Never forgiving Boruto for introducing a sick ass interesting villain only to get bored 3 episodes later.
Never forgiving Boruto for introducing him in a (arguably?) filler arc leaving me with little gods damned hope of ever seeing him again.
Never forgiving Boruto for making him live on the other side of the gods damned ocean from the main cast.
Never forgiving Boruto for not at least letting his character disappear or die with grace.
Me: Oh wow so they're going to dive into the after effects of peace finally falling over a conflict-based economy and society. Cool, cool that's a fun route to take.
That way all the hard work the cast of Naruto went through to maintain peace isn't in vain but it still gives a conflict to focus on for the opening of this show.
Oh, the hiarchy has been effected by the 4th Shinobi World War and subsequent peace? That makes sense. The people who helped in the war are held high in honor while the ones who previously upheld the Bloody Mist are now of lower standing since having a threatening aura is no longer as beneficial for the village. Interesting.
So this kid is mad because his clan, a formerly respected and feared leading power behind the bloody mist, is now regarded as a dirty secret of the state to be forgotten. His clan, which once was revered as something to be respected, has now been scrubbed from the history books and had their fucking memorial stones destroyed. Because the mist wants to be Better and Above its gory past. And believes the only way to do that is by hiding it.
So the kid is angry and feels wronged as a member of this clan. He has been raised in a world that treats him and his lineage as trash, only to find out a mere decade ago he would have been treated well.
Naive to the actual struggles of the bloody mist, he wants it to return, chasing after the concept of regaining a place he feels has been stolen from him. Going so far as to copy long-gone shinobi of the past by finding their children / grandchildren and trying to convince them all to recreate the swordsmen of the mist. To claim what he feels is their rightful place. He wants to carve out a spot for himself and others that this new society have deemed unworthy of being remembered, let alone existing. What an interesting and unique motive.
The show, last minute, realizing they need to finish the school fieldtrip arc: uh yeah actually big reveal, he's just bloody thirsty like his elder clansmen. The mizukage was right to order the vandalism of his clans graves, he actually doesn't care about anything but fighting, and also he is trash because of who he is as a person not because he's been conditioned to believe that's the only way he might have ever had any worth in any time period. We don't have time for all that. So. Villain defeated and the Konoha kids are on their way back home ☺️🎉
