Reasons why boruto failed, although the predecessor is completely awesome (naruto)

I love naruto so much, I grow up reading this freakin manga... it’s a masterpiece, somewhat like harry potter, it gives me a new fantasy world, in this case, an interesting ninja world with chakra and ninjutsu. It’s original, fresh and new, not to forget how lovely the characters are and all that characters development, all that sad events and death. From the beginning and till the end, naruto is an interesting story, full packed with amazing battle of ninjas. Unfortunately, boruto, a series that follows after the ending of naruto can’t deliver justice to the original series. These are 5 reasons why I think boruto disappoints the reader / fans of naruto. My judgement about this manga is 6 out of 10, I almost want to dropped this since it’s that bad.

1. The mangaka / author behind the great Naruto manga and boruto is different. While naruto is written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto, boruto is written by Ukyō Kodachi and illustrated by Mikio ikemoto. Unavoidable that with different head, the outcome will definitely differ. Although the story centered in a world of ninja, chakra, konoha and our beloved characters, it doesn’t feel the same.

2. While naruto show us about the beauty of ninjutsu, boruto only focus on some ninja tech and some weird/alien power. In many fight, we barely saw anymore a character tried to make a seal, using some spectacular ninjutsu and outsmart the enemy with battle tactics.

3. In naruto, it feels not this rush and we can witness the progress of our beloved main character, naruto, from zero to hero. Yet in boruto, we don’t get this chance. I mean, naruto battle some small fries at first (zabusa and haku) to a more bigger threat like gaara and pain, before he actually met some powerful demi god enemy like kagura.

4. The characters aren’t just as appealing as original, and feels like the junior version of the original. Even worse, the name of the character isn’t original at all, boruto, really? And I haven’t complain about the design, it’s too similar with the first one, although I know they’re father and son... but naruto and minato (fourth hokage) are different, both the design and the characters/personality. And sarada? Oh my, the characters designs are half as good as the original series, naruto.

5. In boruto, many characters from original series get nerf so bad, especially the powerful duo, naruto and sasuke. It doesn’t even make sense anymore.