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While noting long-time fans might be disappointed Kishimoto is not drawing Boruto, Ikemoto stated he would do his best in making the manga. [11] While feeling honoured to create the art for Boruto, Ikemoto stated he is grateful the series is released monthly rather than weekly because producing the required amount of nearly 20 pages per chapter would be stressful; however, he still finds the monthly serialisation challenging. Regular chapters of Boruto tend to exceed 40 pages; creation of the thumbnail sketches takes a week, the pages take 20 days to produce, while the rest of the time is used for colouring images and retouching the chapters. [12] In drawing the characters, Ikemoto felt
that the facial expressions of Boruto changed as the story moved on; Initially giving the protagonist large eyes for the character's interactions
with Tento, Boruto's appearance was made more rebellious when he instead
talked with Kawaki. [13] Despite having a lighter tone than Naruto, the series begins by hinting at a
dark future. This set-up was proposed by Kishimoto to give the manga a bigger impact and to take a different approach than the one from the Boruto movie. In this scenario, Ikemoto drew an older Boruto, but he believes this design may change once the manga reaches this point. [11] In early 2019, Ikemoto stated the relationship between Boruto and Kawaki would be the biggest focus on the plot as it would progress until their fight in the flashforward. [13] Ikemoto aims to give the series nearly 30 volumes to tell the story. [13] Kodachi drew parallels between Boruto and the post-Cold War era, stating that while the new characters are living in a time of peace, something complicated might bring the world back to chaos. [12] Although Kishimoto initially was not writing the series, he created multiple characters for the staff to use.
)[164] In 2021 more than half of Netflix's global members
watched anime. [165][166] In 2022, the anime series Attack on Titan won the award of "Most In-Demand TV Series in the World 2021" in the Global TV Demand Awards. Attack on Titan became the first
ever non-English language series to earn the title of "World's Most In-Demand TV Show", previously held by only The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. [46][167]In 2024, the anime series Jujutsu Kaisen won the award of "Most In-Demand TV Series in the World 2023" in the Global TV Demand Awards. [168] Rising interest in anime as well as Japanese video games has led to an increase of university students in the United Kingdom wanting to get a degree in the Japanese language. [169] The word anime alongside other Japanese pop cultural terms like shonen and shojo have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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