Yeah!
Good episode and interesting manga chapter this month. The montage at the end of the chapter could easily fuel a bunch of anime episodes lol
I'm starting to out grow Boruto. I'm keeping up with the manga, but I lost track of the anime when Boruto was trapped with onoki.
It moves at a snails pace, the characters are constantly stating the obvious, and there's absolutely no tension. The show hasn't had a meaningful turning point like Naruto had at the end of the encounter with Zabuza. The show feels like it's in that No Man's Land that Naruto was stuck in between the Sasuke retreval arc and Shippuden. Before the Mitsuki arc, they were doing weird episodes like Metal Lee's anxiety and Sumire's team dressing up like animals.
Anyone else feel the same?
I think the way they're handling the series in general is just fundamentally flawed.
Since the manga is monthly, you get 40 something pages. Which I think is around half as much content you got with Naruto a month. For as cool as the stuff in the manga currently is, if the anime were to adapt it from after the Momoshiki arc they would've caught up in like what, 20 episodes?
So the anime ends up having to do "filler" stuff to avoid that, which is nice on one hand cause it let's them tell stories with the extended cast, and you can see they have the future manga events in mind like with Sumire this week which is cool. But the problem with the anime is that the stories they can tell are hamstrung by the fact that they have to eventually end up where the manga is. There's surprises here and there like Onoki dying. But the main characters usually just end up wherever they were at the start of an arc.
But since the manga updates so slowly that also limits what they can do with the characters there. There's been cool development with Boruto and Kawaki, but it feels like Sarada and Mitsuki have nothing to do at all in the manga so far. It's missing that shonen feeling of progression where we see the characters get stronger and learn new things.
So it just feels like both takes on the series are frustrating halves of a satisfying whole.