Multiverse: Hunter is getting close to complete, so I’m looking at the next Multiverse book in the polls on my Patreon. The winner is Shonen Martial Arts. The main foundation of the book has to be Dragon Ball, of course, and I’m already familiar with that one because I was an eight-year old boy in the 90s. In order to make the book thorough, I’ve also been trying to watch at least one season of other major shows in the genre, though, and double check how many of them can be stirred in with off-brand Dragon Ball to help cover more bases: Boruto’s Dad, One Piece, Bleach, Demon Slayer, JoJo, Hunter x Hunter, maybe some others depending on how long this takes me. Shonen anime is long so even getting through one season of these might be too much.
Which means I’ve been watching Boruto’s Dad. I appreciate how the show sells its basic concepts in the first episode even though it’s only 23 minutes long: Boruto’s Dad is a reincarnated demon fox monster thing, everyone is super mean to him about it because that’s the level of intelligence that fourteen year olds operate on, he lashes out with a lot of dumb pranks which make him unpopular with the adults in the room, he’s bad at ninja magic but has ambitions of one day being ninja president, and by the end of the episode he’s shown he’s really good at ninja magic when he puts in the effort and also there is a ninja battle with an evil traitor ninja. It’s a lot to cover and it does have the problem of lurching from one plot point to another with minimal transition, but the speed of the delivery means there’s not a whole lot of time to dwell on it and it lets the show set up its protagonist’s main goal, major obstacles to that goal, and general personality, while also finding room to squeeze in learning ninja magic and a ninja fight.
And also one of Boruto’s Dad’s most consistently used prank techniques, at least in the early show, is when he turns into a hot lady to try and make older men uncomfortable, which I’ve decided makes this whole series a trans allegory. I will not be accepting questions at this time.
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