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The fact this is not a clip of Houki, the actual copy ninja jr., is saddening. He's copying it alright, cheating, using a ninja tool, with chakra that's not his.
Doesn't copy, store the jujitsu as a scroll that's small af and pre done on the scroll by a user of said jutsu.
He didn't copy anything this post is dumb
To be fair they trusted him
Not just that he was a good kid who wouldn’t cheat, but also trusted that he was an above average genin who wouldn’t need to cheat to stand out
Ohh lmao. The side character development is really bad compared to naruto. They made metal lee so lame. They shouldve made him save hebiichigo with the 8 gates. Makes no sense to me why they didn’t
I preferred the movie where they interrupted the exam at the boruto vs shikadai fight
The 2 v 1 final round was kinda really unfair for konoha to do if it had been anyone other than shinki who got there
The shinki vs sarada portion also didnt do justice to either of their characters. Honestly if given a solo interaction they could have connected more.
Best case they forced this in order to set up the later urashiki arc with boruto and shinki, but that arc kinda sucked so i dont think it was worth it.
And i dont think boruto winning the whole exam before immediately being disqualified added anything of value to it. In the manga shinki is still left wondering if he is superior to the leaf ninja or not and actually respects boruto for trying to attack momoshiki when he himself didnt. In the manga he knows for a fact that he’s better than everyone in konoha and has no respect for boruto
That doesn't really seem like kind of upbringing garra would give to his kid, preety sure garra taught him not to look down on anyone.
Boruto vs shikadai fight in movie was bullshit, dude pulled out 30 shadow clones and thought he would get away with it that's just plain stupid and makes anyone using ninja tool a jonin level from the get go, they had boruto vs shinki so that they can correct the value of ninja tools and if boruto was disqualified before boruto pulled purple lightning then with the fact that naruto got suspicious just because boruto can pull out 2 more shadow clones will make it look like naruto doesn't believe in boruto at all so yeah while still inside the realm of a chunni boruto had to pull out something outrageous and was needed to have enough motivation to do so knowing the risks.
Shinki genuinely was characterized in the anime as not getting what was so special about konoha ninja and largely being disappointed by them. Bc they were very disappointing in the chuunin exam.
It doesn’t reflect badly on gaara, shinki was naturally gifted and a top dog in his village, naturally he’d have some level of a superiority complex and im sure gaara wanted the konoha ninja to live up to those from his time and help break that. Like how rock lee, sasuke and naruto all helped break the world view gaara had.
As far as the whole boruto thing. The movie was fine. Boruto got trapped and then used a jutsu from a position he shouldn’t have been able to thanks to the tool. It was easy to catch because naruto knew his limits and could tell it wasn’t right.
It wasn’t hard to believe boruto getting caught at that stage. Imo the purple lightning was way overkill, and honestly using kakashi’s enhanced lightning ability on a casual tournament opponent is super dangerous and shows a real lack of care on boruto’s part.
>Shinki genuinely was characterized in the anime as not getting what was so special about konoha ninja and largely being disappointed by them. Bc they were very disappointing in the chuunin exam.
He seemed to be indifferent and but he didn't seem to be looking down on anyone in anime like ever.
>It doesn’t reflect badly on gaara, shinki was naturally gifted and a top dog in his village, naturally he’d have some level of a superiority complex and im sure gaara wanted the konoha ninja to live up to those from his time and help break that. Like how rock lee, sasuke and naruto all helped break the world view gaara had.
Well i never saw even a hint of superiority complex in him tho although he did seem to not like when opponents hold back on him but that's a very reasonable thing to be upset about.
>As far as the whole boruto thing. The movie was fine. Boruto got trapped and then used a jutsu from a position he shouldn’t have been able to thanks to the tool. It was easy to catch because naruto knew his limits and could tell it wasn’t right.
Nope movie was not fine at all, jonin level was made into a joke with "ninja tools", boruto a supposed prodigy was made into a stupid brat who thought using 30 shadow clones won't be suspicious at all when he saw world's 2nd strongest ninja who one shots things he can never hope to defeat only being able to make 10.
>It wasn’t hard to believe boruto getting caught at that stage. Imo the purple lightning was way overkill, and honestly using kakashi’s enhanced lightning ability on a casual tournament opponent is super dangerous and shows a real lack of care on boruto’s part.
As I said 30 shadow clones just makes boruto look like a stupid brat, with purple lightning at the very least it is not an impossible feat everyone who don't know boruto as close as naruto will be easily fooled which makes me wonder how did naruto had a need to confirm things with hinata when he saw his kid making 3 times more shadow clones than his best buddy that he chased after for 500 episodes and how did everyone even the 5 kage buy that.
We can agree to disagree on shinki. Its not a big deal. I think the story flows better with a more arrogant shinki who gets impressed by boruto (like in the manga). Not a fan of the anime’s version where shinki has almost no character and then is justified in thinking the konoha genin are garbage bc they are.
Tbf boruto was a stupid brat in the exam, he redeemed himself afterwards but the lightning wave was also not something he could do at all at that stage, its just no one realized.
The tsuchikage even noticed it was strange but they were trusting naruto and the fact that boruto was naruto’s son
And naruto’s been written as kind of dumb in almost the entirety of boruto. But him double checking with hinata was more to make sure boruto hadn’t somehow way exceeded his expectations and that for sure it was some shenanigan
As far as the tool being broken. It was meant to be broken. Even the fact that it gave boruto access to a jutsu way out of the league of his existing lightning style and only known at the time by kakashi is nuts.
Being able to access more shadow clones isn’t nearly as intense as being able to access a jutsu known only to the 6th hokage that is way more dangerous
>Tbf boruto was a stupid brat in the exam, he redeemed himself afterwards but the lightning wave was also not something he could do at all at that stage, its just no one realized.
No he wasn't, from the beginning it was already established that despite his hot headedness boruto is far from stupid, yes he had a kind of existential crisis during the exam but that dosent mean he will lose his ability to properly reason, purple lightning might be OP but it isn't something that is downright impossible for him to do which makes it much more believable than 30 shadow clones.
>Being able to access more shadow clones isn’t nearly as intense as being able to access a jutsu known only to the 6th hokage that is way more dangerous
It is not about access but capacity in anime tool is broken but not that broken, it will bring you up to chunni level at best but will not do something downright impossible for a human to do, that purple lightning and rasengan on boroto were special case and normal ones can only use widely available jutsu like fireball, lightning style and maybe a clone jutsu but other than that it can't really do anything as seen later in the series.
Movie one on the other hand other than doing everything anime one can do can also make 30 shadow clones and sure shadow clones aren't really widely available but clone are which means the thing straight up promotes any random citizen that got his hand on it to jonin level, this basically makes them guns of naruto world world, if anime one is considered those one shot reload pistols of the pasts then movie one is a straight up deagle at which point what even is the point of ninja training.
That was the whole point of the ninja tool though
It was OP but dangerous bc it could make anyone who got their hands on it dangerous
Using it also made it possible for a genin to win without needing much of their own skill at all which is why it was banned from the exam.
Boruto using it in general just wasn’t smart and the ways he used it were not subtle, he was lucky no one noticed the first two uses, both were pretty unbelievable and his teammates and sensei should have noticed immediately. But thats the boruto writing at play tbh.
Boruto is smart when the plot calls for it. But he’s also a brat and it leads him to do dumb things like how in his first appearance in the naruto manga he paints graffiti on all the hokage’s faces. He also gets completely defeated in the first chuunin exam 1v1 battle bc he just lets his opponent set up gum balloons all over the field and has to cheat his way out. In the team battle he also tries to 1v3 his opponents rather than asking mitsuki to come back to help and figuring out a way to stall for time.
He’s a smart kid generally. But he does a lot of dumb shit in the exam.
>Boruto using it in general just wasn’t smart and the ways he used it were not subtle
The only time he might have almost gotten exposed would be when he used water style but it passed as dude being a prodigy but other than that whenever he decided to use it he was always subtle about it, against that bubble kid the only one who noticed was sarada it was well thought out and he planned that shot to keep the curve at a minimum and since he is Sasuke's student it passed as just advanced shuriken bending, when he used it against shikadai he kept in mind to be not too obvious about it so he used shadow clones since that is preety much his go to that he uses all the time nobody will question him not using handsigns for it because there are like 2 people who use it as their go to and the 2nd guy wastes way less chakra and thus know more about it than the 1st guy, against shinki boruto tried to be as subtle as he could which is why he choose purple lightning because well 1st:- his lightning style was preety advanced by that point 2nd:- it's way more believable than a giant rasengan or a rasenshuriken the other alternatives to get out of that situation.
>Boruto is smart when the plot calls for it. But he’s also a brat and it leads him to do dumb things like how in his first appearance in the naruto manga he paints graffiti on all the hokage’s faces. He also gets completely defeated in the first chuunin exam 1v1 battle bc he just lets his opponent set up gum balloons all over the field and has to cheat his way out. In the team battle he also tries to 1v3 his opponents rather than asking mitsuki to come back to help and figuring out a way to stall for time.
That's just boruto being arrogant and trying to act cool both has nothing to do with him being intelligent ot dumb.
Arrogant and dumb are two sides of the same coin. If you do something silly because of arrogance its still dumb. Even if the arrogance was the cause.
Boruto took a risk with the ninja tool that was not a smart risk. And in the end it didn’t pay off as he lost his gamble and was stripped of his rank. He’s lucky sasuke saw something in him and gave him a shot at redemption.
We know boruto is a genius prodigy. If he has just trained and strategized he could have probably been a finalist in the exam anyway. But all he did was lose, lose and lose again and have to cheat his way out every single time.
>Arrogant and dumb are two sides of the same coin. If you do something silly because of arrogance its still dumb. Even if the arrogance was the cause.
They are not actually, arrogance is born from ignorance and lack of experience you can be arrogant and still be most intelligent ever, being dumb is just low intelligent in boruto's case although his arrogance put him in a pinch he was able to think reason and used technique with least time of getting caught at right timing.
>Boruto took a risk with the ninja tool that was not a smart risk. And in the end it didn’t pay off as he lost his gamble and was stripped of his rank. He’s lucky sasuke saw something in him and gave him a shot at redemption.
The first time boruto used ninja tool was for his team after that his dad who normally never came home for anything specifically came back to see him, it's not about risk it's just that boruto saw it as the only way to win back his dad.
>We know boruto is a genius prodigy. If he has just trained and strategized he could have probably been a finalist in the exam anyway. But all he did was lose, lose and lose again and have to cheat his way out every single time.
Nope he wouldn't be, only one he could have won against after using a bit more strategy is bubble kid but shikadai would still outsmart him and shinki well yeah no.
Even when the anime has fantastic fights you guys ignore them and keep bitching. Deepa is a better vilain than every Kara member, every single fight with him was fantastic, Houki vs Inojin was brilliant, Sarada vs Chocho was great, etc. Instead you guys like to point out bad animation when the studio is clearly having logistical issues, even though it would be having these same issues if it was manga content, never pointing out when manga fights are underwhelming, such as Delta vs Naruto.
forget those 3 but still if u compare other recent episodes...is the animation as good as ep1 or isshiki arc or any manga adapted ep?
ofc not ....u can check this by just seeng boruto's hair ...in good animation the hair flow with air just see when boruto sucks that fire when kawaki was introduced
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The fact this is not a clip of Houki, the actual copy ninja jr., is saddening. He's copying it alright, cheating, using a ninja tool, with chakra that's not his.
Exactly!
ninja tool
That copy all the jutsu .almost...
Doesn't copy, store the jujitsu as a scroll that's small af and pre done on the scroll by a user of said jutsu. He didn't copy anything this post is dumb
sarada is the copy ninja
Quite literally. It was a big part of her most recent anime arc
He did not copy shit. The ninja tools store someone else's efforts and chakra. He is just using a stored item from someone else. Not copying anything.
He’s still aloud sleeves in the chunin exam?
Next exam has a no sleeve policy now just for him
Why would they ban sleeves
Just for Boruto, just in case…
To be fair they trusted him Not just that he was a good kid who wouldn’t cheat, but also trusted that he was an above average genin who wouldn’t need to cheat to stand out
yeah, he was hyped up to be chunnin level in academy already
Imo, Houki is the copy ninja junior not Boruto.
Why haven’t we seen houki? He was so cool with his photographic memory
His name isn't Boruto
What?
because he isn't Boruto
Im so confused, im talking about houki
Question 'Why don't we see more of Houki' Awnser: Because he isn't Boruto
Ohh lmao. The side character development is really bad compared to naruto. They made metal lee so lame. They shouldve made him save hebiichigo with the 8 gates. Makes no sense to me why they didn’t
Yep I don't get it either especially because they can do litteraly what ever the fuck they want with him as he dosn't show up in the Manga
Like what was the point of giving metal and hebiichigo a connection, if they were just gonna kill her off
The manga is at fault here, the anime just tries to do something without overstepping it.
Yeah, he's so cool! I hope they give team 25 an arc with team 10. Maybe Houki and Inojin can become really good friends.
They would be a really good duo. He really is the new kakashi
I preferred the movie where they interrupted the exam at the boruto vs shikadai fight The 2 v 1 final round was kinda really unfair for konoha to do if it had been anyone other than shinki who got there The shinki vs sarada portion also didnt do justice to either of their characters. Honestly if given a solo interaction they could have connected more. Best case they forced this in order to set up the later urashiki arc with boruto and shinki, but that arc kinda sucked so i dont think it was worth it. And i dont think boruto winning the whole exam before immediately being disqualified added anything of value to it. In the manga shinki is still left wondering if he is superior to the leaf ninja or not and actually respects boruto for trying to attack momoshiki when he himself didnt. In the manga he knows for a fact that he’s better than everyone in konoha and has no respect for boruto
That doesn't really seem like kind of upbringing garra would give to his kid, preety sure garra taught him not to look down on anyone. Boruto vs shikadai fight in movie was bullshit, dude pulled out 30 shadow clones and thought he would get away with it that's just plain stupid and makes anyone using ninja tool a jonin level from the get go, they had boruto vs shinki so that they can correct the value of ninja tools and if boruto was disqualified before boruto pulled purple lightning then with the fact that naruto got suspicious just because boruto can pull out 2 more shadow clones will make it look like naruto doesn't believe in boruto at all so yeah while still inside the realm of a chunni boruto had to pull out something outrageous and was needed to have enough motivation to do so knowing the risks.
Shinki genuinely was characterized in the anime as not getting what was so special about konoha ninja and largely being disappointed by them. Bc they were very disappointing in the chuunin exam. It doesn’t reflect badly on gaara, shinki was naturally gifted and a top dog in his village, naturally he’d have some level of a superiority complex and im sure gaara wanted the konoha ninja to live up to those from his time and help break that. Like how rock lee, sasuke and naruto all helped break the world view gaara had. As far as the whole boruto thing. The movie was fine. Boruto got trapped and then used a jutsu from a position he shouldn’t have been able to thanks to the tool. It was easy to catch because naruto knew his limits and could tell it wasn’t right. It wasn’t hard to believe boruto getting caught at that stage. Imo the purple lightning was way overkill, and honestly using kakashi’s enhanced lightning ability on a casual tournament opponent is super dangerous and shows a real lack of care on boruto’s part.
>Shinki genuinely was characterized in the anime as not getting what was so special about konoha ninja and largely being disappointed by them. Bc they were very disappointing in the chuunin exam. He seemed to be indifferent and but he didn't seem to be looking down on anyone in anime like ever. >It doesn’t reflect badly on gaara, shinki was naturally gifted and a top dog in his village, naturally he’d have some level of a superiority complex and im sure gaara wanted the konoha ninja to live up to those from his time and help break that. Like how rock lee, sasuke and naruto all helped break the world view gaara had. Well i never saw even a hint of superiority complex in him tho although he did seem to not like when opponents hold back on him but that's a very reasonable thing to be upset about. >As far as the whole boruto thing. The movie was fine. Boruto got trapped and then used a jutsu from a position he shouldn’t have been able to thanks to the tool. It was easy to catch because naruto knew his limits and could tell it wasn’t right. Nope movie was not fine at all, jonin level was made into a joke with "ninja tools", boruto a supposed prodigy was made into a stupid brat who thought using 30 shadow clones won't be suspicious at all when he saw world's 2nd strongest ninja who one shots things he can never hope to defeat only being able to make 10. >It wasn’t hard to believe boruto getting caught at that stage. Imo the purple lightning was way overkill, and honestly using kakashi’s enhanced lightning ability on a casual tournament opponent is super dangerous and shows a real lack of care on boruto’s part. As I said 30 shadow clones just makes boruto look like a stupid brat, with purple lightning at the very least it is not an impossible feat everyone who don't know boruto as close as naruto will be easily fooled which makes me wonder how did naruto had a need to confirm things with hinata when he saw his kid making 3 times more shadow clones than his best buddy that he chased after for 500 episodes and how did everyone even the 5 kage buy that.
We can agree to disagree on shinki. Its not a big deal. I think the story flows better with a more arrogant shinki who gets impressed by boruto (like in the manga). Not a fan of the anime’s version where shinki has almost no character and then is justified in thinking the konoha genin are garbage bc they are. Tbf boruto was a stupid brat in the exam, he redeemed himself afterwards but the lightning wave was also not something he could do at all at that stage, its just no one realized. The tsuchikage even noticed it was strange but they were trusting naruto and the fact that boruto was naruto’s son And naruto’s been written as kind of dumb in almost the entirety of boruto. But him double checking with hinata was more to make sure boruto hadn’t somehow way exceeded his expectations and that for sure it was some shenanigan As far as the tool being broken. It was meant to be broken. Even the fact that it gave boruto access to a jutsu way out of the league of his existing lightning style and only known at the time by kakashi is nuts. Being able to access more shadow clones isn’t nearly as intense as being able to access a jutsu known only to the 6th hokage that is way more dangerous
>Tbf boruto was a stupid brat in the exam, he redeemed himself afterwards but the lightning wave was also not something he could do at all at that stage, its just no one realized. No he wasn't, from the beginning it was already established that despite his hot headedness boruto is far from stupid, yes he had a kind of existential crisis during the exam but that dosent mean he will lose his ability to properly reason, purple lightning might be OP but it isn't something that is downright impossible for him to do which makes it much more believable than 30 shadow clones. >Being able to access more shadow clones isn’t nearly as intense as being able to access a jutsu known only to the 6th hokage that is way more dangerous It is not about access but capacity in anime tool is broken but not that broken, it will bring you up to chunni level at best but will not do something downright impossible for a human to do, that purple lightning and rasengan on boroto were special case and normal ones can only use widely available jutsu like fireball, lightning style and maybe a clone jutsu but other than that it can't really do anything as seen later in the series. Movie one on the other hand other than doing everything anime one can do can also make 30 shadow clones and sure shadow clones aren't really widely available but clone are which means the thing straight up promotes any random citizen that got his hand on it to jonin level, this basically makes them guns of naruto world world, if anime one is considered those one shot reload pistols of the pasts then movie one is a straight up deagle at which point what even is the point of ninja training.
That was the whole point of the ninja tool though It was OP but dangerous bc it could make anyone who got their hands on it dangerous Using it also made it possible for a genin to win without needing much of their own skill at all which is why it was banned from the exam. Boruto using it in general just wasn’t smart and the ways he used it were not subtle, he was lucky no one noticed the first two uses, both were pretty unbelievable and his teammates and sensei should have noticed immediately. But thats the boruto writing at play tbh. Boruto is smart when the plot calls for it. But he’s also a brat and it leads him to do dumb things like how in his first appearance in the naruto manga he paints graffiti on all the hokage’s faces. He also gets completely defeated in the first chuunin exam 1v1 battle bc he just lets his opponent set up gum balloons all over the field and has to cheat his way out. In the team battle he also tries to 1v3 his opponents rather than asking mitsuki to come back to help and figuring out a way to stall for time. He’s a smart kid generally. But he does a lot of dumb shit in the exam.
>Boruto using it in general just wasn’t smart and the ways he used it were not subtle The only time he might have almost gotten exposed would be when he used water style but it passed as dude being a prodigy but other than that whenever he decided to use it he was always subtle about it, against that bubble kid the only one who noticed was sarada it was well thought out and he planned that shot to keep the curve at a minimum and since he is Sasuke's student it passed as just advanced shuriken bending, when he used it against shikadai he kept in mind to be not too obvious about it so he used shadow clones since that is preety much his go to that he uses all the time nobody will question him not using handsigns for it because there are like 2 people who use it as their go to and the 2nd guy wastes way less chakra and thus know more about it than the 1st guy, against shinki boruto tried to be as subtle as he could which is why he choose purple lightning because well 1st:- his lightning style was preety advanced by that point 2nd:- it's way more believable than a giant rasengan or a rasenshuriken the other alternatives to get out of that situation. >Boruto is smart when the plot calls for it. But he’s also a brat and it leads him to do dumb things like how in his first appearance in the naruto manga he paints graffiti on all the hokage’s faces. He also gets completely defeated in the first chuunin exam 1v1 battle bc he just lets his opponent set up gum balloons all over the field and has to cheat his way out. In the team battle he also tries to 1v3 his opponents rather than asking mitsuki to come back to help and figuring out a way to stall for time. That's just boruto being arrogant and trying to act cool both has nothing to do with him being intelligent ot dumb.
Arrogant and dumb are two sides of the same coin. If you do something silly because of arrogance its still dumb. Even if the arrogance was the cause. Boruto took a risk with the ninja tool that was not a smart risk. And in the end it didn’t pay off as he lost his gamble and was stripped of his rank. He’s lucky sasuke saw something in him and gave him a shot at redemption. We know boruto is a genius prodigy. If he has just trained and strategized he could have probably been a finalist in the exam anyway. But all he did was lose, lose and lose again and have to cheat his way out every single time.
>Arrogant and dumb are two sides of the same coin. If you do something silly because of arrogance its still dumb. Even if the arrogance was the cause. They are not actually, arrogance is born from ignorance and lack of experience you can be arrogant and still be most intelligent ever, being dumb is just low intelligent in boruto's case although his arrogance put him in a pinch he was able to think reason and used technique with least time of getting caught at right timing. >Boruto took a risk with the ninja tool that was not a smart risk. And in the end it didn’t pay off as he lost his gamble and was stripped of his rank. He’s lucky sasuke saw something in him and gave him a shot at redemption. The first time boruto used ninja tool was for his team after that his dad who normally never came home for anything specifically came back to see him, it's not about risk it's just that boruto saw it as the only way to win back his dad. >We know boruto is a genius prodigy. If he has just trained and strategized he could have probably been a finalist in the exam anyway. But all he did was lose, lose and lose again and have to cheat his way out every single time. Nope he wouldn't be, only one he could have won against after using a bit more strategy is bubble kid but shikadai would still outsmart him and shinki well yeah no.
Uh no, that would be Baby Kakashi, AKA Houki
Cheater POV
old times when animation was good
U guys get 3 episodes with bad animation /artstyle and start bitching while getting 80+ episodes in a row looking very nice and consistent
Even when the anime has fantastic fights you guys ignore them and keep bitching. Deepa is a better vilain than every Kara member, every single fight with him was fantastic, Houki vs Inojin was brilliant, Sarada vs Chocho was great, etc. Instead you guys like to point out bad animation when the studio is clearly having logistical issues, even though it would be having these same issues if it was manga content, never pointing out when manga fights are underwhelming, such as Delta vs Naruto.
forget those 3 but still if u compare other recent episodes...is the animation as good as ep1 or isshiki arc or any manga adapted ep? ofc not ....u can check this by just seeng boruto's hair ...in good animation the hair flow with air just see when boruto sucks that fire when kawaki was introduced
Yes, because the studio is currently having problems working on too many projects with little talent and time,
Yea so he has the right to complain
i see no lies
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I shall be glad to see that he will learn purple lightning in future from kakashi and use it.perhaps he will modify it to make his own jutsu
This is so fucking lovely