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Spoiler Free Review (up-to-date with manga chapter 35):

I refrained from writing a review on Boruto the manga because I was hopeful it would change directions. However it has only gotten worse.

To start off I understand that this is about the new generation. The problem though is that they do bring back a lot of old faces, but those old characters are written poorly and not true to themselves. Everything from motives, personality, even power scaling is entirely wrong about the old characters. Some characters from the original series that would rank high on tier lists are simply so weak in Boruto.


Then there are the new ... characters who are bland, and lack a unique personality. Boruto himself feels more like a character from some teenager's fanfic, than an actual character in the Naruto universe. He is literally given everything possible to be a strong ninja and like able character, but instead comes off as a total brat who doesn't seem eager to grow or change. The support cast is also very weak. The magic of the original Naruto series was that every character had a good backstory, this including Naruto's fellow main characters, the supporting cast, and a good portion of the antagonists.
In Boruto I can't find myself liking any of the characters new or old.

Without spoiling anything, I'll also say that recent chapters have really undermined Kishimoto's lore. Some of you might know what I mean by this. For those of you who don't basically I'll say it like this: Rather than new original storylines and characters and plotlines, old ones are taken and practically rewritten, almost as if to say "actually this is what happened"

I feel like that disrespects the back-stories, the lore, and the world that Kishimoto created

I'll end on this. When Bleach started it's "decline", I kept reading every weekly release to see how it ends and if it would at least end well.
I will not do the same for Boruto and will drop it.

If you don't mind history being rewritten Boruto might be for you, but for me, having grown up with Naruto since I was 11 years old, I feel the Boruto manga disrespects the original series and doesn't make an effort to make its own story unique.