I loved Naruto so much and Boruto really gives me the same feels. It's like talking to an old friend again. ( )

I have mixed feeling over this series. When Kishimoto release the one shot after Kaguya defeat, I was not happy with how he handle Naruto's future. I hate how Naruto is miserable despite how everything is peaceful. So I hesitate reading his son's side of his story.

Lord, give me strength.

We’re following Boruto here, and he’s clearly a brat. He believes his father is awful because he’s always working and never pays his kids any attention. Boruto thinks a few hours of working on a high level jutsu is too intense, so he goes and cheats with technology rather than innate his ability.

Naruto deserves a fucking family. I didn’t want to pick this up and see a middle-aged man who doesn’t go home every day to see his family, a family that seems too forced together.I’ll just say this: I dislike that Hinata’s character arcs stripped away, so she could be the perfect "wife" for the main character. Same with Sakura. I know from spoilers that Sakura and Sasuke’s relationship is a joke as well. Why did these writers take away all the female empowerment just to have kids with specific combination abilities?

Why Sasuke is training Baruto and not his own child? I don’t get Sarada is so happy that her dad is helping him. When one shot, she wants to have a relationship with her own father.

The pacing of this story is too fast. We barely get to know the characters, and we are off to the chunin exam. The original took the time. We get to know the dynamic team seven. Here, we barely know what dynamic Boruto has with his teammate Sarada Uchiha and Mitsuki.

The art style looks so degrading. It looks nothing like Kishimoto original art style. Which is such a shame because I did like Kishimoto art style.

In the end, Boruto is a safe start of a sequel to a series. I didn’t mind reading, but it wasn’t great. It’s not really my series, though.

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Reading this book, I feel so nostalgic seeing all of the characters from Naruto again. All my babies have grown up~! And now they have babies of their own.

The feel of this series is very different from the original Nariuto> series, which I suppose is the point. It's almost like watching Avatar: The Last Airbender then watching The Legend of Korra. There have been some technological advances which has turned the archaic shinobi world into a world with a steampunk vibe.

Not sure how I feel about it yet, but it's definitely worth a read...after I reread Nariuto> again. ( )