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Uzumaki 

Then the fact that Boruto is still making money should be irrelevant if it doesn't even rank. You brought up monetary value as if that would be the only reason to keep charging ahead with a lousy story.

Naruto isn't similar to DB outside of a few select tropes. You haphazardly made a comparison and it fell flat because you only have cursory knowledge if that.

You have no idea where my questions lead. You're obviously not all that sharp if you can't understand that GT had no bearing on the original story whether Super came about or not.

"Branching out by focusing on the same cast of characters plus a few new extras that rarely take center stage 🤨🤨🤨"

Duh. Just getting around to a Han Solo orgin story after all these years is very similar to getting a true origin story of Bardock. I'm not sure you'll ever know what you're talking about but this isn't new. DB has only ever expanded the universe building by introducing new and rebranding old characters too. You should really actually know what you're on about.

Uzumaki GT doesn't need to be some sort of fan creation. It wasn't canon to anything related to the canon story of the original. Which means it's irrelevant to what you're talking about. I can't believe this needs to be explained but GT was 64 episodes of filler essentially. If you somehow can't deal with that then don't bring it up. Even now that it was deemed just an alternate timeline of events there's no connective tissue to Dragon Ball or Super. So that means it's completely separate.

Super is arguably worse than the original series. You can debate with yourself.

My point remains to be Super was interrupted so that a new series could be started. That decision was made BEFORE AT's passing. You don't generally do that with a series that is performing excellently. You damn sure don't put the ANIME associated with it on a long hiatus. Are you generally this daft or is this something you're doing for MY entertainment?

Uzumaki I know Naruto is popular I was asking in terms of how is compares to Boruto and Two Blue Vortex. You couldn't answer one part of the question. For all intents and purposes I didn't see Boruto ranking within the top 10 of Shonen. The IP is making money and people aren't likely to just drop it but there's no way it's as popular as the original series. Again GT has no bearing on what Dragon Ball as a franchise is doing currently especially since the franchise seems to be going the way of Star Wars and the different type of stories that are branching out from the original.

Uzumaki 

It very much is relevant when you erroneously said there was a rewind. Don't mention any type of rewind when the true continuation to the series is what Super attempted. It's not debatable and not solely my opinion. The anime stopped and focused on something altogether different with Daima. I never argued what GT did or didn't do for the overall story when compared to Super. You're the only one who introduced GT.

Uzumaki 

I'm glad you have that type of faith in a story that's had more downs than ups. Also GT was not considered canon until recently so no type rewind was needed. It could've largely been irrelevant to anything that AT wanted to do going forward. Dragon Ball Super would be the type of decline in quality that Naruto is experiencing now. Which is why not much care was given to the anime currently in both franchises.

Do you happen to know where Naruto ranks within the popularity scale for Shonen?

Matthew themes are always being subverted in Naruto BUT making Rock Lee more relevant than need be isn't the answer.

Naruto [the character] never rested on his laurels, which led him to pushing for piece between the countries. Not only would the Talk no Jutsu be completely ineffective with someone like Lee but the mini-Guy has nothing at all going for him. Not even lineage based.