Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-27924662-20170419222535/@comment-31700161-20170420140000

UltimaDude wrote: Even though I'm somewhat enjoying this arc, I just want the anime to get to the side-stories. My main gripe with this arc is its emphasis on characters that never appeared in Gaiden, the movie, and the manga. Why did SP add those characters? What is the point, when they have enough characters to work with? The arc already contradict canon. They could of started the anime another way Just because the new characters never appeared on other media does not mean they were not there, they were simply not shown at the time, and the creator could easily tune the story to make it look like that. New characters (especially those of new generations) need to be added as the current new generation roster is heavily depleted compared to previous generation roster. 12 main roster in the past and now we only have 7 main roster for new generation (Boruto, Sarada, Mitsuki, Metal, and the new ino-shika-cho) so it makes sense to introduce more character to the roster. All new characters are of new generation since this manga will focus on that, the older characters from Naruto generation will have to take a back seat to allow other characters to enter the spotlight. Moreover, the new characters aren't necessarily have to be descendants from previous generation roster to make them have a value, they can earn their value starting from their debut in anime, which can easily be carried forward in to manga in case the creator decided to do so. There's no contradiction to the manga if the creator can stich the story together. It also makes sense to do so, seeing that the anime arcs will be considerably longer and allow new characters to enter the spotlight it will make the audiences sad to see new characters they have accustomed to/grown to like to be simply abandoned in manga story at later time.