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manga Karakuri (‘mechanism’). Kishimoto decided to base his
next story on traditional Japanese culture. His first version of
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Sakura. Let’s face it...she’s
really not that cute, is she?
Especially back then! But that
was mostly because I’m not
that good with female charac-
ters in general, so making one
of them cute is always a big
challenge for me.

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me, and even my own staff saw
this design and read her per-
sonality profile, they all
assured me that Sakura was
“far from cute”! Heh-heh...

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especially fond of Sakura, both in how
she’s designed, and in her personality. |
believe everyone possesses an “Inner
Sakura” type voice in their heart, includ-
ing things like her entirely arbitrary
choice of love object. think it gives her a
real humanity that’s pretty sweet.

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manga character than just cuteness, you
know....At least, that’s my excuse. The
troublemakers and the curmudgeons |
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