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Haha, guess who thought that a fine way to spend this afternoon/evening would be re-reading her own Naruto re-reading reaction posts? ... well, it's still better than being an Uchiha. And it did make me realize that I never properly wrote up my feelings on the manga technically ending, so I might as well do that.
So - I expected to cry buckets when the manga ended, and I didn't. Why not? SO MANY POSSIBLE REASONS, and really only one of them is that the ending was a big slice of wtf. Possible reasons include: sheer emotional exhaustion from the manga not ending any earlier, particularly not after other emotional high notes; busy having Marathon feelings instead because there are so few other people to have them so I must compensate; sinking too much time into meme; inability to believe the manga was actually over and haha SURPRISE IT'S KINDA NOT. ... but yeah, the big slice of wtf was definitely a factor. Just too busy boggling over the kids and pairings to really process it emotionally, on top of the general emotional exhaustion from following the rollercoaster week-by-week for years and new emotional investment in Marathon.
Also, it's kind of weird that more people didn't die? I'm not seriously complaining, because so many of the people who didn't die were characters that I love forever and would have bawled over, but considering the overall stakes, the immense damage done by Madara, Obito, and Kaguya/Zetsu, etc. - yeah, it's pretty weird that the only named good characters we lost were Neji, Shikaku, and Inoichi (RIP HOT DADS). Because who cares about all those poor fucks who got used for the mass Edo Tensei, right? Not to mention whoever else was in the same area as Shikaku and Inoichi, and actually maybe there were some more named characters but hell if I can remember them. Again, I'm not complaining that Gai and Gaara and Tsunade and many many others didn't die, but I feel like it maybe did take away from the overall impact of the ending somewhat for Kishimoto not to have punched us in the gut with a really good death or two, and it's not like he can't write a good death scene.
... he should have killed Sasuke probably BUT THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE SARADA AND THAT WOULD SUCK and also I still love that fucking goober.
I both hated and loved Sasuke's stupid, stupid "plan" to become the new evil for everyone to hate, because obviously it was a horrible, terrible, no-good very bad plan like every other fucking plan ever plotted by an Uchiha, but it was also a sharp reminder of how very sixteen years old he was. BE HONEST. WHEN YOU WERE SIXTEEN, YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT BECOMING A SACRIFICIAL SCAPEGOAT FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD WOULD BE A GREAT PLAN. ... or maybe I was just a really weird sixteen-year-old, but yeah. Most terrible idea, yet it makes so much terrible sense given everything he's experienced (and inflicted on others, NO I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN SOME OF THE SHIT YOU PULLED FOR NO GOOD REASON, SASUKE).
Most emotional impact of all the last few chapters - definitely the panel with Naruto and Sasuke lying side by side WITH THEIR FUCKING ARMS BLOWN OFF FROM THEIR POINTLESS FIGHT. BABIES. BABIES NO. YOU TWO DUMBASSES ARE SO LUCKY SAKURA IS WILLING TO PUT UP WITH YOUR SHIT AND I WISH SHE WASN'T BECAUSE SHE DESERVED TO MARRY LEE OR INO OR SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY LIKES HER. SAKURA, SAKURA, YOU DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER.
Come to think of it, being annoyed over Sakura/Sasuke might have been yet another reason I didn't have a stronger emotional reaction to the ending. I was never more than half-expecting Naruto/Sasuke to become canon (and okay, I know, even half-expecting it in a shounen manga was foolish, but after some of those color spreads/MOST OF THE FUCKING PLOT OF THE ENTIRE MANGA, can you really blame me?), but - SAKURA DESERVED BETTER. Which is pretty clear in Naruto Gaiden, even with the super fucking cute moment where Sasuke said "lol like my wife's going to go down that easy" and Sarada's general fantasticness. IT'S NOT REALLY ENOUGH FOR ME, KISHIMOTO.
And so many things got left unanswered, too, like what the fuck happened to Kabumaru and Orochimaru, although now we have a tiny bit of an answer to that. Drove me absolutely crazy at the time, though, and is still nagging at me. So Orochimaru is - possibly locked up and under guard with Yamato watching? That's nice, but did he just - like - agree to that arrangement? That doesn't sound much like Orochimaru. And still no sign of Kabumaru. Maybe I just forgot something happening with him during the end of the manga, which would not be surprising considering how much shit was going down, but also it would not be surprising if Kishimoto forgot too, hah.
I keep looking at my icon (the DW one obviously) and it's slowly dawning on me that - well - almost everyone did finally come home. Even if Sasuke obviously didn't stay long. BUT MY BABIES ALMOST ALL CAME HOME. I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING SHUT UP.
SO. There are my deep thoughts on the ending, I guess. Now - now I need to finish the fucking AU and fix all the terrible Uchihas and THERE WILL BE NO KAGUYA, I PINKY-SWEAR EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS REALLY PRETTY... *sob*
Crossposted from Dreamwidth - read the original post here: http://hokuton-punch.dreamwidth.org/1050538.html .
So - I expected to cry buckets when the manga ended, and I didn't. Why not? SO MANY POSSIBLE REASONS, and really only one of them is that the ending was a big slice of wtf. Possible reasons include: sheer emotional exhaustion from the manga not ending any earlier, particularly not after other emotional high notes; busy having Marathon feelings instead because there are so few other people to have them so I must compensate; sinking too much time into meme; inability to believe the manga was actually over and haha SURPRISE IT'S KINDA NOT. ... but yeah, the big slice of wtf was definitely a factor. Just too busy boggling over the kids and pairings to really process it emotionally, on top of the general emotional exhaustion from following the rollercoaster week-by-week for years and new emotional investment in Marathon.
Also, it's kind of weird that more people didn't die? I'm not seriously complaining, because so many of the people who didn't die were characters that I love forever and would have bawled over, but considering the overall stakes, the immense damage done by Madara, Obito, and Kaguya/Zetsu, etc. - yeah, it's pretty weird that the only named good characters we lost were Neji, Shikaku, and Inoichi (RIP HOT DADS). Because who cares about all those poor fucks who got used for the mass Edo Tensei, right? Not to mention whoever else was in the same area as Shikaku and Inoichi, and actually maybe there were some more named characters but hell if I can remember them. Again, I'm not complaining that Gai and Gaara and Tsunade and many many others didn't die, but I feel like it maybe did take away from the overall impact of the ending somewhat for Kishimoto not to have punched us in the gut with a really good death or two, and it's not like he can't write a good death scene.
... he should have killed Sasuke probably BUT THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE SARADA AND THAT WOULD SUCK and also I still love that fucking goober.
I both hated and loved Sasuke's stupid, stupid "plan" to become the new evil for everyone to hate, because obviously it was a horrible, terrible, no-good very bad plan like every other fucking plan ever plotted by an Uchiha, but it was also a sharp reminder of how very sixteen years old he was. BE HONEST. WHEN YOU WERE SIXTEEN, YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT BECOMING A SACRIFICIAL SCAPEGOAT FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD WOULD BE A GREAT PLAN. ... or maybe I was just a really weird sixteen-year-old, but yeah. Most terrible idea, yet it makes so much terrible sense given everything he's experienced (and inflicted on others, NO I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN SOME OF THE SHIT YOU PULLED FOR NO GOOD REASON, SASUKE).
Most emotional impact of all the last few chapters - definitely the panel with Naruto and Sasuke lying side by side WITH THEIR FUCKING ARMS BLOWN OFF FROM THEIR POINTLESS FIGHT. BABIES. BABIES NO. YOU TWO DUMBASSES ARE SO LUCKY SAKURA IS WILLING TO PUT UP WITH YOUR SHIT AND I WISH SHE WASN'T BECAUSE SHE DESERVED TO MARRY LEE OR INO OR SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY LIKES HER. SAKURA, SAKURA, YOU DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER.
Come to think of it, being annoyed over Sakura/Sasuke might have been yet another reason I didn't have a stronger emotional reaction to the ending. I was never more than half-expecting Naruto/Sasuke to become canon (and okay, I know, even half-expecting it in a shounen manga was foolish, but after some of those color spreads/MOST OF THE FUCKING PLOT OF THE ENTIRE MANGA, can you really blame me?), but - SAKURA DESERVED BETTER. Which is pretty clear in Naruto Gaiden, even with the super fucking cute moment where Sasuke said "lol like my wife's going to go down that easy" and Sarada's general fantasticness. IT'S NOT REALLY ENOUGH FOR ME, KISHIMOTO.
And so many things got left unanswered, too, like what the fuck happened to Kabumaru and Orochimaru, although now we have a tiny bit of an answer to that. Drove me absolutely crazy at the time, though, and is still nagging at me. So Orochimaru is - possibly locked up and under guard with Yamato watching? That's nice, but did he just - like - agree to that arrangement? That doesn't sound much like Orochimaru. And still no sign of Kabumaru. Maybe I just forgot something happening with him during the end of the manga, which would not be surprising considering how much shit was going down, but also it would not be surprising if Kishimoto forgot too, hah.
I keep looking at my icon (the DW one obviously) and it's slowly dawning on me that - well - almost everyone did finally come home. Even if Sasuke obviously didn't stay long. BUT MY BABIES ALMOST ALL CAME HOME. I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING SHUT UP.
SO. There are my deep thoughts on the ending, I guess. Now - now I need to finish the fucking AU and fix all the terrible Uchihas and THERE WILL BE NO KAGUYA, I PINKY-SWEAR EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS REALLY PRETTY... *sob*
Crossposted from Dreamwidth - read the original post here: http://hokuton-punch.dreamwidth.org/1050538.html .