#neji death

It was bullshit

Let's review the events:

1-) The wooden spears (?) are fired

2-) Naruto is incapable of reacting in time by himself so Hinata jumps between him and the flying spears

3-) Neji jumps between Hinata and the flying spears, and dies

The wooden spears travelled at a speed so slow that they could only impale only one person, they couldn't even completely go through that person and the people behind that one person were unscathed.

Also, when Hinata jumped between Naruto and the spears to play the meat shield, she must have stood some distance away from him so that the spears that were supposed to impale her wouldn't harm him. Then, when Neji jumped between Hinata and the spears, he must've stood some distance away from Hinata too for the same reasoning. Therefore, back when Hinata made the decision to defend Naruto with her body, the flying spears must have stood some good distance away.

The spears were slow and far away.

There was enough reaction time for not one, but TWO people to jump in.

Hinata could have pushed Naruto out of the way.

Or did she not think of pushing Naruto out of the way? She could've used Gentle Fist to defend herself instead of just dying.

Hinata couldn't do that too? Then Neji could've defended himself with Gentle Fist.

Neji is called Hyuga's genius, he's a Jounin. Did he REALLY not have any technique under his belt which would charge quickly and defend against flying wood? Really?

Not only the death scene was stupid, it was later disrespected in the story too.

A character's death scene was followed by a... ship moment?

I'm not even gonna give my personal opinions on the said character and ship. I'm just saying that Neji had a character arc and overall decent amount of screentime. Therefore, he can be considered an important character in the series. Overshadowing his death scene with a ship moment was completely disrespectful to his fans and the said ship's antis.

And Neji's teammates couldn't even react to his death for more than a few panels .-.