Sarada or Boruto?
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Natsu Shazneel
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Idk about likeability but Boruto is more interesting to me. He has so much potential its crazy. Im always confused when people claim he is another Naruto. Other than just being a brat and the appearance, they are like nothing alike.
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If Sasukesama would've trained her maybe, but Sakura did so the possibility of her arsenal including any ninjutsu is slim, & she'll get next to no genjutsu training.
Potential? Yes. Will it be largely expounded upon & exploited enough to be top tier? Nada chance.
Can't you just say Sarada is just another version of what if Sakura? That's not really fair for both characters honestly. Given Boruto's situation between Naruto's, I'm pretty sure they would of ended up nothing alike.
Minato isn't Naruto, and Kushina isn't Hinata. Plus, he probably wouldn't have a sister either. Not to mention their end goals probably wouldn't be the same either, much less the era that they live in changed the boy as well.
OT; I like them both, but Boruto is my favorite.
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Let me explain. Konohamaru was the first what if naruto, his similarities to naruto clearly highlighted this. Konohamru is basically naruto if he wasn't hated by the village but his parents are still dead. Naruto would be in minato's shadow and would have no parents to talk to him and like konohamaru will only have hiruzen.
Bolt is the second what if naruto, he is naruto if he isn't hated and has his parents. To put it simply naruto would be a spoiled brat just like bolt is. Naruto saw no reason to train because he was busy with pranks, similar to how bolt didn't train because he was lazy and spoiled.
This is my main problem with Bolt he still feels like a mere variation of naruto than a fresh character, what's next Bolt's son or daughter being naruto variation number 3? We already had konohamru another naruto variation is just lazy writing. Bolt should have been way different from his father.
My focus was on bolt not naruto or hinata, I never said hinata was like kushina or naruto like minato but it is clear at least to me what bolt is.
As for salad, I don't believe she is a variation of sakura because she has traits from her father(bolt inherited nothing from hinata personality wise imo). This is the reason why I prefer her to bolt.
That's actually the problem, Boruto doesn't train because he's just lazy and unmotivated. He doesn't train because of the shadow that his father casts, and how his surroundings view him as Naruto's son, the savior of the War, and the Grandson of the Fourth.
I'm not really sure how he seems like a variation of Naruto though. I understand your point of conflict of being the 'Hokage's son' -- But that isn't really that defining of his entire character? What about everything else that comes in the variation that makes him entirely unlike Konohamaru (whom is like him in that regard from your example?).
So you like Salad more because she has both of her parents traits but you don't feel the same way about Boruto because he is different from both his parents (but retains the whole 'I am the Hokage's son notion')?
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I explained to you the view, looking at naruto, bolt and konohamru to me they're almost the same character one of the only differences being slight differences in how they grew up. I personally feel this was what kishimoto was doing when he designed konohamaru and bolt. I never said bolt is exactly like them but a variation(meaning very similar but different). For example replace konohamru and naruto and they would be almost exactly the same as they were in canon(except swapped) with the exception of some few things since like I said they are very similar, extremely so.
Boruto isn't as unique as salad in my view, she has both parents traits and is different at the same time. Bolt on the other hand as stated above feels like a variation of his father without traits from his mother. It also doesn't help that he isn't the first variation, making him somewhat recycled. Bolt would have been better for me if he had less similarities with naruto and had more uniqueness or at least more similarity to characters that don't get as much screen time like neji for example.
I'll respond to this part later, lemme work on the below post.
Bold: That's actually what Kishimoto did :|
I'm actually working on an analysis but if you read this, most of it would be clear as day:
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I'll just do a short run down:
>Doesn't like to train, or doesn't feel the need to train
>Is quite arrogant.
>Doesn't treat his team members with respect
>Believed he could do anything, and everything on his own
>Boasts about his abilities which are usually justified
>Is actually smart, or intelligent. Whichever you prefer.
>He's a bit coy with his feelings, unlike Naruto who doesn't hide his true feelings (in being more open). For instance, he would almost pretend not to care at certain times, despite in reality he cares a lot. The biggest example being when Naruto came to his room to congratulate him, Boruto was offing him by saying "Was that all", "Can you go", and "You could of just emailed". But the moment Naruto left, he started to shed tears of joy in excitement of Naruto noticing him. I guess the word would be 'tsundere?'
>Was stated by his team mates to be quite a downer, at one point in the movie when Himawari joined for the second time and Boruto gave a genuine smile, he said "I didn't know Boruto could smile like that".
I mean, I probably missed a few, but there's a general run down. In the Movie you could say, Kishimoto wrote him a lot like Naruto and Sasuke, but different. In fact that was actually a conversation. Sasuke said he met Boruto, and told him he reminded him of Naruto. Naruto denied that, and said if anything he was more like the old Sasuke, but then denied that again and said, "No even his clothes are less tattered than yours" (Which is a reference to how clean Boruto's clothes are because he doesn't like to train).
But overall, his character is unique. He inherited traits from his father, sure, but he encompasses different characters outside of that circle. He's lazy like Shikamaru, he cares more about family than anything else like Itachi, etc.,
How this that not a unique character... I'm not understanding
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I'll say it again, I never said he had nothing unique to him. Look again and read my posts again carefully you will find that the message that I was trying to deliver is that in my view he isn't unique enough, this is especially problamatic considering his main character status. I was hoping I would be proven wrong with the movie and while it made me less harsh on him it wasn't enough to convince me to change my opinion on him completely. This is just my view or perspective after all
Though I respect your opinion, I am reading it carefully. I just don't understand in what ways did you want him to be unique, because he is the exact opposite of Naruto, and then-some. You say that you wanted him to be portrayed differently, but I'm not really seeing where you want it to be shown.
Hmm, opposite? perhaps on the surface. From my perspective if I visualize naruto being placed in bolt's place, I can see that they would be very similar. This isn't the same as if I got shikamaru and did the same, mind you I understand that growing up in a certain background determines how personality is but in fiction I feel the writer could have done better with bolt. To put simply slight tweaks were made to the personality of naruto and bolt to create bolt. These tweaks make him different from them but I can see where his origin comes from. Bolt isn't the only one like this but I don't want to get into that.
For example bolt painting the monument and similar naruto like behaviors, kishi should have come up with a different way for him to do things, I mean if naruto and konohamaru hadn't done it before that would have been fine. I guess it ultimately comes down to what kind of personality people like to see from characters. I don't dislike bolt but I don't like him either.
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In my honest opinion Bolt didn't need to be created if Kohonamaru is a similar type of character as Boruto.
I sort of understand what you're saying. He kind of transferred from writing on the Hokage monument, to cheating, so that Naruto can notice him.
Though the thing I didn't want to touch on, which you can continue or not in the spoiler is up to you.
You said before that you didn't think Sarada was like Sakura, but going back on that subject. If Sakura, for example, did not have both her parents (but only her mother). Wouldn't she be more considerate, in that sense? Sarada's differences from Sakura are as clear as day. She's much nicer, and has bountiful friendships, in comparison to the Sakura who scowled Naruto for being an oprhan and gave up her friendships to follow love. But I think the undertone is still there. Sarada is more likable, because she's more realistic. She is just a normal girl, with normal problems likes us too.
She feels hurt because she doesn't have her dad at home, and she wanted to know why the relationship between her and Sasuke was so bad (from her perspective). Without going by an all out analysis. They do share the same road. I can imagine Sakura being just as healthy if she wasn't love struck on Sasuke, and if she actually had something to cause her pain, rather than just being an average Jane with no backstory what's so ever. Even Naruto noted that she inherited Sakura's personality, but Sasuke's face. (He even poked that their anger was alike).
Like Boruto, she inherited a lot of her mannerisms from her mother (while Boruto got them from his father). When I compare them from their personality, character traits, abilities, and design. For me it comes full circle with them evening out back and forth, you know?
She feels hurt because she doesn't have her dad at home, and she wanted to know why the relationship between her and Sasuke was so bad (from her perspective). Without going by an all out analysis. They do share the same road. I can imagine Sakura being just as healthy if she wasn't love struck on Sasuke, and if she actually had something to cause her pain, rather than just being an average Jane with no backstory what's so ever. Even Naruto noted that she inherited Sakura's personality, but Sasuke's face. (He even poked that their anger was alike).
Like Boruto, she inherited a lot of her mannerisms from her mother (while Boruto got them from his father). When I compare them from their personality, character traits, abilities, and design. For me it comes full circle with them evening out back and forth, you know?
