I thought Berserk updates were the worse, especially, the current cliffhanger of that manga. What makes this doujin or fan content so forgettable is how long this Hinata Byakugan Princess arc has been dragged out like for eternity *sigh*. I don't like the feeling that this doujin is on the chopping board ready to be axed.

Berserk issues is the fact the original creator you know died and a friend is trying to finish it to the best of their ability in honor of the original mangaka. If they don't then their reputation will be torn apart.

The problem with this fan project is it trying to turn a project that was about glorifying Hinata and justifying her becoming the love interest...no that she is the true main character and the most perfect woman to ever been created and deserves the man she is entitled to; into a NS story with without changing that much. So there is a lot of the plot is about Hinata in this story, which this artist might not be that interested in or maybe they are getting tried of the idea of this rewrite. Like I said years ago they should have just made their own ending if they were this passionate instead of trying to change The Last.

I'm making this topic to see how many people will see/read it. This manga has been causing fits on twitter every time a new chapter is release. So i want to see if there is geniune interest or is it just short lived drama...for Drama Queen.

Drama Queen 

Mangaka: Kuraku Ichakawa Besides this the only thing they have done is a one shot called, "Iki suru Koto sura Yurusanai." Apparently, he was born and raised in Okinawa. So, he has a lot of experience of how foreigners behave in Japan.

Story is a meteor almost destroyed the Earth but the planet was saved by the intervention of an alien race the look like cartoon elephant-squids. Who then proceeded to migrate to Earth which was allowed out of gratitude of the grateful humans for saving the Earth. The alien exploit this gratitude to allow themselves to act like the worst tourists and immigrants you can think of. Some humans begin to suspect that the aliens were the ones that set up the meteor to arrange a staged engineered heroic scenario as an excuse to colonize Earth without a war. Eventually, criminal organizations were formed to get rid of the really annoying ones for a price. We follow two of these killers Nomamoto and her partner KItami. Their importance is they were able to find a way to dispose of the aliens' corpses without a trace. If you try to bury them they will eventually surface as they decompose and leave an awful rancid stench.

Nomamoto is a 17 year old girl...Yes, she is apparently a girl. Who left home and is estrange with her parents. She hates the aliens for their rude manners, they keep hitting her on accident then refuse to apologize, and wishes they would go away. She worked at a factory till she was fired after her alien boss caught on fire and did nothing to help while in a state of shock. Her importance is she is able to stomach eating the aliens' corpses. She comes off as very crude and dumb.

Kitami, his family was killed in car accident when an alien crashed into their car, then drove off, and left them to die. Which cause him to develop a deep hatred off all aliens till eventually he finally killed one. He took it to Nomamoto's place because they had bonded about their hatred of aliens and wanted someone to help dispose of it. Where she then got the idea to eat it. He is the brains and the muscle of the two.

Iglaskar is their boss who found them after a week of them killing aliens. He is a fixer that deal with eliminating aliens and he hires them because he wants to know their unique way of disposing of aliens.

Backbone is a woman that works for Iglaskar and works as support for the two in the field.

Honestly, it is just another Hitman story, there is 8 other stories that have a similar theme to it that WSJ produces each week. It's more than half its current line up. The alien changing the world not uncommon either, Gintama comes to mind. It comes off as crude light humor. It reminds me of stories like FLCL or biscuit and hammer, or chainsaw man. It just feels people are taking offense to it to take offense. Even with the immigrant angle Japan has been having issues with foreigners, especially Americans, going over to stream themselves acting like Jackasses to see how much they can annoy the befuddled Japanese.

Ah another on the 19th instead of the 20th. Well Merry Christmas everyone. Jump Festa should be happening within the next week...oh wait it was the 20-22.

Summary Time: Chapter 17. Wild Beast Cubs...sounds like a pop band.       

Cover Page is the two Neo-Sand Siblings besides the one that got eaten by a tree. Both of them have hoodies and black pants...for ninja that live in a desert and the problem of style over function for Ikemoto's designs shows once again. One is a blonde girl (Yodo, oh what a name) that looks like she about to release a rap album so Blondie for now (Wait! I got it! Blond-D, it still generic while keeping the wannabe gangster rapper vibe,) oh she is wearing uggs, as well as having a g string, remember she is underage, and a boy (Araya) with a goatee, a sword, and a blindfold so Blindfold...Mix Master Fold.

It begins with Salad remembering Clone's whining from last chapter. Cups notices her head is not in the game. Tree-Moegi and Tree-Shiki talk they are looking for Bolt, the trees informed them that Bolt had placed his toad where they stood, and the world tree's roots have spread everywhere even in the desert...sorry, just that I can see nearly ever curve on Tree-Moegi's body through her leather suit and it gave her bangs on her head. Blondie has good ears and over hears everything they are saying...she also knows Tree-Moegi's name, I just going to assume she introduce herself when she fought Gaara. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Sorry. Konohamaru ask everyone if they are ready which Salad is not... and we get to see a front portrait of her which I haven't seen in a while God her design is just bad especially that hair.

...How do they know Tree-Shiki's name? Did Clone Jiraiya tell them that? Blond-D ask if they defeat them can they revive her brother. Oh we get informed of their names...I think they are silly. Mix Master Fold is concerned about Blond-D so she gets pissy.

I get a forward profile of Konohamaru...his design is also bad. Instead of attacking from stealth they decided to be a group of unassuming travelers that have just stumbled upon strangers while looking for Bolt...right these are Kishimoto characters so they have to act stupid. Tree-Moegi reacts to seeing her target...I doubt they informed Konohamaru of that. Huh? I was wrong. She is horny seeing him and is too embarrassed to talk to him...this is Ikemoto's type again young girls with long legs that dresses like some hipster pop deva (kindest way to describe them, less kind HOES) while shyer than Hinata at the nudist convention when talking to the boy they like.

Flashback of Shikamaru giving Konohamaru an info dump. Oh he did tell him, he is a target. He says they are like newborn animals innocent that don't know right from wrong. So they should befriend them, then betray them to get their bulbs...so many ways this can go wrong.

Neo-Team 7 talk while the Sand Siblings hide. So they act like they are just looking for Bolt and ask to team up...and Cups like a moron finds a piece of metal Bolt uses for his teleports and says this out loud informing the Tree people of info of Bolt's capabilities they did not know. Even if this is to sell the disguise this is beyond stupid. They decide to use their act to split up the two tree people Tree-Shiki goes along with it due to the info, while Tree-Moegi is too shy to do anything but just stare at Konohamaru.

More flashback Shikamaru informs Konohamaru that he is Tree-Moegi's target because she has romantic feelings for him and to use this to gain an edge over her. He decides to sit down on some rocks and talk to her...remember her goal is to eat him. Once she gets over this swell of emotions that what she should do and the best way to have her get over this is to stab her in the back.

Clone Jiraiya has a toad with both Shikamaru and Hime. He ask for Hime to look at the current events while she is worried about Tree-Bug seeing her. He says not to worry as he should be at their base. He informs Bolt and informs him he is not allowed to get involved in this fight because if he does Tree-Jenga will sense him get involved and kill them. The only chance of this plan working is if he stays here...so obviously he won't. Or, is this going to be the way they are going to make him sit out of fights so there is any suspense to fights he is not involved in? "Oh no! Clone Jiraiya says that he can't get involved in this fight due to it affecting their planned future too much. Its up to Salad to win this fight on her own! You know what have been better than this? NOT kittening WITH THE POWERSCALING SO MUCH YOU CANNOT HAVE YOUR MAIN CHARACTER FIGHT ALONG SIDE ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE THE POWER GAP IS TOO BIG!!!!!

We see Tree-Jenga at the bookshop getting more books...he even pays see he gets that from Jenga of the nice manners. Who I hope you will all remember was nice enough to smack Sasuke in the face with his growing big black rod.

Chapter ends with Nail threating Madoc to get his upgrade. 

I actually forgot this existed.

When the artist isn't even doing a page a month eventually, the last one was in February, you will forget about it, and again its slightly better version of a bad movie. So once you stop obsessing over the Last you will slowly stop caring about this fan project.

Going off Derock post feels like Hirokoshi is trying to fix the ending with another chapter. Since the reception to the ending was mixed. Or at least deal with the damage by making it clear the pairing happened. Midoriya being a school teacher is fine since he has always analyzed quirks. But the story start off with this was the story of how he became the number 1 hero. With the implication he was telling the story to a student that would become the tenth inheritor of One for All.

Instead of that, it became we are all the number one hero at some point and the narration just became narration. What needed to be fixed in the last chapter was Midoriya needed the mech suit earlier so he could be the number one hero and he should have been telling his story to a student or students. So that it could fit the that was the story of how I...No we all became the number 1 hero.

The pairing stuff was minor in comparison. Though disappointing. People who thought Gravity and Blood Girl were an item were both misreading and reading too much into their interactions. Uraraka always had feeling toward Midoriya and was going to get together with him. Toga was attracted to Midoriya because he looked like a guy she liked. Her interest in Uraraka was why she gets to have a boy while she is rejected as a freak and wanted someone to talk to. Uraraka thought she was crazy till near the end she realized she was a girl that needed and wanted help. And as an act of compassion wanted to convince her it wasn't to late to start over.

Naruto end chapter in of itself wasn't much of the problem for the IP. It was everything around it. Yes, his final lesson to his son was the opposite of what he stood for the entire story, and he should have ended up with Sakura instead of Hinata, but those are minor things. The problem was before the ending his fight with Sasuke made it clear he had no plan compared to Sasuke only platitudes. Afterwards both the Last and Boruto made him a fraud that lied about everything.

So Urara is giving Akane a flashback of how Shiguma and Issho became apprentices of Kiroku Kashiwaya, founder of the 'Modern' Arakawa School. They were street punks with no future. Shiguma a kid from the street, while Issho was a disowned by his rich family of automakers. They stumbled on Urara being accosted by Yakuza and saved her. Then, He saved them from the reprisal. As the Yakuza Leader was a former subordinate of his during WW2.

They became his apprentice during a time of strong traditions ruled Rakugo led by Kiroku's master Miroku Kashiwaya, who was also the master of the current Miroku. Kiroku was the biggest name in Rakugo for his wild free spirit story telling that Akane inherited and was the heir apparent of the Kashiwaya school. His master did not like him making to riffraff his apprentices. So first, ordered them not to be allowed to perform for two years, and then would only allow him to succeed him as the head of the school if he expelled them. Obviously, he refused and formed the Modern Arakawa school instead.

Yes, next issue is around January 15th. So, expect bi-monthly updates for the next 3 issues.

 

I don't think any of the rookies will be appearing at all. So far, cameos of Tsunade and Orochimaru are shown here. It will probably be similar to the Street Fighter crossover: only Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile and M. Bison appeared in the crossover event while others like Cammy and Sagat were basically only added on covers. However, for the TMNT side, only Jennika appeared.

This seems to be the pairings of Sakura/Raph with their temper, Sasuke/Leo dealing with revenge, Kakashi/Splinter shared past, and Naruto/Micky/Donny as two goofs and their minder. Team 7 and the Ninja World-Turtles fight the Foot with the mutant hybrid ninja with probably either Orochimaru or Akatsuki helping them. So I don't see them adding too many characters especially if this is only four issues.

My thought on this story are. It ok, but boy it was awkward how they tried to crowbar the Turtles into this story. Which is still more positive compared to most.

Mirai's eternal vacation felt like better than average filler of a character they don't use in the sequel's storyline.

Sasuke Search for Space Dust in The Cardboard Dino Prison felt like first draft fan fiction and confirmed that Sakura had gone insane.

Minato's one shot was good but it combine elements from SS/NS/nH to make sure no one would have a fit over pairings; so still showing the damage the pairings cause to the IP.

Naruto-Boruto Connection was half a poor copy of Dot/Hack, a quarter of best of Naruto montage, and then a generic shounen filler story with Bolt.

The Last Naruto movie was turning Naruto into a sociopath so Hinata wouldn't be the silver medal.

The Boruto movie, Daddy Issues, Daddy Issues, Daddy Issues. Oh look, the lesson was he should have worship his father all along.

Salad Gaiden where it felt that he abandon the story at the end again. So most of the lesson it was trying to teach don't fit the ending, and the only way it works is Salad decided that Naruto is her father figure.

Cup's one shot whatever that nonsense about Bolt being his sun.

Boruto part one. Nothing happens.

Boruto part two. It is hard to tell if anything is happening or is it just spinning its wheels, but everything is trying to be cool and failing.

Since Derock is invested in it. I will leave summaries and updates on this topic entirely up to him. This is just thoughts on the issue.

So this is set in filler time before Sasuke leaves the village. Oh good it just team 7 so hopefully no Hinata.

They been trying to change April to African American for a few years now. Like that do with any character that is ginger.

Sakura might be smart but she is also the one with anger issues and a temper. So it does make sense to pair her with short-fuse Raphael. They also give her super strength she didn't get till part two so she can fight. Sasuke with Leonardo as they are blue and the leader of their groups. Kakashi with Splinter as they are both the group's mentors. And, Naruto with the goofy Michelangelo and Donatello. They also gave the turtles ANBU masks.

Oh they have Kurama talking to Naruto. Again, him barely doing anything in Naruto compared to with Kushina or his daughter has to do with Kishimoto not knowing what to do with the demon within plot element. Now a days its common enough for a random writer to have a better idea to handle it, than he did back in the day. Lets be honest, Kurama would never talk to Naruto for something as random as a fox monster in the manga. Unless it was about the Uchiha/Ten-Tails or Naruto was seeking his power, he was mostly silent.

They overall seem to have Team 7's characters down, it just them trying to justify this story that is awkward. This seems to be a story entirely set in the ninja world with a New York City-like Village. It is besides the Minato one-shot the best written story out of the Naruto IP in over ten years. So, it is better than I was expecting.

Well most of the news has been just reacting to Trump winning and him preparing his cabinet when he gets in. In the UK, farmers are protesting due to some inheritance tax with Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear/Grand Tour/Clarkson's Farm leading it. Dragon Age flopped hard to the point they aren't even doing DLC and they are just moving on. I guess EA is keeping Bioware alive at this point because either Netflix or Amazon is making a Mass Effect series.

Summary Time: Chapter 16. The Singularity of Fate...well for once not a single word but a pretentious phrase.

Cover page is Hime...I honestly see nothing attractive about her design. The only good thing about her so far is that she has been barely involved beyond her omnipotence that has to be constantly reexplained over and over.

Flashback to Clone Jiraya training Bolt. He is explaining space time ninjutsu. He explains that Bolt uses this power instinctively but accidentally. He would only master it by marking metal with his chakra and turned it into a ninjutsu 6 years from when he is being trained...one) oh that explains why that toad was holding that piece of metal, two) what it is not a shinjutsu(?!), and three) isn't this just the flying thunder god without the seal? Can they please give him something original...that isn't stupid like that Uzuhiko. Which was really at first just a genjutsu that can't be dispelled. Then they turned it into the spiraling spirt bomb.

...Next Page, it is the Flying Thunder God. He gave it the same name in honor of his grandfather's technique...just use the original technique or come up with something new. Don't do this. For Pete's Sake, Bleach had four different names for each factions' version of the Flash Step. Bolt never learned the original but made this technique to have something similar...why can't they just have him and Naruto learn seals. The Uzumaki clan were renown as seal masters. Bolt call his future self a genius...remember when the message was about hard work in Naruto? As it has been everyone is a super genius in Boruto, as long as they are not a Kishimoto character that is. The story is patting itself on the back again; oh god this has just been two pages so far. What am I in for?! CJ explains the mechanics of the jutsu...oh that is why Bolt has all those stupid metal pins on his outfit, for more objects to mark. Eventually, Bolt ask CJ an obvious question, "if he can see the future, why doesn't he tell more people." With the obvious answer, "the more people he told, the more the future would change radically." He says both he and Bolt are singularities because they known the future and can change it. He also notes that Hime is bound to look into Bolt's training at some point and hear this. Which she does. How convenient. 

Hime is with Salad and the Clone...can this girl wear her jacket properly, the constantly off the one shoulder looks silly if its every image of her. Salad must of asked about more info about Bolt, and after hearing what CJ said she decides to be vague. Salad wants to help Bolt so he is not fighting this on his own. Clone points out that Bolt wants it that way, she even points out the power gap is so big that they are just in the way, and Bolt likely got injured because people were around him...ah, remember when Naruto went on and on about teamwork everyone? This has the same problem even Dragon Ball doesn't even have anymore. That the target audience Japanese Kids had grown used to team fights due to manga like MHA. That they don't like every fight being one on one honor duels. So even Dragon Ball changed to team fights. Nice to see Ikemoto is keeping up with the trends like everything else about Boruto. Oh, this talk about Bolt wanting to be alone leads to the Clone complaining about Salad jumping into Bolt's arms when she knows the Clone has feelings for him too...yeah, the pairing conflict is a part of manga story in full now. I thought the hug would bury it, but I guess someone thought it was a good idea to keep it going. Even though most the audience can barely bring bring themselves up to care about any of the characters, much less who ends up with who.

Then Hime has an internal monologue noting the atmosphere turned awkward and yet she is enjoying the show.

The Clone leaves. Salad calls after her. The clone ask how much longer will Salad remain calling her the class rep? I agree for a different reason it's dumb they still keep calling her that. They left the academy over 3 years ago, and you never hear Naruto generation even mentioned the class rep. Shikamaru wants to talk to Hime.

On to the Elders having a skype call with...Oh that's the fire lord. He chews them out for the fact that Bolt has enter and left the village multiple times without issue and even escaped their custody. He wants Bolt dead and make clear he will punish those who fail again.

Shikamaru asks for an update from Hime what is happening in the Sand and the divine tree. She explains that Tree-Shiki was made and he can undo the seal his original made. She notes its been several hours since then because she is unnerved when doing it in real time because Tree-Bug would stare at her. She gives him a general update, because the fact she wasn't doing that in earlier chapter was stupid. Shockingly Shikamaru figured out Bolt's ally is CJ and he has a toad with Hime. Through his toad he gives Shikamaru orders to send Neo-Team 7 to the Sand because Tree-Shinki and Tree-Moegi are going to be going there, and to not let the daughter out of the village because Tree-Jenga is interested in her...what is the point? It not like they can stop him from getting her, no one but Bolt is able to lay a finger on him. See, this is why you don't completely break your story's power scales. He makes up some Bull that Tree-Jenga won't attack the village due to appreciating its culture, wants to read more books, and will not attack as long as he can purchase more books...do I even need to say how stupid this sounds? He commends Shikamaru for helping Bolt by following his heart and asks him to continue to follow his heart.

Wow, its still not over, normally barely one event happens each chapter even with Ikemoto being pressed due to his pacing. Must have gotten a new editor. Neo-Team 7 is heading towards the Sand...it would be a nice image barring Salad's weirdly shaped head, if I wasn't already sick of her never putting her jacket on properly. Where the meet with Gaara's two remaining kids. And the chapter finally ends with them spotting the two tree people.

When did the second thing happen? Kishi said he liked hinata and junko told him to be quiet from my understanding

No, in 2014 at Jumpfesta he said Sakura was his favorite in another interview later on Hinata was his favorite.

Being Kishimoto's favorite character is a meaningless phrase as he changes it constantly and it mainly to appease the person asking the question.

The reason that event was important is that it was when Kishimoto was giving constant interviews trying to justify the ending and come with more explanations/excuses to see which one the fans would accept. With someone, Junko, finally having enough of it and telling him to drop it.

Hozit going everyone? Did we reached the 10 year anniversary?

That was last month. This month its the 10th anniversary of the Last Naruto Movie with Hinata's red scarf of fate. Next month Naruto's VA Junko Takeuchi asking Kishimoto to be quite already as he tried to BS fans that Sakura was his favorite character; which was embarrassing Chie Sakura's VA who felt ashamed that her character was so unpopular she had to be replaced as the heroine. 

So, Trump has won in a landslide getting the Electoral vote count of 312, the popular vote of around 75 million, the senate, the house, and the Supreme Court. So let's look at somethings.

The past 4 years were awful and most people even around the world seem to want to go back to what it was when Trump was in charge.

The Pull out of Afghanistan. Trump had already set up the pull out and made deals with all sides to make it work. The agreement being that the US would pull out by May, but Biden-Harris wanted to pull out on 9/11 so they could parade around declaring they ended The War on Terror. Without giving the Taliban anything to agree to this change. So the Taliban decided to renew the conflict on the original agreed date. The Afghan army that the US had built up for 20 years instantly collapse because Biden-Harris didn't pay them; which Trump originally planned to do. So its collapse while the US forces were lazily withdrawing to the point it turned into a route. An embarrassing retreat on the world stage that weaken America's prestige around the world and soured the citizens to anymore interventions. This embolden America's rivals to enact their own plans. Also the US Forces left behind billions of dollars in military equipment the Taliban can now use themselves or sell to others.

War In Ukraine. Putin had made it very clear over the years that he would not allow Ukraine with the largest army in Europe to join NATO as it would put it on Russia's border a short trip to Moscow. He didn't do anything with Trump, but after the disaster with Afghanistan he saw Biden weak enough to risk an invasion to cripple Ukraine and force a peace deal to make sure it remains out of NATO; also to grab some territory. He attacked Kiev in hopes of a quick victory by taking the capital, but his primary focus were the four regions/oblast that would connect Russia to Russian controlled Crimea. Which would give Russia a land route to the Black Sea to control it and one of its most ancient desire's a warm water port. Biden's main means of fighting Russia -besides arming the Ukrainians- is sanctions and trying to force the rest of the world to go along with it, which backfired. As Russia was the primary supplier for natural goods such as oil and gas to Europe. Which has led to both Europe and the global economy at large to be crippled if not put into a death spiral. Not only that but not every country isn't going along with the US and is instead supporting Russia: China, India, Several African nations, the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, and even some central and southern America states. Risking turning the world from a Unipolar world with America as the sole superpower to a bipolar world with a declining America-Europe up against an ascendant China-Russia.

Gaza. Apparently Trump's Abrahams Accords along with punishing sanctions on Iran had largely brought peace and stability to the Middle East had not seen in over 50 years. Besides Iran, all the Arab states had recognized Israel, made peace with it, and stopped supporting a separate Palestinian state. Without foreign support they would eventually be forced to peacefully come to the table on Israel's terms. All Biden-Harris had to do was not mess with it. Instead they tore up the accords and lifted the sanctions. Allowing Iran to secure funding and equipment from the Afghanis for Hamas which enacted a terrorist attack on civilian targets on October 7th 2023. Which led to a brutal reprisal by Israel which has led to a rise in antisemitism especially in Europe and the Left in the US. Biden having to play both sides to appease the largely Israel supporting federal government and his Palestine supporting voters, pleasing no one. Also, as the war has gone on it has completely soured Israel's relations with the Arab-Muslim states in the Middle East. Which was increasingly projected to led to a larger religious war in the Middle East if nothing changed.

Illegal Immigration: It went from a border state issue to a 50 state issue. From the second Biden got in and Harris was made Border Czar. The Southern Border has been flooded with illegal immigrants. Tens of thousands every day millions every month. Overwhelm and sick of it the Republican Governors decided to do what Trump once suggested. Bus the illegals to the sanctuary cities so they could deal with it. Starting with that embarrassing for the Left event at Martha's Vineyard (a vacation spot for the wealthy elites of the country) where they scream all the stuff the border states been saying for years. Proving a point and seeing how successful it was they decided to continue the program. Now Democrat control major cities are poorly run siphoning off most of the budget and spending the minimum to keep the city afloat. So, they were quickly overwhelm by these immigrants filling their barely functioning systems. Also the border is not controlled by either the US or the Mexico government. It is controlled by the cartels. Anyone that wants to cross has to pay them, they kill anyone who tries to cross without their blessing, and they all owe debts to them. So this also means an increasing in crime and a drug epidemic with the deadly fentanyl.

Economy. Lower and Middle class can barely afford groceries.

Biden's health. Biden was actually showing early signs of either Alzheimer or dementia during the 2020 race. It was there and you know if you can tell the signs, but it was early enough to be hidden for most people. Also helped that Covid allowed him to avoid the public for most of the race. He has been on a decline for the past 4 years but the media has helped hide it, and his staff drug him to keep him semi-cognizant for short speeches. They refused to run a primary because they hoped to hide it again. So they could have 8 years of Biden, then 8 years of Harris. That all fell apart after that debate and they quickly threw him under the bus. Which made him spiteful toward his party and his successor.

Kamala Harris is known for being very intellectually lazy. She always had her staff do most of her work. She rarely if ever read the files or memos her staff made for her so when either put in front of a judge as a prosecutor or the media as a politicians. All she could do is drunkenly yammer like your wine drunk aunt and awkwardly laugh. Then she would punish her staff for making her look like a fool for the data she never read; which why as VP she have a 92% turnover rate with staff. It was apparently a known in-joke in legal circles of California that if she was a the prosecutor of a case, the defense attorney would high five their client; as they had already won the case. During her entire time as a lawyer she only handled a case that went to court 5 times in about 30 years. Since she was bad, her primary targets were people that hopefully could not afford good lawyers. Poor Blacks. She locked up thousands of black men for marijuana possession charges and then kept them in jail passed their release dates so the state could use them as slave labor. She went after poor black mothers for their children's truancy because the Teacher's Unions weren't getting their cut of the funding from the government for attendance. One mother lost her job, her house, and 12 year old daughter had a stroke, all due truancy. The mother's daughter had sickle cells so she had to constantly go to the hospital for treatment; which the school knew about. She disbanded the California narcotics division they had since prohibition which has let the cartels run rampant. She also apparently was involved in a case that led to the current standards in video games.

Apparently, her primary skill was positioning herself. She couldn't win a race, but she make herself the first pick if someone had to step down for one reason or another. That how she became DA of San Francisco, Attorney General of California, Senator of California, VP as Biden to get the nomination had to agree to pick a PoC woman as his VP and she was the first choice, and The Democrat's Presidential candidate for 2024 election; as if they didn't choose her, they would have to give back a Billion Dollars in campaign funding that was raised for Biden.

Her campaign had to run on "Trump is Hitler," and fearmongering about abortion (all the states she won already have their desired abortion laws and the Republicans want it as a state issue) because she had nothing else to run on. The economy was better under Trump, immigration became the main concern after the economy which she was put in charge of, people got sick of woke, and there were no wars under Trump. Also she had a campaign that had a billion dollar the highest raised ever for a presidential campaign, and she ended with a debt of $20 million in about 3 months.

The Debates. Hopefully I said it before but I think the early debate had a real impact. Normally, they are all crammed into October just before the election one week after another. This allowed the media to controlled who won. With them spread out for one, it forced out Joe, for two, the farther time apart allowed for more discussion for each one, and three, they were over before October leaving only campaign events and interviews which Trump-Vance were good at and Harris-Waltz were bad at. 

Polling. Pollster continue to refused to adjust their oversampling of Democrats. Leading to be blindsided by how unpopular they really are.

Celebrities and the Mainstream Media. They still do not realize how hated they are by most people and how they are increasingly irrelevant. Not helped they back Kamala to the hilt she lost and its now been discovered all their endorsements were paid for in the millions.

Now on to Trump. No one was more surprise than he was when he won in 2016. So he felt obligated to try to fulfill his campaign promises. Where he was met with a hostile establishment that did not want him and did everything they could to undermined him.

Now the next part is hearsay I have heard.

Ivanka Trump was his favorite child and consider the brightest among them. She and her husband Jared Kushner decided they would help her Daddy by becoming his top political advisors. She decided to do this by ingratiating herself with the establishment. They were in charge of help pick out his staff in his first term and they were even the ones who selected Mike Pence to be his VP. Which resulted in the high turn over rate when the appointments kept stabbing her daddy in the back. Remember BlackRock everyone? Jared and Ivanka helped it become as powerful as it has become by getting Trump to support it; that then switched over to Biden when he lost.. She is the only member of her family that will both call Jan 6 an insurrection and that her Daddy lost 2020 election. You will notice she is not a part of his 2024 team.

Donald Trump Jr. Is the eldest and considered the dumbest of Trump's kids. Unlike his sister who was buddying up with the establishment he talked to conservative radio, podcast and such to realize. The Republican voters do not like their Republican Politicians, they only put up with them because the Democrats would turn everywhere into Detroit otherwise, and they are quite happy to replace them with people that actually do what they were sent to Washington to do. Such as the Tea Party. So Trump doesn't need the Washington Politicians, he needs to keep his voters as they will replace the politicians that oppose Trump. When his father lost in 2020 he spent the next two years planning on replacing his sister as his father's top advisor. When he presented his plan to his father in 2022 Ivanka tried to oppose it. Trump said to give her own plan, which Jr was able to counter every one of her ideas. When she lost, he told to stay out of it, and focus on her family. He put Lara Trump in charge of a RNC as Co-Chair who then enacted a plan to deal with the ballot stuffing that lost Trump the 2020 election. About 20,000 volunteer poll watchers were trained in secret for months, and about 1,000 lawyers paid to be ready for any shenanigans in any of the swing states. He was also the one who selected Vance to be Trump's second VP. He had to expend any favors he had with his father to do it as Vance was a Never-Trump Republican during his term. Jr knew that Vance had switched afterwards and was the perfect VP for his father. Someone willing to take the fight to the news as well as eloquently explain the MAGA movement better than Trump, and was young enough to be President after him. Trump wasn't convince till that VP debate.

Trump was a decent President that's administration was ridden with scandals. While it would have been somewhat better in 2020 if he had gotten in. It is better that he had lost as now the world has seen just how bad Biden-Harris term has been they are far more willing to work with Trump. He has removed the traitors from his staff. As well as the Never-Trump Republicans have been slowly removed from office over the years, so they don't have the influence they once did, and know going against Trump too much will cause their voter to replace them.

An alliance seems way too soon. Also figured faara Gaara would be the one turned into a tree

Well Gaara might be eaten soon so who knows what happens to the Tree People when they do.

They are rushing the story. If I am right about the contract; they only have 25 chapter left to go through the story. That means they have to defeat Punk, the Tree people and deal with Nail. Having Nail be an annoying thorn in the side of the story that just slows down the plot is something they can't afford right now. As they are almost half through part two and they haven't resolved anything yet.

Also I think they realize people didn't like Bolt was the only one that could fight any of the villains. As it was boring and made most of the cast unimportant. So they are giving power ups to the important members of the cast so they can be on Bolt's level. The daughter getting Kurama when he is suppose to be gone. Cups with the sage mode. Salad going to get something. And Nail is going to get an upgrade so he can fight again.

Pretty sure one piece is more of the IP closer to dragon ball rather than naruto

A decade ago. A decade ago. A decade ago, Naruto was the King of International Sales and was some years even second to Dragon Ball. Maybe even better than Dragon Ball since it was largely dormant during Naruto's prime years. That hasn't been the case since the ending. Due to streaming and the Live action adaptation One Piece has finally taken off internationally like it should have 25 years ago, but before that it was largely considered popular only in Japan. Even Oda admitted he thought that in interviews around the time of ending of Naruto.

https://en.wikipedia...t-selling_manga

Now a days its number 6 at 250mil in terms of volume sales. Dragon Ball is 5 with 260mil, Detective Conan 4 with 270mil, Doremon 3 with 300mil, Golgo13 at 2 with 300mil, and One Piece is number 1 with 517mil. Oh Slam Dunk is number 7 with 185mil

https://www.cbr.com/...ime-franchises/

It is the 13th biggest anime franchise with estimated worth of $10 Billion. With One Piece at 7 and Dragon ball at 5. Number One is Naruto's old time slot partner Pokémon. 

Even with those numbers the executives know. Naruto-Boruto is not making the money it should be making.

Sundays are awkward because I rather read the other manga that come out.

Best not to jinx the election by talking about it, this close to the finish. So Dragon Age is finally releasing another game. The last time they did that was around the time Naruto ended ten years ago. All things I been hearing, it seems to be a giant bomb. Honestly Bioware has gone down hill about as bad as Naruto-Boruto has.

Summary Time: Chapter 15. A Vibrant Life...is not something I associate with this manga.

Cover page is the new tree person (Ryu) they been showing for 3 chapters now.

Ah so that's who it is Gaara's son from the movie's chunin exam of...no wonder I didn't recognize him with how little he has appeared. Also for the record. I saw some article months back with the writer thinking that it was Naruto, when Clone Jiraiya showed a vision of him. I did not see anyone go, "oh its Shinki from the movie," due to how he is rarely seen. This is one of the problems with the tree-people and Ikemoto's designs. Part of the drama of the story and emotional feel these should give the readers is the horror of recognizing who has been turned into a monster, but his art style so different from Kishimoto's you instead go, "...Who? Who is that suppose to be?"  Then when you you learn it by that point its more, "oh. It was them. I see." Granted, in this case, the issue is more he used a character rarely seen, but the issue still stands. So a flashback of Gaara fighting the tree people...how did he know the tree people existed. Granted I can't tell how long they have been around. As far as I can tell it could be under an hour with how condense this story is. OK. He was on Bolt's trail and stumbled on the Tree People's base...he was chasing Bolt but ended up finding the location Bolt was desperate to find instead. Either, he is the best tracker in the world or the worst. He was about to send his kids back to the village while he held off Tree-Moegi. She allows Gaara to send them away but the Son breaks free, get trapped, but before he gets trapped he seals Gaara away so he wouldn't die.

Oh by the way Gaara is near death from just fighting Tree-Moegi just to remind you their level on the power scale and Only Bolt can fight them.

Kankuro is here to try to figure out how to release Shinki as only he can release Gaara from his seal...I really wish Kishimoto had explained sealing jutsu like he did every other power in Naruto. So Ikemoto couldn't use it as a convenient excuse for everything. As there are no real rules or restrictions for it, so seals can do whatever the story needs. Sealing is probably the only power stronger than even the new BS Shinjutsu. By asking if the Leaf know anything about the tree people...baring Clone Jiraiya forewarning by Bolt, how the hell would they?! The tree people just came into existence, they would know even less than the Sand does because Gaara was at least at their base!

Ryu can apparently mean "Grain of Sand." Reminder, they have been given themselves meaningful names like Tree-Sasuke's name meaning "left handed." He uses the metal belt clothing he has...sigh. Turns it into metal sand in order to grab Punk through the belts...to show how quickly he became ineffectual when he released a power beyond his control. They surprisingly don't kill him or feed him to a tree seeming to know they own their sentience to him...so they don't know if they would keep it if they get rid of him. He thinks that means he can give them orders and questions why they aren't trying to eat Bolt and Nail. They make it clear they are only humoring him, but the idiot doesn't realize it. He declares that the Chakra Fruit is his but it is clear they want it instead. He tries to assert his authority by slashing Tree-Jenga but Jenga cuts off his arm. Tree-Jenga making clear where Punk stands in the pecking order tell him to hunt down Bolt and his accomplice. Then, as a further show of dominance they seal his stump with their belts so he can't regrow his arm.

Tree-Shinki, I haven't updated the nickname list for the tree people because I am using their actual names and adding tree- Infront of it, already wants to eat Gaara and can release the seal on his own...If I update the nicknames again I'll probably make a new post about everyone and the changes that have occurred in Part Two with the character if any have occurred at all.

Cut to Bolt on the monument. Nail finds him and ask why he didn't tell them the truth...Bro talk if it just that I'm going to skip it. They talk about stuff that was already explained and Bolt tells him to talk to Madoc to adjust his limiters. As at the moment his offensive power is reduce as it is all being poured into defense and regeneration to keep him alive...remember his Karma contains Madoc's daughter's memories that he needs to revive her. Also, ah so this is how they are going to try to justify how lame Nail has been. "His power was reduce by settings Maodc put in place." Madoc is of course listening and realizes Clone Jiraiya is alive. They agree to an alliance to deal with the tree people.

It just goes to show how the pro ending head cases will try to sell you anything to say what they got was successful when the evidence of Borutos failure as well as how its hurt the Naruto franchise as a whole is obvious.

I'm in a better mood today so to be fair. Boruto is likely an above average selling manga that might bring in some money. But the problem is, that's not what the companies wanted. They wanted Naruto numbers which is still one of the biggest manga in the world. So, its a failure, it is at best a disappointment.

The two bits that stood out to me were the digital sales, and we shouldn't compare Naruto-Boruto to Dragon Ball.

So, the guy tried to say that the sales were fine because they really all went to digital and those numbers are good. But didn't show these new numbers just leaving people with the impression they must be good. Just trust the Youtuber, Bro. When it wouldn't be at hard to show them. 30% is physical? Ok that is X. 3X+1/3X=the total*. Which the average being 100,000 is 333,334 or 330,000 to what I rounded it up. Now that's a decent number for a manga, but nowhere near Naruto's numbers in its prime. Also, digital sales percentage has not been 70% throughout Boruto's entire run. As digital sales had reached that level either this or last year. He doesn't go through and try to show how digital rise matches Boruto physical number's decline. Which it doesn't. Boruto just declined till it hit around 100,000 and was around that level for years. If he was right, that wouldn't be the case.

* 30% is the known 70% is missing and we are looking for the total. 70 is 2 30% and then a 10% left over. 10% would be a third of 30%. So 30%+30%+1/3X30%=70 then for total 30%+30%+30%+1/3X30%=100%. Of 3x+1/3X=Y.

10 years ago, Naruto was the closest IP Dragon Ball had to a peer in terms of sales. If someone were to say, 'that in certain years Naruto had even beat Dragon Ball in sales,' most people would find that believable. Now a days, that is consider completely absurd, apparently. What happened in the past ten years that caused such a shift? Well, for Dragon Ball, Toriyama got so embarrassed by Dragon Ball Evolution that he got himself involved in the IP again and revitalized it. For Naruto, a bad ending and a worse sequel. "But, no no no Naruto-Boruto is completely fine apparently." While all its contemporaries' sales have completely eclipse it, when it was once the King of International Sales.

Edit: Also, again overall notion of "its a sequel don't hold it up to the same standard of the original." The companies knew that sequel tend to perform worse than the original. That why when they were selling Boruto to the audience they were making it was to be seen as a continuation of Naruto; its Part Three. Also, they tried to make sure it was seen as continuous by doing such things as keeping the Naruto anime going till they were ready to switch over to Boruto. Having a movie to promote it. Finally releasing the manga about a year after the original ended. 

From what I gathered, it just a rehash of the previous game. And people don't like it.

I was being somewhat rhetorical with that bit. But lets look into it. 

https://steamcharts.com/app/1020790

Connections' overall peak was 1663 players at the same time nearly a year ago. 24 hour peak of 175.

Now that is with some caveats: 1, Played at the same time does not means bought, 2 its steam for PC and Storm games are normally PS games, and 3 its been over a year since it came out.

https://steamcharts.com/app/349040

Storm 4. 8,372 peak. 984 24h Peak.

https://steamcharts.com/app/633230

Strikers. 6,303 peak. 573 24h Peak

That said both Storm 4 and Striker have better numbers than it.

And for Dragon Ball for comparison.

https://steamcharts.com/app/1790600

Sparking Zero. Peak 120,000. 59,928 24h Peak.

https://steamcharts.com/app/851850

Kakarot made by the same company that makes the storm games. 25,715 peak. 1,186 24h peak.

https://steamcharts.com/app/454650

Xenoverse 2 the game that seemed to inspire strikers' creation. 13,570 peak. 1,428 24h peak.

Granted an aggregate take it with a grain of salt. But no wonder they want another dragon ball game if that is just a portion of people playing, and it already sold 3 million. If the percentages of people playing on steam to people buying it is similar to the Naruto games that is not good for them.

Also remember Connections, that SS manga, the...Mira manga, and an anime special that keeps delaying it release were all suppose to check how popular Naruto-Boruto was. Clearly they disappoint the companies. 

Well, before even watching it remember that Boruto will always be a disappointment because the companies that signed off on it were promised a return to Naruto's high selling glory days. What they got instead is at best a middling/above average/below average for WSJ manga, with an anime with OK sales, and most of the money was made from licensing distribution out to other countries because it was the sequel to Naruto. It would have been cancelled long ago if it was an original IP, but it survives because its a sequel to Naruto that brings in just enough money to not cancel it.

That said its clear they are not happy with it. The anime is still off the air and they never finished part one. While they clearly ordered Ikemoto to wrap up part one, as the manga would still be there with his pacing otherwise, and he clearly been order to pick up the pace in part two. Which I have seen people notice how bad the story is in part two because it isn't dragged out. Where before, they convince themselves it must be leading to something.

So, any one who goes, "its OK," to defend it. Can be answered by "they didn't want, 'its OK.' The companies wanted at the least Naruto's sales figures to continue with Boruto."

If the video is about digital sales vs physical sales. It is hard to often figure out how much digital sales are worth because most companies are reluctant to release their digital sales data. So physical sales are a good aggregate. For example, lets say physical sales are 90% and digital are 10%. So if 90 books sold physically then 10 were sold digitally; so 100 books were sold overall. Its the same reason people like to use Steam to show if a game is doing well or not. While not all people buy all their games on Steam enough do that it is seen as a good way to check.

Dear lord that avatar is ugly. Looks like a mix between a JoJo's stand and an Otsutsuki...So, it actually looks like it fits in Boruto. Naruto Explained, well that means the continuation of interest in Naruto-Boruto is important to the continuation of his channel and any money he may receive from it.

So the guy starts out with the volumes sales. I just want to point out there is more to Boruto's volume sales than just its volume sales. As it is important to remember Naruto's volume sales which average at what 3.5 million, but barely got 800,000 for it final volume its first week. Then Salad's gaiden had about 620,000. Then finally Boruto's started around 400,000 that declined till it eventually leveled out to around 100,000. If 100,000.is good for most manga that's nice, but the company are looking at, how far the IP has fallen. Which reminds me if he tries to say something like, "as a sequel, its ok on its own or something." Boruto was intended to be a continuation of both the IP and Naruto's story through his son. Like DragonBall Z is to Dragonball. Which is why one has to look at Naruto's sales as well. As they again, wanted those to continue with Boruto. To ignore Naruto and treat it as it own thing is admitting it is a failure.

He ask, if it so unpopular why is it still ongoing? Legacy of Naruto still means it makes money through distribution rights, and from what I recall when Kodaichi was fired they are under contract. They were given a contract to write a certain amount of chapters I think it was 60. When they hit that mark Ikemoto's contract was renewed his wasn't. It also what I suspect happened with the end of part one and the pacing of part two. They refused to extend Ikemoto's contract again when they didn't see improvements they desired. So he has the remaining chapters to finish his manga; which is about 40 chapters.

So he brings up that physical sales is outdate. Like I said an aggregate. So digital manga according to him makes up about 70% of sales in Japan. Let's see, if Boruto's 100,000 is 30%, Digital's 70% is around 230,000, and so total would be about 330,000 volume sales in Japan...Ok. Even that was the case for Boruto, that is again still far less than Naruto had in its prime. If physical sales were 1%, then it would be getting to where the company wanted its sales to be.

Also, Boruto's sales charts do not have a gradual decline that goes along with the rise of Digital sales. It falls till its sales stabilize around 100,000 and was around that for years. When it should continue to go down as more people buy it digitally.

You know, he brings up digital sales took off in 2014. Just proving that Naruto had the worse time to end. As it ended before streaming revitalized western interest in anime (so when Boruto started it had to face competition), right as digital manga took off, and continuous anime became outdated (which Boruto one of the last greenlit.) Boruto really comes off as a relic from a bygone era. An era that ended around the ending of Naruto.

So Boruto sells around 400,000 each year according to him. Is that physical alone or with digital? Boruto has generally two volumes each years. Which means each get -barring older volume sales- 200,000 by the end of their year. Which means if physicals sales were just 100,000. Digital would only be in general 50% of total sales.

Ah he brought up the sequel excuse...already covered that. They wanted it to be a continuation not just a random spin off sequel.

"We shouldn't compare Dragon Ball and Dragon Super success to Naruto." Wasn't Naruto once one of the top three selling manga ever at one point and was consider a peer to DragonBall? Now we shouldn't think of putting them in the same topic much less comparing them? How far has it fallen. What ever could cause such a fall? Maybe a bad ending and a sequel most people do not like for the past ten years? Hm. Maybe it could have maintain its position with a good ending and a good sequel. A possibility maybe?

Similar sequels to justify Boruto's low sales. Haven't read the Seven sin sequel so can't say. Fairy Tail 100 to be honest I kind of forget that still ongoing sometimes, also I don't think it help that the anime only started this year. Rurouni Kenshin Hokkaido...wasn't that put on hold for a few years due to the mangaka being arrested? I think that would affect the sales numbers. Also, it was made about 20 years after the original manga compared to 1 year for Boruto. The Inuyasha sequel which again came out years after the original's ending.

Ah the Boruto movie is strong...http://www.narusaku....showtopic=16678 For its time, sure. Afterwards, all its contemporaries eclipse it.

Now time to blame Naruto's volume count for why people aren't reading Boruto. Wait. Wait I thought Boruto was successful people were just saying it wasn't. Why the change?

It is the best selling manga in V-Jump! Well seeing as Super ended due to the Death of Toriyama, yes. But it was once In WSJ before it was moved to V-Jump. So, it like a loser in a major leagues moved to the minor and got second place. Not as impressive as it sounds.

Meanwhile in the video game industry, looks like Bandai Namco is cancelling projects involving One Piece and Naruto (yes, that's include Boruto), while Dragon Ball gain more success due to Sparking ZERO surpassed in sales by over 3 Million sold worldwide within 24 hours after release! That beat Capcom's Street Fighter 6, which managed to get 3 million in sales in only for a couple of months and also Mortal Kombat 1.

One Piece always seems to have problems with games. While Naruto once had a successful game franchise in Storm. How was the last one Connection everyone?

So Shiguma has stage 2 throat cancer. So like her father, he is "Dead" as a rakugoka. His personal branch The Shiguma School was dissolved and his students have been put under different Masters in the Arakawa School. Maikeru was allowed to remain independent as he became a Shin'uchi, Koguma was given to Ikken, Kyoji was given to Zensho, and Guriko was given to Taizen.

Akane has been given to Issho. So, she shall now learn under the man who expelled her father and the big bad. This is interesting. As it been said by various masters that she would fit best as his student.

Last week Shiguma taught Akane, "Shiguma's Art." An incomplete story that was passed down to him by his master, who refused to teach it to Issho, and a desire to study it was a factor in Shinta's expulsion. Issho's desire has been more to end it existence than to learn it. He also told her that there were three stories she needed to master in order to perform this one, but he was interrupted before he could tell her. When I saw him collapsed last chapter, I realized that would be Akane's struggle is that she will preform that story in her Shin'uchi promotional exam, it would meet Issho's approval, but she would not have her master to guide her. So, she would have to figure it out on her own and make the story her own. Turning it into Akane's Story or Akane-Banashi. 

Apparently, some Boruto fan doxed a youtube reviewer named Chibi Reviews for not liking Boruto or something like that. The reviewer is suing the person who doxed him.

They also made false videos of him to defame him hopefully leading to him being stoned to death, no really, and they decided to mock him for his brother's death...always pleasant people those Boruto fans aren't they?

So someone showed me this.

Apparently, this guy is a big Boruto fans that constantly was making theory crafting videos of what could happen in the story.

He made this video to show the realization he came to, that anytime he tried to think, "what would happen in the story" as well as "what a Naruto character would logically do in the story"....IE be involved in the story. He was wrong. The only time he could somewhat guess right what would happen in the story is when he only considered what the Boruto characters would do. It took him about 94 chapters/months to realize this apparently, and he still tries to justify why this is fine to convince himself.

Even then he is still wrong. It is not that Boruto characters are important while Naruto characters aren't, it is Ikemoto's characters are important while Kishimoto's characters aren't. Ikemoto only uses Kishimoto made characters when he has to. If he could do the cast he really wanted it would be Madoc as team captain with Nail, Moe, and Hime as the main cast with no Kishimoto characters around.

Edit: Hell the tree people exist to remove Kishimoto's character from the story so they can become Ikemoto's villains. 

And someone tried to assassinate Trump again.

Summary Time: Chapter 14. Duty...well, clearly not to deliver a good story.

Cover page is Clone Jiraiya/Barbarian Hair.

Bolt wakes up in a interrogation room and is interrogated by Konohamaru. The cuffs he is bound by, were made by Madoc, prevent him from using his powers...we really only need to be inform an Ikemoto character made it, because if a non-Ikemoto character made them; They would come off in a second.

OH MY GOD. THEY FINALLY SHOWED SAKURA!!! My God!!! She is badly drawn. After 13 chapters of mocking them for the fact, they refused to used the Naruto character that has to be involved story wise. They finally did... And they are clearly doing to show they don't need her because the daughter's healing is better than hers! She checking out Blond Sai while his mother Ino watches her son with a worried look.

Back to the interrogation. They are using the stupid permanent telepathy to have the elders and Madoc listen in...maybe they are using mundane technology like mic and speakers but they have relied on the telepathy hotline so much; that is it by default as far as I am concern unless stated otherwise. Moe and Nail are listening through a play by play Hime is giving with her observation power. Moe taunts Bolt about the obvious, that his lies will easily fall apart if Bolt decides to tell everyone about the perspective flip. Nail blames his actions on Bolt and apparently pragmatism prevented him from killing him while he was unconscious. As he doesn't know what the Tree people are...this shouldn't be impressive but he been such a moron that it almost is.

Bolt explains the Tree People...right, this is going to be another exposition dump chapter of information (I swear if it isn't a boring combat chapter with this manga its exposition dumps) most of you should know even just through my summaries. So unless it important, I am going to be very broad and skim through most of it. Madoc gives his guess, which is of course correct...I'm not even reading his lines because he obviously just going to be correct in his guess; as he has been anytime he has had to give a monologue explaining something. Bolt informs them, they need to defeat Tree-Jenga, as he is the leader egging the rest on. They also try to pretend he is not based of Jenga but his own original character...if that was even slightly true then, again, Ikemoto is once again bad at making differences between his characters designs to make them distinguishable. They ask how he knows this, he says he can't say for his source's safety...of course, Madoc probably already guesses its Clone Jiraiya.    

They get snippy at him and ask him what happened to Naruto. Shikamaru has an internal monologue about it. Both of them know they need to keep the charade going to make sure Nail doesn't do something...even more stupid than usual if he panics about the truth coming out. Oh by the way Ibiki, Random Leaf Ninja Mook B, was here all along and he will be interrogating Bolt for more information, because he didn't find his answers satisfactory. 

Shikamaru contacts Ino through telepathy hotline he also ask Ino to add Bolt to this call. Which has Ino go on a tangent about how the Mind Transmission jutsu can't be used for personal use, all conversation have to be reported, and they have already broken five different regulations...is this trying to cover up all the nonsense with this stupid constantly used Telepathy hotline? Also Shikamaru is the Hokage outside the Elders he is the highest authority in the village, I think him asking allows the regulations to be waved, and she already know something big is going on. Also, they have been using it for random conversations ever since Hime was introduce. It has become so ubiquitous in the manga that it has become as common to talk through the telepathy hotline as it is to just speak. This just feels like someone likely a new editor had enough of it and ordered them to stop using it for every conversation; like it has been for like the last 40-50 chapters. For some reason, apparently Blond Sai's injures, she refuses to do it.

Ibiki starts his interrogation by slamming Bolt's head to the table then starts beating him up...isn't he suppose to be an expert on psychological mental torture to the point he doesn't need to do anything physical?

Shikamru puts a stop to this beating and suggest using Cup's "venom," to get Bolt to talk. They worry about Cups wanting to kill Bolt...sigh, but this scene will have to show he realize that Bolt is his sun. He helps Bolt escape through a snake unlocking his cuffs and send Shikamaru a message that he knows. Bolt grabs his stuff and leaves apologizing to the mooks that were looking after it.

Skipping the rest of this scene. So Salad ask Shikamaru how the interrogation went and where Bolt when Kankuro uses the telepathy hotline to inform Shikamru that Gaara and his son were both put into a tree. So I guess the new Tree person, Ryu, is Tree-Gaara. I think. He doesn't look like the actual character or have the characteristic that make him recognizable like most of Ikemoto's character designs.

Also just to remind people there are cellphones in this world since at least the Salad Gaiden and in it Shikamaru noted that it was weird that Sasuke didn't have a cellphone. Therefore implying to the point of out right stating, "everyone has a cellphone." But they keep using the telepathy hotline for everything. Hopefully this is where they start to make that less common.

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https://x.com/Shonen...773900150219134

Titles that Jump deems profitable ie what advertisers should focus on:

Ongoing:

One Piece

Jujutsu Kaisen (which is about to end)

Sakamoto Days

Blue Box

Akane Banashi

Kagurabachi

Ended:

MHA

Demon Slayer

Haikyuu

The Promise Neverland

The artist of Act-Age (Shior Usazaki) finally got another manga in Shounen Jump. The writer is Osamu Nishi of "Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun."

Ichi the Witch.

"In this world, witches must hunt down their magic! Deep in the forest, the terrifying king of magic and the strongest witch are locked in deadly combat. But suddenly, a young boy joins the fray. His name is Ichi and he is just a hunter. But he has the power to flip the magic world upside down in this magic hunting fantasy epic!"

Ichi is a hunter in a medieval setting that was abandon in the forest when he was young, and learn to hunt to survive to the point he became obsessed with Hunting. One day he found an unusual creature he wanted to hunt. It was King Uroro the King of the Majik. Majiks are spirits with magical power that offer trials to people to learn their magic. Such as, "drink all this water to learn how to use water spells." However, normally the only people that can use magic in this world are females. So, all the hunters of Majiks are witches that hunt them to learn more magic spells. King Uroro is unique in that he cannot be harmed by a women, so no witch can harm him. Till Ichi kills him becoming the first male witch.

So, the story is Ichi, the first male witch, hunting all the Majiks with his new partner Desscaras, the Abyssal Witch.

Her art has improve in the past four years.

The last image is drawn quite well.... Are the central figures in an elevated position? 

 

Moegi's drawing at the top, on the other hand, is strange.... It looks like she has had a piece cut off (on her hips and leg).

However, she is very thin despite the backside.

Central figures in an elevated position...looking at the room again its the opposite. There is the world tree acting as the ceiling. In the room there, is a square area with another square area within it that is a black box. The outer square area is actually depressed compared to the rest of the room. The inner square, the black box, is the platform they place the soul bud thorn to create another tree person. Actually, looking at the image again. They are all in that lower area. We are see all three guys entire body, while she is sunk up to her knees into the ground. Even if the square above is showing the area of that outer square Tree-Sasuke is still in the square. Or is he on the edge with one foot in and one out? And even then given the difference between the males and her the difference in his legs' positions should be more blatant.

The thing about Tree-Meogi is that Moegi is Ikemoto's favorite character. So any character he should be able draw well, it should be her. With her pose we are getting a view of her side profile with very little distortion. Not helped that the studs on her belt clothing...sigh, can't believe i just wrote that. Goes over her chest. With that, her breast aren't just small but unusually small, even suppressed or almost removed entirely. Likely many of the guys who may read this post has a bigger bust than she does. Even if she is trace of an image of a woman is yoga pants and sport bra that still feels odd. So it just shows to me that Ikemoto really doesn't like women's breast; he is a leg and ass man. Which is a problem as nH fans are breast lovers.

When nH fans fantasizes about Naruto female characters or a make harem of them its Hinata, Tsunade, Anko, and Samui they fantasize first and the most. So his taste in women are not appealing to his target demographic.

Is simply the ultimate insult to Sakura. 

Sarada will become the property of Hinata's son and she will also be outclassed as a fighter by Hinata's daughter). 

At the same time she, Sakura, will be outclassed as a doctor by the aforementioned daughter... 

There is no such thing as NaruSaku here.

There should be no such thing as a fan of Sakura defending Boruto at this point. The best excuse is that Chie is sick or retired from voice acting and they don't want to get another VA out of respect. I don't know I'm just saying a hypothetical. So they don't want to have Sakura have a big role. Even then its a bad idea. Her teammates are out of commission so in theory she is the strongest Ninja the village has left, her husband went AWOL again, then shoved into a tree with a mockery of him attacking the village, and her daughter has been ostracized by the village for standing up for a traitor. How can a writer with any sense not have at least a scene with her?

Would The daughter be stronger than Salad? Salad has her mothers' super strength and her fathers Uchiha powers that were able to match Naruto. The daughter has a stronger connection to Kurama, Hyuuga clan powers which may mean getting Otsutsuki powers later, the super healing ability, and is Hinata's daughter...No, your right she completely outclasses Salad. And she is suppose to end up as hokage and Bolt's dream is to be her shadow.