Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20170412100836/@comment-31186252-20170412170905

UltimaDude wrote: It's a meh episode. Like I said before, Sarada's new apparel is disgusting, but I guess it's not as bad since the anime is adapting to the superior artstyle. I also don't like how new characters are introduced in the Academy, yet were never seen in Gaiden, the movie, and the manga. It basically means that this arc is complete filler

I think that there weren't any reason to introduce them before. The movie wasn't focused in introducing all characters, it was Boruto's introduction. The manga is not showing this initial arc and we would probably have ignored any character in Gaiden that is not a child of a character that we already know.