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The List - 5 Worst Anime Relationships

Gray Lensman wrote:

I think the only one of those I have seen is Happy Sugar Life - and everything about that show is supposed to be disturbing.

Oh I know it is...but what bothers me is people unironically ship that. I mean...wtf? xD

Hinata should have been given more screen time and giving her a movie doesn't really make up for the neglect she was given. I think its a rule in romantic storytelling that the reader and or watcher will pair up the main hero and heroine of the story and to many the main heroine of Naruto is Sakura.

Sakura is actually worse than Hinata, honestly. I dislike Sakura for the same reasons I dislike characters like Naru Narugesawa.

By shoving Hinata to the background it weakens the relationship building between the two characters giving the feeling that Hinata was more of an after thought, showing the weakness in Kishimoto's writing which shouldn't be there because the Naruto series excels at relationship building between characters.

Gonna second Sasuke and Sakura. Sure girl, have your childhood crush on the surly brooding hot kid. That's fine. Now continue to desperately cling to said crush after he betrays your whole village, joins up with its greatest enemy, joins up with its other greatest enemies, tries to kill its leader, tries to kill you on multiple occasions, tries to kill your closest comrade on even more occasions, and just acts like a complete irredeemable douche in general.

It might actually be the healthiest relationship on that show. Let that sink in for a moment, before you run away from your keyboard screaming....

I think if it was made today, the internet would lose its collective mind over it and make it super popular, which would make me happy.

You are right, that anime loves extreme levels of forgiveness. Want to commit genocide, murder my family and everyone else in the world. We forgive you in the name of friendship.
Yeah. (Sadly, I am not even joking, this actually happened)

If it was just a normal clan conflict, you would be right. Enemies can be friends after the war was over. But this was not a normal clan conflict, it was something much more monstrous. That Sasuke willingly chose to participate in. We really shouldn't even give a thought to Sasuke, he is not worth even a tear. I just feel pity and sadness for Sakura.

Why isn't Sakura and Sasuke up here, or Naruto and Hinata?

Sakura came off as a fan girl in the first series only wanting Sasuke for superficial reasons and then it escalated in the second series where Sakura still clung to Sasuke even after the guy tried to kill her twice and put her in a horrible mind trap. That made Sasuke the worst boyfriend material and Sakura desperate for love, sending the wrong message to the audience. "If you keep trying a person who has little to no interest in you will fall into your arms. Don't give up" That is a horrible message. No wonder Kishimoto said Sakura was one of his biggest regrets.

Naruto and Hinata are not much better. first off the series is called Naruto so if they are going to give Naruto a love interest it has to be someone who gets as much focus as the hero. Which means Hinata should have had Sakura's spot on the team. It tells the reader or watcher that this character is Naruto's main love interest. By shoving Hinata to the background it weakens the relationship building between the two characters giving the feeling that Hinata was more of an after thought, showing the weakness in Kishimoto's writing which shouldn't be there because the Naruto series excels at relationship building between characters.

Hinata wasn't very interesting and she had limited interactions with Naruto, choosing early on that she would be with him despite the two having little chemistry between them. Making Hinata come off as desperate and a stalker to a degree. It isn't really healthy to wait for your lover to fall into your arms.

Then there was the character baiting of Naruto x Sakura during Shippuden that really grinded my gears because it shows that Kishimoto knows how to write a romantic pairing.

I don't think they either cautionned his intentions or didn't try to prevent him from acting on it.
Also the way you say it make it sounds like the mindset people can be in at a time defines them whereas it's not that simple. It's not like Sasuke was in this mindframe come the final arc anymore or like he actually carried on with it yet was still forgiven. Had that been the case I could have gotten behind this reasoning.

And if you think he was easily forgiven, maybe his teammates forgave him but I'm not so sure about the rest of the village.

Finally one last thing: "murder everyone else in the world"... Nowhere was it stated in the manga that he intended to kill every single living being. That statement is a bit overblown.

Keitaro may have been punched twice an episode, Akane could punch Ranma 10 times per episode and be sent literally flying.

Rumiko learned with Inuyasha and Kagome. They argue a lot but the series is filled with super tender moments. I was able to buy that they loved each other.♥