Isshiki's Will - Boruto Episode 219 Reaction
Added 2024-01-22 21:30:57 +0000 UTC
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And this is where the entire Naruto franchise got a lot more complicated.
Naru Kunn
2024-02-07 23:09:17 +0000 UTCIt's all good don't worry. I still push back on your stance on Kawaki and Himawari though I understand your points about those events and those characters never being referenced in the manga. The funny thing is if we look at Boruto in the anime as opposed to the manga he's a lot more intelligent and cool headed but in the manga he really does come off more like kid Naruto because he's much more reckless and just jumps into the fray without observing and figuring out the enemy's weakness like he usually does in the anime along with his team. You probably disagree like how you disagree with Kawaki being different in both iterations but that's how I've viewed kid Boruto throughout the manga not counting Two Blue Vortex which is why anime Boruto is my favorite iteration because we see a lot of Boruto's empathetic side in a lot of these side stories just wanting everyone to simply get along and be happy. Kawaki dismissing Himawari in the timeskip I attribute more to guilt of taking the place of her real brother and not wanting to play that role knowing the real truth because Kawaki's only going along with this facade to eventually kill Momoshiki at the cost of Boruto's life. I understand and empathize with his actions a lot more since I've seen him at his worst and his lowest but if the anime didn't give me that goofier vulnerable side of his personality I would think he's just an angry indifferent kid going to the extreme and not deserving of redemption. I still maintain that Kawaki is more fleshed out in the anime where it seems the major switch came when he manifested the karma a second time because it was weird watching the Code Arc and he went from begging for Boruto's life all of a sudden to kill at any cost and I understand that's how it went in the manga but aside from the Ishikki fight when Boruto took back control of his own body I haven't seen him and Kawaki have any sort of bond at all in the manga so when I read the chapter where he kills Boruto I wasn't surprised because he never seemed to like him despite Boruto calling him brother and treating him with kindness.
Brianda Sandoval
2024-01-24 21:42:18 +0000 UTCYes, Kawaki is exactly the same character between the manga and anime. Just wait until we get the time skip and Kawaki just dismisses Himawari as his sister like he does in the manga. The reason is once they adapt the manga, they follow it pretty exactly, which means any "character development" seems to disappear since it's only anime canon. That's the issue with the anime canon/filler is that they don't always follow through with the changes they make once they adapt things from the manga. They just end up following the manga material anyway which makes the anime canon/filler seem irrelevant. Also, one episode with Kawaki and Himawari getting along vs 3 episodes is a MASSIVE difference. Especially for a reactor. That's 3 recordings instead of just 1. That's 3 reactions to edit and upload vs just 1. That's 3 thumbnails to create and edit vs just 1. And that's 3 extra weeks of reactions that don't do well for the channel views because no one cares to watch those episodes vs just 1. If it was just one episode showing Kawaki become a genin then I might've been inclined to watch it but when they make it several, it just becomes an unnecessary slog. That's fine with Kawaki getting a different perspective in missions but then he proceeds to be the same rash person he was beforehand which shows no development at all. Even in the Academy arc, Kawaki is shown waaaay out of character. More silly, soft and seemingly very concerned about all the little kids. Then after that we go back to manga material and he's reverted right back to how he was before the academy arc, showing that the arc does absolutely nothing for his character like it didn't happen. If anime canon is going to change stuff and develop characters, I wish they would stick to the changes instead of erasing them when getting to the manga stuff. I don't hate anime canon as there are moments when it can really help flesh certain important things out, like with adding more to Kawaki's backstory. But I don't like when anime canon drags on for several episodes and makes it feel like total filler. Anime canon has its place but too much of it can turn into filler. No, don't feel bad! I understand because I'm extremely passionate about the Naruto verse as well since it's my all time favorite anime. I do include several pieces of anime only throughout the reactions that I feel do add to the characters, like the Kawaki and Himawari episode or even the episode where Sai and Sasuke investigate Kara in the Hidden Rain Village. So I don't ignore everything. I just skip things that feel completely separate and different to the overall plot or story. Arcs or episodes that in the end, don't actually add all that much except to buy time for the manga to get ahead of the anime. When I end up seeing random characters that have that filler "look" to them and then you never see or hear of those characters ever again in the future, it just rubs me the wrong way. I've watched too much filler in Naruto to then continue watching nonsense in Boruto as well. Although, I HAVE watched all the episodes in Boruto, I just don't feel like putting my fiancée through the same pain.haha Don't worry, I'm not upset. It probably comes across that way when just reading messages like this.
DeGRA
2024-01-24 12:41:36 +0000 UTC
