Now, the infamous boruto "sequel". This is how everyone refers to it due to the overly biased naruto fanbase, well considering how its normal for any fanbase to have that type of opinion, this is more of a new start of the new story of another protagonist than a sequel of the old series and characters.

Many people were expecting it to get a lot interesting cause they wanted to see the life naruto was chilling in living as the hokage and showing his strength on the frontlines, but people started hating it due to the one ironical reason which is his literal son boruto.
Most of the hate that the series gets is cause of the biased fanbase of naruto cause of how the story shifts from naruto to the younger generation and how they show naruto to be.

(FIRST CHAPTER SPOILERS)
Imo the boruto manga did a VERY good job at shifting the attention from the old generation to the new in the first ever chaper by just literally showing how everything from the past ends up in the future which is the first chapter of kawaki vs boruto. It was a reallly good idea of showing how the heroes of the past will no longer be relevant to the godly threats incoming. And how kawaki states that he will "send boruto where he sent the 7th hokage" which was completely indirect, having double meaning, showing how he just referred to the 7th hokage casually, also at the same time showing how the concept of strength evolved in the future with the "End of the shinobi world".We see two references in the beginning with kawaki referring to naruto and boruto wearing sasukes coat and using his sword.

Introduction=10/10

The story pacing and and the style is definitely different and from a completely different perspective that is boruto, kinda like how bnha is set up with the mc narrating how the story of his past came to be. The overall story up from the beginning is fast paced compared to naruto but at the same time it retains its flow and smoothness. Every chapter builds up hype and you dont have any choice but to continue reading once youve gotten involved.

Upto to the point of the latest chapter the hype has just kept on increasing with the buildup of the introduction of new aspects and new characters I feel it does a really good job hype wise, but due to the montly release the storys progression has not been much as it only has 50 chapters till now.

Story=8

As for the new characters there arent much new chars other than the already existing ones from shippuden for me to give a review on it but ISHHIKI a villain from boruto is honestly one of the best villains in narutoverse as a whole and that just gives more hype to the new ones that are gonna be introduced further into the story.

Characters=?/10

Ikemotos art style is really different comparing to naruto, at the beginning the art style was really wierd when kodachi drew the characters in his style but as the chapters kept coming his artstyle progressed and now its really decent id say, but still different vibe than the naruto.

Art=8

Overall for how many chapters the manga has id say im saying right now its in the buildup stage. Boruto definitely has the potential to become one of the best shounen chars and protagonists once the timeskip occurs, for now the manga/anime isnt really a new gen imo considering how almost all the chars are still from naruto and naruto and sasuke themeselves are still in the spotlight (for the most part). But when the time skip occurs it seriously has the potential to become one of the top new gen