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What even was the added Naruto and Sakura material in all of this? Can you even call cutting out an abysmal dialogue of original an added content? That would be oxymoron.

EDIT: okay, I've refreshed my memory with quick re-reading, and honestly, those dialogues were nice addition to Sakura's character, but through out so many years, its quite sad. 

Its a Naruto vs Sasuke final battle rematch fight before Naruto becomes Hokage. Since Salad was just born that means they have actually contradicted the old established Naruto's inauguration. As he was knocked out by the daughter and Kakashi was still Hokage when Mirai was a genin 6 years before her side story. Even then it was constantly implied that Naruto had only recently became Hokage. Now he has been Hokage for most of Bolt's life.

 

Problem is, a better fight is nice, but it doesn't fix anything. Being a Hokage longer doesn't mean anything unless he does some reforms like he was suppose do. Which if they keep to Boruto, he cannot do. Not only that but its been 13 years since the ending when it comes out.

 

This is too little a fix at too late time for addressing the issues with the franchise. While he probably always wanted to expanded upon the final battle. As it was clearly rush due to him needing to end it before chapter 700. That should have been done years ago. Preferably before The Anime went with the gag inauguration, twice.

 

The only way for any revival or fix to work is something drastic and eye catching. It not like it would take long to make a better story than Ikemoto's Boruto. It would only take about 3 years to make a manga better and longer than his. Due to how little of story he has made over the past decade. But Kishimoto doesn't have the spine for that. This is too safe and will be either rejected or accepted but forgotten afterwards. It is plugging holes on a sunk ship.

Presented unfinished drafts, especially funny - how its exactly main 3, nowhere it is "new heroine" or anything related to that in those. And the suffix of "shadow rising" supposed to be a double play or something? Like both road to hokage and new threat implied?

Looking at Kishimoto's work after og ending, it was what? Gaiden, that kittens on Sakura, where main question was "did Sasuke really cucked Sakura?" and a throwaway bad guy on part with boruto's desings, the last, where Kishimoto couldn't figure out if he's the one who wrote story or not, hokage chapter that just mocked Narutos original goal for a gag and Minato anniversary one shot, apart from those it was 8 samurai that didn't take off, and that landed him back on supervising Buruto part 2?. From all those works, only Minatos chapter felt right, maybe because it was about already established (and deceased) characters, or he had to look through what he wrote to back in the day to make it read right, but that was good chapter.

In all other cases it was either poor writing in general or another nail in characters he wrote in main story. I see alot of people hope that this retcons Boruto, and while I agree, Buruto is generally a thing that should not be, a blatant cashgrab attempt, what would retconing it do? If the ending of Naruto is not rewritten/expanded in drastic ways, all main faults stay in places. Honestly don't see any point in this, apart from anniversary and another alley oop for revenue, from people that grow up with Naruto and would now be able to read something new about it, thats not both, bad quality and disrespectful to OG source like Boruto is.

So we've got update on it, presumably its between ending of original and burito-salad story, any thoughts about it?

I was bummed that it kinda went silent, glad that I'm not the only one who noticed!