THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS
The Boruto manga fills me with dread at each passing chapter. It shouldn't exist.
Now you might write this off as a triggered Naruto fan's comment, and you would be right. I'm gonna divide my review between story, art, characters( the new and the old because they have different strengths and flaws), fights and overall enjoyment. Needless to say my review will include spoilers for Naruto and Boruto.

















Story: 7/10
The plot of the story was promising. Many didn't like the whole Ootsutsuki plotline at the end of Naruto. I did, although it was a bit out of nowhere, and I have to say that Boruto's story following that plotline comes naturally. I also enjoyed the quite surprising adition of Scientific Ninja Tools, and the whole deal with shinobi becoming obsolete. However, the conciliation of these two plotlines is awkward and somewhat inconsequential. The narrative seems to point out that shinobi are becoming a thing of the past, but at the same time implies that the only ones who can save the world from the ootsutsuki threat are shinobi (see the fight with momoshiki, SNTools were useless against them and only Naruto and Sasuke, representative of the old shinobi way, could take him down). So in the long run the whole SNTool thing became inconsequential when merged with the more dominant Ootsutsuki threat plot.
Furthermore, the whole Karma mechanics and concept is very interesting, it keeps the flow of the story going in exciting ways and I think it definitely is a step in the right direction. I have a few issues with some aspects of the story but I''l include them when I talk about the old characters and fights in general.
To sum it up, when all is said and done, the story doesn't do anything remarkable by itself, although it is interesting and compelling, so I give it a 7/10.

Art: 6/10
Unfortunately, the art is quite mediocre. It doesn't convey the kinematics of the fights very well, the designs feel inorganic in some ways, and overall it gives off a static and unremarkable vibe to the panels. There are very few panels where I got chills, or just re-read the panel to absorb it all.
So, overall it is functional, but barely above that, so i give it a 6/10.

New Characters (strictly Boruto characters): 6/10
The Boruto manga introduces us to a set of new characters akin to the classic Konoha set of characters that we know and love from Naruto. I can't help but feel disappointed in most of them. They copypasted a lot of htem from their mothers and fathers (e.g Shikadai is literally kid Shikamaru I literally cannot understand how they thought that was a good idea) Characters like Shikadai suffer little to no development in the manga, which I would think they would have learned from Naruto's poor treatment of such side main characters to do better. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because the manga is still relatively recent, but I still think it could have been handled better. then we have genuinely interesting characters like Mitsuki, Sarada and Kawaki. Honestly Mitsuki and Kawaki bring a lot of emotional depth to the manga and their backstories have been well used in doing so. Their charater is well defined, they grow troughout the manga (namely Kawaki's growth, which was very well done in my opinion) and are likeable and compelling. Sarada is also well written and makes for a good shonen female character. Now, Boruto is also moderately well written but he is a bland shonen protagonist. Echoing the same shonen troupes of "wanting to be stronger", "not giving in to a hidden power that takes over him", doesn't get the character anywhere. The only redeeming aspect that I see in him is the fact that he is able to grow in the Chuunin Exam arc and find his Nindo, that was well done, but the rest of it is honestly just so bland. I think the writers have failed to capture a theme or a set of themes to define his character, and that's why he comes off like this. The villains suffer from the same thing. The new Kara villains are literally villains for the sake of being villains. They are BAD, and I mean very bad. They are an Ozai-type character (from Avatar: The Last Air Bender), characters that had to exist because they needed villains, and their character is solely defined like that. It is fine in a series to have one or two such villains, but to have the MAJORITY of Kara be like that? It's very bad. Really, aside from design, powers set, etc, try to think of one character trait that differentiates Delta from Boro. Found little to none? That's because there are little to none. The only redeeming villains are Isshiki, Jigen and arguably Kashin Koji and Amado (which aren't really villains), but I'll talk more about Koji in the following segment.
Overall, all the mediocre characters bring down the rating to 6/10.

Old (Reused Naruto characters): 1/10
Oh boy. Here we go. You would expect, from a sequel named Boruto: NARUTO next generations, that they would treat Naruto characters well. Well, think again. Naruto characters aside Naruto and Sasuke are treated as literal landscape. They appear to make very specific roles in function of Boruto characters (i.e Sakura exists solely as Sarada's mom, Hinata the same to Boruto, Shikamaru as an advisor-type character to other people, etc). They have no relevance as characters to the story. And that's bad when you have a lot of them. They are doing close to nothing in the story, and are just doing functional roles and also passively atracting old Naruto fans to the story. It's horrible character treatment. Now, Naruto and Sasuke. Jesus Christ. They forget every development that has been done from shippuden onward. Naruto is a moron with brain damage and Sasuke is the calm colected planning master. Except when he tries to attack Isshiki with a sword, after establishing that he could shrink non-living objects. They gave Naruto and Sasuke brain damage, which also affects the fights, but most importantly affects their character. What happened to all the intellectual development that Naruto got? By the end of the war, Naruto is still a goofy individual, but no longer the moron that couldn't devise strategies and plans and think logically. And what of Sasuke's emotional development? Where is it? Where is his atonement, where is his reflections on his past actions, where is all of that? There isn't. Because Naruto and Sasuke are being used purely to bait old Naruto fans, and aren't being treated like Naruto and Sasuke. It really upsets me especially with these two. Kashin Koji also suffers from these. He was made a Jiraya clone just for the sake of being a Jiraya clone. He literally serves no purpose but to die and make a poor emotional appeal to old fans.
It's this horrible and inconsiderate treatment of this set of characters that for me really ruins Boruto, because the other characters are not enough well done for me to not care. 1/10

Fights: 2/10
Honestly the only reason I am not rating the action moments or fights 1/10 is fights like Team 7 vs Boro, which I bellieve was moderately well written. My main issue is with the majority of fights like naruto and sasuke vs jigen, and really all the battles of Naruto and Sasuke. The Boruto manga forgets everything but the most generic power set of these characters. Naruto is literally just rasengan go brr, if not enough rasengan go more brr, then Sage of Six Paths + KCM mode and poorly drawn and written taijutsu sequences, at which point he gets trashed. And Sasuke just uses ocular techniques, spams Amenotejikara which consumes a lot of chakra and Amaterasu for SOME reason, since he should have already realised that Amaterasu is useless on Ootsutsuki level foes (as seen when he fought Kaguya). Where is Naruto's clever use of clones? Where is his vast arsenal of Rasengan variants? Where is his clever use of his chakra arms, senjutsu (like frog kata and gather of natural energy and such), summoning jutsu? And where is Sasuke's vast arsenal of techniques, Katon (Fire ball and its variants), Raiton (Chidori and its variants). I mean was I the only one who thought that when Isshiki shrunk a swift chidori nagashi would have been effective? or kirin? no, instead they hit him with a big rasengan. wtf. You look at a fight like Team 7 vs Boro, where there is clear strategy and teamwork, the flow of battle turns a few times, then plot twist Borushiki appears. That's a good fight, the kind of Naruto-type fights that i enjoy. Because they're thrilling and keep you on edge. But you can't do that if you're constantly thinking what kind of BRAIN CANCER Naruto must have to keep letting himself getting hit by Delta instead of, uh, idk, USING HIS INSANE SPEED TO DRAG GER AWAY FROM THE KIDS WHERE HE CAN SAFELY GAUGE HER STRENGTH. It's really upsetting and horrible to be reading a fight and being constantly wondering what the hell is going on inside their heads. And this is evidence that the writers are unable to write compelling, well written fights with Naruto and Sasuke because they don't wanna have the effort of creating a fight where Naruto and Sasuke's tremendous power could be challenged. So they dumb them down and make the fights easier to write, while making them absolutely terrible. This is lazy writing. I mean, Boruto is a battle shonen, these things matter to the audience.
Now to talk about Baryon Mode and Kurama's death, which is the thing that motivated me to write this review. Baryon Mode is such a stupid and asspulled power that I can't even begin to describe the problem with it. Is it the fact that "fusion of chakra" has never been stated in 700 chapters and 700+ episodes of story and lore? Is it the fact that this technique existing invalidates much of the events in Naruto, namely when Naruto almost died by having Kurama extracted? is it the fact that now, with Kurama dead, they ignore this fact, and have Naruto remain alive? Is it the fact that LITERALLY the bare minimum of introduction of preparation to this ability would have made it make sense, such as early on in the story Naruto and Kurama discussing the "new risky technique " that they have found and have been perfecting? No, instead it is used as a cheap plot armor device, which ultimately results in an emotional bait over Kurama's death. Furthermore, Kurama's death scene is the most ridiculous thing I have read in my life. The dialogue is nonsensical and inorganic. The 700 chapters of Kurama's character development ignored, as well as his relationship with Naruto. Everything about it is horrible. Boruto as a battle shonen is, hence, severely flawed and I give it a 2/10.

Overall enjoyment: Reading the boruto manga is similar to eating a horrible cake with chocolate chips. It's horrible and insulting most of the time, but somehow someday there's a chapter that makes you feel good about it. However the horrible after taste of the cake ruins the experience. Having everything in consideration, I give it a 3/10.