Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

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A worthy successor.
Boruto doesn't try to trick you; its opening pages repeat several times that this is the story of Boruto Uzumaki, and that although it is his story alone, due to him being the son of the hokage, it's only natural that his story starts in his father's presence. Yes, Naruto is in this manga. No, that's not a bad thing. All of the legacy characters are treated with immense respect, none of them are treated as fodder which is a common complaint (they're just fighting people way stronger than any shinobi), and there are plenty of scenes that invoke a warm feeling ... of being right at home like I was reading Naruto. The scenes with Boruto talking to legacy characters just hit the spot, not in terms of nostalgia, but more like the satisfying feeling of "the writers know what they're doing," because these scenes serve to teach Boruto lessons about becoming a shinobi - the same lessons we saw Naruto learn the hard way in his series.

The plot of Boruto builds off of the ending of Naruto, making its unresolved plot points feel smoother and, slowly but surely, questions about their greatest foe are being answered, and new ones arrive to take their place. It's such an engaging story and the slow reveal of details that were lacking from Kishimoto's original series are awesome to see. Sure, the direction of the story may not be for some people, but the important thing is that it feels like a natural continuation with a new generation of shinobi to see things through - which is a theme that should be new to nobody seeing as we got four generations of shinobi shown to us in Naruto, each passing on the will of fire to their successors. The art is also overhated way, way too much. Yes, some of the early chapters can be a little shaky, but Ikemoto rapidly improved with time and even the early action scenes look absolutely beautiful. Overall it's doing amazing and I cannot wait to read more! The perfect continuation of Naruto's legendary quest to become hokage.

Whether or not you love or hate this series depends on your mindset going into this series.
If you're looking for a continuation of Naruto's story and seeing a lot of what he can and will do going forward, you won't get that with this series. A lot of Naruto fans will be disappointed with the fact Naruto is being side-lined to the role of a supporting character, but that is something that is inevitable with his story being over. Also if you're attached to the main cast of the original series, you will likely be upset by some of the plot developments that happens ... here.

If you're willing to overlook that and just seeing how Boruto's story unfolds, I'd say it's a pretty fine series. It's not groundbreaking nor does even have the same charm as the original Naruto story in my opinion, but it's a good read nonetheless.

This story has a lot of problems that the original Naruto series had, such as a lot of the characters introduced outside of the main team will be sitting on the sidelines, even at times the other members of Boruto's team are sitting on the side, but I personally like this new team 7 crew more than the original team 7 from Naruto. My mine gripe with the original Naruto being the fact that there's so many side characters but a lot don't actually hold much importance in the story, and while that STILL exists in Boruto, it feels SLIGHTLY better. Still not great, but a little better.

Another thing people may not like is, if you're not a fan of the antics of the 4th shinobi world war from Naruto, this series will have A LOT of tropey stuff, call backs, and continuations of plotlines from the 4th great war that have lasting effects in this series. I know that arc is very divisive for fans, so it will definitely be a hit or a miss depending on who reads it. There's a lot of the crazy power-scaling antics that the 4th war had going on with it happening in this series. Characters power up very fast considering the length of this manga.

If you care about reading a good battle shonen, then this is a serviceable series. It has good fights, I've never felt the fights here are not entertaining. I know there's a demographic of people who wanna see nice beat-em-up scenes, I do too, and Boruto has good fights in it.

Story-wise, I'd say Boruto is a fine story by Shonen standards. It's nothing overly complex, it's a classic shonen story I'd say. It has some good plot twists that made jaw-drop at times, but it's not top-tier writing by any means. It doesn't have insane world building to back it up, it doesn't have crazy character motivations, it's a very short series after all. The story is kind of like an extension of the 4th great war from Naruto, specificially the Kaguya portions of the arc. It borrows a lot of themes from Naruto in this story(what a surprise).

Character-wise, I think the characters and their interactions is probably the strongest part of this series, second to the action. The villains specifically are the main reasons to read this series I'd say. I mostly grinded through this series to see how they'd play out the plot of the timeskip that they showed in the first few panels of the first chapter. I was curious how things got there, and the villains I'd say are good. Specifically one villain, Momoshiki, who is an overarching antagonist who is repeatedly causing Boruto problems throughout the series. I constantly kept reading to see what kind of schemes he would cause to threaten Boruto. Momoshiki really makes this series for me, and I believe his presence is probably a major interest of a lot of readers.

Overall, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations is a pretty fine and serviceable battle shonen series. If you're a shonen fan you can probably find enjoyment reading this, it's not long, it's quick to the punch and its decent fun. Not everyone will enjoy this, especially if you're a hardcore Naruto fan. I'd say it's an above average shonen story, though I'd rate it as mixed, considering it can be very polarizing depending on what mindset you have going into it.

Hey everyone, Just a short review on 'the great(sarcasm) Boruto'.

When I read it first time, in starting it was good(I felt that it might be successful) but when I read further the manga, it started to feel like plain and boring and was not fun(which a shonen manga should be). I just felt like: "Yeah!! Just finish the chapter and get on to other manga". This is the first manga that made me feel like that.

1. Why it's not fun? -

As you know, that the new generation kids gets powerups out of nowhere and get some more powerups, from gods know where. Some boruto ... fans also say that he is the son of the strongest Shinobi and the hyuga princess that's why he gets powerups and becomes strong, which is bullsh*t bcz he has poweful genes, I accept but he had to work super hard to be powerful like any normal MC would do(in most shonen, which is fun to follow while reading) but no our unlikeable MC gets powerful out of nowhere.

The villians in boruto are the sh*ttest and makes no sense, they are superpowerful and they also suddenly appear then die and they don't even have a logical or reasonable reason for their actions. They are like we are doing all this for fun.

The writer was so focused on making the new gen surpass the old gen that he forgot the main fun essence of a shonen manga.. I still don't know how people are reading this sh*t, guess that's the standard of new shonen readers.

2. How is it still on going? -

The sole answer is the old generation, people wants to see their favourite characters from the OG Naruto and Shippuden. So, Boruto fans WAKE UP TO REALITY and stop thinking they are there for the so-called NEW GENERATION.

3. What is the hype about the first episode scene? -

In that scene, the total hype is about our favourite and goof ball character NARUTO UZUMAKI. Everyone wants to know what happened to him. So, once again WAKE UP TO REALITY Boruto fans, the scene has its hype bcz of NARUTO UZUMAKI and not bcz of rip off Naruto and wallmart Sasuke.

4. Why it is hated? -

i) NO INTERESTING STORY and CHARACTER to follow.
ii) Disrespect to old generation(most lovable generation) and nerfs of powerful character from OG Naruto.
iii) The MC is not lovable even after 81 chapters and didn't even work hard to get powerful.

Well, that's it for the review I could write for a whole day about it flaws and uninteresting character and story but I don't wanna waste my time on this trash. I wrote enough for a reader who wants to know how Boruto manga is....and
I AM READING MANGA SINCE 1999. SO, DON'T EVEN TRY TO TEACH ME WHAT A GOOD MANGA IS...

JAA NEE