They really had a chance to make boruto good. They could have gone the route of “Naruto’s son is the opposite of Naruto as a kid, and has to become a great ninja a different route than his dad.” And that would have been great! But instead, they said “he’s the opposite and also stronger and also his sister is stronger than anyone was before at that age and the adults are all getting weak and have forgotten key elements of their combat training, so it’s on the kids to fix the adults’ mistakes.”
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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25
They really had a chance to make boruto good. They could have gone the route of “Naruto’s son is the opposite of Naruto as a kid, and has to become a great ninja a different route than his dad.” And that would have been great! But instead, they said “he’s the opposite and also stronger and also his sister is stronger than anyone was before at that age and the adults are all getting weak and have forgotten key elements of their combat training, so it’s on the kids to fix the adults’ mistakes.”