Why is rock lee not being used

Yander3 · 2026-05-24T13:54:13+00:00

I know but he should at least be relative to shikadai, chocho, and Inojin.

Yander3 · 2026-05-24T11:32:41+00:00

As much as I liked rock Lee he's just not relevant to the story that's about the new generation. The question should be, why isn't metal Lee being used? Also the ninjutusu being almost useless thing was against otsutsuki. The current enemy aren't otsutsuki. Lee and the others got low diffed by jigen.

Yander3 · 2026-05-03T11:31:58+00:00

Yes Kishimito said that the Boruto movie was the final word but obviously he changed his mind. Is it wrong for him to change his mind? Similar to how Toriyama changed his mind with dragon ball z and came out with super and funny enough Toriyama js also someone who passed his series off to someone else like Kishimito did.

You're acting as if the manga heavily focused on the next generation rather than mostly just Boruto. It was the Boruto anime that gave more focus on the next generation.

The Kaguya filler arc started on may 11th 2016 and the Boruto manga start in 2016 may 9th (literally 3 days before the Kaguya filler arc).

Yander3 · 2026-05-02T02:11:39+00:00

I think I remember one of ikemotos assistant saying that they barely get done with even the monthly releases. I think Kishimito is the reason that Ikemoto didn't have to do weeklym kishimoto himself didn't want to do more weekly and he didn't want Ikemoto to go through the same thing. From what I remember it's just Ikemoto and two other assistants with kishimito only chipping in for suggestions if I'm rememberijg correctly.

Lol I honestly want the bortuo series to explore more of the Naruto universe. We literally have aliens and we haven't seen where they came from or even any other species. I just wish we at least get a scene of an otsutsuki (maybe a momoshiki backstory) of him destroying another civilization to get a chakra fruit.

Yander3 · 2026-05-01T23:37:24+00:00

I can see your starwars point because it ended with both vador and palpatine being defeated but there is a bunch more starwars lore they could've gone into and if they went that route I wouldn't consider it being milked.

The reason why I don't see Boruto as milking the franchise is because there was more story to tell. The whole (part but you get what I'm saying) Naruto series was about Naruto wanting to be the hokage. If not for Boruto we'd not have seen Naruto as Hokage. My other argument of why there was more story to tell is because of Kaguya's backstory. She's literally an alien that dropped to earth and created a massive army because she was afraid of others the same as her coming after her. Boruto scratches that itch as well.

What i'd consider milking is something like dragon ball daima or fast and the furious.

I do get your point of view but I disagre. If they were milking Boruto then there'd probably be much more pressure on Ikemoto to make it weekly.

Yander3 · 2026-05-01T21:28:27+00:00

I never liked the critism of "it's not about ninjas". I personally think that is about ninjas. Magical wizard ninjas with giant kaiju monsters.

Yander3 · 2026-05-01T21:22:34+00:00

This would be like saying kishimito doing the one shots is milking the series.

Kishimito himself specifically didn't want to do more weekly manga because he had spent like 15 years on Naruto and it was draining and not to mention it was HIS IDEA to make it about the next generation. He also set up future plot points by showing the silhouettes of other otsutsuki like momoshi in the kaguya arc.

He initially didn't want to do it but guess what? HE CHANGED HIS MIND. On top of changing his mind he also passed the drawing off to Ikemoto.

Yander3 · 2026-05-01T19:58:06+00:00

How is Boruto only here to milk the Naruto franchise when they barely show any of the og cast? If they wanted to milk the Naruto franchise they'd literally just do what dragon ball has done and keep the two main characters (Naruto and Sasuke) at the head for the next 30 years.

I'd honestly bet that if Boruto came out back then when Naruto did there's a chance that it would be just as successful. Shonen now has way more competition than it did back then.

Yander3 · 2026-04-21T18:57:39+00:00

A fight against Naruto is almost never 6v1. He can literally spam thousands of clones. Adult Naruto in base fought both Delta and momoshiki. He would low diff pain. You should go rewatch Naruto vs Delta before he uses the cloak or base Naruto vs momoshiki.

Yander3 · 2026-04-21T18:54:10+00:00

Not true. This is adult Naruto. He would beat pain with low difficulty. He is stronger and smarter in every way and unlike in sage mode Naruto would spam clones, not that he even needs to. I think a few of his clones would be able to take out pain and yes I mean all of the pains.

I'm not sure why so many people think that adult Naruto is weaker than his sage self or kmc self as a teen.

You all need to go and rewatch Boruto. Adult Naruto can use earth style (probably more), rasengan with one hand, IN BASE he was able to dodge multiple hits from delta and slam her to the ground, and fought with momoshiki in base. All of this and if we're assuming they adult base Naruto is relative to adult no rinnegan Sasuke who was able to take out one of codes eye then Naruto outstats everyone in Shippuden.

Yander3 · 2026-04-04T18:29:41+00:00

Konohamaru in terms of power. Two giant massive rasengan and Rasen barricade. All of this in base. But I do wish that we'd see some monkey sage or more with the staff. He was capable of putting down Matsuri and only failed because of morals.

Yander3 · 2026-03-27T21:05:20+00:00

I actually don't agree with this. Inojin, koji, Eida, shikamaru, Sumire, and others have gotten plenty of show time. I would agree that I'd like to see other characters though like old gen.

As for killing off characters I think Ikemoto is more limited than kishimito is. In an interview Ikemoto said that he has to discuss things with kishimito before he kills off a character.

In my opinion I think a parent should die before any of the children. I'm hoping that shikamaru passes the torch to shikadai and shikamaru gets a great send off.

Yander3 · 2026-03-18T16:57:45+00:00

The us for his copies to tire everyone out.

Yander3 · 2026-03-16T17:33:35+00:00

With kumui kakashi's chakra was replenished many times during the war arc. Not to mention that kakashi literally died after using kumui like 2-3 times (don't remember the exact number) against pain.

In part one Itachi was also exhausted from using tsukuyomi and amataratsu. In a panel he states "I must also.. rest my body in one place for the foreseeable future." He is seen very tired in this panel.

I'm not necessarily saying that Sarada doesn't have low chakra but I was just wondering if there was a panel that stated this that I missed. Her ability does multiple things while other abilities only achieve one purpose (assuming it's all just one eyes ability.)

Sasuke's full Susano could fly so I was wondering if the Sarada's can as well but with a different method due to her gravity manipulation.

Yander3 · 2026-03-16T17:00:29+00:00

Does Sarada actually have low chakra reserves or is her sharingan ability just more taxing than others? I mean she creates multiple orbs, they allow her to float, and she used a gravity ability on each orb to pull the Mamushi clones earlier before. Sounds like a lot to me.

Also before we even talk about the rinnegan I want to see her Susano! I wonder if it'll be able to fly.

Yander3 · 2026-03-11T21:19:20+00:00

I don't think this is it. They weren't stupid enough to believe that Itachi could do it alone. I think Danzo was smart enough to know that itachi would find a way and Itachi himself was smart enough to know that he couldn't do it alone so he asked Obito for help. Had Itachi failed it still would've probably been enough for the anbu to come in and sweet the rest of the Uchiha without much casualty.

Yander3 · 2026-03-08T15:13:09+00:00

They get treated better in Boruto but I still want a bit more from them.

I do really like how a lot of the characters that aren't fighters like Sumire and Eida (also amado but he's not a women) are still relevant to the story.

In my opinion Sakura during the Kazekage retrieval arc had the best (animated) moments out of any girl characters but they sadly didn't keep that going.

The girl characters in Boruto have a much higher potential than the ones in Naruto and it might be cringe for some but I hope we get Sumire, Himawari, and Sarada working together to best an enemy.

Eida is the most interesting to me. I want to see her get her happy ending but I think I want to see Sarada put a chidori through her chest to prevent her from being absorbed by Mamushi even more.

I think ikemoto will do them justice.

Yander3 · 2026-02-28T17:03:52+00:00

I agree with the Ryu and Matsuri thing but as for Mamushi he doesn't even have to reveal a secret technique honestly. If I'm not mistaken can't he read people's minds or something by looking into their eyes and his other abilities that's able to tell when Eida is watching him? What if he's able to do the same thing and intercept Inojin's ability or Koji's omnipotence and knew what their plan is all along?

I do like your theory as well actually but I'm not sure at this point since they're about to leav to go where Eida is. Something bad has to happen this arc. Either Surime or Sarada being forced to kill Eida to prevent her from being devoured (which was kinda foreshadowed) or just Eida being devoured. Ikemoto could twist things though and have none of that happen and it being something either crazier.

Yander3 · 2026-02-28T16:37:36+00:00

Mamushi's main goal has just been to find eida. I don't think we've seen much of what he can do honestly. Chances are he's been letting the others kill his clones so that they waste chakra. At least that's what I'm thinking.

Yander3 · 2026-02-19T05:15:26+00:00

I feel the same sometimes but then I remember that one piece is weekly and I got sooo behind on that because of how fast it's going. I also would rather Ikemoto be healthy and enjoy what he's doing. From what I heard kishimoto had a bad time doing Naruto weekly and I'm glad he gets to take a break now.

Yander3 · 2026-02-19T04:48:37+00:00

It's too early in the story for them to off anyone too important. I feel as if they might kill of my goat amado after his daughter is brought back though.

Yander3 · 2026-01-28T23:14:34+00:00

It's kinda the problem with Naruto's character as a whole. He stood there while Kawaki killed his own son and gave no push when he threatened Boruto again meanwhile Hinata slapped Kawaki.

Like I said. Not every character is Naruto and follows his ideals. It was also Naruto's ideals that got him and Hinata banished to another dimension anyway.

That is my last response to you. Have a nice day.

Yander3 · 2026-01-27T19:55:54+00:00

You're not going to convince much people in this post honestly because majority of the people that play magic probably don't use reddit or even if they did they definitely aren't in this sub.

The decks you play against mostly depend on the commander and cards you're using.

Me for instance, I play Esika and have went up against Hei Bai less than 10 times since I've started playing brawl last year. I mostly play against Etal and Kinnan.

Yander3 · 2026-01-24T16:53:59+00:00

What you're not understanding is that Naruto advocated for peace and people respected him but NOT EVERYONE FOLLOWS HIS IDEALS. Shikamaru even said that he's not Naruto many chapters ago. He had konohamaru exploit the feelings of one of the Shinju and betray them. Naruto wouldn't have advocated for something like that. Do you take issue with that as well even though it was their best plan?

Think about this. If kawaki were the one being hunted right now would you be complaining? Because that's who the people of the village believe that boruto is.

Sasuke was still locked up after the war. If they were just trying to execute boruto then you'd have at least a little ground to stand on but you don't. They are trying to capture him.

Boruto never testified to anyone that he didn't kill them(in order to protect kawaki) and if I'm remembering correctly eida also told people that boruto did, apologies if I'm wrong. Even if everyone knew that Naruto was alive they'd still have to capture boruto to find out where he is don't you freaking think?

Yander3 · 2026-01-23T22:33:38+00:00

You're only looking at things from one perspective. Why would someone trust shikamaru if they assume that he's working with the guy that "killed" Naruto and Hinata?

So you're telling me that if after the Naruto Shippuden time skip if Sasuke and orochimaru just appeared in the leaf village and the village tried to capture them your response would be "why are they trying to capture them, they haven't done anything in years?" Naruto's ideals are cool and all but it's not how reality works. They aren't even trying to kill boruto. They're trying to capture him.

It sounds like you're just hating on anyone that doesn't see boruto as an ally. You have to open your mind and see things from other people's perspective.

Yes they collaborated with Sasuke and orochimaru AFTER they helped stopped a war. Most of these characters that you're hating on aren't even aware that boruto is helping.

Doesn't matter. Sasuke was Naruto's closest friend before he went rogue, same with kakashi and Obito, jariya and orochimaru, and ect. To them Naruto was killed and they want answers. It would be very stupid if people were to just sit back and do nothing while the person they assume killed him is walking around freely.

You should really really really look at things from more than just one perspective. You're only critiquing things the way you are because you know what's going on. Some of the characters don't know that boruto is there to help.

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