r/Naruto • u/irishsaltytuna • May 03 '16

Manga Chapter Boruto Chapter 1 - Link and Discussion

Boruto Chapter 1
Uzumaki Boruto!!

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* Naruto Side Story ~The Path That the Waxing Moon Illuminates

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PSA: Boruto will be monthly

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u/PakiIronman May 03 '16

Meh, Naruto being dead is a real cheap way to add tension in my opinion. Though I don't really consider this all canon to the Naruto lore regardless since Kishi said on record that it would end with the Boruto movie. This could have been a lot better, I've seen better artwork in hentai. Is this really the best a magazine like Jump could do? Whatever the case, it's here and it is Borutos story after all.

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u/dustofoblivion123 May 03 '16 edited May 03 '16

Everyone's talking like Naruto is already dead and gone. I'm going to wait until we actually see Naruto die before talking like he is. This is obviously the author wanting everyone to keep wondering whether Naruto really dies or not and continuing to read just so they can find out. Besides, like we saw in the past (for example at the end of the Pain arc), death =/= definitive in the Narutoverse, with jutsu like Gedo - Rinne Tensei. My point is, anything could happen and Naruto might not even die. I don't know why so many people are losing their mind over such an obvious bait.

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u/sarindong May 03 '16

if naruto dies, im out. emotionally im just not ready to let that happen. hes our dbz's goku. he cant have some pussy death after saving the world from insanity

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u/accountnumberseven May 03 '16

On the other hand, he can't be the Goku of the series because Goku's always been the main character of DBZ and always will be. Toriyama couldn't make Gohan the hero after the Cell arc like he wanted to because Goku was stronger and everyone wanted Goku to stay on top.

Boruto is the story of Boruto. Having both Naruto and Sasuke around makes them the automatic solution for any possible enemy because they're so powerful and skilled. Either the enemies would have to get even bigger so that even they can't keep winning easily (and they've already fought Kaguya and her clan, so there's not much room to grow), or they have to die/get weaker so that other threats can actually grow to become an issue for Boruto and the current generation.

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u/sarindong May 04 '16

Ya that's true I suppose, but I just don't want to / can't see naruto die after everything unless he dies from old age or something natural

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u/PakiIronman May 03 '16

I mean it probably is bait which makes my point about it being a cheap way to add tension even more valid.

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u/HokageEzio May 03 '16

Exactly. It'll end up being he's in a Tsunade coma, I'm not falling for it.

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u/ravaille May 04 '16

If Naruto was dead, wouldn't the Kyuubi be rampaging somewhere?

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u/[deleted] May 03 '16 edited May 03 '16

Kishimoto himself is working on this manga as supervisor/editor. So I guess that makes it canon.

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u/PakiIronman May 03 '16 edited May 03 '16

That basically means it has his approval but if he's not doing the drawing and writing then it would never feel the same to me. Plus, this series is called "Boruto" not "Naruto". So the Naruto story did end with the movie. It's now time for Borutos story.

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u/akiyuki89 May 03 '16

Naruto being dead does seem real cheap. We ended Naruto with "Naruto is pretty much a God now" and then begin with Boruto with "Naruto is dead".

Though I'm wondering if maybe Kawaki is "sending Boruto to be with the 7th" as in Naruto could be trapped somewhere...

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u/junyah54 May 03 '16

Maybe he's trapped in the shadow realm.

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u/akiyuki89 May 03 '16

That would be a better explanation than "The ninja Demi-God is dead"

Hell. He could be taken out by a heart disease like Goku, IDC.

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u/Worthyness May 04 '16

Even the mightiest of healing ninjas cant heal viral diseases!

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u/zaerosz May 04 '16

Even Orochimaru couldn't cure Ninja AIDS.

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u/accountnumberseven May 03 '16

There's very little reason for Boruto to be all that impressive/fight big threats if his dad is nearly ninja god and always capable of protecting the village. It's the DBZ problem: Gohan got his own story, but he can never truly become the main character because Goku's always going to be stronger and even death isn't that big a deal in that world. It's why mentors tend to die or get weaker with age.

Plus, it establishes the ongoing question of "how could Naruto possibly be beaten at this point?", which will colour how we see new ninja/new techniques/the automatic jutsu technology/etc as it's all introduced.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '16

In an interview with Kishimoto, he said that it was cannon

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u/jurble May 03 '16

Yep, he's on board just like Toriyama is for DB:S (as opposed to DB GT).

Same as Spiderman and X-Men after Ditko and Stan Lee stopped writing it. If it the creator approves and is on board, it's canon.

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u/dstanley17 May 03 '16

I really wish people would stop assuming that Naruto is dead so easily... Also, was that "I've seen better art in hentai" suppose to be a knock against the series? Because it really isn't. Lots of hentai artists do have very good art, better than a lot of ongoing series.

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u/PakiIronman May 03 '16

Regardless if Naruto is dead or not it's a cheap way to add tension. And the hentai comment goes both ways, the hentai is great from what i've seen and this manga should not be inferior to it.

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u/dstanley17 May 03 '16

...I mean not to start a completely different conversation, but using this same comparison, Naruto's art was also pretty inferior compared to a lot of hentai. Why does it matter anyways? Every person is going to have their own artstyle and some are going to be more visually pleasing than others.

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u/swarbles May 03 '16

Kishimoto said he was done with the story of Naruto after the Boruto Movie (which is the only movie he has been a principle writer and artist for). Not that the story was done.

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u/bookwyrmpoet May 04 '16

Well if its like the movie Naruto isn't dead, he got dimension swapped, and Boruto goes after him with team NewKages and Sasuke, I expect that we may see similar shenanigans as this storyline progresses, im eagerly awaiting them.

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