Boruto: The Honest Truth
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First
No
Hey Seth
Sorry Seth but no
No.
Finally, I will be able to steal Seth's opinion on Boruto and pass it off as my own
OK that's cool I guess but that's also kind of cheating.......
I didn’t know you watched Naruto
@@joy4themightydonutchainsaw620 I love Naruto
Loved your videos on The Boys
@@Enja___ thanks!
"It's more like a wizard show where they act like ninjas."
True, that's how I like to think of it.
Weeb Harry Potter.
It was supposed to be about wizards in the beginning, but the heads at SJ thought ninjas would work better... and now we have black clover 😅
What's funny is that Naruto was slated to be a wizard manga, but the editor basically told Kishimoto to change it to what we know now. Perhaps Boruto is that chance for Kishimoto to go back to that original intention while still retaining the whole ninja theme.
@@brandonMstephen wasn't boruto just a cash grab?
@@sogekingsimp2469 it was,thats why kishimoto didnt want to take it back then,but he now is back to write the script.
My main issue with boruto as a concept is just surrounding the power in general. As a series it STARTS stronger than we ever saw naruto get. It’s a consequence of continuing the world but it doesn’t get to feel real because day one he’s fighting literal gods and we never get to have a “from the bottom” storyline
Yeah it's kinda like Dragon Ball if Goku suddenly skips over everyother Villain and is fighting Beerus in Chapter 1. The issue with Boruto is that it either can't keep it's power levels making sense or it can't use the New Generation without trying to make the Old look like shit. If there is no proper power scale between all these characters then what are we supposed to think? Baryon Mode is awesome but for it to happen they also severely nerfed Naruto and Sasuke and made Boruto somehow high Kage level?
I think what they should have done is have Baryon Mode be the end of Naruto for real. Not just Kurama, Naruto dies after killing Isshiki and taking that plan down with him. I think they should have done a Goku Bye Guys thing sort of passing the mantle onto Boruto as he gives Boruto his Six Paths power and what's left of his chakra. That I think would have been a great sendoff for Naruto and Kurama. Now we have him alive but now they act like he was only Kage Level due to Kurama for some reason.
That’s why they nerfed the two characters who created the huge power difference. Let’s be honest, ignoring naruto and sasuke, the current “old gen” (Konoha 11/current Kage) are roughly equal to or maybe even weaker than the previous “old gen”, especially when compared to the previous Kage and the fact that there is only one remaining jinchuriki. People complained about the powers getting too ridiculous which is why the new abilities are still super strong but more grounded. For example, there’s no more giant chakra avatars, there’s a lot more taijutsu, and even the op villains have much more simpler powers compared to the end of shippuden. Ishikki’s ability was simple yet op (shrinking), Shin’s mangekyo ability was interesting but nowhere near as op as the others, momoshiki’s abilities were strong but could be dealt with unlike Kaguya’s which were literally unstoppable. Even the karma, although it’s busted, only two people currently have it and it’s a double edged sword with serious consequences.
Boruto being a genius is not really a problem but in og Naruto even the geniuses had to work their asses off (sasuke, minato, neji, the three sannin, kakashi, etc.) at the age of ten none of them were at a trans regional level (using scaling inspired by one punch man), let alone planetary level like Boruto apparently got. There’s a proper training arc lacking
Well it’s not a new story remember it’s part 3 of naruto so it wouldn’t really make sense
The legend of Korra did the same thing. Anng is the atla has to get good enough at 3 elements in 10 months and we follow him through his journey throughout the show. But in Korra as a baby she can bend 3 elements without even getting a teacher which doesn't make sense. And then the show cuts to her as 16 already being a master at 3 elements.
A lot of the defenses of boruto seem to come down to “well naruto did it too, so why are you mad now” when in reality we were mad when shippuden did it and it feels like this series has taken on all the aspects nobody liked about the original series and excluded many of the aspects that made us love it in spite of those flaws
this.
Yeah the "if you don't like boruto then you don't like naruto" kinda out this as boruto propaganda.
@@pridefulworm yeah that pissed me off. like WTF seth? why he throwing shade?
@ you don't have to be an important anything to point out flaws in something? Are you okay??
@@koobertohumperdink8702 am i not entitled to my opinion?
Why does Seth sound like he's trolling while plugging Raid Shadows Legends? Never change Seth 😂😂
He’s self aware enough i suppose XDD
"and I genuinely mean that"
Delete this comment you may couse him trouble🤫
"a true console gaming experience in the move" had to watch that one a couple times
Probably the sponsors asked him to be more energetic when he plugs.
“WHERE IS KAKASHI? IS HE DEAD?!” Took me out 💀
Yes but also where is 7th gate rock lee
@@agentnukaz1715 bro 💀 who gives af about lee. Lee is complete fodder.
@@idrees25 lmao
@@idrees25
Fodder? Hes stronger then all the current kage 🤣
@@agentnukaz1715
Nice😎
Gonna be honest the reason immediately disliked boruto is because of how dirty they did naruto. Like having been through everything he’s been through, you’d think he’d be the LAST person to neglect his family. Seeing how they wrote him as neglectful, all work no family just felt so unnatural and abrupt that it felt like character assassination
not really, its been shown several times that family and friends aren't his top priority, his goals and views are his top priority. Which is why he cared about forgiving obito than avenging neji and his parents plus he doesn't have much of a concern for the next generation as he sees himself as the next generation. For example has naruto ever reached out to konohomaru at all?
I agree with you completely. Baruto series makes me feel cheated . Because it degrades many things in so many levels. Naruto series is better than baruto anyday.
@@shauvikpurkayastha764 first off, it’s BORUTO. And second, it doesn’t degrade anything, especially if you thoroughly understand everything about the Naruto series, which most Naruto fans prove every day that they do not. I stg if Naruto and Sasuke didn’t get nerfed, y’all wouldn’t be complaining. But I forgot, y’all value their power more than their characters. They lost the things that they actually didn’t even work for lmao. But anyway, idk why y’all worry so much and have so much to say about Boruto when y’all don’t like it. Just leave it alone and move on. It’s simple. You wanted it to be written one way and it wasn’t so now it “degrades” Naruto as a series. Dumbest sht ever. I have never seen an intelligent Boruto hater.
@@mlh1367 I haven't seen a single Boruto Fan thats not a vegetable
actually naruto's characterization makes sense. He's not neglectful on purpose but puts the village above all else so his "neglect" of his family is just the result of his job as hokage. Naruto not knowing how to be a "good" father also makes sense because he's never experienced having a father by his side so, by extension, he won't know how to be a father. Naruto by the end of shippuden isn't a perfect character. Just because we've seen the end of Naruto's own journey as a teenager doesn't mean his space to grow as a father has ended. And that's what the boruto series is carving out.
I hate how boruto "uses" Naruto and Sasuke, they are literally the strongest shinobi of all time , they should be the characters that fight once in every 300 episodes when shit really goes down, not Naruto going kyuubi mode for every single henchman. Their presence alone should make everyone shiver . I also dont like how boruto is fighting alien gods at the age of 10, that should be the ending of the show, not the beginning. They should have focused more on his training and growing up as a shinobi. He hasnt earned anything, he is just a genious that does everything right. They actually wrote themselves into a corner for using Naruto and Sasuke all the time and had to take away their powers... Lazy, lazy
It's like they are admitting boruto cannot survive on its own which tbh I don't think it will atleast for a while
They had to continue the strory of the otsutski and wat yu want boruto to do fight other shinobi for the first part even they are in peace
@@xajspamzz8298 i mean its not like bad guys magically disapeared from the world, after the war. They could have made the stories more grounded. Narutos first mission is about bandits holding up a bridge.
@@xajspamzz8298 They really DIDN'T have to go further than Kaguya. They could have easily left her as a creator deity who grew to despise humans and felt the Zetsu were better. Even then Kaguya in of herself was a retcon as Kishimoto had no idea how to take out Madara, so he built a villain with an inbuilt weakness.
@@cartman55655 Boruto's.. Too are all grounded.. The things Boruto snd his friends handle on their own are things of their lvl... And as of now since they are not ready for God lvl shits.. Naruto and sasuke willtry to handle iit... So where is the issue.. It's not like letting Boruto handle all of em.. Or relying on.. If they didn't do this way.. Then it wouldnt even be logical... If they want they can do the basic shonen trope of mc overpowering his opp.. But in that aspect the writers are realistic.. And even let Boruto fet saved by his friends numerous times... The narrative Boruto took is just foreign for shonen audience thats all.. . But this was needed
Please, for the love Boruto, let Konohamaru win at least once. I won’t get into the million reasons he should be stronger and more successful but he should at least be Kakashi but is treated like Iruka.
Even Iruka sensei had time to shine in a some filler arcs.
Preach. Konohamaru is the grandson of the 3rd Hokage. He was an early rival of Naruto and shares abilities from both of them. Why is he so bad? He’s literally only ever used as a plot device so that his team can show off their ability.
Well who so ever he had a fight against probably scales much higher than him, tho if we had him atleast scale up to Delta's levels it would've been appropriate atleast, He should technically be as qualified as Kakashi for someone who should be the next Hokage, i feel like he should get some buffs before Naruto's death or something like that to make his way to the 8th Kage
@@xsupremeyx9923 I don't think Naruto is going to die as in the future kawaki said he send Boruto to the same place he sent Naruto, so he will be teleported somewhere else. I actually feel Sasuke will die because in the future not only is Boruto wearing his head band, he has his cape and is using his sword, there is no way Sasuke will just give him all these things cause what will Sasuke use to fight himself, maybe you can make a case for the headband as he has given it to Boruto before and the cape is just clothing but the sword makes no sense since he has always used it as his go to weapon. I'm sure he dies and Boruto wears these things in respect for his master but who will kill him I'm yet to predict.
Konohomaru still hasn't gone through Sage Nature Chakra training... trash
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Thanks king.
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Borito is trash.Boruto's powerscaling is all over the place, most of the entire series is filler, the new characters are boring and uninteresting and people only watch Borito's ass series for Naruto, Sasuke and the characters we were attached to from Naruto.
They completely fuck up the powerscaling and have the most forgettable plot I've ever heard of. They bring down the old characters we knew and love for a boring cast of snotty brats to shine. The new generation is the most boring setting to develop any kind of plot in and the whole Otsutsuki thing is just a recycled piece of garbage.
At this point they're just going to build up to the shittiest finale to end the Naruto series we loved. Dont think I'm just blindly hating on it, there are some things I like about the series, like the animation, Code and that inventor guy, but most of it is just simply trash.
Not to mention sitting through those filler arcs were genuinely painful, Boruto was trending so I forced myself to get caught up to that garbage and I dont regret that painful experience because now I can properly hate on that garbage of a show. It's plain trash.
You guys are so cute
Clyde where the smash or pass video I try to watch but I can't find the video?
Having read the manga and seen the anime, my main beef with Boruto is that the pacing is absolutely horrendous. There is no buildup or threat to many of the antagonists, there is little to no gravity in all of it, and they rely way too much on Naruto and Sasuke to carry the story when it should be about everyone. Consider that a solid chunk of Naruto's peers by the end of the Ninja War Arc were probably Jonin level, due in large part to the stakes and the resources they all had access to when the villages united. Then a substantial time skip happens between the end of Shippuden to Boruto and it's like everyone was in stasis. They grew significantly over a short period of time of war against the Akatsuki and Madara and the writers tried to sell the idea they just stopped completely when Kaguya was defeated? That is complete bullshit. If they wanted to do the series justice, they would've built on what Naruto and Shippuden paved, taken the time to flesh out each character and actually give them some moments where they experience conflict and show how they grew after Shippuden ended. But they didn't.
Boruto just gets handed everything and is a completely unlikable character even after he steps into his role, because his "redemption" and coming to terms with Naruto took all of 2 seconds when that seemed to be his major hurdle to get over, which was a dumb trait for them to focus on - if anything, it should've been a side conflict that Boruto dealt with as the way it was resolved implies it was never a big deal to begin with. In contrast, Naruto didn't even know who his parents were and when he met Minato during the Pain arc, that was a mountainous thing for him despite it not being a focal point of his character. That is the example they needed to learn from.
That's my gripe. I think a lot of things about Boruto are interesting, like an attempt to understand the ninja world scientifically, the Karma, etc. but there's not much to appreciate in the characters or the plot. It starts at 100 and so everything else by comparison feels weightless, and the pacing of everything was and is totally atrocious.
they kindof did that with shikamaru in the last episodes of shippuden, which were genuinely good interesting episodes that grew shikamarus character and paved him and temaris relatinoship including sai's and ino's, I wish they did more of that before boruto came out aswell
I hate the pacing as well
your comment about the science in the ninja world gave me the idea that you could have a new steampunk nation arise and threaten the ninja way of life that could be a plot for boruto but nooooo instead we have "aliens"
100% agreed. I feel the same bro
@@MyFunnyVids888 they’d done that’s in the movie with the snow ninjas can’t remember the name but it’s a naruto movie it was semi steam punk with warship blimps and trains
I laughed SO HARD when I realized Sarada's design, like when I first saw her outfit it didn't even register until I noticed she looked different and then I looked it up, turns out the guy responsible for her design just did it and NO ONE told him anything until readers pointed it out.
What's up with her design?
@@Amartin-mu6oj look at her original appearance in the manga, she's wearing high heels and her dress isn't exactly appropriate or practical, I mean Sakura had fashion sense when she was a kid but it's nowhere extreme what Sarada was wearing. So basically the guy responsible for her design dressed her that way and none of the staff noticed until readers pointed it out, now her clothes are completely different. It just shows no one was in charge
Designer: ZAMN SHES 12 😍
@@birdwithinternetconnection2624 this comment made me....
Sarada should've been much more thought out in honestly very disappointed like the side characters need some love too especially the main characters love interest
Seth changing his voice for a AD is to entertaining
Everyone does that tho it’s called marketing !
@@luciferpitchblack3217 my nigga relax
@@unfocus1507 I was just joking Bruh don’t take it to seriously !
@@luciferpitchblack3217 bro stop using this !
lowkey i think he does it semi-sarcastically like "man, i sure do hate raid: shadow legends, but fuck it, i'm gonna act super enthusiastic about this garbage"
Honestly, my issue in the beginning would be with the anime's slow burn, which probably turned a lot of people off from the show. Seeing Boruto be insufferable for over a year of weekly episodes was nowhere near as bad as the 8-10 monthly manga chapters. The side character stuff was nice, but having a main character like that was a bad experience. Once the anime started adapting the manga chapters, was a great improvement. I don't blame them since the manga is monthly while the anime has to keep dropping episodes every week
Honestly they should've taken a 1 year gap after shipudden instead of immediately starting boruto
@@rahulmenon9530 I think this would have been helpful for sure, but oh well y'know 😂
Definitely, it truly was a bothersome experience. I'm glad the show is moving forward now, I think it'll be great in no time too.
Completely agree and that was my main issue with the Boruto anime. It is so....incredibly.....boring at the beginning, and for such a long time. Now that the plots and characters and fights have gotten interesting again its actually worth watching.
Now that said, there are some anime fights where the power scaling is totally warped. For example the Urashiki fight, the fact that Boruto is standing up to a being that has god like power onto Naruto/Sasuke is just ludicrous... and really makes it hard to take the series seriously sometimes.
Low key fucks up the anime for me. In my eyes I don't care how good an anime gets if a good chunk of the beginning is ass, but that's me so eh fuck it
Kishimoto failed to realize a lot of fans wanted him to tell the stories of characters that were already in the show. I'd pay good money to watch A series about Hashirama's life, from when he was a kid born into a war-torn world up to his death. Another story worth telling is Itachi's life and how he thinks, having to play as a villain while trying to protect his beloved brother and village.
Well only 12 people agrees with you
@@nidalabusaleh8017 I agree. The warring states arc was WAY too *Short*
@@Bennahr_Fett ye
no
some of the 'Shinden' filler from Shippuden actually provides this.
For me, the whole "nerfed" thing is due to two things: A- like you said, the absorption thing takes away their most potent abilities and B- other characters seem to just be improve just because Naruto and Sasuke are so strong. For me, the other 4 kage have no business keeping up with Momoshiki, and Sakura shouldn't really be as strong as she is stated to be. You can't have someone become godlike and then state someone else is able to keep up with them.... just cuz
@Mii Me 🤨 You ok?
This right here is one of the most egregious problems with the series although Sakura getting stronger isn't terribly bad. She was already Sannin tier as a 16-17 year old as it is so her gaining more power just by passively storing chakra into her 100 healings seal can be rationalized.
@@elishaj2977 I don’t think that she was a Sanin level when she was 16
@@mrbeard798 war arc Sakura I'd say she's sanin
@@RareTheSage I disagree.
“Shadow kage” isn’t a thing cause kage means shadow, you can’t be a shadow shadow.
The shadow of The Shadow, then...
@@AndrewAce. God the edge is strong in this one
@@paullucas7504 Lmao
@Dante pseudo-hokage
Shadow fire shadow actually
that absorption part is absolute facts its out of hand and every fight.
I want to make a manga when I'm older and I'm thinking of fixing this problem by putting a twist on absorption because its stupid that you can absorb an op jutsu or attack and there are no reprecautions at all
@@anonymousdonkey. I think absorbtion should be changed to disruption which costs chakra. There is no way nullifying a jutsu and gaining chakra can be written well. At least use up some rescources smh.
I think summoning natural jutsu is the way to counter it.
@@anonymousdonkey. DBZ fixed that issue. The androids had to absorb because they didn't generate energy on their own, but they also had a limit on the amount they could absorb before exploding.
...wait, doesn't it go into their hands?
Honestly my biggest problem with the show (and I have many) is that they've basically written Madara Uchiha out of history. It feels like the writer wants us to forget how strong he actually was in his final form because it sort of undermines all these new villains who are supposed to be the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. Straight disrespect to the GOAT.
It’s not disrespecting, he’s just dead
And why do you think that character s in boruto should talk about madara, let alone respecting him. He was just a delusional emo who started 4 th war and killed many shinobi
madara is just another reincarnation of indra who happens to be dead, that's like saying "no one talks about Hashirama"
@@forgetfulstranger yes thats true and about powerscaling I just dont get it what makes people think that ishiki is weaker than kaguya....
You're just a Madara fanboy...
Madara's legacy is just over and deal with it...
The problem with Boruto is less about the actual story or plot, and more about how the story is being told/portrayed...the story suffers from poor pacing imo, and a painfully dull/uninteresting supporting cast (asides the team boruto)
the stakes are too low
I DID NOT realise how much Madaras quotes came true in Boruto..
What Quote?
NOTHING EVER GOES AS PLANNED
@@phasemitski3918 a lot...thats actually borutos concept...there must be
lot of videos about it on youtube
@@un-windingyou8219 what are you talking about
The ultimate switcharo is naruto suddenly wakes up after being awaken by madara out of the god tree to help him fight jigen
31:12 Poor Seth forgot that Kakashi is Omnipotent. He is merely writing the Boruto story within a sixth dimensional plane.
True, boruto is just a story that kakashi finally can relax
I see nothing false in what this person has said.
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Nah bro, the entire story of Boruto is a genjutsu cast by Itachi, him and Sasuke are still standing in the Uchiha hideout. 😂👌
It's all in Kurenai's Genjutsu dimension.
Its just hard to care for Boruto when he gets the perfect life and family that his father never had and his struggles are not comparable to struggle of his parents. I care more about what Orochimaru is doing than the main cast.
Yea that's kinda done on purpose kishimoto already stated in a interview that his life is gonna slowly get worse which is brilliant narratively and for narutos and borutos dynamic because narutos life got better as time went and boruto the opposite we already see in the first panel that kawkai or maybe isshiki destroyed the village and its been heavily foreshadowed that he kills everyone besides boruto as he had visons of it so in the end boruto is gonna end up having a worse life than naruto and boruto does have some comparable struggles that naruto had as they both had to worry about the beings inside of them being unleashed and killing everyone close to them
I don't think you understand what Boruto's story is about.
He has the perfect life BECAUSE OF NARUTO.
If you're mad about Boruto having a good life then blame Naruto.
Naruto created world peace.
His neglect of Boruto is why Boruto ends up doing reckless shit (which is what Naruto used to do)
This story being the way it is IS BECAUSE OF NARUTO.
Naruto started from the bottom with nothing and grew up, got stronger and achieved his dreams. He has a family, a career, responsibilities as a hokage and has to learn to be a good father.
Boruto's story is about how good his life was before everything got worse.
Momoshiki said Boruto's prophecy is to "lose it all".
If you don't understand that by now idk what to tell you.
@@BryMakesArt Unless his parents and all his fathers friends die out before he can reach maturity then i dont really care since there is not pressure, i I dont buy any new villain being more powerfull than Madara and Kaguya, its like Eternals villains appearing after we already had MCU End Game final fight, it won't create any hype.
@@MrConredsX I mean, I like Otustsuki's
They're well designed (powers and looks wise) and narratively foreshadowed throughout the series in clever ways.
(The doujutsu
The kekkei genkei
The abilities used
Etc)
It's cool to see how advanced their species is
Especially since they created the Naruto verse in the first place since kaguya fucked a Human LOL
@@BryMakesArt I havent seen any episode but just from your comment i can tell ther are just a copy of Akatsuki that Kichimoto only thought of after finishing Shipuuden. If they were "forshadowed" in Naruto or SHipuuden, then its probably just Kishimoto using some past elements and retroactively making them meaningfull in Boruto.
100% agree on the power scaling 4 tails naruto was blow up land masses
Naruto at this point should be blowing up moons for fun
Needed this one. Thank you Seth-San
Hope you feel better, buddy.
@@SethTheProgrammer Thank you❤️
The og Dan
@@SethTheProgrammer tobirama >>>>>> minato not a 🧢
@@hennigod8957 Lol you can't powerscale
I think the anime starting off so colorful and happy is actually to it’s benefit in the long run. Boruto is destined to lose everything, it’s stated multiple times and shown in the opening scene vs Kawaki. Getting to see him live through the peace that Naruto created only to eventually lose it all is gonna be so gut wrenching to watch and I think the contrast between early and late Boruto will really drive that point home. The anime, much like the manga is already treading on some dark themes and I can’t wait to see how it’ll play out and delve even deeper.
I think ur completely right. For me, as more time goes on the Anime is getting pretty interesting and I’m glad that some people are starting to recognize that. I’ve been watching this show with an open-mind from the start, and sure I took others opinions into consideration (when everyone was hating on Boruto, still happening now) but I wouldn’t let their opinions change what I thought of the show. The patience is starting to pay off 👍
I think everyone is the leaf is going to die
i agree with you i think it will be a setup for a more sinister happening for boruto.
that was also said by KIshimoto, the anime should initially be cheerful and later become darker and darker ..
@@aerostrafe1075 You don't want to see how dark and how it happens? There's no intrigue to you? I wonder what does intriguie you lol
My main problems with Boruto are that:
1.Naruto and Sasuke are being somewhat bad fathers. They themself lost their family, they should know better than anyone else how to take care of them. Too much work isn't a valid reason here since Naruto and Sasuke both have ability to come home at any time(teleport, clone,....). Sasuke's case is at least kinda understandable since he just went trained most of his life(like Kawaki case), but no excuse for Naruto. They even showed Naruto gave up receiving the Hokage just so he could save Boruto from Himawari, it makes absolutely zero sense for him to go down from care about his family more than anything else to care about Boruto even less than villager, heck even Konohamaru was treated better.
2.Boruto didn't really have a good teacher before Konohamaru, it takes Naruto Iruka, Kakashi and Jiraya who are all arguably the best teachers in the series, if not in the entire anime world. It would make sense for Naruto to teach Boruto, this shows he actually cares about his son and makes Boruto's strength not so natural anymore.
3.Sasuke is basically a support now, how come the rival of the strongest shinobi in the history, the one who has the ultimate rinnegan that even Otsutsuki doesn't want to deal with go down to a fuking punching bag who can just teleport around and can't do anything else. He KNEW how dangerous Otsutsuki are, so isn't that a good reason for him to FINALLY replace his hand with a Hashirama one ? Not only it increase his speed, strength, chakra and many thing else, it alsho shows that he finally threw his guilty aside and protect the village at all cost
4.Naruto's generation absolutely got disrespected, not just in the Isshiki fight where they just tackle in with no abilities or tatics, their designs are basically so digusting. Lee lost all his youth power, Shino fuking went from the coolest quiet kid (Sasuke would legit fail if Shino was in the rescue team) to the VR talk much but unnoticable dude. Hinata also lost the booba and oh boys don't even talk about Mei and Anko.
5."Boruto" show is basically about Naruto and Kawaki, like seriously just throw these 2 characters away and Boruto already lost a huge bunch of fans.
6.Naruto and Sasuke are nerfed so hard. Naruto's ability to use 1000+ clones, sense hateness, sage mode(used recently but nah not even that much), giving chakra and heal people just disappear. Sasuke lost literally EVERYTHING except teleport, portal and taijutsu, he used Chibaku Tensei once and nothing more, no other paths that would be extremely useful like Shinra Tensei to deal with the rods, Naraka Path to heal, Preta to deal with chakra problems or Animal Paths to switch with and tank for him.
7.Side characters get no screen time just like you said in the vid
8.Isshiki's built as smart or sth, but apparently not as smart as a random human like Madara. Madara completely controlled Obito and fooled him all into his plans, he aslo knows just what's the right moment to go all out and when not. Isshiki on the other hand couldn't even control Kawaki, but also wasn't smart enough to just take over the world after Naruto vs Sasuke fight.
Note: This cmt talked about Boruto anime, not manga so there maybe some don't apply to it.
Actually, almost everything in boruto is just terrible
Yea man the barutards just wants to hide the fact how badly the anime has been written. The writing is inconsistent,Lacks suspense,emotional attachment.Trashed and neglected characters. With extremely boring episodes, dipSh... power scaling,No goal and a pathetic storyline. The anime is Extremely overrated tbh.
It's better for suske to be single To be more bad ass For me the reason is his clan of sharingan It's like a cursed I'm not Sakura hater but I think that is much better I also see the problem that It's hard to pocus on the new characters because of their parents It's like a copy cat
This is an underrated comment, and it's honestly a shame not many people are paying attention to it just because it's long... 😢
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I think one of the things people often either overlook or forget is that the disrespect of the characters is not at all limited to Naruto and Sasuke. This is the world Naruto saved, but he and Sasuke are not at all the only two keeping it that way. After the Last arguably everyone from that era should be aware that Kaguya lvl threats were a thing. Why is it that barely any of the ninja war veterans are doing anything and even fewer are effective at all? Why are the hokage all just fodder basically now?
And this need to retroactively explain or handwave these glaring flaws end up subtracting from other characters in the newer generation. We can’t focus on the new shinobi because we have to thoroughly explain why none of the old guard can do anything/do anything anymore.
It’s not that Boruto is terrible as a story, it’s that the story is horrible to those in it and in a fashion that anyone aware of the original would immediately call bullshit on.
true
SETH IS AN ACTUAL MAD MAN WATCHING AND READING THE WHOLEE THING FOR US!
I mean it’s only like 70+ chapters and 120 + episodes give or take so it’s not anything crazy
@@jesusblanco7657 *60+
@@Whis__ thank you sir
I read that shit in a day the manga is great lol. Not long either.
@@Dj-fb8bs Seth watched the whole anime and read the manga
Seth: "naruto is the embodiment of hard work"
Rock Lee: "im i a joke to you?"
Rock Lee was filled with talent. Kakashi who trained for decades could barely get one gate open and lee opened 5 when he was 12.
@@miracles4219 Whilst Kakashi was indeed a hardworker (I think everyone is) he's basically a genius who can copy almost everything he sees lol. Meanwhile rocklee literally had nothing (not even CHAKRA which everyone has save for his family) expect for his body. Lee's hard work gave rise to his hidden "talent" and that's never giving up in his world full of monsters.
Might guy: "am I a joke to you?"
@@zico6302 guy could still use Jutsu rock lee cant even do that.
@@Dsmooth753youtube might guy failed the entrance exam a lot of times, he was seen as too weak but he trained and trained and mastered the 8 gates becoming the strongest taijustsu user in the world, until naruto and sasuke's six paths mode
"If you didn't like that you probably didn't like the Naruto series". Bold quote my guy. Boruto was derived from the worst arc and character in Naruto (Kaguya). The power creep is insane and they made Naruto of all people a bad father? It's like the people that made this series never watched Naruto at all.
He speak facts. If you don't like boruto then you never liked Naruto to begin with because boruto is just far better
hope kaguya comes back
@@rektz2457just because you going around spamming these ridiculous comments, doesn’t make them true 🤡
@@rektz2457he doesn’t even like the show😂 just manipulating Borutards like you to get views & likes good job
This is genuinely one of my favorite videos you’ve made Seth
The amount of sarcasm Seth has when he talks about raid shadow legends is funny asf 🤣
It's funny because they're so clueless. They're paying someone to low key shit on them 💀
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@@phionfire It working is irrelevant when talking about it being funny
@@bigroddempsey4082 just saying that it works, in-case you thought they were stupid or smth.
All advertisement is good advertisement lol. Raid is one of the most recognizable moblie games for a reason
38:51 You’re actually correct about that. The only reason Naruto is about ninjas is because Harry Potter became a thing around the same time as Naruto. I read somewhere that Kishimoto actually wanted his characters to be wizards instead of ninjas but the idea had already been taken and blown up.
I heard that as well
And couple of years later, we get Black Clover lol...a naruto ripoff with wizards
@@sneakcr3144 don’t disrespect black clover like taht
@@danielsemakula1526 I'm not...I mean...Black Clover is actually not bad, but you know...its obvious what "recipe" they tried to use.
@@sneakcr3144 how so?
I just don't find the antagonists appealing.
Idk maybe Kishimoto spoiled us with Orochimaru and each and every Akatsuki member.
The otsutsukis feel bland, their motivations feel bland and their powers seem bland
A very easy solution to keep the series going, without destroying the power scale or what Naruto achieved is to have a huge time skip.
Let say the series takes place when Naruto/Sasuke has died of old age.
Of which old enemies have been waiting for this opportunity to strike again.
6:42 I laughed so hard when naruto trolled himawari with such a cheap move in the anime
I kinda disliked him a *little* for that scene personally.
@@__T.O.G. he later celebrated both boruto and himawari birthday
@@blackdimension1682 " L A T E R "
@@Anime-dt5gw people learn from mistakes bro,naruto Himself was an orphan
@@blackdimension1682 Only certain characters can learn from their mistakes, Naruto isn't edgy enough to change.
“A wizard show where they act like ninjas”
I don’t think a truer statement has ever been made 😂
I think writing out Kakashi just like relying on absorption is to make the story telling in particular around the fighting easier. If everything is absorption, you no longer need to create the chess match between characters of using their jutsus. Kakashi is particularly relevant as the copycat ninja.
Naruto and Sasuke needed to be nerfed for the sake of Boruto’s story, but the way they went about it is the problem. The writing around it is lazy. Their solution was poorly written with almost no thought. IMO they should have put more thought BEFORE they wrote the series. At least some sort of plan. From my perspective Sasuke is the character that, out of everyone in the entire verse, is not the type to let his guard down let alone get his eye stabbed out. I also don’t think it’s fair to say the anime is good by any means considering the fact that only ~20% is manga canon. The rest is a mix of “Anime canon” (a lot of which is pulled directly from and inspired by things that we already saw in Naruto) and filler. Obviously he’s speaking on the manga, my point is based more in my opinions on the anime. I think that Naruto’s story should have ended with shippuden and any other content surrounding the universe should have taken place during a time period or in a village completely unrelated to Naruto. Too many plot holes. Too few interesting characters. Very few new ideas.
To be fair, Sasuke did get beaten up a lot before that and Momoshiki isn't exactly weak/slow. Still out of nowhere and could have been better, but it's at least kinda understandable. As for the anime, I'd say it's really a matter of opinion, because for me some stuff like the Mitsuki arc and some random episodes were incredible. Also, even though I dislike how bullshit the new manga characters' powers are, I feel like that can lead to a good story in the future.
@@Prinzherbert I hear your point. What’s done is done and I hope Boruto can continue to improve with Kishimoto back onboard.
There are many things that can be debunked in this. Like Sasuke not noticing Borushiki. First they just fought a god and someone entirely stronger, and he was also weakened. They’re already fighting one god, of course he’s not gonna have enough time, not only to react, but also have the capability to fight back. Last but not least, you have to apply that same logic to Madara when he was not only backstabbed not once, not twice, but three times I believe. Zetsu is the weakest character in the entire show and managed to basically kill the strongest character. The same is for here, they know Boruto has Momoshiki, you can’t expect them to know when he comes out at a specific time. They’re strong ninjas of course, but the Uchiha are not mind readers.
@@jevonhilton2236 I do apply the same logic. It was lazy writing back then too. Old lazy writing shouldn’t be used to justify new lazy writing.
@@yungsafe that’s not lazy writing. In fact, I’d go as far to say that Madara dying by being backstabbed was simply because he had no one backing him. He played people like tools, and ended up getting played. Now I will agree that they did shoehorn Kaguya in, however. Madara has been betrayed two times. Obito and Zetsu. One guy said they since he had no one to follow him, he had no one to watch his back. Which is why at the end he said that maybe the way he went about things was wrong and Hashirama was right. That’s not lazy writing
Wish we'd have gotten a darker, more violent story. The land of waves arc had brutal implications but they never touched on them afterwards.
oh youll see dark shit later in Boruto, trust me....
the dark shit is literally coming next week, if you read the manga you’d know exactly what i’m talking about.
@@Duskwalker68 oh… uhhh… just take this as a warning ⚠️ you may be pissed😬
@@Duskwalker68 yep yep, have fun reading then ‼️
@@meme_debate1445 "dark" lol boruto doesn't get dark
(DISCLAIMER: I AM A BORUTO FAN)
I think one of the absolute BIGGEST issues with Boruto is something that isn't talked nearly enough about. And it's the fact that the creators/whoever is in charge of the property put a huge amount of the MAIN STORY in the hands of Anime Studio writers.
People might say "wait, but isn't the anime-only material just filler? It's not main story.." That's precisely the problem. All of the Boruto anime- yes all of it- is confirmed by Kodachi to be 100% canon main story. I shit you not. The problem is, Studio writers are normally the people responsible for writing filler. There's a reason why a shit ton of people decided to check out Boruto with an open mind and went "wtf is this shit, its filler!" There's a reason why no one can remember 99% of the anime only villains names. There's a reason why the plots feel completely inconsequential to the actual story. None of the anime-only characters besides Sumire has appeared after their arcs, just like filler characters. This is where alot of Boruto fans sperg out and say "NOPE THE ANIME ISN'T FILLER ITS ALL CANON!!" Its like.. yes dude, we know. But it still FEELS like filler. That's the problem.
Now, I'm not trying to disrespect the work that the studio does (the anime actually boosts alot of the things in the manga making it better, adding more context to various panels etc), however its just a blatant fact that the studio writers are NOT at the callibre of writing that even Ukyo Kodachi is at, LET ALONE the level Masashi Kishimoto is at. (We are directly seeing the gap in skill between Kodachi and Kishimoto as writers in the Manga right now with several characters having way more depth and psychology added and actually allowing it to breathe)
Also PS, Ikemoto the artist for Boruto has barely any assistants helping him, so his art being bad or mediocre in Boruto is completely understandable lol
@@foodist5408 Your comment has nothing to do with this but here we go. Saitama is not a gag character and his best feat is planet level. Scaling him higher than his best feat without evidence is just wrong. With that said Goku is universal in base and has feats to show it. A universal buster would clap a planet buster any day. Until Saitama shows strength on par with Goku he is objectively not stronger than him. End of story.
@@foodist5408 slime solos and stfu
@@foodist5408 anos solos all of them
Goated boruto fan with an actual brain. Salute dude
Do you have a source for all anime material being canon?
My interpretation of the nerf is that the existence of boruto should change nothing of the fights that Naruto fights yet he seems to always have a key input
The thing is, Naruto is one of my favorite animes, together with fmab. What I love about it is the way of portraying human feelings, emotions, love, hate, death, the concept of peace, suffering, pain, loneliness, war and unjustice. It thought a lot of life lessons, it felt real and genuine, some scenes sent shivers down my spine. Do we have to talk about the characters and villains? Pain, Madara, Zabuza, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Naruto, the selfless and kind Hinata, I can go on forever... Incredibly well written. Here in Boruto, the plot is engaging and the battles are incredible but I feel like it's missing something, the magic atmosphere you can feel while watching Naruto episodes is missing along with the deep emotions that were created back then. This is only my opinion but I felt like sharing it.
Watch boruto vs ao he literally used talk no jutsu
I 100% agree! And even when Seth was pointing out those feelings in the manga such as loneliness I still felt as if the writing could have better betrayed that. It took 1 swing in Naruto to help us understand. 1. But in boruto it has been harder to read between those lines. It’s just not as vulnerable of a story, and when it is the pacing is so bad that you end up glossing over it.
31:11 Him ranting about Kakashi’s absence is just so funny 😂
“What kind of crazy vacation is he on?”
That's so true, everytime something important happened, Kakashi was literally on vacation lmao, even when he's doing a mission, he's doing it while also going on a vacation
Nah he’s going to finish Jiraya’s series
Wait a minute didn't ikemoto say if he revealed kakashi's role .it'd be a major spoiler.
@@kirthignana5406 Hol up, is dat true? Did Ikemoto actually said that?
@@VegaFic or just read this these are his actual words to the questions
Q :Are there any Naruto characters that have yet to appear in Boruto that you would love to have a chance to design in their older form?
Ikemoto:It'd be a spoiler. But you have to wonder: why doesn't Kakashi-sensei get much screen time even though he's such a popular character? What a mystery. Not that I can say anything about it
Bro, Seth. You gotta upload more. Your one of the only TH-camrs I can binge watch all-day. Your my cable, Bro. Keep em coming.
Edit: Obviously, this was meant as encouragement not for the quality of his videos to shrink. I will take those Animal Vs videos as they were far more interesting than I expected.
Finally someone says that too I feel like I’m the only who says something to That he does that since years that every 1-2 months comes 1 Video he should make atleast 2 videos a week that’s not much but atleast that
Agree
@@vistaxx You try to edit and write videos
@@vistaxx everytime a youtuber increases upload consistency, it results in lower quality video and eventually burnout for the creator. Literally never works. Very childish mentality you have saying 2 times a week isn't much. Unless you are a child, in which case, normal thought i guess so whatever.
@@polariluma Whats your Problem that was not hate normal comment
Boruto and Kawaki dynamic is special, they could take any route with them.
One thing people need to understand is that the reason why certain techniques were easier to boruto than Naruto as his age is because naturally uzumakis are gifted for having an immense amount of chakra (kushina stated that in her back story) and Naruto had to suppress the power of kurama which made things harder for him and that’s the whole reason why Naruto is better known for being even stronger than any other shinobi
Also, unlike Naruto, Boruto has actual living frames of reference for abilities and powers instead of having to learn from square one or from scratch
Yeah no, the Uzumakis prior to Naruto were still nowhere near God-like in power. They were powerful, but if all their members were kage level it makes no sense that the clan would be wiped out. This is all the result fo terrible writing, plain and simple.
He also has the benefit of learning taijutsu from the Hyuga, Boruto uses the gentle fist form whenever he fights in taijutsu despite not having the byakugan. He is also a prodigy like his grandfather, Minato, so there is some nature and nurture involved in Boruto's talent.
@@kool2btrue The clan were bullied by 3 great ninja nations not just one bro
@@quojo5757 We already know that God-like ninjas can basically wipe out nations by themselves, so it is still a tall order to claim the Uzumakis (a whole clan of them at that) were at that level. Minato who wasn't considered God-like could single handedly wipe out an army. Heck he could take Des Ex Machine incarnate, Obito all by himself.
Seth vids are always goated. Haven't even fully watched and i'm already liking the vid.
@@foodist5408 Goku* beats Saitama and Naruto*
@@foodist5408 🤡
@@foodist5408 something tells me you haven't been here long. Goku roflstomps the shit out of Saitama lmao
@@foodist5408 bud, you commented that on the wrong TH-cam vid
@@foodist5408 Goku rufflestomps and Naruto mid diffs
Sarada's look in the manga is about as atrocious as Momoshiki's look in the Boruto movie. Also, I thought Naruto gave his headband to Boruto once he graduated from the Ninja Academy.
I'm pretty sure sasuke gave his headband to Boruto
@@braindead3919 Sasuke scratched his headband down the center tho
I think the anime does a better job than the manga. For me, my main issue with Boruto is pacing of power increase. It goes too high too fast to the point it seems artificial. It goes so fast that side characters except Boruto and Kawaki does not have any room to grow. Initial Nruto did that far better. And also the fightings, boring as hell. I remember passing pages quickly with those boring one-sided fights ending with a deus ex machina.
Boruto has some good ideas (Boruto-Sarada dynamic relation, Himawari potential, Kawaki, etc.) but it is mixed with very poor development of the story arcs. And a lot of characters are nerfed or not respected like Naruto or Hinata who is just a shadow in the background. Sasuke is quite well handle in comparison. But for me the worst bertayal are Konohamaru (we don't feel a potential Hokage in him) and Shikamaru. The most intelligent man of the Shinobi world cannot arrange Hokage schedule to enable him to pass time with his family and is always following events, never anticipating... where is Naruto Shikamaru genius ?
I have SO many things to say about Boruto but I can't be bothered to type it all out
Yep
@@Shtickyaight yuuup
But anime has many fillers
idk if u read this recent chapter but they finally did him right
I'm not even gonna lie.
I'm FAR more interested in Bleach's continuation than I have been in Naruto, and as much as I love Dragonball, I'm less hyped for Super than Bleach's return.
HOWEVER: The current super Arc IS really good imo, and is more interesting than the previous Moro arc (which itself was great), so Super's not out of the picture.
I gotta say: Toyotaro can write some good stories when he isnt having to rehash the anime. Didn't he write Dragon Ball AF?
bro, have you seen the latest chap? looks like vegeta's greatness will continue for the rest of the arc
Sarada's* character can really be more developed. I love how tactical she is.
She could also use third tomoe of her sharingan but noooo
@@Mr_Heydrich Well it looks like there will be a special arc for her
Should be one for her like sasori arc was for sakura
Sarada*
With the track record Kishimoto has with female character, I'm betting she'll end up as a damsel in distress and ultimately become a housewife.
“Wizard show that acts like Ninja” finally someone who said it. 😂
Tbh naruto shippuden was that but 100x
@@4yahwey275 for real at least boruto doesnt like destroy mountains or nuke villages lol.
@@Leon-uu4wk well at least no now it’s like the og db but with technology not that much crucial damage
Fun fact: naruto was supposed to be about wizards, but harry potter became a thing at rhe same time to kishimoto had to rethink his original idea. Hence, how the concept of ‘ninjaaaaaas’ came to fruition
My problem with the 'aliens' in Boruto is that we only really dealt with them at pretty much the last second in Naruto, then suddenly they are the big bad of this new series. I was just so uninvested in that final showdown I couldn't bring myself to care about it them any further in Boruto.
To be fair, so far in the manga there are only two aliens and now both of them are dead. And the opening chapter is clearly building Kawaki/Boruto conflict as the actual heart of the story instead of aliens alone. IDK, it kinda reminds me of DBZ, where in the original everything felt somewhat grounded to earth, but then Goku was revealed to be an alien and most of the villains are aliens, androids, or mystical chaos demon shit. So, I don't actually mind it because it's not that big of a deal.
I just wish the important fights weren’t half an episode in the anime with the messages being presented feeling half-assed. In naruto I always came away from the fights feeling like they represented the thoughts and feelings of the characters well AND still gave us plenty of action. Prime example: Naruto vs Neji in the chunin exams. Compare that fight and the development around it to any fight in boruto even the final Ishiki battle. None of boruto’s fights feel complete. I do love the series so far but I’d rather put it on its own than call it a naruto sequel because it so far hasn’t done the story of naruto any justice to me.
Well yeah, it's not supposed to be a deeper, continuation story of Naruto. It's about Boruto, his son lol.
@@resurgingflame exactly... That's what people fail to understand
I do know what you are talking about but you don't seem to see it. Boruto fights have meaning but you didn't know that because you were focusing on Naruto who doesn't really have any personal conflict with the villians in boruto. I have many examples of meaningful fights boruto has had e.g boruto vs Ao (if you didn't see the meaning or message of that fight then just give up on the show), boruto vs kakashi, jigen vs Kashin Koji, team 7 vs Deepa etc...
@@anattackhelicopter2680 lol. Are you just naming them? It's a fact that none of them comes close to the fights in naruto and shippuden
@@glidersuzuki5572 who made it a fact? You? You better get back to reality pal. I can say the fights I mentioned are better than the ones in Naruto as it is my viewing experience
This is why majority of the times I prefer seths videos than his streams he actully scripts his video changes his tone seems more calm and calucted extra
I agree
Idk, I do love unhinged stream Seth
So your saying Seth with prep time is more powerful than Batman with prep time
@@staticshotaop561 ofc
@@staticshotaop561 if I had to powerscale them I'd say batman dominates, don't get me wrong Seth is a smart guy but Batman is something else
There’s a lot of newcomers reviewing the Boruto series but I only really wanted to hear your thoughts about it. Thanks Seth.
@Young yeh he made a 40 minute video absolutely trolling the fuck out of us
@Young try not to overdose on the copium man
@@rofl_waffl lmfaooo!!!
I don’t mind Boruto it’s a cool story and it’s nice to see the characters return. But personally I think I would have just preferred if the story ended after the last movie
Madara tried to save us from boruto, he really did. He should have won the war. An Unsung Hero.
Maybe he did win and this is some random dudes dream in the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Someone who hates Naruto.
To me, this is my head Canon for the Boruro series.
I feel like Mitsuki has been getting done wrong for a while now, definitely deserves a bit of character development and more demonstration of his power
Btw, wtf happened to Konohamoru, that man is so stale, weak and uninteresting
Edit: lol i know there's an arc on him but anyone with two eyes and ears can see how Mitsuki is treated like shit (in the manga) and in the anime it's been pretty meh either way
true lol. i was a little shocked about konohamaru
Timeskip
It's not that he's weak he just in fights with people out of his League 🤣
@@Owen-sx4jj which one?
@@Enja___ dude didn't think before writing his comment probably. The only person who he fought which is out of his league is Boro.
As Sasuke said to naruto at the valley of the end. “How do you know what it’s like to lose, you never had it to begin with” reflects kawaki and Borutos roles that are reversed versions.
I would like to point out for the isshiki fight that Naruto did have to be very precise and not use too much chakra or the mode would have ran out sooner, hence why he only used a single rasengan and mainly used taijutsu.
Nice, maybe not having someone to explain the fights like it used to be like in the past is also taking a toll on boruto. I mean zetsu explained the entire sasuke and itachi fight. I think most of us would have never understood the fight.
@@mukonank783 That’s a really good point, I mean kurama says very little about the mode and I had no clue what Isshikis Eye did until recently, then again i’ve just been skipping around the anime so maybe that’s why but either way some explanation would be nice yeah :)
The fights in these shows especially ones with og naruto characters are absolutely abysmal. It’s incredibly lazily written and while the parallels are there and cool, they’re just not enough to make up for all the negatives that come with it.
Kishimoto hasn't written anything in the anime yet except 218 and the last one
Your point? I can equally come up with nonsensical rant...
The fights in Naruto are absolutely abysmal...
Also mister BS. The most viewed fights in crunchyroll are boruto's.
@@Tramael i never once mentioned kishimoto and I’m not too stressed about who actually wrote it, given that it’s awful either way.
@@B1izzardd Opinion
I would say my biggest gripe is the absolute DISRESPECT the series gives to Kurama. He had to "die" to defeat Isshiki and we had the worst send off in both dialogue between Kurama and Naruto and the fact that we got a few panels, when we should've had a chapter dedicated to reflection.
its a monthly manga and boruto manga really rushes so the anime can adapt manga content quicker. the anime version of his death is gonna be done really good like look at the recent episodes kawaki scene
@@chromeheartzonmybody6964 that’s exactly what I am hoping for. But also the fact that it is monthly doesn’t really excuse that mistake in my opinion.
@@kasaiyukidragneel8457 low-key felt they were disregarding kurama as a character. Would've been more impactful if Naruto died honestly and then kurama uses his life force to bring him back
@@kasaiyukidragneel8457 yea but since kishi came back as the writer for the manga its been really fleshing out the villains and kawaki and sumire
@@yousefhammad3240 honestly I like that more!
Honestly, I get the "aliens in a ninja anime" theme, and for me the problems I had with Boruto comeback to what the previous series kinda failed to do and what I would've like to see was a bit of restraint on the powerscaling. (But who am I to judge, I'm not a writer, I just like Naruto).
However, I do admire the fact that you take it all at face value and justify the choices that were being made with the plot, major respect.
The issue is bc they introduced aliens, they can’t descale the power of anybody, but make them stronger to fight stronger opponents. And it sucks that it’s honestly just naruto boruto sasuke etc. that are powerful enough to fight these combatants. We ain’t gonna see no rock lee body anyone. Naruto set up the world, and we know how the ninja world works. We know who is powerful and who isn’t. Absorption of jutsu’s is dumb. They can’t keep doing that. But they also can’t backpedal bc of what they’ve set up. I mean the ninja war was ridiculous with power amps. But it almost seems like they’ve reached the ceiling with boruto. I know naruto and sasuke can’t fight every planetary threat, but something has to give eventually.
See, I want more villain connections. I want to see why Otsutsuki. At this point you could throw orochimaru in their place and it wouldn't change a thing. There's no connection
@@ominousmist960 Well they aren’t main characters plus it also shows that they are way out of their league
I never understood people who tell you that you should judge a sequel on its own terms and not on its predecessors at all.
This is something I want to say on behalf of fans of say... Star Wars. People didn't like The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker because both sequels disrespected established lore to an extreme amount. Disrespected the powers of characters, disrespected their struggles, and tossed them wayside, making them seem more like fanfiction than canon.
You should always critique a sequel with its previous stories in mind, for better or for worse. Boruto falls in the same boat for me. I don't think it disrespects every character, not at all, I think it does a decent job respecting previous lore and established pieces. But Boruto is a sequel and shouldn't forget the failings of writings in Part 1 and Part 2 of Naruto's series, both anime and manga alike.
This isn't a riff on Boruto, just that I don't understand people who tell you that sequels should stand on only their own supports. I'm not gonna sit here and think that the next John Wick movie is gonna be good when its a sci-fi-fantasy genre mashup with magic and space guns. It doesn't follow a sense of in-universal logic for the medium the story is portrayed in.
@@thecod2345 These people… what do you want? Naruto 2.0 or what? Like… oh my god
@bruh Go figures.
Prediction: boruto will be temporarily consumed by momoshiki (or something like this) in the future and will wreak havoc, leading to a fight with naruto, driving naruto to attempt to kill his own son, which will lead to kawaki protecting boruto and killing naruto to do so. So kawaki won’t rebel as the beginning suggests, he’d kill naruto to protect Boruto cuz he empathizes with the effects of his karma, but boruto will be unable to forgive kawaki for killing his dad, which will lead to an unrepairable rift that leads to their clash
naruto is too nerfed to kill boruto consumed by momoshiki AND kawaki is more close to naruto than boruto. And finally the first thing that kawaki sais was the shinobi era is over, which is not explained in your theory since their conflict in ur prediciton is personal and not ideological.
What the other guy said. Your theory makes 0 sense if we consider the fact that Kawaki has a problem with the shinobi world and that he said "I'll send you where I sent the 7th Hokage". So no, pretty unrealistic
I hope not… That story sounds shitty
Its been 3 months and almost all of this comment has or is in the process of coming true.
One way to buff Sasuke is for him to be able to use his susanoo as a full body armor
Yes
I would have preferred that over the giant version of it
@@quentinjones6877 a susanoo armor would be op done right the power of the susanoo condensed in the form of an armor is perfect for sasuke
Or replace his arm and get all of his jutsu back...
@@terrybriggs6649 he has his jutsu, but they're useless against karma
Seth out here putting more thought into Boruto than the writers themselves.
Not really. Idk why people refuse to give people credit for things they refuse to like or like ironically
@@P0k3D0nd3M4cG it just began too childish, when thats the case the older viewers tend to believe the isnt much depth to a story for a younger audience
Lol
@@P0k3D0nd3M4cG personally I think mostly the series is only there to milk the franchise.why because the way the main villain villain we're introduce in the franchise was lazy almost an after thought. The result make it feel like the all scenario feel force and unnecessary
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Main problem with Boruto is that it could've been generations away from Naruto like how Naruto was generations away from Hashirama but they opted to just making it the next gen after shippuden and its quite blatant to why they did that.
Scaling too is fucked to a point where they have to nerf characters to make Boruto and the next gen stronger. Specifically Boruto where it feels like everything is just given to him. People say "But they're side characters now in Boruto so." Which I say to that, "Imagine if Goku and Vegeta were side character's to their sons' show and they nerf them because they are literally gods, to make their sons' stronger and speed up the process with their own spin, how would you feel?"
Hashirama was a god but it felt natural that Naruto surpassed him pre nerf maybe even post nerf. But Boruto surpassing his dad just doesnt feel natural.
Great video best part "its more of a wizard show where they act like ninja" very true I mean the main protagonist wore one of the brightest colors a ninja could wear and was hella loud.
Yup... the transition from naruto to boruto was like a slap in the face for me. I can't help but feel if kishimoto wrote and drew this manga from the start, it wouldn't have faced its current controversy. He knew how to draw good action sequences, and for a weekly manga at the time, it was a very good looking manga.
Look I love naruto wit all my heart. It's one of my favorites. But I still can't bring myself to watch boruto cuz I just see it as a milking. Kaguya being shoved in all our faces at the very end to make like a double twist was so fuckin forced to set up boruto. Madara shoulda been the end all be all. Another thing is that naruto and sasuke were so fuckin strong by the end its just hard to believe that there was someone more powerful this whole time. Idk maybe one day I'll start it but I genuinely feel like this shit was not needed. I ain't gon be mad for ppl watching it I just can't do it at least not yet
@@darthzeppid understand completely how you feel. But in the end I can't bring myself to completely give up on this series. Now I know how comic fans feel when there favorite series get written and drawn by someone else.
@@darthzeppid the story of kaguya was written way before, it wasn’t forced, just hurried. Which is equally as bad, but don’t think it was just a setup for boruto. And it’s not milking lmfao, people like you just can’t help the fact that narutos era is over.
@@Nilmil_0838 bro I wanted it to stay dead after madara it woulda been fine. I'm not saying continue the story but with naruto nah. To me it just shoulda ended. And kaguya wasn't foreshadowed lol. Shit was pulled straight out his ass. Kishi thought of the sage of six paths during pain arc and he thought of kaguya towards the end of the series. It's cool tho I'm not here to shit on boruto. The ppl who watch seem to like it a lot. I just don't care to watch it. And u know what? That's perfectly fine
@@Nilmil_0838 Dude, it's a story. People are allowed to not like and disregard sequels they think are stupid.
Real talk once I heard Ino say “You can go all out” I was expecting 5000 clones with odama rasengans dropping from the sky as Naruto flickers behind Ishiki to boot him into the sky. Only for sasuke to follow it up with a immediate super charged Kirin. I wanted to see them go out man. I want to see Sasuke with a second susano arm to fight at max efficiency. Almighty push almighty pull. I wanna see naruto give him a chakra cloak like he did for everyone in the war so sasuke and go out. I wanna see Naruto make another pact with the other tailed beasts before the fight for another amp. I wanna see a slice those cubes up with massive susano like come on show me what they’ve been proven to do
Nerfing Naruto and sasuke. Especially sasuke is why I seriously dislike boruto.
Spoiler alert
Losing kurama was so sad I wanted him to live but they killed him off :(
Sasuke losing his rinnegan was so infuriating
The anime is called Boruto my guy
@@nineten9011 they aren’t nerfed. They just can’t compete at this level
@@Camcola Funny how they barely used ANY SHIT, in the fight “Oh he’s just stronger” yeah no SHIT, but how come they use NONE OF THE SHIT THEY KNOW.
The closest thing I saw to Shippuden level Naruto and Sasuke was the fight against Jigen and even then, still had me questioning some stuff.
@@nineten9011 yeah like Camcola said, Naruto and Sasuke actually aren’t nerfed. Isshiki is just that powerful, the only reason they probably didn’t show some of their iconic moves is probably just because of the animation budget of the episode.
Well done, perfectly explained and explored!! 👏
Anyway, at this point i cant think the absorption will go. I mean both the protagonist and antagonist have Karma who can absorp things. Even in the foreshadowing they still have it.
They cant take it away easily, and bcs of that the rules of absorptions might be getting a bit hard later in the series cause the absorptions can't absorp a "real" nature power. And Kashin Koji can get his real fire nature quite easy.
That might be the fixing for absorptions.
I mean it looks like even Kishimoto a bit confused about absorptions and Otsutsukis, so when Amado say "i know how to beat an Otsutsuki" its sounds like the writer finally know how to beat his own op creature and quite happy.. So they writed it like Amado is the one who solved it, when in fact its just them who's happy to finally know how to beat it lol
Great video as always Seth! Even though I still have my problems with Boruto, I definitely appreciate it slightly more now(mostly thanks to Kawaki).
I’d love to see a video dedicated to the problem with boruto power scaling.
That would take too long
@@aero1754 I’ve got time
The manga's powerscaling isn't as bad as the anime'a
You might, and I might, but that would probably be a several hour stream rather than a fully edited video thats over an hour long. Mainly due to how complicated it can get with some of the plot holes that happen
Nothing really wrong with it. everything is actually pretty in line.
How did you manage to get sponsored by Raid again lmao, you can barely hold back the laughter!
They are well aware that they're a meme at this point.
Raid is trash, but it’s a bag. 🤷♂️
the power issue at 36:40 is really just that absorbing problem. they new jutsu were just a way of feeding Ishiki and had to go physical. Which meant the only uses of chackra they could apply had to be either extremely subtle and well timed, and hidden, OR they had to use it to augment their physical abilities but without letting it be absorbed. And Bayron mode's limit was that ALL unnecessary movements or use of chakra would lead to ending the technique early and losing his power prematurely. So He was forced to use very subtle Taijutsu to stay in range and keep clapping ishiki's cheeks while reducing ishiki's vessel's time limit. Any crazy show of power of force would have been wasted energy that would have led to Bayron mode ending too soon, and that whole fight would have ended differently.
Most of the problems in Boruto could've been prevented had the power scale peaked at the Pain arc.
I think the biggest problem with Boruto is Naruto, he doesn't feel like the Naruto we know and there was no smooth transition into how Naruto is now
I agree with the first statement but that last statement not so much because it idk creates a more dynamic like idk parallel to past and current naruto
I disagree. He feels exactly how Naruto should, except more mature and smart, and he also has seen character growth within Boruto.
Yeah it's called him not being a teenager anymore
Also there are no slice of life (real ones) connecting the past to the present. Like Sasuke talking to sarada about you.
@Future Hendrix “within boruto” meaning the series lmao how would he gain character growth within a character
I haven’t read or watched boruto, mainly because it just doesn’t look appealing to me. However I have read the last 5 or 6 chapters after I heard about what happened to Naruto and Sasuke and I honestly just dislike how the writers are seemingly completely ignoring what happened to them. “Oh yeah, Kurama’s dead and Sasuke doesn’t have his left eye anymore.” No lamentation or anything. Naruto has a swift conversation with Kurama and that’s it. Hell, they don’t even say if Kurama’s chakra will be reformed in the future as its tailed beast again or if it is permanently dead. It just feels like Kishimoto just wanted to YEET Naruto and Sasuke out of the spotlight as fast as possible and didn’t think about the effect that would have on the readers. Think about it, Naruto and Sasuke - the two strongest ninja on the planet - lose two crucial parts of their fighting style and overall power structure, and they just gloss over it like it never happened and move on. It feels jarring and I feel robbed
Following chapter Sasuke says something like: it's amazing we survived
So rinnegan loss is probably a low cost.
@@windwaker0rules It seems like Sasuke doesn't give a fuck about the Rinnegan
Anime did kurama justice
I don’t like Baruto because of the amount of fillers by the time we get to the actual story I would have already die from old age
@@xililgamer what are you talking about they are literally only like 5 chapters away from the manga
It may not be an issue for you that aliens are in Baruto, but that's like saying you shouldn't complain about aliens showing up to be part of the Harry Potter universe or something. Just because you have one type of fantasy element in a series, it doesn't mean it's OK to just throw every sort of fantasy in the same world, especially when there was no precedent for it decades after the series was established.
It's like when people confuse realism with verisimilitude - there may be fantastical elements in a series, but if a series fails to be internally consistent or follows its own logic, it's going to take people out of it. It would be ridiculous if Superman got robbed by some street thug who cornered him in an alley when we know an ordinary thug could pose no threat to him. Or, after it was established kid Goku at power level 50 could tank bullets without a problem, some pitiful henchman's weapon were able to take him out when his power level is 20 quadrillion.
My only gripe is the adsorptions, it’s disappointing that we haven’t at least seen Naruto or Sasuke spamming attacks similar to their final battle at the end of the war or in The Last all because the enemy is just a hack. And now we’ll likely never see anything impressive from them again, unless the writers decide to give them their powers back or replace it with something as powerful.
Bruh, at this point they should be many times stronger than they were during their fight.
If I wanted to see the main characters spamming attacks like that, I’d go and watch Dragon Ball Super.
Real talk, I only didn't bother with this series because it took too long to get started for me. Good to hear that it apparently has such a great narrative though.
That’s a fact
Thank you, for being open minded enough to commend the show. It is a VERY sluggish start, but I personally think it's worth the watch.
I read quite a bit of Boruto, it's just not for me, i think i'll just be content with Naruto becoming Hokage and that future remaining unclear. If you like it, great, awesome for you.
Same here dude, not everything needs a sequel
Same. It feels that he really earned his peace. He was struggling since he was born, just to make all his effort and time into finally achieving something be screwed in favor of a character that isn’t as relatable, endearing and liked like his son, and just for cheap character development.
Same here, after reading some manga chapters I just stopped. Didn’t feel like a Naruto sequel, they should’ve just made a different series.
for me im watching the show to see Boruto and the new gen's story. Not Naruto's story again so yeah
@@aadithyadileep8651 S A M E
my main problem with boruto is how much it changed some of the characters from either a design perspective or just plainly dumbed them down
Boruto nullifies everything that happened in Naruto thus far. All that character development swept into a little pile of dust and thrown into the garbage.
You gotta know when to let a series stop.
Simple reason: it wasn't written by Kishimoto at the beginning
It wasn't for any of the content he covered here. Kishimoto came back pretty much right after where this video leaves at.
But he was supervisor of the manga throughout. The biggest turning point development wise I've heard about is a change in show runners. Manga has been praised since way before that but most who gave it a chance.
what do you mean most of the complaints of the manga started after kishimoto took over and the plot lost a lot of the build up it was getting
@@femto7579 alot of fans in Japan actually prefered kishimoto's successor as he was writing the arc up to where he left
@@kanekikingstorm2113 yeah i know they liked the tone it was developing and the pace which most fans agreed was really good it wasn’t rushed or drawn out kishimoto feels like he’s doing a weekly manga at a monthly pace
i just don’t find the character progression to be organic, it just feels like they nerf the old gen to make the new gen shine like Naruto and Sasuke especially, they don’t use their full arsenal in order to let Boruto and the rest shine more which feels so cheap. Naruto’s nerf was justifiable as he sacrificed Kurama for his Baryon mode but Sasuke, who never lets his guard down, to let his guard down in such a big fight feels EXTREMELY CHEAP. Not to mention Sasuke not using King of Hell (Rinnegan ability) to make Amado tell the truth or his Sharingan to see his memories.
At least in OG Naruto, they had logistics (non-uchiha having sharingan) for Kakashi to be weakened to let Naruto and Sasuke shine a bit more, now its just “Sasuke has no chakra” and “Naruto is rusty”
most of the new characters have basically the same personality and abilities as their parents which is so boring.
and the animation is horrible imo, they care more about how the graphics look than about the actual animation of the fights, the Time-Travel Arc is one of the worst arcs i’ve ever seen in my life for that exact reason (and also for kid Naruto being more useful than Sasuke)
The animation is really fluid. And when they get huge budgets, the fight scenes look beautiful.
I think they chose wisely to have the characters lead this sequel instead of Naruto and old cast. Since Naruto and old cast already got to development, it would be a shame to degrade their characters by having them learn the same lesson since Naruto learned it in HIS story.
The new casts are getting built up and getting development in mini arcs as well as the eventful arcs where the Old casts are heavily involved in.
I agree that Boruto doesn't feel organic at all you are right. Then again, the introduction of the Otsutsukis didn't feel organic at all in Shippuden. Boruto is just an excuse to fill up that plot hole and give light on the Otsutsukis and their origins. Personally I find the Otsutsukis interesting thx to Boruto. And they retcon Black Zetsu as a sudo karma. It's really impressive how they use the worst parts of Naruto and make them better and fill up the plot holes in the war arc. Boruto is a blessing in disguise for that arc.
Also, the powerscaling got DBZed in the war arc. Naruto and Sasuke are so strong that the writers have a hard time to write and make them believable. It's like DBZ/S, they have to introduce a stronger villain than the previous one to make the fights have stakes. I think they did a better job than DB since the powerscaling is planetary...for now. Also they explain that pure Otsutsukis are stronger than humans, and Offsprings and descendants with Otsutsuki DNA like Naruto and Sasuke are weaker. It takes both Sasuke and Naruto with their allies to beat one.
I started watching this show, when it came out, actually before, because of the movie. However, given two tries, I can’t watch past episode 30-ish, I always get bored
I just skipped the filler
I'll say this as someone who gave up on this series after 130 episodes; episode 1-50 is garbage bar the Shin Uchiha arc, it starts to get a bit better after that but that's not saying much, just too many fillers and even the canon arcs aren't that interesting.
Only watch manga canon
Start at the chunin exams and then skip arcs depending whether or not you wanna watch filler (like the timeskip arc is great if you wanna experience some nostalgia like kid naruto, jiraiya, and neji), maybe watch the mitsuki arc if you want some of him and orochimaru, and then jump back in around the introduction of kawaki and kara. The kawaki arc has been really good and added some extra depth to the characters of Boruto, Kawaki, and Naruto. I usually skip an episode depending whose the focus and what they're doing. The manga is published so slowly, that the anime really has to put out a lot of filler with side character I don't care about, but some of them are cool (Houki is an anime only character whose pretty cool).
Also definately watch the Mirai Sarutobi episodes if you want some Kakashi and Gai content, and she's pretty cool.
I appreciated this video, I was never gonna read or watch this series, so this updated me.
Great video man, good points and critcisms that I agree with
@@supershone177 I agree this was waaaaaay better than the Clyde video
Yo Meek I want u to make some more of those polls, I actually find dem rlly quite amusing still bro.
Thank you !! I had to subscribe after watching this someone who is actually honest about not only the good but the bad parts of boruto.
Amazing music selection in the intro here on this vid
Topic -"What if the whole akatsuki attacked the leaf Village (just after jiraiya's death)
Maybe this is an interesting topic idk,but I am curious to know ur opinion
I really hate the argument of how you "shouldn't need to compare the two" or some variation. It's fallacious reasoning. Of course we as fans have a right to judge a sequel based on the original. Especially if it is borrowing story elements/ continuing from the original. Especially if it is doing those elements worse, destroying continunity or poorly handled retcons that make the world less interesting. I'm looking at you, Star Wars Sequels. Overall, Boruto deserves to be judged based on it being apart of the Naruto franchise and also on its own grounds. Personally, I like Boruto but I can't call it good. It's pretty flawed and very much was a cash cow made to captialize on Naruto. But the stuff it does get decently, Boruto and Kawaki and even the new era stuff I enjoy. Overall, the original Naruto was flawed but I liked it a lot. Boruto I like a lot less but I don't hate it. But I get why folks do.
For me personally i wasn't finished with naruto. I was still invested in his story and a series about him as a father and hokage would've been perfect. It also didn't help that boruto was whiny and unlikable. Naruto's negligence of his responsibilities as father also felt extremely out of character to me
@Billy Barry I like the collation with starwars. It shares so meny problems with Boruto in the story writing. That introduction that palpatine is still alive kinda reminds me of the introduction of Karma and Baryon mode. And the copy of the side charakter and Akatsuki reminds me of the fight where they attack the big base and its litterly the same as the fight over the death star. Not original in the slightest.
Longman :>>
Shinobi Reborn
The longoid himself, Mauler.
@@sirapple589 all hail longman.
Interesting perspective that I can vibe with on power scaling, it is portrayed so poorly, all the fights are just dragon ball fights with little to no abilities, and if they are used their sucked like a new man and a stripper
It's awful, I can vibe with Ishiki's power, I still feel the Delta fight could have been a little more one sided to emphasize Naruto's "god like" abilities, bc ngl it did look like he was sweating, like why does he have to pull out Kyuubi in every single fight? Momoshiki made sense and so did Ishiki's fight but a lower member of Kara DELTA??? Where is man's Sage mode, or his six paths mode or anything?
this video actually has sold me on giving the boruto manga a shot, if only for Kawaki and the darker storylines. also "wizards that act like ninja" FINALLY someone said it!
Its still the same just no fillerd