It’s Ironic that a grown man was praised for his “brutal honesty” despite the fact that it was said PURELY to provoke and anger Naruto & Sakura and not out of any worry or concern for them like many want to think but an 11 year old girls insensitive but “brutal honesty” in chapter 3 is unforgivable.

One is stating a fact and the other is just being meaninglessly cruel. Sure that was sai’s intention too but in the end he is right

Lie! Sai got nothing but hate from the fandom, and got called a Walmart Sasuke til this day.

Stop acting like Sakura the most hated character.

Was it said purely to provoke them, though? Sai was socially inept and utterly sucked at predicting how people would react to his observations, he wasn’t being annoying on purpose. Like when he called Sakura ugly and Ino pretty, he wasn’t being a troll, he was genuinely struggling through trial and error to figure out how nicknames work.

I’m assuming you’re saying the FANS of the Naruto series praised Sai for his brutal honesty here. Sai is an odd case because he was literally trained to have zero emotions or empathy so him saying this is kinda excusable because he literally doesn’t understand what he said was hurtful to other people. He’s still learning here, and Sakura hitting him was wrong.

Onto Sakura’s comment; Naruto acted out and pulled a bunch of pranks because he wanted attention from people because he was lonely and an orphan, even Iruka did the same thing. What Sakura said was technically true (the bit about how he could do whatever he wants yadda yadda yadda) but she said it in the most rude and insensitive way possible, in front of another person with no parents.

And honestly, I don’t see what was so horrible about this? Yea her comment was shitty and rude and immature but she was 12, a sheltered brat who didn’t understand how absolutely garbage it is to be without parents despite being able “to do whatever he wants”. Kids do and say dumb shit without realising what they said or did was insensitive and they need to be reprimanded for this, which Sasuke does immediately after this and to which she realises she was being harsh on Naruto and she needed to be nicer to him. She showed remorse and made improvements to her treatment of Naruto.

So yea. She was rude and bratty and insensitive, but she wasn’t unforgivable like how some people paint her to be. People need to stop treating what she said in CHAPTER 3 of a 700 CHAPTER SERIES as the defining moment of her character. There’s a whole cast of characters that did worse things than make a few rude comments towards orphans

Said isn’t a grown man at this point of time lll

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I personally loved sai when he was introduced. This shit was hilarious and I liked his character design

I do agree that Sakura gets too much hate for that line. She was 12 years old, it’s understandable that she thinks Naruto and Sasuke are lucky for not having parents that annoy them or ground them for misbehaving. It’s like that Jimmy Neutron movie where they didn’t have parents and all the kids rejoiced for like a day until they realized they can’t take care of themselves. All kids take their parents for granted until they realize what it’s like to live without them.

Yeah my dawg
This isn’t the take you want to make
This isn’t the hill you should want to die on

I remember how cringe Sakura and Naruto were in this arc. Even Sai, the emotionless weapon, was gobsmacked by Naruto’s obsession

She literally hit Sai because he called Sasuke a traitorous cockroach. Nothing but facts

Edit: Of course I will get downvoted

* Sai is literally brainwashed to be emotionless at this point of the story. Using him to argue that Sakura was making a valid point is ridiculous.

* Sasuke *literally* was a traitor at this point in the story lol. Like objectively by classification, he’s a traitor to the village.

* You keep trying to point out that Sakura is being “brutally honest” and “objective” by saying that Naruto acts out because he has no parents and can do whatever he wants. But we know that isn’t true. Naruto acted out because he wanted attention, because people being annoyed with him was better than people dismissing him entirely. And you’re ignoring the main issue people have with what Sakura said. She said that he’s **LUCKY** to not have parents. As if being an orphan was a good thing. That’s not “honesty”, that’s a bratty kid not knowing how bad Naruto actually had it (while saying it to another kid who wishes he still had parents). That’s why Sasuke was annoyed, and that’s why fans give her shit. Not because she called Naruto a trouble maker.

If you want to say Sakura shouldn’t be judged for what she said as a 12 year old, go ahead. But you’re being dishonest if you think the issue people had was her “brutal honesty” and not the fact that she was dismissive over the pain of Naruto not having parents. He didn’t act out because of not knowing better, he acted out so people would know him as Naruto and not the 9 tails brat (even if it meant they hated him).

He was praised for something he said? Could someone explain please?

Funniest thing to me will always be that Sakura’s orphan comment is the exact same reasoning Naruto fans use to excuse early Naruto’s bad behavior….

He’s like that because he’s an orphan, and no one taught him better

You do realise these are different characters right? An apples and oranges comparison

I don’t really get why the early Sakura had that bit of dialogue, she’s smart evidently so why the fuck author made her say that to another orphan. The uchiha massacre is pretty famous so why ? She is obsessed with Sasuke but doesn’t know anything about Sasuke, that is one of the dumbest things about the series in general which carries on throughout the show. I would rather have NaruSasu instead, atleast they had romance.

So a couple of things here, Sai isn’t a grown man, he’s their age. Also, if you recall his background he has zero idea how to be sensitive and empathize with his comrades. This man was sitting in the library reading books on how to understand other people’s emotions in order to relate to his new team better.
Sakura (who was an immature, young child) was being cruel about Naruto not having parents and trying to seem cool in front of Sasuke while not even realizing this boy she claimed to love so much is still dealing with the loss of both of his parents.

Sakuras wasnt brutal honesty it was just blantanr meanness both were insensitive but not at all the same intent

both are punishably by death