Masashi Kishimoto, creator of Naruto, will be in charge of the Boruto script

There is no doubt that Naruto is one of the most successful manganimes of the last few decades and has paved the way for a very juicy franchise with a good number of movies, video games and all kinds of material behind it. Its spin-off, Boruto: Naruto the Next Generations It started as a sequel film, but Naruto’s next generation of heroes soon won over their fans, and the manga has been in print for several years now and features its own anime.

So far the manga creators of Boruto I was the cartoonist Mikio Ikemoto, who was assistant to the creator Masashi Kishimoto during the publication of Narutoand the screenwriter Ukyo Kodachi, who wrote light novels of the universe and was also the screenwriter of the original Boruto. However, the next issue of the manga comes with important news, as the creator of the franchise returns to take care of the script from now on.

Until now Kishimoto had chosen not to get involved in the production of Boruto, where he acted as a supervisor, but according to number 52 of the series, the creator will continue to make the scripts for the manga. In addition to this, Kishimoto will also create the “storyboards”, a part of the drawing process in which the cartoons of the pages are structured to decide types of plan and position of the characters in a very schematic way, but decisive for the functioning of the pages. in the right direction. Of course, Ikemoto will continue to make the final manga art based on these Kishimoto patterns.

The announcement came from the manga’s Twitter account, where it could be read “As for the Boruto manga, with the publication of Chapter 52 on V-Jump in the December issue (on sale November 21), the production structure will change and work will begin as planned. To Ukyo Kodachi, who was the screenwriter until now, thank you very much for your hard work. Serialization from now on will be according to the scripts of master Mashashi Kishimoto. “

With the information that the announcement has given, it’s not very clear if the next issue that is about to be released will already be from Kishimoto or is the latest from Kodachi, but obviously it’s a blast to get the original creator back to take care of Boruto and company. What do you think? How does the change to manga suit you?