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Pay no attention to the guy who fell asleep during a stream because he got 4 hours of sleep that day... You both actually thought I died or something, heh! 

Bet you all thought I actually was a ghost 

I'm positive of one thing... Boruto's biggest flaw isn't actually the pairings, though excuse me when I say I do think they suck. Nah, it's the fact it's trying to, more or less, tell the same tired story Naruto went through while discarding all the characters we grew to like on Naruto's journey. Boruto and company, just by existing, are exponentially more powerful than Naruto, Sasuke, etc. all because, well, they're the "NEW" generation.

I'd like to compare it to the far more successful for the time but now seen as a meh series due to the series now having a "true" successor, Dragon Ball GT. At least with GT, when it decided to continue the Dragon Ball storyline, it knew exactly who everyone was rooting for and focused on. Goku, while definitely portrayed as a completely different character and also plot devised into de-aging and maybe given way too much focus, was still the main character. Compare that to how the story treats the title character of it's predecessor, Naruto. Dude literally takes all the L's imaginable despite being god of the ninjaverse. Oh and Kaguya, who was already a plot device used to defeat Madara, she was the weakest, uhh Ōtsutsuki?

Seriously, we went from ninja's with the ability to basically do magic... to kittening aliens. And the sales are going down? Who'd a thunk it lol

 

Im still here. Imagine if I converted.

Ha, that would never happen

I feel like a lot of us have "moved" on from this forum, not for a lack of interest or fading interest in the ship itself, but rather because it has been 8 years more or less... we've practically discussed all that needs to be discussed. We can't change the outcome of the story and there seems to be no intention of making any sort of fix despite how awful Boruto's numbers are for both the manga and anime. Doesn't mean we don't still visit, like I'm doing just now, lol. Nah, NaruSaku is always gonna hold that number one spot to me for best shipping, regardless of how many new pairings or confirmed sails I've gained/will gain/etc. It's got great chemistry, it's got good characters, heck the colors compliment each other. 

And I'm not just saying all this because a particular friend of mine happens to have, from the looks of it, slipped off the deep end and suddenly decided to become a NaruHina shipper... *cough