all Madara did at that time was cast CT after that.

Another reason why i say she is a terribly confused character is she also said she loves Naruto in kage submit arc, even Naruto was like STFU. The only moment she has really forfilled was Sasori fight. And even then she had someone helping her. The one simple thing she got asked to do by obito, she could even do that and AGAIN got saved, by obito.

Im not "hating" i just dont liek her and her character, she is in the way and Plot shield has guarded her ass way to often.

Dam.​

Probaly higher than Tentent but lower than anyone else,she would be like Tsunade with the strength but would lack the healing to be asset on the battlefield.

Isn't her strength comes from focusing chakra?

Anyways probably.​

 

[AllHailKurama]

The thing she says though, when she gained that power up and unlocked the seal, and then she stated that she caught up to them, seriously, i laughed.

Anyways kishi ruined a lot of females of this manga, there's nothing we can do and hope for the best.

And thanks, been busy for a while, test and many other stuff going in life.​

She was reasonably close though, and then they became gods. It's not her fault lol

 

[TheTailedSage]

Dam.​

Sick of all the BS

 

[AllHailKurama]

Lets just be dead honest here and all "hating" aside. There isnt much for anyone to "hate" on.

For starters her character is terrible and that's not my opinion, its a fact. She has gained no sense of individuality since part one and her motives for doing things are shallow and selfish. For example, Since part 1 she has lusted after Sasuke despite him not once showing any interest or care for her well being. INO, for god sakealso liked Sasuke but she isnt drooling over him anymore is hse? she moved on and even though she isnt one of the best characters, she has shown some progressing. Why do you think no one has anything bad to say about ino despite her being not very useful? She can work in a team. Sakura has no sense of teamwork.

in Danzo arc, she put her comrades to sleep just so she could go alone. Why? they would have captured Sasuke if she hadn't done that and to top it all off, she failed to even do that, all she does is stand there with gormless face. She is confused. Kakashi had to save her from having a hole in her chest and almost endangered Kakashi. her motives are absolutely ridiculous. When is she going to get the picture that Sasuke doesn't like her? Even now shes looking to see if he cares and he's firing shots at her like no ones business.

She hasnt moved on and thus, regardless of her power ups, is still just a burden. Recent chapters prove this as she rushed in for a "diversion" . She had no knowledge on the current battle field and didin't even at least discuss a brief plan with the team. Make things worst, her distraction didn't really work because all Madara did at that time was cast CT after that.

Another reason why i say she is a terribly confused character is she also said she loves Naruto in kage submit arc, even Naruto was like STFU. The only moment she has really forfilled was Sasori fight. And even then she had someone helping her. The one simple thing she got asked to do by obito, she could even do that and AGAIN got saved, by obito.

Im not "hating" i just dont liek her and her character, she is in the way and Plot shield has guarded her ass way to often.

This doesn't really even deserve a response but:

People don't like her because she isn't from some super dope ninja clan, she doesn't have any Kekkei Genkai, she doesn't have an OP set of eyes, nor does she have super ninjas for parents. She's just a normal girl, and people fail to see that she has busted her ass to try to keep up with two monsters, and that she had come close to doing so, until recently. She is in constant comparison with the other two, which isn't fair for her, and as a result it makes her look weak when she's really not.

 

[Eternal Storm]

That's exactly one of the reasons to dislike Sakura though,despite me being a fan of hers I hate the fact she does'nt get the development that a main heroine deserves.That should be a criticism of her character but not hate as you said.

My exact point! You guys are valid when you say she should have stabbed Obi's eye, but the hatred that stems from that is disproportionate. Everyone is extra critical of Sakura because they have been disappointed by her character from day 1.
She has trained hard under Tsunade. She is also a student of one of the Sannin. She helped defeat Sasori.We need to focus on the good more than the bad here. Otherwise we'll just be wasting our energy hating a character without acknowledging her good points.

 

[mohdzarif]

Well i can't dislike her that much, at least she can heal, i wonder if she didn't have the ability to heal, that would suck so bad.​

I always think that the reason Kishi made her a medic is just an easy way for him to cast her aside, imo, so that he can focus on only Naruto and Sasuke.

Kishi just deliberately didn't want to develop her well enough.

 

[Shadow Phantasm]

She was reasonably close though, and then they became gods. It's not her fault lol

Naruto and Sasuke were already levels above Sakura before getting the Sage powerups,there was no way she is ever getting close to them in terms of power.

 

[Shadow Phantasm]

I always think that the reason Kishi made her a medic is just an easy way for him to cast her aside, imo, so that he can focus on only Naruto and Sasuke.

Kishi just deliberately didn't want to develop her well enough.

And that's a damn shame indeed because Sakura would shine in a different type of manga.Sadly though Naruto is the wrong manga for a character like hers to be in.

 

[TheTailedSage]

This doesn't really even deserve a response but:

That reply you made is completely irrelavant. Kakashi's clan has had no mention and no one hates on him so your point is invalid.

 

[AllHailKurama]

Naruto and Sasuke were already levels above Sakura before getting the Sage powerups,there was no way she is ever getting close to them in terms of power.

I meant in terms of where she was before though lol prior to her power up she was nowhere close, afterwards she was much closer. Plus, her skillset doesn't match theirs so it's really hard to compare her to the two.

That reply you made is completely irrelavant. Kakashi's clan has had no mention and no one hates on him so your point is invalid.

You must have missed the part where I said she doesn't have OP eyes, not does she have "super ninja" parents.

 

[mohdzarif]

And that's a damn shame indeed because Sakura would shine in a different type of manga.Sadly though Naruto is the wrong manga for a character like hers to be in.

That's not necessarily true. It's up to Kishi to develop his character. Maybe if he didn't make Sakura a medic, probably he would have at least developed Sakura's fighting ability.

She might had trained with her chakra nature affinities and learned cool elemental ninjutsus. And she would have more fights because she isn't a medic. Only then people won't call her useless.

Her contributions were mostly off-panel as a medic. That's the main reason why she's called useless.

 

[Conspirator.]

There are numerous reasons why Sakura isn't well written. First off, her infatuation with Sasuke is simply ridiculous. Sure, I can understand it occurring at the beginning of the series(she was only 12-and a lot of us are stupid at age 12) but it continued on in Shippuden. In other words, she didn't mature. The danzo arc was killer for Sakura's character. She thought she could take out Sasuke alone, and used her comrades as nothing more than tools(and then failed). It's painfully obvious that her thinking about Sasuke messed up her thought process. Her fake confession to Naruto was also incredibly stupid, especially given how Naruto saw through the charade and told her off. You don't play with someones feelings lke that. Then there's the current arc, where she was thinking about "sasuke-kun not caring" in the middle of the worst war in history. In other words, she has barely matured at all with regards to Sasuke, and it's made worse given how sasuke doesn't give a flying fuk about her!

The second problem with her character is that she has ZERO direct ties to any of the main villains.(unless you count sasuke, but he's an anti hero) This is a big problem, as the people who play a role in the villains defeat all usually have connections to them, which leads to interesting dialogue. Naruto was connected to obito since they both wanted to be hokage but chose different paths, Sasuke is connected to this since he's an Uchiha, and Kakashi is friends with Obito. Sakura isn't connected to them in the slightest.

There's also the added problem:What do we really know about her OUTSIDE team 7? What are her views on the shinobi world? What does she think about the will of fire, or the curse of hatred? What are her goals?(outside of team 7) And finally, she doesn't have much fighting feats, and this is a shonen manga which focuses on fighting. Being a medic means that all the work is done on the sidelines, which is great for a SIDE character, but the main characters are meant to be in the spotlight, and medics don't take centre stage in the action. That's the bottom line, and why Sakura's character isn't the best.

 

[TheTailedSage]

I meant in terms of where she was before though lol prior to her power up she was nowhere close, afterwards she was much closer. Plus, her skillset doesn't match theirs so it's really hard to compare her to the two.



You must have missed the part where I said she doesn't have OP eyes, not does she have "super ninja" parents.

Again, that would be irrelavant because no matter what way you look at it, she hasnt done much in the entire series regardless of her having ocular powers or not. Her habbit of rushing in is what puts her in avoidable situations. Sasuke retrieval/Kage submit arc is a prime example.