Without a doubt, Naruto is one of the most watch anime series to walk the earth. The series follows the story of Naruto, a noisy ass mouth yet a determined Ninja that strives to become the homage of the hidden leaf village.
Since 2002 to 2017, I followed Naruto including the movies and it became a staple among millions of anime fans across the world that were impressed with the series deep story, vivid characters, and captivating battle scenes.
Well after the development of boruto Naruto next generation, many fans had begun to argue which one is better.
Well let's start with the characters
Perhaps one of Naruto most appreciated qualities was its diverse cast of characters. From Naruto to miato gai (my guy), each and every character were unique in their own special way. Every character had their own motives, aspiration, and techniques that made them relevant and useful through out the entire series.
Take for example rock lee while he wasn't a major character he had his own ambition of becoming a powerful ninja without mastering ninjutsu. Characters like shikamaru, garra, and even ten-ten made Naruto more enjoyable because of their different skills and relationships to the main character.
Boruto on the other hand, basically recycles the same characters from Naruto and attempts to give them their own personalities. While the series does have different characters like metal lee, shikadai and Chocho, are they really different than their parents hell fucking no.
Although Naruto has hundreds of boring and irrelevant filler episodes, the series gets straight to the action from the moment the first episode begins. Once Naruto gets assigned to team 7, he immediately travels to the land of waves to battle zabuza and haku.
Immediately afterward, naruto, sasuke and Sakura participate in the chunnin exams, which is then followed by the konoha crush led by orochimaru and the sound ninja. As you can see Naruto gets right to the point very quickly.
However, boruto spends several episodes introducing new characters and showcasing boruto's playquirks. While the series does have some action in its early episodes, the pace still leaves much to be desired. In fact, the story seems to be on an erratic pace most of the time, rapidly switching from goofy episodes to more serious ones in a flash.
One of the most disappointing qualities of boruto is its lack of suspense. Naruto had a pretty dark mood that seemed like any character could die at any moment. From lee and garra battling it out to the death in the chunin to kakashi taking on itachi and kisame/kazuku and hidan, Or azuma vs hidan fans were always on the edge of their seat wondering what would happen next.
Unfortunately, boruto lacks this surprise features. As a result, the show can sometimes be difficult to watch. Is there really any suspense when shin kidnaps Sakura bloody hell no
Naruto and sasuke are two of the most powerful ninja in the world and Sakura is a very competent ninja herself, so there wasn't really any doubt about what would happen next. With Naruto sasuke, and the rest of his old comrades still living in the hidden leaf village, boruto will continue to lack the quality of suspense unless a very powerful foe shows up.
But I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.
Again if you've been rolling your eyes in disagreement up until this point, it time to go ahead and stop. Boruto isn't even in the same atmosphere as Naruto when it comes to action. In its first hundreds episodes, Naruto featured amazing battles such as naruto’s fights with garra, neji, kabuto, orochimaru vs sarutobi, sannins battles, and some other great fight in the chunnin exams.
What does boruto have to show for first hundred 100 episodes? A few cameo appearance by Naruto and sasuke during shin's assault not so interesting arc, a few fight scenes when nue attacked the village boring arc sumire is bloody weak now, boruto's fight with some irrelevant mist wannabe swordsmen, and countless other pretty battles headline what boruto has shown us since it premiered in april 2017.
It's understandable that ukyo kodachi and kishi decided to go another way with this series, but is it really smart to leave out the amazing action sequences that endeared fans to Naruto in the first place?
Quick can you name the major villians in boruto since the series began, there hasn't been any glimpse of a major villian, and the show is already approaching 100 episodes.
At the beginning of the series, Naruto already introduced villians such as orochimaru, kabuto, and the akatsuki. All of these enemies were mysterious, powerful, and they alway showed up to test the power of the main characters.
Unlike its predecessor, boruto hasn't shown a single major villian yet that's unique to the show. This once again proves that boruto’s storytelling qualities are still underdeveloped and that the plot is transitioning much slower than Naruto.
Every popular anime series has featured a major character with a noble goal or purpose. In one piece, Luffy strived to become the king of pirates. In my hero academia, deku's goal was to surpass all might and become the world's strongest hero.
Similarly, Naruto goal was to become the hokage. Although his aspirations were a bit one dimensional and cliche on the surface, Naruto goal laid the frame work for the entire series. In order to become the hokage, Naruto set out to bring to bring sasuke back at any cost, surpass his master jiraiya, and end the fourth great ninja war.
All of these event strengthened naruto's resolve, making him more mature with each passing episode. From what we know already, boruto does have a goal to become a shinobi similar to sasuke. But boruto is too playful and doesn't take things serious all he knows is having plenty of friend he doesn't even know just like mitsuki. His lack of a structural goal makes him appeared more one-dimensional than naruto’s ambition to become the hokage, and even that is an understatement.
Since he was a toddler, Naruto had to endure being an orphan ostracized by the hidden leaf village. He had no parents and he was forced to become a competent ninja on his own. Although he had kakashi and jiraiya to help him along the way, Naruto had to learn the way of the ninja alone.
Conversely, boruto is a likable ninja that's very popular throughout the village. He constantly receives tutelage from knohamaru and he is even taught a few tricks by sasuke in the series. Boruto has the luxury of having both of his parents around, even though naruto is seldom at home. Because of this boruto appears somewhat like a spoiled brat that doesn't appreciate the sacrifices his father constantly makes for him and the hidden leaf village. He has devoted friends and the residents of the leaf village are quite fond of him, so he doesn't have to live in the same anguish his dad did. Unfortunately, these hardships added to naruto's character development makes him the man he is today.
In the series naruto, the recurring theme was that being a ninja was an extremely deadly career. In fact, Naruto and his friends experienced tragic event that showed just how painful it was to walk the path of a shinobi. Dread Ful events such as sasuke defecting the village, garra shattering lee's leg, sarutobi/haku death. Unlike boruto, naruto has a multilayered theme that touched on the realities of being a ninja.
Of course, boruto is set in the time Where the world is at peace and where ninja are rapidly becoming obsolete. However, naruto's childhood was relatively peaceful. Still, the series had numerous reality checks, character deaths, and other real life moments that made the series all too real.
One of the most prevalent themes in Naruto was that “hard work beats talent”. Overall, naruto had to work much harder than his peers to accomplish his goal of becoming the hokage. For example, when jiraiya trained with Naruto after the death of the third hokage, he used a hands-off approach to teach naruto the rasengan.
Naruto basically had to several days of exhausting training to master the techniques because that's what it took. Throughout the series, Naruto regularly trained to advance his limits, even after jiraiya death. On the contrary, boruto has a distinct nonchalant attitude when it comes to obtaining power. He wants to bypass the learning curves and master powerful techniques without working hard for them, which piss naruto to shit. Unless this behaviour changes later in the series, Naruto will have a clear advantage over boruto.
Although we mentioned that boruto lacks the work ethic naruto had, you can't deny that he is still a fairly competent ninja. Even kanshi praised boruto as a genius, something naruto never was at his age. In comparison, boruto could probably wipe the floor with Naruto if they fought at the same age, but this represents a huge problem.
There's not really any character development involved if boruto already begins the series as a strong ninja. He lacks the work ethic naruto had, but he's still one of the strongest ninjas in his class, something that took naruto several years to do.
Fans of naruto got a chance to see Naruto go from rags to riches and put his hard work to a test against enemies that are much stronger than him. Boruto, on the other hand, doesn't have to work as hard and already has some great jutsu and abilities. What's the point of developing boruto any further if he's never going to work hard to overcome inferiority.Maybe this shit will let u decide which is better. |
