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Sakura Haruno The Gaming Addict, and Her Gamified Life [Naruto]

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Nuitblanche said:
Gamer Sakura rectifiying the errors of Canon Sakura, heartwarming.
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Not explicitly the intention but I suppose that is happening, yeah.

I think that's just basic cause and effect though. One of the biggest issues with canon Sakura is that she's supposedly a genius but we never see her use her brain for anything except tell moments.

She's a mouth piece to the watchers/readers.
She passes a test we don't actually see the questions for.
She trains under a legendary medic during a time skip and did "very well probably, I guess."
She doesn't even learn advanced ninjutsu or genjutsu or sealing she learns "Punch really hard."

She doesn't create jutsu, all the really intelligent plans are from Naruto. and the few times she's actually got a chance to step up before Shippuden she's too busy choking on Sasuke's thick ego to speak up.

By removing her obsession and giving her a brain, she just... won't make the same mistakes.
 
Sendicard said:
She doesn't even learn advanced ninjutsu or genjutsu or sealing she learns "Punch really hard."
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Iirc, "punch really hard" is a very hard ninjutsu.

But yeah, Sakura just isn't a thing that exists in the show. (no idea if it's true or an urban legend, but apparently she's still useless in shippuden because there was massive backlash against the Sasori arc where she was a character that could do things so we can't entirely blame it on the author)
 
Huh, I quite liked the Sasori arc and hadn't heard that. Although, it would have maybe been better if Sakura wasn't being used as a literal puppet for part of that fight.
 
Renu said:
Iirc, "punch really hard" is a very hard ninjutsu.

But yeah, Sakura just isn't a thing that exists in the show. (no idea if it's true or an urban legend, but apparently she's still useless in shippuden because there was massive backlash against the Sasori arc where she was a character that could do things so we can't entirely blame it on the author)
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She also, really doesn't win that fight.
That's not her.

The guy's actual master is there to stop him, who's clearly more experienced.
And they barely win.

You could definitely view it either way but personally, I thought she made the fight harder.
 
SolipsistSerpent said:
Huh, I quite liked the Sasori arc and hadn't heard that. Although, it would have maybe been better if Sakura wasn't being used as a literal puppet for part of that fight.
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Let me rephrase this so it makes sense. "There was massive backlash of whiny Japanese kids about the Sasori Arc."

It is Kinda like the Big O situation. Big O almost got canceled because it didn't do well... In Japan. It did fantastic in the states and the studio knew it was going to do well in the states and it still almost got canceled because it did not do well in Japan. A show, that was made with intention to show to a western audience, almost got canceled because the non target audience didn't like it.

Then again it is not like Hollywood or Disney have not made equally stupid decisions. Swat Kats got canceled because Ted Turner was an ass.
 
Thozmp said:
Didn't she also spend like three days with barely any sleep because she had to take care of and protect Naruto and Sasuke?
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I think it was just one before the fight with the Sound Trio but they'd gotten up early the morning before, taken a strenuous written test, started a survival test, gotten into at least one fight with a genin, then fought Orochimaru, then she stayed up all night looking after Sasuke and Naruto, then she fought the Sound team.
 
SolipsistSerpent said:
I think it was just one before the fight with the Sound Trio but they'd gotten up early the morning before, taken a strenuous written test, started a survival test, gotten into at least one fight with a genin, then fought Orochimaru, then she stayed up all night looking after Sasuke and Naruto, then she fought the Sound team.
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Huh. I thought they were on a tighter time crunch to get to the tower after the two woke up. The test takes five days, and I thought they only had one day after sound fight to get the needed scroll and get to the tower.
 
Thozmp said:
Huh. I thought they were on a tighter time crunch to get to the tower after the two woke up. The test takes five days, and I thought they only had one day after sound fight to get the needed scroll and get to the tower.
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I just re-read the relevant chapters and it's a little hard to say. They don't say if it was one night or three when Sasuke wakes up. The next few chapters after his fight against the Sound Three cover other people doing things and jump around in time (not just forward but also back). Then the next time we see Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto, they're catching fish and say that it's been four days since the exam started. But they don't indicate how big a time jump this is from when Sasuke woke up with the curse seal. It could be the same day (in which case he was unconscious a long time) or they could have spent a few days recovering and hunting game and not running into enemy ninja after he woke up.
 
Renu said:
She doesn't solo the fight, but she does heal an unhealable poison.
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That's not...
It wasn't unhealable if she could heal it.

That's Kishimoto having to find a Mc'guffin so a character could have one cool moment for people to point to.
In a series about everyone having cool moments.

And again, she learned it pretty much entirely off screen, and the entirety of classic she showed almost no interest in the field at all.
It's more tell.
 
The funny thing is given that in canon only Shikamaru passed, Team 7 was grossly overqualified(aside from Sakura) in terms of combat, but they flunked all the temperament and risk assessment stuff for sure.

In a test that needed 5 Cs to pass they had two As and 3 Fs
 
veekie said:
The funny thing is given that in canon only Shikamaru passed, Team 7 was grossly overqualified(aside from Sakura) in terms of combat, but they flunked all the temperament and risk assessment stuff for sure.

In a test that needed 5 Cs to pass they had two As and 3 Fs
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Not sure what I'm doing for the Chunin exam but I do know there's one more chapter before Wave.
Specifically, we have this Friday, and then the next chapter starts on Wave.

I really need to make some plans for wave. I don't really wanna wing it, but I've seen Wave done so many god damn times it's difficult to try and make interesting.
FML and all.
 
Sakura in canon really from among things Kishimoto's issues with writing interesting female characters as well as their lacking popularity in japan.
veekie said:
The funny thing is given that in canon only Shikamaru passed, Team 7 was grossly overqualified(aside from Sakura) in terms of combat, but they flunked all the temperament and risk assessment stuff for sure.

In a test that needed 5 Cs to pass they had two As and 3 Fs
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I mean, Sakura wasn't terrible temperment and risk assessment wise but she needed a good teacher to turn her newfound desire to excel (now that she had a more visceral understanding of what was out there) into a serious contender for top non-demigod related character. Of course, she is on a team with the two most grossly overqualified people combat wise (who have about as many advantages handed to them by virtue of genetics/lineage as you can get) who also are dismal failures in temprment and risk assessment (both in assessing risk and in being a potential risk to the village).

Ironically, Sakura makes a pretty good showing in the Wave Arc (and isn't nearly as useless as people like to potray her as in fanfiction). I really wish they had done more with her character since we know Tsunade has ample experiece with fuijutsu as well as a pretty divserse talent/skill set by virtue of her teacher and team and yet Sakura goes all in on one piece of the puzzle and the rest just withers on the vine. You could even have her delve into the mad scientist legacy of Tsunade (the Nidaime is all about that shit) and she has the temperment for it in Shippuden. He too had to stand beside demigods and made a name for himself.

Hell, you could always go with her pink hair being the result of Uzumaki lineage if you want. Lots of things you could go with and Kishimoto chose to do nothing.
 
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iledian said:
I mean, Sakura wasn't terrible temperment and risk assessment wise but she needed a good teacher to turn her newfound desire to excel (now that she had a more visceral understanding of what was out there) into a serious contender for top non-demigod related character. Of course, she is on a team with the two most grossly overqualified people combat wise (who have about as many advantages handed to them by virtue of genetics/lineage as you can get) who also are dismal failures in temprment and risk assessment (both in assessing risk and in being a potential risk to the village).
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Probably, though her canon showing vs Ino was just sad for both of them
 
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