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Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Vol. 1

 

 

 

By: Ukyo Kodachi (Story),Masashi Kishimoto (Creator),Mikio Ikemoto (Illustrations)
Release Date: April 4th 2017 (first published August 4th 2016)
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Series: Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
Rating: 2 out 5
Summary: The ninja adventures continue with Naruto’s son, Boruto!

Naruto was a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He achieved his dream to become the greatest ninja in his village, and now his face sits atop the Hokage monument. But this is not his story... A new generation of ninja is ready to take the stage, led by Naruto's own son, Boruto!

Years have passed since Naruto and Sasuke teamed up to defeat Kaguya, the progenitor of chakra and the greatest threat the ninja world has ever faced. Times are now peaceful and the new generation of shinobi has not experienced the same hardships as its parents. Perhaps that is why Boruto would rather play video games than train. However, one passion does burn deep in this ninja boy’s heart, and that is the desire to defeat his father!

Review: I have mixed feeling over this series. When Kishimoto release the one shot after Kaguya defeat, I was not happy with how he handle Naruto's future. I hate how Naruto is miserable despite how everything is peaceful. So I hesitate reading his son's side of his story.

Lord, give me strength.

We’re following Boruto here, and he’s clearly a brat. He believes his father is awful because he’s always working and never pays his kids any attention. Boruto thinks a few hours of working on a high level jutsu is too intense, so he goes and cheats with technology rather than innate his ability.

Naruto deserves a fucking family. I didn’t want to pick this up and see a middle-aged man who doesn’t go home every day to see his family, a family that seems too forced together.I’ll just say this: I dislike that Hinata’s character arcs stripped away, so she could be the perfect "wife" for the main character. Same with Sakura. I know from spoilers that Sakura and Sasuke’s relationship is a joke as well. Why did these writers take away all the female empowerment just to have kids with specific combination abilities?

Why Sasuke is training Baruto and not his own child? I don’t get Sarada is so happy that her dad is helping him. When one shot, she wants to have a relationship with her own father.

The pacing of this story is too fast. We barely get to know the characters, and we are off to the chunin exam. The original took the time. We get to know the dynamic team seven. Here, we barely know what dynamic Boruto has with his teammate Sarada Uchiha and Mitsuki.

The art style looks so degrading. It looks nothing like Kishimoto original art style. Which is such a shame because I did like Kishimoto art style.

In the end, Bouro is a safe start of a sequel to a series. I didn’t mind reading, but it wasn’t great. It’s not really my series, though.

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