Admittedly, I am extremely biased to anything Naruto related and will watch it regardless of quality but nostalgia aside surely we can agree that the writing of the anime (which is filler right??) is pretty trash right now. Like I know this website is filled with unwavering Naruto fans but surely despite still liking it overall we can admit that some of the asspulls in Boruto right now would be rubbish if they were implemented in any other anime.
Reasons (This episode specifically):
- Sarada is too overpowered. I honestly forget she's an academy student. She has sharingan already, can copy jutsu and match previously unused jutsu in power when the sharingan DOES NOT provide that assistance, that was her own chakra... Was pulling 3T Kakashi moves as a 1T academy student... WTF. I don't care what you think about sharingan power progression/how it works. Regardless of if it is possible its still ridiculous. She also has sharingan genjutsu which again is stupid regardless. She is matching a clearly more powerful shinobi in power of her jutsu, with almost no combat experience.
- For Kagura's status as an actual shinobi considered as a genius and wielding a legendary weapon, he should have instantly incapacitated Boruto. Bad writing.
- Sarada is in the middle of a fight for her life and cares only about making roll call. I don't think I have to elaborate.
- Writing made in unclear as to whether Chojuro let himself get hit multiple times because he got completely immobilised, injured, as once almost incapacitated he easily handled them an average sword/half a sword. If he was looking down on them being/cocky it's a weird way to go about it plus he does not seem like the type of character to be cocky in the first place. Especially in such a serious situation. Also, a sword swing just "missed" him?? Really?? Is he not immobile?? Lol.
- This is just a bit of a nit pick but wtf is that underwater lightning justu. It seems asspull/filler af. Also why is all the raiton yellow now?
Reasons (series overall):
- Sarada's sharingan completely shits on Sasuke's backstory. So cringe. She gets her sharingan just because she hasn't seen the dad she hardly remembers??? Yet Sasuke gets a sharingan when he sees his entire family dead + clan at the hand of his beloved brother and can't use it again until years later.
- Sarada on paper is stronger than Sasuke. Textbook powercreep. Making newer characters stronger which then trivialises the significance of whatever powerful characters came before. Sasuke was a genius at the top of his class and now seems insignificant.
- All of K11 in general seems too strong/progressed/polished in the anime. I can understand certain characters being impressive as academy students but literally everyone is impressive. Even things like standing on water, climbing walls etc. There is no underdog, except maybe Denki and even then he is doing things that Naruto learned as a genin.
- Letting academy students consistently compete with more powerful shinobi with no consequence just makes things boring imo. Remember when Naruto encountered his first enemy shinobi as a genin? The situation even for Sasuke and Sakura was tense and dangerous. But the academy students, who are not even genin, show no fear/respect of pretty much anything without a jonin accompanying them.
There are positives of Boruto I like and I'll obvs still watch but there is so much annoying shit. The first arc I liked much more despite the slower pacing.
Reasons (This episode specifically):
- Sarada is too overpowered. I honestly forget she's an academy student. She has sharingan already, can copy jutsu and match previously unused jutsu in power when the sharingan DOES NOT provide that assistance, that was her own chakra... Was pulling 3T Kakashi moves as a 1T academy student... WTF. I don't care what you think about sharingan power progression/how it works. Regardless of if it is possible its still ridiculous. She also has sharingan genjutsu which again is stupid regardless. She is matching a clearly more powerful shinobi in power of her jutsu, with almost no combat experience.
- For Kagura's status as an actual shinobi considered as a genius and wielding a legendary weapon, he should have instantly incapacitated Boruto. Bad writing.
- Sarada is in the middle of a fight for her life and cares only about making roll call. I don't think I have to elaborate.
- Writing made in unclear as to whether Chojuro let himself get hit multiple times because he got completely immobilised, injured, as once almost incapacitated he easily handled them an average sword/half a sword. If he was looking down on them being/cocky it's a weird way to go about it plus he does not seem like the type of character to be cocky in the first place. Especially in such a serious situation. Also, a sword swing just "missed" him?? Really?? Is he not immobile?? Lol.
- This is just a bit of a nit pick but wtf is that underwater lightning justu. It seems asspull/filler af. Also why is all the raiton yellow now?
Reasons (series overall):
- Sarada's sharingan completely shits on Sasuke's backstory. So cringe. She gets her sharingan just because she hasn't seen the dad she hardly remembers??? Yet Sasuke gets a sharingan when he sees his entire family dead + clan at the hand of his beloved brother and can't use it again until years later.
- Sarada on paper is stronger than Sasuke. Textbook powercreep. Making newer characters stronger which then trivialises the significance of whatever powerful characters came before. Sasuke was a genius at the top of his class and now seems insignificant.
- All of K11 in general seems too strong/progressed/polished in the anime. I can understand certain characters being impressive as academy students but literally everyone is impressive. Even things like standing on water, climbing walls etc. There is no underdog, except maybe Denki and even then he is doing things that Naruto learned as a genin.
- Letting academy students consistently compete with more powerful shinobi with no consequence just makes things boring imo. Remember when Naruto encountered his first enemy shinobi as a genin? The situation even for Sasuke and Sakura was tense and dangerous. But the academy students, who are not even genin, show no fear/respect of pretty much anything without a jonin accompanying them.
There are positives of Boruto I like and I'll obvs still watch but there is so much annoying shit. The first arc I liked much more despite the slower pacing.
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