Somebody Needs To Take Advantage Of This Scene From Totp Novel And Draw It! Tifa Having A Nibelheim Flashback

Somebody needs to take advantage of this scene from Totp novel and draw it! 👏 Tifa having a Nibelheim flashback but then calming down, looking into Barret's eyes, such a shoujo moment. ✨ Like...

There’s something I want to address and it’s the claim that SS and NH are lacking or bad because Kishimoto can’t write romance or can’t write female characters. While I definitely agree that he doesn’t write his female characters nowhere near as interesting or with the same depth as his male characters, Sakura and Hinata’s characters being particularly bad and SS/NH being bad has nothing to do with his inability to write heterosexual romance. We have seen him write some.

Dan and Tsunade had a romantic relationship, and we see them bond due to similar values and similar pain. They can relate and understand each other. They have things in common. They speak like equals. Now, I will not add all of their pages together because it will make the post too long, but isn’t it sad that in three pages we have a better connection, better understanding and more believable romance between a minor character and a side character, than we have between two main characters that had 700 chapters worth of time to have a believable romantic relationship and connection? I don’t even need to add all the pages where they are touchy and happy around each other or when Dan calls Tsunade his dream and kisses her forehead.

Now compare that to Sasuke and Sakura. To quote @sneezemonster15 “We are yet to see a profound, honest and emotionally touching interaction or conversation between Sasuke and Sakura”. To add to that, we have yet to see Sakura say anything profound about Sasuke’s character, goals or values. All we ever see her do is cry and scream how much she loves him and how much it pains her. Sasuke doesn’t even treat her as an equal enough to face her whenever she pours out her feelings, like he does with Naruto. She doesn’t know anything about him because he never speaks to her. She has the nerve to compare him leaving her to the massacre of his family in terms of tragedy and loneliness, despite the fact she has a family, because she lacks empathy and understanding towards him.

Whenever she confesses, she looks angry, and her reasonings are irrational. She always tries to talk about herself in order to sway him. They never communicate, they never have deep conversations. They can’t relate to each other because Sakura doesn’t value her family and family is Sasuke’s character motivation and the most important thing to him. When Sasuke says there is no reason for him to love Sakura and no reason for her to love him, he’s right. What would Sasuke love about Sakura? He doesn’t even know her, and her values and behavior are something that irritates him. Sakura doesn’t know Sasuke either. She’s just addicted to him.

As for NH, Kishi was able to make a female character save her love interest without looking pathetic or coming off as selfish. And that character is Temari.

Again I won’t post all the images but Temari comes to save Shikamaru because Tsunade send back up, and Shikamaru starts with his usual “a man can’t have a woman defend him” nonsense and Temari is like, telling him not to underrestimate her and she proves him wrong too. She does manage to save him. Temari is a great kunoichi and always shown as one.

Now compare this to Hinata. First of all as I pointed out in one of my essays Kishimoto build up this moment by having multiple characters say no one should join the fight between Naruto and Pain because they would only make things harder for Naruto and get in his way. Hinata is also told about this. But, as she says, her motivation to join the fight is selfish. She wants to confess her feelings. She also has no strategy, she just barges in and is immediately one-paneled by Pain and needs to be saved. So not only did Kishimoto show Hinata as an incompetent kunoichi, he also showed her as selfish and only thinking about her own feelings. This is completely different from how he portrayed Temari.

My point is, Kishi can write female characters as not pathetic, even if he doesn’t give them the same attention as his male characters. He can also make them have reasonable interest in a male character. He can write them as not selfish. He can write the romantic interaction as tasteful. But he never did this for SS or NH because he never intended them to be good romances.

This is really cute, coming back from the Lifestream, everyone else in the party is around Cloud, except Barret, who's next to Tifa.

Aww :'3

I want to know what this line was in japanese..

I just realized barrifa and clerith have similar character dynamics.

Angsty shy person with more energetic positive (and more mature) person, but who also hides angst.

ACC Battle Couple