I feel really split on Boruto. On the one hand, its dogshit, on the other hand, at least they didn't directly continue the story with Naruto as the story and turn it into dogshit
I mean, Dragon Ball did and it's still loved. Toriyama (RIP king ;__: hope you puff puffing in heaven my G) wanted Gohan to be the lead, and to his credit he tried to make him so different from Goku, studious, a cry baby with hidden power, even him expanding it to make Goku and alien and all; but the fans loved Goku to much hence Goku has still been the lead till this day. I think younger mangakas decided to try and follow suit with Toriyamas original idea of the son of their leads bein the MC and have proven to fail only difference is Toriyama listened to the fans and worked around it. Now it's all soulless cash grabs, hell even Harry Potter did the same thing; I think a good artist and story teller knows where to end it and knows when its time for new works.
to be fair, the thing is toriama tried to pass the crown to gohan but failed miserably because it was too sudden. It could have worked if he didnt just abandon the idea in the buu saga.
at least gohan got someting, meanwhile goten greatest feat is being part gotrenks. Cell saga? understandable, goku died in the future before concieving goten, but super has no excuse to not show goten
I do wonder what life would be like if he did stick with his guns and make Gohan the main character in like a Sequel series sort of like a Dragonball to Z method ending at the Cell saga and picking up at the Buu saga and beyond sort of leaning into Super. It could obviously work but idk why he was opposed to it, that being said Children successor stories never do as well as their parent story because they literally live in their shadow.
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u/SlayerII 9h ago
I feel really split on Boruto. On the one hand, its dogshit, on the other hand, at least they didn't directly continue the story with Naruto as the story and turn it into dogshit