Anonymous asked:
I really don't understand how people could use Sakura as self-insert, like??? She's the worst out of the female characters, especially her personality and behavior. If I want to insert myself in an anime I create my own character or self-insert in someone who actually an interesting character. They really value themselves so badly lmao
This might be a long one, so bear with me as I’ve wanted to say this stuff for some time. Sakura’s a self-insert because she wanted validations from the people that were way out of her league, that’s why. She’s perfect for self-inserting. Look at her attitude in part I.
Part 1) She diets to impress Sasuke:
Takes excessive care of her hair so that it remains smooth, long, and silky for Sasuke ’cause he likes long-haired girls:
Which stems from the fact that she feels inadequate and is inadequate in the T&A department, too, to pull him in with sex-appeal (not my words):
When she thinks she’s talking to him (Naruto used Henge here to transform into Sasuke and asked her about himself), she tells Naruto (looking like Sasuke) that she’d do anything to get Sasuke’s respect, his approval, and it’s only his opinion that matters to her ’cause she’s so desperate. Again, not my words! (She even says that Naruto keeps her away from Sasuke and is a source of her misery. Uh, what?)
Did this ever change? No. Sakura fans relate to her cheap, pathetic, petty, and attention-seeking attitude, because Sasuke’s that cool guy that they want to be with. He’s handsome (he’s not only the most good looking guy in canon, but also the most good looking character in canon), rich, and popular. They feel sorry for Sakura that she wants to be validated by the person she’s got a crush on. Sasuke is what Sakura wants and Ino was what she wanted to become: a cool, cute, and popular girl!
She felt validated when Ino validated her:
Notice the “Thank you!” here after she feels validated and acknowledged? Remember that for later ’cause she constantly seeks validations from people she could never have or become! See the pattern? Why can’t your average Incel chick relate to her? She’s … well, for the lack of a better word, a loser. I don’t know how else to put this, but it’s plain, simple, and blunt and gets the job done. And no matter how many times people try to give her confidence boots, she slips back into the same loop of “someone give me validations and attention and tell me that I’m worthy!”. It’s pretty sad.
She even perks up and turns into a ray of sunshine after she begins her dreadful quest of getting Sasuke’s approval, which she starts by growing out her hair:
Sasuke’s astronomically out of her league in every possible manner: looks, social status, popularity. He’s like a prize to be won, so she never stops with her advances. Ever! As soon as Sakura realizes that Ino’s growing out her hair, too, she ends her friendship with her ’cause she thinks that Sasuke’s hers or something, and no one has any right to find him attractive or pursue him. She sees Ino as competition:
She ends her years’ worth of their friendship over a boy who didn’t even know she existed. Why? Because he’s way out of her league like Ino was. And when she thought she reached her in any way, she found her next target: someone that was a heartthrob for every girl in the village:
And that’s made too obvious during her fight with Ino that Ino was someone she wanted to become:
So Ino was to Sakura what Sasuke was to Naruto: Sakura wanted to beat her, despite trying to imitate her, in every way possible. And since Sasuke was wanted by every girl, he was the ultimate prize for her! The best validation that she could ever have! Just like every Incel girl out there!
People say that Sakura became obsessed with Sasuke out of the blue in part II, but that’s not true at all. Sakura began her obsession with Sasuke when she started growing out her hair and one-upping Ino. She did every damn thing in the book to get his attention and validation!
As I explained above, she modified her appearance, lifestyle, and choices on the basis of what he liked. When he still rejected her, she tried to get more and more obsessive, aggressive even.
When she tried to go on a date with him and he rejected her, telling her that she’s useless, she got fairly depressed and only cheered up when Sasuke validated her. She even thinks, “Thank You!”
Sasuke realized that she’s down ’cause she’s too pathetic to continue on in the Chunin exams. She herself accepts it, too:
He caught on to her gloomy attitude:
And he decided to validate her and life her mood, so that she doesn’t withdraw from the exams, ’cause that would mean trying out next year; and Sasuke didn’t want to ruin his own goals:
She immediately perks up, thinks “Thank you!”, because she was validated now. Remember when she said that “Thank you!” to Ino when she validated her? That’s exactly like that and is a direct parallel of that incident in the past. It shows that nothing has changed in her. Literally nothing! And once she got validated, she perks up and goes along with the whole test thing when she tried to pull of it several times! In fact, the first time was during the Bell-Test when Sasuke put her in her place:
The second one was when Sasuke validated her, and her third time was when Sasuke had the cursed mark!
See what I said about her getting aggressive? Now that Sasuke’s started talking to her, she feels that he’s got to let her in the loop when it comes to every little thing. For instance, when Sasuke decides to leave the village, she starts guarding it so that he wouldn’t leave without her:
When he doesn’t stop she feels entitled that he should share his past and life-goals with her! There doesn’t seem to be any boundary for this self-centered girl:
He spells it out for her that he wants to be left alone, but she still persists, telling him that if he stayed, they would all have fun:
Imagine telling that to a genocide victim that he should drop his quest so that they could all have a jolly-good time! And that’s not all. She even told him that if he went away it won’t make her happy:
He tells her to back off. Again! But she still doesn’t stop and decides to say that if he left, she’d be just as Lonely as him:
I find this part utterly detestable. Seriously, she’s comparing her so-called loneliness to a Genocide Victim’s loneliness. The whole thing’s so damn sickening from her end that it’s unfathomable to me how anyone can find this adorable on any front. Her attitude’s irrevocably repugnant here. It’s even worse than when she made fun of Naruto for being an “out of control” orphan. That’s how obsessed she is with him and his approvals. Then she goes off into this long confession of love and tells him that if he can’t stay, then he should take her with him ’cause she doesn’t want to live here without him:
This straight-up disgusts Sasuke, as it should, as she’s asking a victim of genocide to stop his life-goals for her whims, validations, and obsessions:
He’s basically saying, “you make me sick!” as this dialogue’s a direct reference to this one where she made fun of orphans (she didn’t even know during this bottom Image that Sauske was an orphan, too, which shows that she never bothered to know anything about him when several kids in the class knew that Sasuke was an Orphan):
And when he starts to leave again, she goes into her obsessive mode and looks downright creepy:
Sasuke leaves anyway, and she forces Naruto to make a promise of a lifetime, and when Naruto fails and Sasuke doesn’t come back, That’s when she finally decides to start her training! She begs Tsunade to take her in as an apprentice:
Imagine if Sasuke hadn’t left, she’d have never trained. As she not only wanted to pull out of the exams several times, but also she only started to train after Sasuke left for good! This shows that all the nonsense made up by Sakura Fans that She wanted to train for herself (prove her worth or whatever) is the fattest lie imaginable!
No, she wanted to impress Sasuke, get his Validations, and win him as a potential sexual partner. That’s what fueled her obsession. This also gave rise to the whole “Running Joke” in the series: Watch my Back! It came from her desire to surpass Ino and impress Sasuke! You know, just like your average female Incel who can’t function without getting someone attractive to validate her existence?
This is the first one of out of this series of jokes that fall under “Watch my Back!” category. I mean, no one watched her back. Sasuke moped the floor with everyone, and Sakura? Yes, she got the living day-lights and Tuesday’s shit kicked out of her and did nothing but weep, as usual:
Zaku punched her face in and no one fell for her artless traps. In fact Dosu made fun of her second trap by saying, “very funny!“ when he jokingly said, “Nooo!“ in the previous panel:
So much for Sakura Fans’ claims that she contributed something to the fight or delayed them in any manner. Dosu outright made fun of her pathetic traps by saying, “Noooo!” like a child, ’cause that’s what she was expecting, and following it up with “very funny”, “you’re a complete no-talent!”, and “it’s an insult to be underestimated by slackers like you!” ’cause he figured out both of her traps with relative ease! She was so incredibly stupid here that she couldn’t even make a third trap, which would’ve easily worked. How can her desperate fandom even spins this into “she made great traps, ladies and gents! She’s so smart!” is beyond absurd. It goes to show how they twist the manga in their favor to make her seem like a “feminist icon” and “best Kunoichi ever”, or something.
It’s funny that she didn’t decide to train after this incident. It’s only after Sasuke left that she thought: “Oh no! Sasuke’s gone! I’ve gotta train! Someone validate me, please! I need to feel wanted and worthy and loved!”
Part 2: This part was’t any better, as when she came across Sasuke, her obsession didn’t diminish one bit. She saw how dangerous he was, but she wanted to impress him and show him her power and tell him that she was worthy of him now. She had no clue when he even moved and stopped next to Naruto and didn’t take the obvious hint that he, as always, was completely ignoring her:
But she had to impress him. And she had to be saved. Again! She tried to do her infamous “Watch my Back!” joke here, but got schooled fairly easily:
She’s so full of herself here that she realized that how fast Sasuke was, but she didn’t stay put and didn’t see how he’d charged his entire sword with Raiton. Had Yamato not stepped in, she’d been killed! Yamato caught on that Sasuke was too much for her, but she just wanted to prove herself to him. Poor, love-sick girl! Don’t you all feel sorry for her tragedies?
In fact, Sasuke told everyone, including her, that he wanted to be left alone. That he was “Okay!” with giving his body over to Orochimaru as long as his revenge was completed. But she still didn’t take the hint!
He tells her that he doesn’t care about any of them. He rejected her here. Twice. Once when he tried to kill her in return for her aggression. And twice when he told all of them to get off his back ’cause he didn’t care what happened to the world and even him. When Yamato persisted, he rejected her the third time by trying to obliterate all of them with Kirin (lightning can occur in clear weather, too. Sasuke doesn’t use chakra when the weather is cloudy. Without it, he needs chakra to form a weaker version of it. This was Kirin’s foreshadowing). It’s Orochimaru that saves their lives:
Imagine being so obsessed with someone that you can’t function without him. Of course they can relate to this, being Incels and all that.
Part 3: In the Kage Summit Arc, she tried to pull off her same confession nonsense and tried to kill him ’cause she felt that only she could free him ’cause she loved him. But Sasuke saw through her ruse to kill him and rejected her not once, but twice in the same fight! (This is the exact same confession as part I, by the way, that she’ll go with him and help him get his revenge.)
When she attempted to kill him the second time, she’s still thinking about herself and how having Sasuke around made her happy, made her feel Validated, made her have fun!
On the other hand, Sasuke shows no hesitation in taking her out ’cause he’s set in his larger than life goals. Sakura? She’s still the same validation-seeking, attention-seeking, and pathetic girl who’s too sad not to have him in her life and be happy without his presence. It’s all about her and what she wants and what she feels. Sasuke’s just the best prize she can win!
These two scenes also make up the third and fourth “Watch my Back!” running joke in the series! She tries to show Sasuke her back, trick him, and kill him. But showing him her back almost killed her, and she had to be saved twice! She’s trying to prove herself to him in her own way. That “yes, I can kill you ’cause I’m stronger now!” or something like that.
Part 4: In the War-Arc, as soon as Sasuke dropped down into the battlefield to help the scum of Konoha, Sakura thought that it’s her chance to show-off to Sasuke, get his attention, and get validated ’cause he’s on their side now, or something. So she starts off with her same old routine, “Watch my Back!” and when that happens, you know that a good joke is just one step behind:
She lets an enemy watch her back, gets nearly thrashed, and gets saved by Sasuke and Naruto, but not before she makes a completely unnecessary and an insulting remark about her own mentor, who taught her everything, to show off in front of Sasuke that, now, she’s worthy of him, his attention, and his validations:
So did she learn anything? Not at all. She’s still the same attention-starved, pathetic girl she’s always been. That’s how her fans relate to her, you see. And this imagery’s connected through her “Watch my Back!” nonsense.
When Madara shows up, she decides to impress Sasuke again at the cost of jeopardizing the whole world and making things harder for Sasuke and Naruto, who end up saving her constantly. (Letting her die would’ve saved Sasuke, Naruto, and Obito a lot of time.) She just charges at Madara, without telling anyone (fuck Kakashi for being nothing more than a burden, too, who only got mildly useful after Obito pumped his body full of his Sage’s Senjutsu Rod and Mangekou Sharingan Balls; an Uchiha beggar till the very end), ’cause she wanted to impress Sasuke and show him that she’s strong now and worthy of his attention and affections! This is another of her “Watch my Back!” epic failures, by the way. She charges, shows her back to Sasuke, and gets thrashed, and has to be saved!
Sasuke and Naruto look positively shocked that “what’s this fool doing?”! Naruto even calls out to her, but she doesn’t stop. And when Sasuke and Naruto save her, we finally see that I’ve been right about her “showing off” antics from the very start! Kakashi remains worthless and does nothing but be a constant burden (no wonder Sakura fans ship her with Kakashi; both of them were equally useless and irritating here, a complete waste of panel space), but he’s got the nerve to tell Sasuke to let him in the loop once they’re inside his Susanoo after his stupid student’s idea to run headlong at a Jubi-Jin without a plan:
She’s all gloomy that Sasuke didn’t even look at her, acknowledge her, or did this rescue for her. No, Sasuke did this ’cause he didn’t want Madara to advance in their direction. And she knows this, and it makes her sad that all her efforts to prove to Sasuke that she’s worthy of him have been for nothing ’cause Sasuke still doesn’t care!
When Sasuke puts Sakura and Kakashi in their place for being utterly worthless (the above “Watch my Back!” thing happened before Sasuke scolded her for being stupid), she gets all sad again that Sasuke’s not keeping her in the loop. Exactly like part I. I mean, after the moronic stunt she pulled off against Madara (a Jubi-Jin, may I remind you), why should he? Her fans twist this panel a lot to show that Sasuke’s being (rightfully) mean to her, but they’re just as idiotic as her and can’t read the manga right and tell that which scenes happen before which ones. Typical and tragic.
Naruto, Sasuke didn’t agree to any of that. You just assumed that on your own that by “be a team” he meant “Team-7” as a whole! Anyway, when Kaguya showed up, Sasuke just left her hanging above the lava and it made her sadder that Sasuke still wasn’t thinking about her, even though she’d learned new things and shown him her (girl) power:
He even explained it to Naruto that he only saved her, along with Kakashi, ’cause she was standing with Naruto (the person who’s needed to end the war). But she still doesn’t take the hint. So when he announces his “Revolution!” and his ideals to change the Shinobi system, which would mean a complete separation from her for all times, she launches into the same confession that they can have fun like old times if he came back to her, like part I. Again!
It’s as if she’s never grown up and has a tunnel-vision when it comes to Sasuke. This absolutely disgusts Sasuke, and he shows her an image of himself metaphorically breaking her heart by ripping it into pieces. This makes up yet another one of his rejections:
Sasuke even tells Kakashi that he doesn’t love her, but like his terrible female student, he doesn’t know how to stay in his own trash-bin and keep his guilt-tripping on how to get Sakura on Sasuke’s penis (when he doesn’t want her) to himself. What right does he have to de-value Sasuke’s choice in the matter? People laud this, but I find it completely sickening that Sasuke’s consent doesn’t even matter to this man. No wonder her Fans adore KakaSaku!
This is literally the umpteenth rejection as I’ve lost the count! She keeps taking the rejections from Sasuke and her “Watch my Back!” Manga parody show!
But it doesn’t matter to Sakura what Sasuke wants. You see, this is all about her. It’s all about what she wants. It’s all about how it’d make her happy. Remember my points about her being a loser? Well, they still remain ’cause she’s constructed her whole identity around Sasuke. So without him around, her existence amounts to nothing, which is why she seeks him out so desperately! Which is why she pathetically begs and cries and whines about Sasuke staying with her and making her happy. Her mind, like her fans, is still stuck in Middle School.
And @ stopthebig3 said it best that all of these “friend-zoning”, “he called me mean things”, and “he rejected me” are first-world self-satisfying victim-hood problems, perpetuated by arm-chair internet feminists. No one, especially women, cares about them anywhere else in the world ’cause they’ve got actual problems. Her character just stinks of this first-world Incel bullshit and desperation to validate herself through others. It’s completely pathetic, so it comes as no surprise that her fans relate to her and that she’s considered some feminist icon. She’s everything they themselves are!
Final Part: After the Fourth War (when Sasuke’s character is battered and abused to serve the system that committed and facilitated the genocide of his whole race/clan), Sakura still keeps throwing herself at an emotionally vulnerable young man through persistent aggressive confessions, knowing that he won’t lash out at her out of guilt. (I don’t consider the novels canon ’cause they weren’t included with Boruto’s official timeline and Kishimoto never called them canon, either; but the images are relevant here.)
Sasuke’s rejections are like a battle to her. She can’t take “NO!” for an answer, as without Sasuke, she isn’t validated. So she keeps throwing herself at him, chasing him, and pestering him for sex till he finally gives her what she wants: a one-time sexual encounter that makes her feel worthy!
Her fans love to downplay this sexual-harassment, manipulation, and emotional abuse ’cause a girl is doing all this. They portray her as the victim here when if roles were reversed, people would be out to cut-off Sasuke’s testicles for chasing her like this and throwing himself at her when she didn’t want him. Kishimoto even said that’s she’s addicted to Sasuke and obsessed with him:
>Interviewer: “I thought the heroine was Sakura?”
>Kishimoto: “That’s right. But Sakura is addicted to Sasuke.” (laugh) “The reason why Hinata came to like Naruto is clear, but I’ve deliberately avoided writing down the reason why Sakura came to like Sasuke.” (laugh) “That’s because somehow, I had the feeling that it would conversely end up sounding contrived.”
I could type more, but you get the idea, and frankly I’ll put @yatsugarechann words here to drive the final nail in the coffin that why Sakura fans relate so damn much to her!
The rest of her fans who don’t ship her with Sasuke run hate-blogs on him and think that she’s a victim who didn’t get validated by him, so he deserves to be demonized. They make countless images that show that Sakura should get a divorce from Sasuke, pair her up with every canon male-character with a functioning penis (if he’s an Uchiha, even better!) in the manga, and make them attack Sasuke … ’cause he rejected her. No way! How dare he?! When Sasuke’s never cared about her romantically. Not in the past. Not now. Not ever! But like Sakura, they can’t take the hint, too! (I mean, they don’t even value male consent in marriage, so that should tell you how they think in regard to sexual matters in marriage; because in their eyes, a man has no right to refuse intimacy to his female partner, only a woman does; and this thinking is beyond despicable!)
And like Sakura, they keep changing her character to blunt her characterization by saying, along with writing poorly written Fan-Fictions, that she’s a closet lesbian (she’s the straight-est character in the entire manga!), that she didn’t end her friendship with Ino over a boy who didn’t even know she existed, that she moved on from Sasuke, that she got along with another Uchiha (or a platoon of them in a hilarious Reverse-Harem Fiction) to compensate for Sasuke’s rejections, that Itachi’s chasing after her now for God knows what reason, that she got paired up with Kakashi, that she got Sasuke to chase after her now, etc. All of this is just one desperate attempt after another to turn a blind eye to her abhorrent harassment of a male-character who was well within his right to reject her sexual advances.
This speaks volumes about how their mindset is exactly like Sakura’s: a bitter woman who can’t get over herself that no man is morally obliged to return her feelings, desperation, obsessions! No wonder many think that modern feminism is nothing more than aggressive misandry. Can you blame them? I don’t think so.
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