Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20170323114709/@comment-35622277-20170324085523

Yeah, I honestly didn't really have a problem with the fact they didn't animate 700 in Shippuden. This episode seems like a perfect send-off.

Naruto's character focus ends after his reconciliation with Sasuke, with the Hiden arcs giving us some closure for the other characters.

Hence his lack of appearance during them, and the inclusion of the scene where he looks through the window into the sky, as if staring into the past, then taking hold of Hinata's hand and turns around to instead face the future. His story truly ends when he finally accepts all that he has become, and walks only forward and never back.

With the inclusion of the after credits scene where he hands his headband to Boruto, it was magnificent.

I loved it.