Ive been cautiously avoiding every fillers (HS episodes, not in the manga, not relevant for the story and poorly written scenarios) but even with that, boruto remains mediocre. Im not gonna write endless sentences about nothing because the most logical thing to do now is to make a comparison between naruto shippuden and boruto. How have we come to that point ? How a story in the narutoverse can be so hated and bad at the same time ? Let's analyse this :
Firstly, i must admit that the manga is half decent due to being a fast read with a fast paced scenario without any fillers. But it doesnt change the fact that boruto is way worse that naruto shippuden.
Now, im going to act as if fillers (approx 3/4 of the anime) are non existent. As if only the manga were adaptated. (let's be honest, only because of fillers, this anime is worth 0, 1 if we're being kind like a teacher giving a free point to his studen because this latter correctly wrote their name).
I do admit that naruto shippuden does have a lot of inconsistencies mainly because the main message of naruto isnt respected (naruto being the chosen one while he wants to demonstrate that a loser can achieve anything with hard work... Neji was right in naruto)
But if naruto is seen that highly, thats because pro are heavily overwhelming compared to cons.
Boruto doesnt have ANYTHING related to those pros.
Let's take a moment to remember our best scenes in naruto shippuden. It was deep, interesting, emotional, some flashbacks were disturbing, musics were full of emotions : sorrow, joy, action, mystery and so on. I can easily remember a lot of those songs during iconic scenes.
Did you read that ? Did you understand my point ? Great now give up on that cuz nothing listed above is in boruto. Ok we can argue that the scenario isnt really far fetched. It's very childish compared to naruto (which wasnt a seinen... But anyway im not gonna contest the choices made by the scenarist).
Im not gonna lack of respect about people in charge of the anime. But they're the worst i've ever seen. The anime is genuinely worse in term of graphics compared to a random episode of naruto shippuden made in 2011. You can try it if you want. On ADN, the max quality is 480P. It's absolutely shameful.
Songs are bad, forgettable at best and they're not even loud enough compared to the voices. There are no emotional musics at all, it's like they put random songs to random moments. Some moments made to be dramatic are plainly ridiculous and random partially because of that.
Now that I explained why iconic scenes will never exist in boruto, let's explain why iconic antagonists will not exist either.
Naruto is considered for many like the manga with the best antagonists out there. Or at least not far from being it. Boruto is the complete opposite. Antagonists are poorly designed, they're ugly and random. Their past is non existent aswell. They exist, they're strong and... That's it. Forget about sasori and his inhumane past, forget about itachi killing his clan, kabuto forgetting his own identity. In boruto, bad people are BAD that's all.
The otsutsuki clan is a joke. Ppl hated kaguya, they hate the other members aswell. But hey, they're gods so they're strong they dont need any character development ! Huh godness.
Let's talk about the story. The world is in peace and naruto/sasuke have a godly level so how did they manage to put a story on that ?
Answer is simple : a ridiculous "ninja technology" was created (thus removing the point of being a shinobi). It could have been a god thing if handled well but... Lol. Nothing else to add you know where i want to go saying that.
+ gods. As if the end of naruto shippuden wasnt DBZ like enough, now we're dealing with flying gods.
It's bad.
Im not hateful about boruto. I'm madly disappointed. I had great hope at the beginning. The introduction scene with a grown up boruto hyped me and i did really like the utterly non existent relation between boruto and his father as this latter used to work 24:7.
I did like the fact that boruto was more serious than naruto when he was a kid. I did like mitsuki and all the mysteries behing him.
But knowing the quality of the scenario, it will be bad. I cut my finger if im mistaken. But it will be poorly managed.
Now let's talk about the characters. Well... See every naruto characters ? take them and remove every good aspect of them and you have their sons. Simple. We all know that side characters in naruto had a poor execution. Some of them dont even have flashbacks. But some other were likable because of their past. They were tough because their past made them tough ; neji, lee, gaara and so on.
Here, they all lived a peaceful life. They dont have anything. The only way to improve them would be to destroy that peaceful life. Like a bigger destruction than pain's. Buut once again we all know that it will be poorly executed.
Finally, im going to explain using a simple example how childish boruto is compared to naruto : orochimaru.
Orochimaru was a monster, a freak doing all sort of disturbing experiences in his secret lab. Now, he physically seems kind, inapt to fight and he seems tamed. He's tolerated by Konoha and apart from Mitsuki, he doesnt do anything. In a nutschell ; they killed Orochimaru.
That's why i give boruto the anime the (over)rating of 3. I still genuinely think that they COULDNT have done worse in everything they touched.
