Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-810492-20170517190024/@comment-25122992-20170517194611

Besides, you're right, lets keep out dialogue in one topic

Back to it, yeah, the current arc of Boruto anime is technically a filler since these are anime only events that don't come from the manga. Also, anime has added the moments with Naruto recognising Utakata and others for the convenience, to show that the events of the filler arcs with these characters aren't completely ignored and still intact.

Regarding Raiga, as I already said in another thread, he's one of the exceptions added into the manga from anime, the other one being Utakata.