Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-1512913-20170409101349

To me it's quite clear that the events in episode 1 and chapter 11 are purposely connected. I'm 99% certain that the one who possessed the nerd boy in anime and the one who manipulated the nerd ninja tool scientist in movie/novel/manga, is one and the same individual.

Likewise, this same individual behind both incidents is also no other than Boruto's future adversary, Kawaki.

Evidence:
 * First the audience was shown Boruto's doujutsu while facing Kawaki, who killed Naruto, destroyed Konoha and wants to take down the entire Shinobi system
 * Chronologically, the first time Boruto used said mysterious doujutsu was while observing the nerd boy being possessed by someone or something... coincidence? I think not, clearly establishing the yet to be apparent connection between Kawaki and Boruto and setting up their rivalry
 * So we have Kawaki in the future, who is pretty much akin to Tobi/Madara/revolution Sasuke in terms of goals and personality and shares some strange connection to Boruto, not only via their curse marks, but in case it was indeed Kawaki possessing the nerd boy, Boruto's doujutsu also manifested for the first time back then while observing Kawaki possessing said nerd boy
 * It's very unlikely that we have 2 or even 3 different villains here, that's not how storytelling works... it would tie up everything nicely if it turns out that Kawaki had been manipulating the Konoha's science ninja tool division, thus is ultimately the one responsible for creating Kote, in an attempt to replace actual Ninjutsu with fake one, thus making first step in ensuring a declining Shinobi system... all before his actual proper introduction. Likewise, it would fit if it were Kawaki manipulating the Feudal Lord as well.

Opinions? In case I'm correct and it's all Kawaki, that means the Boruto anime pretty much serves as a prequel to the manga and eventually it will get to the point of chapter 11. I know many are hoping the movie part will be skipped, but I doubt it, it's likely the anime might cover the movie as well. I don't think it's so horrible... it shouldn't be more than 5-6 episodes anyway.

With the manga, which comes out once a month, the recap took 10 chapters, thus circa 10 months of audience's time. While the anime is weekly and assuming they will manage to put one and a half chapters of content into an episode, that's really 5-6 episodes, thus only something over a month of recap.

More so, they might have yet another opportunity to expand on it with new scenes etc. just like the manga did, thus we will at last get the 'truly canon/complete' version of said events, sigh :D 