You know it's bad that when you look at the numbers back in Japan, it's especially not doing well in sales. We got another Samurai 8 in our hands, though I speculate it'll be a while before Jump either can't hold on to it, or Kishimoto somehow pulls off a hail mary (which he won't) and manages to just barely keep his spot afloat.
The only demographic it does well in is Western Narutard 13 year olds. They're the only ones who buy any of this crap. I'm convinced there's a legit concentrated effort or censor negative opinions of it online. If you look up "Boruto sucks", all you get it is old videos.
They're really trying to avoid using outright ki blasts.
The Jogan does not exist in the manga. That is an anime only creation. Rasengan Uzuhiko is the most retarded move ever. Spectacle wise all it does is cause energy around Boruto's hand. It then SOMEHOW uses the planets chakra to rotate them with the planets rotation? In reality, all it does is make stumble like a drunkard for a bit after he gets knocked back maybe 3ft. It's absolutely visually pathetic. This wouldn't make me so mad if people didn't act like this is "THE MOST BROKEN OP MOVE EVAR!!!! BORUTO BEATS SUPERMAN!!! BORUTO IS PLANETARY!!!"
Did he not use it at the flashforward that was at Boruto: Naruto the Next Generation? Right after he confronted Kawaki and he was like: "You will end up like Naruto and Sasuke"?
I know it is stupid, which is why I gave my own version that does not break lore and would actually be something. Honestly, a less visually impressive Rasengan makes sense for Boruto, his most famous Rasengan is the Vanishing Rasengan, afterall. Plus, it fits a traditional ninja more especially since Boruto wants to be more Black Ops like Sasuke. The point is that it does not make sense with the established lore. The planet creates Nature Chakra which should make Rasengan Uzuhiko a Sage Art.
Maybe, but if it was it hasn't been touched on yet. Boruto has no Jogan Eye in the manga as of right now. It hasn't been even mentioned as a concept. Unless I'm just forgetting, which is entirely possible. It certainly has never come up. Boruto doesn't really have any special powers. He's Naruto except with Karma and no Kurama and worse Shadow Clones and lightning. Currently, he's pretty much Hebi Sasuke with flying raijin.
Yeah that's another thing...Who's bright idea was a Vanishing Rasengan in a manga that's a visual art form?
Invisible attacks can work if you show their effect and impact. The problem is that the Vanishing Rasengan was the incomplete version of the technique and we have yet to see the finished product.
The Bleach ending was rushed because Kubo rushed it for he had been sick and could not draw without intense pain.
Ichigo never fucks his sisters...Besides, as said above the ending was rushed for a lot of reasons. Kubo got a second chance with the anime to fix it. However, since then Bleach has had other sequel material, notably Can't Fear Your Own World and the Hell Chapter which are both not just good, they're great. Better than ANYTHING Kishimoto has made in the past few years since Naruto ended.
Was Bleach's comeback really that good? Not perfect, but adequate?
I'd say so. The thing is Kubo always wanted the Gotei 13 to be this kind of evil organization that while they are inherently good, they have a bit amorality to them and are flat out evil when you peak behind the curtain. He never got this across over Bleach's original run. Now that he's off the chain, he gets this across very well. Hell, the guy goes full Lovecraft with some of these things.
There are caviats to that:
It was a combination of things: The anime is really, really good. It expands on quite a few things and elaborates on a few more. But that is not all! The artwork is excellent! There are episodes you could take any frame and turn it into a wallpaper and others were the animation is top notch. And many that are both!
Everything you say there though is background story only long series like Bleach and Naruto are able to tell. I maintain that Bleach got better after Aizen. A lot of people say that's where it should've ended, but the Lost Agent Arc when you read it on release, tried to do something unique. Kubo didn't try to follow up Aizen, he couldn't, and scaled down. They really tried to bait and switch us with Ichigo's powers and new form. There was a lot of promotional material around it, only to return to form. I do think it was intentional and Kubo was trying to keep his audience interested by doing a rug pull.
Indeed, but that is not the main problem. The combat system had become identical to Dragon Ball 's. Big energy blasts being the end all be all with weapons and elements that do not fit that became obsolete. Bleach and One Piece had nearly every character being importand in the fights with a variety of different abilities that made the fights unique and showcased that attack power is not everything. In Naruto, however, only four mattered in the end and those were the ones whose skill was "hits hard". A ton of interesting characters got wasted. The Konoha 12 are mostly wasted and the future Kage did not get to show the skills that would earn them their positions.
Kishi has gotten to comfortable throwing in whatever idea he gets on his head regardless for what it does to the continuity. Omnipotense was used as a panacea to all plot issues but it proved to be the opposite. A simple memory alteration jutsu would have worked just as well and caused less issues. By throwing every idea that came to mind without thought as to how it would affect the story or how it fits the world, the manga 's plot became a tangled mess that gets worse the more one tries to fix things. And I have to ask: where was Ike in all this? Did he not see the problems? Did he see them and Kishi refused to listen or to rewrite until it was to late? Or was he a yesman and accepted everything as gospel from the divine?
If you squint just a little, Boruto is basically part 1 Naruto when he was still a pariah. When you actually look past the glitz and glam, TBV is pretty much a very soft reboot of Kishi's "masterpiece".
That's why it sucks. He and Ikemoto have as little creativity as filler writers and just keep repeating the same story over and over again. It had already become obnoxious by the Kage Summit and by this point it's so insufferable that I have no idea why anyone would bother reading this thing.
Not necessarily a bad thing. Being an easy access point is good. The problem is when the series gets less deep as you dive in. It stops rewarding reading into the story and themes and starts punishing those paying attention.