This Was Too Good A Question To Answer Anonymously

[redbrunja]

Okay, over on the Naruto what-if meme someone asked the question, "What if Kishi actually decided to make Sasuke and Naruto a couple at the end of the manga? Would fandom explode? How would this be seen by different cultures/the media (Naruto is a fairly popular manga)? Would this affect the way kids veiw gay couples at all?"

My instinctive thought was 'they wouldn't get it.' I think a lot of the casual, non fandom readers of Naruto would be REALLY confused and I would bet money on the American and Japanese parents flipping the fuck out.

However, what I'm pondering is whether or not having Naruto and Sasuke being gay for each other would change some children's perceptions about homosexuals. Would it make them more accepting? Would they start to see gay people as human beings who deserves the same rights everyone else does?

You thoughts, flist?

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[the-sun-is-up.livejournal.com]

Also, shippuden!Naruto hasn't expressed all that much interest in anyone butSasuke, even post-confessions Y/Y?

Yes! And both the Hinata and Sakura confessions ended up sort of weirdly cockblocked, so that it made it difficult for any actual romance to grow out of them. And it comes back to what you said: I hear a lot of people joke about how the Part 1 love triangle has sort of flipped in Part 2, so now it's Sakura -> Naruto -> Sasuke, where Sakura (esp in the beginning of Part 2) was showing more interest in and care for Naruto, while Naruto's crush on her had faded into the background and he was just SASUKESASUKESASUKE all the time.

Sasuke has never seemed to express any romantic interest in anyone either

True, although during Valley of the End, he did make a big thing of how Naruto was his dearest friend EVAR and that was specifically (ironically) why he wanted to kill him (because blah blah Sharingan). So... that's interesting. :P

Also, did Sasuke ever canonically touch on the issue of restarting his clan? I hear people in fandom joke about it a lot, but I can't remember him actually ever adressing it in the series.

Ahhh your icon. *___*

Re: Warning: am still very out-of-it

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Oh yeah, for Sasuke it has always been about ItachiNaruto! Not just at the Valley of the End, but after that too- in Sound, thinking about him on the Great Naruto Bridge....XD

Yes, in canon when Kakashi is first introduced he asked Team 7 what their dreams were, and Sasuke did say his ambition was the resurrection of his clan and to "kill a certain man."

Thanks, I love this icon too :D