A Modest Proposal to Save Naruto
(no baby eating involved)
1. Immediately cancel Boruto, because we’re going to use that budget.
2. Use the Boruto budget and animation team, which has admittedly great visual product:
And restart the Naruto anime from the beginning. Meaning we reanimate all the scenes like this:
And make them way less bad. We can make them as nice looking as Boruto. We can rebuild it! Better than it was before! WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!
3. Get rid of all the blatant padding for time. No more slow panning shots across a person, maybe their pupils wobbling, for 15 seconds.
4. Get rid of almost all the filler. Kakashi’s true face (which is based on a Kishimoto omake) can absolutely stay. The fans can vote on one (1) shitty filler to reanimate for nostalgia purposes. You can have ninja ostrich or mecha Naruto, but not both.
5. Have whoever you’re hiring to rewrite the ending (more on that in a minute) write a few more mission arcs for Team 7 before the chuunin exams. This was in line with Kishimoto’s original desires for the work, and would provide more meaning to Naruto’s attachment to Sasuke and quest to bring him back. (You can keep the filler where they get stuck together as part of this.)
6. If you strip out all the padding, and most of the filler, even with a few additional mission arcs, the new Naruto Reboot will cover the same amount of manga in fewer episodes. It will be a more thrilling and entertaining show.
7. Hire somebody competent to write a satisfying alternate ending starting around the Pain attack on Konoha. No Kaguya ass-pull. Actually remain true to Naruto’s original themes. Hiromu Arakawa if you can get her. I’d also be happy with Takashi Yano, who wrote the Shikamaru and Itachi light novels and seems to have a grip on the political potential of Naruto in a way that is still entertaining for Naruto’s young adult audience.
Since this won’t happen, however, I’ll content myself with fanfiction and fan comics.
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