Naruto

The animation is definitely better, but I'm still annoyed at the main character.

Everyone else is fine I suppose....

He is smarter less bratty version of early Naruto, but without Kurama hax. Sounds like improvement to me.

Instead, he has eugenics hax.

What's odd is how weirdly ignorant he is. "What's the Byakugan?" and "can there be a monster made out of chakra?" should not be questions unironically leaving his mouth unless Kakashi and Naruto went full information blackout and censored the most important event in history since the Ootsutsuki's a millennia back.

edited 20th May '17 8:15:34 AM by Ironypus

Sh't, what are the odds of that happening? :p

Not like the Hokage haven't completely kept a secret from the rest of society that could seriously improve the average quality of life before.

Which secret was this?

I'd say "What's the Byakugan?" is far worse than "Can you make a chakra construct?". For the latter, he just might not have gotten to that part in his history or ninjutsu class so it's mostly forgivable. For the former, it just makes absolutely no sense when his mother is Hyuuga Hinata and his sister has used the Byakugan against him while trying to kill him. He should have learned what that is long ago. Like, one of his first questions probably should have been "Mommy, why are your eyes different from mine and daddy's?"

Wait (I haven't watched the episodes for a while) Bolt doesn't know what the Byakugan is?

The fuck, for real?!

(4)

• Hashirama: Hey so uh yeah, I'm actually the reincarnation of one half of an ancient pair of siblings who wielded phenomenal cosmic powers that, if properly harnessed, would probably end all war forever.
• Tobirama: Hmm. I've invented the world's first and probably best time-space jutsu. It's so efficient that even a shinobi with non-Uzumaki, non-Jinchuriki levels of chakra can perform it with some effort. Just think of how this could revolutionize modern healthcare, no ninja would ever have to bleed out in front of a loved one, we could just whoosh him to the hospital! Or better yet, whoosh the doctors and the nurses to the wounded! Hmm. Best to leave an inferior version of this jutsu that requires three people in order to use.
• Sarutobi: Hmm, what's this? Naruto was the son of our village's most famous and celebrated leader? And Naruto is the reason the great demon that killed said leader isn't wreaking havoc? The public can't possibly accept that! No, I'll come up with some kind of rule that prevents anyone from talking about it! I'm sure Naruto will grow up in a loving, caring environment. Hmm, but what to do with his parent's assets... well my tobacco addiction ain't going away anytime soon...
• Minato: UCHIHA RIGHTS AIN'T MY PROBLEM, B'TCHES. PEACE OUT Y'ALL.
• Tsunade: Orochimaru offered to resurrect my dead loved ones, and rather than tell this to Jiraiya I decided to poison him so that I could try to kill Orochimaru myself. And uh... yeah, that didn't work out and Sasuke Uchiha got kidnapped by Orochimaru. W-we tried to go after him but we failed and I mean... I mean we figured it would be thematically appropriate if we let Sasuke's former teammates go after him two years later.
• Kakashi: Pretty much every world leader before me has shown their face to the other deadly, distrustful ninja villages out there. Showing my face would probably help alleviate any deep-seated tensions or paranoias surrounding a village leader who never shows his face. Eh, in theory anyway, probably best to conceal my appearance at all times.
• Naruto: Sarada, I just want you to know... your father hasn't been in the village in years. We have no idea where he is or what he looks like. There is a fair chance you will never, ever meet him. -picks up cellphone- Hey yeah, Sasuke? Yeah, sorry about that. Your daughter was asking about you. Oh nah, don't worry, I neglect my family all the time and my kids turned out THE COOLEST'! Hey man, you sure you don't want a cellphone or something. We, like, have those now, and laptops too! And there's this thing called Skype that lets you video chat with people from miles away, it's great!

edited 20th May '17 10:14:30 AM by Soble

Yeah it's dumb, I understand that they are trying to reexplain concepts for newer viewers, but there are better ways.

If I want to be honest about Naruto, he really has a weak excuse to be neglectful and it comes off as a lazy way to give Boruto issues with his father.

To be fair, I'm not sure Hashirama was even remotely aware of anything having to do with Hagoromo and his children, especially not the chakra transmigrate part.

No, Sakura was the one who refused to tell Sarada anything about Sasuke. Naruto was quite willing to answer Sarada's questions, albeit whitewashing Sasuke's past and lying about his own childhood.

(5) well the frist most likely knew nothing about being a transmigrint and the second did not teach anyone as far as we know the lesser version that was the fourth

The FTG is insanely hard to learn, so it's not like that was kept secret out of spite. And Hiruzen keeping Naruto's parents secret would have only made Naruto's quality of life better, not everyones. And Tsunade's bit wasn't even related to her being Hokage. And I doubt anyone cares at all Kakashi conceals his face.

Those are all nitpicks, not the Hokage keeping valuable secrets that could help everyone.

So how does Boruto not know what the Byakugan is?

Lazy writing.

What did Naruto lie to Sarada about specifically?

Wait is Boruto asking his mother "You can see all sorts of things with the Byakugan right?" really so strange?

He told her he was the coolest guy in school. He may have also said that Sasuke would be happy to see her, but I don't remember.

Oh...well geez, that isn't bad at all. I was picturing some grand revisionist history of his and Sasuke's relationship or Sasuke's childhood or something really bad like that.

Boasting that he was super popular is like, who cares.

He only told her the most bare boned stuff. Stuff like he was a good ninja & such, shit so vague & basic he's not technically lying.

edited 21st May '17 1:45:15 AM by slimcoder

Sasuke was the coolest kid in the class if only cause he had actual fans

Sasuke was only considered cool because he was edgy af and he girls thought he was cute. If we're being honest Shikamaru was probably the real coolest kid in class based off his power set.

edited 22nd May '17 5:59:41 PM by Chariot

While I agree that shadow powers are cool sadly most people will be put off by how lazy Shikamaru is and besides I doubt anyone will of used their clan justu just taijutsu. So we have the lazy shikamaru, the fatty choji, the idiot prankster Naruto, the dog idiot Kiba and the eddy and tragic sasuke. On the boy side and the girls we have sasuke fangirls and Narutos fangirl.

So really I can see based off of the shallow ideals of each other they had back then sasuke sadely gets ranked highest doesn't help that he seemed to be the best one there at being a ninja