Boruto: The Honest Truth 

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Finally, I will be able to steal Seth's opinion on Boruto and pass it off as my own

"It's more like a wizard show where they act like ninjas." True, that's how I like to think of it.

My main issue with boruto as a concept is just surrounding the power in general. As a series it STARTS stronger than we ever saw naruto get. It’s a consequence of continuing the world but it doesn’t get to feel real because day one he’s fighting literal gods and we never get to have a “from the bottom” storyline

A lot of the defenses of boruto seem to come down to “well naruto did it too, so why are you mad now” when in reality we were mad when shippuden did it and it feels like this series has taken on all the aspects nobody liked about the original series and excluded many of the aspects that made us love it in spite of those flaws

Why does Seth sound like he's trolling while plugging Raid Shadows Legends? Never change Seth 😂😂

“WHERE IS KAKASHI? IS HE DEAD?!” Took me out 💀

Gonna be honest the reason immediately disliked boruto is because of how dirty they did naruto. Like having been through everything he’s been through, you’d think he’d be the LAST person to neglect his family. Seeing how they wrote him as neglectful, all work no family just felt so unnatural and abrupt that it felt like character assassination

I hate how boruto "uses" Naruto and Sasuke, they are literally the strongest shinobi of all time , they should be the characters that fight once in every 300 episodes when shit really goes down, not Naruto going kyuubi mode for every single henchman. Their presence alone should make everyone shiver . I also dont like how boruto is fighting alien gods at the age of 10, that should be the ending of the show, not the beginning. They should have focused more on his training and growing up as a shinobi. He hasnt earned anything, he is just a genious that does everything right. They actually wrote themselves into a corner for using Naruto and Sasuke all the time and had to take away their powers... Lazy, lazy

Boruto fans rise up and show your support for the video. This man read and watched the entire series from start to finish JUST for you guys, so you know he is doing the series actual justice for you all.

Please, for the love Boruto, let Konohamaru win at least once. I won’t get into the million reasons he should be stronger and more successful but he should at least be Kakashi but is treated like Iruka.

Having read the manga and seen the anime, my main beef with Boruto is that the pacing is absolutely horrendous. There is no buildup or threat to many of the antagonists, there is little to no gravity in all of it, and they rely way too much on Naruto and Sasuke to carry the story when it should be about everyone. Consider that a solid chunk of Naruto's peers by the end of the Ninja War Arc were probably Jonin level, due in large part to the stakes and the resources they all had access to when the villages united. Then a substantial time skip happens between the end of Shippuden to Boruto and it's like everyone was in stasis. They grew significantly over a short period of time of war against the Akatsuki and Madara and the writers tried to sell the idea they just stopped completely when Kaguya was defeated? That is complete bullshit. If they wanted to do the series justice, they would've built on what Naruto and Shippuden paved, taken the time to flesh out each character and actually give them some moments where they experience conflict and show how they grew after Shippuden ended. But they didn't. Boruto just gets handed everything and is a completely unlikable character even after he steps into his role, because his "redemption" and coming to terms with Naruto took all of 2 seconds when that seemed to be his major hurdle to get over, which was a dumb trait for them to focus on - if anything, it should've been a side conflict that Boruto dealt with as the way it was resolved implies it was never a big deal to begin with. In contrast, Naruto didn't even know who his parents were and when he met Minato during the Pain arc, that was a mountainous thing for him despite it not being a focal point of his character. That is the example they needed to learn from. That's my gripe. I think a lot of things about Boruto are interesting, like an attempt to understand the ninja world scientifically, the Karma, etc. but there's not much to appreciate in the characters or the plot. It starts at 100 and so everything else by comparison feels weightless, and the pacing of everything was and is totally atrocious.

I laughed SO HARD when I realized Sarada's design, like when I first saw her outfit it didn't even register until I noticed she looked different and then I looked it up, turns out the guy responsible for her design just did it and NO ONE told him anything until readers pointed it out.

Seth changing his voice for a AD is to entertaining

Honestly, my issue in the beginning would be with the anime's slow burn, which probably turned a lot of people off from the show. Seeing Boruto be insufferable for over a year of weekly episodes was nowhere near as bad as the 8-10 monthly manga chapters. The side character stuff was nice, but having a main character like that was a bad experience. Once the anime started adapting the manga chapters, was a great improvement. I don't blame them since the manga is monthly while the anime has to keep dropping episodes every week

Kishimoto failed to realize a lot of fans wanted him to tell the stories of characters that were already in the show. I'd pay good money to watch A series about Hashirama's life, from when he was a kid born into a war-torn world up to his death. Another story worth telling is Itachi's life and how he thinks, having to play as a villain while trying to protect his beloved brother and village.

For me, the whole "nerfed" thing is due to two things: A- like you said, the absorption thing takes away their most potent abilities and B- other characters seem to just be improve just because Naruto and Sasuke are so strong. For me, the other 4 kage have no business keeping up with Momoshiki, and Sakura shouldn't really be as strong as she is stated to be. You can't have someone become godlike and then state someone else is able to keep up with them.... just cuz

that absorption part is absolute facts its out of hand and every fight.

“Shadow kage” isn’t a thing cause kage means shadow, you can’t be a shadow shadow.

Its just hard to care for Boruto when he gets the perfect life and family that his father never had and his struggles are not comparable to struggle of his parents. I care more about what Orochimaru is doing than the main cast.

The problem with Boruto is less about the actual story or plot, and more about how the story is being told/portrayed...the story suffers from poor pacing imo, and a painfully dull/uninteresting supporting cast (asides the team boruto)

I DID NOT realise how much Madaras quotes came true in Boruto..

31:12 Poor Seth forgot that Kakashi is Omnipotent. He is merely writing the Boruto story within a sixth dimensional plane.

Honestly my biggest problem with the show (and I have many) is that they've basically written Madara Uchiha out of history. It feels like the writer wants us to forget how strong he actually was in his final form because it sort of undermines all these new villains who are supposed to be the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. Straight disrespect to the GOAT.

My main problems with Boruto are that: 1.Naruto and Sasuke are being somewhat bad fathers. They themself lost their family, they should know better than anyone else how to take care of them. Too much work isn't a valid reason here since Naruto and Sasuke both have ability to come home at any time(teleport, clone,....). Sasuke's case is at least kinda understandable since he just went trained most of his life(like Kawaki case), but no excuse for Naruto. They even showed Naruto gave up receiving the Hokage just so he could save Boruto from Himawari, it makes absolutely zero sense for him to go down from care about his family more than anything else to care about Boruto even less than villager, heck even Konohamaru was treated better. 2.Boruto didn't really have a good teacher before Konohamaru, it takes Naruto Iruka, Kakashi and Jiraya who are all arguably the best teachers in the series, if not in the entire anime world. It would make sense for Naruto to teach Boruto, this shows he actually cares about his son and makes Boruto's strength not so natural anymore. 3.Sasuke is basically a support now, how come the rival of the strongest shinobi in the history, the one who has the ultimate rinnegan that even Otsutsuki doesn't want to deal with go down to a fuking punching bag who can just teleport around and can't do anything else. He KNEW how dangerous Otsutsuki are, so isn't that a good reason for him to FINALLY replace his hand with a Hashirama one ? Not only it increase his speed, strength, chakra and many thing else, it alsho shows that he finally threw his guilty aside and protect the village at all cost 4.Naruto's generation absolutely got disrespected, not just in the Isshiki fight where they just tackle in with no abilities or tatics, their designs are basically so digusting. Lee lost all his youth power, Shino fuking went from the coolest quiet kid (Sasuke would legit fail if Shino was in the rescue team) to the VR talk much but unnoticable dude. Hinata also lost the booba and oh boys don't even talk about Mei and Anko. 5."Boruto" show is basically about Naruto and Kawaki, like seriously just throw these 2 characters away and Boruto already lost a huge bunch of fans. 6.Naruto and Sasuke are nerfed so hard. Naruto's ability to use 1000+ clones, sense hateness, sage mode(used recently but nah not even that much), giving chakra and heal people just disappear. Sasuke lost literally EVERYTHING except teleport, portal and taijutsu, he used Chibaku Tensei once and nothing more, no other paths that would be extremely useful like Shinra Tensei to deal with the rods, Naraka Path to heal, Preta to deal with chakra problems or Animal Paths to switch with and tank for him. 7.Side characters get no screen time just like you said in the vid 8.Isshiki's built as smart or sth, but apparently not as smart as a random human like Madara. Madara completely controlled Obito and fooled him all into his plans, he aslo knows just what's the right moment to go all out and when not. Isshiki on the other hand couldn't even control Kawaki, but also wasn't smart enough to just take over the world after Naruto vs Sasuke fight. Note: This cmt talked about Boruto anime, not manga so there maybe some don't apply to it.

I think the anime starting off so colorful and happy is actually to it’s benefit in the long run. Boruto is destined to lose everything, it’s stated multiple times and shown in the opening scene vs Kawaki. Getting to see him live through the peace that Naruto created only to eventually lose it all is gonna be so gut wrenching to watch and I think the contrast between early and late Boruto will really drive that point home. The anime, much like the manga is already treading on some dark themes and I can’t wait to see how it’ll play out and delve even deeper.

The amount of sarcasm Seth has when he talks about raid shadow legends is funny asf 🤣

100% agree on the power scaling 4 tails naruto was blow up land masses Naruto at this point should be blowing up moons for fun

I think one of the things people often either overlook or forget is that the disrespect of the characters is not at all limited to Naruto and Sasuke. This is the world Naruto saved, but he and Sasuke are not at all the only two keeping it that way. After the Last arguably everyone from that era should be aware that Kaguya lvl threats were a thing. Why is it that barely any of the ninja war veterans are doing anything and even fewer are effective at all? Why are the hokage all just fodder basically now? And this need to retroactively explain or handwave these glaring flaws end up subtracting from other characters in the newer generation. We can’t focus on the new shinobi because we have to thoroughly explain why none of the old guard can do anything/do anything anymore. It’s not that Boruto is terrible as a story, it’s that the story is horrible to those in it and in a fashion that anyone aware of the original would immediately call bullshit on.

SETH IS AN ACTUAL MAD MAN WATCHING AND READING THE WHOLEE THING FOR US!

Needed this one. Thank you Seth-San

"If you didn't like that you probably didn't like the Naruto series". Bold quote my guy. Boruto was derived from the worst arc and character in Naruto (Kaguya). The power creep is insane and they made Naruto of all people a bad father? It's like the people that made this series never watched Naruto at all.

This is genuinely one of my favorite videos you’ve made Seth

38:51 You’re actually correct about that. The only reason Naruto is about ninjas is because Harry Potter became a thing around the same time as Naruto. I read somewhere that Kishimoto actually wanted his characters to be wizards instead of ninjas but the idea had already been taken and blown up.

Seth: "naruto is the embodiment of hard work" Rock Lee: "im i a joke to you?"

Naruto and Sasuke needed to be nerfed for the sake of Boruto’s story, but the way they went about it is the problem. The writing around it is lazy. Their solution was poorly written with almost no thought. IMO they should have put more thought BEFORE they wrote the series. At least some sort of plan. From my perspective Sasuke is the character that, out of everyone in the entire verse, is not the type to let his guard down let alone get his eye stabbed out. I also don’t think it’s fair to say the anime is good by any means considering the fact that only ~20% is manga canon. The rest is a mix of “Anime canon” (a lot of which is pulled directly from and inspired by things that we already saw in Naruto) and filler. Obviously he’s speaking on the manga, my point is based more in my opinions on the anime. I think that Naruto’s story should have ended with shippuden and any other content surrounding the universe should have taken place during a time period or in a village completely unrelated to Naruto. Too many plot holes. Too few interesting characters. Very few new ideas.

I think writing out Kakashi just like relying on absorption is to make the story telling in particular around the fighting easier. If everything is absorption, you no longer need to create the chess match between characters of using their jutsus. Kakashi is particularly relevant as the copycat ninja.

“A wizard show where they act like ninjas” I don’t think a truer statement has ever been made 😂

31:11 Him ranting about Kakashi’s absence is just so funny 😂 “What kind of crazy vacation is he on?”

My interpretation of the nerf is that the existence of boruto should change nothing of the fights that Naruto fights yet he seems to always have a key input

I think the anime does a better job than the manga. For me, my main issue with Boruto is pacing of power increase. It goes too high too fast to the point it seems artificial. It goes so fast that side characters except Boruto and Kawaki does not have any room to grow. Initial Nruto did that far better. And also the fightings, boring as hell. I remember passing pages quickly with those boring one-sided fights ending with a deus ex machina. Boruto has some good ideas (Boruto-Sarada dynamic relation, Himawari potential, Kawaki, etc.) but it is mixed with very poor development of the story arcs. And a lot of characters are nerfed or not respected like Naruto or Hinata who is just a shadow in the background. Sasuke is quite well handle in comparison. But for me the worst bertayal are Konohamaru (we don't feel a potential Hokage in him) and Shikamaru. The most intelligent man of the Shinobi world cannot arrange Hokage schedule to enable him to pass time with his family and is always following events, never anticipating... where is Naruto Shikamaru genius ?

Wish we'd have gotten a darker, more violent story. The land of waves arc had brutal implications but they never touched on them afterwards.

(DISCLAIMER: I AM A BORUTO FAN) I think one of the absolute BIGGEST issues with Boruto is something that isn't talked nearly enough about. And it's the fact that the creators/whoever is in charge of the property put a huge amount of the MAIN STORY in the hands of Anime Studio writers. People might say "wait, but isn't the anime-only material just filler? It's not main story.." That's precisely the problem. All of the Boruto anime- yes all of it- is confirmed by Kodachi to be 100% canon main story. I shit you not. The problem is, Studio writers are normally the people responsible for writing filler. There's a reason why a shit ton of people decided to check out Boruto with an open mind and went "wtf is this shit, its filler!" There's a reason why no one can remember 99% of the anime only villains names. There's a reason why the plots feel completely inconsequential to the actual story. None of the anime-only characters besides Sumire has appeared after their arcs, just like filler characters. This is where alot of Boruto fans sperg out and say "NOPE THE ANIME ISN'T FILLER ITS ALL CANON!!" Its like.. yes dude, we know. But it still FEELS like filler. That's the problem. Now, I'm not trying to disrespect the work that the studio does (the anime actually boosts alot of the things in the manga making it better, adding more context to various panels etc), however its just a blatant fact that the studio writers are NOT at the callibre of writing that even Ukyo Kodachi is at, LET ALONE the level Masashi Kishimoto is at. (We are directly seeing the gap in skill between Kodachi and Kishimoto as writers in the Manga right now with several characters having way more depth and psychology added and actually allowing it to breathe) Also PS, Ikemoto the artist for Boruto has barely any assistants helping him, so his art being bad or mediocre in Boruto is completely understandable lol

I just don't find the antagonists appealing. Idk maybe Kishimoto spoiled us with Orochimaru and each and every Akatsuki member. The otsutsukis feel bland, their motivations feel bland and their powers seem bland

One thing people need to understand is that the reason why certain techniques were easier to boruto than Naruto as his age is because naturally uzumakis are gifted for having an immense amount of chakra (kushina stated that in her back story) and Naruto had to suppress the power of kurama which made things harder for him and that’s the whole reason why Naruto is better known for being even stronger than any other shinobi

6:42 I laughed so hard when naruto trolled himawari with such a cheap move in the anime

Sarada's* character can really be more developed. I love how tactical she is.

The fights in these shows especially ones with og naruto characters are absolutely abysmal. It’s incredibly lazily written and while the parallels are there and cool, they’re just not enough to make up for all the negatives that come with it.

Boruto and Kawaki dynamic is special, they could take any route with them.

“Wizard show that acts like Ninja” finally someone who said it. 😂

As Sasuke said to naruto at the valley of the end. “How do you know what it’s like to lose, you never had it to begin with” reflects kawaki and Borutos roles that are reversed versions.

The thing is, Naruto is one of my favorite animes, together with fmab. What I love about it is the way of portraying human feelings, emotions, love, hate, death, the concept of peace, suffering, pain, loneliness, war and unjustice. It thought a lot of life lessons, it felt real and genuine, some scenes sent shivers down my spine. Do we have to talk about the characters and villains? Pain, Madara, Zabuza, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Naruto, the selfless and kind Hinata, I can go on forever... Incredibly well written. Here in Boruto, the plot is engaging and the battles are incredible but I feel like it's missing something, the magic atmosphere you can feel while watching Naruto episodes is missing along with the deep emotions that were created back then. This is only my opinion but I felt like sharing it.

I just wish the important fights weren’t half an episode in the anime with the messages being presented feeling half-assed. In naruto I always came away from the fights feeling like they represented the thoughts and feelings of the characters well AND still gave us plenty of action. Prime example: Naruto vs Neji in the chunin exams. Compare that fight and the development around it to any fight in boruto even the final Ishiki battle. None of boruto’s fights feel complete. I do love the series so far but I’d rather put it on its own than call it a naruto sequel because it so far hasn’t done the story of naruto any justice to me.

Sarada's look in the manga is about as atrocious as Momoshiki's look in the Boruto movie. Also, I thought Naruto gave his headband to Boruto once he graduated from the Ninja Academy.

I would say my biggest gripe is the absolute DISRESPECT the series gives to Kurama. He had to "die" to defeat Isshiki and we had the worst send off in both dialogue between Kurama and Naruto and the fact that we got a few panels, when we should've had a chapter dedicated to reflection.

I never understood people who tell you that you should judge a sequel on its own terms and not on its predecessors at all. This is something I want to say on behalf of fans of say... Star Wars. People didn't like The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker because both sequels disrespected established lore to an extreme amount. Disrespected the powers of characters, disrespected their struggles, and tossed them wayside, making them seem more like fanfiction than canon. You should always critique a sequel with its previous stories in mind, for better or for worse. Boruto falls in the same boat for me. I don't think it disrespects every character, not at all, I think it does a decent job respecting previous lore and established pieces. But Boruto is a sequel and shouldn't forget the failings of writings in Part 1 and Part 2 of Naruto's series, both anime and manga alike. This isn't a riff on Boruto, just that I don't understand people who tell you that sequels should stand on only their own supports. I'm not gonna sit here and think that the next John Wick movie is gonna be good when its a sci-fi-fantasy genre mashup with magic and space guns. It doesn't follow a sense of in-universal logic for the medium the story is portrayed in.

A very easy solution to keep the series going, without destroying the power scale or what Naruto achieved is to have a huge time skip. Let say the series takes place when Naruto/Sasuke has died of old age. Of which old enemies have been waiting for this opportunity to strike again.

I feel like Mitsuki has been getting done wrong for a while now, definitely deserves a bit of character development and more demonstration of his power Btw, wtf happened to Konohamoru, that man is so stale, weak and uninteresting Edit: lol i know there's an arc on him but anyone with two eyes and ears can see how Mitsuki is treated like shit (in the manga) and in the anime it's been pretty meh either way

Real talk once I heard Ino say “You can go all out” I was expecting 5000 clones with odama rasengans dropping from the sky as Naruto flickers behind Ishiki to boot him into the sky. Only for sasuke to follow it up with a immediate super charged Kirin. I wanted to see them go out man. I want to see Sasuke with a second susano arm to fight at max efficiency. Almighty push almighty pull. I wanna see naruto give him a chakra cloak like he did for everyone in the war so sasuke and go out. I wanna see Naruto make another pact with the other tailed beasts before the fight for another amp. I wanna see a slice those cubes up with massive susano like come on show me what they’ve been proven to do

I'm not even gonna lie. I'm FAR more interested in Bleach's continuation than I have been in Naruto, and as much as I love Dragonball, I'm less hyped for Super than Bleach's return. HOWEVER: The current super Arc IS really good imo, and is more interesting than the previous Moro arc (which itself was great), so Super's not out of the picture.

My problem with the 'aliens' in Boruto is that we only really dealt with them at pretty much the last second in Naruto, then suddenly they are the big bad of this new series. I was just so uninvested in that final showdown I couldn't bring myself to care about it them any further in Boruto.

This is why majority of the times I prefer seths videos than his streams he actully scripts his video changes his tone seems more calm and calucted extra

One way to buff Sasuke is for him to be able to use his susanoo as a full body armor

I would like to point out for the isshiki fight that Naruto did have to be very precise and not use too much chakra or the mode would have ran out sooner, hence why he only used a single rasengan and mainly used taijutsu.

the power issue at 36:40 is really just that absorbing problem. they new jutsu were just a way of feeding Ishiki and had to go physical. Which meant the only uses of chackra they could apply had to be either extremely subtle and well timed, and hidden, OR they had to use it to augment their physical abilities but without letting it be absorbed. And Bayron mode's limit was that ALL unnecessary movements or use of chakra would lead to ending the technique early and losing his power prematurely. So He was forced to use very subtle Taijutsu to stay in range and keep clapping ishiki's cheeks while reducing ishiki's vessel's time limit. Any crazy show of power of force would have been wasted energy that would have led to Bayron mode ending too soon, and that whole fight would have ended differently.

There’s a lot of newcomers reviewing the Boruto series but I only really wanted to hear your thoughts about it. Thanks Seth.

Bro, Seth. You gotta upload more. Your one of the only RU-vidrs I can binge watch all-day. Your my cable, Bro. Keep em coming. Edit: Obviously, this was meant as encouragement not for the quality of his videos to shrink. I will take those Animal Vs videos as they were far more interesting than I expected.

I don’t mind Boruto it’s a cool story and it’s nice to see the characters return. But personally I think I would have just preferred if the story ended after the last movie

Well done, perfectly explained and explored!! 👏 Anyway, at this point i cant think the absorption will go. I mean both the protagonist and antagonist have Karma who can absorp things. Even in the foreshadowing they still have it. They cant take it away easily, and bcs of that the rules of absorptions might be getting a bit hard later in the series cause the absorptions can't absorp a "real" nature power. And Kashin Koji can get his real fire nature quite easy. That might be the fixing for absorptions. I mean it looks like even Kishimoto a bit confused about absorptions and Otsutsukis, so when Amado say "i know how to beat an Otsutsuki" its sounds like the writer finally know how to beat his own op creature and quite happy.. So they writed it like Amado is the one who solved it, when in fact its just them who's happy to finally know how to beat it lol

I really hate the argument of how you "shouldn't need to compare the two" or some variation. It's fallacious reasoning. Of course we as fans have a right to judge a sequel based on the original. Especially if it is borrowing story elements/ continuing from the original. Especially if it is doing those elements worse, destroying continunity or poorly handled retcons that make the world less interesting. I'm looking at you, Star Wars Sequels. Overall, Boruto deserves to be judged based on it being apart of the Naruto franchise and also on its own grounds. Personally, I like Boruto but I can't call it good. It's pretty flawed and very much was a cash cow made to captialize on Naruto. But the stuff it does get decently, Boruto and Kawaki and even the new era stuff I enjoy. Overall, the original Naruto was flawed but I liked it a lot. Boruto I like a lot less but I don't hate it. But I get why folks do.

Yup... the transition from naruto to boruto was like a slap in the face for me. I can't help but feel if kishimoto wrote and drew this manga from the start, it wouldn't have faced its current controversy. He knew how to draw good action sequences, and for a weekly manga at the time, it was a very good looking manga.

Great video best part "its more of a wizard show where they act like ninja" very true I mean the main protagonist wore one of the brightest colors a ninja could wear and was hella loud.

Boruto is dumb. The conflict of Naruto neglecting his family doesn‘t work. He can make and sustain thousands of clones even through high intensity training over days but he can‘t handle paperwork piling up? And if that‘s the case why didn‘t genius-level-intellect-Shikamaru just increase the government apparatus or steamline processes? All that work hardly popped up over night, he would have had literal years to respond to an obvious trend. And the kid characters are super boring, because they‘re all defined through their parents. They‘re either exactly parent A, exacty the opposite of parent A or exactly 50/50 of parents A and B. Boruto and Orochimarus kid are the only exceptions. The introduction of tech that can replicate even S-tier ninjutsu means that Ninjas aren‘t even anything special anymore. In Naruto a fighters capabilities were always shaped by their past in interesting ways, usually from a young age, making every opponent unique and interesting. In Boruto anyone can do anything as long as they made a stop at a lab at some point. The Ohtsutsukis are extremely boring. A frightening amount of characters has constant “too cool for this“-face - Sasuke, Kawaki, the evil Scientist who then helps Konoha, several Ohtsutsukis, the failed Vessel dude, the girl he frees, Shikamaru, my god you‘ll go through page after page of dialogues from people staring bored off into the distance and barely reacting to anything. Kishimoto gave us more emotions through Kakashis single Eye in one page than we get from two full-faced characters in a whole chapter of Boruto. Sasuke looks greasy.

I’d love to see a video dedicated to the problem with boruto power scaling.

Honestly, I get the "aliens in a ninja anime" theme, and for me the problems I had with Boruto comeback to what the previous series kinda failed to do and what I would've like to see was a bit of restraint on the powerscaling. (But who am I to judge, I'm not a writer, I just like Naruto). However, I do admire the fact that you take it all at face value and justify the choices that were being made with the plot, major respect.

Prediction: boruto will be temporarily consumed by momoshiki (or something like this) in the future and will wreak havoc, leading to a fight with naruto, driving naruto to attempt to kill his own son, which will lead to kawaki protecting boruto and killing naruto to do so. So kawaki won’t rebel as the beginning suggests, he’d kill naruto to protect Boruto cuz he empathizes with the effects of his karma, but boruto will be unable to forgive kawaki for killing his dad, which will lead to an unrepairable rift that leads to their clash

Madara tried to save us from boruto, he really did. He should have won the war. An Unsung Hero.

I think the biggest problem with Boruto is Naruto, he doesn't feel like the Naruto we know and there was no smooth transition into how Naruto is now

Seth vids are always goated. Haven't even fully watched and i'm already liking the vid.

Great video as always Seth! Even though I still have my problems with Boruto, I definitely appreciate it slightly more now(mostly thanks to Kawaki).

Topic -"What if the whole akatsuki attacked the leaf Village (just after jiraiya's death) Maybe this is an interesting topic idk,but I am curious to know ur opinion

i just don’t find the character progression to be organic, it just feels like they nerf the old gen to make the new gen shine like Naruto and Sasuke especially, they don’t use their full arsenal in order to let Boruto and the rest shine more which feels so cheap. Naruto’s nerf was justifiable as he sacrificed Kurama for his Baryon mode but Sasuke, who never lets his guard down, to let his guard down in such a big fight feels EXTREMELY CHEAP. Not to mention Sasuke not using King of Hell (Rinnegan ability) to make Amado tell the truth or his Sharingan to see his memories. At least in OG Naruto, they had logistics (non-uchiha having sharingan) for Kakashi to be weakened to let Naruto and Sasuke shine a bit more, now its just “Sasuke has no chakra” and “Naruto is rusty” most of the new characters have basically the same personality and abilities as their parents which is so boring. and the animation is horrible imo, they care more about how the graphics look than about the actual animation of the fights, the Time-Travel Arc is one of the worst arcs i’ve ever seen in my life for that exact reason (and also for kid Naruto being more useful than Sasuke)

Seth out here putting more thought into Boruto than the writers themselves.

Main problem with Boruto is that it could've been generations away from Naruto like how Naruto was generations away from Hashirama but they opted to just making it the next gen after shippuden and its quite blatant to why they did that. Scaling too is fucked to a point where they have to nerf characters to make Boruto and the next gen stronger. Specifically Boruto where it feels like everything is just given to him. People say "But they're side characters now in Boruto so." Which I say to that, "Imagine if Goku and Vegeta were side character's to their sons' show and they nerf them because they are literally gods, to make their sons' stronger and speed up the process with their own spin, how would you feel?" Hashirama was a god but it felt natural that Naruto surpassed him pre nerf maybe even post nerf. But Boruto surpassing his dad just doesnt feel natural.

It may not be an issue for you that aliens are in Baruto, but that's like saying you shouldn't complain about aliens showing up to be part of the Harry Potter universe or something. Just because you have one type of fantasy element in a series, it doesn't mean it's OK to just throw every sort of fantasy in the same world, especially when there was no precedent for it decades after the series was established. It's like when people confuse realism with verisimilitude - there may be fantastical elements in a series, but if a series fails to be internally consistent or follows its own logic, it's going to take people out of it. It would be ridiculous if Superman got robbed by some street thug who cornered him in an alley when we know an ordinary thug could pose no threat to him. Or, after it was established kid Goku at power level 50 could tank bullets without a problem, some pitiful henchman's weapon were able to take him out when his power level is 20 quadrillion.

How did you manage to get sponsored by Raid again lmao, you can barely hold back the laughter!

I haven’t read or watched boruto, mainly because it just doesn’t look appealing to me. However I have read the last 5 or 6 chapters after I heard about what happened to Naruto and Sasuke and I honestly just dislike how the writers are seemingly completely ignoring what happened to them. “Oh yeah, Kurama’s dead and Sasuke doesn’t have his left eye anymore.” No lamentation or anything. Naruto has a swift conversation with Kurama and that’s it. Hell, they don’t even say if Kurama’s chakra will be reformed in the future as its tailed beast again or if it is permanently dead. It just feels like Kishimoto just wanted to YEET Naruto and Sasuke out of the spotlight as fast as possible and didn’t think about the effect that would have on the readers. Think about it, Naruto and Sasuke - the two strongest ninja on the planet - lose two crucial parts of their fighting style and overall power structure, and they just gloss over it like it never happened and move on. It feels jarring and I feel robbed

My only gripe is the adsorptions, it’s disappointing that we haven’t at least seen Naruto or Sasuke spamming attacks similar to their final battle at the end of the war or in The Last all because the enemy is just a hack. And now we’ll likely never see anything impressive from them again, unless the writers decide to give them their powers back or replace it with something as powerful.

Amazing music selection in the intro here on this vid

I read quite a bit of Boruto, it's just not for me, i think i'll just be content with Naruto becoming Hokage and that future remaining unclear. If you like it, great, awesome for you.

Real talk, I only didn't bother with this series because it took too long to get started for me. Good to hear that it apparently has such a great narrative though.

I started watching this show, when it came out, actually before, because of the movie. However, given two tries, I can’t watch past episode 30-ish, I always get bored

Most of the problems in Boruto could've been prevented had the power scale peaked at the Pain arc.

My issue with Boruto is that Naruto and Sasuke are the best characters. When the most entertaining characters of the series are the ones that already had their own series, it's pretty telling. They just need to find a way to make Boruto and the characters it's actually about compelling

Simple reason: it wasn't written by Kishimoto at the beginning

I appreciated this video, I was never gonna read or watch this series, so this updated me.

Maybe I'm just filling in the gaps in my head, but I was under the impression that Naruto didn't really go all out with Delta intentionally. Almost as an attempt to keep Delta alive and to limit how much of his powers were displayed (in case if there were any spies). So I saw no problems in how the fight went. But like Io said, maybe I was just filling in the holes.

I cant stress enough that SethTheProgrammer is a true saint to the Naruto series and community. Many and i mean many other people in this community either forget, downplay, overlook, gatekeep, or simply just let their dislike turn to pure hate For characters, plots, arcs, and fights in the Naruto series, but Seth is different. Not only is he a big enough fan to actually do the research of what he talks about, but he is amazing for even speaking up and going back on something that he could have been wrong about it and not just simply going with what is the popular thing to do. A+++ Tier Narutuber. EDIT Rant: I swear no one hates the naruto franchise as much as Naruto fans, especially after what happened recently in Boruto. People really want Naruto and Sasuke to be like Goku and Vegeta just keeping getting out the ass stronger and never really losing and having no consequences all the while not remembering where they actually scale in power. Like do people forget how powerful Kaguya was??? Naruto and Sasuke are only 2 halves of Haguromo and he didnt even match kaguya on his own, During the battle with Kaguya they needed the help of Hogoromo, Sakura, Obito, Kakashi,plus themselves. And all they could really do was not even really kill her but seal her, they nearly died just trying to touch her shoulders, think about that. And now we are dealing with entities who are even stronger than kaguya and her 2 sons. Naruto and Sasuke arent getting weaker or being nerfed... Its just that opposing characters are now stronger than ever. Legit who TF expects them to take down someone who is stronger than basically what is the creator of the verse itself???

I still have an issue with almost every villain being an Otsutski alien and still agree with many of the points made in the video with Clyde and Swag. When all of part 1 and 2 except for the very end of Shippuden dealt with other ninja and politics of other nations, then you just have aliens show up, it just feels extremely weird in regards to tone. Also, I find many of the character designs to be unappealing and the overall designs and art style in general, as well as the quality of the art all inferior to Naruto part 1 and 2. Then the issue of the main characters, I don’t find Boruto, Sarada, Mitsuki. Etc as compelling as Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi, not really even close. Not saying they’re terrible, but it feels like night and day difference in quality.

Great video dude and I love the STORM soundtracks!