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Apr 2, 2017
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (11/81 chp)
To put it simply the series is mediocre, the story mostly suffers from the fact that it is trying to rush into the tough shit way too fast. Boruto should be fighting his way to Chunin where he would maybe meet a Jounin and get his ass kicked, yet he is fighting gods, literally. It didn't even attempt to stay grounded, the very first arc was fighting people as strong as Kaguya. Then the author gives us the insane premonition that straight up tells us way too much about the upcoming story and warns us far too early that something absolutely massive is coming on the scale of the world shinobi war... all within 10 chapters. The story is a far cry from the original Naruto series.

The art is obvious, it is people's main complaint and I agree, the guy didn't even remotely maintain anyone besides Naruto's look. The women all look like straight up low-quality generic Shoujo manga side characters, I will never forget when I was reading the manga how I genuinely did not know who the women I was looking at were until they told me it was Hinata and Sakura, they look awful. I like some of his ideas on looks, I actually like Gaara's new getup and I think his son looks great, though the execution is often abysmal. It feels like the guy just picks up a fashion magazine and picks at random with no consideration of character, story, or development. The guy's art is horrible is really all I have to say about it, it is by far the worst part of the series, I could get past the mediocre story just in the hopes that it will get better but the art just makes it physically painful. Obligatory: What the fuck is with Sarada's outfit in the new chapter? Shit looks awful.

Characters however he does well with in my opinion which makes me suspicious that he wasn't the primary mind behind them. I like the idea of Sarada and Boruto both aspiring to the other's father's position. I think their teammate is appropriately interesting but nothing absolutely insane. Sasuke's new attitude is great but stay somewhat true to his original personality and character. There are many more characters as well that were well done, but I would be here all day if I discussed each one. He does these well and I find most of them interesting to an extent.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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