Normally I'm not one to do gender studies in my manga, but seriously, sometimes Kishimoto is ridiculous. Hinata, and maybe Sakura, have been filed under "romantic interest" without any other regard to their characters, Ino has become pathetic, and well. Tenten is tenten.
We've had some pretty great moments with female characters, Tsunade being hokage and Chiyo probably being the most badass woman in the entire series, but especially nowadays the performance by anything with a vagina is piss poor. Especially the new characters, Konan and Karin were just embarrassing. And Tsunade being in a coma after the Pein invasion arc, when her counterparts (Orochimaru and Jiraiya) were at least given more screentime and a fight scene, plus a flashback. Especially since Pein magically cures everyone anyway. >________________>
I understand that he's a guy writing a manga that's targeted to a male adolescent crowd, so he'd be much more comfortable writing males than not, but I'd like to see him take better care of his female characters in the future.
We've had some pretty great moments with female characters, Tsunade being hokage and Chiyo probably being the most badass woman in the entire series, but especially nowadays the performance by anything with a vagina is piss poor. Especially the new characters, Konan and Karin were just embarrassing. And Tsunade being in a coma after the Pein invasion arc, when her counterparts (Orochimaru and Jiraiya) were at least given more screentime and a fight scene, plus a flashback. Especially since Pein magically cures everyone anyway. >________________>
I understand that he's a guy writing a manga that's targeted to a male adolescent crowd, so he'd be much more comfortable writing males than not, but I'd like to see him take better care of his female characters in the future.
Because seriously, Karin? No.
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