Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

This series gets too much hate in my opinion. Anime yeh i can understand but the reviews for the manga are awfully harsh. The manga is actually quite entertaining, the plot is moving, there's climax and good fights. People just blindly hate because of the anime and because it's not as good as Naruto. I have high expectations for the future of this series and will hopefully live up to it's expectations and become as good or hopefully better than Naruto. What I will say this series needs is a training arc, boruto is just quite strong from the get go. He needs a training arc to make his achievements and success and fights well deserved from the audience.

Preface
Do not judge this manga based on the first 10 chapters or the anime. It is almost completely differently paced, detailed and explained after the 10 chapters and is separate from the anime. Whilst the anime is beginning to converge into the manga more, it is still different and I believe the anime has done a bad job at hitting what the manga had already hit. The anime is about Boruto and his friends developing through the increasingly harsh ninja world with otherworldy threats and that is the key point, it is about Boruto and his friends developing. The manga however is about how the world is changing with those threats and the chaos that ensues in trying to survive the threat. It focuses on Boruto for sure but not as much as the anime does. Simply put though, the anime tries to make Boruto something that he isn't in the manga.

Story
The Narutoverse is vast and built extremely well. It is enticing and honestly innovative; it does a great job in tying characters together and whilst there are the stretch marks of a developing story early in the Narutoverse (such as some ideas never being mentioned and random rules being added later on) this doesn't apply to Boruto at all and Boruto does a very good job of working with the foundations built by the previous Narutoverse arcs. As such the story and worldbuilding is well-established and well added to. Whilst it seems out of place when one compares Boruto to Naruto, it fits in seamlessly and well. Aside from the occasional plothole, it is a very interesting story.

Art
The art is generic most of the time but still masterfully done. It doesn't have a unique artstyle but sticks to the shounen manga formula and occasionally outdoes itself in some fights. Otherwise it is a generic artstyle that can't go wrong.

Character
This part is a hit and miss and it depends heavily on how much the reader can tolerate the pace of the manga. It is very fast and as such there isn't massive amounts of time left to generate ideas about characters - this is especially true for binge readers. However the characters are good, especially later on, older characters are revisited (not in the boring flashback way) and the new Boruto characters are well crafted. But there is so much that one can do with such fast pacing that is almost necessary to traverse the exhaustive amount of story.

Enjoyment
The manga is enjoyable for sure. Fights are thought out but not slow and it is a nice break from the Naruto formula of train and fight, train and fight. It seems at every point that there is a new risk and it feels as chaotic as the fight against existential threats should feel. Even as an arc is finished, it still has effects on the arcs proceeding and it feels consequential.

Overall
Fans of the Narutoverse have to read this manga as it is a genuinely good manga and it offers a great step into manga for manga first-timers, especially those who have watched the Naruto anime. Whilst it is no absolute masterpiece and doesn't change the manga eco-system it is very good and stands firm in the shounen domain.

i started boruto knowing it was not as good as naruto, and so was able to have a decent time reading it. however, these latest chapters have made me hate boruto, and what they add to the story is not only dumb, but also tries to set up boruto to be a better ninja than naruto, and does so very badly. reading boruto has ruined the story of naruto for me. what it said in the latest chapters was that the ohsutsuki clan came from space and so did ten tails. if this had been well integrated into naruto, i might not have minded. but after a series has ended, to go back and say something of that manner? that is stupid. in toriko, they also reveal that everything came from space, but 1. toriko is wacky to begin with, and 2. they add it for the ending and explain everything else, unlike boruto, where it feels they did this just to try and give a sense of the story being epic and huge. however, it is just too much. dont try to change a story after its ended, its just dumb.