Watching Boruto means accepting that your heroes are now the old guard, and they can't save their kids from the same mistakes. The manga-canon episodes hit with real weight because the show earns moments by surrounding them with filler so thick you forget what actually matters. By the time you realize which arcs were always going to count, you're already invested in characters Naruto would die for, even if the show doesn't always know what to do with the time between.

Boruto Uzumaki lives in the shadow of his father's legend. Naruto, now the Seventh Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village, has helped turn it into a peaceful, modern city of tall buildings, giant screens and the Thunder Rail, and the life of a shinobi is changing with it. Boruto has inherited his father's loud, stubborn nature and is seen as a prodigy, but his arrogance, his wish to surpass Naruto and his father's busy schedule have strained their relationship. He enrolls in the Ninja Academy, where classmates are quick to write him off as just the Hokage's son until he proves them wrong. When a string of mysterious events begins to unfold and a sinister force stirs within the village, it falls to Boruto and his new friends to deal with them. The result is an action adventure fantasy about a new generation of ninja stepping forward.