Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-3523655-20180828231731/@comment-3523655-20180830153543

See I got a similar impression as Mr. Graves, which is why I started the topic. I really get the impression that they make Konohamaru look so that Boruto can alway manage to save the day.

But if you look at Part I, Sasuke (prodigy) would have to handle the goons like Haku, whilst Kakashi (the sensei figure) would have to take on Zabuza. A clear power difference makes for clearly high stakes. Haku is clearly incredibly powerful, how will Naruto & Sasuke fare? And holy crap, Zabuza is even more powerful, will Kakashi beat him?

And it really seems like they're coming up eith all sorts of extraordinary circumstances to justify keeping him on the sidelines (Konohamaru could prolly rip old Ao in two, but he's weakened and old Ao is using tech, so looks like this is a job for... you guessed it, Boruto!)

And I think this zeroes in on a bigger problem the Boruto series displays (or at least the manga series): "this is my story".

In Naruto, just part I, each character has a few chapters dedicated to him, every character is fleshed out. Exhibit A, Chuunin exams. Exhibit B, Get Sasuke Mission.

In Boruto, obviously, if they re-did the Chuunin exams, it would seem like a rehash and we'd get bored, but whereas the anime tries to give each of these characters a personality, the manga is clearly "Boruto - And The Peons Who He Talks To And Sometimes Do Stuff".