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It's been a while! Since we're in a new fresh year I figured I would do a 'manga of the year' instead of a month, and indeed I have a couple of manga I've loved this past year! Guess which? 

The first is 'GINTAMA' a 2003 manga by Hideaki Sorachi! Gintama has been around for a few years (it has its own anime and movies as well) and is really popular but I just got to read it recently. Of course I got hooked! 

PLOT:  Edo period, as the world was attacked by aliens (Amanto) samurais tried to defeat them but where betrayed by the shogun, who realized their power and made an unequal deal with them. Subsequently, swords were banned in public and so samurai scattered around doing other jobs. Gintoki Sakata is a poor but eccentric samurai, who lives by doing freelance jobs at the 'Yoruzuya'. While on one of his jobs he encounter teenagers Shinpachi Shimura and alien Kagura, who become his assistants. 

My Take: Don't expect a serious manga! At the start it was more like a comedy manga, interesting but really silly, only to switch later to a total shounen. It still has silly side stories and most of the characters make no sense, BUT it is awesome! Also, there are so many characters it's hard to keep a track of them.

PLOT:  Noragami, literally 'Stray God', is about an underdog god named Yato. He is said to be the god of War and Calamity but is not very popular and hasn't got a shrine. To have those he needs money, which he collects by doing deeds to people in needs -who pay him 500 yen for whichever job-. While clumsily doing that, he meets Hiyori Iki, an highschool girl who can see him and that, for an accident, is stuck in between human world and afterlife. He may seems like a simple fellow but he has a past nobody seems to know about.. 

My take: Noragami has a bit of everything: action, fantasy, japanese mythology, romance, friendship and comedy. You can't go wrong with it!

Well then, that's it for this time, I hope you enjoyed this! Until next time :3 

So.. I finally got the chance to see this movie and needless to say, I was very disappointed. But let's get to each of the points. Warning: don't read if you haven't watched the movie!

Boruto Uzumaki is the son of Naruto, now the 7th Hokage of Konoha village. But Boruto has little regard for his father, who's never home because of his job, and seek 'fast' power to surpass him. He finds it in a new ninja technical device and later ask Sasuke to train him. 

Meanwhile the Chunin exams are coming and Boruto's teammates, Sarada and Mitsuki, finally convince Boruto to enter it. But a new threat is coming after Naruto and all the sacread beasts, what will Boruto do?

Someone who causes troubles because his dad isn't paying enough attention to him. Because he is busy managing the village, but since he's always in his office seeing him shouldn't be that hard. Ungrateful brat. Then what should Sarada be saying since Sasuke is barely (phisically) there? 

But nope, he plan to take revenge (for what?) on his dad by making Sasuke his master. Now.. why in the world should Sasuke teach him? He didn't even teach anything to his own daughter, let's just think about it. Neverthless, he does, maybe because he takes pity on him or he reminds him too much of Naruto (he's his spitting copy after all).

There is nothing to like about him. Other than having all the wrong reasons and being smug about it, he is exactly like Naruto at his age, reckless, lively and not really that smart. His comrades, Sarada and Mitsuki, on the other hand are more mature and complete as ninjas, also really interesting characters. But nope, they're barely seen in the movie and we don't even get to see them in 'real' action, like a group should do.

The other children are barely seen, we just get a glimpse of Shikadai (Shikamaru and Temari's son), Inojin (Ino and Sai's son) and maybe Kankuro's son.

Anyway Boruto wants to 'show' his strenght to his father, to get his attention, and decides to cheat getting a new illegal ninja device from some sketchy dude.

Sarada and Mitsuki then get Boruto to join in the Chunin exams, which he passes thanks to the device -which Naruto had banned from the event.
Nobody notice it exept Naruto, when Boruto beated Shikadai in the last round, and with the saddest glance ever and shame him in front of everybody like he deserved.

Not that I'm surprised anyway, let's move on. So, Naruto is sadly looking into his son's eyes telling him that true power comes with effort and hard training, when a new enemy appears wanting to carry on Kaguya's plan.

Just from his face we can say this is the dullest enemy ever and we know all the movie's enemies were very forgettable (Remember good old Orochimaru? That's what a real enemy looks like). Anyway, he tries to get Kurama's out of Naruto and takes him away while Sasuke is the only one trying to do something. 

Only when seeing his father in danger, Boruto realize he's been an idiot and follow Sasuke along with the 5 kages to defeat the enemy.

Because Sasuke needs Boruto help. Yep, re-read the previous sentence and laugh with me.

First of all, the Sasuke I/we know wouldn't have helped someone like that and praised him so easily ('You are powerful'...where?What part did I miss???).

Getting back to the story, the five kages lose to the enemy that transform into a monster (of course) and kills his minion. 

The only good point? Sasuke and Naruto fighting together, like old times. At least the do for a short while, until Sasuke get his face burned and Naruto gets super angry. Sasuke recovers and together they combine Kurama and Susanoo (like an armored Kurama), beat the enemy and finally kiss. No, I'm sorry I was joking, lol. The enemy is a little beated but still alive and well, thanks to that scientist/sketchy dude who uses his ninja device on him (giving him his powers back someway). While Naruto and all the kages are trapped, Sasuke tells Boruto to cast his rasengan against the enemy.

The enemy gets distracted and everybody is free again, so Boruto releases a new sparkly and giant rasengan (more like a Dragon Ball genkidama) combined with his father's and beats this joke of an enemy. 

I guess the end is kind of nice though, peace is restored and Boruto relinks his relationship with his father. At least he doesn't want to become hokage, nope he wants to be like Sasuke (that's cool, I admit it).

That's what the movie was also about, but I think it could have been made better. Like I said, I'm really disappointed in this movie and Boruto. I know it's a movie about him finding the source of true strenght, but were are all the others? Would it have killed Kishimoto to include Sarada, Mitsuki and Naruto's old friends in the story a bit more? 

Go get the Hokage title girl!