Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27562808-20160107180552/@comment-27562808-20160108181728

Thekillman wrote: There's no real point in making a new anime series for just the novels. it's much easier to keep it all under the established Naruto Shippuden brand. Which is why i don't think the filler, uh, Anime will end anytime soon, they'll just create more stories.

Boruto the anime, if it ever gets to that, likely won't start until well into 2018 because else there's not much canon to adapt. I would expect Naruto Shippuden to transition to Boruto the same way Naruto and Naruto: shippuden did, with filler to kill the time.

ALso, i wouldn't mind seeing both The Last and Boruto as Anime episodes, especially if we see a bit more fleshed out story (for The Last, Boruto is fine as it is) What you are saying makes plenty of sense but the way I look at it the guys who are writing the manga for Boruto probably made the manga chapters long enough so that within the next year to a year and a half the Boruto Anime can start. Honestly I think the way they are going to do it is they are probably going to finish the anime for shippuden within the next year and then they well start working on Naruto Gaiden. Studio Pierrot probably plans on making Naruto Gaiden last atleast 4 to 5 month. so that's why I think the Boruto Anime well start late next year because if they finish shippuden by say February of next year and then they spend 4 to 5 month Animating Naruto Gaiden and rehashing The Last and Naruto Gaiden by that point they should be able to start animating Boruto.