Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20170719200357/@comment-1478071-20170721231245

There's only so much you can put into the pages of a manga. It's a shonen story. I dislike all this arguing about characters existing in only the anime. The manga is telling the direct story while the anime fills in extra space for development or just day-to-day shinobi life. We're introduced to characters who don't provide anything big in the grand scheme of things, but it breathes life into the world itself. I'm honestly hoping in Boruto we'll get to see more of some of the smaller nations and hidden villages, meet up with characters from filler arcs even in just a simple cameo. It makes the world believable. Sasame Fuuma is out there somewhere, what about Isabiri? I mean, Guren, Gozu and Yuukimaru turned up after the end of the Fourth Great War looking to see Naruto. The Moya Trio turned up while Shikamaru was scouting locations with Temari... Is there a point for them being there? No. But it gives the impression of a larger world.