The Naruto fandom was recently surprised when Sakura Haruno, a character often criticized as being the worst in the series, received more than double the votes of Naruto and Sasuke combined in the Naruto99 popularity poll. While Sakura didn’t win, she still managed to be a dark horse in the poll, which attracted an estimated 4.6 million online votes from fans around the world. The winner of Naruto99, Minato Namikaze, Naruto’s father and Fourth Hokage, will receive his own special one-shot manga chapter written by creator Masashi Kishimoto. The poll is a way for Kishimoto to gauge which characters the fans want to see more of and potentially feature more prominently in future Naruto content.
Sakura’s high placement in the poll is particularly noteworthy given Kishimoto’s poor track record for writing female characters. In the past, he has introduced strong female characters only to tie their agency to the men in their lives, reducing them to supporting roles or even making them disappear from the series entirely. While Sakura did eventually become one of the strongest characters in Naruto Shippuden, it’s hard not to feel like Kishimoto was writing her as an afterthought, especially given her sole purpose for existing was to help Sasuke “restore his clan” by having his daughter, Sarada.
Despite these issues, Kishimoto was proud of Sakura’s performance in the poll, saying, “the fact that Sakura is so beloved by many people around the world made me proud as a writer.” However, some fans believe that Sakura dodged a bullet by not winning the poll, as Kishimoto’s poor track record for writing female characters could have resulted in a poorly-written one-shot about the Leaf Village’s most powerful female ninja.
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