Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. It seems we’ve reached the halfway point of the fall season, though to be honest, most of the anime I’ve watched this season has just been more Boruto. What can I say, the Naruto world is actually pretty compelling when Kishimoto isn’t writing it, and Boruto hits with a special combination of slice of life shenanigans, grounded family drama, and occasional action flourishes that make it easy to munch through ten or twenty episodes. Of course, I’m also keeping up with One Piece and The Witch From Mercury, so I’m not entirely out of the airing anime loop, but seriously: if you liked Naruto conceptually but were disappointed by its actual storytelling, I would urge you to try out his son’s adventures. That aside, this has also been a fertile week in non-anime media, so let’s break down some fresh stories in the Week in Review!

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