User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 357: The Nine Demon Gates, Review and Commentary/@comment-24097640-20131027000721/@comment-7418318-20131027134703

I think the only time I didn't want to beat Sakura to death was during her tag-battle against Sasori... and in Road to Ninja.

She's one of the, or maybe even THE most hated characters I have in the series, but I liked her role in this movie and how she changed.