Another writing thing that was weird/inconsistent (and proof of mismanagement/miscommunication) about the Boruto anime writing team is them not giving Sarada her 3 tomoe sharingan during the Boro fight.
She unlocked her 2 tomoe sharingan here (can’t remember when she had the 2 tomoe in the manga) instead of the 3 tomoe which would suggest that the anime writers had big plans for the 3 tomoe evolution of her eye. The anime just went on hiatus and there’s no big Sarada events that’ll happen to evolve her sharingan aside from the mangekyo at this rate.
That begs the question... where were they planning on giving her the third tomoe? Was it a cut arc that the writers weren’t able to get approved? Was it perhaps the Funato arc where she literally watches Boruto jump to his watery grave right in front of her? I think the latter is the most likely scenario. Character moments were happening left and right in that arc.
We know that there’s been miscommunication with the writing team before as they built up Kagura as an important successor character only to kill him off after all the build up.
We know that the people in upper management for the anime are absolutely shit at communicating with their employees and the animators they hire because it’s all last-minute changes, updates, and additions with little-to-no time to make them. That’s why the quality on the animation started going down. They’ve been splitting their resources too allegedly; so, that’s probably why the writing team’s decisions have been strange or inconsistent. When the animation team is getting fucked over you can bet that other teams involved are probably getting fucked with as well.
So what could they do to fix this third tomoe sharingan problem? You’re gonna hate this, but an anime-only flashback arc of some sort showing when she got the third tomoe. Alternatively or along with it, an anime scene retcon (they did this with the Code & Isshiki scene and Code’s design as well as Utakata fighting Pain in the past in Shippuden) of something that happened like the Boro fight.
Not sure where the anime team would fit this into the episodes upon its return from hiatus, but they’ve done random flashbacks before. Maybe they’ll do an anime recap episode as the first episode upon the anime’s return and fix the Boro sharingan thing. There was absolutely some miscommunication between the manga team & among the anime team though.
