So basically 'why is there romance in Naruto?"

Because it attracts more readers. No other reason. Thus far, no romantic facet has granted any plot development.

DBZ did just fine without all the lame romantic mumbo jumbo. Damn neo-shounen.

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because it adds life to the characters. Makes them seem more real and human not some emotionless robots. And there is also the fact that its only natural for people to fall in love when they spend enough time together.

dunno, there has been zero developement though

never bothered to read it, but as i recall harry potter ended that way, with an epilogue where all the characters meet at the train station sending off thier kids to hogwarts. and with the recent way inuyasha just ended almost the same way, i could totaly see it time skipping into the future with naruto as hokage with sakura/sasuke and thier kids running around just becoming genin. of course at the rate naruto is currently going we wont have to suffer this typical and tired ending for another what 3-4 years...

yeah probaly spelled alot of that wrong... owell


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if theres going to be relationships in naruto there not gona go deep in it

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It looks like Asuma x Kurenai will produce some plot development on the sidelines.

Well, it attracts crazy-shoujo fangirls who like to make their own OTP.
Like me, muahahaha, ShikaIno <3

Umm, I think this is kind of waaay too late to prevent THAT!. Have you seen the amount of Naruto Doujinshi? I mean for just yaoi part there is like hundreds if not thousands and for every single character including the most minor and ugliest ones?! I think even Kishimoto made fun of that earlier in the year (don't remember the issue)

Naruto personally will not hav a serious relationship wit any1 cuz i believe he will die at the end of the manga.

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The answer to "why do Kishimoto even make girls/guys crushes?relationships?..." is because in every manga/book/life there is a thing like falling in love. It's simply normal, it should be wrong if there weren't such a thing, then it's up to the mangaka to choose how far to delve on the matter.

So in short Naruto will surely marry Sasuke at the end of the manga.
I never saw a manga character so obsessed in rescuing his princess. And, come on, they already kissed, the non written rule of all manga is "first come, first served" so Sakura should just give up.

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I agree totally. Naruto's obsession with Sasuke is downright scary. That kiss also makes it quite obvious that their relationship is what everything is really all about. A wedding definitely seems a possibility with how the manga was going when I dropped it.

Sakura should give up on both of them and go realize how much Ino means to her.

As for the topic, I don't see how the characters being made to seem human and, developing romantic feelings for each other is a bad thing. It draws the girls into the fandoms, and In my opinion made the series (back when i followed it) more interesting than it would have been had it been romance free.



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rofl man ure so damn right

sasuke is never fall for any girl -->not until he kills village elders(DANZoU)

and naruto-->well actually he actually has a chance wid sakura im sure she will give up on sasuke

and hinata well lol if she doesnt confess to naruto she will die alone

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To make sure people keep reading - DUH.

P.S - Amazing how considering the age of this thread, the grammatical error in the title is still there...

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For one none of the relationships are seriously implied (well except the whole Sasuke obessession). I'm sure (to my utter dismay but also great pleasure) Naruto will get a girl and not Sasuke/ Or he'll die and leave Sasuke full of guilt.
Since this a Shonen series the relationship wil be a heterosexual pairing which is fine by me as long as it's not Hinata (can't stand her). But Sasuke had no interest in women and Naruto is too much of stalker to think of anyone else
Like others said: Kishi is doing this to gather more fanbase. Like he knows most of the readers are fujoshi (yaoi fangirls) so he includes implications and draws more readers. It's evil but it works. Lol He can also take us by surprise and it will be some heavily implied SasuNaru ending. Or the typical epilogue of Naruto married to either Sakura or Hinata with many little fox children

Perhaps it's just a simple matter of prolonging the manga or just like what a filler do, so that mangaka can come up with a better idea and until he find one, we just had to suck up to it i guess



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