In recent news, Viz Media has announced that the Naruto sequel series, Boruto: Naruto The Next Generations, is finally coming to an end. The first part of the Boruto finale will air on March 26th, with Part II currently in production, according to the official Naruto website. While this news may not come as a surprise to Boruto fans, it does mark the end of an era, and it has a lot to live up to.
Naruto has been a staple in the anime community since it first began in 1999. Fans have hyped the series up as “peak anime” for years, much to the chagrin of other anime fandoms that think it’s “mid” at best. However, the Naruto series, both in manga and anime form, has kept going, this time from the perspective of Naruto’s son, Boruto. Unfortunately, this means that its fandom discourse has remained steadfast as well, leading to an ongoing schoolyard fandom war between Boruto and One Piece fans.
Part of the reason why many lapsed fans had no interest in reading or watching Boruto is due to the absence of series creator Masashi Kishimoto’s direct involvement until recently. Similar to Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama not being directly involved in Dragon Ball GT, Boruto was written by Naruto manga assistant and Fate/Grand Order screenwriter Ukyō Kodachi and fellow Naruto manga assistant Mikio Ikemoto. Kishimoto only took over writing Boruto in November 2020, which made committing to Boruto difficult, especially with the anime’s release of non-canon content, like the Time Slip and Great Sea Battle of Kirigakure arcs, and the bizarre SoundCloud rapper aesthetic of its zoomer ninjas.
Despite these obstacles, Boruto has had a dedicated fan base that has stood by the series and even gone so far as to claim that the Code’s Assault Arc (the anime’s final season) is the best shonen anime ever made. This claim has led to a heated fandom war between Boruto and One Piece fans on social media platforms like TikTok. It’s a tiresome and juvenile battle, and hopefully, the ending of the Boruto anime will bring an end to the discourse.
Time will tell whether Boruto fandom’s years of hype will be vindicated as “peak fiction” in the same year as the release of the highly anticipated Demon Slayer: Swordsman Village Arc, or if the Boruto anime’s finale will be a bizarro version of the megapopular Attack on Titan: The Final Chapters’ finale. Regardless, the world will benefit from the series ending, and hopefully, the fandom warfare will finally die out.
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