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Definitely worse. Ebisu is just some guy. He's not put together, focused, and well-prepared, he was smug and immature and not very strong. He was TERRIBLE with kids, that's why he struggled to motivate Konohamaru. I like his character development that we see later, but he's just nowhere near interesting or skilled enough.

I've really become a Jiraiya-neutralist. Sooooo many people are either "he's the GOAT he's the realest he's all our grandpas" or "he's trash and a creep and I'm glad he's dead" but like. He's a bit of both. I hate the anime trope of the "pervert" character so so so much, but I've come to accept it as a character not being a bad person but the author being a bad person in a way, you know? The author is the one who thinks spying on naked women is funny and thinks we all should agree, but for the character it's supposed to have the same weight as being a drunken slob or a violent tsundere. Basically, I find my tolerance of this character and ability to look past the """gag""" change a lot depending on the scale of "anime pervert".

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That's so hard to answer cause I don't really think of them individually. For the longest period of my youth it was the Land of Waves Arc and I used to confidently tell people it was all downhill from there (I was 14). Sometimes I'm like "oh the chuunin exams cause thats when we really get a sense of the community and actual characters around the leads" or

Ah who am I kidding, I'm struggling to come up with ones I can pretend I find anywhere near as great as the 5kage summit. I've made a bunch of posts about it before, its basically my entire ninjacourse tag. Maybe I'm just a big ol contrarian but I love arcs in the middle of battle mangas that are all about politics and internal turmoil that most fans seem to hate but I swear by how it adds depth to the characters. Call it Three Kings Saga disease.

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Yeah, we thought it was just another indoor play area in St. Catharines—until we tried the Ninja Course at Playtopia. Now my kid thinks he’s a superhero, and we’re 100% booking our next birthday party here. 😆💪

What’s inside the Ninja Course? ➡️ Warped walls ➡️ Balance beams ➡️ Rope swings ➡️ Hanging rings ➡️ (The part where my kid fell… but nailed it on the second try 😎)

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Would your kids love this? Or better yet—who in your family is the biggest daredevil? (My vote’s on my 6-year-old, who fearlessly tackled the climbing wall.)

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I will admit that some of my works with her are a little headcanony, but so is my stuff with Naruto and Sasuke. That's just the nature of making fanworks in general. I actually think I do it LESS with her than anyone else.

I think the big thing is not seeing her as "cool", but just as a person like you do the male characters (or the female characters who worship Naruto and all his choices). A large part of people's responses to her are misogyny, even when we don't notice that on the surface level. Think about things people dislike about her- weak, stuck up, a bad friend. Now realize Kakashi's exactly the same way only we didn't have to see him be a know-it-all brat until way later. Another thing- people hold her meanest moment (chapter 3) as an unforgivable CONTINUING thing, even though she learned her lesson right away, despite characters like Shikamaru taking way longer to acknowledge Naruto. Also, how people think she's useless for the same things they think Lee is awesome for.

If you want more ninja discourse from me about Sakura, THIS might be the best break down I did about the other thing everyone gets mad about.

Tl;dr: 1. She is extremely protective of Naruto's emotional health even when he does not want/need it, and that's a compelling and fun dynamic. 2. She has great slapstick reactions to things, be it as the one making funny faces while chastising at an idiot or making funny faces while being the idiot. She's both as a tsukkomi and a boke depending on the situation. 3. Female characters in this series are written shallowly and only exist as support to male characters, but Sakura acts with her OWN reasons, even when the male characters she is acting for would not want it, so she's more interesting to me. Example: the Kage Summit Arc when she wanted to kill Sasuke to protect Naruto even though she knew it would make Naruto hate her and the guy she loves be dead.

Thank you!!!! I actually really like Sasuke and Sakura's bond! Before he left, they were friends! They have a really funny dynamic! They wanted to protect each other! She was precious to him too! ! Naruto is his everything by the end, but he's opening himself back up again to Sakura and Kakashi!! (here is where I cut out a three paragraph rant about Sasuke's relationships and Sakura's ability to be both people in a manzai routine. Maybe another time lmao. I have to control myself.)

I think what infuriates me and a lot of other people about the ss as it exists in canon is that, except for the first few panels of chapter 699 (but then goes right back to it by the end of the chapter), she's still trying to make herself small and suppressing her Inner-Sakura thing in front of Sasuke. Honestly, I'd be a lot less disappointed in them getting together if (ive said this before) she acted like her real self and threatened to knock his block off the way she would any of her friends, he called her annoying, and then they kind of smiled like it was a little inside joke while Kakashi looked exhausted by all these horrible kids' horrible love languages lmao. Instead she was all demure and then Sasuke used the same distancing tactic on her that his brother used on him. Eurgh.