I am honestly confused by people who want this series to be like Naruto. If it WAS the same in tone and themes, it would be inherently unfaithful to the original series.

Naruto took place in a broken world, trapped in a vicious cycle, where nations are at eachother's throats and people live in fear of both the harshness of the world and the vicious governments that were necissary to not collapse. From the beginning it was dark, tense, and had death on the line. It ended with the nations putting aside their differences, defeating an existential threat, and breaking the cycle of violence.

Boruto is about what happens next. It's about the struggles of maintaining that peace, and how to do it. Do you demilitarize to ensure peace or maintain your strength in case there is another threat? Is the peace a guarantee that you become weak, forcing the world to just collapse back into more chaos? Can children who haven't seen the harshness of the past really grow up to keep said harshness at bay? Can they really understand those who dedicate their lives to doing just that? And can you really blame them if they don't? These are the questions the series is tackling. And it is doing it is doing a great job of it in my opinion.

Naruto's enemies at their core represented corruption, nihilism, and the pain of loss. Boruto's three main enemies so far have been (spoiler up till episode 45) The series has, in my opinion, perfectly represented the current sociopolitical state of the world. Just to add in more, Kakashi's relationship with the new generation and Sarada's relationship with her parents, thematically i'd say this is the best series I have seen.

The only thing that brings this series down to a 4 is how heavily it leans on the old cast. Literally every single person in naruto's class had a kid at the exact same time? Yeah, no. And all of Naruto's advisers are his personal best friends? Really? They just need to expand their cast and create their own characters.

So far Boruto was what I expected it to be. Everyone is a clone of their parent which I expected and not upset about. And there are even some new characters they are trying to introduce to the show. My favorite part about this show so far is when we get to see the old heros we grew up with like Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Lee, and even Sakura is a nice change of pace. But this show is extremely slow and while I expected more action its not hard to see that they are trying to drag the show out like Naruto. They may make a time skip after a couple hundred episodes to where the first episode showed Boruto but we have no way of knowing and it gives less motivation to watch the show when it feels like its just going to be a lot of filler for the time being. I'll wait until the show gets interesting before I change this but if it doesn't happen then it doesnt happen

I understand that Naruto can't be the star of Boruto, but damn is he bad.

From saving the world to getting one hit knocked out by his kid daughter. And losing fights against paperwork.

Yes I know she used a gentle fist technique and surprised him but c'mon. That was stupid af. It was simply there for comedy and wasn't realistic at all.

And how does he get so swamped with work when he can make duplicated of himself to help. I know that there are plenty of scenes of him using them but why can't he make like 5 - 10 to do paperwork and finish it in an hour or so? If he needs even more than that then tbh the village is simply overworking their Hokage with unnecessary paperwork. Or just work in general.

What happens when there is a Hokage that isn't as adept at making shadow clones?

I'll start with this: Boruto is just like any other action anime. There are lots of filler episodes leading up to an actual conflict that will span several more episodes until resolved. Rinse and repeat.

I think what trips a lot of people up is that they come into this fresh off the heels of Naruto. And that does them a disservice. Boruto is not the intense, serious follow-up you would want after finishing Naruto. It's fresh and centered in an entirely different world of peace and technological expanse. Most importantly, the main characters are just kids, living in a peaceful yet bustling city. Their adventures involve trading card games and school life. There's no more war to bog down their youth.

I think this is something the show does well. Boruto explores the ninja world post war and post economic/technologic boom and it is interesting to watch the episodes where more of the world is fleshed out. But worry not, action lovers! Despite the slowness of the show right now, we do get hints here and there of a larger plot unfolding. Something big is happening. The pacing to get there will be excruciatingly slow, I'm sure. But it'll come. And as the show moves forward, I have no doubt we will get to see some major character development, as well, just like with Naruto.

Bottom line; this is a show that requires patience, just like it's predecessor. But unlike Naruto, the tone and themes of this show are much lighter and influenced by a time of peace. Go into it with fresh eyes (and maybe skip some of the filler episodes) and enjoy!

The Boruto series, heir to the Naruto series throne, is not as bad as other reviewers might lead you to believe. It has a familiar feel with familiar characters but each episode brings something new to the Boruto universe (Yes, even the many fillers). People are giving Boruto a bad name for not being better than Naruto but they haven't even given it a chance. Comparing it to the founding series whilst this new series is in its infant stages is completely unfair. To be clear, whenever I get a notification that there is a new episode, I get so excited because this series fills the space that Naruto left behind beautifully. Boruto is a gift and I couldn't ask for more.

Just FYI, I recently rewatched ALL of Naruto and Shippuden.
I never finished Shippuden so I decided to start it all over again.
I finished the series and immediately went on to watch Boruto.
So I have the series fresh in my mind (It took maybe 1.5 months to rewatch it all?)
As an added FYI, I skipped non-important filler.

So, is Boruto good? Well, yeah. Depending on what you consider "good" to be, then yes, it is good.
Should I go in depth with my thoughts?
SURE!

Ok, so people want to compare this with Naruto/Shippuden, its understandable why, as its a continuation.

Whats different?
Quite a lot actually.
I'll go over what I dislike first:

The Naruto series focuses on seasonal plotlines/arcs that typically last 20 or more episodes, with some filler in between that lasts 1 or a few more episodes.
With Boruto, so far the entire first season has felt like multiple filler arcs, basically 10 or even less episodes focusing around a plot then switching to another that is unrelated to the previous, with a "background plot" going on that continues through the series.

Now, this isn't inherently bad, but since we are comparing the two its definitely a big difference that some may not like at all.
I personally dislike this as so far, I dont feel like there is any real progress being made in terms of an overarching storyline. During Naruto it was all about them training, getting better, learning, exploring the world before going into the chunin exams.
With Boruto, I only feel like there is exploration, well, I'll go into that now I guess.

Because Boruto is a sequel (set about 15 years after Shippuden), they need to bring people upto date with what has changed over the years, obviously.
This causes some issues as I feel it affects the pacing, as Boruto mostly focuses on showing us A LOT of stuff, not focusing on anything in particular as we explore this familiar but different world.
To me this is probably going to weigh the series down as they want to appeal to Naruto fans, but also want to do something entirely new.

To explain this further, I guess I should go into the characters.

The big problem with Boruto so far IMO, is that there are far too many characters.
To compare to Naruto, characters were introduced over time, every few episodes or a seasons, new characters would be introduced, thats just how it was structured.
But because Boruto is a sequel, they need to show all the old characters and their children.
Within the first 10 episodes I was lost as to who characters were.
There are just too many, I cant remember many of their names.
I dont blame Boruto for this though, as it would be expected from a sequel that needed to show all the old characters and the new.
However, I felt like they could've gone about the series in a different way, maybe start the same way Naruto did, focus on 3 main characters and introduce others over time. That'd be a good way to reveal where characters went after Shippuden.
However, since all the new main characters are in the Academy, they are all in the foreground along with their parents.

It just gives the anime a bloated feel.

THAT BEING SAID.

The series also has some strengths, really good ones.

The characters that are here are pretty interesting, personally I cant say I like them more than the OC, but they're still pretty good, with some interesting ideas here and there.
The animation is greatly improved from Shippuden and at times, beautiful.
The OC are really well done, I love to see them again, huge nostalgia bongos.
The shorter more filler-esque plots can be pretty good at times and it does keep me interested in seeing where the "background plot" goes. More specifically the plots that focus on character/relationship drama (if you've watched it you'll know what I'm referencing)
And overall it does have a very child-friendly feel while not being dumbed down or censored to "protect teh childs".

In the end, its not Naruto, imo it could never possibly be.
But on its own, its a pretty good, well made series, while bloated at times has moments of greatness that makes it worth the watch.

If you're a Naruto fan, you're either already watching it, or waiting to hear what people think, in which case, you'll watch it anyways.
I give it a 3/5, its not perfect, but its still pretty good, some things aren't handled very well, but things it does well are really good

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Ill start by stating im in my early 20s and watched the whole Naruto series, as for shippuden, I watched a bit but due to fillers ended up just concentrating on the manga while watching important episodes and battle. I wanna like Boruto but it just feels like this show was made just for children, remember how zabuza use to say leaf shinobies aren't real ninjas because of the peace, thats how it feels in Boruto... The entire series feels like a filler, I really don't know where there going with this, I stepped the invasion because I saw the movie and didn't really want to watch it again butt every episode seems like its kids having a few issues and then making up, the nue incident was over so fast and no one was really punished, its been 46 episode and there hasn't been any epic near death, awesome combination resolve moment or anything whatsoever that was to memorable (in my opinion). They made the legendary swordsman out to be like trash.... I don't even know how these children managed to get the swords. I mean in comparison by ep 46 they were already at the third phase of the chunk exam, they had defeated zabuza and haku, a sad and depressing but also exiting and inspiring ark, sasuke had his epic moment while fitting orochimaru, hinata had a pretty epic moment too vs neji, even Naruto winning with a farts was epic and hilarious.... and the new team seven is so boring, Mitsuki is pretty cool but why he is so infatuated with borate is something I don't understand... I hate sakura and her relationship (what did sasuke see in her and what did she see in sasuke) with sasuke doesn't make sense and so I hate Sarada by assossiation and she wants to be hokage but why? I hope she doesn't become hokage, her mother is poison. Finally boruto... The genius brat with an awesome mom, a sister a wealthy family, a dad around a legendary ninja(sasuke) who's basically his godfather a village chief for dad who's still alive and overpowered, wealthy and influential friends (able to get people jobs at his age) and has sings of either the byakugan or that other ocular power these aliens idk, im getting tired but I could right for hours about why I don't like boruto........ The animation is good and there were some pretty cool fights and power my problem is really the slow paste story Sarada and Boruto.... Im sorry if I offended people, I wish I could say I love it but I just can't