YMMV / Shattering Lies

• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The very first chapter has Naruto saving Ai's life and regaining his hope.
  • Naruto's growing closeness to Ai and the Hoshino Twins.
  • The romance between Aqua and Akane
• Hilarious in Hindsight: When the Crow Girl makes her appearance in the second part of chapter 21, she informs Naruto of how his existence in the world is an "anomaly", which ends up breaking the delicate "web of fates" that The Fates have crafted since eternity. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was recently released before the chapter's update and by the second half of the movie, it deals with Miguel O'Hara's theory of the "web of destiny" with "fixed canon events" binding the Spider-Men together, Miles Morales being an "original anomaly" of his reality, and with him doing his own thing instead of what others expect him.
  • Even more hilarious as Word of God does confirm in chapter 23 that they did watch Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse before writing chapter 21, but the chapter was mainly inspired by God of War Ragnarök though.
• Strangled by the Red String: Some readers feel this way about Ai and Naruto’s relationship, finding it unrealistic that two characters who are so clueless when it comes to love (it took Ai getting fatally stabbed to realize just how much she loved her own children in canon, for example) would be so completely in love with and devoted to each other after just the first few chapters.