Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20170531105724/@comment-2112031-20170605230003

UltimaDude wrote: Ravenlot 27 wrote: And can you exactly tell us the contradictions to manga you've noticed? I don't recall any yet so far. Emphasis on parts that haven't been mentioned in the manga, such as the dark chakra beast. The Wikia Editor wrote: As for the new characters, the fact that we haven't seen them yet doesn't mean that they don't exist. Their absence can be pretty easily explained with a throwaway line about them being away on a mission or something I highly doubt it. The new characters weren't seen in Gaiden, the movie, and the manga. There's no way to explain, in-universe, why Sumire (the class rep) wasn't present during Gaiden. Iwabe is always eager to show his strength and would have definitely participated in the Chuunin Exams, yet he wasn't present in the Boruto movie and the manga. Denki, who's pretty tech-savvy, would have been absolutely thrilled to see the Kote in action, and yet he wasn't present in the Boruto movie and manga. I would not have an issue with the current arc if much emphasis weren't placed on these new characters or even if they didn't exist at all. Hmm, and don't get me started on Boruto's BS-gan To be fair, the entire situation with the dark chakra beast will probably be resolved within the current arc and there wouldn't really be much reason to bring it up afterwards.

As for Gaiden, most of the next generation characters within that story only appear for a single page if even that, Boruto himself barely appears in it.

We still don't really what became of Denki, Iwabe and Sumire later on, their absence in the manga might even be deliberate in order to keep their current status a bit more ambiguous, but that's just me speculating.

Iwabe, for example, might undergo some character development later on, deciding to deliberately not participate in the Chunin Exams because he doesn't want to rush things, instead deciding to train for the next Chunin Exams.