Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26962533-20150906024937

This isn't so much what I expect to happen in the new era, more what I would like to see.

At this point in the Naruto universe the shinobi world there is peace between the 5 great nations and between Naruto and Sasuke there is nothing that is capable of endangering that. So much so that the movies have had to resort to beings from other worlds or dimensions just to create a viable enemy for them. That wont work for another series without Naruto potentially going the way of Dragon Ball GT.

What I think would be interesting to see is for the franchise to explore the area outside of the shinobi world, all the land to the west of the Land of Wind and Earth, and how chakra has affected other nations. Maybe in other nations there are no shinobi, but they have developed technology which brings out a person's chakra instead of using jutsu. A war between the shinobi and an empire that has harnessed chakra for machines and weapons would have a lot more potential for character development and conflicts than continuing to rely on Hashirama's cells or the Otsutsuki clan to drive the franchise further.

Where would you guys like the franchise to go? Is there likely to be another long running story arc? 