Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-25643824-20190720205237/@comment-5085906-20190721204048

Yes, there are manga that are worse than Boruto by a mile but still what they're doing with it feels like a middle finger to all the criticism leveled at Naruto before. You thought Kaguya was too much? We got you fam, here's some more alien ninjas ON TOP of cyborg ninjas who could also be aliens. Oh what, you thought the other children in the previous generation were not fleshed out? Well, not only will we not have Boruto's generation appear for several chapters but when they do appear, they'll simply be used as exposition robots so you can gauge their feelings on the new protagonist.

Hell, Ikemoto went even further by not even bothering to flesh out this generation's Team 7 which at least was done properly in Naruto.

But even if we judge the manga as a standalone, it suffers from really bad storytelling. With Naruto, no matter how bad it got, at least the storytelling was contained. Every villain had their own personality and motives which shaped their respective arcs. Here, all of the villains (including Momoshiki) were used as tools to move the plot towards the endgame which I'm assuming is either a) Jigen possessing Kawaki's body (which I'm assuming is what that in medias res scene at the beginning is) or b) the Otsutsuki head which will serve as the Kaguya to Jigen's Madara i.e an unserdeveloped villain that just shows up so Kawaki and Boruto can team up and fight.

Either way, I just hope this travesty ends. Apparently, they're only gonna do 112 chapters so I guess it's not that bad.