Is Boruto a manga? Yes.
Is Boruto the worst fucking manga I've ever read? Yes.
Is it the worst thing that I've ever seen in Jump? Also yes.
Bordo is a terrible series authored by a pedophile who can't fucking draw and definitely can't write. When Naruto ended after an excruciating 2-year final battle, Kishimoto chose his favorite pupil to help make the ill-fated Samurai 8. Wanting to wash his hands from this series forever, he chose some mongoloid he kept in a basement to draw this pile of shit, presumably as a joke, thinking it would crash and burn.
Well, fast-forward years later and people are literally unironically still reading this series. It's still going. How? Why? Because the standards of your average shounen reader are so low, so mixed in with the dirt and feces we walk all over each day, that they will consume anything with a familiar logo.
So why would YOU read it?
Is Bordo illustrated as well as Naruto at any stage of its run?
Absolutely not. It seriously looks like shit. Everyone's face is busted, the set pieces are devoid of detail, and the action sucks. The character designs are also among the worst I've ever seen. Kids on DeviantArt in 2005 made better Naruto OCs than some of the characters introduced here.
Does Bordo have the same appealing hook or premise?
No. There is no underdog story here, no grand war in a fantasy world, no vast and varied cast of characters (in the manga), nothing. It's a series about nothing where nothing happens. The hook is "you finished Naruto and we think you're stupid enough to give us your time to read this."
Does Bordo carry ANY of the surface-level appeal of its predecessor?
No. It does have mutant cyborgs with laser guns though.
Does Boruttaoao continue the plot of Naruto in any meaningful way?
No. It introduces alien cyborg mutants with incomprehensible Jojo powers and laser blasters and they show up to kidnap Boruto a lot because he has a magic wart in his hand.
Does Bordo have familiar characters that I like?
No, not really. Only three or four characters from the original series have any role whatsoever, and that role is to pathetically job to whatever mutant alien of the month is menacing them.
If you've been watching the anime for god knows what reason, don't expect to find those characters in this manga either. Literally none of them have so much as a single panels-worth of time - they just don't exist. No cat girl. No samurai girl. No computer kid. No Ino/Shika/Cho, really. The only character who does occasionally appear is Bort's hinata-lookalike love interest, but she also doesn't do anything. She has quite the elaborate little backstory in the anime and a Pokemon companion, but in the manga she is just a girl who is "there" sometimes, with no reference to anything about her personality, powers, or backstory. The anime and manga writers apparently just don't communicate at all.
Does Bordo at least do anything cool with its main characters?
No. Boruto's arc was settled in the movie where he was introduced. Sarada never shows up in the manga outside of really creepy pedoshit color pages. The snake kid also never shows up or does anything. The series is almost entirely about Kawaki, the loser you see in the prologue, and his inevitable, boring Anakin Skywalker story where he becomes evil. That is the whole, entire story of this manga.
Are the fights good? lmfao no.
Does this series have the Naruto logo underneath its logo? YES!!! Ding ding ding! That is this manga's defining feature! The only reason anyone cares about it!
If you have absolutely nothing better to do, like read any of the thousands of other action manga that exist, or literally anything else that's more productive, like staring blankly into the toilet after a big shit for hours on end, I would still advocate not reading Boruto. It is basically the gutter of entertainment and the only reason you're even here, reading this page, is because it's a "sequel" to Naruto. It's time to grow up and accept that stories end instead of desperately grasping at any chance of continuation, don't you think? Close the tab and go outside.
