Warning : The following hold spoilers for Boruto : Two Blue Vortex chapter 7 ! !

Summary

Only the ostensible filler episodes of theBorutoanime – even whole arcs – truly and immediately followed up on a fundamental story line thatNarutomangaka Masashi Kishimoto wrote himself in the official prequel chapter of the then - upcomingBorutomanga . After years of publication , it was n’t until after the closing ofBorutomanga ’s first series , Naruto Next Generations , and the subsequent starting time ofTwo Blue Vortexthat the manga finally referenced a key point in theBorutoone - guessing by Kishimoto calledNaruto Gaiden : The Road Illuminated by the Full Moon .

buff who ab initio readThe Road Illuminated by the Full Moonin 2016 were doubtlessly confused for geezerhood when theBorutomanga failed to address anything relevant about Mitsuki ’s eccentric , or even Orochimaru . The one - jibe that was mean to hype up the manga revolved around their kinship , Mitsuki ’s sense of identity operator or deficiency thereof , and end with Orochimaru ’s ambiguous statement about Mitsuki finding a Sunday who will illuminate his path .

alas , unless they watched the anime , these readers would n’t get anything until midway through 2023 , when Mitsuki last speak of a " sun " inTwo Blue Vortexchapter 1 . For those who started readingBorutoduringNaruto Next Generationschapter 1 , this program line just serve as some kind of random adumbration that they expected would be explain in later chapters . However , only those who watched the gum anime roll in the hay the truth immediately .

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The Boruto Anime Flows More Naturally Than the Manga

Based on the manga by creator/supervisor Masashi Kishimoto, artist Mikio Ikemoto, and scriptwriter Ukyo Kodachi; produced by Pierrot

Almost immediately in the Zanzibar copal , the mystery besiege Mitsuki and Orochimaru was explored , building up for weeks until the iconic thirty-fourth episode that ultimately adaptedNaruto Gaiden : The Road Illuminated by the Full Moon , but the anime did n’t stop there . Soon , Mitsuki identified Boruto as his sun and what that meant to him . So , in essence , the one - shot served as a twinkle - forward event , almost like the infamous battle between Boruto and Kawaki in the future , but only in relation to the Zanzibar copal , which it subsequently go up to and continued from .

From the single view of the manga , Kishimoto ’s one - shot could be perceive as an ostensive obscure result that subsequently turn out to be someOne Piece - esque type of foreshadowing forTwo Blue Vortex , where secret is perplexingly treated as B. B. King and fagot over all else . However , this mystery , like in most pillow slip , come at the disbursement of other more effectual types of authorship . Here , what ’s lost are the incredible implications that theBorutoanime provides viewerswhen Mitsuki and Boruto fightinTwo Blue Vortex . When Boruto tells Mitsuki to come find his sunlight , he is in effect informing him to do everything that he already did in the many episodes and arcs of the anime .

This is but the belated of many examples leaven that the many critiques about theBorutoanime are fictive , since the supposedfiller inBorutois in reality essential . It ’s odd , considering the fact that manga is almost always comprehend as the true determinate source of information for a series . However , that ’s clearly not the case inBoruto .

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Orochimaru holding a kunai to Mitsuki’s neck in Boruto.

Orochimaru in Naruto Gaiden: The Road Illuminated by the Full Moon looking at a newspaper.

Boruto vs Mitsuki in the Naruto Next Generations anime

Boruto and Mitsuki together against a yellow background in Two Blue Vortex.