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| Genre | Adventure, fantasy[1] |
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| Illustrated by | Mikio Ikemoto |
| Published by | Shueisha |
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| Imprint | Jump Comics |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | 9 May 2016 – present |
| Volumes | 23 |
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| Boruto: Naruto Next Generations | |
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| Studio | Pierrot |
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| Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
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| Original run | 5 April 2017 – 26 March 2023 |
| Episodes | 293 |
Boruto[a] is a Japanese manga series written by Ukyō Kodachi and Masashi Kishimoto, and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto. It 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. The manga began serialization under the title Boruto: Naruto Next Generations,[b] 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.[c]
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 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 over a million copies of the manga series by January 2017.
- ^ "The Official Website for Boruto: Naruto Next Generations". Viz Media. Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
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