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Naruto fans: Is Boruto worth it for the adult characters?

Buttzerker

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So despite how cheesy and off the rails it got in the second half, I liked Naruto for its characters and after watching The Last last night, I am kind of into the setting again.

To anyone watching Boruto, is it worth it for the adult characters? I'm open minded to the new cast of course, but would like to know if the now-adult former leads get any screentime or if it's all Boruto and Sarada.
 
Bor Gullet

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I saw what they did with Orochimaru and I noped out of there. I think in general bringing him back was a mistake.

I was also quite upset Temari was reduced to a house wife, because she was easily the most capable female character in Naruto.
 
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I've heard Temari, Hinata, and Ino are reduced to housewives and Sakura got like one fight she didn't even think she'd be in.

For me, someone who really liked the girl characters, it's really sad to see these cool girl ninjas, now as adults aren't... actually doing ninja things. Like Tenten's a shopkeep at least? I guess it's cool Anko's overweight and isn't necessarily treated as a joke for it, but that's offset by Chouji's daughter who is pretty much "mm food is good, omnom" like her dad was prior to Sasuke Retrieval arc, with extra sass.

Do note I checked out on like chapter 10, though, so this is based on what I've heard.
 
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HStallion said:
OP how do you feel about Orochimaru being a weirdly progressive parent?
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lunarworks

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I stopped at the Sarada arc and I've been debating going back lately, though tbh Sarada was great I just didn't like the sound of the arc that followed.
 
Crossing Eden

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Buttzerker said:
Indifferent. I feel like worse villains than Orochimaru have gotten a pass. Like literally Sasuke just for starters lol.
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Say what you will about Sasuke, but how the hell is he worse than orochimaru who has a death count in the hundreds at least and labs upon labs full of tortured test subjects. He still does the body stealing thing btw. They all know about it and no one does anything about it.
 
Chaos Legion

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There's a creature that Naruto, Kakashi and Sai couldn't defeat. Only Boruto through hijinks and the power of friendship.

I like it but seeing the adults depowered is sad.
 
metsallica

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In my opinion, sure, but the new characters are interesting too. Why not try it out and see what you think? I've enjoyed the anime since it started though I've fallen off the manga.
 
Sanchoco

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LDNStateOfMind said:
Never seen the anime, is it completely different to the manga?
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Anime starts when Boruto and the kids are in school
and they do have arcs that were in the manga(Himawari awakening her byakugan, the arc with sarada wanting to know who her real mother, and the movie retellling) but the retelling goes a slightly different(build up of a future arc) route but ends the same. After that it goes a different tangent unrelated to what's going on with the manga.

It's different from the manga. I don't if they'll follow it after the current arc ends.
 
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The first 50 or so episodes are brutal. It picks up a little bit around mid 50's and then gets brutal again. I wouldn't recommend the show at all, but for some reason I sufferered through it.
 
ScandiNavy

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The kids now parents brings an interesting chemistry, I think.

But if you don't like fillers, it won't take that long to catch up.
Boruto has been in filler hell since August, more or less.

48% of the total of episodes is filler.
Yep..keeping that tradition.
 
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It's better than a good chunk of the original series and it definitely does some good character work for the original cast. Though the show isn't really about them, so if you're just watching it for that then I wouldn't recommend.
 
UltraGunner

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Depends OP. How do you feel about characters whose logic and actions are similar to someone suffering from a debilitating head injury? That's how pretty much how everyone acts in Boruto.
 
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Bor Gullet said:
I saw what they did with Orochimaru and I noped out of there. I think in general bringing him back was a mistake.

I was also quite upset Temari was reduced to a house wife, because she was easily the most capable female character in Naruto.
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Funny, I was going to cite what they did with Orochimaru as a reason to watch the show. He is truly the best mom.

In general, the dynamic between the adults and the kids is pretty compelling if you're familiar with the returning characters from Naruto.
 
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Boruto is not very interesting and the adult characters feel like an afterthought.
 

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ScandiNavy said:
48% of the total of episodes is filler.
Yep..keeping that tradition.
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This is nonsense. How is filler defined to start with? If we are to assume everything related to the manga is canon, then we only have about 20 anime episodes. That's if we include: the current Boruto manga (which in turn includes the movie), and shorter Boruto stories Kishimoto himself drew.

However, if we look at "animefillerlist" which many seem to go by, there's various other episodes that are "mostly canon"! How does that work? Nobody knows! Episodes with major events, character developments, or new skills are labeled "filler". And those "mostly canon" labels? They appear to be based on the Boruto novels, some which to my knowledge released AFTER the anime (like the school trip to the Hidden Mist)! Oh, and did I mention that the manga has had to retcon itself due to not having introduced characters and reveals that the anime has? And that the anime and novels don't exactly portray the same stories?

It's a bit of a mess. You can view every media category as its own continuity (manga, novel, anime). However, nothing in the anime is filler. It's all canon.
 
Chaos Legion

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Sander VF said:
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Same question.

Aren't Nardo and Sasuke like early DBZ levels of overpowered by that point?
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So the creature is essentially capable of absorbing chakra and should Kakashi or Naruto attack it at full strength it would overload and destroy the whole village. So they create a barrier and Boruto's eye technique cuts through a dimension in which he, the creature and the creature's summoner talk and eventually he calms the summoner down and the creature saves them and transports them back to the village safely and becomes a cute little creature and all is well that ends well.
 
Soupman Prime

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Someone tell me what's happened to my Taijutsu boys Guy and Lee. I kept watching Naruto in the end to get to the Red Beast then basically stopped caring.
 
ScandiNavy

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Marow said:
This is nonsense. How is filler defined to start with? If we are to assume everything related to the manga is canon, then we only have about 20 anime episodes. That's if we include: the current Boruto manga (which in turn includes the movie), and shorter Boruto stories Kishimoto himself drew.

However, if we look at "animefillerlist" which many seem to go by, there's various other episodes that are "mostly canon"! How does that work? Nobody knows! Episodes with major events, character developments, or new skills are labeled "filler". And those "mostly canon" labels? They appear to be based on the Boruto novels, some which to my knowledge released AFTER the anime (like the school trip to the Hidden Mist)! Oh, and did I mention that the manga has had to retcon itself due to not having introduced characters and reveals that the anime has? And that the anime and novels don't exactly portray the same stories?

It's a bit of a mess. You can view every media category as its own continuity (manga, novel, anime). However, nothing in the anime is filler. It's all canon.
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I'm talking about the main story arc that the anime is following.
Are they doing one of the exams, and, suddenly in the next episode, Boruto and his team is in a no name village helping the villagers , and the happenings there are never referenced? Do we ever see the characters in that village again?
If no, that's filler territory.
We could be in a twin universe sort of setting.

That's what I mean when I say filler.
 
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Chaos Legion said:
So the creature is essentially capable of absorbing chakra and should Kakashi or Naruto attack it at full strength it would overload and destroy the whole village. So they create a barrier and Boruto's eye technique cuts through a dimension in which he, the creature and the creature's summoner talk and eventually he calms the summoner down and the creature saves them and transports them back to the village safely and becomes a cute little creature and all is well that ends well.
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.......Sage mode should literally be able to handle this.
 

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ScandiNavy said:
I'm talking about the main story arc that the anime is following.
Are they doing one of the exams, and, suddenly in the next episode, Boruto and his team is in a no name village helping the villagers , and the happenings there are never referenced? Do we ever see the characters in that village again?
If no, that's filler territory.
We could be in a twin universe sort of setting.

That's what I mean when I say filler.
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... unless you're talking about the three Chou-Chou episodes set in Hidden Leaf (which I think everyone dislikes), you're literally talking about the long arc set in the Hidden Stone. One of the major villages. Which had at least one major thing, one that's big even with Naruto (the series) taken into account. Plus recurring characters.

If we go by the logic of "seeing characters again" or whatever, we can even apply that to Naruto or basically any story. I get what you're trying to say, but it's nonsense to apply to Boruto as everything is canon.
 
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