This was a fun little post-series story that I really enjoyed. It was entertaining and adorable and heartfelt all at the same time, and it sated my desire for seeing more of the next-gen characters. Let's just say... I hope we'll be seeing A LOT more of Cho-Cho in the future. That girl is a riot! And actually, I'm surprised it didn't feature more of Boruto, but I'm sure that will be resolved sooner or later.

Anyway, storywise, it steered a little too close to cheesy on a few occasions, but overall I think it set up what could be a really central theme of a sequel series: Just how much do our parents determine who we are? Frankly, I'd be shocked if the question didn't come up at all given how important the next-gen characters' parents are. The scenes where we got to see the original characters (who we've now known since they were children) interacting with their own kids were my favorite parts of this story.

The only thing, I feel, left for me to address is something I'd heard from the Naruto community long before I actually got my hands on a copy to read it myself. There were some waves being made about how the Sakura/Sasuke relationship is being handled now that they're canon. (I personally have no complaints, but let me explain a little...)

To start, there's one scene where Sarada's upset because her own father didn't recognize her. It's been that long since Sasuke's been home to see his family. And Naruto tries to comfort her... by telling her that her father's a great shinobi. And my response was along the lines of, "Well, that's great, but it doesn't excuse him being a shitty father." Which IS my opinion. I didn't really expect his marriage to be much different from what it is, but I am disappointed in his utter lack of parenting. (I mean, I knew he wasn't home OFTEN, but I didn't think it had literally been, like, 8 years!)
The scene that was really causing a stir was the one near the end. Basically, Sarada wants to know if Sasuke really loves her mother, and his response seemed to make a lot of people think that he was insinuating that he was only still with Sakura because of their daughter... Whereas I thought his response quite obviously meant, "Of course I love her, I wouldn't have had a child with this woman if I didn't love her." It's just not in his nature to show it, and Sakura understands that.

So that's my little rant. I did really enjoy this little side story, and I'm excited to see what happens next in this franchise.