Boruto's Otsutsuki Twist Sets Up Naruto As the Sequel's Real Hero
Warning: contains spoilers for the latest chapter of Boruto
If there's one plot point made clear in the newest chapter of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, it's that the Otsutsuki Clan is set to make a return either directly or through their vessels Boruto, Kawaki, and Code. An Otsutsuki return sets up the likely resurgence of Naruto and Sasuke as the story's central heroes. Considering some feel Boruto is a worse protagonist than Naruto, this could prove divisive.
The Otsutsuki Clan is literally the root of all evil in the Naruto universe. Arriving on Earth from another dimension thousands of years ago to harvest a chakra fruit from a God Tree, Kayuga Otsutsuki betrayed her family and ate the fruit to become a God to humanity. Taking a human as her husband, she gave birth to two sons to whom she passed some of her chakra energy. It is through their descendants that chakra was passed to the rest of humanity. One of her sons would go on to create ninjutsu. There have only been four people able to stop Kayuga: her two sons, and Naruto and Sasuke, who are the reincarnations of Kayuga's grandsons, Indra and Asura. The only other person to defeat an Otsutsuki was Naruto's son Boruto, who defeated Momoshiki Otsutsuki, who was sent by family leaders to check in on Kayuga after she cut off communication.
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When Isshiki Otsutsuki, Kayuga's original partner, was ultimately defeated by another Naruto-Sasuke collaboration, the feel for many fans was that by eliminating the Otsutsuki threat, Naruto creator Masahi Kishimoto had, at long last decided to turn his focus and attention to developing the «next generation» of shinobi from Boruto. As if reading fans' thoughts, Naruto
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