Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20180221094645/@comment-11891028-20180222151802

@BlazeRelease

When I first saw you spelled my name incorrectly, I assumed it was a typo, but then I thought of the ninken in the anime. Heh.

I get why the Byakuya gang (aka Ryogi) hatched such an elaborate plan, it makes perfect sense to distract the forces of the Hidden Leaf away from the real crime and it seems they got away with the actual crime pretty easily as a result of it. Looking back on the episode it just made me think of the very beginning of Naruto with regards to stealing scrolls, although Naruto seemed to steal the scroll of seals fairly easily as well without such a distraction.

The whole aspect of not using force of any kind to oppress or restrain the protesters makes sense, it just seemed to me like having individual ninja releasing the genjutsu was just a waste of time. Perhaps if they went about it differently then they could have dealt with the protesters more efficiently, maybe Naruto could question their motives and sources, the protesters start doubting themselves, Naruto explains about the genjutsu and creates loads of shadow clones to release it on the angry mob. I seem to remember Sakura releasing a genjutsu from the Konoha 11 without touching them during the Konoha Plans Recapture Mission arc (filler arc from the original Naruto), if multiple ninja could do that then perhaps they could have released the gejutsu for larger groups of people at a time and therefore it would have been dealt with quicker. Gekko’s jutsu seemed to make more sense to me when he explained it purely as mind control rather than genjutsu in the previous episode as it made me think that if they dealt with the source then everyone affected would go back to normal, as is the case with a general mind control plot in any show, but I get that genjutsu is a technique to trick the mind.

Yeah, the majority of battles in Naruto that involved the Konoha 11 were just preteens/teens beating up adults (eg Sasuke recovery team vs Sound Four, Team Kakashi, Guy and Asume vs Akatsuki etc). I guess it just didn’t really cross my mind back then during Naruto, either that or some of the battles we’ve seen in Boruto so far are just under played (eg Academy Students vs Hidden Mist Genin, Inojin and Chocho vs the majority of the Byakuya gang etc).

To be honest I didn’t really have a problem with Sakura, other than the amount of times she would doubt herself and compare herself to Naruto and Sasuke. Other than that I thought she was fairly capable as a ninja. Denki’s character is fine, it’s just that he lacks the skills as a ninja and to me it puts him on his own level of uselessness compared to Sakura. At the minute the only way I can see him being a capable ninja is if he was all suited up in tech, but then I feel like that would be a bit too mecha for Naruto. I kinda see Denki as a researcher, planner and potentially a strategist rather than a fighter, potentially a strategist to work with Shikadai. Maybe later on we get to see him go through one of those transformations where he gets really focused and serious about being a ninja or something.