Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26490760-20150926205437/@comment-26773508-20151005032458

Hilary Judgeking: Therefore I partially agree with Dobbe81 and feel that the next Naruto series should go the Legend of Korra route and be set in the future. Although I like Bakumatsu Warrior's suggestions for expanding the current story, the company doesn't care about making the story coherent for fans. They want money, so will probably want to start a new franchise. So if they set the story in the future, they can hopefully make new more interesting characters than the latest ones Kishimoto churned out. The main character could be a descendant of Boruto and Sarada with a badass new dojutsu that has the power of both the byakugan and sharingan. The setting could also be completely changed, giving the new writer/writers more freedom with the world. So all in all, no matter how the new series ends may it please learn from Kishimotos many mistakes and for the love of god stick with one villain. A new series focused on the far future would be quite good. The blending of byakugan and sharingan seems like a good idea. However, I'd also like the focus to shift towards other non-Otsutsuki originated clans, like the Hatake clan or the Sarutobi clan. Shippuden completely butchered the premise of Part 1. Naruto was supposed to be an idiot with very little natural talent when it came to jutsus. All he had was an external power source that fucked things up instead of helping him. The whole thing about Part 1 was a stubborn brat gradually becoming successful not because of talent, but because of hard work. Then comes Shippuden, with its Toad Prophecy about Naruto being some sort of Chosen One and eventually the revelation that his chakra actually belongs to a demigod. Everything in Part 1 was negated with these shitty cliches.

Also, a series set in the far future also negates one of the central themes of Shippuden i.e. that Naruto was supposed to bring some sort of concrete peace in the shinobi world by helping the shinobi world overcome its hatred. A series in the future would require conflict and fight scenes, and conflict means hatred still thrives. To be honest, I was never convinced Naruto would ever help overcome hatred in the world. The realistic thing would be that there would be no end to hatred, ever. The only other option for Kishi would be the cliched and cheesy "brotherhood overcomes all" nonsense, which is actually quite cringe-worthy.

So a future series would negate whatever nonsense Kishi fed us during Shippuden, especially the part where Jiraiya, Minato and Nagato entrust Naruto with the task of ending hatred once and for all. But since that "Younger generation always surpasses the older generation." nonsense has already been retconned with the whole Hashi-Madara and Indra-Ashura thing, the nonsense about overcoming hatred and permanent peace would be something worth throwing out of the window.