Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-26389992-20171226011920/@comment-34157631-20171231131200

Honestly, in my humble Opinion, I find it PERFECT the development of the Ninja Scientific tools and Science route they are taking right now in Boruto. Throughout time of wars, everyone relied upon ninjas from major villages to protect themselves from attacks, and power has always been manipulated by the few.

Throughout the peace time created by Naruto and the others (after the 4th shinobi war) in these 15 years (sarada Uciha arc starts 15 years after war, and Post-Mujina Bandits Arc in chapter 17 is after 16 years) people like Katasuke had the idea of pursuing and enhancing the reliability on Science rather than relying just on rural raw potential of a human body through ninja training and sometime harsh shinobi way of life.

The way is being looked at here is when there is peace, or at least pseudo peace, technology can advance forward to benefit even the powerless people such as the "commons" allowing them to achieve greater things that might have been possible once only with hardship and severe training. Hence enhancing and rendering true ninjas, even stronger by using these scientific gadgets while also empowering the "commoners" to be able to fend off against ninja techniques etc.

in fact, I was happy to see that they showed the view of Naruto and Sasuke on the development of Scientific tools (ever so slightly) that "our enemies do not care if mass of innocent people dies due to dangerous techniques clashing against each other" and Ninja tools will greatly enhance a great ninja's capability letting also the common folk be able to fend for themselves.

As noted by Gaara and also by Naruto in the Kage summit, "the next generation will always beat the old ones" and that if you do not keep on training harshly/constantly, caused by the "global peace" that was reached, (as talked/seen through Shikamaru in Shikamaru Hiden: A Cloud Drifting in Silent Darknes) you start to slack off and not have the capability that you had during war times.

By the means of Science in addition to training and shinobi way of life, the next generation of ninjas will move forward overcoming and setting a new pavement for the development of individual ninjas that had never been changed/improved so far since the time of the 1st Hokage and Madara.

This also makes sense in a way that (as people are speculating) the new "enemies" might be related to the Otutsuki Clan or group of individuals that knew for generations the existence of kaguya's clan and tried to exploit their power or technology. As mentioned by @mrsticky005 (In https://www.reddit.com/r/Boruto/comments/7llfb7/boruto_chapter_19/) "vast majority of the ninja world is NOT on Kaguya's level. Ninja Tech evens the playing field". In fact, if i might add, Lord momoshiki and Kinshiki were weaker than Kaguya (whom could manipulated artificial dimensions) and relied on "enhancement drugs and their own technology" besides their innate absorbing chakra abilities and ocular jutsus.

As Kishimoto stated on Shonen Jump 2017, by doing the story like that gives the new Author Kodeki and the others (through sometime supervision from himself) a lot of possibilities on where to take the new generations of ninjas and not be an exact copy cat of the old naruto (it's a spin off after all beside being a sequel) with just a newer enemy story.

Also, "artificial enhancement through the means of science" has been tried and experimented throughout years in Naruto Shippuden (not ninja tools but rather genes and dimension manipulation) by Danzo and Orochimaru. Hell we can clearly say, at least in a way, Orochimaru has succeded on Gene manipulation by giving Mitsuki in addition to orochimaru's plenty of healing/surviving perks, a FRICKIN SAGE mode which funny enough might make Jugo a parent of mitsuki since it's his clan's innate ability.

I definitely am super excited to see how Boruto progresses and what kind of dark path the future might attend to the new generation of shinobi!