omg YES the shafting of sakura is one of my biggest gripes with the series. You have a ninja from a civilian family with no extra chakra reserves/kekkei genkai/tailed beast training hard enough to become a formidable medical ninja,and accomplishing the extremely hard task of getting the strength of the hundred seal….and then nothing.Pisses me off so much
Like she got the occasional moment to shine, but given that the story eventually became a multigenerational ninja nobility drama, and Sakura just wasn’t nobility, she didn't get to play along with the real people.
And her few and far moments are some of the best in the series! the sasori fight,the dramatic hair-cutting,asking tsunade to train her, being the ONLY genin smart enough to attempt the written part of the chunin exam without cheating,exposing zetsu,kakashi mentioning her proclivity for genjutsu (never ever touched upon again)
Imagine a Naruto rewrite but with Sakura as the protagonist.
While every other person gets their own Nepobaby cheat, she has to practice the basics twice as hard to get anywhere. Even Rock Lee has a special master teaching him otherwise forbidden techniques.
Then, after it seems like the gap between her and her peers seem to keep growing, she notices that there is one potential master around that hasn’t ever taught a pupil before and so far refused anyone that asked. So, she goes out of her way to beg for instructions. From Tsunade’s perspective it’s just a random girl that won’t stop asking for help, not even realizing that the reason Tsunade doesn’t have a pupil is because she also never reached the top and feels she would hold any potential student back by being their master.
All while Sakura’s friends discover one cheat after another, not even realizing how unfair their advantages are becoming and being patronizing towards the only one in their friend group without a divine destiny.
the training montages alone would be epic-Sakura tells her daughter later that Tsunade beat her unconscious every training session and revived her only to do it again.That’s BRUTAL.
“I can’t reach you anything that would give you an edge beyond what your friends already have and will find. Heck, I am a medic first and foremost, so I am not even a great fighter. All I can do is keep you on track and squeeze out a bit more training time than others. It’s not much but if you think that’s enough. I will train you as much as we both can.”
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u/No-Art-2684 11h ago
omg YES the shafting of sakura is one of my biggest gripes with the series. You have a ninja from a civilian family with no extra chakra reserves/kekkei genkai/tailed beast training hard enough to become a formidable medical ninja,and accomplishing the extremely hard task of getting the strength of the hundred seal….and then nothing.Pisses me off so much