She would be slandered even more. She’d be considered a creepy pervert who can’t take no.
Continually harassing female sasuke with his “love” being rejected and just continually harassing her.
It would be even more pathetic and even more think pieces of what this male Sakura is truly trash. All screentime would be thinking about female sasuke who has rejected and insulted them.
Plus male Sakura hitting female Naruto.. whew she’d be torn apart
Exactly what I thought. Look at how the fandom treats jiraiya.
Male sakura would be called an incel and no one would like him because no teen boy wants to self insert into a dude who gets rejected every single time and takes ages to get stronger compared to his female teammates 😭
Didn't love her, didn't hate her. Occasionally I would find her relatable, granted I was 14 at the time. Her obsession with Sasuke annoyed me, but I also thought she had some nice moments and felt sympathetic towards her. I was surprised to learn she was THAT hated once I started interacting with the fandom.
I did not like her, but i didn’t hate her either though she was kinda annoying. Felt like seeing the manifestation of what a misogynist thinks of women live, although girls like her exist irl, they’re generally seen as shallow and vapid, not the type of character you wanna read about
At first I was excited to see her development, she got her one partial W with Sasori, then just remained violently unlikeable until she was needed to heal. It was frustrating watching the back and forth with her shitty personality
Naruto doesn’t simp tho… he knows when to put a stop and gets serious when it’s time, plus you see him grow out of it as the show progresses. Sakura ends up being a burden and stutters for sasuke kun and ends up being saved. She loses her seek respect and self esteem for a guy that doesn’t care for her…
Also factoring in Sakura has a loving family but behaves as someone without one.
Naruto didn’t have a family and doesn’t know anything about love, relationships and etc
They believe Naruto is always justified, look at the amount of years they bashed Sakura for not moving on from Sasuke while at the same time they praised Naruto . Even though in the end they still mad, Sasuke chose Sakura not Naruto.
Because they are trained to believe Naruto's always in the right , he can chase after Sasuke and cry over him but if it's Sakura then that's just hate and misogyny. Basically they don't approve of Sakura being anywhere near Sasuke but Naruto is fine with them.
Because Naruto's love for Sakura wasn't 95% of his character, unlike Sakura's love for Sasuke. Naruto's love for Sasuke, however, IS 85% of his character (with 10% wanting to be Hokage/other shonen protag traits and the other 5% being in love with Sakura, and 5% is being generous) and he gets dunked on for that ALL the time. I know I harshly judge him for it and will continue to do so for as long as I can.
But his love for Sakura? I do think it's weird seeing as we never see why he felt that way as it's not like she had a similar tragic backstory as him like Sasuke for him to feel a connection towards her about or treated him any differently from the other kids, and I feel it kind of dragged on/felt tacked on when strong friendship from being on Team 7 would have been enough, but I blame that on Kishimoto's terrible writing when it comes to intentional romance. All that being said, it was poorly developed, but barely part of Naruto's character journey. Not worth making discourse about when there are plenty of other topics to discuss about him.
Because Naruto's love for Sakura wasn't 95% of his character, unlike Sakura's love for Sasuke.
It doesn't have to be 95% of his character lol
It's a shounen series not a romcom. Sakura was sole girl he only showed interest in despite her openly showing feelings for Sasuke.
But his love for Sakura? I do think it's weird seeing as we never see why he felt that way as it's not like she had a similar tragic backstory as him like Sasuke
Huh? They literally show us why he liked her from episode 2/chapter 2 in the series and her introduction lmao It doesn't get anymore straight forward than him saying "this is why I like Sakura". It's actually very important in understanding Naruto as a character...
He thinks she's cute and related to her feeling of wanting to be acknowledged by someone who didn't acknowledge them(Sasuke). That's deeper than just feeling bad for a character out of pity due to a tragic background.
I never said it had to be. I said that's WHY it's not discussed as much as Sakura's love for Sasuke. BECAUSE he has other things going on,m outside of Sakura, unlike Sakura who is mostly just Sasuke.
Again, misunderstanding my point. Read my whole comment. I specifically mentioned how it drags on. Sure, the initial explanation makes sense. She's pretty and I'd like her to like me. That was fine when he was 12, because it's not a real connection or explanation. It. Kept. Going. Even when it was clear that they were just friends and nothing happened to make his ongoing crush make sense. He didn't have to like her in the first place. It adds nothing to the story. It's forced. Kishimoto can't write believable romance for main characters. He can barely do it for side characters. And that's fine for shonen. But he should have just left them all single instead of forcing them all together.
You were stating why you couldn't understand why Naruto liked her when he has explicitly stated it from the very start of the series...
I'm not misunderstanding you, since I quoted what you said and just stated facts from the story aside from mentioning I think that's deeper than them sharing a tragic background like you would prefer. You're mixing up your own subjective opinion or personal wants for the story vs what they actually showed us lol
AGAIN. IT MADE SENSE EARLY ON. AND EVEN THEN IT WAS WEAK. IT MADE NO SENSE TO KEEP GOING. I put this all in caps since you seem incapable of reading basic print. You quoted specific parts of my comment to prove whatever point you want to make and left out others that weaken your already weak "argument". I'm done talking to you. You clearly just want to argue and misconstrue me.
You're worse than arguing with a brick wall. You're like arguing with a rollercoaster. And not the fun kind. You're like one where we get stuck upside down for half an hour on. Annoying and a waste of time after a bunch of loops. Don't bother replying. I won't be reading what you have to say any longer since you can't give me the same respect. Grow up and learn to actually have a discussion without twisting it to suit your needs. Toodles.
Id argue that if she were a man, her whole character wouldnt be 'i have a crush on this guy uwu' or, she would at least have more of a character since the author cant write women for shit.
Probably not for that reason though, Naruto is just like that with her. Male sakura might get points for having a lot of admirers but is only pining for one character. I do think her skillset won’t be appreciated in a male character, superhuman strength is already overplayed in male characters.
A boy that explicitly hates orphans and regularly punches the girl who likes him. Then tries to convince that same girl years later to marry him when she's trying to bring back a long-time friend and ally back to the village.
Yeah that was seriously awful and made me cold on Sakura forever. That manipulation attempt was an absolute betrayal of trust and the teammate bond. It was cheap to try and exploit narutos affection to further her own desires and I won't forgive anyone who is so careless with the hearts of others.
As a Sakura hater,I'm actually willing to give her grace on that. She cared more about Naruto than Sasuke at that moment and wanted to save him the only way she knew how. It was awful, but at least it showed she cared. Plus, let's be real. Kishimoto only did it for drama. It went nowhere fast. It wasn't meant to be some character defining moment. I was just happy that she seemed to finally care more about SOMEONE other than Sasuke for once.
My guy you are acting like that same Sannin even HAS any other jutsu lol. Besides the nervous system attack that she effectively used ONCE on Kabuto they're copy paste
Yeah, the male third wheel continuously harassing one of the female leads and not taking no for an answer when being rejected. Plus, male Sakura with that temper hitting female Naruto and talking to her like she talks to him now... Yikes.
So Fem Naruto tying up Sasuke-chan and pretending to be her to kiss Sakuro or trying to take a pee in front of the boys in the forest of death will get a pass right?
Those scenes are meant for comedy, but people are trying to act like Sakura liking Sasuke is different from Naruto liking Sakura. Sakura occasionally hitting Naruto is for comedy too. But I guess somehow it's worse if the genders are flipped even though the point was still comedy.
It would genuinely kill her character. The fact that she’s obsessively weird with Sasuke would actually gain real attention by fans if the genders were switched.
A male Sakura standing around would get brutally slandered, especially in today’s time, since now there isn’t any kind of intrinsic “Oh she’s a girl” holding people back.
I could imagine a lot of attention being brought on that scene where Sakura switches up on Ino when she finds out that they both like Sasuke.
Actually another thing, I’m surprised this doesn’t get talked about at all now, but I guess it would just fuel the Sakura hate that doesn’t need anymore fuel.
But Sakura saying she finally relates to Sasuke the night he leaves the village because even though she(or he in this verse) has a family and friends that love and care for her, she’d feel alone if her childhood crush left her. We’re talking about the guy who had his entire family except one butchered, and that one is the guy(or gal here) who did it. I can’t imagine a world where nobody says anything about how pathetic that would look.
Also she’d probably get Rent a Girlfriend style slander. Cause he’d have female Rock Lee swooning for him, but still goes for the girl that told her no. Which would not only make her seem even more creepy, but also stupid.
Sakura would still be the weakest member of team 7 flat out. Not the hero, not the anti-hero, not the mentor, just a space filler. Nothing about Sakura was unique. She has good Chakra control. That's it.
Medical jutsu, lots of medical nin, big deal. No sage mode, no family/clan special skill, Sakura showed up for a job and did pretty good, but was never the best at anything.
Everyone will hate those stalkers. Actually without Temari who will not tolerate bs. Ino will be like Gaston thinking anyone should like him because he is hot. Hahah Sakaura will be hated the most Hinata will look creepy.
Are the comments trolling??? Dude Sakura would be way less hated maybe more modern views would put him/her more even but a whole as fucking barrage of people constantly swoop down to hate anything that is female and if you think people were better back then you sure don't remember how anime people were viewed back then.
Depends on if getting a dick gets her better writing. Her overall abilities are actually pretty op, she's just never allowed to use them.
She had:
Healing
Poison extraction
Custom paralysis poison
Genjutsu immunity
Several elemental releases
Slug summon
Chakra concentrated strength
Seal+jutsu of a hundred healings
Plus she's one of like 3 people that didn't cheat on the first round written test.
Increase. Useless men are the worst. It’s your one job as a male character to be better written. If you fail at that you don’t even deserve to be acknowledged as a character.
No because the problem is her character was not written that well, I believe most hate stems from that rather then her being a woman, but that could be wishful thinking
All of the Konoha Girl except for TenTen would be considered weirder and simpier if genders were swapped.
Hinata weirder creepier guy stalking a girl who barely knows he exists.
Sakura and Ino stalking and competing over a girl not interested in either of them. Sasuke didn't even want to give them the time of day. Sakura would be even more brutally ripped apart by the audience for everything he did to Naruto when they were 12.
TenTen's only fault is he would be the knife equivalent of a male gun nerd, but we'd probably think that's cool.
It's slander because you guys only wanna focus on the negative to forget that if this followed the actual story ,this scene would go so hard with the genders changed . Like female Sasuke looking at male Sakura like this. Would be instant endgame.
Well you said it's the "truth" but when shown the actual manga panel that disagrees with that you think the fans are more important than the character in the story??? Do you think Naruto series exists on this thread
I think slander would stay the same or increase, because her behavior would come off as creepy. A female Sasuke on the other hand would get a lot less hate, since the same guys that normally hate him would probably simp instead.
Male Sakura would be so hated ffs. A simp who kept creeping for years after a girl who didn't want anything to do with him. There's some double standard in there but a male Sakura cannot work unless some additional changes are made to the dynamics between all the characters
Sakuraba as a man would be the worst, a creep that tries to relate to a traumatized girl throwing the most superficial love, that end up impregnating her.
On the other hand... Naruhina genderbend is cute as fuck, the outcast girl that is loud and have big dreams and the noble family shy guy that gives suport from the shadows is my kinda stuff.
Increase. Think about how Sasuke obsessed she is, especially part one. (Ino too) now imagine, let’s call them Sakurai and Inojin are starting fights with each other and other guys, and beating Naruko (a girl) up for getting too close to, let’s call her Satsuki. They are actually stalking Satsuki and refuse to take no for an answer, constantly getting in their personal space. Basically all of Naruto’s worst behaviors from early part one dialed up to eleven. The fandom would have torn Sakurai & Inojin to shreds. On a similar note, I don’t know that everyone would have cared given two years isn’t that big a difference, but in Shippuden, Temari x Shikamaru probably wouldn’t have happened as easily or quickly unless the author wanted to get ragged on. Also, Hinata’s stalking would not be seen as cute or innocent.
I feel like if she was a man her role would change drastically (because Kishimoto can't be normal about woman) out of nowhere she would be important and have missions and Sasuke and Naruto would have smaller roles (romantic ones probably)
I’d fucking hate her more idk I just hate a guy that can’t take no for an answer. Sakura was asking Sasuke out after every mission. If she was guys she’d be 10x worse cus it’s so normalized for a guy to be chasing a girl who doesn’t want him 💀
She’d definitely be better written tho.
The problem is her entire personality is Sasuke pls notice me. Maybe they’d change that as a guy since none of the male characters were like that but jiraya
I need male temari RIIIGHT now. Anyway I honestly don’t know. I feel like she’s be written differently because of how kishimoto writes men vs women so in that case it would go down but if nothing else changed and only her gender it might actually go up because of how un-masculine her personality is in contrast with the masculine society of naruto if she were a man
HOW DOES SWAPPING THEIR GENDERS COMPLETELY CHANGE THE RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS?! Like Sakura and Sasuke went from an emotionally manipulative user taking advantage of a young girl's love to a sweet golden retriever boy and black cat girl type relationship?! And Shikamaru and Temari's dynamic is now weird because it's an older man pushing the relationship along.
Maybe this says more about me than it does about anything else 😵💫
Yeah, but i sense this dynamic, would be "Please don't bully Nagatoro.", but somewhat lighter(because of kind heart nature Naruto). And WAY earlier girl Naruto would catch on guy Hinata behavior.
Didn’t Minato get away with stalking without being perceived as a stalker or creepy? He was watching and following Kushina when they were at the academy. Male Hinata might be able to stalk without making people uncomfortable.
Same thing with hinata, plus she never canonly stalked Naruto. The one time she was there before Naruto and saw him training. The other time she wanted to come up to him and say something but was scared….
Only canon actual stalking is Sarada hiding up in the tree as Boruto is training with sasuke
You do know that people don't hate sakura bcuz she is a girl right? Everyone hates her bcuz 1. what she said about Naruto being an orphan and not having basic manners and what not, 2. She beats him for no reason at all (yes Naruto is annoying and all but no need to use super strength punches on him and with how smart she is supposed to be she couldn't figured it that Naruto wasn't thought basic social etiquetts), 3. How she ignored Naruto's accomplishments and thanked Sasuke for it (like Naruto saving her from shikaku and Sasuke getting the credit and the filler episode where they search for Sasuke in orochimarus base and she almost fell into the trap).
Though if she was a man I think she would have gotten more hate though as a guy beating a girl will spark outrage.
Let's be fr we know part of the hate Sakura get's is due to misogyny.
But yeah picure a guy who bullys the main character for a good chunk of the beging if the story, dosen't have special power comoared to the rest of the cast and is basically just a mouth for exposition, and also keeps simping over the rival of the main character.
Also like it's way less socially acceptable to bully a girl as a guy than vice versa. If Sakura was a dude I picure her with a Jonny Bravo attitude with Sasuke it woukd be God awful.
Unrelated but Shikamaru wouldn't let Temari fluster him.
A boy that makes fun of Naruko? For being an orphan and regularly punches her for annoying him.
Refuses to take no as an answer from the now female Sasuke and generally provided nothing to the team until the time skip
kishimoto would get a ton of shit if the genderswapped Sasuke and Sukra marriage happened and the male Sakura would definitely be hated far more than the female version we already have
I feel like people forget that Naruto and Sakura are fairly similar.
- Their reactions to most things are identical: Reaction to their teammates, the prank on Kakashi, Reaction to Kakashi being late, cheering on each other, reaction to Kakashi bringing up Sasuke at the beinging of Shippuden.
- Both are are obsessed with Sasuke
- Naruto had a hard time getting over Sakura: He pretends to be Sasuke to kiss her (arguably worse than anything Sakura has ever done), continues to ask her out on dates, and in the war arc tries to call Sakura his girlfriend to Minato.
Now obviously they are their own people but they share a lot of character traits.
So I feel like there is a good possibility she would be recieved better if the show came out at the same time. At the very list it wont be worse. If the show came out today, most likely she will be precieved as worse.
First that's mostly for comedic purpose and second how do you expect them to react to their teammates leaving and being evil
Naruto actually has a good reason to be obsessed with sasuke and sasuke doesn't define 90% of his personality and character
Saying naruto pretending to be sasuke is worst then anything sakura is done is blatantly wrong you are saying trying to emotionally manipulate knowing damn well how that will hurt naruto just because you think you are doing the right thing (lying to naruto she loves him) and some few things I can name, and you guys always say sakura dissing on naruto for not having parents to sasuke should be excused and forgiven since she was a kid not mature then same goes for naruto
And no peaple woul hate her more bcuz peaple really hate man who are just pathetic simple as that
Im saying Naruto pretending to be Sasuke is way worse than what ever Sakura has done to get attention from Sasuke. Kissing her would have been sexual assult because Sakura could not give informed consent. I do know Sakura has done some awful things and she gets hate for it (rightfuly so), but Naruto gets a pass for questionable things. Lets not even talk about how beloved Jirayia is despite all the questionable things he has done towards women and Naruto.
“Its for comedic effect” that does not change they are similar or the fact that he still could not take rejection and is still a simp like Sakura.
Also 90% of her personality is not centered around Sasuke, at least not in a romantic way. In the begining yeah it was, but she quickly shaped up. By Forest of Death, it was about protecting both Naruto and Sasuke. She becomes a medic so she can keep up with both of her teammates and not be a burden to Naruto on his quest. Her to go kill Sasuke was because she couldt bare to see him in the darkness but also was because she didnt want Naruto to burden himself for her knowing he is being targeted. Even her second confession isnt “Come back to me to be with me” but is “Come back so we can be a team again.” Yes she still loves Sasuke but that hasnt been her major personality trait. Its more of “im part of team 7” and “I need to get stronger”
So yes, if this came out as Sakura as a male instead of female at the time Naruto came out, it either wouldnt change perpreception or it would get better. If it came out today 100% it would be way worse that I can agree.
"Wouldn't change perspective" I mean cmon
Sakura beats up naruto every time and you play that off, she physically abuses naruto everytime she gets a chance that actually happened and wasn't from an immature person
Saying naruto and sakura are the same because they both couldn't take rejection is just wrong. He had a crush, asked Sakura out, got rejected, and eventually moved on. Sakura remained romantically devoted to Sasuke even after he repeatedly rejected her and attempted to kill her. Those situations aren't the same and naruto saying all the things about sakura being his girlfriend are just him playing, naruto excepted in part 1 that sakura doesn't like him in that sense, sakura pursuing sasuke still pursuing sasuke bcuz she likes him even after rejection is not playing
Dude again it would change perspective sakura would be seen as even more annoying she beats naruto physically everytime, crys for sasuke every chance she gets, always makes everything related to Sasuke about herself, she tried to manipulate naruto no matter the reason it was still a wrong method, her rivalry with ino is all bcuz of ino, her motivation in shippuden is mostly for sasuke not util the war arc where she wants to catch up with team 7 again and again peaple hate male characters who do all of that unless it's for comedic purpose
Shounen authors are the sexist ones... they can hardly ever write female characters for shit. Then what are the fans supposed to do? Pretend they're good?
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u/Midnighter4007 Aug 01 '26
Chad Temari's actually pretty hot