Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

As the son of the most powerful ninja alive, Boruto Uzumaki honestly couldn't care less. While everyone in the Hidden Leaf Village idolizes his dad, Naruto, Boruto just wants his father to show up to dinner once in a while. That resentment drives him to carve out his own identity at the Ninja Academy, where he teams up with Sarada Uchiha — Sasuke and Sakura's daughter, naturally — and Mitsuki, who is literally an artificial human created by Orochimaru. The village itself has changed too; smartphones and computers exist alongside jutsu now, which creates this weird tension between tradition and progress that the show actually handles in interesting ways. Early on, Boruto starts manifesting a strange eye ability no one recognizes, and a dark force begins targeting students at the academy. The setup is slower and more slice-of-life than you might expect from a 293-episode TV series by Studio Pierrot, but that groundwork matters once the stakes ramp up. If you grew up with Naruto and want to see what happened to everyone's kids, this scratches that itch. The dynamic also reminds me of Black Clover's underdog energy, except Boruto's problem isn't lacking power — it's figuring out who he is when his dad already saved the world. Fans of Hunter x Hunter's exam arcs will find some of that same team-building tension here. It's a next-generation story that actually earns the label.