This manga is 4 years old by now, so this review is quite late but I decided to say how I feel about it.

Boruto is an underrated manga imo. I think that's how best I can describe it in one word. It's a lot better than the anime counterpart, and for sure a proper sequel to Naruto as opposed to the former. The reason I say it's underrated is, as you can see in MAL, it has a low 6.80 score and sales are relatively low, not to mention that many people hate the series. I understand that for the anime, but the manga is different. I don't necessarily blame the fans for the low popularity of the series though, as it erred in several apescts:

-The first one I want to talk about is the art, and it is that which I like the least in the manga. It is not similar to the art of Kishimoto at all and several characters are almost unrecognizeable, specially female characters. The art has gotten better as the series progressed but it's still a big drawback. Related to this problem is the fact that the artist, Mikio Ikemoto, works very slowly. As it was stated by the story writer (Ukyo Kodachi), the reason the manga is monthly as opposed to weekly is because of the slow work schedule of the illustrator.
-The fact the manga is monthly does not help the series as well. The pacing for the story is particularly slow at a certain point in the series, and the release schedule certainly makes the readers impatient. Another thing that didn't help it was the fact the first 11 or so chapters were a direct adaptation of the Boruto movie released in 2015. Many people dropped the series at this point, since by the time the manga moved on from the movie recap, almost a year had passed and the anime started airing at that point.
-The anime in particular was a bane to the manga and the series as a whole, as it is mostly filler. The producers should have waited until 2020 or 2021 to start adapting it but they decided to make as much profit as they could from the Naruto name and sort of "stained" franchise's name.

I know it feels like the series already has a lot of bad things to even be redeemable, as I wrote three paragraphs and haven't started praising it yet, but most of these things are very circumstantional. If Kishimoto and Shueisha had organized and prepared themselves a bit more I'm sure the series would be more popular. Of course the hardcore Naruto fans that hate Boruto simply for the fact that it exists don't help either. Anyway let's move into what actually makes the manga good and why I recommend it.

The Boruto manga, like I said, adapts the movie arc entirely. The reason they did this was because they made a major change at the end, as when Boruto defeats the villain, Momoshiki, he receives a special seal in the palm of his right hand that no one knows about. This seal is going to be major to the plot of the series. The writer does a really good job at capturing the attention of the readers and creating suspense and mystery, as we still don't know exactly what the seal is, but we have received plenty of hints and information. Enough for us to still be interested and not wanting to drop the story.Without getting into major spoilers, there is a group of characters called Kara and a boy named Kawaki that are going to be directly involved with this seal. Kawaki possesses the seal, just like Boruto, and they are trying to find out a way to get rid of it while also escaping from the Kara organization that is pursuing them to "obtain" the seal.

One of the things that I really like about the series is how much the writer does in so little time, as we have about 35 chapters of new content and it feels like the story has been going on for a long time. The characters, specially Boruto and Kawaki, but also Naruto and Sasuke for example, are very well developed, and it is very interesting to see them bond and relate with each other. I particularly like Kawaki a lot, as even though many people have been calling him a rip off of Sasuke, he does not seek revenge for how he was poorly treated during his childhood. He simply wants to get rid of the seal that plagues him and try to achieve peace. I really respect that.

The battles are very entertaining, well coreographed, and there is a great sense of danger in all of them. The recurring cliffhangers and plot twists at the end of every chapter are very welcome and I hope that the series develops into something even greater.

I do believe that, while Boruto (series) is making use of Naruto's(series) name, it would definitely be more popular and successfull was it not a sequel and instead an original story, as most of the haters/critics are fans of the original that can't get over the fact Naruto is not the MC anymore.

I heavily recommend Boruto, especially for the fans of Naruto that are looking for something similar. The series has a lot of potential and I hope that soon the general image of the community is not so negative towards it