Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20181007235146/@comment-25122992-20181008181155

Elveonora wrote: Or perhaps the opening stuff is just for teh lulz. It wouldn't be the first time we would have scenes from the opening never occurring in the actual story. Yeah, there was such a tendency, but usually, these were only particular scens, while the entire "plot" of the current opening is focused on fighting this icy appartion. Thus, we can assume something like this still is likely to appear in the anime. It leaves us two variants: either it's a foreshadowing of the next arc coming after Mitsuki's, or it's a climax of Mitsuki arc, a fight against the final boss. Yeah, we see that Mitsuki already rejoined his comrades in the opening, but it'll eventually happen in the arc, obviously. What's more important, only the members of "Mitsuki retrieval" team (Boruto, Sarada and Ino-Shika-Cho) take part in the battle, plus Team Shinki. Since the current arc is obviously inspired by Sasuke Retrieval Mission and already adopted some elements of it (most noticeably, 4 villaneous ninja team escorting the missing person), it won't be surprising at all if the reinforcement of Suna team would also be a part of the arc.