Can someone please explain to me what's so special about his face? I mean I get the fact that this is bait to attract people. But what's so important about his face?
It's been 15 years who the fuck even cares about his face anymore?
If people are so desperate to see his face they can just go on google; search for "kakashi face" and then go to images. Boom. And you'll get hundreds of pictures of his face(fanmade yes) but who cares it's just a mouth underneath the mask.
It's not like who's behind the mask. We already knew who's behind it.
It's weird that they're focusing on this now. The only thing I can think is that it serves two purposes:
1. to try to lure back some of the old fans and keep them interested long enough to hook them into the new series;
2. to set up a scenario for the new series where Bolt sets his sights on removing Kakashi's mask, just like his dear ol' dad once did with Team 7. This could be aimed at newer fans who aren't as familiar with the old manga. Kishi/SJ/SP are intentionally showing audiences the scenes they need to know, just like the NH-centric pamphlet given out during The Last. My guess is this rehash of the old manga chapter will contain some retconning of Team 7 to better suit the Naruto-Sasuke-Kakashi dynamic to come in the Bolt series.
I'm to the point where I don't even look at this as the same series anymore. Same characters, but the ending and the new series might as well have been written by someone else entirely. It's just not the same.
So it's frustrating to see them deal with revealing Kakashi's face, a subject that, although silly, I wouldn't mind seeing reillustrated because I personally loved those little Team 7 little and wished they'd done more of them back then. But, like everything else I had hoped to see in the ending — more Team 7 bonding, Naruto's Hokage-ship, the future career of Sakura and the lives of the rest of rookies, etc. — revisiting Kakashi's mask is bound to be disappointing. This is not the manga I once liked, so revisiting those scenes is sure to be tainted by everything else that has changed about it.
I'm expecting another ret-con. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the managed to show Sakura as abusive and Hinata peeking around a corner, blushing and doe-eyed. Ugh.