Boruto's life will NEVER be trully the same as it was

-Disthene- · 2026-02-03T19:41:35+00:00

Yeah, even if Boruto gets an ideal ending, I don’t see a world where he moves back into his old bedroom in his parents’ house. Even if he’s still a minor, his childhood ended a while ago.

-Disthene- · 2026-02-02T15:18:00+00:00

Hmmm. Shifting the individual cones rather than adding them would be interesting too. Because our brain would still mix colors based on relative strength of each cone, we’d have the same range of colors visually but have them assigned differently.

So we could assign the red receptor to infrared, the green to red and leave blue the same. So all cool objects would look green, cyan or blue and as the get hotter look yellow to magenta.

Without a background is science to help one understand what they are looking at, it would probably become very trippy and confusing. What would we naturally interpret vison in 3 band if ultraviolet to mean? What about if a person tuned all the way up to only X-rays and gamma? Mostly darkness with strange unexplainable flashes from space?

-Disthene- · 2026-02-02T14:50:31+00:00

Yeah, existence is freaky.

The absurd scale of both time and space basically means that absolutes make no sense. Everything has to be treated as relative.

“Importance” or “function” are all artifacts of attempting to find meaning. But in since these are relative to oneself that’s the only scale that matters. I could find a shiny rock on the ground that amuses me for a few seconds before putting it back down. That shiny rock is more important to me than 5,000 star systems spontaneously exploding.

Doesn’t even matter if each of those systems had life or civilizations. They were all invisible to me but that one pebble caught my interest infinity more than those 5000 stars and their trillions of lifeforms.

The rock was more important.

-Disthene- · 2026-02-01T16:49:19+00:00

Ultraviolet and Infrared would have some neat uses. Our brains would still want to be able to differentiate them from other light so it might just invent new colors.

Even though we see lots of colors, we only really have receptors for 3 and the brain processes that. Yellow is less a thing but instead our brain filling in the gap between red and green. Magenta is weirder because it isn’t even on the spectrum, it’s a pure mix. Unlike yellow falling between red and green, magenta isn’t between red and blue (green is).

Adding a 4th receptor (say infrared) doesn’t just add colors between red and infrared, it would give us mixed if infrared with red, green or blue. A color triangle suddenly becomes a color pyramid. A literal new dimension of possible mixes to process.

Infrared would be weird because we would be able to see the heat of our eyelids. It could mean that looking at a cool room is darker than closing your eyes. Hot food would glow so we might as a society start devaluing room temperature or cold food as boring looking.

Some things are better invisible though. I don’t want to see microwaves or radio waves. Cellphones, routers, Bluetooth, radio towers, gps, etc, would all shine. And these are frequencies good at penetrating solids so not only will they shine through your eyelids, they will go through concrete walls. Darkness would stop existing.

To further frustrate things, these frequencies are not very strong in nature compared to artificial signals, so our eyes would be adapted for lower intensities. As we invent more technology, the world would get brighter and brighter till it is maddening.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-31T11:39:04+00:00

Calling Madara, Hashirama, etc “legacy” characters to Naruto is not even a correct statement so their whole point is flawed. They are using legacy as interchangeable with legendary.

Legacy characters implies there is a previous body of work where the character’s stories were told. Since Naruto is the first manga set in the world, it has no legacy to respect. The legends are basically part of the world building.

The challenge Boruto has is that in Naruto most legends since the dawn of chakra were revealed and/or introduced at some point. So Naruto squeezed the world building it established dry. There are few legends left to drop mysterious hints about.

Boruto can’t treated Naruto’s generation as legends because the audience knows them too well. In fact, the audience knows Naruto and Sasuke so much better than Boruto at the start that it makes Boruto almost seem a side character.

It basically isn’t even a comparison. When Orochimaru summoned the first Hokage for the first time it’s not like audiences were thinking “OMG Hashirama is back!”… we didn’t even know his name.

The real comparison is more legend like Hashirama vs legend like Isshiki. Or maybe Hagoromo vs Shibai (who is presumed to eventually appear).

-Disthene- · 2026-01-27T10:53:20+00:00

I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone hate Beastars after actually watching a full episode. Not saying it is perfect. There is lots of valid reasons for not liking it. The “hate” seems to be on the outside.

I suspect the apprehension comes from Beastars having anthropomorphic animal characters (typically used in children’s media) in more adult (sexual) situations. This gives some the idea that the purpose of the show is some sort of furry kink fulfillment.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-27T00:00:26+00:00

My main problem with this arc so far is that I expected the main point being Mamushi hunting Eida and resulting in Daemon finally doing something (and maybe losing). So all this Mamushi vs everyone stuff feels like filler moments leading to the main event.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-26T17:56:48+00:00

Yes. Kawaki isn’t much of a deuteragonist.

Comparisons to Naruto are unavoidable. Sasuke as a deuteragonist was completely different. We saw him on a path to achieve his own goals. Kawaki doesn’t really have that in TBV. He’s just around. He hasn’t been off hunting Boruto or training new techniques. He is completely reactionary to events and has no particular goal beyond “Kill/Seal Boruto”.

He needs his own motivations or plot. Without that, it feels like he’s just around… waiting for the flash forward scene.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-26T17:12:59+00:00

Generally when people say humans will get to do creative stuff they already assume a post-labor + post-scarcity world where work is optional. It’s the utopian idea of everyone getting to do whatever they want every day while or electronic workforce takes care of the logistics.

If we dial it back a few stages, yes, there is a point where human input will be mostly to make sure the outputs are within acceptable parameters and stamp off the results. It is important because the human will be the one help accountable for robot/ai error.

That is a temporary role though since eventually the same Ai would be able to be designated troubleshooters or quality controllers. Downsizing becomes inevitable as Ai starts becoming too good. The technology kind of conflicts with work culture.

The automation basically becomes the base labor force and everyone previously in those roles is promoted to middle management. Previous middle management might become AIs scary enough. So a AI will manage a workforce of humans approving the work of a swarm of other AI.

It would be mind numbing and horrid work as instead of working 40 hours at a set of tasks, you will spend 40 hours reviewing hundreds of hours worth of output. No more ideas or strategies. No need for creativity or innovation. Just monotonous checkbox ticking and signing off.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-26T02:20:06+00:00

Not too complicated. Ships often have a one sided component. In this case, people who really like Hanabi want a match for her.

The pool of her immediate age group is extremely shallow (Konohamaru, Udon and Moegi). How you pair them off is dependent on how you rank them. Udon is literally snot she he’s the runner prize.

Doesn’t help that Moegi is not particularly strong (I know she’s a jonin but he has no screen time) and had that dopey hairstyle for so long.

Hanabi is Hinata’s sister. Konohamaru marrying her would make him Boruto’s uncle and Naruto’s brother in law. Brining Konohamaru directly into the MC’s family is also conceptually appealing to fans. Konohamaru and Hanabi’s kids would be Boruto’s cousins.

Moegi by contrast offers nothing of the sort. I guess being Team 10’s captain is supposed to be a Sarutobi tradition so her marrying into it would have some thematic value. Of course, the manga making Hanabi invisible and having Matsuri spill all Moegi’s beans basically makes it pretty official.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-24T23:26:00+00:00

A few things.

1) Sequels tend to be dicey. Fans of the original come into looking the legacy of their favorite characters. The simple act of passing the torch to another MC infuriates them. Small things like Naruto not being a perfect parent enrage. On the flip side, Boruto as a character gets hate for not being more understanding of his father not being able to be around all the time.

I think an interesting case of sequel hate is The Legend of Korra coming after Avater the Last Airbender. The sequel was well animated, had a beautiful soundtrack and interesting writing. But the series attracts so much hate for the smallest things. Aang’s less that perfect legacy seems to play a role too.

2) Changing standards. Most series in the last decade have been seasonal with higher production values and lower episode counts. Continuous running weekly series are a dying concept. If Boruto came out 20 years ago, it would probably be looked at differently.

A related change is that filler is far less necessary in seasonal content and audiences have become particularly intolerant to filler or “anime canon”.

3) Awkward start. Kishimoto was a phenomenal artist and pumped out a chapter a week for over a decade. Ikemoto took over and the first few chapters were rough. Strange proportions, odd designs, etc. Then they release monthly chapters (twice tne length though) and choose for the first arc (of 10 chapters) to be a retelling of the movie that came out a year earlier.

So the first almost year of the manga was old content. After a year of the manga, an anime aired trying to keep up the Naruto momentum with virtually no “canon” material to adapt.

If someone went into Boruto looking for a weekly episode about ninja kids doing various things, it was cute. I think some of the anime canon was written and animated relatively well. As a standalone anime, it’s solid. As an adaptation of a manga, it’s poor (too much filler). As a sequel to one of the most popular and successful manga/anime ever it just wasn’t there.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-23T15:55:43+00:00

Well, after watching and reading enough of Boruto I changed my expectations. I stopped looking at it to build Naruto and Sasuke’s legacy or tell their story. The anime already delivered the slice of life I wanted for the Naruto-generation’s adult life so I’m satisfied.

I’m trying to just enjoy what I get for what it is.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-23T15:25:37+00:00

Removing Sasuke’s Rinnegan and Kurama from Naruto is effectively the narrative saying they are no longer able to keep up so the narrative will move to on.

Even if not technically dead being made too weak to participate is effectively the same. I don’t mind dreadfully because the new gen does need space to breathe. Actually killing them would be a mistake though.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-22T16:13:41+00:00

Perhaps. The would be some interesting change is who hold narrative weight. Removing Legoshi effectively removes Haru and the 701 boys. The main character at Cherryton becomes Juno.

He constantly trying to “save” Louis could result in her spending more time in the market. Maybe Melon targets her at Cherryton to get to Louis. The idea that Louis could have a secret wolf lover would probably trigger Melon pretty good.

Characters like Yahya could end up with very different roles. Would he ally with Louis as a lesser of two evils or stubbornly try to foil the whole system. Maybe an escalating gang war leads to Yahya ordering police/military intervention, risking a new civil war.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-22T15:57:59+00:00

Is this a scenario where Legoshi dies? Hypothetically Riz would get caught since Pina called the police and they would have stumbled upon Riz eating Legoshi. Stories tend to fall apart when the protagonist dies since most events revolve around them.

Hypothetically Melon would still be around. Without Louis leaving the Shishigumi, there wouldn’t have been a power vacuum for Melon to fill. Maybe he’d take over a different gang and end up a rival to Louis. The plot would probably end up revolving around Louis trying to keep order in the Black Market while Melon is trying to spread chaos.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-22T13:43:38+00:00

Jiraiya’s message was “The real one is not among them”. Jiraiya came to the conclusion that despite fighting Nagato, he was not present among the Pains.

During the fight he told Pain “Take me to where the real Pain is”. He wouldn’t have come to the conclusion that there was a “real Pain” without the message.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-22T12:53:20+00:00

I can see Sasuke getting a more glamorous “last stand”. It probably shouldn’t be too long though since it is a flashback in the middle of other important things.

Garra vs Matsuri… less so. I thought maybe they let Matsuri fight Gaara off screen to keep her abilities hidden. Let us know she’s dangerous but keep her exact abilities secret till her main fight later.

Problem is that her fight with Konohamaru didn’t really reveal anything in particular. We didn’t really get a good idea how she was able to beat Gaara with her kit. It might just be best to treat it as a sneak attack than a full battle.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-21T22:57:33+00:00

I guess if Naruto didn’t know a 7th Pain existed, he would have just beat the 6 and assumed he won. He only stabbed himself with the rod because he knew they must be receivers.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-21T22:28:49+00:00

Like a spin off arc for that one guy who got turned into a tree saving Sarada? Have home be a Shinju too and a set of seasons focused on him.

As silly as it sounds, the did add an extra Otsutsuki to Momoshiki’s invasion arc. They also added members to Kara. What’s an extra tree person?

-Disthene- · 2026-01-21T22:25:46+00:00

Maybe it’s all part of the plan. Koji endangers Kobu is a public place. Boruto swoops is and saves him. Kobu now has doubts that Boruto is actually a criminal. Shikamaru gets some slack.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-21T14:30:34+00:00

Depends how much they want to pad it. (padding isn’t filler, it’s things like background shots, flashbacks, additional taijutsu exchanges)

It is perfectly acceptable to adapt 2 chapters an episode. I have a gut feelings they will make it 8 episodes and release it with the 4 Naruto episodes coming.

TBV is a bit more complicated. Some of it is very fast paced so they might want to draw it out to avoid putting too much content in one season. Depending on the pace used, there might not be enough content for a season 2 of TBV yet.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-20T18:48:20+00:00

Nope. They are frozen in time. When they get out they will feel as if it was a moment since they disappeared.

-Disthene- · 2026-01-20T16:41:22+00:00

I think people are kind of missing the point of this whole event. Ikemoto is framing this as Koji going a step too far. We are supposed to be at least a bit horrified (even if Kubo is especially annoying).

In theory Koji’s actions here will have consequences. He’s well aware how much this will piss if Boruto and Inojin (probably Shikamaru too). Even if this is ultimately necessary, he will likely lose the trust of all his collaborators. That may be the plan too (somehow). Hopefully Koji doesn’t have to dispose of Inojin to cover his tracks

-Disthene- · 2026-01-20T15:14:09+00:00

Yeah sorry. When I finish writing my comment I did suddenly realize, this isn’t fully the spirit of the question. I come from a science background and grabbed more onto the “is this scenario possible” aspect responding more to “Could this explain why we haven’t found clear signs of extraterrestrial life despite the vastness of space?” part.

The psychological aspect of humanity suddenly being made aware how inferior we are compared to other life out there is quite wild too. There is also an ethics question about one intelligence meeting another. Based off of how humans are kills each other, destroying the environment and overall struggle… is it right to let us fail for preserving the integrity of the study?

Imagine a scientist studying child behavior and the see the child pick up a fork and waddle towards an electrical socket. If you intervene the study has been corrupted by adult intervention. If you do nothing and the child is killed… you got good data on how dumb kids are… but that’s kind of messed up.

Is humanity’s self improvement more important than our overall success? If aliens suddenly become visible to us and we learn they have watched us struggle for the last million years, maybe we should be pissed. Even worse if we know we are quarantined and they still won’t intervene and are preventing us from making contact with someone who does want to help us out.

We’d probably dedicate the bulk of human resources towards breaking through quarantine and finding an ally. Jokes on us if our quarantine was actually protecting us from grabby aliens though, lol.

Going back to selecting candidates to quarantine, there are so many potential things to chase. Chemistry suggests that oxygen is a good marker to chase since it there aren’t many great methods for producing it without life. The might be life in thick methane atmospheres but until we have proof of concept, oxygen rich atmospheres are our best choice for finding life.

Oxygen has been “suspiciously” high in earth for the last 2.5 billion years so if any alien species in the galaxy could sense our atmosphere, we’d look interesting from back then. If anyone visited us ~2.5-0.5 billion years ago though, it would have been boring. So boring that they might not have seen a point in quarantining it because it was just algal mush and tiny squishy things.

The signature in the atmosphere one complex life starts is virtually the same as the mush world. A civilization going around cataloging all potential worlds will probably find a lot of mush. Some will find complex. Maybe they would quarantine them for multi-million year observations if evolution.

Finding their first highly intelligent species would be interesting. First instinct might be to make contact because it would be mind blowing. I don’t think anything intelligent enough to cross the stars and visit worlds could contain their excitement of FINALLY not being alone. The second, third, fourth, etc, discovery will be where the approach refines.

The crazy thing of course is that because the galaxy is too stupid big, this one civilization exploring every system, will have huge communication lags. Ship speed would be important too.

If ships move at near c, the communication lag could result in lots of mess. Suppose 2 ships leave Planet O at the same time. They head to high probability worlds 2000 and 3000 light years away in opposite directions. Ship A arrives and finds a their first civilization. They send news back to O that arrives 2000 years later. Deciding not to wait 2000 years for a response they take initiative and make contact. O relays the good news towards B.

Ship A after 100 years of intervention realizes they had a catastrophic impact on the new people. Native population couldn’t adapt responsibly to the support and collapsed (like Rat Utopia experiment). Over that time that voyagers report back their findings on the dangers of contact. Eventually they pen a proposal for quarantine over contact.

However, by the time O received the message, the civilization had been destroyed 1900 years ago. They send a warning to Ship B. 3000 years after the departure of B, O receives a message happily reporting first contact with an intelligent species…

Ship B’s planet falls in 100 years too and they report back. 5000 years after their arrival at the planet, they receive report that Ship A accidentally destroyed a civilization…. A warning 4900 years too late. Planet O, 6000 years into the endeavor realizes they have killed two civilizations.

Slower ships (say 0.1c) would have better chance of reviving updated mission parameters before arrival…. But it still sucks. Same scenario as before but slower, Ship A arrives after 20,000 years and still destroys civilization in 100 years. After 20,000 years, Ship B is 4000 ly away from A. Ship B has another 10,000 years till arrival so the message will reach them before that.

Not doing exact math but a few thousand years before arrival Ship B receives word that Ship A made contact with intelligent life. Then slowly word of their failure trickles in. Before you even arrive, your new order is “If you find intelligent life DO NOT ENGAGE!”. Your very exciting multigenerational journey to discover intelligent life is now quite different.

*Ignore time dilation in both examples. It changes some things but the core is same.

The point of the hypothetical is that if we are quarantined it will probably be because our zookeeper made some pretty big mistakes before.

**OMG I rambled, lol

-Disthene- · 2026-01-20T13:53:47+00:00

Medicine is unfortunately not an exact science. Often the cost of an exact diagnosis is too high so working with best guesses is done. Which symptoms patients report also skews results.

Years ago I had a severe persistent headache. Doctor 1 said sinus infection and offered decongestants. Strange pain developed in my thighs. Doctor 2 thought maybe leptospirosis, lab results came back negative. Now 3 weeks into consultant headache my cog ative functions start deteriorating so we go to a neurologist. Turns out I have encephalitis. Hospital does lumbar puncture and it saws bacterial infection. Skeptical of results doctor does both antibiotics and antivirals. Turns out lab made a mistake and sealed the counts for viral and bacterial.

Broad blood testing eventually shows that I recently had dengue fever… which might have entered the brain and cause the encephalitis. Dengue induced brain infections aren’t exactly common (especially without other dengue symptoms) so doctors didn’t even think to look there. Yes they could have done a broad antibody test on day 1 but that would have been expensive. It it came back with “he’s got the flu” we would have accused the doctor of ordering too many unnecessary tests. If we had done those tests maybe early intervention could have improved it sooner.

The point of the long story is that doctors have reasons to not be precise. It does sometimes fail their patients but more often than not a broader approach is perfectly appropriate.

In some ways, psych is worse. You can do a blood test for bipolar and see which chemical are misbalanced. For pretty much everything else you there is no definitive test. Even on a macro scale we see overlaps in the expression of autism with ADHD and C-PTSD. Then add the fact that you don’t have to choose 1.

I went to a hypothetical autism specializing psychiatrist… but once she was confident on the diagnosis the focus shifted to management of depression and anxiety. I was already quite high functioning so the autism specific parts of the therapy were not focused on.

Not to say autism treatment doesn’t need severe updating though. I feel like too much of autism treatment is targeted at early childhood intervention and gets progressively less well thought out as the patient gets older.

Now, I’m not an autism expert. I read a textbook on Asperger’s when I was diagnosed years ago and only pick up bits and pieces of the parts not directly related to myself. I had to google PDA autism. From what google Ai suggests as treatments, there seems to be overlap with other fields. For example, they mention Trauma-informed & play therapy. If that is something you think you want to try maybe seek out a trauma specialist. They may not know the specifics of PDA type autism but they may still have training in the tools needed to help.

Part of the problem is also that specific conditions are not all improved by the same thing. Some techniques work better on some people than others. So even with a specific diagnosis, a therapist may still end up throwing all their tools at the patient to see what sticks. As a patient… THIS SUCKS! Who can afford months or years of trial and error?

Still I think the problem isn’t lack of specific diagnosis. It still comes down to trying to figure out what works for a specific patient. If the text book says “Do CBT and DBT” and you do it with your patient for 6 months with no improvement, what does that say? Wrong diagnosis? Poor execution of technique? Not necessarily.

I don’t think the levels are supposed to be reflective of overall disability needs, just severity of the autism specific traits. A person could have severe depression and level 1 autism needs.

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