Welcome to the Anime Walk of Fame, a series of retrospectives on the many characters of the anime world. You'll see all your favorites along with a few that deserve more than their reputations give.

So sit back relax and enjoy the show.

What Did They Do to Shino?

Naruto characters make for good observations, who knew?

When it comes to the Konoha 12 and their designs, who out of them is the most likely to become a teacher?
If you said Rock Lee, you would be right.
If you said Shino, I'd have to question your logic, yet Shino has essentially taken Ebisu's place as the goofy put upon teacher, yet one look at his design from Season 1 would suggest a different path.
The vibe I get is mysterious, stoic, unflinching, he's about to kill you.
His insect ninjutsu would suggest that he's into some horrific torture methods so I would've picked him as an interrogation officer for ANBU, but come Boruto he's lost all his cool mysterious aura and become a goofy teacher, it's a complete 180 degrees in terms of change, especially when the rest of the 12 were pretty easy to predict, even Neji with the way he talked about his fate in his clan was always destined to die.
Is this a good character? Hard to say really, he was done pretty dirty throughout his run as a character, he lost his relevance after the Chuunin exam, so seeing Shino like this as an adult makes me wonder what triggered that change in personality or maybe it was just a phase.

Hinata's Ramen Feat is Based on an Actual Eating Challenge

If you think these little reviews are small then it's because I hope to revisit the characters again later to maybe talk about something else, so expect a few of them to make reappearances later on, for now we start with some fact hunting.

Hinata Hyuuga to most is the shy girl who loves Naruto and eventually became his wife, but looking at her history, the moments we do get from her including her shadow like dance on the water, her brave attempt at fighting Pain, her big moment of finally becoming Naruto's true love and her insatiable appetite for Ramen.
Naruto's affinity for ramen created a couple of one off episodes centering around a ramen eating contest where a select group of characters battle it out by consuming as many bowls of Ramen as possible, the winner is not Chouji whose whole jutsu revolves around eating, it's not Kiba who likely has the appetite of an animal and it's not Naruto who pretty much eats it every day, it's actually Hinata.
This feat pays homage to a real life Ramen eating challenge in a century old Ramen shop called Azumaya, the challenge is to consume as many small bowls of Wanko Soba Noodles, for context 15 small bowls equals 1 standard size.
The current world record is 570 bowls set by a Japanese woman of whom the owner described in his own words "toothpick thin" it's mind boggling to think that anyone could consume that much.
For context Hinata's equivalent record would be 690 bowls after a small bit of math, but what really can be taken from this is that it's always the person you least suspect beating these challenges and this little bit of Japanese history inspired this popular Naruto gag.

Hating Boruto Just Means You're Old

Boruto gets plenty of criticism even from me although my reasons are for recycling plots from the OG Naruto and making them worse as opposed to the characters themselves but every complaint is reserved for Boruto himself but it's not really his fault.

Boruto is of course Naruto's son, he has the same trouble making persona but while Naruto acted out in order not to feel lonely, Boruto acts out on daddy issues and the fact that the leader of a friggin country is not spending more time with him. You can already see the difference and already you can see Boruto as a spoiled brat, but that's kind of what kids do, they have different priorities especially as Boruto is growing up in peacetime as opposed to the wars Naruto battled in, his attitude reflects the world around him and he decides to follow a path that better suits him although he seems predestined to become a hybrid of Naruto and Sasuke if the teaser time skips are to be believed.
Those who hate him watched the original and Shippuden and would've been happy to end it there but Boruto wasn't made for you it was made for the new weebs and they'll either grow some taste later or think Naruto is a Fortnite character.

Sasuke has Grown out of his Emo Phase

Depending on your age and your taste in anime, Sasuke was either a misunderstood outcast or a whiny little emo bitch, the end of Naruto saw him abandoning the village only interfering if necessary from the shadows, but when he came back proper in Boruto, Sasuke was a changed man.

Gone were many of the traits that associated him with much of the angst of the contrived backstory of his clan and in it's place is an adult who appears to be at peace with his past and is slowly coming around to the peace time that his best friend Naruto as Hokage helped build following the end of the war.
Slowly making connections with his daughter and even training some desperately needed wisdom into Boruto himself, Sasuke is proving to be a much better character than his original incarnation back in Naruto.
As polarizing as the series is, most people agree that the grown up OG cast has been fantastic to the point where I no longer hate Sasuke Uchiha, I even sympathise with him a little knowing that his whole story has allowed him to evolve into this character, a testament to the franchises staying power even when Boruto is causing too many uproars among the fanbase.