I Hate Boruto's Character Designs (And the World Building)

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• IZ

  @Izumi250 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Judging by the poses Ikemoto chooses for cover pages and the way he draws eyes and lips, I feel like he really wishes he was drawing a JoJo sequel instead of a Naruto sequel.

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• MA

  @MauZangetsu · 2 years ago

  Not so hot take: Instead of cyborgs, they should've stayed with the "puppet" concept and go from there, that way they can still "innovate" but stay true to the aesthetics and baselines in-universe. Sasori and Pain's Ashura Path are really good examples of that, because early in Shippuden they introduced the idea of human puppets and Pain expanded on that with a puppet-like living body that combines flesh and bone with mechanical weapons

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• JA

  @JanizMakudomaru · 2 years ago

  If Boruto was about Naruto's grandson then I would not have the feeling of "why?" that I inherently have for the series. It feels like all we went through was almost for nothing and it's too early for all that's happening to go down because the time of peace was never really achieved.

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• CY

  @cyrilvamp7424 · 1 year ago

  It seems like Ikemoto would really love to have the opportunity to work on a seinen series and is forced to continue piloting the undead corpse of the Naruto IP

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• LI

  @lightyagami5857 · 2 years ago

  I just hate how everyone in Boruto now has the same style (those annoying belts/high heels), while in classic Naruto, their outfit choices reflected their personalities. For instance, Ino who wore her headband around her waist, indicating that she pays a lot of attention to her figure, probably being on a diet.

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• ST

  @strawberryjam6235 · 2 years ago (edited)

  When I saw Eida I thought she was a Jojo's character

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• CH

  @chickensashimi67 · 2 years ago

  Thats not naruto anymore thats narutos bizarre adventure

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• HI

  @Hito_290 · 1 year ago

  calling naruto prequel instead of boruto being a sequel hurts my soul

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• KA

  @Kazeryuun · 2 years ago

  As much as I love Jojo, it feels very bizarre (not intentional), that a lot of poses and dare i say facial structure of Boruto's art seems to be morphing into Jojo. The very outlandish fashion choices don't seem to help either.

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• MI

  @miguellopes7627 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Honestly I find Boruto character designs look more like  teenage models rather than teenage ninjas sometimes

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• EL

  @ellikereelif · 2 years ago

  The annoying thing is that the anachronistic designs and world CAN work but not like this. For example in Gintama the characters are living in the Edo period but they can take a spaceship to go to Mars, and there are two reasons for that. The logical one is that the aliens who occupied the Earth brought their technology with them, the real one is that Gintama is a gag anime and nothing is meant to be taken seriously while watching it.<br>In Boruto&apos;s designs things don&apos;t develop from other things, they just emerge. There is no development period, or cultural background and it is jarring.

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• XY

  @xyzashhhh · 11 months ago

  They should&apos;ve made Boruto a one shot sequel instead of a whole series, it would be much better that way.

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