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Most interesting thing? They made Boruto an actual sympathetic protagonist.

Of course he's flawed and acts selfishly at times. But that final straw that made him use Kote? He only wanted to prove that his class was worth something. That his village wasn't weak.

In his final attack, what pushed him over the edge to cheat to win was his class. In the movie, his final cheat was to prove himself to his dad.

In the show, his final cheat was to prove his friends to Shinki and to the Five Villages.

And that's a helluva lot more compelling.

He made a mistake in cheating of course; I'm not saying that he's justified. It's just in the movie, I couldn't root for him because he acted only for himself. But in the anime, I can root for him to be better because his intentions were win for his friends even though his actions were bad.