@coolboymew @Elliptica @IAMAL_PHARIUS It’s different for the first half and then it’s basically that in the second half but not nearly as insufferable. With the original Naruto and shitpoodung you basically split your time between manga content (sometimes brutally slowly paced manga content) and aggressively pointless filler where all the characters regress to their most one dimensional traits to be in a 20 minute Saturday morning cartoon. The first half of bort is like they merged the two halves into a single cohesive experience (while also doing a pretty good job of avoiding flashbacks and other time wasting editing) where there’s a sort of a problem of the week structure but the kids and their parents get to be real characters the whole time and they actually slowly grow and develop as time goes on instead of being stagnant caricatures. I joke about it being my favorite slice of life anime but it’s not far from the truth. If you have certain ideas of what a shonen anime is supposed to be you’ll probably hate the first half, as many do, but if you know what they were going for (anime staff said explicitly their goal was less to make a manga adaptation than to make a show that families could watch together every week where it’s light and fun for the kids but written well enough for the adults to enjoy) and you do enjoy family programming you’ll probably like it, because it’s genuinely a very well done family anime. The second half is more like a normal shonen, they start adapting the manga while stopping to do original Naruto esque filler arcs but even then they’re much more competent and don’t feel as much like your time is being wasted.