The battle ends when Momoshiki, sacrificing Kinshiki to increase his own strength, is defeated by Boruto and Naruto with Sasuke's help Momoshiki survives long enough to realize Boruto's full potential while warning him of future tribulations. Boruto, Sasuke and the four Kages, the leaders of other ninja villages, set out to rescue Naruto. Boruto asks Sasuke to train him for the upcoming Chunin exam to impress his father.ĭuring the exam, Momoshiki and Kinshiki Ōtsutsuki, the duo whom Sasuke met, abduct Naruto so they can use Kurama, a tailed beast sealed inside his body, to revitalize the dying Divine Tree from the dimension they came from. Sasuke returns to the village to warn Naruto of an impending threat relating to deduce the motivations of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. 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. The son of the Seventh Hokage Naruto Uzumaki, Boruto feels angry over his father placing the village before his family. Opening with a teenaged Boruto Uzumaki facing a foe named Kawaki during the destruction of his village, the manga follows with a retelling of events in Boruto: Naruto the Movie with added content. See also: Boruto: Naruto the Movie and List of Naruto characters Shueisha has shipped a million copies of the manga series as of January 2017. Pierrot's anime prequel also 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. A series of light novels have also been written.

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. An anime television series adaptation started airing on TV Tokyo on 5 April 2017.

While both Kodachi and Ikemoto are in charge of the manga. 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. Boruto is a spin-off and a sequel to Kishimoto's Naruto, which follows the exploits of Naruto Uzumaki's son, Boruto Uzumaki, and his ninja team.īoruto originated from Shueisha's proposal to Kishimoto on making a sequel to Naruto. In November 2020 Kodachi stepped down, with Kishimoto taking over as writer. It began monthly serialization 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. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations is a Japanese manga series written by Ukyō Kodachi and Masashi Kishimoto, and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto.

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