Naruto: Sasuke Retsuden - Uchiha no Matsuei to Tenkyuu no Hoshikuzu
Naruto: Sasuke's Story - The Uchiha and the Heavenly Stardust

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From avenger, rival, anti-hero, & antagonist to loving husband, father, & master. Another story that adds great development to one of shonen's best characters - Uchiha Sasuke. This manga explores Sasuke and Sakura's current relationship as husband and wife. Even better than Gaiden which was shown through their daughter's perspective.

The action is good. Low scale, no big explosions. With more ninja-esque scenes due to them being on an espionage mission. The art is very reminiscent of Kishimoto's style & the story is intriguing. Everything connects to the original series. The lore, techniques, illness, & the story. This feels like a continuation of Naruto even ... more than Boruto, but ultimately it's a side story after the main series concluded. Naturally there isn't a grand storyline with lots of build up, revelations & a climatic ending. Just some neat action & character interactions/development.

This Naruto and Boruto short story was definitely a mixed bag. When I say I have mixed feelings about recommending it, I'm not kidding, though I would say I lean more towards not recommending it than recommending it, but I do think some people would probably like this story. There were a lot of weaknesses. The pacing at times felt so sluggish that I found myself speed reading rather than enjoying the story because it felt so tedious. The prison part of the story felt like an unnecessary thing, which is a shame because it ended up being the majority of the story. It really ... came off like one of those Boruto filler arcs in the anime where you just kind of watch the first couple episodes, get the gist, zone out for a few weeks, and watch the final episode of the arc to see how it ends. The reason I kept reading despite being kind of bored with it, is every so often we'd get a gem. Having Sakura show up and join Sasuke on the mission was a nice touch and if she hadn't shown up, I'm not sure that I'd have completed the manga. The ending was also decent but also slightly perplexing in one aspect.

I would say if you don't like filler arcs and don't have the patience for poor pacing, then this is not a manga you will like.

maybe i'm just out of whack on my naruto knowledge, because god knows i won't read boruto, but this felt incredibly out of character.

sasuke is very unlikeable. the efforts they tried to put in for him doing cute things for sakura felt very forced and like he ultimately does not care about his family. the dialogue was incredibly boring, being almost entirely expotition all the time, and describing exactly what would happen moments before it happened. all of the twists were expected. i did not enjoy this at all from a story standpoint, nor a characterisation standpoint. the final chapter was also completely pointless ... and did nothing to further the story or develop the characters. the art is polished to a point where it becomes bland and uninteresting, though all modern naruto content suffers from this.

don't even get me started on the fucking dinosaurs. who genuinely thought that was a good idea?