A 293-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by Pierrot, was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 2017 to March 2023 a second part has been announced to be in development. 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 April 2023, the series concluded the first part of the story and, following a brief hiatus, it is set to continue with a second part, titled Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, in August of the same year.
In November 2020, Kodachi stepped down, with Kishimoto taking over as writer. It began monthly serialization under the title Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, 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 is a Japanese manga series written by Ukyō Kodachi and Masashi Kishimoto, and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto.
