Kishimoto's never been fond of females. I could almost say he detest them. First, he makes Hinata to fight Neji, which to no one's surprise, she lost to neg diff. Then after giving her some development to at least fight on par with a Jonin and he goes and gives her Pain to fight, out of every Akatsuki member she could have been pitted against and she gets only one panel in it. If that isn't hate, I don't know what is.
Sakura wasn't really different either, he held a little of a soft spot for her, but only because she was a friend of Sasuke's and Naruto's. Had she not been a friend of those two and reserving a place in the pursuit of Sasuke, her best development would be where Ino got hers as well.
In the long run, she became an important card in the defeat of Kaguya, and she sort of negged the war, so I can't complain.
How come though you don't mention Momo, who's equally well developed and has another forte going on for her? Hint: chest.
The Neji vs Hinata fight was to set up the Naruto vs Neji fight in a way that gives investment to the reader, (Naruto just vowed to whoop the top student's ass, with a fist clenched in Hinata's blood)
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But what this also did, was not only give Neji vs Naruto more feat, it made Hinata's plight more impactful, she developed from that, gained a nindo and gave her reason as to why she fought. It also gave more development for Neji who talked about how fate makes you incapable of change and how it's a curse.
Something that was literally referenced multiple times, even closing his character arc when he died. That is what he did for Naruto/Neji/Hinata. All of them gained from that.
Ino and Sakura gained absolutely nothing from that fight. No development, no sub-plot, not.a.single.thing.
Hinata's fight against Pain wasn't a fight in the traditional shounen sense. You should know this. Despite that, her fight, getting rag-dolled and beat up had purpose. Her characterization isn't meant for fighting. It was always changing and moving forward, which is what she did. She moved forward to help Naruto despite knowing full well the result. She moved forward in her love-life (lol kishi) by confessing. Hinata's character gained from that as did Naruto's.
In the long run, she became an important card in the defeat of Kaguya, and she sort of negged the war,
so I can't complain.
And this is why Kishimoto is justified in shafting her for years. Because she hit a goddess, and got a powerup.
Imagine Kishimoto destroyed Naruto's character in the pain arc. Made him join Obito's side and went into the Infinite Tsukiyomi in which he lived out his dream of becoming Hokage before eventually turning into a Zetsu zombie.
And his fans went, "well, he became hokage so I can't complain :|"
Thinking like this is why companies can nickle and dime people, why movies can spam jump scares for 1 and 30 minutes and have people call them, "good horror movies"
You accept mediocrity and have low standards.
Here you go again writing essay comments about characters you loath, it’s really not the serious kid but the fight was a snooze fest compared to every other match in the original CE.
If you believe that's an essay then sure. It is serious, as someone who is a fan of such mediocre and shallow characters like Chocho, Sarada and Sakura. You'd think you'd have problems or even be the one to bring up arguably the worst fight in the series(which is one of Sakura's only solo fight).
But you seem to have a awfully low standard when it comes to female characters, which makes sense.
