Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20170802095306/@comment-5085906-20170804165252

It's the "Sakura effect" all over again. Kishimoto introduces a bunch of idealized characters with set, grand motives and gives them an inhuman will to reach that endgoal and we like them. But when he introduces a character like Sakura, a normal kunoichi with no nuclear beast sealed inside her or an OP kekkei genkai, a girl with both of her parents alive and no tragic backstory - basically a character that the average viewer can relate to, we crucify them for it because we don't care for a real, human character - we want our set of powerful, do-gooders who have better shit to do than make a big deal out of their friend liking the same pasty, chicken-ass hairstyle kid.

Don't worry, though. Boruto will only act like a real kid for now. He's around 15 in that flash-forward and he's already calling his old self a brat.