Naruto and Hinata as they appear in the last Naruto movie.
Few anime have inspired romantic fanfiction and amorous daydreams like Naruto, but something has always irked me. Although a battle shōnen at its core, since so many of Naruto's characters share the spotlight, so too do their love stories. Naruto's unrequited love and the slow burn of Sakura and Sasuke's relationship have become iconic in their own right.
Personally, when I draw depictions of love, I became embarrassed/shy. Thus, in the original work, I avoided depicting it. Yet for Kishimoto's relationships to be good, they don't have to be realistic, or even a"real romance". Tsunade and Jiraiya's relationship is breathtaking. The two once worked together on the legendary Sannin team. When Tsunade's boyfriend, Dan Kato, passed away, she left the Shinobi life before eventually being brought back to Konoha to serve as Hokage. There, she and Jiraiya would support each other.
Naruto's confused, angry response to Sakura's bunk confession was heartbreaking. This element of struggle and tragedy can produce some of the most beautiful, touching, and brutal moments in the whole series. Hinata's selfless sacrifice for Naruto during the Pain Arc is another example in the same vein. At its best, Naruto expertly uses tragedy to tug on heartstrings by acting out the bizarre mix of selfishness and selflessness that animates all of us more than we care to admit.
The beauty of Tsunade and Jiraiya's relationship is that, despite his time-tested love, he was never"rewarded" in the end by getting with her. The reward was the connection itself, rather than the vague idea of love per se. The fan-favorite relationship of Sakura and Sasuke never grew on me, because it felt motivated by the wrong things.
It's frustrating watching their relationship unfold because the ways they hurt each other are never really addressed. Sasuke insists on solitude, and he has such difficulty opening up and communicating with others that he becomes dismissive and, sometimes, violent. Meanwhile, Sakura cares on the surface and always means well, but her dogmatic insistence on coupling with Sasuke leads her to struggle with understanding him, making him feel further alienated.
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