All things considered, I'm glad that such move resulted in:
- Less than 1 million manga sales in 2019 (to be precise, it sold 600.845 copies for all volumes in the whole year of 2019). As a comparison, the franchise sold ~250million accumulative total between 2000-2015
- Kishimoto's new manga got axed within 5 volumes. He was planning for at least 10.
- No movies since 2015 while every other franchise enjoys growth as anime market is expanding twice the size compared to a decade ago (https://www.animenew...ion-yen/.166579)
- The latest major game they produce (Shinobi Striker) sold 10k in the first week. Storm 3 sold 9 times more in the same timespan.
And many more facts that indicated the move to pivot the story at last minute has killed the franchise financially.
One can't justify an F mark to be seen as good. It is what it is. The fact that such move backfired will ensure that other series should not follow suit.
One of the greatest fortunes of Naruto was that anime was in a drought during its height. Especially outside of Japan. That's no longer the case due to streaming becoming mainstream and new anime coming out. Now, Boruto must face what his father never did competition.
Alright, so now here's a episode of Sakura doesn't love Naruto.
Apparently now, Sakura-Chan loves Naruto, but only in a motherly way. They will find everything in and out of the book to deny that Naruto and Sakura-Chan loves each romantically. Her love for Naruto is motherly now?
Ah that's their new excuse...Wait this was in the anime? Scene. Scene.
First sisterly, NOW motherly??? MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MINDS, YOU PSYCHOS!! They don't even really stand for their pairing if you ask me.... they just wanna attack those against them to make them look like the bad guys.
They need to keep changing it because the fact that Sakura and Naruto relationship was too strong to be called anything else than in love and slowly but surely falling in love.
They were too close for friends. Too attracted to each other to be sibling. Now they are going with mother since Sakura did have to be his handler. I think I type something about this very recently...here: "Didn't Sasuke immediately chew her out for that? Then she sat on that bench and went, "wow, I'm the ass, I should try being nicer to Naruto." And then any negative comment about him growing up never happened again and she pretty much became his handler/parental figure/mother trying to help him learn manner and punish him when he was being rude."
It still fails, but is at least more accurate then the other two; since Naruto also thought his 24 year old mother who he met for the first time was a total babe.
I'm curious do you think somewhere down the line Naruto might get a reboot? I personality think its better if this franchise is completely buried and forgotten. It should never get a reboot especially if a mediocre author like Kishimoto is involved.
Companies tend to drop unprofitable projects instead of fix them. it doesn't help that their isn't a precedent case to justify them trying.
Look at Cyberpunk 2077. It pretty clear by now most agree that they screw up, the only way to fix it to do what No Man Sky did, and from what I understand that even being used within the company to justify them trying to fix it instead of abandons it.
Their is no manga version of No Man Sky and their is nothing that comes close that also has the awkward existence of Boruto.
Honestly "fixing" the ending wouldn't be that hard. Go from the ending and change it to NS since nH was a last minute change as far as the story goes.
I don't think they would, it means start to compete against MHA and other and no one assure them Naruto's gonna defeat them. I don't think they would remade the ending neither, the damage is done and they put so much effort on Boruto and it would be throw away a lot of money. My hypothesis is this; Pierrot doesn't has any other major Manga to adapt so they keep on air Boruto trying to make some profit from the over sea market.
They wouldn't care about it competing against MHA If they thought that redoing the story and making it NS would be both cheap and profitable they would do so. More money for them since it would already have a built in audience.
Your hypothesis on Peirrot is likely correct. They have currently Kingdoms which they been working on for years before Naruto ended, Same for Mr. Osumatsu, Black Clover which they got hoping it would be the next Naruto to replace the flopping Boruto, Pazudora a a mobile game adaptation, and Akudama drive.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 10 January 2021 - 09:32 AM.
