Huge Boruto Plot Twist Came From THIS SCENE
Boruto’s biggest twist was a decade in the making
Masashi Kishimoto is often praised for the writing behind Naruto and Sasuke’s dynamic and now we learn there is more to the story of anime’s greatest rivalry.
During the Kana event in France on August 25th, Kishimoto and Mikio Ikemoto were asked by the Le Journal de Mickey about how Boruto became a renegade when he swapped position with Kawaki via Ada’s Omnipotence.
Kishimoto also confirmed in the interview how this was literally the inspiration for switching Boruto and Kawaki's life
This comparison was not a stretch 😠pic.twitter.com/ge1YGSUlY2
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Ikemoto: It’s not that Boruto is really a traitor. When his adventure began, his situation was the opposite of Naruto’s in the past. He had friends and a family. His main problem was an overly absent father. So he didn’t particularly have reasons to push himself. But since he’s the main character, we had to find a way to make him act. On the other hand, Kawaki has a situation similar to Naruto’s. I thought that switching the positions between Boruto and Kawaki would allow for better story progression. This is an idea I had relatively early on.
Kishimoto: In Naruto, there’s the rivalry between the protagonist and Sasuke. I’d already imagined a situation where their roles would’ve been reversed. So Ikemoto-sensei experimented with this idea. Through Boruto, I can see this change of roles, but as a reader. I fully enjoy it because I’m the first to be able to read the manga for making checks. Being Boruto’s first reader is a joy.
For any Naruto fan, they remember the Naruto vs Sasuke fight in the Samurai Bridge the during the Five Kages Summit Arc.
Naruto and Sasuke have a discussion about and Naruto considered what would happen if their places were switched, which is represented with the two switching their techniques: Sasuke holding a Rasengan while Naruto has the Chidori
The experiment brought up turns out to be the Omnipotence Arc, where Ada fulfills Kawaki’s wish after the Leaf hunts him down for supposedly killing Naruto, the Seventh Hokage.
Realizing the consequences of killing Boruto, Momoshiki’s vessel, to save the Leaf, Kawaki lets out his helplessness and frustration, which results in Ada subconsciously activating the full power of her Omnipotence to rewrite the world’s memories and switch Kawaki and Boruto’s positions.
About Naruto
Naruto is the hit manga series produced by Masashi Kishimoto for Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Serialized between 1999-2014, Naruto has since sold over 250 million copies, making it one of the highest-grossing manga series of all time and one of the most beloved properties from the Shueisha brand and Japan in general. Naruto is the story of the eponymous protagonist’s journey to be acknowledged and become the strongest ninja of the Hidden Leaf Village, the Hokage.
About Boruto
Boruto is the sequel to the Naruto series serialized in V Jump from 2016-2023 under Kishimoto’s supervision, written originally by Ukyo Kodachi until Chapter 51 and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto. After 2023, the Boruto series would be followed by Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, which covers the post-timeskip of the Boruto series. Boruto tells the tale of Seventh Hokage Naruto’s son, Boruto, and his pursuit of his own ninja way different from his father while facing off against the Kara organization and his fate as an Otsutsuki vessel.
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