Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20180207105402/@comment-6036561-20180208183938

Gagua2028 wrote: Technically, yes, genins shouldn't engage them but if you don't involve them handling the mission then what's the point of this series. I mean who wants to see genins just watching over the villains and doing nothing. They should have really put more fighting and seriousness in the scenes. There is no sense of danger.

Indeed, and undoubltly Boruto & co. WILL fight the Byakuya Gang... but from an "in-story" standpoint, it makes perfect sense that they are said not to.

Naruto10647 wrote:

That being said,Genin Sasuke and Genin Naruto fought Zabuza. Zabuza is more dangerous than the Byakuya Gang.

Yes, he surely is. But then again, they were not intended to fight him (in-story), it just "happened" that the mission became more dangerous than expected. The same thing happened with the bridge-mission they did some episode ago: there shouldn't have been a ninja fight, so they gave the mission to a group of genin, but thing got worse than expected. And that's how it should be because, as Gagua said, the main protagonist have to do something.

Now we have a similar example, in a way: from an "upper-rank ninja" perspective, the gening should not engage the Byakuya Gang, but story-wise they will have to