well it looks like kiba is the best looking male now. that fur puts him over the edge.
I'm actually wondering if that's a sign of his clan head status. Tsume didn't have one, but it's likely that jacket is reserved for males only. It reminds me of those tribal outfits that the clan heads always wear as a symbol of their position.
Well that might have just negated several conjectured truths that the fans held dear. To hell with these interpretations of certain characters.
I'm going to assume that Ino isn't all that important in this movie. Can it be argued that she's succeeded her father as a figurehead in the intelligence community? Possibly. Her odds at achieving some level of success in that field are pretty high. But Inoichi has never been depicted as a terribly skilled or powerful shinobi like, say, Hiashi was. Shinranshin is the only notable technique that gives him a leg to stand on. Ino has yet to overtake that benchmark with her father.
So that raises the number of characters from the K11 who decided to grow facial hair up to two. It seems Kiba decided to try and become a pseudo Tobirama with a canine fetish. Personally, I don't care for it too much. Visually, they might be similar, but their characters have various differences and Tobirama is far above Kiba in every shinobi facet, including sensory awareness and tracking.
Shino is buttoned up and secretive as always - the only difference is his hair which he's apparently tied down with a bandanna and a different design of glasses. He looks like a visual combination between Aoba, Shibi (his father), and Genma now.
I agree. I think that if Ino was still active in the frontlines, she would've kept her ponytail. Her hair is about the same length as Kushina's, and Kushina would always tie her hair into a ponytail on missions, so yeah I think she's been promoted to Special Jounin, heading the interrogations and intel division of the village.
I'm actually interested in Konohamaru and his squad's possible new designs. Also Hinata's little sister Hanabi, could've sworn I saw a pic of an older version of her having shorter hair, I don't remember if that was real or fake though.
I actually like the idea of them being on the same team. They'd constantly butt heads, but over time, they begin to respect each other and I wouldn't mind one bit if they started going out with both of them acting tsundere about it.