Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20170412100836/@comment-24824859-20170412175111

Lux17 wrote: I think that there weren't any reason to introduce them before. The movie wasn't focused in introducing all characters, it was Boruto's introduction. The manga is not showing this initial arc and we would probably have ignored any character in Gaiden that is not a child of a character that we already know. You're missing my point. The events of the Gaiden, the movie, and the manga occurred after the events occurring in the anime. The anime introduced these new characters, but they are never shown in Gaiden, the movie, and the manga, which, like I said, occurred after the current arc in the anime. Basically, this arc is complete filler