Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

Following the successful end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Konohagakure has been enjoying a period of peace, prosperity, and extraordinary technological advancement. This is all due to the efforts of the Allied Shinobi Forces and the village's Seventh Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki. Now resembling a modern metropolis, Konohagakure has changed, particularly the life of a shinobi. Under the watchful eye of Naruto and his old comrades, a new generation of shinobi has stepped up to learn the ways of the ninja.

Boruto Uzumaki is often the center of attention as the son of the Seventh Hokage. Despite having inherited Naruto's boisterous and stubborn demeanor, Boruto is considered a prodigy and is able to unleash his potential with the help of supportive friends and family. Unfortunately, this has only worsened his arrogance and his desire to surpass Naruto which, along with his father's busy lifestyle, has strained their relationship. However, a sinister force brewing within the village may threaten Boruto's carefree life.

New friends and familiar faces join Boruto as a new story begins.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Uzumaki, Boruto Main

Sanpei, Yuuko Japanese

Uchiha, Sarada Main

Kikuchi, Kokoro Japanese

Mitsuki Main

Kijima, Ryuuichi Japanese

Kawaki Main

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Uzumaki, Naruto Supporting

Takeuchi, Junko Japanese

Hatake, Kakashi Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko Japanese

Uchiha, Sasuke Supporting

Sugiyama, Noriaki Japanese

Nara, Shikamaru Supporting

Morikubo, Shoutarou Japanese

Jiraiya Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

Gaara Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Simone, Jamie Producer

Yamashita, Hiroyuki Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Key Animation

Abe, Noriyuki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Kouda, Masayuki Director, Assistant Animation Director, Animation Director, Key Animation

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Jun 9, 2024

C0ckstar

Recommended

Well, if you are expecting to watch this series as some sort of naruto's sequel you're getting it kinda wrong. If I were you I'd stop at naruto and that's it. There is just way too much new technology-based stuff that really doesn't relate with the original content.

I'd honestly prefer to play ninja outside and to hit the gym than watch this one. Just get an extra set of muscles. In my opinion this is only worth to watch under one scenario. If you want to impress someone in a bar about how to do sign language and you somehow manage to trick them into ... thinking that your jutsu signs are really amazing then you might just get laid, take advantage of that!

Now in a more serious way, if you have a bunch of free time you can just watch it but between watching this or cooking pasta let's just say that I wouldn't be starving from now on!

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 24, 2024

Ash7ish

Mixed Feelings

Do you think Naruto is a complete character(whose story is complete)?
If you only consider until the point when he became Hokage, then Yes.

But that's not true. He became Hokage at the age around 30. It means more than Half of his life is still remaining(Considering 70-80 to be Average life time).
In Boruto, He Became Hokage then we see him being tired and exhausted all the time. If someone like Naruto who have Insane amount of Chakra get exhausted with Hokage's work then I wonder how previous Hokages managed to do it so. We also don't see him making Shadow Clones to do Paper Work, ... of all the explanation I read on Internet, Only one which seems convincing is: Writers wanted to create some ridiculous Problem for Boruto.

We also saw in Boruto How badly Naruto is Nerfed. Naruto has vast amount of Chakra(Uzumaki), Kurama's Chakra and Power and Sage of Six Paths Power. But After all this he is soo weak that he can't even put up a fight against delta. Excuse was His kids were there, then why not create shadow clones which is his Speciality.
Both him and Sasuke can't even give a fight to Jigen(In karma mode, not Isshiki).
Writers came with a bullshit Baryon Mode for 5 minutes which took out Kurama and then they pull out momoshiki Card just to take out Sasuke's Rinnegan.
After Kurama Vanished, Everyone goes around like nothing happened, especially Naruto. For Naruto, Kurama was like his Body Part. He was there since he was an Infant but still they can't even put up a good Emotional Scene.
Later, Naruto Became more weak, weaker than a Genin. His own son keep disrespecting him. He also had to see his own son going through the same fate of being a vessel, bearing a monster inside like him and losing control to that monster and hurting his loved ones. He also had to see his adopted son trying to kill his own son. He got Sealed Away by Kawaki, later on.
Naruto, after everything he went through doesn't deserve this type of Life and ending. He doesn't deserve to be an irrelevant character in any story(especially in his own son's story). We all wanted Naruto to become the greatest Hokage but If this is his life after becoming Hokage then I wish he never would've become Hokage.


I know that This show is about Boruto than why not those writers focused on character development of Boruto instead of nerfing and destroying Naruto, Sasuke and other old characters.
Instead of forcing the story of Boruto to have a problem so that he can have motivation to do anything, they should have
given Boruto motivation like Itachi or something. Something like Protecting the Legacy of his father and other hokages, Protecting the village, it's people and all.
They Should have given Boruto and other side characters their own unique personality( By this, I mean different way of doing things/different thinking and all. Obviously Physical appearances will be similar).

Let's see the childhood of some main characters of Naruto:
1. Naruto: Everybody in the village is either want him dead or want to lock him in some cage(Danzo). Everyone is the village always humiliates him. He was always lonely, had no friends, family or anyone.

2. Sasuke: He Saw his entire clan and parents getting murdered by his beloved brother Itachi.

3. Itachi: At the age of 16, he had to kill his entire clan and parents to stop the war from happening and to stop the Uchiha reputation getting tarnished.

4. Kakashi: He had no mother. He saw his father getting humiliated by the whole village. His father in the end killed himself.
His friend got killed in saving him and his another friend got killed by his own hands.

Now, Let's see the childhood of Boruto:
He don't have any problem except His dad didn't come home and this happened only after he became Hokage when Boruto was 10 years old approx. But he still keeps complaining and disrespecting his father. Once he said, he is going to beat his father. why? bcoz He missed his and hima's Birthday.
Tell me, will you beat your father just bcoz he didn't come home for your Bday Party. And why he didn't come? Bcoz he is the Hokage. He is just busier than other parents but He is not a toxic father, still he keeps disrespecting Naruto.
After watching the real terrible childhood of Naruto and the others, they expects us to like this crap story of Boruto.

There was no character development. There was not even a single episode where you see Boruto and the others working hard as Naruto and Sasuke used to do. Naruto and Sasuke had to work hard day and night just to walk on trees but In boruto, it's nothing. Boruto can pull out any fucking Chunin/Jounin level Jutsu in a fight without any explanation. In Naruto, they used to tell us How it works, When did he learn, by whom he learn, How did he learn etc.. But in boruto you never see this type of Explanation. Boruto can use 3 Chakra Natures. He unconsciously mixed lightning style in Rasengan and made it Vanishing Rasengan and that was nonsense. He can also use something called Gayle Palm(Gentle Fist) without having Byakugan. Once he scored Full Score in Test without doing anything while every other character was struggling and doing something. He is is also Lazy and always looking for shortcuts. He cheated in Chunin Exam against his own Friend. The plot portrays that He can do anything without working hard because he is a genius. In real life, I have seen various Talented/Genius People failing bcoz they didn't worked hard enough. Do you think that Messi could have been one of the Greatest Footballer, even if he never practiced or worked hard?
Besides, He always just keeps whining and complaining. In the same story, we see other characters having real Problems. For Example, Sarada is struggling with Identity crisis because she never met her dad after gaining some sense. She only saw her dad while she was an infant. Kawaki had a toxic father, whole life he was locked up in some cage. He never got to eat fully while he was a kid. First he got tortured and abused by his own father. His own father sold him to Jigen who tortured him later on.
Even Himawari is more understanding than Boruto. Himwari never complains like Boruto. Yes, she gets upset bcoz his father didn't come home and that is good but she never disrespect her father bcoz of that.

They could've shown Father and Son Duo. They could've shown Naruto training and teaching Boruto. Boruto had a lot of Potential but the writers didn't even try. They just wanted to milk money, so they wrote this bullshit story. I don't have any Problem with Boruto getting stronger than Naruto, but Boruto should atleast be worthy of that and He is not. Every generation surpasses it's previous one but only if they work hard enough.

This show don't have any emotionally hard-hitting scenes. They have tried to make it emotional but they didn't try enough. Many times, you feel like you heard this story in Naruto just with different characters and Names.
Akatsuki=Kara, 8 trigams Seal=Karma, Nine tails= Otsutsuki, etc..
You see Boruto getting beat up in Funato arc just like you saw naruto getting beat up by a shinobi of the land of Iron when sasuke kidnapped Killer Bee.
You see Boruto teaching a Rich Kid that money can't buy everything just like you saw naruto doing that in one of the fillers.
There's more like that.
Boruto can also cause change of heart of Villains like Naruto did. Do you know why it was possible for Naruto to do that? Bcoz Naruto was very close to becoming a Villain. Everyone treated Naruto like a monster. He understood those feelings completely. But Does Boruto understand that? Does Boruto ever went through all of that? They tried hard to force us ti see Naruto in Boruto and make it emotional. But they failed completely.

In Boruto, Side characters became completely useless. It is Boruto Show. Every character is useless except Boruto and Kawaki(later on).
This is what happened at the end of Naruto Shippuden and Now, I think it is done by Kishimoto deliberately, so that Boruto will have some Plot.
When Naruto and Sasuke was fighting obito and Madara, Everybody was not that much useless like they are in Boruto or were when Kaguya was introduced.

Sarada who has Sharingan is also completely useless. They made Sarada, another Sakura who just keeps crying, feeling insecure, feeling left behind and all.
Genin, Chunin, Jounin, 2 Sanin, Hokage(Current and Previous), Other Kages, Everybody is useless. Only Boruto's and Kawaki's Karma is useful.
Even Ninjutsu is useless. Handsigns are dead.

There is no good dialogues in this show. In naruto, Ninja way was a big thing but there is no such thing in Boruto. The Hard-Hitting Dialogues of Pain, Madara and all was very impacting but there's no such thing in Boruto.

There was not one good villain in the entire Series. In Naruto, Villains have a Background and clear answers of why they are doing things that they are doing. But in Boruto, you don't see this type of Explanation either. Otsutsuki just want to kill every planet and devour the chakra fruit, but why?
Plot of Boruto compared to naruto is completely Bullshit.

For me, Naruto was my Friend. Naruto was deeply relatable to me because my life was similar to him. I can't tell you the details but he was like me. We all spent 720 episodes with him and all the characters and saw their development.
But just for money, They ruined it all in Boruto.


After Reading Some Chapters of Boruto Two Blue Vortex, I have hopes that they will get back on track this time.
At the end of Boruto Manga, Amado mentioned about Shibai Otsutsuki and becoming God by eating a hell lots of Chakra fruit. It opens a wide range of Possibilities and Questions. Amado also said that Shibai desperately left his body and went into another dimension, later confirmed by momoshiki. Why he did that? Who is god? In narutoverse, What is the Philosophy of God? Is God good or bad? what's the origin story of Otsutsuki? Who created the whole universe? Is it created by another Otsutsuki who became God? Then, who created Otsutsuki? In which Planet do they live, originally?
The story of otsutsuki seems so dark that it makes me remember Liu Cixin's 3 Body Problem.
There is a hell lot of Questions, I hope Kishimoto answers all of these.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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Jun 13, 2023

ThatAnimeSnobRE

Not Recommended

This is an unnecessary sequel
Like so many sequels, there was no point in making Boruto. Naruto ended by wrapping up everything it set out to do. Did it do it flawlessly? Far from it, but this sequel doesn’t do something that makes it worth continuing the plot. It ruins everything the first protagonist managed to accomplish by trashing the world peace he achieved at the end of the series. The only reason it was made for is money, because people want to see more Naruto (aka it was made to sell based on nostalgia), and it fails even there since it hardly makes the money ... of the first series. It also doesn’t develop the themes any further. It just rehashes the same old stuff in a far more boring way. Why?

Because this anime is 80% filler
The fans can dub it anime original all they want and it won’t change the fact there is nothing of interest going on for most of its duration. The original content goes nowhere and the supposed fleshing out it offers to secondary events compared to the source material (the manga) doesn’t make anything better. It just makes it slower and more boring. Why?

Because Boruto is mostly slice of nothing happens
Most episodes are completely skippable, since you won’t miss a thing if you don’t watch them. The bullshit excuses of ‘you guys are being impatient’ cannot be used when it is expected from you to tolerate hundreds of episodes of nothingness. An excuse many were using is how the fillers are needed for making us like the characters, so we will eventually feel sad when they die once the flash forward happens. Although a legit reason, outside the main three none others managed to be likable. Why?

Most side characters are boring
The new generation is mostly cloned from the previous generation, and most episodes are just rehashing ideas from Naruto with none of the tension or the plot continuity to make them worthwhile. This is a generation that was raised to be pampered and spoiled, with Boruto being essentially a zoomer. A spoiled brat with no actual problems in his life, who hates his father despite him doing his best to love him and to maintain world peace. He is a shallow piece of shit with first world problems who keeps nagging despite being highly privileged and overpowered thanks to the genes of his father. And even this aspect gets forgotten after awhile, turning Boruto into a generic kid who just wants to eat hamburgers and play videogames.

The older characters overshadow the newer ones
Since the older generation is still present, it makes you wonder why they didn’t just make fillers about characters the viewers actually care about, and instead focus on their clones which have done nothing and have gone through no adversity to make you give a damn. Watching hundreds of episodes just for (somewhat) liking a few minor background characters who are just clones of already established characters is just not worth it. You can’t even accuse the viewer for expecting more than what he was promised. Why?

Because the first episode is baiting you with an event you never actually see in present time
The series began with a flash forward that builds up a lot of expectations in terms of action and suspense. Then it flashes back to present time where nothing of significance happens and stays there forever. The plot never gets to that moment. The writer did it because he knew people won’t be interested in slice of nothing happens and wanted to somehow keep them around by promising bullshit about the future. The result was disappointing for everyone since almost nobody would stick around for hundreds of boring episodes, and the few who did never got what they were anticipating for several years.

Most fights are also boring
There is action from time to time, but none of them are interesting since they don’t pose any actual threat. With Naruto and Sasuke around it feels like the bad guys can be defeated whenever those two feel like it. Even the strongest baddies are beaten with crappy power ups that come out of nowhere instead of being the result of training. Also, the animation is usually very lazy and doesn’t allow the fights to be exciting. As a result the action ends up being as boring as the daily activities. Even if you somehow like some of the better animated fights, they too get ruined by a very serious problem.

Lack of consequence
The biggest offender is Boruto himself, who despite cheating in the chuunin exam and getting exposed in front of everyone by his own father, gets away with it and carries on like nothing of importance has happened. Then he runs around with an alien ninja ghost inside him, who can possess him at any moment and kill everyone, and nobody gives a damn.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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