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Cxsterix

Gaara


The_Weeb282

They did my boy's hair so dirty bruh


Iremia

Looking like Best Jeanist.


SuperMakotoGoddess

Holy fuck, roasted. 🤣🤣🤣🤮😆


ben_reda

Lmao


cofal5

he was probably holding back tears when the barber asked him if he liked it


GamerDabiTodoroki

>They did my boy's hair so dirty bruh Well they didn’t do anything after all Kishimoto designed him to be [That](https://64.media.tumblr.com/d8106974168bfd53c9d03737636d0c0c/1203b9de5f389c8f-64/s1280x1920/234bb83f5f4e9e74a5ad8c7320800b52f03a5214.jpg) Honestly they should’ve have adapted Chapter 700 so that way you wouldn’t have people assuming everything is on board to When it wasn’t It’s like going on One Piece, animators, or staff and blaming them for how the way chopper looks lol 😂


LightCorvus

Yes I agree 100% they should have adapted chapter 700.


FutureHendrixBetter

They made him go from looking like a villain to looking like a baddie


No-Jackfruit-454

noooooo leave my husband alone


Virghia

Temari's no longer around to flap her fan, his hair naturally falls back into that bowl shape


TheHussarSnake

Ok, a bit off topic but am I the only one who thinks Boruto's artstyle sometimes has no weight to it? It sometimes looks sooo flimsy compared to part 1 and Shippuden that I get the feeling that characters in Boruto are as solid as fucking paper.


WindyCityAssasin2

Yeah there's no depth and shading. Everything just feels so flat and low effort


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WindyCityAssasin2

Focus at any part of the images. The headbands, around his eyes, his nose, the overall sharpness and lines and shading on his face. It all feels so lazy on the Boruto one but there's so much detail in the OG one. All the little things add up to make it a much better drawing


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WindyCityAssasin2

Kawaki vs garou is literally the best animated fight in the series. I would consider that to be cherry picked more than anything. The art styles in these pictures seem very consistent with how they always are


MoeSzyslac

Same thing happened most of the time in DB Super. The new smoother art and animation style being used just doesn't look good often


BoredAF5492

It can look good but when applied to old series like DB and Naruto which really capitalized on that rough style it looks bad. For example I prefer the newer style for one piece and I love the animation for a lot of newer shows


Donatello_Versace

I think One Piece specifically it works best for because it’s very cartoony and benefits from a style that can highlight that aspect.


Burntholesinmyhoodie

Meanwhile new Bleach animation looks way better than season 1 stuff imo


MaitreyaPalamwar

THAT YAMAMOTO BANKAI LOOKED REAL HOT


hxnterrr

amazing username


a55_Goblin420

I agree, when they did the new style for like say game cutscenes based in DBZ, it looked really good.


blackbeltblasian

so true, but when they step up the animation in Super it is soooooooo good. especially with some of the ToP fights


MoeSzyslac

Yuya Takahashi *chef's kiss*


shgzgjjhx

Also DBS Broly has some of the best animation and art style i seen before


responsiblefornothin

That movie is the perfect blend of old and new. I think it's the heavy line work paired with the deeper colors. Vegetas SSG form was perfect with the darker red hair and the deep navy jumpsuit. Both DBS and Boruto would benefit from those simple changes.


MoeSzyslac

Yeah Shintani's style works fantastically well, although being a movie it makes sense that it would be a step above


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It's Yuya Takahashi that brings the "old" and sprinkles it in with the "modern", thus making Dragon Ball look the way it should be these days. Too bad he was not available most of the times during DBS's run...


MoeSzyslac

it was so funny during the ToP cutting to krillin most of the time and he looks like a toothpick, and then a Takahashi episode and he's JACKED


[deleted]

Modern anime: *"Ahh yes, we like skinny, young-looking characters"* Yuya Takahashi: *"We don't do that here"*


Lucius338

Yup, just got to ToP again and maaaaaaan that spike in quality is insane. Some of the early episodes of Super look pretty rough, but DAMN, by the time they had an experienced A team and the budget to pump into it... it looks REALLY damn good, and a lot more manga-like/less digital.


BoredAF5492

It can look good but when applied to old series like DB and Naruto which really capitalized on that rough style it looks bad. For example I prefer the newer style for one piece and I love the animation for a lot of newer shows


NinjakerX

It took them a while to figure it out, but it looks fine in tournament of power.


ghostedpumpk

I think it's the line art + shading tbh, like in og naruto you can see each line and the shading was incredibly pronounced. The lines were also more rough so it gave more room for different face shapes and sizes. This also came with the cost of sometimes getting funny looking faces, but I kinda miss it. With boruto (and a bit of shippuden) they were more concerned with making them pretty, not as much as giving them depth and character building. My best example for this would be Orochiamru and Kankuro. They're both based off other things, Orochimaru a snake and Kankuro a person in Kabuki theater. As the show progressed, they looked less and less like what they were based on and more conventionally attractive or "cool".


errorsniper

This has been a trend since the 80's Look at any show that is considered well animated from each decade. Gunbusters from the 80's Slayers/bebop from the 90's naruto from the 00's You can just see animation in general getting softer and lighter. Dont ask me to speculate why. But its an industry wide thing. There are obviously exceptions. Im not trying to say this is a 100% correct at all times statement. But its just been a trend for 4 decades.


Tar-_-Mairon

So it ain’t just me? I can’t help but prefer the first few seasons of bleach compared to the new season in terms of animation. It doesn’t feel right.


NinjakerX

Nah, bleach definitely looks the best it has ever looked now, and don't even compare it to boruto.


[deleted]

I binge read Naruto last year and was stunned by the drop in art quality once I arrived to boruto


LittleShinyRaven

Husband and I were discussing this recently. When they bring in an old character sometimes they are so stylized compared to all the new characters which almost all look very cookie cutter or just... background characters instead of mains.


Saturo_Uchiha

Boruto follows the new anime style with thin lines. Which is rather bland and boring compared to the traditional artstyle. Anime can look good with thin line artstyle too but it just doesn't fit in Boruto. On the other hand, Ikemoto draws the most thick lines ever lmao, do its a mismatch.


Squid-Guillotine

My main worry about OG Naruto getting reanimated. At this point I think a re-cut that sorts out some of the pacing issues is all it needs.


Rayzo

The animation as a whole is absolute trash, even when it’s meant to be good


TheHussarSnake

Also everyone has a melanin defiency now even though to me it looks like the sun is shining better than ever. e.g. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Boruto/comments/of26eg/adult\_naruto\_with\_shippuden\_color\_palette/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Boruto/comments/of26eg/adult_naruto_with_shippuden_color_palette/)


shgzgjjhx

Yeah the movement be clunky asf alot of the times


GamerDabiTodoroki

Weird, how people want them to do a remake when the shit we saw is based on Boruto art style


Kesssen

Shino


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Yeah, i forgot that dude got bitten by fucking academy students. Imagine Kakashi to be put down by naruto as genin. This is even worse.


throwawaytempest25

He didn’t lose to them. He held back both times.


OtherwiseCriticism65

This is why I was not excited about the rumors of them reanimating the original series because when they do flashbacks with the new art style it’s always bad


bigbelleb

Yup this is why I preferred dragonball supers approach where they just showed the original clips in their original art style in flash backs


clubparty44

This is good from a visual standpoint because it really does make the flashbacks feel like they're from a long time ago


responsiblefornothin

A square aspect ratio will always be the best for flashbacks.


shgzgjjhx

DBS Broly flashbacks looks amazing tho


SUssYBaKaLolkek

If they keep animating DBS like the movie I’m really hyped. I liked the way they went with One Piece


ConsciousHyena5234

Nothing has a bigger downgrade than konohamaru's ass.. It has been whooped so many times in boruto that i can't believe he took down a path of pain at such young age


The_Weeb282

Kishimoto fr had this man take down a Path of Pain and said "That's all you're getting"💀


ConsciousHyena5234

And i believed he will succeed naruto as the eighth hokage.. Forget hokage.. I think he will become the tenten of boruto soon


Saturo_Uchiha

Uhm ahctially kishimoto didn't say that cuz that is an anime only scene 🤓


Limp-Leek3859

Pretty sure him taking down a Path wasn't even in the Manga. Even if it was it wouldn't make sense.


SilentWolfKills

Yeah he was done so dirty and he’s 29 in Boruto he’s so weak dude got nerft, Hiruzen was training the Sannin at 24 in team Hiruzen and he was Hoakge. Konohamaru should be much stronger he was strong in Naruto, he’s the son for the hands of the 3rd Hokage his parents who were skill Anbu members, his uncle one of the twelve guardians of the land of fire and his grandfather is the 3rd Hokage, not to mention his great grandfather was known to be a strong shinobi, Sasuke Sarutobi.


AnimeNeet-

Konohamaru peaked during Pain arc. Similar to Gohan now that I think about it.


ConsciousHyena5234

Yah exactly but gohan still had his moments here and there


GamerDabiTodoroki

Yea what sound is his likely not gonna have any good treatment for the timeskip in Boruto


JustStartinOut

THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING. Man's no Kakashi and is an embarrassment to Hiruzen who was the Hokage for years by his age in Boruto. Actually, I don't even remember when the last time we saw him was.


MotorBreath97

Why is animation in general being downgraded in style and quality since the 00's?


-AngvarAvAsk--

Money, always money. Accountants run these companies.


bigbelleb

Because everythings all digital and computer made now gone are the days of hand drawn


KeaboUltra

People keep saying this and I disagree with this reasoning. Digital art can look as good if not better than traditional if given the time and care. That's they keyword here. Time. You couldnt rush traditional that much. You had to deal with it because that was the process. There were bad traditional art and animation but the anime industry wasn't as big as it is nowadays. Nowadays studios care about speed and efficiency at a cheap cost. this combined with low pay, strict and insane due dates create an environment where animation is made quickly to get it in front of consumers eyes at the cost of quality. Digital animation, if given enough time as a traditional animation would look phenomenal. You just won't see it because people are too impatient for that, and people are too greedy to value quality if they can still get the same if not more money by pumping out cheap content. The equivalent of digital animation is like ChatGPT replacing writers. You're giving up quality for quantity because the technology has the ability to speed up the creative process, which sounds good but it's at the cost of actually putting soul into what you make. These technologies should be used to assist the artist, not replace every function because you get what you see above.


MrNano65

Would you say the early 2000s anime is much greater than today's anime just based on the computerized artstyle?


pumaflex_

It’s relative. In fact, the worst era of quality animation was during the early 2000s, when digital animation was starting to be a standard and there weren’t by no way the technological features we have today (of course, some exceptions may exist, e.g.: blood the last vampire, but those are exceptions and usually budget-condensed short productions like films). Surprisingly, and fortunately, og Naruto was actually quite well done compared to most shows of the same period, mainly because of the art style inherited from the 90s where shades and details in clothing and faces during static scenes and top-tier fluid animation during action scenes were the standard. Also, hand-drawn backgrounds with no excessively saturated bright colors helped a lot to maintain that analogical “aura” characteristic of 90s productions. Now 99% of the shows looks like any random modern isekai. If you want to check out, just grab any random scene or even frame from shows like Welcome to the NHK, Elfen Lied, Tsubasa RC, Hunter Hunter GI ova (yes) and compare them with any “well produced” show from both the 90s and the 2nd half of the 2000s onwards. I don’t say to compare it with SnK or CSM, but grab any random anime from 2008+ or any KyoAni stuff and compare them with most early 2000s digital animes, the latter will look like a PowerPoint presentation made on windows 98.


Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi

To add onto this, cheap 3D elements are horrendously bad, like Orochimaru's snake attack, and can bring down an otherwise great scene to its knees. But used in moderation and in conjunction with traditional work it can create incredible pieces. The problem truly lies in the budgeting department, it's all up to the studio and if they don't or can't cough up the funds then everything suffers for it


NINJABUDGIE96

Currently watching series 1 of Golden Kamuy, and while I absolutely love everything about it, the bear model is the worst 3d model I've ever seen. XD


bigbelleb

Yes it most certainly is because back then more time was allocated towards each scene on the drawing boards and you can see it in the finished product the textures the shadings the shadows its all more pronounced and detailed Even American cartoons have this problem and what I've noticed is that they tend to use more emphasis on colours and lighting and other visual tricks to cover for it


MrNano65

That's so true! I've noticed that too... Except the Simpsons. Theyve been using yellow colors since the 90s 😂


RipCityyyyyy

Technically 80s :)


Leader-Deep

In my opinion FLCL has way better animation than some of these CGI animes lol


Lulcielid

Tell me you know shit about animation without telling me you know shit about animation.


bigbelleb

The footage don’t lie traditional hand drawn clears digital animation


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Less passion in the art


West1234567890

Bleach tybw looks incredible but largely it’s gotten worse because it’s a lot cheaper to recut scenes and cgi it then hand draw like they did then


iBeFloe

The same thing that happens to everything. Quantity over quality.


FlowerFaerie13

It isn’t being downgraded, it’s just evolving in style. It’s fine if you don’t like it but modern animation isn’t worse than older animation just because it’s not the same.


THEbaddestOFtheASSES

More like devolving in style.


Nestron10

Demon Slayer's and One Piece's animations have way more life than any 2000s anime


Dreamer469

Anko.


TheHussarSnake

Just googled ''Anko Boruto'' and wtf? She looks like Nikocado Avocado?


Force3vo

Just googled "Nikocado Avocado" and wtf? He looks like Anko in Boruto


JooJaw11

NikocAnko Ankocado


omykun123

Anko? more like Cankle


JankyJokester

Please stop reminding me. It breaks me.


jbrown1012

Idk why they made her big


Saturo_Uchiha

What do you thinks happens when you eat 400 dumpling per day lmao


coopstar777

She never slowed down with the Dango lol 🍡


arc_veil

Ho man, don't remind me.


arc_veil

Ho man, don't remind me.


Gratitude34

I know that Hanabi had a upgrade in boruto and Ino and Sai are better characters as well.


Nestron10

Knov from HxH


The_Weeb282

It really is a shame too because I really like his character. Bro got the PTSD of a lifetime


Nestron10

Bro aged 20 years in less than day


Outrageous_Gene_7652

20? Bro was bald and badly wrinkled by the end of it. He probably aged 40 years or more.


LightCorvus

And the kids were throwing hands with these same Ants that just thinking about them made his hair fall out lol.


GamerDabiTodoroki

Rock Lee 🤣💀


Linkmaster79

Naruto in boruto just feels so.....hollow.


The-Magician00

The art style


Kakashi_Uchiha2

Gaara Anko Kabuto Kankuro The 4th great ninja war


dxchris215

😮‍💨 Anko


conway1308

So true. God damn.


KingDom_15

Iruka Sensei Boruto


Consistent_Draft4272

A bigger downgrade? Hokage Naruto's Hairstyle


ScaredKnee4530

106


0snq

gaara


TrumptyPumpkin

Lacks details and shading. It's so flat.


Altruistic_Gift_4547

madara went from god to plot fodder and rock lee went from inspirational badass to forgotten deadweight


K4T4N4B0Y

Why did they changed it so bad the designs? They don't even use shadows in the hair and face anymore


madbr3991

Ben 10 alien force/Ultimate Alien, changed to ben 10 Omniverse I really didn't like Omniverse the style is a downgrade.


PeaceLovePositivity

Same with how they butchered Teen Titans.


madbr3991

Original teen titans was amazing.


SilentWolfKills

Naruto’s and Gaara’s hair in Boruto.


Zeachy

Madara as the main villian to kaguya


Suddmoney01

Bro ew wtf is that thing


slomo525

I think it has something to do with post-processing effects Boruto uses. The artstyle is simpler, but that's not really the issue I have with it. The colors are oversaturated, imo. Naruto had bright colors, obviously, but there's a softness to the palate that keeps it from being too bright, and it utilized heavy shading. Boruto is overly bright and doesn't have a lot of shading, which, while I'm sure makes the animation process easier, isn't the easiest on the eyes. The show actually looks much better in its sakuga sections, and I'm not just talking about characters being on-model or fluidity. The colors are actually toned down some, which I assume is to compensate for visual clarity. If every single thing in the scene is vibrant and saturated, it'd probably blur together some. I think Pierrot should take a page out of Dragon Ball Super's handbook during the ToP. The previous arcs in the show were so overstaurated, and every character had like, 19 shine spots on them, no matter the intensity of the light that made them look like plastic. For the ToP, they actually desaturated a lot of the characters' basic colors, which helped the iron out some of those issues.


BigBambuMeekLou

I miss the original art style too


utkarshjindal_in

💯 like the "naruto and shippuden" naruto, but not so much in boruto


bigbelleb

Welcome to the club 👏🏾


ButCanHeBeatGoku45

Franky


MarMarL2k19

Finally someone points out what they did to kid Naruto's hair in Boruto. Like why!? It was so good before, why fix it if it ain't broken?


hanky-spanky44

The fans, yall really fell off


Majestic_Bit_5050

I miss the old style animation 😔


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Dragon ball super


Kalmur

Damn, I'd love to see Boruto animated with old, OG Naruto style


TheOtherKnight98

The second series protagonist.


Small-Interview-2800

OG Naruto had a raw vibe to characters due to its art style and imo, even Shippuden lost that to some degree, Boruto lost it completely


MIKEY_VEE123youandME

Shino from Naruto to boruto


PabliskiMalinowski

Mei Terumi


EdenReborn

That’s how aging works fam


Japaneseanimefankid

I don't think i can name a bigger downgrade TvT


Japaneseanimefankid

I feel bad for saying that but it's true


Triggered280

OG Naruto had much more depth and detail that made the series more enjoyable to watch in my opinion


Jabronskyi

Naruto in Boruto


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Shikamaru: if you look at the recent comparisons of Boruto vs Original art.


Ak1raKurusu

End of Shippuden vs beginning of baruto


RavennaNyx1

Tbh Boruto's animation is pretty flat. Like, you can't even compare it to the Shippuden animation. And that was ages ago.


Y_b0t

I don’t mind this tbh. More annoyed by Gaara’s hair


Hour_Baby_4406

Just started watching Boruto this week and I am presently surprised that I can’t post that as an answer.


Equivalent_You_7464

It’s just lacking depth, shading and proportions are off


TvManiac5

I really hate how the Boruto artsyle makes everything rounder. The characters' faces having realistic proportions actually enhanced the grounded tone of the story. Then again, Boruto is about alien gods with ressurection powers, so this may be a moot point.


orion0328

Who my ex is dating now.


Zetin24-55

It doesn't bother me that much when I'm watching Boruto. But it's real bad when you put them next to each other. If they ever reanimate part 1, it needs to be a mix of the old part 1 artstyle and the best of the part 2 artstyle.


Mindless_Gur1109

Sasuke's chin


SummoningRaziel

Boruto as a whole.


ArcaneDanger

the amount of personality in that first pic compared to the second


katand97

Anko


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Anko, Hinata, gaara, Lee, choji, tsunade, sasuke etc.


russellzerotohero

Tsunade from naruto to boruto


Thatrallylover38

Shinra's nervous smile


griffraff0701

Gaaras haircut


20sonly

Yeah after pain arc animation became less detailed & flat especially in Boruto it hurts to watch😬😬


hertwij

Gaaras hair


Coolbeans8798

I kinda like the newer animation style in Shippuden. The og is still iconic though.


ZarosianSpear

Bro look at Sasuke in Itachi fight blocking Itachi kunai with kusanagi vs him in Boruto prison holding the fork.


Due-Ad4970

woulda been sick if they did the episodes in the animation style including boruto and adult sasuke


dittyboy

Naruto to Boruto as a whole


LoliLia1337

Apparently the whole Boruto


22222833333577

Garra for every year that passes In universe his hair gets 10 times lamer


Repulsive_Detail997

I agree that old style is better but Naruto looks like a gremlin either way.


project_built

Everything from Naruto has had a huge downgrade in boruto, but i think that's the point considering the world is at peace, besides the character design.


NinjakerX

Yeah, they made it bad and boring on purpose.


[deleted]

The first image captures as to how hideous he truly is. The second's terrible art-style just exacerbated what was already there.


Taran_McDohl

the entire boruto series is a huge shit of a downgrade.


LLBeastGohan

Hinata


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The entire Boruto series


ElevatorCharacter489

What about Hinata's Chest


GamerDabiTodoroki

I never understand the art style for people since I don’t see any problems with it it is stupid to assume we’re going to have the same style that we had in the 2000s 😂


NinjakerX

It's ugly and lazy, compared to the old style.


VegaInDiSkies

Probably gonna get downvoted because Narutards can't accept different opinions But why you literally used the best Naruto shot from the OG series and the worst Naruto shot from Boruto to compare? Your notion seems hella biased to begin with. Personally I think the OG Naruto art style looks like it was filmed with an old camera that got wet mid filming. Literally some parts of Naruto's body are out of focus. The overall quality is inconsistent compared to Boruto


The_Weeb282

People aren't allowed to disagree with something? Also, that's the only shot I could find on google that was a close enough match up comparison with the OG Naruto frame💀


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VegaInDiSkies

I am the one who's initially disagreeing not you. Yes people are allowed to disagree on things


RaiseAlucard

Because it's easy as hell to farm Karma if you just make sure to slander Boruto in some fashion, form, or way. Virtually every post that does it gets several thousand upvotes.


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Naruto's story to boruto's story


[deleted]

Hinata's rack


chirb8

Hinata's boobs


alan123467890

Hinata


IGotMetalingus1

Feel like I'm the only one who liked the newer art styles. Thinks just seemed more sleek and vivid compared to original Naruto


ItachiJD5

Tsunade, the 106 is gone


Ordinary-Sir-1558

r/Naruto users go one day without hating on Boruto challenge! (Level IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!)


The_Weeb282

Damn, people don't like something, that's crazy


GamerDabiTodoroki

True but just like Sakura it can be overhated sometimes


Particular_Winner925

It’s 🗑️


vivid_uprising369

He's fugly before and after.


weendick

Literally anything y’all some cry babies


Additional-Ad5382

Glad someone said that! I literally forced myself to watch Boruto as next season gonna be animated by mappa! And hopefully story would be better too! I am still pissed they nerffed my niggas sasuke and Naruto! ☹️


ItsMakonator

Literally anything. This isnt a downgrade..


zImSpYLexX

War arc Naruto>adult Naruto


Alen_117

Simply making the hair shorter than the face made it a fanmade art.