So when Naruto ended I realized I had told a full story with a definitive end and genuinely had no desire or ideas for containing it. So naturally I approved a sequel to be made with Boruto.
First thing was the manga, for the manga I decided the best choice for the artist would be Ikemoto. It’s important for a sequel series to have a passionate artist so Ikemoto was the first choice as he didn’t actually want to draw a sequel to Naruto and rather wanted to do a reboot of it, but after he agreed we sent him the script and it was a sequel and it was too late for him to back out (this is a true story). Ikemoto can design good characters but he’s pretty bad at drawing children or characters I designed, and since thats most of Boruto he’s perfect for the role. Ikemoto specializes in drawing his type, that type being 12 year old girls who he draws like baby faced midgets dressed as prostitutes. Although the manga was decided to be monthly and he isn’t writing so he has almost quadruple the time I did Ikemoto will make sure to never draw a double page spread even though those are standard for all action series. For the writing we decided on Kodachi, a fat ass who threw around some good ideas for the Boruto movie but will eventually fail so hard at writing we’ll fire him.
To start the manga off right we decided the first year would have Ikemoto making a manga version of the boruto movie, which already came out. I just felt like what fans really want is to read a poorly drawn demake of a movie they had already seen.
The Naruto anime ended up having over 40 percent filler because they had to avoid catching up to the weekly manga. So we decided to best bet with Boruto was to have a weekly anime adapt a monthly manga and start the anime just a year after the manga, just to make sure the Boruto anime will need far more filler than the Naruto anime ever did. Thankfully all this anime original content gives us time to explore things such as Chocho which the fans really are yearning for.
One criticism of the Boruto movie was that Boruto comes across as an ungrateful brat in the first part of the movie, though he has a character arc during the movie and changes. However this was enough to hurt his reputation. To make this better we decided the first 50 episodes of the Boruto anime will be a anime original prequel to the movie content, with the understanding that since it’s a prequel Boruto hasn’t had his character arc yet and will now behave like that for an entire year or the shows run.
We also had time to adapt light novel content, for example one light novel in particular had a bath sparring scene between Hinata and Hanabi which was popular among fans and generated some excitement for it’s adaptation so naturally we made sure to skip it when adapting that specific novel.
A common complaint of the Naruto manga was that after part 1 the rest of the cast aside from Naruto and Sasuke got shafted. To fix this, for Boruto we decided to try shafting the rest of the cast much earlier in favor of Boruto and Kawaki, leaving the rest to have content in the anime original arcs that leads nowhere and isn’t necessary to watch.
One great aspect of Naruto was the traditional Japanese aesthetics, a lot of which is based on Japanese mythology. It adds an entire other level of meaning and atmosphere to the series. For Boruto we forwarded this by making the world more modern and introducing knockoffs of McDonald’s and game boys. Just to give everything a childish feel that reminds you of the boring suburban lifestyle you live in, a must for a fantasy series.
For a sequel series it’s important to respect the fan favorite characters who the audience grew up with and identified with, as well as introduce believable villains. Naruto and Sasuke had grown extremely strong by the end of Naruto so for Boruto we made sure to introduce cyborgs and creepy alien weirdos who with little explanation are able to smash and humiliate both Naruto and Sasuke, who would conveniently forget how to use most of their arsenal. In order to let the next generation shine we decided to take the nine tails and rinnegan from them, because I truly believe what fans want is to see their childhood heroes have key parts of their development removed in order to nerf them.
Since Boruto is a monthly manga it can be tiring for readers to have to wait a whole month between chapters compared to the week they waited for Naruto. So to help ease this we try to keep the pacing of Boruto slow and regularly have chapters that give the reader a feeling of nothing or almost nothing happening. It’s important that after waiting a month for a chapter the reader often finishes it with the feeling that the plot barely progressed and they have to wait another month.
Anyway that’s all for today, hope you continue to support Boruto. Thanks.
How to fix Boruto: >remove ayys >remove Kawaki >remove Joban >make Boruto go rogue after being humiliated by Naruto >bring back Kabuto and let him "find" Boruto >they fuck off and Naruto is left to his own guilt >Naruto discovers he's sick >other villages find out >ohshit.mp4 >peace is threatened >meanwhile Boruto is training with Kabuto
Because he's he son of the Hokage and Kabuto wants to cripple Konoha and end their supremacy. Make no mistake, Kabuto doesn't give a fuck about Boruto.
Anthony Green
And why would Kabuto do that? He was dedicated to Itachi and Konoha is Itachi’s legacy.
Carson Morris
>Boruto planned to be 28 volumes >already over half way >no time skip in sight
How do they have enough time to have a impactful part 2 like Naruto?
And people buy this shit? Why Look I read Naruto and quite liked it despite all it's problems but I would never ever bother with Boruto, watched the movie and it's shit.
Oh yeah forgot to add, we recently hired twitter animators to animate scenes like you see here as we should. After all we need the weekly anime with more filler releasing on a long running schedule. Apparently Pierrot is focusing on Bleach's return, but as we can see nobody would care to watch that series over Boruto.
Colton Scott
The show makes the movie look like a masterpiece
John Young
Post timeskip will just be 1 arc
Austin Thomas
Hahahahaha. I don't care, still not reading burrito.
Adrian Anderson
Did you have to murder borutard fans that hard? Like damn dude show some restraint, lmao haha
>introducing knockoffs of McDonald’s and game boy It would be kind of cool from an in-universe perspective if those things were powered by chakra as a covert way to condition young children into increasing their chakra capacity. Get used to burning it so your bodies generate more, that kind of deal.
Jackson Carter
Based
Jackson Price
>"What are ya spazzin out for, Shithead? It's just another mission. We go in, grab the Uchiha faggot, give him to Lord Orochimaru to dick around with and that's that! I'll be back to kick you around before you know it... Wait up for me though, yeah?"
