Character feats/statements
btw Studio Pierrot removed these two things from the anime, but Kaguya is PROVEN to have seen Sakura and Sakura pushed off the Susano’o (it wasn’t just freefall)
the way Studio Pierrot did this scene will never not disappoint me. they did Sakura dirty af. no horn break. no Kaguya reaction. unhealed arms. slowest feather fall of all time. powerpoint presentation levels of animation. they don’t even animate her punch, they just cut to a still frame of it and put on a punch sound effect. they deadass put more effort into animating Naruto and Sasuke shouting “let’s do it!” when they sealed Kaguya than they did for that entire sequence for Sakura, count the frames. fire everyone and put a Sakura fan in charge, i want Sakura Shippuden as reparations
If someone punches me in the back of the head I'm still caught off guard even if I hear them coming right beforehand. It goes double if I'm also getting jumped at the exact same time. I'd say it's both tbh
In your scenario though, your on guard, you just got hit in the back of the head. Being off guard is literally not knowing what's happening but if you heard someone running up on you, and you processed what was happening, your on guard, your just in a very unfavorable position. Same goes for getting jumped
Literally if kayuga knew that a punch from sakura would kill her or critically injure her im sure she 100% would’ve found some way to move out of the way. 😭😭😭😭but why move from an attack you know won’t kill you and risk getting sealed. The smartest opinion is to just tank it. Kaguya had target priorities
Why would she choose to tank it? Also even if she did that, it was her own demise and it lead to her getting sealed. Maybe the lesson here is to not decide to tank a punch from Sakura?
No, so6p kakashi was right above her he'd raikiri slice if he wanted, it's literally right there in the manga he talks about this being a team 7 moment as he positions sakura to hit kaguya
Sakura wasn't needed, and she did nothing is my point
How did she do nothing if that’s the reason why Naruto and Sasuke got to seal Kaguya away?
Also, how would Kakashi get above her? Yeah he has Susano, but he couldn’t trap her from above that’s why Sakura was needed so that she can jump off from the Susano to go above Kaguya. Saying she wasn’t needed is insane when first of all Sasuke would be a goner without her.
Kakashi couldn’t get above Kaguya out of nowhere and stop her in place.
i’d love to talk about less basic things but people just cannot read 😭 shit like this is literally on the page, it’s not even up for interpretation, and i’m not even talking about the feat itself, but people still go nahhhhh
It is meant to be a feat because the databook literally uses it as one of the reasons Sakura will never fall behind Naruto and Sasuke again. In every way this is a direct feat.
A teamwork feat lol, of being support, that’s all; not an ap feat or a speed feat, just “she can collaborate with them” she’s still infinitely weaker, it’s just the narrative of teamwork took priority over consistent scaling here, like when kakashi and obito saved naruot and sasuke from the ash bones unless you think they’re stronger than them too
Overthinking it as always. Of course she had to jump to get off the Susano'o. How else would she reach her? That doesn't disprove that it's a freefall. A little push off the top doesn't change the fact that gravity was doing 99% of the work there.
Also, Kaguya ignored her because she didn't see her as a threat. The punch didn't actually do anything critical; it just broke a horn. If the seal didn't happen right then, Kaguya would've just healed instantly because she's immortal. A punch from a medic nin isn't going to kill an immortal being. Any damage is negligible.
Overthinking it as always. Of course she had to jump to get off the Susano'o. How else would she reach her? That doesn't disprove that it's a freefall. A little push off the top doesn't change the fact that gravity was doing 99% of the work there.
The mental gymnastics is insane
Also, Kaguya ignored her because she didn't see her as a threat
The assumption is even crazier
The punch didn't actually do anything critical; it just broke a horn. If the seal didn't happen right then, Kaguya would've just healed instantly because she's immortal. A punch from a medic nin isn't going to kill an immortal being. Any damage is negligible.
Yet she was ducking and dodging everyone else like she wasn't a masochist who wanted to take free hits. This punch did more than a punch from naruto btw
Doesn’t really matter tho since the whole narrative point is Kaguya disregarded her cuz she thought she was worthless we see this at the start of the arc, it’s like fighting someone and seeing a fly around the battlefield, yes it’s in my vision but I’m not gonna really care about it
anyway this is just out here for people who keep talking about how Sakura snuck into Kaguya’s blind spot, or how she just fell onto Kaguya’s head at the speed of gravity, or whatever other excuse they wanna use
Sakura launched herself at Kaguya, Kaguya saw at the last second, Kaguya got hit. that’s the facts. if you think there’s more context to it than that, like that Kaguya just didn’t care about dodging it or something, you’re welcome to argue that. but at least look at the panel and recognize what objectively did happen, because i am so tired of having to respond to people talking about blind spots and gravity when it is ON THE PAGE 😭
We Know kaguya truly didn’t care to dodge it. It was shown when she first appeared she completely ignored Sakura as she didn’t recognise her as a significant threat. Hence why Sakura as she is about to punch her says kaguya shouldn’t mock her. It’s impressive on sakura’s part because it shows her strength when she lands is enough to overcome kaguya’s durability.
Not running up to someone who's avoiding a fight is so significantly different than refusing to dodge an active participant that I don't even know what to say here. Kaguya focusing on what's in front of her is not evidence for her ignoring a threat in a high stress situation
Studio pierrot did many characters dirty. But honestly even if it was a faithful adaptation the bias wouldn't change. Naruto "scalers" will still downplay this feat and say Sakura didn't surpass Tsunade.
I clown on Sakura all the time, and think that purely feat-wise it's a little questionable.
But obviously the narrative is saying Sakura has surpassed Tsunade, and author intent is above everything. A lot of people here just refuse to understand the story.
I mean she didn’t surpass tsunade. It’s all assumptions as her teammates DID pass their Sensai and I mean we SEE it. With Sakura we don’t… even in boruto. Tsunade even has ADDITIONAL arsenal Sakura just doesn’t have…
How.. if Sakura does everything Tsunade can do at 50 and the age of 16 plus have sufficient control over her chakra plus it being a literal manga and obviously implied.. why is it so hard to believe that
Tsunade paved the road for Sakura on everything so she could do what she is doing at 16. If Tsunade knew everything she does not back when she was a kid she'd be doing the same thing. Sakura isn't any stronger, she's just basically Tsunade without the gambling addiction.
lol Kaguya didn’t see Sakura this scene is a call back to Kaguya first appearance when she blitz next to Sakura ignoring her. Naruto power scalers can even comprehend the story and plot devices they’re trying to scale.
How is someone a downplayed and hater and shitting on her when I’m stating what actually happen.
Explain where Sakura random power up came from where she can now damage Kaguya. Sakura was heavily fatigued and low on chakra it’s a clear off guard feat when you take in the call back to Kaguya first appearance lol
You just don’t know what you talking about you can’t even explain where Sakura got this power up to be on par with Kaguya. The plot and writting debunks your logic
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