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EP. REVIEW: Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

I really liked where this arc was going in the beginning (or at least, where I thought it was going) but I just can't get over how sloppy the writing was. Amy covered my beef with the "plot" of the TV show in the last couple weeks, but even that aside, the kidnapping scheme still left me with more questions than answers. Why exactly did this death threat turn into a kidnapping? Just because death threats stopped getting Ashina the attention she wanted? (Except they did, because they even hired ninja this time??) But then why was Tomaru getting threats if Ashina wanted the spotlight? Why was Ashina leaving the show in the first place? Amy suggested it was because they were killing off her character, but I was under the impression they were killing her character off because she was leaving. Do you really need to bring the entire film crew to a hostage negotiation? And I still don't get what Tomaru's intentions were with Cho-Cho. Did he really like Skinny!Cho-Cho or was he just screwing with her? The whole plot was just a confusing mess.

Also, the fact that everyone, except Cho-cho, seemed perfectly content with letting Tomaru fall down cliffs and potentially get crushed multiple times. You know, the guy they were hired to protect.

But most importantly, the message immediately fell flat for me in that Tomaru flat out tells Cho-Cho "no fatties", and instead of realizing that he's a shallow jerk (or, at the very least, likes a kind of girl that Cho-Cho can never be) she's more like, "Oh, he just doesn't like fat girls. That hurts because I'm fat, but otherwise I don't see a problem with that. I'll just pretend to be skinny forever!" Which seemed super out of character. Especially since the show clearly wants to make Tomaru look like a slimeball from that point (see: letting him nearly get crushed while acting cowardly), but Cho-Cho herself never seems to figure that out.

I totally agree with Amy that it was "a lesson Cho-Cho didn't need to learn."

Huh, I thought Guy was left paraplegic. I don't really see what the problem is if it's just his one leg below the knee that's...what? Paralyzed? Permanently broken?

Gina Szanboti wrote:

Huh, I thought Guy was left paraplegic. I don't really see what the problem is if it's just his one leg below the knee that's...what? Paralyzed? Permanently broken?

Permanently broken, I guess. The leg was completely shattered when he fought Madara, and as the reviewer noted, it's kinda weird that Naruto's Yin-Yang Release was unable to fix it - especially since said technique can regenerate organs.

Though this series has a fairly uneven track record when it comes to side stories, episode 71 gives the impression that this will be one of Boruto's better efforts.

I really enjoyed this episode, "Mitsuki's Will" - my favorite of the Boruto series so far, I think. Solid character work on Sarada and Boruto, and evocative callbacks to Naruto's pursuit of Sasuke in the original series, but with plenty to make it unique as well.

What, no mention of the obvious Eva homage that is Mitsuki's apartment? If the last episode hadn't made it so clear Mitsuki wasn't there anymore, I would have expected a very different ending to that scene.

the real surprise is that NO ONE picked up on the homage when it comes to mitsuki's name!! i mean orochimaru giving the child the exact same as one of his disciples from the very first ep of the original series. definitely NOT A COINCIDENCE!!!

Although it started last week, I only just noticed that Mitsuki is mostly missing from the ED, and where he remains he's in almost total shadow. Nice.

Good episode. I wish I knew who he was hanging out with, but I can wait to find out. I swear Orochimaru looks younger than ever. I guess being killed by Sasuke was like a salon peel for him. Maybe he should've tried that sooner instead of wasting so much time going through all those host candidates.