Whatever floats your boat. Because every writer has a different deck to play with. What you are looking for in a story is subjective. What you want from Kishi's story and what Kishi wants to say by his story doesn't have to be the same.See I knew thsi was about some feminists BS but anyway, if you're speaking about nami getting constant compliments from sanji then I truly fail to see any "objectification" in that, It's rather good since he is parsing her beauty
Actually it is. Every single one of the strawhat had a good ambition thus far, and you can't merely dismiss nami's dream worthiness when all what sakura ever wanted was to be with sasuke, speaking about how small a dream is in not rEALLY advantageous to current argument. Nami as a character with such a big dream did always have great conviction to never give up on it, she never thought of abandoning it, not even once. Plus the true motivation for her dream was something she always had it naturally or rather was something she was born with, not something motivated by personal feelings like sakura.What makes ambitions important is how you manage to achieve your dreams and how hard it was for you to reach that point.
Sakura became a medic thanks to tsunade's training, it was never a talent she purely developed on her own, nami was always connected to maps and the sea, if anything money is the same to nami as being a medic is to sakura.:lol
never said it was everything, in fact a good ambition is one of the smallest things a decent character could offer, I only mentioned it to show how lowly her character really is, Even the true motivation of her dream is unknown according to kishi, Better yet he said she was "addicted".
Now that you mention it, I haven't read the chapter yet.
Well in nami's case she draws maps for the sake of her own ambition, hancock had already achieved everything she wanted, everything but being with luffy which she couldn't even be bothered about, as she's independent unlike a certain person.
Exactly which is why oda tend to give other characters and especially the strawhats a decent amount of development and even relevance at some points of the story, while kishi only focuses his hardest on naruto and sasuke, leaving the rest to either fill the plot holes or just support the main for extra details , and yeah you're correct, it was the story about naruto gradual growing up as character in the story but that didn't justify the poor treatment some characters had as they existed with naruto as well, almost everyone who read part 1 knew that k11 were completely and utterly stepped on by kishi.
Defending a personal preference over Kishi's, rather than looking if there's an actual flaw with the plot from a logical stand point are two different approaches. "I wanted Kishi to write it this way" is completely distinct argument from, "Kishi ought to have written x this way."
What you and me want doesn't affect Kishi for he has his own story to tell and he earned it by creating that verse and characters in the first place. They are there for the purpose of his story not ours. Sakura's love for Sasuke didn't make her good at chakra control. She was good at chakra control that's why she could become a medic and excelled at it because of hard work. Her initial motivation to be a ninja comes from her ninja background and her wish to make a place for herself in her team that compliments her team mates made her medic. Her being a successful medic doesn't depend on Sasuke. She has her own conviction to stand for Konoha that all the craze for Sasuke doesn't overcome whether she could actually kill him or not. From ideological POV she opposed him on that count. Whether you chose to ignore is up to you.
Unlike some other mangas by focusing the inner struggle of a small number, rather than spreading it across too many insignificant characters, Kishi shows how the actions of the previous generations can shape and mold the personalities of the present characters and their future. The mistakes that we can learn to avoid now, and the people that we hope to change in the future. And hope for the perfect understanding and empathy. It may be an almost Utopian dream but it was never a story of personal dreams.
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