
When Sasuke returns to the village to warn Naruto of an impending threat relating to deducing the motivations of Kaguya Åtsutsuki, Boruto persuades the Uchiha to train him for the upcoming Chunin exam to impress his father. At that time, Boruto had become a member of a ninja team led by Naruto's protégé Konohamaru Sarutobi, along with Sarada Uchiha, the daughter of Sasuke and Sakura Uchiha, and Mitsuki, Orochimaru's artificial son.

Being the son of the Seventh Hokage Naruto Uzumaki, Boruto who felt angry over his father placing the village before that of his family.

Opening up with an Boruto Uzumaki facing a foe named Kawaki during the destruction of his village, the manga follows with a retelling of events of Boruto: Naruto the Movie with added content. 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. The story was also applauded for building up the original Naruto scenario by showing the new generation of ninjas and their relationships with their parents and mentors. A series of light novels have also been written.Ĭritical reception to the series has been largely positive most critics liked the traits of the main characters, most notably Boruto, who resembles his father, Naruto, but is spoiled and pampered and therefore faces different problems than Naruto did during childhood as a social pariah and an orphan. 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 directed by Noriyuki Abe started airing on TV Tokyo on 5 April 2017. While both Kodachi and Ikemoto are in charge of the manga, Kodachi also oversees the anime's adaptation alongside Kishimoto. However, Kishimoto rejected this offer and proposed his former assistant Mikio Ikemoto to draw it the writer of the film Boruto: Naruto the Movie, UkyÅ Kodachi, created the plot.

Boruto originated from Shueisha's proposal to Kishimoto on making a sequel to Naruto.
