Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-33545035-20191208124103/@comment-3523655-20191212233251

The anime is NOT part of the overall plot. The overall plot is presented in the first 3 minutes of the series.


 * Karma
 * Boruto's White Eye
 * Kawaki
 * Being a Ninja in an ever-modernizing world at peace that slowly but surely doesn't need Ninja anymore
 * Naruto having disappeared/being dead

The Boruto manga touches on all of these. The anime barely does, instead limiting itself to rehashing content from the previous series, in a crude "where are they now?" sort of way.

The characters in the Boruto anime, like characters in Filler in any anime, ARE underdeveloped, and the storylines ARE plain and simple. The moral of each arc is childish and simplistic, like "you gotta have faith in yourself" or "friends stick together". These stories are self contained (almost as if, if plucked out, the rest of the story would remain unaffected... like filler). At the end of every arc, the characters's status quo remains almost the same as how it was at the beginning.

Take Mitsuki, and his entire disappearance arc. Other than the fact that now everybody knows who his dad is, has the way he interacts with literally every other character in the series been affected? Nope. He was awkward and bizarre-yet kind then, and he is just as much now. Same with Boruto, Sarada, everyone. Hell, sometimes we get 2/3 episodes on Moegi's team of rando genins.

You said that the 'shitty fillers from Naruto' were "sandwiched in-between adapted source material". In the Boruto anime, the first part of the sandwich was the Momoshiki arc, and the second part of the sandwich is being published in the manga right now. What we're getting right now is whatever is in the middle of the sandwich. Ergo, filler.

Your story before the story? That was the 30-ish episodes of Boruto doing the bell test, Nue, Boruto's White Eye.