Tag: naruto

raendown:

Personally I don’t really like it. It’s too much “See kids? See? Reincarnation! Yes good. This fixes everything. Meant to be. Destiny.” There isn’t really any good reason for Rin to be reincarnated at all, let alone in to the much too obvious recipient of Sakura. Not everything has to have parallels, you know?

Having Sakura as Rin’s reincarnation, in my mind, takes away a lot of her own significance. The whole point of her character arc was building herself up from nothing to become something amazing, standing on her own two feet, not needing a fancy name or a fancy bloodline or to rely on teammates or her predecessors. Sakura is her own. To make her Rin’s reincarnation is like “Yeah see she’s awesome cause she did this before. Destiny.”

Not to mention how boring it is to have your reincarnation be a literal exact copy of yourself. The only girl on the team. The medic ninja. The only one who knows how to emote, constantly keeping the peace between Her Bickering Boys™. Yawn. Seen it. What else is on. 

It also completely takes the ground out from beneath whatever relationship she has with Kakashi. As her own person she would earn his respect on her own merits but being Rin’s reincarnation makes it feel as though Kakashi would only care about her because of the friend he accidentally killed, not actually see her for herself.

Besides all that, Naruto as a series has too much stupidity surrounding the idea of reincarnation anyway. I never quite liked the idea that there are these two destined pairs of rival/friends/super-gay-for-each-other-bros that reincarnate just to go over the same old shit again and again. And for what? Like what was the actual point of it all? That whole arc came to nothing. 6 Paths Super Gramps could have shown up and given them the power of Ying and Yang anyway. He could have given it to anyone he thought could handle the power. There was no need to focus on only the descendants of idiocy may be bestowed with these fancy hand tattoos. 

Destiny. 

Actually, this is something that I have wondered about myself! 

I thought you raised some interesting and totally valid points, but i wanted to ask about the last part in particular? 

The whole concept of reincarnation has been handled quite roughly in canon, “oh hey! same story told again!”, and this is a familiar trope we see in other shows all the time (eg. the x-files). 

I’ve always sort of thought that it’s an interesting idea and sort of adds depth to the story WHEN it’s between specific characters, but have wondered why fandom always seems to sweep other characters into the mess!??

LET THEM STAND ALONE! 

Like I totally get that Madara/Hashirama – Sasuke/Naruto are a thing – that is interesting and makes sense! Mulder and Scully!??! Two souls destined to always be together in whatever respect!? DUDE I LOVE IT! 

But……does Sakura need to be there? Does the Cigarette Smoking Man need to be involved (sorry if you’re not into X-Files, my bad!)? 

These genuine characters become fan favourites on their own, and I sort of don’t like that broad brush mentality that’s like “AH LETS STICK ‘EM IN THE REINCARNATION STORY!” 

What do you think about this? Like, what would you consider a clever or interesting way to let Sakura and Rin, and whomever else, be part of the main story, but let them stand alone and not like, have their own credibility removed by reincarnation? 

I just think sometimes these characters deserve more than being foils to the ‘main’ story. 

Sakura is neat; Rin is neat. 

They should be considered cool ladies in their own rights? 

Edit: I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone who supports reincarnation for any of the characters! ask me tomorrow and my opinion will be different! it’s just an interesting discussion 🙂