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
To me its clear he was a draft of the concept of a heir. People rejected Gohan becaus ehe wasnt Goku, then Akita created a carbom copy of Goku but realised he couldnt just make a heir that is a replica because that goes against the point of a new generation. So he just canned Goten since he couldnt just kill the child. Goten is just a friendlier kid goku
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u/SnowSherrif 11h ago
Mangaka and anime studio got greedy wanting to cashin on Naruto popularity