Bail o' Lies

Yet they had no problems when the last did this to Naruto for Sakura. 

In Japan, that pretty much destroyed Naruto's reputation and made him a scumbag in their eyes. To the point, I do think that it did eventually went from being completely canon to semi-canon.

In the West, as long as Naruto only loves Hinata they do not care how bad it makes him look, because the worst is apparently not loving only Hinata and him caring about anything else.

At one point they will because Naruto became a brand. It transcended beyond just being a manga. It's a brand and they will use that.

The question now is when? And also will they learn their lesson? There would be no point in making something new if they just do the same thing.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

Whenever Boruto is over/Ikemoto's contract is up/when they need a IP that can make them money.

Again, SJ isn't lacking in IP at the moment that are making them money. Likely why Part one was ended, was that Boruto's peers were all ending at the point and it was making them look at it. To realize Ikemoto was wasting time and his story was in a rut that could have part one last for 15 years on its own. Which would be nice if it was profitable, which everyone knows wasn't that case. So if we wait for the current batch to end, as Ikemoto is failling back into bad habits, they will look at part two again see waste and order it to finish. Which can be about 5 years. Granted shounen manga aren't going on for as long as during Naruto's time. Kill Blue that just ended finished before the first episode of its anime aired.

I think Ikemoto is in a 60 chapter contract as they around the time Kodaichi was let go as his contract is up. 120 of Boruto chapters is 40 of part two which is 15 chapters/months from now. If they changed it to 60 chapters for part two 35 Chapters/Months from now.

Boruto is pretty much designed to go on forever due to its abysmal pace. From the start of part two Bolt has had three goals: defeat Punk, defeat the Tree people, Defeat Nail to release his parents. Now those could all be resolved in a single fight or he can make it go on forever.

As for will they change it? If they do continue it, they have no choice. Boruto is seen as such a black mark even by Pro-ending fans that keeping it canon only hurts the IP. Kishimoto was always a reluctant supporter of nH/SS, he only had them because he was told they would be profitable...which they clearly haven't.

One can tell most people are done with discussion when no has bother yet with this... low hanging fruit of a post. I'm not using the quote button because their are tabs and I'm not going to bother editing to try to make it look nice. 

And what's that point of him becoming Hokage? What did he accomplish? Why was it important to the story and its world Naruto became Hokage other marking off a box under character goals? Also, you are quite happy that Sakura's only goal was to get into Sasuke's pants and pop out babies. The Double Standards.

"A couple doesn't change anything about the manga. When Kishimoto wants to make a retcon or a bad decision, no editor can stop him. The thing is, all the NaruSaku arguments, especially the one blaming editors and popularity, don't make sense to begin with.

...You were really hung up on Kaguya while typing this post. Why is that? Are you internally questioning why she exist or not and trying to convince yourself of something? Here, let me help you along. Madara was Sasuke if Naruto gave up on him. Obito was Naruto if Sasuke killed Sakura. Kaguya was the Hyuuga clan's evil ancestor. There was no villain in the final arc tied to Sakura because she was removed as the heroine...also Kishimoto has always had issue keeping her involved in the plot.

There would be more to fix than just the pairing. Though compare and contrast those 15 years to the last 11, it will help. Yes, when NS was the intended pairing they made merch for it and when it stopped being the pairing they stopped making merch. We are getting close to "fire is hot" territory. Unless you have figures of during and post Naruto for merchandise sales it is just speculating. 

That felt for once that was an end of arc instead of an never ending continuation. So this chapter as its own post.

Summary Time: Chapter 25. Those Girls...oh god is this a breather chapter.

Cover page is Kurama and the Daughter...How OLD is she, 13 or so? Ikemoto clearly traced an adult or late teen for this cover page and didn't adjust any of the proportions. So the daughter has the face of a eight year old on the body of an eighteen year old.

So we finally see how you are suppose to release someone from the tree with the Soul Bulb...wait you inject into the tree? Then, it merges with the tree and release the person...What? Konohamaru hugs her while the daughter, her students, and Bolt watch granted Bolt is in the air.

Kankuro updates Shikamaru on Gaara he is out but in a coma.

Sakura is once again used to give an update on Moegi's health...don't worry she not going to be doing anything important despite being the greatest healer in the world she is just acting like a nurse. If there is any research to be done it will be done by the brilliant Ikemoto scientist Madoc. Moegi is fine besides what amounts to mild malnutrition due to her chakra being drained... now someone told me that logically that should mean Sasuke should be dead due to starvation. They are correct, but its clear that is not what the story is implying. The people in the tree are in no real threat and are just in stasis. Therefore, removing the last interesting aspect of the entire premise. It is actually impressive how badly Ikemoto screws up the "capture friends to create evil clones" bit. Oh no people we should care about are be captured and turned into evil clone/minions! Well besides Sasuke all of them are just minor character to literally whose. Not helped that Ikemoto's art is completely different from Kishimoto and two of the characters he chose he barely used leading to instead of horror of "Oh No, they got turned into a minion," its the confusion of "wait, who are they?"  Do they taunt the cast with person knowledge coming from the original's memories corrupted by the clone's evil. The clones have barely any understanding or knowledge from the original. Ok, do they at least have multiple appearances/interaction to build up drama by interacting with people that cared about the original? Beside Sasuke's and the Big Bad it clear that they will only have a battle which they are defeat and the person is restored. And with how tedious Ikemoto makes everything, you do not want multiple encounters as it will just drag the story to a halt. How do they free them, what happens to them if the clone is defeat, are there any risk, can anything go wrong, and how difficult is it to free the original? Told almost immediately after their introduction. You need to defeat them to get the soul bulb. Are the capture people in danger of being absorb and permanently killed? Is there any time limit/race against the clock? Nope. You could wait a hundred years and they'd be fine. Impressive. 

The Clone and Salad talk about how they both like Bolt and they are both going to pursue him romantically. While Hime watches like a creep and wants to have girl talks with them. This actually is most of the chapter. It just isn't interesting.

The daughter trains with Kurama in her mental space. Kurama tells she has to relearn how to fight as a personification of chakra in Human form. Bolt watches his sister then has a talk with his own guest, Femmy. Femmy laments his situation and makes it clear he is just waiting for Bolt to die...so again the threat of him taking over Bolt has been removed...why does Nail want to kill him again? Bolt wants to make a deal with him for power.