Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20180117113430/@comment-1458758-20180120133943

I like that breakdown, and you have a point certainly, but even then, other 'Jerk for the sake of Jerkiness' villains have at least been interesting in either their methods or motivations, even if their ultimate goal is the generic pursuit of power and evil.

Shojoji had his whole corpse clone thing, which was freaky, but he was at least somewhat interesting in that regard.

Shin's whole weird Uchiha obsession made him at least marginally interesting from a psychology point of view.

The New Seven Swordsmen, while utterly underwhelming as opponents, at least had a political and subterfuge set up that made the situation interesting.

These guys basically rehashed the bridge plot from the original, but couldn't even manage to give us villains with even the remotest bit of interest in them.

Ashimaru was just a big guy with swords and his personality could basically be summed up as "Aggro all the time".

Hidari, the apparent brains behind this plan, had two techniques, one to generic genjutsu the villagers, the other is basically an earth-based version of Zabuza's Water Prison, but not even as useful.

Again, this arc really suffers for the comparisons to the original bridge arc, and while I appreciate the parallels the anime team were trying to make, there really wasn't enough new or different to make the Boruto version anywhere close to as memorable as the original. If they had put in some extra effort to make these two more than just the utmost generic villains, I think it would've been a big step forward.