Was a Bolt series even necessary? Let me ask, did we really needed to know what their children were doing?
From everything I have read, even the pro-enders don't care about their kids at all. No one gives a crap about Salad or Bolt and even their own movie is more focused on Naruto and Sasuke than it was on Bolt the movie. THE SUPPOSED MAIN CHARACTER. Bolt didn't do well because he is likable or because Salad was amazing or because the children were cool. Not really. Yeah you see comments here and there about how cool the kids are, but then that's not really what made the story money.
Truth is, the more this story keeps going, the worse it is making it simply because of the ideas that Naruto tried to do in the original story. You can't say Naruto achieved world peace only to have more people come along and start some stuff just to create conflict. This is why the villains motives are so....shallow. And I mean shallow as in there is no real depth to it. How about a villain that was angry because they were into war profiteer and since Naruto changed all that they are broke. So they become angry and start stuff just to reboot their business. Enough of this "take over the world crap." How about villains that just want to see the world burn?
So far all major villain is basically "we're the descendants of Kaguya and we hate you all." Hell, the villain in Gaiden has NO REAL motive what so ever. What kind of writing is that? How many descendants are there that just hate the world as we know it? Maybe, they hate SS and NH too and are trying to destroy it.
Many criticize Obito's reasoning for what he did, but the way things are looking, his motives are far better than Toneri's and the the Olsen Twin rejects motives are.
I guess what I am saying is, is that this was all pointless and it should have been left up to the imagination. How many stories actually went into the next generation and their kids and were successful at it? Not very many. I can't even name one. DBZ maybe, but they still follow Goku despite even Gohan having kids now.
Whenever a series has main characters that have kids, they never really dive into kids at all or they end it at the point when they have kids. Fruits Basket didn't talk about Tohru's offspring. Love Hina didn't go into Narusegawa's and Keitaro's kids. Rurouni Kenshin went into Kenshin's kid, but unlike Bolt he respected and loved his father and actually learned his techniques and continued his father's work. What else?
I jsut can't think of a series that talked about the heroes kids AND put them in situations that gave them interesting stories. They kind of just ended the story as they had kids. Even Harry Potter. We aren't following their own kids adventures at Hogwarts because there is really nothing to tell and there is no villain after them.
And the award for best post so far goes to... *opens an envelope* James S. Cassidy! :clap: C'mon up, take a bow!!
Persona 5 hype 
