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me and a mutual from tumblr were having a discussion on how they would improve boruto and this is what they wrote:
1. Reverse the Timeline
- This is never a bad idea for any story because building upon a story that’s already been built only makes the journey of how it got there far more interesting (what Boruto misses the mark entirely for) than what we are presented with in the beginning.
- Developing the clans pre-naruto. What we definitely are aware of is that the Uchiha’s and Senju’s were generational power houses. What we don’t know is what happened to the Uzumaki Clan, what happened to the Namikaze Clan, when did the Hyuuga Clan become relevant, what about the Sarutobi Clan was significant (because their fire technique is the Uchicha Clans special technique aside from their kekkei genkai’s) what about the Haruno Clan? The Izunuka Clan? The Akimichi Clan? Yamanaka Clan? Aside from knowing what their special techniques are, we don’t really know anything else about these clans and it feels empty when they are on screen because we know nothing about them. Part of having a large cast is developing them well, not just having them there to take up space. We want to know about them too, we’d like to hear about their aspirations and dreams outside of supporting Naruto aspiring to become hokage. We can accomplish this by reversing the timeline and starting before Naruto’s generation.
2. Make the Villians More Threatening
- Everyone unamamiously agrees that the Akatsuki were killed off way too easily. Especially when they were brought back to life. Introducing the Akatsuki when they did was fine, we don’t need to change that, however make their goals far more personal. We know as an organization they were assembled to gather the tailed beasts, but what about what they were accomplishing outside of the organization? The Akatsuki could have been powerhouses, they could have been developed far better and far more if they weren’t nuked early on in the series. Instead of the asspull ways that they died, I think they should’ve been around after the war arc, especially because once it ended they were thrown away. Have them split up and go into hiding, but do something else with them rather than killing them off. They were true antagonists and they were damn good at it.
- Introduce The Last villain (momoshiki & toneri) far sooner. The reason no one likes these villains is because they have weak mindsets and came out of nowhere with bizarre motives. When the Akatsuki was introduced, Toneri and Momoshiki should’ve been in the background making their moves as the Akatsuki were moving in. Doing this would help lead you from one arc to the next, because we are shown glimpses of threats even greater than an entire organization of people, like holy shit who is this guy? What’s he planning? During the war arc it would’ve made sense to introduce toneri then, not for his motives, but something a little more unique, perhaps instead of marrying hinata he wants..to repopulate the earth with his clan, kind of following behind madara’s path of starting over since he believes the world is corrupted. Point is that he wouldn’t feel like an asspull and irrelevant character or villain, especially if you sprinkle him throughout the plot before his major appearance in the first place. We had that with madara, we were given inclination of who he was and how powerful he was by like consistent story telling of setting up his character before he was even introduced/on screen. Toneri and Momoshiki were just thrown in there and were like “oh yeah we’re..we’re sorta here and we want..your eyeballs—and your human girls..and..to defeat naruto and sasuke be—because we just..we just wanna yaaay…”
- Not have killed off Nagato/Pein so easily. Not have him turn into some anti hero for believing in the protagonists bullshit ideologies. Pein had the realest mindset in all of Naruto, when he came in people shit their pants, he took out the entire village in one move, then he surrenders to the protagonist because he spewed his life story for a whole two episodes? It completely nuked the character development of him as a villain and it made it pretty apparent his aspirations were weak minded and entirely flawed. Not killing Pein/Nagato off would’ve did far better for the storyline because they could’ve brought him back. Bringing Pein back would make everyone who watched naruto as a child sit on the edge of their seats. It’s the equivalence of Chrollo vs Hisoka when they fought. We saw the first round and Hisoka not only had his ass whooped, his entire face was charred. We know damn well that Hisoka’s going to go up against Chrollo again, the question is just when. But when that fight happens, everyone’s going to shit themselves because we know how the first round went, so a second is going to have everyone anxious. So imagine naruto vs pein for a second round. Brilliant. Also it would create..better story telling because it would force naruto to have actual answers for Pein as opposed to their first encounter.
me and a mutual from tumblr were having a discussion on how they would improve boruto and this is what they wrote:
1. Reverse the Timeline
- This is never a bad idea for any story because building upon a story that’s already been built only makes the journey of how it got there far more interesting (what Boruto misses the mark entirely for) than what we are presented with in the beginning.
- Developing the clans pre-naruto. What we definitely are aware of is that the Uchiha’s and Senju’s were generational power houses. What we don’t know is what happened to the Uzumaki Clan, what happened to the Namikaze Clan, when did the Hyuuga Clan become relevant, what about the Sarutobi Clan was significant (because their fire technique is the Uchicha Clans special technique aside from their kekkei genkai’s) what about the Haruno Clan? The Izunuka Clan? The Akimichi Clan? Yamanaka Clan? Aside from knowing what their special techniques are, we don’t really know anything else about these clans and it feels empty when they are on screen because we know nothing about them. Part of having a large cast is developing them well, not just having them there to take up space. We want to know about them too, we’d like to hear about their aspirations and dreams outside of supporting Naruto aspiring to become hokage. We can accomplish this by reversing the timeline and starting before Naruto’s generation.
2. Make the Villians More Threatening
- Everyone unamamiously agrees that the Akatsuki were killed off way too easily. Especially when they were brought back to life. Introducing the Akatsuki when they did was fine, we don’t need to change that, however make their goals far more personal. We know as an organization they were assembled to gather the tailed beasts, but what about what they were accomplishing outside of the organization? The Akatsuki could have been powerhouses, they could have been developed far better and far more if they weren’t nuked early on in the series. Instead of the asspull ways that they died, I think they should’ve been around after the war arc, especially because once it ended they were thrown away. Have them split up and go into hiding, but do something else with them rather than killing them off. They were true antagonists and they were damn good at it.
- Introduce The Last villain (momoshiki & toneri) far sooner. The reason no one likes these villains is because they have weak mindsets and came out of nowhere with bizarre motives. When the Akatsuki was introduced, Toneri and Momoshiki should’ve been in the background making their moves as the Akatsuki were moving in. Doing this would help lead you from one arc to the next, because we are shown glimpses of threats even greater than an entire organization of people, like holy shit who is this guy? What’s he planning? During the war arc it would’ve made sense to introduce toneri then, not for his motives, but something a little more unique, perhaps instead of marrying hinata he wants..to repopulate the earth with his clan, kind of following behind madara’s path of starting over since he believes the world is corrupted. Point is that he wouldn’t feel like an asspull and irrelevant character or villain, especially if you sprinkle him throughout the plot before his major appearance in the first place. We had that with madara, we were given inclination of who he was and how powerful he was by like consistent story telling of setting up his character before he was even introduced/on screen. Toneri and Momoshiki were just thrown in there and were like “oh yeah we’re..we’re sorta here and we want..your eyeballs—and your human girls..and..to defeat naruto and sasuke be—because we just..we just wanna yaaay…”
- Not have killed off Nagato/Pein so easily. Not have him turn into some anti hero for believing in the protagonists bullshit ideologies. Pein had the realest mindset in all of Naruto, when he came in people shit their pants, he took out the entire village in one move, then he surrenders to the protagonist because he spewed his life story for a whole two episodes? It completely nuked the character development of him as a villain and it made it pretty apparent his aspirations were weak minded and entirely flawed. Not killing Pein/Nagato off would’ve did far better for the storyline because they could’ve brought him back. Bringing Pein back would make everyone who watched naruto as a child sit on the edge of their seats. It’s the equivalence of Chrollo vs Hisoka when they fought. We saw the first round and Hisoka not only had his ass whooped, his entire face was charred. We know damn well that Hisoka’s going to go up against Chrollo again, the question is just when. But when that fight happens, everyone’s going to shit themselves because we know how the first round went, so a second is going to have everyone anxious. So imagine naruto vs pein for a second round. Brilliant. Also it would create..better story telling because it would force naruto to have actual answers for Pein as opposed to their first encounter.
