>>30503>How is he boring in his appearance and name? He's literally a lazy deviantart fankid design that somehow got made canon, it's just Naruto but 'modernized and who hates his dad' His name is supposed to be Bolt but it's very obvious that its just a change up of Naruto.
>Explain. Sure
1) Like Boruto they're all just fanfic OCs but somehow canon. Sarada is just a recolored Sakura in attitude, to the point that they slapped on glasses so it wouldn't be that obvious, which then became a meme because of how stupid that is. Metal Lee? minorly tweaked Rock Lee, Shikadai? it's just a tweaked Shikamaru, whose most definitive difference is being a little less morose than Shikamaru (in the manga, the anime at least gives him an arc about using his Wind Nature but its never progressed past using it for D-Rank missions and as a call back to Temaris powers). Chocho is more visually different but makes no sense, Karui and Choji somehow becoming a couple is a wild take and it's just brushed aside. Her character also does very little. Gaara's (adopted) son is less of an OC and more interesting than the Konoha children but barely shows up either.
2) You say Rock Lee got treated like trash, that's incorrect. He doesn't appear much in the manga because the Manga is about Naruto and has a pretty specific plot, what would Rock Lee be doing at the bridge with Orochimaru? Why would Neji or any others be there? They're not the main cast.
In the filler however he and other side characters get to stand out and do their own things. Boruto's filler is also pretty decent but it's side characters basically do not even exist in the manga AT ALL and the side characters that DO exist in the manga are also almost nonexistant in there and do very little in the anime, especially with Metal Lee. The ones in the anime are primarily anime-original characters like Wasabi Izune who provides an interesting contrast to Kiba by being a cat-power ninja instead of a dog one.
>Any unique techniques were thrown out the window in Shippuden.That's just blatantly incorrect. Jiraiya's techniques, the creation of the Fuuton-Rasengan and Rasenshuriken, learning Sage mode, We see a lot of other ninjas using different techniques from the Raikage to Mei Terumi to even Hinata developing her lion-fist etc. Not every ninja needs to learn a million techniques and frankly most don't; Jack of all Trades but Master of None is useful but won't win against a Master of a fewer but specific set of techniques. Might Guy unlike Rock Lee is capable of using chakra techniques, he's just mediocre at them, he never bothers learning them, instead focusing on the 8 Gates.
>most of the newer generation shinobi weren’t even using god powers. Neither were the prior generation, but the difference is that kid Naruto wasn't able to land hits on distracted opponents above his caliber, he couldn't even land a clean hit on Zabuza even with substantial trickery, same for Kakashi. Now we have Momoshiki who is on the level of Kaguya, has a
RINNEGAN and also absorbed Kinshiki, and somehow he lands a hit with an invisible rasengan (that made no sense and which is still visible to the Byakugan and Rinnegan alike) and later manages to kill Momoshiki with a giant rasengan, because the fucker forgot he could move as fast as Naruto and Sasuke and just drop a nuke on everything and instead did a beam battle with him. Its basically Gohan beating Cell after Goku and Vegeta fail but without the 'hyperbolic time chamber training and powerup' to actually somehow justify it. In the anime and later manga we get the Jogan or whatever it is, another fanfic powerup that reminds be of the Uzushigan or whatever OC byaku-sharingan ripoff fanfictions would have, but at least fanfiction has an excuse, being written by teenagers for fun.
>Glazing once again. It's not glazing, that's the story. It's the entire point and conclusion of Naruto, that he achieves his dream, he becomes Hokage, he ends the cycle of hatred and brings peace to the Shinobi world and he even saves his friend from the darkness. It's idealistic but one consistent with the story and narrative of Naruto's growth over the story. Having it followed up by "lol no actually" is just stupid, especially in regards to Hidden Rain which Naruto personally promised Nagato to bring peace to, yet we see its actually worse off than before.
>that doesn’t mean conflict won’t arise I didn't say that, but the way we see 'conflict arise' is bullshit and shouldn't physically be possible while Sasuke and Naruto are alive and are interconnected to the world with Ninshu. Jigen remaining hidden for so long is ridiculous.
>there wasn’t any “retcon in poor fashion”. Hidden Rain being a wartorn ruin left to rot after the 4th War is pretty fucking glaring to me. Not to mention Kaguya and the Juubi. Her being an alien was never stated in Naruto, its left up in the air but essentially implied she is of divine nature a la Kaguya in the Bamboo Cutter story. The Juubi formed when Kaguya ate the God Fruit (to gain the power of chakra to stop conflict) and then later merged with the Tree. Kaguya's juubi form was sealed into what Hagoromo and his brother made the Moon, and the rest was sealed into Hagoromo as the Ten-Tails, later extracted and divided into the Bijuu. That itself was a bit of a retcon to be fair, but it was mostly consistent or at least plausible. Hagoromo, being semi-divine is a believable source. But then Boruto changes it to "lol no, they're just aliens (just like DBZ retconned Goku into an alien).
Even Boruto fails to maintain consistency on that plotpoint. Kaguya coming to Earth as Isshiki's partner is never mentioned (not even by Momoshiki who calls it Kaguya's 'district') and its explicitly mentioned that Kaguya's power came from the Tree's God Fruit. Now apparently Kaguya was supposed to be sacrificed to the tree to feed Isshiki and instead she (still a low-power nobody) managed to AMBUSH ISSHIKI and nearly kill him, and instead of becoming a Karma like Momoshiki and other Otsutsuki do, he decides to spend centuries mucking around in Jigens body supposedly searching for a better host, because somehow a Cyberpunk 2077 reject is a better host than the many powerful shinobi of the past.
AND THEN Naruto and Sasuke as adults (who are supposed to be even stronger than their teen selves) demolished by Jigen, not even Isshiki's full form but fucking JIGEN despite having held their own against a full power Kaguya who should have been far stronger than Isshiki at that point.
Naruto and Sasuke also don't do any of the many techniques they demonstrated against Madara and Kaguya, and instead repeatedly do the things they KNOW don't work or make no sense, like using a fucking Sussano'o against a microscopic, teleporting enemy.
And then there's stupid shit like Sasuke finding the mini Juubi and just leaving it there, not absorbing its power (which he can do with the Rinnegan) or finding a way to destroy it, nope, he just leaves it alone, where it becomes a major threat.
>Hashirama and Tobirama Senju were the most powerful shinobi even in reincarnated form and they lost to Madara.They lost to a Madara that had powered up artificially by taking Hashiramas powers of regeneration and sage mode (not that this wasn't bullshit, but its a minor detail. Not to mention Madara never had the Rinnegan when he fought Hashirama before. When we get to Juubidara that's so massively different its comedic. Isshiki meanwhile was in a dying, inferior vessel which supposedly didn't let him use the full of his abilities, and going by the story should have been weaker than Kaguya, yet Naruto and Sasuke fail to even begin to put up a fight. Jiraiya's clone does better.
>Naruto and Sasuke being demigods doesn’t mean they’re permanently invincible. No, but when Naruto gets a power that is literally "Universal understanding of things", all chakra natures and their kekkei genkai, as well as experience dealing with someone like Kaguya, its beyond ridiculous. As a teen he could rip off her arm but can't even land a clean hit on her inferior?
Naruto and Sasuke act and fight like caricatures of themselves and its undeniable. Nice try though.