And this is where the entire Naruto franchise got a lot more complicated.
Naru Kunn
2024-02-07 23:09:17 +0000 UTC
It's all good don't worry. I still push back on your stance on Kawaki and Himawari though I understand your points about those events and those characters never being referenced in the manga. The funny thing is if we look at Boruto in the anime as opposed to the manga he's a lot more intelligent and cool headed but in the manga he really does come off more like kid Naruto because he's much more reckless and just jumps into the fray without observing and figuring out the enemy's weakness like he usually does in the anime along with his team. You probably disagree like how you disagree with Kawaki being different in both iterations but that's how I've viewed kid Boruto throughout the manga not counting Two Blue Vortex which is why anime Boruto is my favorite iteration because we see a lot of Boruto's empathetic side in a lot of these side stories just wanting everyone to simply get along and be happy. Kawaki dismissing Himawari in the timeskip I attribute more to guilt of taking the place of her real brother and not wanting to play that role knowing the real truth because Kawaki's only going along with this facade to eventually kill Momoshiki at the cost of Boruto's life. I understand and empathize with his actions a lot more since I've seen him at his worst and his lowest but if the anime didn't give me that goofier vulnerable side of his personality I would think he's just an angry indifferent kid going to the extreme and not deserving of redemption. I still maintain that Kawaki is more fleshed out in the anime where it seems the major switch came when he manifested the karma a second time because it was weird watching the Code Arc and he went from begging for Boruto's life all of a sudden to kill at any cost and I understand that's how it went in the manga but aside from the Ishikki fight when Boruto took back control of his own body I haven't seen him and Kawaki have any sort of bond at all in the manga so when I read the chapter where he kills Boruto I wasn't surprised because he never seemed to like him despite Boruto calling him brother and treating him with kindness.