No matter what Boruto does it will be compared to Naruto in one way or another. And honestly nothing will ever give us the same feeling Naruto did thus Boruto will never be what the people want. So we might as well enjoy/hate Boruto on its own merits/demerits rather than compare it to Naruto :)
If that's how u wanna view it that's fine But me personally boruto gave me new feelings that I felt like in Naruto it wasn't as touched or wasn't in Naruto in the first place For example brotherhood of the 2 protagonist of the show Yes Naruto & sasuke had their dynamics and similarities which made them the characters who we all know. but in all honestly besides from few scenes they was always like oil & water and yes ik this most solely of the brother fight throughout the reincarnation cycle of Indra & ashura. However, boruto & kawaki on the other hand i felt that brotherhood connect and drew closer to the both of them as the story went along them actually living together and going through the same stuff with karma and both havin the same ending goals to push one another always felt way more natural And now with their conflict in TBV it's just hit more at home much more then how it was with Naruto & sasuke
I just watched boruto for naruto . Boruto always give me that" pain arc" vibes where everything seems illusion. And truly know i watch boruto only for boruto . Boruto sound like some cyberpunk city mix to very ancient city the feeling is entirely new to me i never feel something like this , boruto seems japenese folk tail in cosmic and neon world . Mystic , mythical and I very fan of things like this . Literally boruto feel like rain village. I can't express this thing .
Can I just say I hate that sentiment? It's a sequel, it literally references Naruto in the title, that is what it's the "next generation" of. Why on EARTH would you judge it on it's own when it is a sequel?
@@awsomekick99 exactly and also the concept of boruto looking for validation from his father which is relatable to some , also the fact on taking the easy way and learning that the tough route aka being a shinobi or not using the karma is something that you don’t really see and shows his pursuit to being a full fledged shinobi
I remember absolutely hating boruto back when it was newer a bit after the road to boruto expansion was released for storm 4, but I gave it another chance right before it hit hiatus and I began to absolutely adore it's themes and how it isn't just Naruto again. And with the new TBV releases he has changed enough to where he feels more adult. The manga is just so good by that point Plus being just barely too young to keep up with Naruto it gives me something I can keep up with in a series that got me into anime as a whole
My stand on Boruto remains generally the same since it came out. Boruto shouldn't be a continuation of the world of Naruto, it should be its own thing. It would make Boruto as a story work way better and doesn't drag Naruto down in hindsight.
@@nicholasrolison926 Naruto and sasuke vs ishiki and momoshiki were really good, it got a little stale after naruto lost kurama but the last 10 chapters picked up the pace. Do u read two blue vortex??
@@adhammater4237 Gotcha, I actually really loved the Ao arc, and even the Mujina Bandits. TBV has been solid so far, love the setup, the Shinju have been quirky but threatening, and really liking where they're taking MItsuki & Hima's characters atm.
@@nicholasrolison926 yeah, i am really excited to see what sort of power up hima will get and alsoo sarada's MS ability and a fight between kawaki and boruto would be awesome
Finally, a take that's somewhat neutral instead of going either being called a hater or saying Boruto fans can't take criticism... I think the series could definitely be better or even written better, and I can see some of the narratives Boruto as a story tries to go for such as the use of technology and the things people do out of love compared to Naruto's hate, I just wish they were executed better and it doesn't help that Boruto picks up what's left of Shippuden's trash such as the broken power system and runs with it, creating even more problems. But holy crap discussing this series is unnecessarily difficult. It's almost as bad as talking about an anime like Black Clover and Fairytail. Everyone just spouts opinion like it's fact, ignoring that they're acting more like an elitist and not a critic just because they love hearing themselves talk...
Bleach too(Seriously, the only reason the hate dialed down a bit is because of anime trending. No wonder Bleach fans are gatekeeping). All 3 of the shows happened to fall under shows being ruined by nitpicking and dumb people.
I'll be honest I hate boruto on the sheer principle that it ignores basic plot points tht kishi dropped, thts honestly my biggest gripe with it, the world wouldn't suddenly get fixed with naruto being hokage he would have to work and negotiate with the daimyos and other Shinobi factions tht don't agree with him, or outright surprises them. Boruto as a series offers very little compared to narutos plethora of themes subplots and characters. Yet it wants to act like it's better than all of tht, I just can't get behind a series that thinks it's better than the original when it clearly isn't, though tht is my opinion.
I hate the series because exactly of the power system and otsutsukis, a clan nobody even wanted to explore yet alone create more antagonists, in at all. Naruto's list of antagonists and villains weren't just the uchiha. They were other people who lived lives and had their own story, motivations, desires, and dreams. For as much as I despise Danzo, he is an amazing character who reflects the dark era of the past. He is someone no matter how much you resented, did what he believed in and died for it. That's why Boruto to me isn't good. It became a series about a boy who wanted to become hokage, who realized that the entire world revolved around shinobi, war, conflicts, ideology clashes, revenge and honor, became nothing more than a DBZ wankfest for its blind fanbase who will lap anything up because it's attached to Naruto.
Man is just making stuff up. It just has bad writing and breaks The world it Is literally set in. Whether you like OG Naruto or not, It's Obvious Fights are Boring and characters are too. Its nothing to do with Naruto Being compared to It, or anything like that. Trying to say that People who dont like it are just Haters, or stubborn, is Completely Ignorant. And it shows how you are just Justifying it because you like it. I personally Dont want it to be like naruto and im a naruto fan, your Reasons for Why people dont like it are just Twitter talk Pieces.
I’ve stated this multiple times. They should have done a series based further in the future long after Naruto and others died. I’m talking their on their 12th Hokage type future in a completely different world due to how Naruto and other predecessors molded and changed things for the future generation. Mention Naruto through legendary feet’s we don’t see like they did with the 1st Hokage. They could also have just made a completely fresh new cast of characters but left the foundation of the ninja world intact THAT’S where they messed up.
It's funny how this video relates to me. 2016 to 2021 I hated anything that had to do with Boruto, I was thee biggest hater and that was mostly because of how much I loved Naruto. Later during 2021, I don't know why, I just started reading the manga in order to make fun of it. Then as I was reading, I accidentally got hooked. Reading it felt like I was reading something entirely different, I realized I stopped comparing it to naruto, and yes it doesn't have the best art or character development, but I will say. I've found myself to be a Boruto fan till this day, it was only solidified after watching cannon anime episodes and sarada is my favorite character, Atleast in the anime.
Same, man. I stopped hating on it on 2020 just decided one day what's the point on hating on it and keep saying the same shit over and over. boruto is a genjutsu blablabla
I feel the problem is that all these “fair criticisms” are consistently thrown in the fans faces. They cannot just enjoy the manga without a ton of people coming in with “fair criticism” that don’t even have anything to do with the chapter at hand. Every series has fair criticisms they can be discussed but you don’t see a huge part of the anime community coming to new chapter releases to consistently point them out. I think people just need to relax and get of the series back honestly.
Maybe the story just isn't that good? Jujutsu Kaisen got praised to high heavens and recent months in the manga have made the series receive a lot of criticism because of how repetitive it has become. Truth of the matter is that people don't want the stories they like being criticized. However, that doesn't make the stories perfect.
@@kevintanza6968 that’s not the point of my comment. If you’re just constantly commenting to only point out whatever negatives there might be you litteraly adding nothing to the convo. Constructive criticism is different than what’s happening. Imagine if every time dragon ball fans talked about super saiyan and how cool it is there is a whole wave of people throwing in random criticisms that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Idek why you’re acting like most of these “criticisms” aren’t just “boruto sucks” comments lol. If you do not personally like the series why would you keep torturing yourself and others who are trying to enjoy a piece of media. If you don’t even like show why come to the comments to give “criticisms” of something you’re not even going to read. It’s litteraly not adding anything new to the convo especially if the criticism are from old chapters lol. People in your jjk example ALSO talk about what they like about the series and chapter
@@tsukune2910 because you all want to bring down every single other series to make Boruto look better. It's been happening since 2017 and it happens to this day.
Madara let black zetsu kill him because he saw the future and knew that Boruto's existence was gonna prove him right that putting everyone in a genjutsu was the better plan
I've just finished reading 87th ch of boruto & boy the story from where the anime ended is so good. The 'twist' wasn't something I saw coming. The lore of the entire series itself is big enuff to fully indulge. Altho I get ur point, it'll always be compared to naruto, a competition it can't win as of now.
Fr,I think the mystery of who Jura is and Himawari supposedly having some strong power is interesting,and how everyone is getting development like Eida possibly getting over Kawaki and Mitsuki having a purpose without having a sun
Very nuanced outlook of Boruto! I’d like to see a similar style video on Akane Banashi or Blue Box (while not battle Shonen per se, they do a lot of the same things as most battle Shonen).
I’ve always been half and half with the series, but given the last handful of chapters, I think the series, at least with its manga, is sufficiently passable/solid. I think it needs way better pacing, more side character work, better antagonists and villains, and I could see myself liking it a lot more… I don’t think it’ll ever surpass Naruto but it’s not like it *needs* to…
@@Dhugg3001 we’re seeing the setup for it, so long as they continue and the story doesn’t lose its momentum I’ll come to like it more. Even then, it’s still just solid far as I go.
Ikemoto is the illustrator not the author... Kodachi is the creator of boruto while kishimoto overlooked it for awhile until he started helping on writing it.
Imo i think the anime might be better if they insert that scene in the manga when he said he was a brat and take it in a different way to make people not feel so intense on him
It’s pretty simple. People are unwilling to judge Boruto by itself and stop comparing it to Naruto. I’m currently watching Boruto and am 90 episodes in and so far I enjoy it. The main point is just to watch it before judging.
As someone who sits in the middle of this debate, one of main reason i ignored boruto is that i thought that the boruto movie didnt need to be expanded on, that along with my dislike of narutos last war arc and final ending(orochimaru should have been executed) made me decide to ignore it outside of the occasional anime fight scene or if gaara ever got a spotlight
As someone who only watched a few episodes of the anime (that were kinda "okay", IMO, but didn't really leave me craving for more) and who is always stumbling upon YT shorts talking about some crazy power (up) one of Boruto's characters has, I'd love to know more about the characters main goals and what they do to achieve those goals, about their relationships to one another; about the internal and external obstacles they have to overcome, about what fuels their growth (or their downfall). Anything about what makes them compelling characters outside of their powers or their fighting abilities. Or even anything about the deeper themes of the story. For instance in Naruto, his main goal in the first half was to be accepted, to be seen as more than the fox demon Jinchuuriki because he grew up ostracised, and for that, he thought he needed to become the Hokage. Then, in the second half, while he still wanted to be Hokage, he also wanted to bring peace to the world, to save the world from hatred (and from the hurt he was deeply familiar with due to his past), and for that, he needed to start by saving Sasuke, his friend, from his own hatred. The overarching themes of the manga and the anime, to me, were mainly (I might have forgotten one or two) about the importance of human connections, the curse of hatred and violence, and how to put an end to the cycle of vengeance, it also was about healing from trauma and learning to love oneself. And, yes, it was a bit about hard work and perseverance too. I'm not saying there's not all that (character and story depth) too in Boruto, just that I haven't read or heard anything about it and that, as someone who'd like to be more motivated to read and/or to watch Boruto in full one day, I'd love to hear from fans of the show about what makes you care about the characters and the story.
I wrote off Boruto and never watched it for all the reasons you’ve said, but over the years everything I’ve heard from it sounds really good. I love the idea of Naruto being a bad dad, he is giving Boruto a better childhood than he had, but not perfect because he doesn’t know how to. I love Boruto being a brat, he doesn’t know how bad things could be, but it’s also a different world now. In a peaceful world Boruto does have it pretty bad. It’s nice to see the world progress this much. I’ve getting closer and closer to actually giving it a try
Boruto is currently experiencing the loneliness naruto felt in his journey. At the start of boruto, boruto asked sasuke what naruto's weakness is, but sasuke told him to find out who he was in the past. And all this came full circle because boruto is on his naruto journey rn.
I grew up with Naruto. Easily my favorite manga/anime of all time just for the sheer impact it had on me throughout my life. With that said, I really like boruto (the manga. The anime is mid) and it’s very easy for me to enjoy boruto for what it is separate of Naruto. Idk it’s really not that difficult to just be like yea this isn’t Naruto, cool. But that’s just me.
I'm a pretty big Boruto fan myself, and I've kinda just gotten tired of trying to defend it at this point. I don't think it's like, the best story ever told, but I see so much good in the story that outweighs the bad. Unfortunately, people are ignorant as mentioned in the video. I can't wait to see some of the toxic ass replies this comment will get.
Shame, because the story has so many moments that are a love letter to the OG series. One example I love using is the Ao arc; you take this side character and give him a compelling story of a broken vet still trying to find his place in the world, and here comes our new MC trying to validate the shinobi way he threw away with the experience he's gained since tarnishing his reputation, all while learning a lesson about how tools aren't good/bad it's how you use them, and then proving to Ao that throwing away your pride as a ninja won't bring you happiness, only for the clone of his fathers masters to crush Ao (and in a last harah, saving Boruto with ninjutsu) proving he was a shinobi in the end. We then learn that Koji's modus operandi is that a shinobi is _also_ a tool _(neither good or bad)_ which is how he was able to throw Ao away so callously, only to learn this was all for the greater good of stopping Jigen & Kara. All of this done with a side character from the OG series who's entire identity was "being the Mizukages aid and having a byakugan".
Thing is people are not forced to like it. Some people have this mindset that the default position with something is that you have to like it. And saying that the story is bad doesn't make that reader an "ignorant who can't understand the beautiful, nuanced storytelling" and doesn't make the fan someone who is smart and can see all themes, narratives, and so on. If you like things that are controversial and divisive (like Boruto), you're going to run with critics. Hell, Naruto is a lot more beloved and successful and that series has a lot of critics.
@@kevintanza6968The problem I have with your comment is saying _"something is bad"_ and _"I don't like this"_ aren't equivocal. You can totally not vibe with something, but calling something "bad" obviously gives it the stigma of it being subpar, and fans of it *will* defend it, because *they* like it.
I used to hate Boruto because of the first two reasons you gave honestly. It wasn't until the Momoshiki fought were I started to turn around on it, then Two Blue Vortex actually got me to look at Boruto in it's own lens (and months of watching videos on it to get past my own biases)
I wish i could like boruto but everytime i read chapter 1 and see that naruto becomes a neglectful father i just feel like they didnt care as much as i do about the series, it feels like they couldnt get boruto to dislike his father for anything reasonable so they created a situation that just would never happen in my mind atleast. Naruto would never be a neglectful father to me idk, just that small character detail leaves a really sour taste in my mouth but its because i hold the series to a high standard and i feel like they failed at one of narutos strongest aspects. Naruto knows just how painful it could be to be alone or to feel like theres no one there for you so to see him pass on that pain he knows too well to his son and daughter im just left with a question of why couldnt you come up with a better reason than this?
@@Dhugg3001 If watching a character learn and help multiple people deal with the pain of loneliness ( gaara, sasuke, kurama and himself ofc) and then puts that same pain onto his SON AND DAUGHTER im sorry thats just not what i signed up for, first impressions are everything and to see the major driving decision as to why the new MC hates the former is that the former MC inflicts the pain that he has been dealing with the entire series and rescued multiple people from idk it just seems like a poor writing decision, i empathize with boruto on his feeling i read naruto i saw how loneliness affected him, sasuke and gaara he has every right to be mad at naruto for what he did to himawari. I just dont like that him neglecting them was the route they took it seems incredibly cheap to me. And it was because i feel like once boruto recognizes just how amazing his dad is all of a sudden hes not neglectful anymore its really shocking how that works huh but yea im blinded by nostalgia because you couldnt explain why Naruto, the man who battled against people feeling loneliness from the beginning of the series all the way to his final battle would do something like this to his own children
The actual thing of boruto hating naruto stems from kishimoto relationship with his son. It wasn't just some thing kishimoto threw in their cuz he didn't know what else to do, tho I do get wym.
@@RiazAhmed-cr1re Thats interesting with that context it might give me the push to read further but ill see what the future holds im on a shoujo arc rn
You say that but at the same time you don’t bother to consider Naruto’s characterization at the end of 700. Naruto historically has been able to build familial relationships with people who aren’t related to him. In ch 700, Naruto stated that the entire village his family and that he can’t be “Dad” just for Boruto at certain times. It’s an ideology that allowed him to save Sarada Uchiha but as a result he unintentionally neglects Boruto. Its flawed. Ofc Naruto knows how dreadful it is to be alone but unlike Naruto, BORUTO ACTUALLY HAS A FAMILY WAITING FOR HIM AT HOME. Therefore Boruto is never truly alone. It’s not the same. What Boruto feels isn’t loneliness, what he feels is a lack of validation because daddy doesn’t pay enough attention to him. He’s popular in school and has friends he hangs out with everyday. That’s something Naruto can’t relate to because he didn’t grow up with a father who used to always be around him only to gradually spend less time with him. He had no one. Add this in with a lack of communication between Boruto and Naruto where Boruto hides how he truly feels, you get the father and son dynamic that you don’t like.
I do think the anime flushed out a lot of the fights. Some of the themes I feel like were also expanded on in a little more detail _(episodes like "The Past" for Kawaki as an example)_ but I prefer the manga overall.
Ikemoto doesn’t write the manga, he illustrates it, kishimoto wrote the first arc, but then Kodachi wrote everything after that until the chapter baryon mode was introduced, and then that’s when kishimoto took over to write the rest of Boruto
I've honestly given Boruto a fair shot, read all of Part 1 and some of the time skip but I still just don't like it. At this point I treat it like Fairy Tail, just here to see how it all end
@@IvanAcevedo_28 Not fan of the villains in general. I thought all of Kara was dumb , Eida and Daemon are the absolute WORST creations in the entirety of Naruto. I think the entire Jougan/Momoshiki plot line is stupid and pointless. Lastly, the current arc with the Ten tail "clones?" just doesn't strike me as interesting in anyway As far as Boruto himself goes, he just ok but he's quickly becoming a character capable of whatever the plot needs him to do. The side characters are complete afterthought, hell even Sarada is on the road to becoming another damsel in distress. Don't even get me started on the character designs
@@ChrisDeebo All you said is that you havent read the manga. Stop listening to Boruto haters and actually educate yourself on the topic. All the things you’ve mentioned are perfectly written.
I dont have a problem with Boruto plot itself, it actually interesting, what i have a problem with is the existence of Boruto series itself. I have follow Naruto for dozens of years, half of my life in this world (i'm 23), and for Boruto series to just come along and basically said " Yeah, my father was just another Minato, he's just a prequel to my series, and he's not actually the chosen one promised to bring about peace to this world. " is unacceptable. If MK use his other series concept for Boruto instead, Samurai in the cyber punk future, i'll have no problem with the series. At that point Boruto would not tarnish Naruto legacy just to develop the new gen, and when the nostalgia bait show up it will hit much more harder. That's why imma try my hardest to limit my self only to clips and whatnot, anything but ani/manga, until they decide to make an equivalent of DBS but for Naruto and declare Boruto to be the equivalent of DBGT. I'll hate myself is if i fall in love with Boruto series rn.
Till this day i think abt how well received the series would've been if only there was an arc or even a single chapter portraying Naruto and boruto's father-son bond in pre hokage Naruto era and then transitioning their relationship within the first arc of boruto Like imagine reading 700 chapters of naruto as a hero and savior of the world and then you start the next chapter with him being a deadbeat💀,i would instantly drop the series idk bout others
On the anime canon note, arc’s like Kara Actuation boosted the Kara Arc heavily for me. Too bad it’s really hit or miss with the anime, and the Manga isn’t dropping consistently enough to develop side characters thoroughly. It’s a meh watch, and a good read, but nothing too crazy. I will say watching the anime made me enjoy Boruto as a character a LOT more than I would through just the manga.
I been reading Naruto since like 08 and when Boruto came out I actually claimed to like it more. However it’s taken some funny turns (it’s just OP feats no heart; although I’m learning it has some heart) but I’ve learnt to let the younger generation have things.(I’m still learning)
The manga does have its moments but i think where it fails the most is that boruto himself isnt very likable imo. Ive caught up to the most recent chapter and there isnt much i can latch onto from his character which is pretty dissapointing considering we had similar upbringings( not so great father choosing the bigger picture over you and having to find other father figures to latch onto). They made him "cool" but i feel like having a main character who is now stoic and his main foil also being stoic and broody leads to a rather boring read. The combat as always looks great and the new techniques are cool but thats kinda it. I think as a manga its servicable but tbf im only continuing to read due to my respect for its prequel.
I’ve been wondering, hey Ronin have you ever read or watch the series Zatch Bell, or by its Japanese name Gash Bell? I would say read it more because it does have that incomplete anime problem. But the manga went until completion and Zatch Bell 2 is slowly coming out. That’s basically my question, if you’ve ever read it before?
Solid video but i think you're forgetting another major gripe a lot of people had with the story and thats the mistreatment of legacy characters. Naruto, sasuke, lee, and bringing jiraya back was a big mistake in my and many others opinions. His character arc ended almost perfectly and even kishimoto said he didnt want to bring that character back because it would devalue what was built over decades which it did... This constant devaluation of the old characters in favor of the new was bad to watch and bad writing. i agree with everything else you brought up though
Tbf He didn’t bring Jiraiya back, he made a clone that is very and I mean very different from his original. It plays into one of the themes of Boruto because a lot of characters are clones of someone that exist, and these clones can never replicate the original.
@@UnravelGhoulx except they didnt tell anyone he was a clone at first so people weren't sure if he was jyraya or not, which makes your whole point moot. If you were following the story weekly they made you believe it might be jyraya on purpose and just like Kishimoto said people weren't happy.
I think the anime being full of filler and a lot of Boruto fans who are active online are very annoying has given the series an unjustified level of hatred
I like boruto the manga, a lot of people crap on the anime and it’s deserved Naruto explained did a great video on how they should’ve handled boruto. If they would’ve adapted all of the light novels that happen between the end of the war and the boruto era fully then it would’ve been a better bridge of the two eras. The anime is the ultimate slow burn and has a lot of terrible animation so it’s compounded
I love boruto the story is pretty simple to understand but people still misunderstand, boruto next generations is about a son that wants his father to spend time with him and only sees him as his dad and not this God of shinobi that everybody else thinks naruto is which he is but we know that because we watched him for 500 episodes if u take out the fillers, the story takes place in a time of peace and this peace was narutos goal which he has achieved for 13 plus years now that their is a time of peace shinobi is somewhat obsolete and people now can express their selves and hidden talents in other ways rather than being a ninja we see that technology has made a huge leap seeing as their is peace, also the village has expanded and grown.Boruto next generations is all about diving into the father son relationship and them eventually coming to understand and respect each other more than just naruto being borutos father and vise versa so because their is a Time of peace most episodes are not as intense as og naruto where their was always war or the whole world was always on edge to start a war because of this narrative people hate on the show and say it's boring and it's all filler when in actuality people want the same feeling as og naruto with all the stakes and alot more villians early on which is fine but makes no sense since this is a time of peace so naturally everything is peaceful and the tensions are low, also people hate borutos character and misunderstand him because of him talking down on his father for not being around which any child would do your child will always see u as his/her father and not the hokage or whatever position u hold in politics or work overall after the momoshiki otsosuki arc boruto sees naruto as his father still but respects the position he holds and sees what he represents from the village citizens perspective and us og fans also boruto knows how hard his father worked to get to that position and wants his father to tell him story's of his past, people also hate on the anime cannon because it doesn't have alot of action or high tension episodes but it reality it serves as a way to flush out character personality and changes to their personalities and growth in general it also gives context to the major arcs and how they got to that point like for example the Kara arcs that ate anime cannon give context to the organization like them having hidden bases and doing experiments also having followers and worshipers etc now the anime isn't perfect but it's not as bad as people make it out to be they just misunderstand most things and can't get over the nostalgic feeling of og naruto and shippuden and expect the same thing when in reality it never could be and shouldn't be also alot of people claim suaske and naruto are nerfed when in actuality its just that the enemies are otsosuki aliens that are more powerful than kaguya otsosuki ever since kishimoto used kaguya as the progenitor of all of shinobi and chakra boruto had to continue the lore and story so as a result the powerscaling had to go way up because kaguya otsosuki feared momoshiki and the others and she was overwhelmingly powerful
See im not a huge naruto fan, i only very Recently watched the anime, and i didnt know Boruto existed and checked it out as soon as i finished naruto and i only watched a dew epsidoes, skipped a few here and there. And i gotta say it just didn't hook me in like Naruto. I grew up knowing of Naruto but never watched it but despite that i was somehow able to find a favorite character and still give it the time of day when ever it showed up on cartoon Network ( or adult swim). Boruto is just really... UnInteresting. Like it just another version of naruto was what my first thoughts were. Obviously its it own show but the premise ( kids having similiar traite as their parents? Naruto. Oh kawaki and Boruto? Naruto. ) Himawari i freaking love but Boruto himself from what little episode's ive seen just isn't.. M interesting. Again i know im comparing to Naruto, but naruto was a fun character to watch, he was a brat but a goofy brat, funny, energetic, determined he just made you laugh despite him being a brat. Boruto's personality wasn't all that Corhereint for me so please feel free to lmk, but it was just over all, boring. But i do love the family moments they're always fun to watch. Himawari is always enjoyable to watch because of jer similar joyful traits of Naruto. The series is fine i cant say its trash or horrible its just, not too Interesting for me.
Boruto's popularity relies heavily on OG Naruto's popularity. Outside Japan, if that is a topic, Boruto had poor TV ratings and low views. So casual viewers did not enjoy the anime. Few new fans got the appeal. The manga is an improvement, particularly True Blue Vortex. But its a monthly manga better left binge read when its actually complete
12:28 One Piece doesn’t drop around 40 chapters a year it’s more like 30-35 chapters as of now. Another Shonen would’ve probably been a better example.
Thing is, this is a pretty well made video. I think I agree with pretty much everything said here. As a “Boruto hater” there’s still quite a bit more about the story that I would consider pretty critical flaws and keep me from enjoying it. Unfortunately, there’s so baked into the story at this point that there is literally no hope in any of it being fixed in the future. So yeah, I’ll continue to hope that it improves, but I’m about 80% sure it will never be something I can personally find all that enjoyable. I’ve read most of the time skip, and watched about 200 episodes of the OG and tbh it just sucked all the way through past and future. It is what it is.
@@TheMaliciousOne767 I mean, the gaslighting from the Boruto fanbase doesn’t help. “You don’t get an opinion unless you’re caught up to the most recent chapters” is something I hear all the time. Besides, I WANT Boruto to be good. I desperately want Naruto to be one of the giants in anime that other shonen aspire to be. But, it’s obviously fallen behind the others in a significant way. It’s a trainwreck that you won’t want to watch but can’t look away from.
@@erickthomas6133 Fair enough, if you really want to judge something fully, you have to consume it all. Although I do think it’s okay to admit that it’s just not for you if you watched like 3 episodes lol. I don’t find the benefit in force watching or hate reading. It sounds pointless. If I was you I’d just move on already to something else.
@@TheMaliciousOne767 That’s what I did. I haven’t touched it since. Of course, you can’t judge something fully without completion, but also are you really gonna dish on someone saying they couldn’t stand one piece of they stopped after Wano? At that point I’d say their opinion is more than valid.
Beyond all those points I just didn't see a point of how u can raise the stakes of ninja God mom and they didn't they had to nerf the heroes to not fix the problem or made the weirdest or wildest abilities and reasons why Naruto or sasake can't or won't atomizes these pple I feel like (even though I dislike it) if boruto was like Korra years after the story ( the literal completely new generation ) would have explained the power scale jump why the heroes not fixing things and even the technology jump too
I will say this my problems with Boruto aren't just with it, are with Naruto's ending as a whole, and no, it's not a pairing problem(Even through in my opinion from the manga perspective which is what i experience it just makes no sense), i have a ton of problems with the ending of Naruto... So can i expect Boruto to solve Naruto... No and it shouldn't, it should progress on it's own thing... But it will keep carrying them, so yeah im not going to waste my time on it because of that. Because my problem is not just Boruto, it's Masashi Kishimoto writting through the ending of his own Manga, and i can't expect it's sequel to be better.
5:49 idk why people are shocked Naruto would put the village ahead of his kids. Did we not read/watch Naruto? Naruto is the same series where the first hokage said he’d kill his own child if they stood against the village, the second hokage sacrificed himself so his team could escape in a war, the third hokage was prepared to join danzo in an ambush against the uchiha clan ( and they planned on leaving survivors if itachi hadn’t stepped up, that means killing innocent men, women and children including the babies ), the fourth hokage Naruto’s father could’ve easily lived and helped raise his son but chose to die so that he could seal the 9 tails putting konohas military forces ahead of his own needs, kakashi took a mission as hokage that violated the peace treaty and could’ve started a 5th ninja war. I say all of this to say that Naruto idolized the Hokage position and what it stands for, even if he may not always agree with the decisions the previous hokage make he damn sure respects them and try’s to follow their footsteps so are you really shocked that Naruto would put the village and it’s needs ahead of his own family?
Most of those Hokage died in wars or dealing with inner political strife (Hizuren with the Uchiha, even if his solution was crap). Naruto is a Hokage in peace times and has no political issues within the village. And the guy can clone himself with the large amounts of chakra that he has. So he can be with his kids and do the paperwork. He wasn't dealing for almost a decade as a Hokage with wars or any major threats.
@@kevintanza6968yes but Naruto already said why he’d never leave a shadow clone in the hokages office because it would be a sign of disrespect to the hokage that came before him
So I want to be clear on my bias before I continue. I do not think I'd like Boruto even on it's own. It is...REALLY ugly in my eyes, literally I physically don't like looking at the manga at times, I don't really like Boruto as a character, and a lot of the themes just don't click with me. That being said, it'd just be something I shrug at and move from if it was on it's own. Art isn't everything in a story no matter how bad I think it is, and me personally not liking something isn't a sign of quality. I also never liked Attack On Titan, it's just not for me, and that's fine. That being said, yeah this is called "Next Generation", it is built on being connected to Naruto, and that is how I judge it. Stuff like Naruto's fathering doesn't feel earned, the lore is pretty bad now and outright contradicts things that Naruto was consistent on, not to mention stuff like fights feeling worse because of that inconsistency, and a lot of the things I liked in Naruto feel dropped rather than resolved at times. But those are just my takes of course.
I watch the anime and read the manga and have to admit mitsuki and sarada are way more enjoyable in the anime. Same for team 10 and himawari and kawaki as well, although unless we start getting them written in the manga, it does feel off. In the anime, kawaki basically has a soft spot for himawari and more or less acknowledges that she sees him as an older brother, so he protects and helps her. U can argue its cuz she is Naruto's daughter but i feel like they try and portray it as him caring. In the manga, i feel like i don't remember them even interacting outside of breaking the vase
IDK why people hate on Boruto or even why boruto fans states that Boruto and Naruto are different. I love boruto mainly becoz of the Dynamic it shows with old charcater and new character i.e. Naruto and Boruto, Sasuke and Sarada, etc.
I think boruto has been solid for a long time now ever since kara introduction really. Especially after the timeskip which has been slapping every chapter. I feel one point was missed was people just wanted it to be about naruto and were annoyed he werent in it much.
They could of treated him with respect same with Sasuke, you telling me they didn't learn any new techniques after 15 years, When he Knew more otsuski were gonna show up? Makes no sense.
Im a huge boruto hater. Hated chapter 700 and virtually everything thats happened since. BUT... When I think about a scenario that naruto could be defeated, how it happened is consistent with Naruto's character. Being caught off guard by his over trusting nature, and not having kurama to sense kawakis negative emotions.. it makes more sense to me than him being beaten by someone like isshiki. That's all the praise ive got. The power scaling is so so,bad. Momoshiki says the chakra fruit kaguya ate was unusually strong, he says it has a curvature of 16 and anything over 10 must be reported to the clan. And... That makes me question wtf jigen/isshiki was even doing. We know kaguya betrayed him and took the fruit for herself... But if the mini ten tails isshiki was nursing was anywhere close to kaguyas, he would have been obligated to report it. So did he go rogue as well? Remember momo never even mentioned him
So basically Boruto is like Sukuna right now. Even if something is done right and has a good explanation, people will find loopholes to criticize it. Like for example, Sukuna using hollow wicker basket. It was meaned and hated while people with common sense knew that sukunw always had it
If anything I'm too entrenched in my boruto dislike to read it. I watched the Boruto movie long before I had consistent access to the internet. I treated Boruto post movie the same as I treated seven deadly sins post season 2, with apathy and listen to what happens in the show. I still don't believe two blue vortex is going to be good, but I will shut my mouth and wait for how it play out(Because its a semi clean slate). The thing I'm looking for is consistent quality, not consistently amazing of course, decent to good.
The biggest crime that Boruto commits is treating the Naruto series characters like garbage and using them as punching bags for the newer cast. Naruto and Sasuke are relegated as jokes and the remaining original casts are practically rendered irrelevant. It was a bait and switch to get Naruto fan to follow the series only for them to be disrespected. So Boruto as a series will continue to be hated and will end up having the same legacy as Dragonball GT.
@@MeenakshiSingh-ts3dc the manga itself is the issue. There are multiple plot points that could of been character arcs, to build the character towards. Sarada and her Ms awakening is a big example, if we truely want to say she awakens her Ms from love, it should be history built between Boruto and Sarada like with Sakura and Naruto (also still a fumble). Sarada does not earn her Ms power up like Sasuke did with his. It literally has no correlations or relevence towards the time skip or reason to even awaken. What is the purpose of the Ms now, after the time skip it still has no relevence.
Hears my opinion on the matter, I have never watched Boruto and never will so I cant hate on it, but I think Boruto should not even exist, shoulda just left at the Naruto ending and called it a day, no need to keep milking Naruto's name. For instance, one of my favorite series is One Piece and if they end up making like a Two Piece, I WOULD BE PISSED, just leave the story LET IT END.
Its not only what you said... I find that there's a failure to follow up with hints on the original manga. There was no hinting of the trayectory that is currently fueling Boruto's narrative other that Kaguya's reveal at the last posible moment. While we have so much better set up stuff that could be explored. And Minato's one shot proves it. We have the Waring Era, the first, second and third shinobi war, so many fantastic villages that could be used to create more narratives. We have the other Jinchuriki, we have the Akatsuki members, The other Kages, hell, we still dont have a clue about the Uzumaki Clan, the main character's clan... And people HUNGER for stories on the Naruto world, Naruto is the anime with the most fanfictions ever. I love the shinobi world, and the focuse of some random aliens that where pushed in at the end frustrates the fuck out of me, especially when they destroy the universe's powerscaling with Ototsuki mumbo jumbo... No joke, my favorite arc of Boruto is the Onoki filler arc, with the Madara paralleles, and the struggle of the older generation that was raised in war accepting and trusting the younger generation to keep the peace. I'm just waiting for more light novels and maybe spinoffs at this point, Boruto has nothing for me...
I am pretty ignorant to the show, I have only watched a few episodes and clips, I just figured I was growing out of shonen manga I couldn't get into JJK, BNHA, or KnY either. As I was watching boruto I didn't find myself caring about the story of Boruto or Kawaki becoming the strongest, I wanted to see more Mirai or Sakura navigating post war life. I just know as a shonen they operate by constantly upping the ante, and Shippuden already ended so far removed from where Naruto originally started, I didn't want to keep going in this direction, I wanna tone down the power, which is exactly what Naruto was, toned down power and stakes in comparison to the shonen anime that preceded it
Other than the art and characters being eh the think that made me hate it the most was the absolute disrespect naruto and sasuke saw not them getting beaten or handicapped but just who did it a terrible villan with boring motives that has absolutley nothing interesting about him the fact that that is their last real fight genuinely disgusts me bow that it is twin blue vortex and they are just focusing on the new characters it is fine i mean not great but i have seen worse at the very least jutsu are starting to be used again and some characters are starting to get decent the art still sucks but cant really change that without swapping out artists.
I dont hate Boruto but i dont like it either i am so used to watching naruto its hard for me to see someone eles taking his place i kinda had the same feeling in dbz when gohan replaced goku for a short period of time
Ive been saying this and standin on it that going forward was a mistake there is so much untouched on lore and room for expanding on hyped up characrets thru out the history naruto getting more one shot type stories or a prequel anthology series going over and expanding the historical events of naruto its a win win they get to keep the story intact and something that everybody would generally be more hyped for more and making money going over characters like akastuki members, hokages, kakashi father, etc would still imo be way more interesting and accepted by the fanbase as well and would still if not even more
@@papaadot9369 I think the villains are lacking and the story lacks a bit of depth I think it’s just a solid like back burner show yk no hate to it I just don’t think Boruto is suited for me
My hate for the Boruto series comes from the love I have for the Naruto series, my 2 biggest issues with Boruto is that: 1. They took the worst thing that happened in shippuden and ruined the ending and decided to make it the main plot in Boruto (the aliens) Till this day there’s haven’t been a single Boruto villain that is at least close to the level of Naruto main villains. 2. The way the legacy characters were handled especially Naruto and Sasuke it’s straight up disrespectful (I get that they needed to get nerf but at least do it well and not in a lazy writing way)
I was a huge naruto fan back in the day, i was disappointed with the last arc, but overall is a great series, but Boruto honestly i dont see not even 1 redeeming quality i don't like nothing about it, Art is inferior, they ruin the continuity and ruin everything that was build in 700ch, and the key factor, they cut literally 90% of the cast from the story cuz the writters cannot handle a bigger character pool would u believe me if i tell u Kakashi in almost a decade havent appear in a single chapter? Like WHERE TF IS EVERYONE? They aren't dead.
if we talking about the manga readers it wasn't hit as hard as the anime and it made the manga readers have no way to defend it and the anime has like 3 to 5 banger and 170 filler and like barely some 25 or something form the main story and the story itself still has to rely on naru/sasu for big fight o important missions and if they did spliced them from the world after momoshiki and reunion in isshiki it would make more sense and have naruto either die or just can't go back to village to not only create suspense and danger abd to force the new gen to adapt to the new vacuum of power
Yea I wasn't the part of the fandom that didn't like boruto because of things like this because u have to make a story somehow after all what happened in Naruto it's really just everybody wanted exactly Naruto again maybe
It’s funny, I live in Japan and this idea that Naruto being a “bad dad” in the beginning of boruto isn’t shared with the Japanese audience. I chalk it up to the western fans just being toxic.
No, you instead label an entire part of the fanbase toxic without fully hearing their reasoning, not hear them out, and when someone extends an olive branch you throw it on the ground and spit on it, you know, like anyone with the totally real moral high-ground does
I like the boruto manga, its easy for me to separate what naruto was and what boruto is.
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I am a Boruto hater, i will not separate what Naruto was and what Boruto is
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No matter what Boruto does it will be compared to Naruto in one way or another. And honestly nothing will ever give us the same feeling Naruto did thus Boruto will never be what the people want. So we might as well enjoy/hate Boruto on its own merits/demerits rather than compare it to Naruto :)
If that's how u wanna view it that's fine
But me personally boruto gave me new feelings that I felt like in Naruto it wasn't as touched or wasn't in Naruto in the first place
For example brotherhood of the 2 protagonist of the show
Yes Naruto & sasuke had their dynamics and similarities which made them the characters who we all know.
but in all honestly besides from few scenes they was always like oil & water
and yes ik this most solely of the brother fight throughout the reincarnation cycle of Indra & ashura.
However, boruto & kawaki on the other hand i felt that brotherhood connect and drew closer to the both of them as the story went along
them actually living together and going through the same stuff with karma and both havin the same ending goals to push one another always felt way more natural
And now with their conflict in TBV it's just hit more at home much more then how it was with Naruto & sasuke
I just watched boruto for naruto . Boruto always give me that" pain arc" vibes where everything seems illusion. And truly know i watch boruto only for boruto .
Boruto sound like some cyberpunk city mix to very ancient city the feeling is entirely new to me i never feel something like this , boruto seems japenese folk tail in cosmic and neon world . Mystic , mythical and I very fan of things like this . Literally boruto feel like rain village. I can't express this thing .
The minato one shot felt like a perfect prequel imo though
Can I just say I hate that sentiment? It's a sequel, it literally references Naruto in the title, that is what it's the "next generation" of.
Why on EARTH would you judge it on it's own when it is a sequel?
@@awsomekick99 exactly and also the concept of boruto looking for validation from his father which is relatable to some , also the fact on taking the easy way and learning that the tough route aka being a shinobi or not using the karma is something that you don’t really see and shows his pursuit to being a full fledged shinobi
I remember absolutely hating boruto back when it was newer a bit after the road to boruto expansion was released for storm 4, but I gave it another chance right before it hit hiatus and I began to absolutely adore it's themes and how it isn't just Naruto again. And with the new TBV releases he has changed enough to where he feels more adult. The manga is just so good by that point
Plus being just barely too young to keep up with Naruto it gives me something I can keep up with in a series that got me into anime as a whole
Nice, glad you've been enjoying it.
I liked Boruto until TBV...TBV is very 2edgy3me
@@ZeroX7649 I just appreciate he's not Naruto again, love my golden boys but a golden boy emulating Sasuke is pretty fun in its own right
@@ZeroX7649nah, he is not edgy he is just more calm and strategic.
@@maxine3161 Fair enough. He is very different from Sasuke and Naruto both.
My stand on Boruto remains generally the same since it came out. Boruto shouldn't be a continuation of the world of Naruto, it should be its own thing. It would make Boruto as a story work way better and doesn't drag Naruto down in hindsight.
Two blue vortex is really good, it solved alot of the issues that the first part had
Very good, were there any arcs from the original that you still enjoyed?
@@nicholasrolison926 Naruto and sasuke vs ishiki and momoshiki were really good, it got a little stale after naruto lost kurama but the last 10 chapters picked up the pace. Do u read two blue vortex??
@@adhammater4237 Gotcha, I actually really loved the Ao arc, and even the Mujina Bandits. TBV has been solid so far, love the setup, the Shinju have been quirky but threatening, and really liking where they're taking MItsuki & Hima's characters atm.
@@nicholasrolison926 yeah, i am really excited to see what sort of power up hima will get and alsoo sarada's MS ability and a fight between kawaki and boruto would be awesome
How so? (I like boruto btw)
Finally, a take that's somewhat neutral instead of going either being called a hater or saying Boruto fans can't take criticism...
I think the series could definitely be better or even written better, and I can see some of the narratives Boruto as a story tries to go for such as the use of technology and the things people do out of love compared to Naruto's hate, I just wish they were executed better and it doesn't help that Boruto picks up what's left of Shippuden's trash such as the broken power system and runs with it, creating even more problems.
But holy crap discussing this series is unnecessarily difficult. It's almost as bad as talking about an anime like Black Clover and Fairytail. Everyone just spouts opinion like it's fact, ignoring that they're acting more like an elitist and not a critic just because they love hearing themselves talk...
Bleach too(Seriously, the only reason the hate dialed down a bit is because of anime trending. No wonder Bleach fans are gatekeeping). All 3 of the shows happened to fall under shows being ruined by nitpicking and dumb people.
I'll be honest I hate boruto on the sheer principle that it ignores basic plot points tht kishi dropped, thts honestly my biggest gripe with it, the world wouldn't suddenly get fixed with naruto being hokage he would have to work and negotiate with the daimyos and other Shinobi factions tht don't agree with him, or outright surprises them.
Boruto as a series offers very little compared to narutos plethora of themes subplots and characters. Yet it wants to act like it's better than all of tht, I just can't get behind a series that thinks it's better than the original when it clearly isn't, though tht is my opinion.
I hate the series because exactly of the power system and otsutsukis, a clan nobody even wanted to explore yet alone create more antagonists, in at all. Naruto's list of antagonists and villains weren't just the uchiha. They were other people who lived lives and had their own story, motivations, desires, and dreams. For as much as I despise Danzo, he is an amazing character who reflects the dark era of the past. He is someone no matter how much you resented, did what he believed in and died for it.
That's why Boruto to me isn't good. It became a series about a boy who wanted to become hokage, who realized that the entire world revolved around shinobi, war, conflicts, ideology clashes, revenge and honor, became nothing more than a DBZ wankfest for its blind fanbase who will lap anything up because it's attached to Naruto.
What if miwa reached her full potential for April first boutta hit different
Man is just making stuff up. It just has bad writing and breaks The world it Is literally set in. Whether you like OG Naruto or not, It's Obvious Fights are Boring and characters are too.
Its nothing to do with Naruto Being compared to It, or anything like that.
Trying to say that People who dont like it are just Haters, or stubborn, is Completely Ignorant. And it shows how you are just Justifying it because you like it.
I personally Dont want it to be like naruto and im a naruto fan, your Reasons for Why people dont like it are just Twitter talk Pieces.
I’ve stated this multiple times. They should have done a series based further in the future long after Naruto and others died. I’m talking their on their 12th Hokage type future in a completely different world due to how Naruto and other predecessors molded and changed things for the future generation. Mention Naruto through legendary feet’s we don’t see like they did with the 1st Hokage. They could also have just made a completely fresh new cast of characters but left the foundation of the ninja world intact THAT’S where they messed up.
It's funny how this video relates to me.
2016 to 2021 I hated anything that had to do with Boruto, I was thee biggest hater and that was mostly because of how much I loved Naruto.
Later during 2021, I don't know why, I just started reading the manga in order to make fun of it. Then as I was reading, I accidentally got hooked. Reading it felt like I was reading something entirely different, I realized I stopped comparing it to naruto, and yes it doesn't have the best art or character development, but I will say. I've found myself to be a Boruto fan till this day, it was only solidified after watching cannon anime episodes and sarada is my favorite character, Atleast in the anime.
Same, man. I stopped hating on it on 2020 just decided one day what's the point on hating on it and keep saying the same shit over and over. boruto is a genjutsu blablabla
@@nobody5066 I was a fan and an hater tbh
I'm enjoying Boruto. I won't say it is objectively GOOD, but I am enjoying it. The manga anyway. The anime I'm still pretty early into
I feel the problem is that all these “fair criticisms” are consistently thrown in the fans faces. They cannot just enjoy the manga without a ton of people coming in with “fair criticism” that don’t even have anything to do with the chapter at hand. Every series has fair criticisms they can be discussed but you don’t see a huge part of the anime community coming to new chapter releases to consistently point them out. I think people just need to relax and get of the series back honestly.
Maybe the story just isn't that good? Jujutsu Kaisen got praised to high heavens and recent months in the manga have made the series receive a lot of criticism because of how repetitive it has become.
Truth of the matter is that people don't want the stories they like being criticized. However, that doesn't make the stories perfect.
@@kevintanza6968 that’s not the point of my comment. If you’re just constantly commenting to only point out whatever negatives there might be you litteraly adding nothing to the convo. Constructive criticism is different than what’s happening. Imagine if every time dragon ball fans talked about super saiyan and how cool it is there is a whole wave of people throwing in random criticisms that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Idek why you’re acting like most of these “criticisms” aren’t just “boruto sucks” comments lol. If you do not personally like the series why would you keep torturing yourself and others who are trying to enjoy a piece of media. If you don’t even like show why come to the comments to give “criticisms” of something you’re not even going to read. It’s litteraly not adding anything new to the convo especially if the criticism are from old chapters lol. People in your jjk example ALSO talk about what they like about the series and chapter
In other words, hop off the BBC and let people enjoy the series
@@tsukune2910 because you all want to bring down every single other series to make Boruto look better. It's been happening since 2017 and it happens to this day.
@@557deadpoolMaybe that's what happened when you fuck with Boruto fans perhaps?
Madara let black zetsu kill him because he saw the future and knew that Boruto's existence was gonna prove him right that putting everyone in a genjutsu was the better plan
I've just finished reading 87th ch of boruto & boy the story from where the anime ended is so good. The 'twist' wasn't something I saw coming. The lore of the entire series itself is big enuff to fully indulge. Altho I get ur point, it'll always be compared to naruto, a competition it can't win as of now.
Fr,I think the mystery of who Jura is and Himawari supposedly having some strong power is interesting,and how everyone is getting development like Eida possibly getting over Kawaki and Mitsuki having a purpose without having a sun
Boruto has its own unique, Story, lore, Fight, that different from Naruto and People dony understand it was a different story and M
Very nuanced outlook of Boruto! I’d like to see a similar style video on Akane Banashi or Blue Box (while not battle Shonen per se, they do a lot of the same things as most battle Shonen).
I’ve always been half and half with the series, but given the last handful of chapters, I think the series, at least with its manga, is sufficiently passable/solid. I think it needs way better pacing, more side character work, better antagonists and villains, and I could see myself liking it a lot more…
I don’t think it’ll ever surpass Naruto but it’s not like it *needs* to…
That’s what they’re currently doing with the timeskip
@@Dhugg3001 we’re seeing the setup for it, so long as they continue and the story doesn’t lose its momentum I’ll come to like it more. Even then, it’s still just solid far as I go.
@@NinthShinigami Hope you catch up to the series fam
@@申月営無営月無営有申 I’m caught up fam. I just still don’t see the massive amount of praise for the series. Idk maybe im too stupid or somethn lmao
People who read monthly mangas do not care about side characters that much compared to people who read weekely
Ikemoto is the illustrator not the author... Kodachi is the creator of boruto while kishimoto overlooked it for awhile until he started helping on writing it.
I think Boruto is the epitome of good ish writing can't fix everything
Imo i think the anime might be better if they insert that scene in the manga when he said he was a brat and take it in a different way to make people not feel so intense on him
It’s pretty simple. People are unwilling to judge Boruto by itself and stop comparing it to Naruto. I’m currently watching Boruto and am 90 episodes in and so far I enjoy it. The main point is just to watch it before judging.
As someone who sits in the middle of this debate, one of main reason i ignored boruto is that i thought that the boruto movie didnt need to be expanded on, that along with my dislike of narutos last war arc and final ending(orochimaru should have been executed) made me decide to ignore it outside of the occasional anime fight scene or if gaara ever got a spotlight
As someone who only watched a few episodes of the anime (that were kinda "okay", IMO, but didn't really leave me craving for more) and who is always stumbling upon YT shorts talking about some crazy power (up) one of Boruto's characters has, I'd love to know more about the characters main goals and what they do to achieve those goals, about their relationships to one another; about the internal and external obstacles they have to overcome, about what fuels their growth (or their downfall). Anything about what makes them compelling characters outside of their powers or their fighting abilities. Or even anything about the deeper themes of the story.
For instance in Naruto, his main goal in the first half was to be accepted, to be seen as more than the fox demon Jinchuuriki because he grew up ostracised, and for that, he thought he needed to become the Hokage. Then, in the second half, while he still wanted to be Hokage, he also wanted to bring peace to the world, to save the world from hatred (and from the hurt he was deeply familiar with due to his past), and for that, he needed to start by saving Sasuke, his friend, from his own hatred. The overarching themes of the manga and the anime, to me, were mainly (I might have forgotten one or two) about the importance of human connections, the curse of hatred and violence, and how to put an end to the cycle of vengeance, it also was about healing from trauma and learning to love oneself. And, yes, it was a bit about hard work and perseverance too.
I'm not saying there's not all that (character and story depth) too in Boruto, just that I haven't read or heard anything about it and that, as someone who'd like to be more motivated to read and/or to watch Boruto in full one day, I'd love to hear from fans of the show about what makes you care about the characters and the story.
I wrote off Boruto and never watched it for all the reasons you’ve said, but over the years everything I’ve heard from it sounds really good. I love the idea of Naruto being a bad dad, he is giving Boruto a better childhood than he had, but not perfect because he doesn’t know how to. I love Boruto being a brat, he doesn’t know how bad things could be, but it’s also a different world now. In a peaceful world Boruto does have it pretty bad. It’s nice to see the world progress this much. I’ve getting closer and closer to actually giving it a try
Boruto is currently experiencing the loneliness naruto felt in his journey. At the start of boruto, boruto asked sasuke what naruto's weakness is, but sasuke told him to find out who he was in the past. And all this came full circle because boruto is on his naruto journey rn.
@@SuzukiCabs that sounds interesting. I heard Boruto and Sasuke get to have a really cool dynamic
@nerdcorner2680 because kishimoto said he wanted them to be like piccolo and Gohan.
I grew up with Naruto. Easily my favorite manga/anime of all time just for the sheer impact it had on me throughout my life. With that said, I really like boruto (the manga. The anime is mid) and it’s very easy for me to enjoy boruto for what it is separate of Naruto. Idk it’s really not that difficult to just be like yea this isn’t Naruto, cool. But that’s just me.
I’m the same way bro
This was a very good analysis 👍
I'm a pretty big Boruto fan myself, and I've kinda just gotten tired of trying to defend it at this point. I don't think it's like, the best story ever told, but I see so much good in the story that outweighs the bad. Unfortunately, people are ignorant as mentioned in the video. I can't wait to see some of the toxic ass replies this comment will get.
You shouldn’t get any kinda toxicity for liking something so much. I respect your opinion man even if I may not fully agree with it 🤝
Shame, because the story has so many moments that are a love letter to the OG series. One example I love using is the Ao arc; you take this side character and give him a compelling story of a broken vet still trying to find his place in the world, and here comes our new MC trying to validate the shinobi way he threw away with the experience he's gained since tarnishing his reputation, all while learning a lesson about how tools aren't good/bad it's how you use them, and then proving to Ao that throwing away your pride as a ninja won't bring you happiness, only for the clone of his fathers masters to crush Ao (and in a last harah, saving Boruto with ninjutsu) proving he was a shinobi in the end. We then learn that Koji's modus operandi is that a shinobi is _also_ a tool _(neither good or bad)_ which is how he was able to throw Ao away so callously, only to learn this was all for the greater good of stopping Jigen & Kara.
All of this done with a side character from the OG series who's entire identity was "being the Mizukages aid and having a byakugan".
Thing is people are not forced to like it. Some people have this mindset that the default position with something is that you have to like it. And saying that the story is bad doesn't make that reader an "ignorant who can't understand the beautiful, nuanced storytelling" and doesn't make the fan someone who is smart and can see all themes, narratives, and so on.
If you like things that are controversial and divisive (like Boruto), you're going to run with critics. Hell, Naruto is a lot more beloved and successful and that series has a lot of critics.
@@kevintanza6968The problem I have with your comment is saying _"something is bad"_ and _"I don't like this"_ aren't equivocal. You can totally not vibe with something, but calling something "bad" obviously gives it the stigma of it being subpar, and fans of it *will* defend it, because *they* like it.
I hope you don't fall off that high horse you're sitting on .
I used to hate Boruto because of the first two reasons you gave honestly. It wasn't until the Momoshiki fought were I started to turn around on it, then Two Blue Vortex actually got me to look at Boruto in it's own lens (and months of watching videos on it to get past my own biases)
1:32 A double agent? Nah, just a man who was once loyal to his cause, but found an alternative path. You could call him a broken Ronin, if you must
I personally dislike the first part of Boruto, but the current part pf Boruto is a lot better than what I expected
Even better than the Kawaki arc?
@@gig7932Boruto genuinely wasn’t interesting to me until the Kawaki arc began. I believe it changed Boruto for the better.
Almost like taking a fat steaming dump on your parent story rubs fans the wrong way.
@@morioh6623 How do you feel it does a disservice to the parent story?
@@landendrakeReally? I thought the Ao arc was really solid.
I wish i could like boruto but everytime i read chapter 1 and see that naruto becomes a neglectful father i just feel like they didnt care as much as i do about the series, it feels like they couldnt get boruto to dislike his father for anything reasonable so they created a situation that just would never happen in my mind atleast. Naruto would never be a neglectful father to me idk, just that small character detail leaves a really sour taste in my mouth but its because i hold the series to a high standard and i feel like they failed at one of narutos strongest aspects. Naruto knows just how painful it could be to be alone or to feel like theres no one there for you so to see him pass on that pain he knows too well to his son and daughter im just left with a question of why couldnt you come up with a better reason than this?
You’re blinded by nostalgia
@@Dhugg3001 If watching a character learn and help multiple people deal with the pain of loneliness ( gaara, sasuke, kurama and himself ofc) and then puts that same pain onto his SON AND DAUGHTER im sorry thats just not what i signed up for, first impressions are everything and to see the major driving decision as to why the new MC hates the former is that the former MC inflicts the pain that he has been dealing with the entire series and rescued multiple people from idk it just seems like a poor writing decision, i empathize with boruto on his feeling i read naruto i saw how loneliness affected him, sasuke and gaara he has every right to be mad at naruto for what he did to himawari. I just dont like that him neglecting them was the route they took it seems incredibly cheap to me. And it was because i feel like once boruto recognizes just how amazing his dad is all of a sudden hes not neglectful anymore its really shocking how that works huh but yea im blinded by nostalgia because you couldnt explain why Naruto, the man who battled against people feeling loneliness from the beginning of the series all the way to his final battle would do something like this to his own children
The actual thing of boruto hating naruto stems from kishimoto relationship with his son. It wasn't just some thing kishimoto threw in their cuz he didn't know what else to do, tho I do get wym.
@@RiazAhmed-cr1re Thats interesting with that context it might give me the push to read further but ill see what the future holds im on a shoujo arc rn
You say that but at the same time you don’t bother to consider Naruto’s characterization at the end of 700. Naruto historically has been able to build familial relationships with people who aren’t related to him. In ch 700, Naruto stated that the entire village his family and that he can’t be “Dad” just for Boruto at certain times. It’s an ideology that allowed him to save Sarada Uchiha but as a result he unintentionally neglects Boruto. Its flawed.
Ofc Naruto knows how dreadful it is to be alone but unlike Naruto, BORUTO ACTUALLY HAS A FAMILY WAITING FOR HIM AT HOME. Therefore Boruto is never truly alone. It’s not the same. What Boruto feels isn’t loneliness, what he feels is a lack of validation because daddy doesn’t pay enough attention to him. He’s popular in school and has friends he hangs out with everyday. That’s something Naruto can’t relate to because he didn’t grow up with a father who used to always be around him only to gradually spend less time with him. He had no one. Add this in with a lack of communication between Boruto and Naruto where Boruto hides how he truly feels, you get the father and son dynamic that you don’t like.
boruto the manga is FIRE
I do think the anime flushed out a lot of the fights. Some of the themes I feel like were also expanded on in a little more detail _(episodes like "The Past" for Kawaki as an example)_ but I prefer the manga overall.
I can literally say that me and my homies all hate Sasuke in Boruto with his “running out of chakra” head ass
That's anime headcanon
He never runs out of chakra in the manga. If he did he would have died. 💀
Only in filler eps
Ikemoto doesn’t write the manga, he illustrates it, kishimoto wrote the first arc, but then Kodachi wrote everything after that until the chapter baryon mode was introduced, and then that’s when kishimoto took over to write the rest of Boruto
There's one reason you forgot to add: Logic.
I've honestly given Boruto a fair shot, read all of Part 1 and some of the time skip but I still just don't like it. At this point I treat it like Fairy Tail, just here to see how it all end
Whats not to like? I genuinely wanna know
@@IvanAcevedo_28 Not fan of the villains in general. I thought all of Kara was dumb , Eida and Daemon are the absolute WORST creations in the entirety of Naruto. I think the entire Jougan/Momoshiki plot line is stupid and pointless. Lastly, the current arc with the Ten tail "clones?" just doesn't strike me as interesting in anyway
As far as Boruto himself goes, he just ok but he's quickly becoming a character capable of whatever the plot needs him to do. The side characters are complete afterthought, hell even Sarada is on the road to becoming another damsel in distress. Don't even get me started on the character designs
@@ChrisDeebo All you said is that you havent read the manga. Stop listening to Boruto haters and actually educate yourself on the topic. All the things you’ve mentioned are perfectly written.
@@ChrisDeebo this is all just ignorance lmao
@@ChrisDeebo Boruto has the best character designs in new gen,idek where you get that last statement from
I dont have a problem with Boruto plot itself, it actually interesting, what i have a problem with is the existence of Boruto series itself. I have follow Naruto for dozens of years, half of my life in this world (i'm 23), and for Boruto series to just come along and basically said " Yeah, my father was just another Minato, he's just a prequel to my series, and he's not actually the chosen one promised to bring about peace to this world. " is unacceptable.
If MK use his other series concept for Boruto instead, Samurai in the cyber punk future, i'll have no problem with the series. At that point Boruto would not tarnish Naruto legacy just to develop the new gen, and when the nostalgia bait show up it will hit much more harder.
That's why imma try my hardest to limit my self only to clips and whatnot, anything but ani/manga, until they decide to make an equivalent of DBS but for Naruto and declare Boruto to be the equivalent of DBGT. I'll hate myself is if i fall in love with Boruto series rn.
Till this day i think abt how well received the series would've been if only there was an arc or even a single chapter portraying Naruto and boruto's father-son bond in pre hokage Naruto era and then transitioning their relationship within the first arc of boruto
Like imagine reading 700 chapters of naruto as a hero and savior of the world and then you start the next chapter with him being a deadbeat💀,i would instantly drop the series idk bout others
On the anime canon note, arc’s like Kara Actuation boosted the Kara Arc heavily for me. Too bad it’s really hit or miss with the anime, and the Manga isn’t dropping consistently enough to develop side characters thoroughly. It’s a meh watch, and a good read, but nothing too crazy. I will say watching the anime made me enjoy Boruto as a character a LOT more than I would through just the manga.
It’s not too hard to like. Two Blue Vortex was always meant to be the bread and butter
Excellent video.
I been reading Naruto since like 08 and when Boruto came out I actually claimed to like it more. However it’s taken some funny turns (it’s just OP feats no heart; although I’m learning it has some heart) but I’ve learnt to let the younger generation have things.(I’m still learning)
I just love boruto i’m defending him even before timeskip
The manga cooks. But if you think too much about how it's a Naruto sequel it's trash.
The manga does have its moments but i think where it fails the most is that boruto himself isnt very likable imo. Ive caught up to the most recent chapter and there isnt much i can latch onto from his character which is pretty dissapointing considering we had similar upbringings( not so great father choosing the bigger picture over you and having to find other father figures to latch onto). They made him "cool" but i feel like having a main character who is now stoic and his main foil also being stoic and broody leads to a rather boring read. The combat as always looks great and the new techniques are cool but thats kinda it. I think as a manga its servicable but tbf im only continuing to read due to my respect for its prequel.
I still think it’s hilarious one of my employees favorite characters in Boruto is Code and this the anime top tier
I’ve been wondering, hey Ronin have you ever read or watch the series Zatch Bell, or by its Japanese name Gash Bell?
I would say read it more because it does have that incomplete anime problem. But the manga went until completion and Zatch Bell 2 is slowly coming out.
That’s basically my question, if you’ve ever read it before?
Solid video but i think you're forgetting another major gripe a lot of people had with the story and thats the mistreatment of legacy characters. Naruto, sasuke, lee, and bringing jiraya back was a big mistake in my and many others opinions. His character arc ended almost perfectly and even kishimoto said he didnt want to bring that character back because it would devalue what was built over decades which it did... This constant devaluation of the old characters in favor of the new was bad to watch and bad writing. i agree with everything else you brought up though
Tbf He didn’t bring Jiraiya back, he made a clone that is very and I mean very different from his original. It plays into one of the themes of Boruto because a lot of characters are clones of someone that exist, and these clones can never replicate the original.
@@UnravelGhoulx except they didnt tell anyone he was a clone at first so people weren't sure if he was jyraya or not, which makes your whole point moot. If you were following the story weekly they made you believe it might be jyraya on purpose and just like Kishimoto said people weren't happy.
I think the anime being full of filler and a lot of Boruto fans who are active online are very annoying has given the series an unjustified level of hatred
I like boruto the manga, a lot of people crap on the anime and it’s deserved Naruto explained did a great video on how they should’ve handled boruto. If they would’ve adapted all of the light novels that happen between the end of the war and the boruto era fully then it would’ve been a better bridge of the two eras. The anime is the ultimate slow burn and has a lot of terrible animation so it’s compounded
I love boruto the story is pretty simple to understand but people still misunderstand, boruto next generations is about a son that wants his father to spend time with him and only sees him as his dad and not this God of shinobi that everybody else thinks naruto is which he is but we know that because we watched him for 500 episodes if u take out the fillers, the story takes place in a time of peace and this peace was narutos goal which he has achieved for 13 plus years now that their is a time of peace shinobi is somewhat obsolete and people now can express their selves and hidden talents in other ways rather than being a ninja we see that technology has made a huge leap seeing as their is peace, also the village has expanded and grown.Boruto next generations is all about diving into the father son relationship and them eventually coming to understand and respect each other more than just naruto being borutos father and vise versa so because their is a Time of peace most episodes are not as intense as og naruto where their was always war or the whole world was always on edge to start a war because of this narrative people hate on the show and say it's boring and it's all filler when in actuality people want the same feeling as og naruto with all the stakes and alot more villians early on which is fine but makes no sense since this is a time of peace so naturally everything is peaceful and the tensions are low, also people hate borutos character and misunderstand him because of him talking down on his father for not being around which any child would do your child will always see u as his/her father and not the hokage or whatever position u hold in politics or work overall after the momoshiki otsosuki arc boruto sees naruto as his father still but respects the position he holds and sees what he represents from the village citizens perspective and us og fans also boruto knows how hard his father worked to get to that position and wants his father to tell him story's of his past, people also hate on the anime cannon because it doesn't have alot of action or high tension episodes but it reality it serves as a way to flush out character personality and changes to their personalities and growth in general it also gives context to the major arcs and how they got to that point like for example the Kara arcs that ate anime cannon give context to the organization like them having hidden bases and doing experiments also having followers and worshipers etc now the anime isn't perfect but it's not as bad as people make it out to be they just misunderstand most things and can't get over the nostalgic feeling of og naruto and shippuden and expect the same thing when in reality it never could be and shouldn't be also alot of people claim suaske and naruto are nerfed when in actuality its just that the enemies are otsosuki aliens that are more powerful than kaguya otsosuki ever since kishimoto used kaguya as the progenitor of all of shinobi and chakra boruto had to continue the lore and story so as a result the powerscaling had to go way up because kaguya otsosuki feared momoshiki and the others and she was overwhelmingly powerful
Best comment here no doubt
@@awsomekick99thanks bro
See im not a huge naruto fan, i only very Recently watched the anime, and i didnt know Boruto existed and checked it out as soon as i finished naruto and i only watched a dew epsidoes, skipped a few here and there. And i gotta say it just didn't hook me in like Naruto.
I grew up knowing of Naruto but never watched it but despite that i was somehow able to find a favorite character and still give it the time of day when ever it showed up on cartoon Network ( or adult swim). Boruto is just really...
UnInteresting. Like it just another version of naruto was what my first thoughts were. Obviously its it own show but the premise ( kids having similiar traite as their parents? Naruto. Oh kawaki and Boruto? Naruto. ) Himawari i freaking love but Boruto himself from what little episode's ive seen just isn't.. M interesting. Again i know im comparing to Naruto,
but naruto was a fun character to watch, he was a brat but a goofy brat, funny, energetic, determined he just made you laugh despite him being a brat. Boruto's personality wasn't all that Corhereint for me so please feel free to lmk, but it was just over all, boring. But i do love the family moments they're always fun to watch. Himawari is always enjoyable to watch because of jer similar joyful traits of Naruto. The series is fine i cant say its trash or horrible its just, not too Interesting for me.
Boruto's popularity relies heavily on OG Naruto's popularity. Outside Japan, if that is a topic, Boruto had poor TV ratings and low views. So casual viewers did not enjoy the anime. Few new fans got the appeal.
The manga is an improvement, particularly True Blue Vortex. But its a monthly manga better left binge read when its actually complete
Boruto manga is fire
12:28 One Piece doesn’t drop around 40 chapters a year it’s more like 30-35 chapters as of now. Another Shonen would’ve probably been a better example.
Thing is, this is a pretty well made video. I think I agree with pretty much everything said here. As a “Boruto hater” there’s still quite a bit more about the story that I would consider pretty critical flaws and keep me from enjoying it. Unfortunately, there’s so baked into the story at this point that there is literally no hope in any of it being fixed in the future. So yeah, I’ll continue to hope that it improves, but I’m about 80% sure it will never be something I can personally find all that enjoyable. I’ve read most of the time skip, and watched about 200 episodes of the OG and tbh it just sucked all the way through past and future. It is what it is.
I can’t fathom why you guys invest so much time in something you don’t like. It makes no damn sense. 💀
@@TheMaliciousOne767 I mean, the gaslighting from the Boruto fanbase doesn’t help. “You don’t get an opinion unless you’re caught up to the most recent chapters” is something I hear all the time. Besides, I WANT Boruto to be good. I desperately want Naruto to be one of the giants in anime that other shonen aspire to be. But, it’s obviously fallen behind the others in a significant way. It’s a trainwreck that you won’t want to watch but can’t look away from.
@@erickthomas6133 Fair enough, if you really want to judge something fully, you have to consume it all. Although I do think it’s okay to admit that it’s just not for you if you watched like 3 episodes lol. I don’t find the benefit in force watching or hate reading. It sounds pointless.
If I was you I’d just move on already to something else.
@@TheMaliciousOne767 That’s what I did. I haven’t touched it since. Of course, you can’t judge something fully without completion, but also are you really gonna dish on someone saying they couldn’t stand one piece of they stopped after Wano? At that point I’d say their opinion is more than valid.
Beyond all those points I just didn't see a point of how u can raise the stakes of ninja God mom and they didn't they had to nerf the heroes to not fix the problem or made the weirdest or wildest abilities and reasons why Naruto or sasake can't or won't atomizes these pple
I feel like (even though I dislike it) if boruto was like Korra years after the story ( the literal completely new generation ) would have explained the power scale jump why the heroes not fixing things and even the technology jump too
I will say this my problems with Boruto aren't just with it, are with Naruto's ending as a whole, and no, it's not a pairing problem(Even through in my opinion from the manga perspective which is what i experience it just makes no sense), i have a ton of problems with the ending of Naruto... So can i expect Boruto to solve Naruto... No and it shouldn't, it should progress on it's own thing... But it will keep carrying them, so yeah im not going to waste my time on it because of that. Because my problem is not just Boruto, it's Masashi Kishimoto writting through the ending of his own Manga, and i can't expect it's sequel to be better.
5:49 idk why people are shocked Naruto would put the village ahead of his kids. Did we not read/watch Naruto? Naruto is the same series where the first hokage said he’d kill his own child if they stood against the village, the second hokage sacrificed himself so his team could escape in a war, the third hokage was prepared to join danzo in an ambush against the uchiha clan ( and they planned on leaving survivors if itachi hadn’t stepped up, that means killing innocent men, women and children including the babies ), the fourth hokage Naruto’s father could’ve easily lived and helped raise his son but chose to die so that he could seal the 9 tails putting konohas military forces ahead of his own needs, kakashi took a mission as hokage that violated the peace treaty and could’ve started a 5th ninja war.
I say all of this to say that Naruto idolized the Hokage position and what it stands for, even if he may not always agree with the decisions the previous hokage make he damn sure respects them and try’s to follow their footsteps so are you really shocked that Naruto would put the village and it’s needs ahead of his own family?
Most of those Hokage died in wars or dealing with inner political strife (Hizuren with the Uchiha, even if his solution was crap).
Naruto is a Hokage in peace times and has no political issues within the village. And the guy can clone himself with the large amounts of chakra that he has. So he can be with his kids and do the paperwork. He wasn't dealing for almost a decade as a Hokage with wars or any major threats.
@@kevintanza6968yes but Naruto already said why he’d never leave a shadow clone in the hokages office because it would be a sign of disrespect to the hokage that came before him
When I watch/read Boruto I don't watch/read to like it or hate it. 💀
So I want to be clear on my bias before I continue. I do not think I'd like Boruto even on it's own. It is...REALLY ugly in my eyes, literally I physically don't like looking at the manga at times, I don't really like Boruto as a character, and a lot of the themes just don't click with me.
That being said, it'd just be something I shrug at and move from if it was on it's own. Art isn't everything in a story no matter how bad I think it is, and me personally not liking something isn't a sign of quality. I also never liked Attack On Titan, it's just not for me, and that's fine.
That being said, yeah this is called "Next Generation", it is built on being connected to Naruto, and that is how I judge it. Stuff like Naruto's fathering doesn't feel earned, the lore is pretty bad now and outright contradicts things that Naruto was consistent on, not to mention stuff like fights feeling worse because of that inconsistency, and a lot of the things I liked in Naruto feel dropped rather than resolved at times.
But those are just my takes of course.
I watch the anime and read the manga and have to admit mitsuki and sarada are way more enjoyable in the anime. Same for team 10 and himawari and kawaki as well, although unless we start getting them written in the manga, it does feel off. In the anime, kawaki basically has a soft spot for himawari and more or less acknowledges that she sees him as an older brother, so he protects and helps her. U can argue its cuz she is Naruto's daughter but i feel like they try and portray it as him caring. In the manga, i feel like i don't remember them even interacting outside of breaking the vase
As an OG fan who was never interested in boruto, I am proud of those who stick to it until the time skip and afterwards.
😊🍵 Cheer to that.
IDK why people hate on Boruto or even why boruto fans states that Boruto and Naruto are different. I love boruto mainly becoz of the Dynamic it shows with old charcater and new character i.e. Naruto and Boruto, Sasuke and Sarada, etc.
What dynamic Sasuke is a tree and Naruto is written out the story
@@seniorsterling1064 Itachi was just for 20ish ep in whole anime! Quality > Quantity
Sasuke and Naruto stuff is at the end of Boruto and TBV
I think boruto has been solid for a long time now ever since kara introduction really. Especially after the timeskip which has been slapping every chapter. I feel one point was missed was people just wanted it to be about naruto and were annoyed he werent in it much.
They could of treated him with respect same with Sasuke, you telling me they didn't learn any new techniques after 15 years, When he Knew more otsuski were gonna show up? Makes no sense.
The second part of boruto is pretty hard if you’re reading it.
Boruto TBV is the best new gen manga out there and it’s got me waiting anxiously for the 20th each month 🔥🔥
Boruto the consequences of being ass 😞
You are who he's talking about
You definitely didn’t watch the video
@@ejenugborbrukeme3358 keep coping
Bro really didn’t watched video and kust wanted to hate like clown
@@quraishvlogs3471 just*
Boruto is actuality better written than jjk will ever be, and don't start with the last arc it's just lazy writing at this point
Im a huge boruto hater. Hated chapter 700 and virtually everything thats happened since. BUT...
When I think about a scenario that naruto could be defeated, how it happened is consistent with Naruto's character.
Being caught off guard by his over trusting nature, and not having kurama to sense kawakis negative emotions.. it makes more sense to me than him being beaten by someone like isshiki.
That's all the praise ive got.
The power scaling is so so,bad. Momoshiki says the chakra fruit kaguya ate was unusually strong, he says it has a curvature of 16 and anything over 10 must be reported to the clan.
And... That makes me question wtf jigen/isshiki was even doing. We know kaguya betrayed him and took the fruit for herself... But if the mini ten tails isshiki was nursing was anywhere close to kaguyas, he would have been obligated to report it.
So did he go rogue as well? Remember momo never even mentioned him
I 100% agree with your reasonings for while Boruto is hated especially with the art
So basically Boruto is like Sukuna right now. Even if something is done right and has a good explanation, people will find loopholes to criticize it. Like for example, Sukuna using hollow wicker basket. It was meaned and hated while people with common sense knew that sukunw always had it
If anything I'm too entrenched in my boruto dislike to read it. I watched the Boruto movie long before I had consistent access to the internet. I treated Boruto post movie the same as I treated seven deadly sins post season 2, with apathy and listen to what happens in the show. I still don't believe two blue vortex is going to be good, but I will shut my mouth and wait for how it play out(Because its a semi clean slate). The thing I'm looking for is consistent quality, not consistently amazing of course, decent to good.
This is the first video I've found that actually explains why people hate Boruto rather than just hating it because of the bandwagon
Hearing the word "naruto" come out of your mouth gives me a stupid amount of seratonin 😂😂
As someone who hated the introduction of aliens in Naruto boruto focusing on that sucks plus I just hate how they done the Naruto cast so dirty
The biggest crime that Boruto commits is treating the Naruto series characters like garbage and using them as punching bags for the newer cast. Naruto and Sasuke are relegated as jokes and the remaining original casts are practically rendered irrelevant.
It was a bait and switch to get Naruto fan to follow the series only for them to be disrespected.
So Boruto as a series will continue to be hated and will end up having the same legacy as Dragonball GT.
I disagree
Dragon ball gt was loved and still is loved today
Gt didn’t get hate like boruto did
Boruto be mad sleeping always
it's 2024 and peoples still view Boruto as his 2017 self.
No the show still sucks
@@557deadpool Have read the manga?
@@MeenakshiSingh-ts3dc the manga itself is the issue. There are multiple plot points that could of been character arcs, to build the character towards.
Sarada and her Ms awakening is a big example, if we truely want to say she awakens her Ms from love, it should be history built between Boruto and Sarada like with Sakura and Naruto (also still a fumble). Sarada does not earn her Ms power up like Sasuke did with his.
It literally has no correlations or relevence towards the time skip or reason to even awaken. What is the purpose of the Ms now, after the time skip it still has no relevence.
Hears my opinion on the matter, I have never watched Boruto and never will so I cant hate on it, but I think Boruto should not even exist, shoulda just left at the Naruto ending and called it a day, no need to keep milking Naruto's name. For instance, one of my favorite series is One Piece and if they end up making like a Two Piece, I WOULD BE PISSED, just leave the story LET IT END.
Its not only what you said...
I find that there's a failure to follow up with hints on the original manga.
There was no hinting of the trayectory that is currently fueling Boruto's narrative other that Kaguya's reveal at the last posible moment.
While we have so much better set up stuff that could be explored. And Minato's one shot proves it.
We have the Waring Era, the first, second and third shinobi war, so many fantastic villages that could be used to create more narratives.
We have the other Jinchuriki, we have the Akatsuki members, The other Kages, hell, we still dont have a clue about the Uzumaki Clan, the main character's clan...
And people HUNGER for stories on the Naruto world, Naruto is the anime with the most fanfictions ever.
I love the shinobi world, and the focuse of some random aliens that where pushed in at the end frustrates the fuck out of me, especially when they destroy the universe's powerscaling with Ototsuki mumbo jumbo...
No joke, my favorite arc of Boruto is the Onoki filler arc, with the Madara paralleles, and the struggle of the older generation that was raised in war accepting and trusting the younger generation to keep the peace.
I'm just waiting for more light novels and maybe spinoffs at this point, Boruto has nothing for me...
I am pretty ignorant to the show, I have only watched a few episodes and clips, I just figured I was growing out of shonen manga I couldn't get into JJK, BNHA, or KnY either. As I was watching boruto I didn't find myself caring about the story of Boruto or Kawaki becoming the strongest, I wanted to see more Mirai or Sakura navigating post war life.
I just know as a shonen they operate by constantly upping the ante, and Shippuden already ended so far removed from where Naruto originally started, I didn't want to keep going in this direction, I wanna tone down the power, which is exactly what Naruto was, toned down power and stakes in comparison to the shonen anime that preceded it
Other than the art and characters being eh the think that made me hate it the most was the absolute disrespect naruto and sasuke saw not them getting beaten or handicapped but just who did it a terrible villan with boring motives that has absolutley nothing interesting about him the fact that that is their last real fight genuinely disgusts me bow that it is twin blue vortex and they are just focusing on the new characters it is fine i mean not great but i have seen worse at the very least jutsu are starting to be used again and some characters are starting to get decent the art still sucks but cant really change that without swapping out artists.
I dont hate Boruto but i dont like it either i am so used to watching naruto its hard for me to see someone eles taking his place i kinda had the same feeling in dbz when gohan replaced goku for a short period of time
Ive been saying this and standin on it that going forward was a mistake there is so much untouched on lore and room for expanding on hyped up characrets thru out the history naruto getting more one shot type stories or a prequel anthology series going over and expanding the historical events of naruto its a win win they get to keep the story intact and something that everybody would generally be more hyped for more and making money going over characters like akastuki members, hokages, kakashi father, etc would still imo be way more interesting and accepted by the fanbase as well and would still if not even more
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Genuinely Boruto is a rock solid 6.5/10 which means not horrible but it is just lacking
It's not lacking
@@papaadot9369 I think the villains are lacking and the story lacks a bit of depth I think it’s just a solid like back burner show yk no hate to it I just don’t think Boruto is suited for me
My hate for the Boruto series comes from the love I have for the Naruto series, my 2 biggest issues with Boruto is that:
1. They took the worst thing that happened in shippuden and ruined the ending and decided to make it the main plot in Boruto (the aliens) Till this day there’s haven’t been a single Boruto villain that is at least close to the level of Naruto main villains.
2. The way the legacy characters were handled especially Naruto and Sasuke it’s straight up disrespectful (I get that they needed to get nerf but at least do it well and not in a lazy writing way)
Why hate on some series you don't like?
I think it's because is a sequel to a series they enjoyed.
I was a huge naruto fan back in the day, i was disappointed with the last arc, but overall is a great series, but Boruto honestly i dont see not even 1 redeeming quality i don't like nothing about it, Art is inferior, they ruin the continuity and ruin everything that was build in 700ch, and the key factor, they cut literally 90% of the cast from the story cuz the writters cannot handle a bigger character pool would u believe me if i tell u Kakashi in almost a decade havent appear in a single chapter? Like WHERE TF IS EVERYONE? They aren't dead.
if we talking about the manga readers it wasn't hit as hard as the anime and it made the manga readers have no way to defend it and the anime has like 3 to 5 banger and 170 filler and like barely some 25 or something form the main story and the story itself still has to rely on naru/sasu for big fight o important missions and if they did spliced them from the world after momoshiki and reunion in isshiki it would make more sense and have naruto either die or just can't go back to village to not only create suspense and danger abd to force the new gen to adapt to the new vacuum of power
Boruto is the best new gen anime (my opinion)
Still don't like boruto
congrats
Fair enough, it's a mess.
@@tomatoorphan6166 It's not
Love boruto it has my full support
The art in Boruto... Maaan it gets me mad at times 😭 how are you monthly but still so bland
Plz make a hunter hunter video 😩
W Mikeyuubi reference
Yea I wasn't the part of the fandom that didn't like boruto because of things like this because u have to make a story somehow after all what happened in Naruto it's really just everybody wanted exactly Naruto again maybe
It’s funny, I live in Japan and this idea that Naruto being a “bad dad” in the beginning of boruto isn’t shared with the Japanese audience. I chalk it up to the western fans just being toxic.
Or maybe just maybe there’s these this thing called cultural differences
@@lewissteward65 you’re right we don’t disrespect our authors and misinterpret shit for the sake of appealing to the popular narrative online 😂
@@daelanbro yeah, instead the Japanese send death threats to the author
No, you instead label an entire part of the fanbase toxic without fully hearing their reasoning, not hear them out, and when someone extends an olive branch you throw it on the ground and spit on it, you know, like anyone with the totally real moral high-ground does
@@caratrevoso3347 oh you mean how western twitter does that to multiple authors every week?😂
I honestly forgot Naruto existed ngl