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Boruto

Japanese manga and anime series and the sequel to Naruto

Boruto[lower-alpha 1] is a Japanese manga series written by Ukyō Kodachi and Masashi Kishimoto, and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto. It initially began monthly serialization under the title Boruto: Naruto Next Generations,[lower-alpha 2] with Kodachi as writer and Kishimoto as editorial supervisor in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump in May 2016, and was transferred to Shueisha's monthly magazine V Jump in July 2019. In November 2020, Kodachi stepped down, with Kishimoto taking over as writer. In April 2023, the series concluded the first part of the story and, following a brief hiatus, continued in August of the same year with a second part titled Boruto: Two Blue Vortex.[lower-alpha 3] Boruto is a spin-off and a sequel to Kishimoto's Naruto and follows the exploits of Naruto Uzumaki's son, Boruto Uzumaki, and his ninja team.

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Boruto originated from Shueisha's proposal to Kishimoto on making a sequel to Naruto. However, Kishimoto rejected this offer and proposed his former assistant Mikio Ikemoto to draw it; the writer of the film Boruto: Naruto the Movie, Ukyō Kodachi, created the plot. A 293-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by Pierrot with Ukyō Kodachi's story supervision (episodes 1–216), was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 2017 to March 2023; a second part has been announced to be in development. Unlike the manga, which began as a retelling of the Boruto film, the anime begins as a prequel set before Boruto and his friends become ninjas in a later story arc. A series of light novels have also been written.

The anime series has earned praise for its use of both new and returning characters, but the narrative of the manga was noted to be more serious as it focused more on the protagonist. Shueisha has shipped a million copies of the manga series by January 2017.

Plot

See also: Boruto: Naruto the Movie and List of Naruto characters

Part I: Naruto Next Generations

Opening with a teenaged Boruto Uzumaki facing a teenaged Kawaki in the ruins of Konoha, the former recounts his story.[2] The son of Seventh Hokage Naruto Uzumaki, Boruto feels angry over his father placing the village before his family. At that time, Boruto becomes a member of a ninja team led by Naruto's protégé Konohamaru Sarutobi, alongside Sarada Uchiha, the daughter of Sasuke and Sakura Uchiha, and Mitsuki, Orochimaru's artificial son. Sasuke returns to the village to warn Naruto of an impending threat relating to deduce the motivations of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. Boruto asks Sasuke to train him for the upcoming Chunin exam to impress his father. During the exam, Momoshiki and Kinshiki Ōtsutsuki, the duo whom Sasuke met, abduct Naruto so they can use Kurama, the Nine-Tailed Beast sealed inside his body, to revitalize the dying Divine Tree from the dimension they came from. Boruto, Sasuke and the four Kages, the leaders of other ninja villages, set out to rescue Naruto. The battle ends when Momoshiki, sacrificing Kinshiki to increase his own strength, is defeated by Boruto with Naruto and Sasuke's help; Momoshiki survives long enough to realize Boruto's full potential while warning him of future tribulations and giving him a mysterious mark called "Karma". After recovering from his fight, Boruto decides to become like Sasuke in the future, while entrusting Sarada to follow her dream of becoming the next Hokage.

Boruto and the other learn there is a group called "Kara" searching for people with the marks called Karma. Boruto's team meets Kara's fugitive Kawaki, a boy who also has Karma. Kawaki becomes an adopted member of the Uzumaki family to protect him. However, when trying to protect Kawaki, Naruto and Sasuke are defeated by the leader of Kara, Jigen, who seals Naruto away while Sasuke escapes. Boruto and his teammates saves Naruto when Boruto's Karma causes him to be possessed by Momoshiki. After learning of this, Sasuke discovers all Karma users will be taken over by the Otsutsuki clan, including Jigen and Boruto. Meanwhile, a mutiny starts to form in Kara, with Koji Kashin, a clone of Jiraiya, challenging Jigen, while Amado goes to Konoha to seek asylum in exchange for information, revealing the real leader of Kara as Isshiki Otsutsuki, who has been possessing Jigen ever since he was betrayed by Kaguya when they came to Earth millennia ago, and that Karma allows the Otsutsuki clan to resurrect via the host's body. Although Koji kills Jigen, forcing Isshiki to reincarnate imperfectly while Kawaki's Karma is removed in the process, Isshiki forces Koji to retreat and leaves to attack Konoha.

At Konoha, Isshiki attempts to find Kawaki, but Naruto faces him head-on, preparing to fight. Boruto transports himself and Isshiki to another dimension away from the village, with Sasuke and Naruto following. Since Boruto is Momoshiki's vessel, Isshiki plans to feed him to his Ten Tails in order to plant a Divine Tree. With Naruto's new power, Baryon Mode, he delays Isshiki as long as possible. Isshiki finds Kawaki because of the chakra of Naruto's prosthetic arm and teleports him nearby, but due to lack of life time caused by Baryon Mode, he dies. Momoshiki uses this as an opportunity to possess Boruto, stabbing and destroying Sasuke's Rinnegan. However, Sasuke and Kawaki face Momoshiki until Boruto recovers his body, but due to Baryon Mode, Kurama dies.

After being defeated, Isshiki requests Code, who was guarding the Ten-Tails, to carry on the Otsutsuki's will by sacrificing either Boruto or Kawaki and becoming Otsutsuki himself. Code vows to avenge Isshiki, and proceeds to release two of the strongest cyborgs created by Amado that was supposed to have been disposed off, Eida and Daemon. The female cyborg Eida agrees to help Code kill Naruto if he in turn spares Kawaki for her to have a normal romance with, because her powers of seduction hinders her from experiencing proper love except with Otsutsuki.

Amado gives Kawaki a weaponized version of Isshiki's Karma. Kawaki uses it to escape from the village. Boruto notices that he can sense his chakra and tries to inform his father, but he does not believe it and talks to the sensors. In order not to lose Kawaki, Boruto has to run after him while the sensors monitor his chakra. Eventually, Code finds Kawaki and Boruto fights him using Karma with Momoshiki's thousands of years of experience. However, Momoshiki takes over Boruto's body, forcing Kawaki to kill him on Boruto's orders. However, Momoshiki revives Boruto as an Otsutsuki, at the cost of his own reincarnation. Both Eida and Daemon are revealed to have been reprogrammed by Amado, and turn on Code, forcing him to flee. In the aftermath, Amado reveals that Eida's and Daemon's powers are shinjutsu transplanted from the corpse of Shibai Otsutsuki, an Otsutsuki who achieved godhood and transcended to another plane. He defines shinjutsu as divine abilities more powerful than ninjutsu which can only be used by gods, including the Karma. Meanwhile, Momoshiki appears in Boruto's mind, showing him a vision of his friends fighting him. Kawaki, having deduced that Boruto, being a full-fledged Otsutsuki, is likely to turn evil, sends Naruto and his wife, Hinata, into another dimension, vowing to kill Boruto and all other Otsutsukis. Boruto confronts Kawaki, and in the ensuing fight, Kawaki slashes out Boruto's right eye. Sasuke arrives and tries to stop Kawaki, but the latter manages to escape. Kawaki meets with Eida, who uses her Senrigan dojutsu to rewrite everyone's memory: Kawaki and Boruto will have swapped places. Only Sumire Kakei and Sarada are immune, with the latter awakening her Mangekyou Sharingan for fear of losing Boruto. Sarada is able to convince Sasuke of Boruto's innocence, with Sasuke swearing to protect Boruto.

Part II: Two Blue Vortex

Three years later, Sarada has failed to convince Eighth Hokage Shikamaru Nara of Boruto's innocence. The Otsutsuki want the remnant of Uchiha blood, Sarada, and in an attempt to abduct her, Code attacks the village with an army of monsters, but Boruto arrives to help fight them off. Shikamaru and the rest of the village are forced to put off dealing with Boruto until they are done fighting Code. Though Boruto defeats Code, Kawaki attacks the former, allowing Code to flee before Boruto can get information about the Ten-Tails from him. Boruto uses the Flying Raijin technique to teleport to the dimension where Code and the Ten-Tails are. The former Kara agent, Koji Kashin, supports him while Boruto sits next to the tree Code has trapped Sasuke in. Boruto then heads back to the village and reunites with Sarada and Sumire, but gets contacted by Shikamaru, who realized that his memories of "Kawaki as Naruto's son" are completely fake after hearing Amado's theory on everyone's memories being altered, with the Mind Body Transmission technique by Ino Yamanaka. Suddenly, Boruto is attacked by Mitsuki. After a small fight, not only Boruto snaps Mitsuki out of his wrath, but he also tells him that he is the true sun to his moon and his parents, Naruto and Hinata, are still alive. He even reveals the truth about what actually happened three years ago to Shikamaru. Despite discovering the truth, Shikamaru tells Boruto that until they are ready to expose Kawaki's actions to the village, they must work together in the shadows as long as Boruto is a criminal.

After Boruto informs Shikamaru the true purpose of the sentient Ten-Tails, Kawaki, who is accompanied by Delta, goes after him to continue his master plan. Shikamaru discreetly warns Boruto and quickly makes his escape. Meanwhile, two "Claw Mark" clones named Jura and Hidari begin to invade the village and search for Naruto's whereabouts. But Boruto's younger sister Himawari, who knows her older brother is a good person and plans to help him, and Team 10 step forth to oppose them. Jura and Hidari begin their assault and try to capture Himawari as their new target. After Koji Kashin locates the attack, Boruto returns to the village and Shikamaru informs him that the two Claw Mark clones are after his sister. Suddenly, Boruto is confronted by Kawaki and both of their Karmas activate, before making his escape. When Himawari and Team 10 escape from Jura, she meets a small Kurama.

Production

When the Naruto manga ended in 2014, the company Shueisha asked Masashi Kishimoto to draw the sequel. Kishimoto rejected the idea and proposed artist Mikio Ikemoto, who had been working as an assistant for Kishimoto ever since Naruto's early chapters, to draw it instead.[3][4] A countdown website titled "Next Generation" was used to promote the new manga. In December 2015, the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations's serialisation was announced.[5][6] Kishimoto said he wanted Boruto to surpass his own work.[7] The writer of Boruto, Ukyō Kodachi, had written a light novel called Gaara Hiden (2015) and had assisted Kishimoto in writing the script for the film Boruto: Naruto the Movie.[8] Besides writing for the series, Kodachi supervises the story of the anime. Kishimoto also acted as the supervisor of the anime for episodes 8 and 9.[9] Kodachi explained that the series' setting which is notable for handling more science than Naruto was influenced by his father, a physician. In order to further combine the use of ninjutsu and technology, Kodachi was inspired by sci-fi role playing games.[10]

Despite Kishimoto revising the manga's scenario, he advised Ikemoto to make his own art style instead of imitating his. Ikemoto agreed and felt optimistic about his art style. 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.[14] Kishimoto did not specify whether Naruto or another important character would die, but he said he would find a situation like this interesting and added that the authors have freedom to write the story as they wish.[15] In November 2020 it was announced that after 51 chapters and 13 volumes, Kodachi would step down as writer, with Kishimoto assuming full writing duties and Ikemoto continuing as illustrator beginning with chapter 52 in V Jump magazine on 21 November 2020.[16][17]

Media

Manga

See also: List of Boruto chapters

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations is written by Ukyō Kodachi (vol.1–13) and Masashi Kishimoto (vol.14–20) and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto.[18] It started in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump on 9 May 2016.[19][20] It ran in the magazine until 10 June 2019 and was then transferred to V Jump on 20 July of the same year.[21][22] The original series' creator, Masashi Kishimoto, initially supervised the manga, which was illustrated by his former chief assistant and written by the co-writer of the Boruto: Naruto the Movie screenplay, Ukyō Kodachi.[19] In November 2020 Kodachi stepped down, with Kishimoto taking over as writer.[16] In order to keep the entire Naruto saga within a hundred volumes, Ikemoto hopes to complete the manga in fewer than 30 volumes.[23] In April 2023, it was announced that the manga would enter on hiatus;[24] it resumed on 21 August of the same year, with a second part titled Boruto: Two Blue Vortex.[25]

Viz Media licensed the manga for English release in North America in 2017 and released the first volume alongside the English dub of Boruto: Naruto the Movie.[26]

A spin-off manga titled Boruto: Saikyo Dash Generations,[lower-alpha 4] written by Kenji Taira, was serialised in Saikyō Jump from 1 April 2017 to 1 April 2021.[27][28] Its chapters were collected in four volumes.[29][30]

Anime

See also: List of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations episodes

At the Naruto and Boruto stage event at Jump Festa on 17 December 2016, it had been announced that the manga series would be adapted into an anime project,[31] which was later confirmed to be a television series adaptation that would feature an original story.[32][33] Additionally, an original video animation was previously released as a part of CyberConnect2's video game collection, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy (2017), which depicts a new mission where Boruto's team has to stop a thief.[34]

The television anime series, story supervised by the former manga writer Ukyō Kodachi until episode 216, is animated by Pierrot, with character designs by Tetsuya Nishio and Hirofumi Suzuki. The series premiered on TV Tokyo on 5 April 2017.[35] The episodes are being collected in DVDs in Japan, starting with the first four episodes on 26 July 2017.[36] The idea of choosing Pierrot and TV Tokyo again came from an editor of the Weekly Shonen Jump who found it fitting since there was a timeslot available for a young audience.[37] The series finished its first part with episode 293 on 26 March 2023; a second part was announced to be in development.[38][39]

Viz Media has licensed the series in North America.[40] In promoting the anime, Crunchyroll started sharing free segments of the series in early 2018.[41][42] On 21 July 2018, it was announced at Comic-Con International: San Diego that the English dub of the anime would premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block beginning on 29 September 2018.[43][44] In Australia, the anime began airing on ABC Me starting from 21 September 2019. On 21 April 2020, it was announced that episode 155 and onward would be delayed until 6 July 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[45]

Soundtrack

The music for the series is co-composed by Yasuharu Takanashi and his musical unit, Yaiba. A CD soundtrack titled Boruto Naruto Next Generations Original Soundtrack 1 was released on 28 June 2017.[46] The second soundtrack was released on 7 November 2018.[47]

Novels

A series of light novels written by Kō Shigenobu (novels 1–3 and 5) and Miwa Kiyomune (novel 4), with illustrations by Mikio Ikemoto, based on the anime have also been produced. The first one, titled The New Konoha Ninja Flying in the Blue Sky!,[lower-alpha 5] was released on 2 May 2017.[48] A second one was released on 4 July 2017, under the title A Call From the Shadows!.[lower-alpha 6][49] The third novel, Those Who Illuminate the Night of Shinobi!,[lower-alpha 7] was released on 4 September 2017.[50] The fourth novel, School Trip Bloodwind Records!,[lower-alpha 8] was released on 2 November 2017.[51] The fifth novel, The Last Day at the Ninja Academy!,[lower-alpha 9] was released on 4 January 2018.[52]

Video games

The video game Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker was released on 31 August 2018, and contains characters from both the Boruto and Naruto series.[53][54] In August 2018, another Boruto game was announced for PC. Titled Naruto x Boruto Borutical Generations, will be free to play, with options to purchase in-game items. The game will be available through the Yahoo! Game service.[55] Boruto Uzumaki also appears as a playable character in the crossover fighting game Jump Force.[56]

Reception

Manga

The manga has been generally well received in Japan; the compilations appeared as top sellers multiple times. In its release week, the first manga volume sold 183,413 copies.[57][58][59] The series has one million copies in print by January 2017.[60] In 2018, the fourth volume of the manga had received an initial print run of 450,000 copies.[61] The manga's first volume also sold well in North America,[62][63] while the series became the sixth-best-selling serialised manga in 2017 according to ICv2.[64] In 2018's fall, Boruto remained as the fourth best-selling manga in North America.[65]

Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network (ANN) said Boruto appealed to her despite never having gotten into the Naruto manga. She praised how the writers dealt with Boruto's angst without it coming across as "teen whining" and the way Sasuke decides to train him.[66] Amy McNulty of ANN regarded the manga as appealing to fans of the original Naruto series, adding that while Mitsuki has a small role in the story, his side-story helps to expand his origins.[66] Nik Freeman of the same website criticised Boruto's lack of development in comparison with his introduction in Naruto's finale; Freeman also said there are differences between the reasons both the young Naruto and Boruto vandalised their village. Nevertheless, Freeman liked Mitsuki's backstory as he did not feel it retold older stories.[66] Reviewing the first chapter online, Chris Beveridge of The Fandom Post was more negative, complaining about the sharp focus on Naruto and Boruto's poor relationship and the retelling of elements from Boruto: Naruto the Movie; Beveridge also criticised the adaptation of Kishimoto's artwork, but he praised the relationship between Naruto and Sasuke as well as the foreshadowing of a fight involving an older Boruto.[67]

Melina Dargis of the same website reviewed the first volume; she looked forward to the development of the characters despite having already watched the Boruto movie; she was also pleased by Mitsuki's role in his own side-story.[68] Leroy Douresseaux of Comic Book Bin recommended the series to Naruto fans, explaining how the new authors managed to use the first volume to establish the protagonists' personalities.[69] Dargis was impressed by the apparent message of the series, which she found was trying to connect to modern audiences with themes such as parental issues and the use of technology, in contrast to Naruto.[70] Douresseaux liked that Boruto's character development had already started by the second volume of the series because it helped readers appreciate him more.[71] The Fandom Post and Comic Book Bin noted the manga made major developments in Boruto's story due how the plot progress in the narrative makes the flashforward more possible and how the new characters get their first death match against Ao in the manga rather than relying on the previous generation.[72][73] In a more negative review, Manga News compared the manga to Dragon Ball Super when criticizing it for relying on returning characters Naruto and Sasuke to fight certain Kara villains rather than using a new protagonist and thus hoped that Boruto and his friends would be more active in later events.[74]

Kawaki's introduction in the series has been praised for the impact in the storyline and the rival parallels he has with Boruto in the same way the original manga had between Naruto and Sasuke.[75][76] Game designer Hiroshi Matsuyama praised the debut of Kawaki in the manga due to his involvement in the narrative as well as the fight sequences he takes part of.[77]

Anime

The anime was popular with Japanese readers of Charapedia, who voted it the ninth best anime show of Spring 2017.[78] IGN writer Sam Stewart commended the focus on the new generation of ninjas as well as the differences between them and the previous generation. He praised the return of other characters like Toneri Otsutsuki and enjoyed the eye techniques.[79] Stewart applauded the characterisation of both Shikadai and Metal Lee, calling their relationship as well as accidental fight interesting to watch and saying Boruto: Naruto Next Generations improves with each episode.[80] Crunchyroll Brand Manager Victoria Holden joined IGN's Miranda Sanchez to discuss whether Next Generations could live up to the success of the old series while still reviewing previous episodes of the series.[81] According to TV Tokyo, sales and gross profits of Boruto have been highly positive during 2018 taking the top 5 spot.[82] In a Crunchyroll report, Boruto was seen as one of the most streamed anime series from 2018 in multiple countries, most notably the ones from Asia.[83] UK Anime Network listed it as one of the best anime from 2019 for showing appealing original story arcs not present in the original serialization which contrasted the Naruto anime whose original stories failed to attract the audience.[84]

In a more comical article, Geek.com writer Tim Tomas compared Boruto with the series The Legend of Korra, since both were different from their predecessors despite sharing themes with them.[85] Sarah Nelkin considered Boruto as a more lighthearted version of the Naruto series, but Amy McNulty praised its 13th episode for the focus on a subplot that had been developing since the first episode because its revelations made the series darker.[86][87] Stewart agreed with McNulty, commenting that the developers reached the climax of the anime's first story arc. The villain's characterisation also impressed the reviewer.[88] Allega Frank of Polygon mentioned that during the start of both the manga and the anime, multiple fans were worried due to a flashforward in which an older Boruto is facing an enemy named Kawaki who implies Naruto might be dead; his fate left them concerned.[89] The series ranked 80th in Tokyo Anime Award Festival in the Best 100 TV Anime 2017 category.[90]

Critics also commented on Boruto's characterisation in the anime. Beveridge applauded the series' first episode, saying he felt Boruto's portrayal was superior to the one from the manga, while other writers enjoyed his heroic traits that send more positive messages to the viewers.[91][92][93] Reviewers praised that the returning character Sasuke Uchiha had become more caring toward his daughter, Sarada, the female protagonist of the series, and they felt this highly developed the two characters.[94] Critics felt this further helped to expand the connection between the Uchiha family members — Sasuke, Sakura, and Sarada — due to how their bond is portrayed during the anime's second story arc.[95][96][97] Kawaki's fight with Garo was also the most viewed 2021 fight on Crunchyroll's YouTube channel weighted at 30 days.[98]

Notes

Clarifications

  1. Chief Director (総監督)
  2. Animation Supervisor (アニメーション監修) in episodes 105–281 and 287–.
  3. Animation Supervisor (アニメーション監修) in episodes 282–286.
  4. Story Supervisor (ストーリー監修)
  5. In the United Kingdom through Crunchyroll UK and Ireland (formerly known as Manga Entertainment) and in Australia through Crunchyroll Store Australia (formerly Madman Anime).

Translations

  1. Japanese: BORUTO（ボルト）
  2. BORUTO（ボルト） -NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS-
  3. BORUTO（ボルト） -TWO BLUE VORTEX-
  4. BORUTO-ボルト- SAIKYO DASH GENERATIONS
  5. 青天を翔る新たな木の葉たち!, Seiten o Kakeru Aratana Konoha-tachi!
  6. 影からの呼び声!, Kage Kara no Yobigoe!
  7. 忍の夜を照らす者!, Shinobi no Yoru O Terasu Mono!
  8. 修学旅行血風録!, Shūgakuryokō ketsu pū roku!
  9. 忍者学校最後の日!, Ninja akademī saigo no hi!

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