Pretty much. Ideally he is suppose to be a reformist, but how he acts in Boruto is just another cog in the machine that has changed very little.

Has anyone seen that animated Transformers Movie One last year. In it Optimus Prime was optimistic if a bit dim miner-bot that wanted to fix the problem their planet was having by trying to find the matrix of leadership, and prove their caste system wrong. Megatron was a loyal obedient miner-bot that worship their leader and though they should not question the system. Both were of the low caste cogless miner bots that entered a race only transformers were allowed to enter, a slighted transformer sent them to the lowest level which kickstart their adventure to discover the truth about the world. All the problem inflecting their world was their leaders fault: he betrayed their world to the enemy, killed all the primes, Primus shut down energon production in response to his actions, and he removed the transformation cog from certain cybertronians to create a caste to mine the energon that was left. Optimus was largely unaffected by the revelations because he already thought the system was unjust and needed to be changed. It broke Megatron he wanted to get revenge and even killed Optimus to get to him. Then Optimus revive with the matrix of leadership, defeated then banished Megatron, and then fixed the system. Megatron refusing to work with Optimus despite him fixing the problem Megatron had with the system due to both refusing to admit Optimus who he thought was a fool was right, and out of guilt for killing him in anger.

While not the same it is similar to and somewhat Naruto and Sasuke should've been. Naruto always somewhat hated the system for treating people like weapons and wanting to change it. Sasuke was content with the system as he wanted to fashion himself into a tool for revenge. No revelation truly broke Naruto because he always had a problem with the system. While learning the truth about his brother broke Sasuke. The problem with Naruto is Kishimoto never laid out what problems Naruto had with the system and how he was going to fix them. So when he became Hokage it was meaningless because what did he accomplish? Did he do anything as Hokage?

Due to how long that original post is and also its part two I decided to make it a new post. It going to be about the change that have happened to the characters in part 2.

The big change from part one is they seem to want to use more of their very large cast. In part one it was pretty much Naruto, Sasuke, Boruto and any Ikemoto character with the most important being Kawaki and Amado. 3/5 of Neo-Team 7 barely existed or were even relevant in the story in part one. In part two they try to make them part of the story. How successful is it...

Main Cast:

Neo-Team 7

Konohamaru is the team sensei. In part one, he barely existed and was replaced in importance by Sasuke as a mentor for Boruto. The team also rarely went on mission and he was almost never involved when they got into a fight. In part two, they try to make him more involved by making Moegi become one of the first tree people. He does not come off as either strong or competent when he should be one of the strongest ninja in the village.

Boruto Osutsuki is Bolt. At the end of part one he had his life swapped with Kawaki/Nail by Eida/Hime's power of omnipotence. So he has been on the run for the past three year training first with Sasuke then with Clone Jiraiya. He is no longer an annoying spoiled brat but is tried to be portrayed as a somber solemn serious cool character, but to me it clear they are trying to hard to make him cool and he just comes off as lame. After Sasuke got stuck in a tree he started working with Clone Jiraiya who warned him of the future and trained him using his future sight to make it the most effective. So he has been trained to the point no one can stand up to him in a fight, save the big bad. He barely tell his friends any info they need to know.

What he learned over the time skip was sword play from Sasuke and two powers from Clone Jiraiya. Flying Thunder God, no not his grandfather signature jutsu, but pretty much the same power with extra steps which makes you wonder why didn't they just teach him seals? Uzuhiko his overhyped ultimate attack a shinjutsu which is powered by the rotation of the earth he need both his feet on the ground to charge it. At low power it gives people vertigo. At high power its a spirit bomb rasengan. 

Momoshiki Otsutsuki is Femmy. The antagonist from the movie that implanted his karma seal on Boruto to take over his body. After Boruto nearly died he had to use up the rest of his seal to save him preventing him from being transformed into Femmy, and is now a voice in Boruto's head trying to take over. He has not appeared so far in part two. So either he has been completely absorb by Bolt's psyche or they consider him a distraction and haven't used him yet.

Sarada Uchiha is Salad. One of the few people that is immune to Omnipotence for some reason. She spent the last three years trying to explain to the village what happened at the end of part one to no success. She should be one of or the most important character in the story as Boruto's goal is to support her in the shadows once she becomes Hokage. That is still barely ever focused on and instead they decided to double down on her being the love interest for Boruto. They understand she needs to be important to the plot but they don't understand how.

Eventually they decided that her Mangekyo Sharingan would make her powerful enough to stand up the tree people. One of her powers is to make Black holes/gravity balls.

Mitsuki is Cups. Orochimaru's son. He barely existed like the rest of Team 7 besides Bolt & Nail in part one. to the point that they didn't even address Boruto being his sun till the start of part two. Hasn't changed that much.

Kawaki Uzumaki is Nail. Ikemoto's self insert. He and Bolt switched places due to Hime's omnipotence at the end of part one. Clearly, someone made it clear to the staff, that he is not popular as he has been turned into a joke at the start of Part two. This eventually had to be explained so he can receive a power up so he can actually be a threat to Boruto instead of a nuisance. He didn't change that much, its more the story stopped worshiping the ground he walked on.

Kashin Koji is Clone Jiraiya formerly Barbarian Hair. He disappeared midway into part one. Turns out before he was killed his power of future-sight awakened and he was in hiding to prepare for what is to come in part two. He works with Boruto to defeat the tree people.

Shikamaru Nara is the not Eighth Hokage. He is in charge since Naruto is gone and they didn't want to make Konohamaru or someone else in charge instead. His role hasn't really change as the beleaguered lesser intelligent manager who can only obey and follow the plans of any brilliant Ikemoto character he talks to.

Supporting Cast:

Sumire Kakei-Shigaraki is the Clone. Studio Pierrot's Clone of Hinata who they want as the love interest for Boruto. She is Sarada's friend and they talk because they are both immune to omnipotence. She is somewhat upset that Sarada is clearly in the lead in the person who will end up with Boruto.

Himawari Uzumaki is the daughter. For some reason, was never trained at the academy, in the manga. Kurama was reborn inside of her to give her a power up. So she can go toe to toe with the tree people. She is a better Jinchuriki than her father. She has healing powers so they don't need a medic.

Neo Team 10

Moegi Kazamatsuri. Ikemoto's favorite character. She was turned into one of the tree people to make her important to the plot. She is the love interest of Konohamaru.

Shikadai Nara is Shikamaru's son. Hasn't really done much.

Inojin Yammanaka is Blond Sai. Was nearly killed. His mother is honestly more important to the plot than him as the psychic phone line and likely Ikemoto's second favorite character.

Chocho Akimichi is Fat Filler. Barely done anything.

Neo Sand Siblings: Three kids Gaara adotped.

So Gunko/Army Child had a bit of a flashback when the kids started crying about father and had a flashback about Brook. Who comments she looks like someone he once knew. Implying Brook is her father. There are a few theories. Here are the top three:

1. Brook is just straight up her father.

2. His old captain of the Rumbar Pirates Yorki is her father.

3. Brook was once a captain of a battle convoy of a certain kingdom in the West Blue, it where he was taught his fencing style before becoming a pirate. God Valley was in the West Blue. Brook died 52 years ago. God Valley Incident was 38 years ago. So 14 years after Brook died. Its possible that Gunko was the former princess of the kingdom Brook served, he knew her when she was young. Then when the World Noble "conquered" the kingdom she was part of the spoils and was turned into a God's Knight.

She is the only God's Knight we have met that has not been called a Saint, the title of a world noble, nor had her last name revealed.  

Oh Clarkson's Farm is having its 4th season come out this Friday.

Summary Time: Chapter 22. Jura...Tree-Jenga.

....BiiiBHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Cover Page is Bolt in a blue t-shirt hand in pants pocket trying to look cool...it is not a good thing when I look at a character and think, "God that looks lame."

With Salad out, there is only Mix Master Fold and Cups up, surrounded by nudists. With Eye-Run Sand's (I should probably update the nickname topic soon) Soul Bulb hanging in the air. Cups tells Fold to take the soul bulb and run to free Eye-Run...isn't he stuck in a tree at the villain's base? How he suppose to get there?! Or did they fight Tree-Moegi somewhere else? Out of a Nudist pops Tree-Jenga. He makes note of Salad and then ignores the Soul Bulb because he wants to deal with Bolt.

Konohamaru notes that Bolt took down a tree person with one attack. Bolt and the writer tries to justify this by saying she was already damage or it wouldn't have been that easy...this is again to deal with last chapter "cool moment" for Bolt screwing with the power scales...again. Else Bolt can pretty much deal with all the Tree-People save Tree-Jenga (and maybe Tree-Sasuke) by himself in under a minute. Who would have to be so strong that no one can really fight him with how much a boost in power Bolt got since... pretty much Ikemoto became the mangaka. Tree-Jenga tries to snipe Bolt like he did before, then flies off to confront him. Moegi's bulb forms and Konohamaru ask how is it suppose to free her? Granted Bolt doesn't have time to explain, though he should have explained that before, hell make a shadow clone to both escort him out of the area, while also telling him how to cure people stuck in the trees, then dispel it so he is at full power for fight Tree-Jenga, and orders "Master" to go back to the area the team met up with the Neo-Sand Siblings...when has he ever called Konohamaru 'Master?' Hell, when has he ever shown Konohamaru any sort of respect? Is it a translation of Sensei?

Konohamaru gets the message after he is saved by Bolt from an attack by Tree-Jenga and books it. So, Bolt hits Tree-Jenga with a rasengan...has he ever used his invisible rasengan since it was introduced in the movie/ first ten chapters? If he not going to use that can he at least upgrade to elemental rasengans? They fight. Tree-Jenga compliments Bolt's ability and calls his attack the Flying Thunder God...How does he know that? It not the same, and it was named "in honor" of his Grandfather's jutsu, He should be calling it a move similar to it, not uses its name. Like how does he know its called that? Just have Bolt learns seal and used the original if you have this problem.

Hime and Clone Jiraiya chat. CJ confirms that Bolt stands no chance against Tree-Jenga and its difficult to escape due to his FTG requiring to sense and focus on his metal pins, it difficult the farther away they are, and he won't have time to focus with someone as powerful as Tree-Jenga fighting him. Also, he knows that Bolt's plans to hold out to allow his friends to escape with the bulbs.

Tree-Jenga has Bolt's back to some standing rock asks him some general questions as well as his spiel about love. Bolt decides he needs to use that useless Uzuhiko again...the thing he needs to stand still with both feet on the ground to charge? He uses the time Tree-Jenga monologue to charge it to the vertigo level. Tree-Jenga after feeling the effects notices that its similar to the Biju Bombs he uses so he was able to nullify it...so the most useful aspect of that over hype attack is now useless.

Also remember, that the Rasengan is based off the Biju Bombs, but was able to hurt Tree-Jenga. While Uzuhiko is Shinjutsu that uses Natural Chakra of the Planet (or some Semantic bs) which was one of the few thing the Ten Tail was weak against as they were immune to normal jutsu powered by charka but can be hurt by Sage mode or Taijutsu. Yet, Tree-Jenga can neutralize it after feeling its effects for a few seconds. Granted at best the weaker Vertigo one not the spinning spirit bomb he used against Tree-Sasuke.

6/19

Apparently, Boruto fans sent a pipe bomb to Chibi Reviews over his opinions on Boruto. Apparently, he needed to get both Homeland Security and the FBI involved. 

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Context? Is she done with that fanfiction or something?

The wording/puns is common in Shounen manga, like when the straw hats do a combo. I think the Japanese can easily understand it.

Lighting Katana. Raikiri is just 'lighting blade.' Rai-Katana 

Cheery Blossom Shell Smash. Sakura's name with Shell Smash. Sakura Sheru Sumasshu

Sharingan Staff. Is probably the worst/generic/least creative name out of them. Seriously, what did the sharingan have do with a kick? Sharingan Bo 

U-Zu-Mikey-Angelo Barrage. Somewhat creative changing Uzumaki to Uzu-Mikey. Naruto-Mikey Rendan.

The Sakura and Naruto combo names were at least somewhat creative. Kakashi was basic/too simple. Sasuke didn't make sense use the chidori or his fire jutsu instead of just naming it after his eyes if he not even going to really use their abilites.

The foot mutants weren't that interesting. They were just generic monsters. It would have been better if they were at least some animal hybrids for consistency. The fox girl is probably going to turn good due to a speech in the last issue.

Sakura was always popular in Japan save for certain lulls because she wasn't doing anything. Western/US fans hated her and were convinced everyone one else must hate her. I think the big example they like to use was one of the last character polls while the manga was running and Sakura was #11 with Sai which they convinced themselves that means Sakura isn't even popular in Japan. When it was more, 'she was liked, they just liked another character more than her, often Naruto/Sasuke/Kakashi, but she was never hated.' While comparison Hinata fans often love her the most or love only her, so they always voted for her, she had a small but dedicated fanbase in Japan. Which is often why Hinata would rank high in polls while certain conditions are required for Sakura to though when those happens, she beats Hinata easily. This poll which is female characters so no Naruto/Sasuke/Kakashi, or that poll two years ago for 'which character would you like a one shot of' she got third behind Minato and Itachi. There were others over the years but I've forgotten the details of those.

Sakura in Japan. An interesting take on her archetype for the time. A tsundere that wasn't in love with the main character from the start and he had to win her affection; making the romance more interesting and worth investing into compared to most shounen romances. A heroine that had to join in the fight and be involved in combat during a time when shounen really didn't have their female characters fight. Even when that changed, she was still unique because she had a lot of uncertainty and doubt but still had the resolved to improve herself to help out the people she cared about. Something resonated with female readers and is hard to replicate even for modern shounen heroine.

Sakura in US. Filthy useless ugly slutty abusive friend-zoning whore who should die a thousand death!!! 

Hinata in Japan. One of the most generic examples of her archetype ever made. Generally forgettable and uninvolved in the story till the very end and doesn't have much character. Though is great for fantasizing your perfect dream girl because you can make her anything because there aren't that many details that will contradict your fantasies.

Hinata in the US. Most perfect woman to have ever existed. The story should-no, is about her. It about her getting everything she wants. She deserves it. She is entitled to it. For being so perfect despite being the most abused and oppressed character to have ever been written. No one have ever suffered more than her and she never deserved it.

With those lines of thoughts in mind. Is it a surprise there is confusion between the Japan/Kishimoto and the American fanbase?

Sakura lowest point of her popularity was the ending because she backtracked to square zero of her character arc. It improved since because of the fact they refuse to use her in the sequel means she isn't tainted by the issues it has, because she is not involved, and her daughter is well behaved and well received compared to Hinata's spoiled brats.

https://www.reddit.c..._a_poll_on_the/
Not sure if this was shared before but seems there's a gender divide for hinata and orihime

 

Men's Choice:

 

#1. Jolyne Cujoh (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

 

#2. Sakura Haruno (Naruto)

 

#3. Maki Zenin (Jujutsu Kaisen)

 

#4. Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach)

 

#5. Orihime Inoue (Bleach)

 

#6. Nami (One Piece)

 

#7. Kagura (Gintama)

 

#8. Hinata Hyuga (Naruto)

 

#9. Misa Amane (Death Note)

 

#10. Nico Robin (One Piece)

 

Women's Choice:

 

#1. Sakura Haruno (Naruto)

 

#2. Maki Zenin (Jujutsu Kaisen)

 

#3. Kagura (Gintama)

 

#4. Nico Robin (One Piece)

 

#5. Shinobu Kocho (Demon Slayer)

 

#6. Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach)

 

#7. Jolyne Cujoh (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

 

#8. Nami (One Piece)

 

#9. Misa Amane (Death Note)

 

#10. Nobara Kugisaki (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Well the comments are surprised, "that Sakura is actually popular in Japan," is true.

Huh, its on the 18th now. I should really put the date for the next release like I used to. We are at a 100 Boruto Chapters Everyone...

Summary Time: Chapter 20. Because of Love... oh right, that's going to continue being a thing.

Cover Page is Konohamaru with some second forehead protector/armband on his left arm.

Tree-Moegi is still taking her time to eat him. Oh now he remembers Shikamaru telling him to become friends with her...Wasn't his dream to become the Hokage after Naruto? Why is he so weak, pathetic, and incompetent at 30 years old? She is torn between wanting to kill him and wanting him...so this is just going to keep going till something else happens.

Back to the fight with Tree-Shinki. They fight eventually he catches Cups and Mix Master Fold in his iron sand...pretty sure he could catch all of them at this point but. He decides they aren't important and instead wants to use them for info on Bolt. Blond-D tell Salad to spill any info, as she apparently knows where Bolt is, she has because they are going to be killed if she doesn't. Apparently, Salad refuses partly because she doesn't want to sell out a friend, and partly because she is still mulling over what the Clone told her. Blond-D realizes that Salad is in love with Bolt. So, she offers herself and her sensory ability in exchange for the other three going free.

Back to Konohamaru slowly not being killed by Tree-Moegi...this has been going on for about 3 chapters now in this holding action, can they fight already. She cries seeing him hurt, he realizes this, calls out her name, then points out that she is sad and does not want to kill him.

Now the other Tree people sense this and Tree-Jenga prepares another bloody monologue.

Konohamaru ask for her to hold his hands and wonders if they could start a relationship. She acts like a giddy schoolgirl. When she touch his hand, he follows through, finally, with Shikamaru's plan. Blowing her arms up with rasengans, but due to her calling out his name like Moegi he hesitates to deliver the finishing blow. And like I predicted when they came up with this plan it backfired and she is piss.

Tree-Shiki kills Blond-D because he doesn't need her and doesn't like her attitude. As she lays dying she gives words of encouragement to Salad to stop holding back, stop suppressing her feelings, and use her power to protect the one she loves. With this advice, she activates her mangekyo sharingan and uses Kamui, Kakashi's power...is this like her mother and this going to be the one fight she has for part two? 

Well, its going back into 'it seems like stuff is happening but nothing is happening, at best one thing happens each chapter' pacing that was a major problem with part one. We are 4 chapters into this fight, remember this is a monthly series, and barely anything happened this chapter. The plan from the start at 16 if we make this five chapters for how long this has been going on. Spilt the two tree people up. Konohamaru gets Tree-Moegi to let down her guard so he can kill her for her soul blub, this fails and is forced to fight her. AND IT TOOK FOUR CHAPTERS FOR KONOHAMARU TO REMEBER THAT WAS THE FUCKING PLAN! While the kids fight Tree-Shinki. Apparently, Salad couldn't or wouldn't use her mangekyo...which wasn't a thing till this chapter. Yes, she wasn't using it, incase people forgot she got it when she beg her father to save Bolt at the end of part one, but it was never mentioned it was an issue that she needed an Android 16 speech to use.

Also despite this power up I suspect that this fight going to go for a minimum of two more chapters and likely 4 to 6. As there is likely to be a flashback to why Salad couldn't use the mangekyo when she got it at the end of part one, a chapter of showing off at least before the killing blow, and this is still split between two fights Salad and Tree-Shinki and Konohamaru and Tree-Moegi (Ikemoto's favorite character.) Also the inevitable surprise shock twist to make the story more dramatic of either Tree-Jenge or Bolt getting involved.

4/20.

Smitter rarely logs on best ask Derock. He is the last admin that pop in once in a blue moon. He has some investment in that TMNTXNaruto comic. So, he will be back in to post either this month or the next.

Kishimoto was inspired by Skip Beat for his pairings.

"Hanamichi Sakuragi was a dumb punk that falls in love with Haruko Akagi an avid basketball fan that has a crush on the ace's of her high school's basketball team the gifted Kaeda Rukawa. To win her affection Sakuragi joins the team and is rivals with Rukawa. In Slam Dunk, none of them end up together at the end. Rukawa was never interested in Akagi, and Sakuragi eventually became more interested in focusing on basketball. So if Haruko got together with Sakuragi, She would have been Haruko Sakuragi. Haruko Sakuragi. Haruno, Sakura. Sakura Haruno."

Skip Beat is one of the top manga ever like top 7 right now right behind Naruto at 6 and is The Shounen Sports Manga that all sports manga since have taken inspiration from.

The problem with NS isn't its inspiration or lack of it. Its that Kishimoto was too traditional with his story. "The pairings get together at the end" is how it normally goes for shounen manga. Thing is... most shounen manga rarely make it past 3-5 years before The Big 3 Era. Naruto lasted 15 years and people got sick of the holding position, not just the romance, and it allowed his editors to convince him to change it because it seemed The West hated her.

Naruto problems' were never about it not being dark enough. It was that it was too shallow. It was unwilling to explore or question its ideas, messages, and story. Which left it one of the most generic shounen story that shounen jump has produce.

Judging by Samurai 8 and the fact he hasn't produce anything beyond that Minato one shot since. He needs a strong editor, but more importantly I think he needs to get over what happened with Naruto for him to move forward as a mangaka.

Why is it on the 19th again? Eh. Oh Dragon Ball Super is back because they needed one more chapter for the 24 volume. Gohan is the Mr Clean God whatever that inspired Gohan and Trunks to try out superhero-Ing.

Summary Time: Chapter 19. Konohamaru-Chan...so this is going to be about Moegi and Konohamaru, remember she is Ikemoto's favorite character from Naruto apparently.

Cover page is Moegi...did she always have orange hair? It been so long since I've seen her character I don't remember.

Showing the origin of Mix Master Fold's blade...Did I ever give Gaar'a son Shinki a nickname? Eye-Run Sand he has tattoo or markings that look like E. So Eye-run Sand poured his chakra into the blade allowing it to manipulate his iron sand...I think you need to do more than just pour some chakra in to make that effect permanent, like place a seal on the weapon or something. Remember all the three Neo-Sand Siblings are adopted. Adopted siblings are allowed to marry each other in Japan. So Mix Master Fold says that Eye-Run Sand is focusing too much on their father Gaara and he should pay attention to their adopted sister Blond-D who has feeling for him. Eye-Run counters back Fold never stops talking about her, so he should just make a move, but Fold implies he has already given up on that, as he know she love Eye-Run.

So he frees everyone from Tree-Shinki. They fight. Cups uses Sage mode, he has some spirit snake attack, and nearly lands a hit on him, but he has the power to turn himself into Iron Sand. Mix Master Fold uses his sword to force him back to form so Salad and Cups can hit him. Then he dissipates again.

Back to Tree-Moegi and Konohamaru. She is upset he doesn't want her to call him Konohamaru-chan. Hime is watching and commenting that Konohamaru is too stupid to understand the problem is they don't share a relationship the makes adding chan feel natural...He refuses to let anyone other than Moegi call him chan due to his feelings for her, and Tree-Moegi is jealous. You would assume a Ninja of Konohamaru age of what? 30 years old (Didn't Naruto generation seem to get married the second they turned 18? Why is he waiting so long?) would be mature enough to put this aside to rescue the women he loves, but it is likely Ikemoto doesn't see him as older than a teenager. This is so she can inform Clone Jiraiya who is with Bolt so he can remind him and us that he is not allowed to join the fight...Yes, he already said this a two chapters ago at the start of this fight, but I guess they decided this needed to happen to remind people to raise the stakes as Bolt won't come in for the rescue...or at least not yet. Then we have Tree-Jenga philosophizing about love and their nature due to absorbing human emotions. They want to eat the person who was loved the most by the person they are copies of to remove the weakness of love.

Mix Master Fold pulls Tree-Shinki back to form and he summons Nudists. He has one attack Blond-D so Mix Master Fold will use his sword to save her. It gets stuck in a Nudist so Tree-Shinki sends the Nudist with the sword in him so they lost their edge against him...unless he suddenly start feeling love for those two.

Chapter ends with Tree-Moegi still not eating Konohamaru yet.

It confirms something that was already likely. They didn't finish part one before they stopped the anime, and they likely ordered Ikemoto to wrap up part one of the manga.

The anime was let's say 300 episodes about as long as Naruto's part one. At least 75% of it was filler or them expanding upon established material. Nail/Kawaki, Ikemoto's main character, did not appear till around episode 200. Boruto has the worst filler/canon episode ratio of any anime, and that is saying something.

This feels like punishing Ikemoto because the anime was what was holding up Boruto. Now its gone at least till the manga is over and then if they want to adapt it.

The justification for during a weekly anime for a monthly manga was that it worked for Dragon Ball Super. Ignoring that Toriyama was coming up with the plot outlines for both so they could go at their own pace. While Ikemoto's manga was the story and the anime was an adaptation. They are probably hoping to do part two like they are currently doing with the final arc of Bleach. However, while having problem Bleach does have a good plot. Boruto does not.

https://gamerant.com...himoto-himself/
this is off topic but this forum not using ssl is unsecure and if a hacker wanted to what's to stop him from stealing the logins for the forum or otherwise intercepting data?

Very little. But this site hasn't been secure since I've been on. It up to the owner of the site to deal with the security issue of the site.

Never have the same password with the account on this site with any of your others. If you are, change them immediately.

And I just googled that quote. Which top source took me to reddit. Which took me to a youtube video. Which had a source, NPR. Which was the second website after reddit listed.

https://www.npr.org/...cing-it-herself

It is still setting up the story and establishing the pairings for the crossover. Then setting up the fight as it is only 4 issues.

It is weird seeing Kurama so chatty with Naruto. Again, even after he became friends with Naruto he rarely ever talked to him.

Most of the problems are inherent of the premise of being a crossover. But it is still better than most of the other Naruto-Boruto stories over the past 10 years.

Right, I'm going to use Star Wars and MHA to go into why its generally a bad idea to subvert an ending.

Spielberg was once interviewed and ask about Kathleen Kennedy working under him. His answer was, she was terrible at her job and would interrupt discussions of the brainstorming a movie's story with her own ideas when she was suppose to be taking notes. The one he really remembers was, "What if he didn't get the girl, but instead got the dog?" Which would clearly subvert the ending of the movie. Now why that stood out, why that is a bad idea, and why he never did a movie with that ending are all the same answer. Because while it would seem clever, it would not lead to a satisfying ending to the movie. Story have a flow to them and the audience has expectation of what will happen at the end. Fulfill them and they will enjoy that story and might read it again to experience that enjoyment again. Subverting the story while one could make an interesting story; it could also leave the audience dissatisfied therefor would not watch it again.

Now, here is Disney Star Wars for examples.

Original Trilogy:

And what if Luke didn't restore the Jedi order, but instead ended up as an loser on a island given up on everything.

And what if Han didn't remain a general and reform the military, but instead went back to becoming a smuggler.

And what if Leia didn't become Supreme Chancellor to restore democracy to the galaxy, but instead remained a general in a galactic government that disbanded their armed forces.

And what if Leia and Han didn't remain together but instead divorce with Han going back to smuggling with Chewbacca.

And what if Lando didn't become a wealthy philanthropist, but instead became a hobo on a desert planet.

Sequel Trilogy.

And what if Rey and Ben didn't get together but instead she got his uncle's farm. 

And what if Finn never confessed his feelings for Rey but instead remain her eternal simpering lackey.

Their Tv Shows:

And what if The Mandalorian didn't become the Mandalore, but instead ended on a farm with Baby Yoda.

And what if Baby Yoda didn't become a Jedi but instead just ended up on a farm with The Mandalorian.

And what if Sabine and Erza didn't get together but instead Sabine became a lesbian set up to get together with Ahsoka.

MHA the story start off with the implication that Midoriya is telling the story of how he became the number 1 hero to his successor, who he will pass OFA to. Instead, he lost the quirk, ended up as a teacher for a decade was then given a tech suit, and ended the story with we are all the number one hero. This left fans dissatisfied. 

The story of Naruto was he would become Hokage, earn the villagers' respect, become friends with Sasuke while also surpassing him, reform the ninja system, and end up with Sakura. Even if he looked like he succeed with some of that at the end, it still feels like he failed in the spirit. Leaving most readers dissatisfied with the ending. nH and SS fans said they didn't not care about the story and only cared about their pairings happening. Well, once their pairings happened they then complained about how their pairings aren't how they wanted it. The thing is the story wasn't built for their parings and so making them the pairings would always be unsatisfying as either they are unrealistically perfect or realistically imperfect but ultimately shallow because they weren't developed in story but in the fantasies of the supporters.

Its better for a story to stick to a simple one and tell it well then make a complex story full of subversion that falls flat.

Documentary or some short story?

...From what I recall it was a recap of Part one. I think.

Its kind of weird, how irrelevant Naruto as franchise has become, reading those chapter descriptions, you wouldn't guess what's going on, albeit without old names mentioned, literally everything else feels like a fanfic creation. Even bleach got reviewed revived in popularity due to last arc getting anime adaptation.

Granted for my summaries that's somewhat because I used nicknames for new characters. But largely it comes down to there is just nothing interesting happening. Every month the chapter does not leave one eager for the next chapter. It is just constantly spinning its wheels. Even if one was interested eventually they will be worn down by the tedium.

Bleach is able to bounce back due to a great adaptation of a decent arc. Even if they tried to do that same for this...I want to say it won't work, but some people will just watch anything.

Inauguration Day in the US. As nothing else is going on. I shall mark this as what would likely have been the end of part one of Boruto and its never-ending prologue if Ikemoto was not order to end part one early. So part one would have been 98 chapters/months if Ikemoto went at his own pace.

Summary Time: Chapter 18. Only Babble in Your Sleep...what?

Cover page is Tree-Moegi posing...I can see nearly every contour of her body; I imagine Ikemoto had to exert the greatest amount of self control to not give her a camel's toe in this image. How convenient that her leather clothing gave her heels so she does have the weird feet the rest of her brethren have.

The Clone is moping. Stumbles on Nail attacking Madoc, again. He demand Madoc stop experimenting on his body and to change his settings so he can fight. Madoc uses the code phrase which is the title to knock him out. Then he ask the Clone to help move him.

Back to the....OH YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING!!! So, the neo-sand siblings are out in the open ready to fight Tree-Shiki to free their brother. Oh wait they want to lure him away farther into a trap. They can still hide. Konohamaru and Tree-Moegi sit awkwardly on a rock. She is slowly adjusting to her feelings toward him and feeling like her True Self. She ask if she can call him Konohamaru-chan which apparently Moegi called him all the time...did she? I don't know, does anyone want to check?

With the kids they continue to lure Tree-Shiki farther away. He uses his iron sand to try to sense Bolt. Notices Blond-D is radiating bloodlust. They try to play it off and ask him some questions which he answer. "Why are the tree people after Bolt?" "He doesn't know but it because Bolt knows too much." When Tree-Shiki mentions Thorn Soul Bulbs Salad suggest using one of those to lure Bolt out.

Nail wakes up. Madoc negotiates. He will change Nail's parameters since these Tree-People are a threat to everyone, but he wants to revive his daughter first. So, he wants Nail to upload the data to a new clone of his daughter he has created... remember that Nail's Karma seal was made with the memories of Madoc's daughter. Nail states that if this turns her into an Otsutsuki he will kill her. Which Madoc agrees to. Then, Nail refuses as he realizes he can force Madoc to modify him to be stronger than everyone else in the story by holding the memories needed to revive his daughter hostage...granted a Kishimoto character might not be able to pull off that BS modification, but Madoc is an Ikemoto character.

More Konohamaru and Tree-Moegi. He ask her not to call him that, as only Moegi calls them that, which sets her off...no wonder they aren't married with kids like Naruto's gen did when they were like 18. Konohamaru has no ability to read nor skill at talking to a woman. Now she is going to eat him.

While that happening finally the charade is over. Tree-Shiki was coating them all in his iron sand while they were chatting. So, he releases a thorn soul bulb as bait which Blond-D goes for. He plays around with them. Then Mix Master Fold reveals his power is to disrupt Tree-Shiki's Iron Sand through a sand sealing blade...What?

Oh by that way. Apparently, there was an interview with Kishimoto and Ikemoto for a French magazine. It apparently confirmed what I already thought. The story and art are all Ikemoto and Kishimoto "supervises." Which I suspect is gives advice if Ikemoto ask but beyond that leave him to his own devices.

Got some hearsay about that Naruto 4 episodes mini series. Apparently, the CEO of TVTokyo said in a financial report that it will come out in this fiscal years. So, it has to come out by March 31 of 2025 for that to be true.

So are aliens the bad guys

More or less, yes. They are "the targets." If you want to think this is good vs evil it isn't. Its grey. The Boy, Kitami, is out for revenge while the girl, Nomamoto, just wants to eat aliens because she thinks they are tasty. 

In chapter 5, when an alien who they were planning on killing found out that they can dispose of aliens without a trace. Instead of going "that horrible." It went, "wow that useful, hey I want to hire you to kill others of my kind I want to get rid of, what do you say?"