
itachi-maru:
Reread Update: I really don’t like the way that Sasuke is written in Shippuden, acting like an angry rude know-it-all who repeatedly hurts people and makes dangerous decisions. I have trouble sympathizing with him
[[ “Acting like an angry, rude know-it-all, who hurts people, and makes dangerous decisions.”
Er, level with me here. Orochimaru is a criminal. Orochimaru has committed countless atrocities. He’s experimented on children and adults alike. He regularly kidnaps prisoners, to steal their jutsu and force them to work for him. He has groomed countless children into soldiers who die for him, while he does not actually care for them at all. He obsesses over Sasuke’s technique, blood, and body, and seeks to take Sasuke’s body for his own. Sasuke did not receive the curse mark willingly.
Pray tell, exactly how is Sasuke scolding him and calling him out on all the things he’s done (which are not justifiable in any way), work negatively against Sasuke at all? This is the second time since Itachi that Orochimaru has been put in his place.
I’m sorry, but if you think this kind of discussion works against Sasuke, I urge you to re-evaluate how you are reading this manga. Orochimaru has had a punishment coming to him for a very long time. Nothing Sasuke is saying is untrue. Or is your anger perhaps directed at the fact Sasuke was mean to Orochimaru, who you are clearly a fan of? I too, enjoy Orochimaru’s character immensely, but I do not excuse his actions, nor do I protect him from the punishment he has had long due.
Sasuke is written excellently, in my honest opinion. He too, could’ve been a victim of Orochimaru’s in the sense he gained a form of loyalty, or sympathy, but Sasuke remained himself while in Otogakure, and did not fall for any of Orochimaru’s tricks.
Orochimaru only has himself to blame for this scenario, and Sasuke had every right to go at him. ]]