Boruto, as a sequel to Naruto, is expected to have a lot of those.
Manga
Part I
- The Flash Forward of Boruto versus Kawaki. It is implied that Naruto has been killed by Kawaki, and Kawaki claims that the age of Ninja is over. However, Boruto claims that he is still a ninja, as he puts on his headband and gains a blue Power Tattoo on his right arm and face, while also activating his Jōgan. This entire sequence shows that Boruto can, and will become very strong, making the audience invested in his journey towards this pivotal moment.
- Especially its movie quality animation in the anime version (pictured), clearly living up to the same standards as of Boruto: Naruto the Movie.
Chapter 11: A New Mission!!
- The battle against the Mujina robbers.
- Sarada really holds her own against them, knocking out one immediately with a punch, and then keeping up with another. All while she seemingly flirts with one of them.
Sarada: The Mujina thieves... So this is all you're capable of?
Mujina Thief [Beat] You may be confident in your abilities... but compared to our boss, you're nothing but a regular little kid...
Sarada: (adjusts her glasses) Ohhh... your boss is strong, isn't he? I'd love to meet him... I wonder if he's my type?- Boruto can now use a full Rasengan, despite the fact that he could only produce a small, teleporting version of it in Boruto: Naruto the Movie.
Chapter 16: The Vessel
- Surprisingly, Naruto uses Earth Wall jutsu rather than his past M.O. of mainly using Rasengan and Shadow Clones.
Chapter 22: Fierce Battle Conclusion!
- The whole Boruto Vs Ao fight goes almost exactly as Boruto planned it. From letting go of his prototype chakra saber so that Ao can grab it to get his chakra absorbed, to make a clone of his equip his Absorbing Device so he could pass for the real one. Ao got fooled from start to finish.
- Kahin Koji's makes his entrance, summons a giant Toad and crushes Ao alive.
Chapter 33: Exceeding The Limits!!
- Naruto defeats Delta, overpowering her absorbing eye with his massive chakra volume. While the fight showed that, yes, advanced ninja tech can be dangerous even for the worlds' strongest shinobi, he is still leagues ahead of them. The fight would have been much easier for him had he used the Kyuubi, but he may have feared changing the topography or harming the nearby kids, so he didn't even bother.
Chapter 41: The New Team Seven
- New Team 7 takes on Boro. Boro's specialization is a virus filled mist. Said Virus paralyse and eventually kill anyone who breath it. What do they do? Sarada analyze the Virus composition with her Sharingan, Mitsuki creates an antidote with the blood sample from Boro he collected last chapter and he gives the result to the whole team. Sarada fakes her getting paralyzed by the virus to take a shot at firing a Fire Style to Boro, followed by Boruto & Kawaki's Rasengan Unison which destroys the Inner Kara member. Who then proceed to regenerate in a second.
- After some help from Kawaki, Sarada realizes that despite his regenerative powers, Boro's body must have a weak point, and that he is changing the weakpoint with hand signs and that they would need an attack that is ridiculously fast the hit it. What does she do? She bust out a Chidori and DESTROYS Boro's body, taking out the weak point in the process.
Chapter 43: Manifestation
- A moment that also counts as nightmare fuel. Boro's body, after being pierced by Sarada, starts to mutate into a blob and he goes on a rage. Just when he's about to kill Boruto, the boy suddenly gains a power boost and manages to destroy Boro permanently with a Kama boosted Rasengan. However, there's something not right. Boruto grows a horn and his personality seems different. Almost like... Momoshiki Otsutsuki.
Chapter 47: Predestined Fate
- Koji Kashin succeeds in killing Jigen by summoning natural flames that the latter cannot absorb. Unfortunately, Isshiki Otsutsuki revives himself through Jigen's corpse and turns the tables by shrinking the flames faster than Koji can summon them.
- The reveal of Koji's identity: he is a clone of Jiraiya. Amado managed to get his hands on some DNA of the Sannin, and according ti Isshiki, he cloned him because he was inspired by the legendary ninja.
Chapter 48: Time Limit
- Despite clearly being outclassed now, Koji Kashin doesn't back off and fights Isshiki over and over again, even as the Otsutsuki easily shrugs his attacks and mocks him, showing a valiant spirit not dissimiliar to that of his template. And while he ultimely is defeated by Isshiki, he manages to escape.
Chapter 53: That's Reality
- Kawaki tricks Isshiki into Marling a clone, which can't substain the Karma, which means that his last effort to save his life with the creation of a vessel was wasted, and on top of that, the boy reduces him to dust by jumping on his eroding body.
- A villainous example. while the fight against Isshiki reached its conclusion, Boruto lost his senses, and got overtaken by Momoshiki. The Otsutsuki bides his time, waiting for the right time to strike, and indeed, he gets it right after Isshiki's death. Where he manages to sneak behind Sasuke, and stab his left eye, depriving him of the Rinnegan, and the ability to teleport across dimensions, thus blocking everyone in the dimension they were.
Chapter 54: Bro
- Another one for Kawaki, with Naruto out of commission, and Sasuke greatly weakened, he is left alone against Momoshiki, who is planning to use him as a sacrifice to the Juubi. However, Kawaki doesn't surrender, and decides to set himself on fire, risking his own life, in order to force Momoshiki to absorb chakra, allowing Boruto to reawaken and free himself from the his control, he succeeds.
Chapter 64: Control
- After being beaten down by Code, Boruto subconsciously activates a new form of the Karma, all thanks to the meds he has taken. In this form, Boruto has the same appearence he takes when Momoshiki overatakes his conscience, except that he lacks the horn, and retains control over himself. With this newfound power, he is able to be a more dangerous fighter to Code.
Chapter 65: Karma Power
- Momoshiki manages to overtake Boruto once more, and he immediately proceeds to demolish Code, spamming giant Rasengans forcing him on the defensive.
- He even creates his own variant! The Rasen-dan (literally meaning "spiraling bullet"), where he compresses a Rasengan down to the dimensions of a small projectile, and shoots it as if he was using a gun.
- One for Kawaki, where he manages to reawaken his karma (secretly restored by Amado, when he fixed his broken arm) in his desire to save Naruto, not only that, but he progressed to his own evolved stage of the karma, manifesting the same horn he did all the way back in chapter 36, and the same doujutsu Isshiki had.
Chapter 66: Do-or-Die
- Kawaki with his newfound power faces off Momoshiki, in one of the best looking fights in the manga. Using the sukunahikona and daikokuten, the young boy is able to corner Momoshiki at various times, but nontheless, the alien is still capable to put a fight. We even have a nice shot of the 2 clashing their attacks together!
Chapter 80: What Dad Would Do!
- Even though Boruto's entire village - except for Sarada, Sumire (both of whom are somehow unaffected by Eida's Omnipotence), and Sasuke (whose memories are affected, but chooses to come to Boruto's rescue on behalf of Sarada) - now believes him to be the stranger that betrayed everyone, Boruto refuses to let this get to him, promising to get stronger so he can face Kawaki instead of despairing about his situation. This frustrates Momoshiki, who was expecting this moment to break Boruto so he can finally take control of his body.
Part II/Blue Two Vortex (After the Time Skip)
Chapter 1: Boruto- Boruto makes his return to Konohagakure after 3 years to stop Code from attacking Konohagakure and Sarada. And he appears out of nowhere as Code is about to attack Sarada, stomping him.
Chapter 2: Tree
- Sarada defeats the Claw Grimes with Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique and Chidori, showing just how much she has progressed as a ninja. When other people ask if she's even a Genin, Sarada states that ranks don't matter.
Chapter 3: Uzuhiko
- Boruto shows how much he's progressed when he outmatches Code with his new Rasengan: "Uzuhiko" technique. This technique forms around his body and he can pass it onto an attacking enemy, striking them with the rotation of the planet and leaving them confused and disoriented by vertigo unless Boruto removes the effect. Boruto uses this on Code to disorient him and attempt to interrogate him about the Ten-Tails' whereabouts.
- When Kawaki's attack on Boruto interferes with Boruto's attempts to interrogate Code about the Ten-Tails' whereabouts, allowing Code to escape, it turns out that Boruto planted a spy toad onto Code so that he can track down Code's whereabout's and find the Ten-Tails there.
Chapter 4: The Awakening
- What does Boruto use to reach Code in the Kara dimension, once the Ten-Tails is located? He uses the Flying Thunder God. That's right, the jutsu invented by the Second Hokage, and made famous by the Fourth, is being used once again, by the latter's grandson. And how did Boruto use it? The toad that was planted on Code in the previous chapter, also carried with himself a pin that Boruto used to teleport.
- At the end of the chapter, it is revealed that Boruto is working with Koji Kashin now. The former inner of Kara and clone of Jiraiya, that had completely disappeared after escaping from Isshiki.
Chapter 5: Target
- In only a year after leaving Konoha, Boruto managed to learn almost the techniques that Sasuke could pass him. Sasuke himself compliments him saying that Boruto is a genius.
- We discover how exactly Sasuke ended up trapped in a tree: he and Boruto were ambushed by Code during the timeskip, and despite Sasuke realizing that they could not win, he still manages to injure Code, cutting his left eye. And he tells Boruto to escape, survive and hone the skills he teached him, so to become unstoppable, and he tells him to watch over Sarada for him, before charging at Code and his Claw Grimes one final time. The flashback ends with Boruto silently gazing at the tree that has now appeared and absorbed his master, before taking his sword.
- Amado reveals that he suspects his memories have been altered. Why? Because he has noticed how Kawaki's body is modified with ninja tech, and how his Karma look to be both the result of his work; and as a scientist, memories are only impressions, and the physical evidence is the strongest proof.
- This is impressive, because as Sarada points out in the same chapter, Omnipotence is so strong that even when shown a photo of the Uzumaki family, featuring Boruto, people will still say that Kawaki is the legitimate son of Naruto. Which means that Amado is capable to doubt his memory, and accept that things may not be how he remembers them.
Chapter 6: Three Years
- Mitsuki managing to knock out Kawaki via sneak attack with his snakes, then immediately going for Boruto, turning on his Sage Mode and viciously attacking his former friend. Even if Boruto is unphazed by his attacks, it is still a notable effort from Mitsuki, as he has spend the last three years waiting for the moment where he would face again Boruto, the chapter also ends with a cliffhanger of the 2 former teammates preparing to fight each other.
- One for Shikamaru. Not only he has run the village for three years as an interim Hokage (seemingly refusing to actually take the mantle of Eight Hokage), but after hearing Amado's talk from the previous chapter, he too is starting to doubt his memory. With the help of Ino, he manages to contact Boruto via mind trasfer jutsu (in this way no one can track their conversation), and tries to get his help. He even calls him "Uzumaki Boruto" to try convincing him to listen, and says that things start making sense when he flips Boruto's and Kawaki's positions.Shikamaru: You're actually Uzumaki Boruto, aren't you?
Anime
Episode 1: Boruto Uzumaki!- Boruto's fight against some bullies, mainly consisting of taijutsu. It's refreshing to see old fistfighting especially after Naruto's endgame.
Episode 2: The Hokage's Son!
- The fight between Boruto and Iwabe. The fight goes back to its roots of consisting of mostly taijutsu with some ninjutsu.
- After the fight between Boruto and Iwabe, when some of Boruto's classmates still think that he rides the coattail of his father, Inojin calls them out on this:Inojin: He wasn't fighting for himself. He did it for his classmate. When Kaminarimon was being pushed around, did any of you go to his rescue?
Classmate: Well...
Inojin: I'm not quoting Boruto... But that's... totally uncool.
Episode 3: Metal Lee Goes Wild!
- Shikadai uses his Shadow Imitation Technique to try and catch Metal Lee. Lee escapes, and Inojin distracts him with Ink Beasts... and then Shikadai reveals himself in the bushes and catches Lee from behind. Turns out the previous Shikadai was Boruto in disguise, and his "shadow" was just a drawing by Inojin!
- Metal Lee starts to break free of the Shadow Imitation Technique by opening the gates, at least 3 gates. He's BARELY AN ACADEMY STUDENT!!!
Episode 5: The Mysterious Tranfer Student
- Mitsuki doesn't disappoint. He mops the floor with Iwabe, and was going to kill him if not for Shino & Boruto's intervention.
Episode 9: Proof of Oneself
- The entire Boruto Vs Hanabi fight. Even if Hanabi dominated the fight, Boruto showed some serious skills with his clones.
- Sarada & Boruto Vs Kagemasa, in a fight full of Call Backs to the Naruto & Sasuke Vs Zabuza fight.
Episode 11: The Shadow of the Mastermind
- The wonderful battle plan the kids puts into motion to catch the culprit is clever. After realising they can't watch over the village by themselves, Boruto, Shikadai & Mitsuki decides to call for backup and calls the other rookies. With this, all the possible routes can be watched, that means the culprit will probably be seen. When the kids leaves the post office to search for the village, the culprit shows himself in the post office, because that's the only place they can't see ... which was Boruto's plan all along, everyone returns to the post office to catch the culprit ... who still manage to escape. But it was a good strategy anyway.
Episode 23: Bonds Come in All Shapes
Basically everything described in the chapter 9 an 10 sections of the awesome moments page for Naruto Gaiden except now expanded upon and beautifully animated.
- Sakura's fight against Shin Sr., putting him off balance and gaining the upper hand and catching him with a giant rock pillar (compared to the manga where she got smashed against it), which when he dodges and runs along it, has actually been booby trapped.
- Sasuke hitting Shin Sr. with Susanoo from out of nowhere, causing the loss of his leg, effectively immobilizing him.
- Sakura and Sasuke's final attack against Shin Sr. Sasuke's been stabbed and Sakura can't get close due to Shin Sr.'s blades, instead, she shares a look with Sasuke and then runs away from them, only for Sasuke to activate his Rinnegan, swapping places with Sakura (right as Shin tries to hit her with his blades), resulting in Sakura planting her fist right in Shin Sr.'s face. It should be noted that this is what finally puts Shin Sr down, unlike in the manga where it was Sasuke coming in with Susanoo.
- As with the manga, the Shin Jr.'s finally standing up to Shin Sr.
- When Shin's creature tries to teleport Shin and Sakura away, Sarada thwarts it with shuriken, reads and dodges its attack via Sharingan, and slams it into the ground with her mother's earth-shattering enhanced strength technique. She can already perform this technique at around just 12.
- When one of the Shin Jr.s tries to stab Naruto, he grabs and cracks the blade with his hand, right before Kurama forces the Shin Jr. army into submission through sheer terror.
- Sarada deciding that she wants to follow in Naruto's example and declared to Boruto that she will become the next Hokage.
Episode 30: The Sharingan vs. The Lightning Blade, Kiba the Fang!
- Sarada vs. Buntan is easily one of the best fights in the show thus far, with Sarada going all Kakashi on Buntan. Their fight had everything: Sharingan genjutsu, jutsu copying, blade clashes, strategy & planning. Ultimately, Buntan digs her own grave by running a strong electric current in the water, causing ionization, which creates a lot of oxygen and hydrogen. Sarada uses a paper bomb to blow it up, defeating Buntan.
- Chojuro defeated all three of the Seven Swordsman that immobilized him by breaking free, tanking stab wounds that went through his body, and losing half of his sword, and yet still won.
- Ichirota is about to target Chojuro when Iwabe shows up and clashes with his Explosive Blade with just a boulder on the sword. Ichirota thinks that he'll just make Iwabe explode, but Iwabe unsheathes a hidden sword in his katana and finishes Ichirota off in a Single-Stroke Battle.
Episode 31: Boruto and Kagura
- In the fight against Shizuma, when Mitsuki manages to get Shizuma in a chokehold, Mitsuki violently rips open his neck with a kunai in an awesomely brutal motion, though it was revealed to be a water clone (if it was the real Shizuma, the scene would have gotten real graphic really quick).
- Subsequently after the real Shizuma throws Mitsuki off, it's incredible to watch Mitsuki dodge the water icicles fluidly before he finally got pinned.
- It's also pretty awesome to realize that unlike Boruto, Mitsuki doesn't play around and try to play hero. He will ''kill' without hesitation if he deems necessary.
Episode 36: The Graduation Exam begins!
- Mitsuki activating some of his Sage Form power to battle his teacher, Shino, in a one-on-one battle. Although, offscreen, Mitsuki can later be seen triumphantly standing over a defeated Shino, who was no weak opponent. That said, Mitsuki is exhausted, and acknowledges Shino didn't use some of his true capabilities. Shino simply affirms that he couldn't very well kill his own student.
- Later that same episode, Mitsuki jumps in to attack Kakashi to help free Boruto from being pinned. Despite being way younger and less experienced, Mitsuki matched Kakashi to power in his attack. Even if the latter was holding back, it is still an impressive feat. Not to be outdone, Kakashi proceeds to knock Mitsuki unconscious for hours with a single hit.
Episode 37: A Shinobi's Resolve
- Working together the whole class manages to trick Kakashi and get a binding jutsu on him, resulting in them coming pretty close to passing the infamous bell test. Or at least seeming to, Kakashi, while certainly impressed, remarking that they still stood no chance of actually taking it from him, "even if Hell froze over."
''Episode 39: The Path Lit by the Full Moon"
- After being forced into a stressing situation by Orochimaru and his brother, Mitsuki activates his Sage Form, surprising even Orochimaru. He gets coated in a chakra shroud in the form of snakes. Although we didn't see Mitsuki go into battle, it's clear that this Sage Form is not something to be taken lightly.
Episode 41: Strength in Unity
- After Hidari immobilizes Konohamaru, he gloats about how the Shinobi from Konoha have become pushovers in this era of peace; but then as he prepares to deliver the final blow, Konohamaru frees himself using a wind-style Rasengan, and easily overpowers Hidari, who faints after seeing Konohamaru's true strength. Doubles to show how Konohamaru has grown and developed from a snotty kid into a very capable Jounin.
- Boruto, Sarada and Mitsuki using teamwork to defeat Ashimaru, their combination attack using Sarada's eyes, Boruto's wind release and Mitsuki's speed culminates with Sarada landing her super punch upon Ashimaru. Showing how they are growing as a team.
Episode 58: The Tournament Begins!
- Watching Mitsuki completely dominate his match against Toroi, who didn't stand a chance against Mitsuki and his deadly chokeholds.
- The fact that in this fight, Mitsuki was holding back.
Episode 59: Boruto vs. Shikadai
- Even though Chocho was largely outclassed by Shinki, instead of giving up, Chocho put forth all her effort against Shinki, something she's never done before. Although she eventually collapsed thanks to chakra exhaustion and Shinki was declared the winner, Chocho's determination throughout the match was awe-inspring.
Episode 60: The Hidden Leaf vs. The Hidden Sand
- Sarada's match against Araya; despite being pushed to her limit, Sarada manages to figure out the secret of Araya's technique and win her match. This shows how she inherited both her father, Sasuke's, analytical capabilities and her mother, Sakura's, smarts.
- Mitsuki vs. Shinki, both are evenly matched; yet despite being goaded by Shinki, Mitsuki refuses to show his true strength out of his wish to stay in the village with Boruto.
Episode 65: Father and Child
- Naruto and Sasuke vs Momoshiki, which is even more epic and awesome than the already awesome movie version, this fight combines extremely well choreographed taijutsu fights and creative usage of jutsu akin to fights in the early days of the original Naruto anime(including call backs to fights like the Zabuza fight with Sasuke using his shurikenjutsu and using Naruto as a transformed fuma shuriken). All while showcasing some of the best animation the series has ever seen
- This episode deserves also special mention at a production level. This episode was a collaborative effort of 30 key animators all over the world, including both industry sakuga veterans and emerging talented webgen animators, and taking 4-5 months of production (for reference, the Boruto movie was created in 4 months of production) and it absolutely shows
- A tweet by the episode's director, Chengxi Huang, really encapsulates how incredible of an achievement the effort and work the production staff put into this episode is, as well as what this episode represents for all the animators involved
Chengxi Huang: Now, history is being rewritten. Tonight, the veteran's will of fire is carried by the next generation. Tonight, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations is continued by the next generations from all over the world.
Episode 89: A Piercing Heart
- After thinking Mitsuki is about to give him a human heart, Mitsuki walks behind Lord Kuu and runs his hand through his chest, piercing it. When Lord Kuu drops the heart, it's revealed to actually be Mitsuki's snakes formed into one. All this time Mitsuki was loyal to the Hidden Leaf Village. He was able to gain trust with the Fabrications and in the end, he deceives them all, which none of them saw coming.
Episode 91: Onoki's Will
- Mitsuki using his Sage Mode on Ku when he threatens Boruto.
- Team 7 back together using their teamwork trying to take down Ku.
Episode 100: Jugo and the Curse Mark
- Konohamaru vs a fully transformed Jugo. Particular highlights include Konohamaru kicking his chakra-blade through Jugo's face, and landing a Rasengan on him, even as Jugo was absorbing his chakra.
Episode 103: Migration Season
- Jugo vs Tosaka. The latter spends a good five minutes gloating about how his Curse Mark is superior to Orochimaru's, and how he's going to prove it, by killing Jugo, who was its originator. Then Jugo fully transforms, and beats him into a pulp in twenty seconds.
- Boruto pulling out a Double Boruto Stream, by creating a second pair of clones while in flight, to give him a second Nitro Boost after the first one, in order to add the power of his momentum to his Rasengan, making it strong enough to snap Jugo out of his rampage mode.
- Suigetsu drinking the Curse Mark antidote and transforming into a watersprout to reach every goose before they start migrating and spread the Curse Mark infection across the world.
Episode 126
- Himawari saving Shukaku from the junkyard by activating her Byakugan. And without realizing it!
Episode 128
- Boruto and Sasuke manage to foil Urashiki's plan to steal Kurama's chakra by going back in time...and yet they end up trapped in the past themselves! Boruto is going to meet Naruto back when he was still a genin.
Episode 135
- Boruto and Genin!Naruto combine their chakra together to make a giant Rasengan that finally destroys Urashiki.
- Let's not forget that Sasuke as well as the legendary Ero Sennin (Jiraiya) played a great supportive role too.
Episode 166: Death Match
- Despite how creepy and weird Deepa is, his freaky powers are pretty awesome.
- Even though it didn't work out in the end, Team 7 scrounging up what power they have left to try deal one final blow to Deepa. Mitsuki distracting Deepa enough for Sarada to pose as a distraction so Boruto could deal a direct hit. While the effort proved futile in the end, the coordination and teamwork the three had was extremely admirable.
- Mitsuki stepping up and using Sage Transformation to save his friends. He only dealt a single blow to Deepa before escaping with his friends, but even Deepa seemed impressed with Mitsuki's fearlessness.
Episode 168: Training Begins
- Boruto proving his status as a prodigy by creating his own version of Naruto's Wind Style: Rasenshuriken with minimal instruction from Kakashi (who passes down Asuma's advice to Naruto's Wind training), figuring out that he can use a Shadow clone to split-up the work of creating the Rasengan and changing its chakra nature by himself, and pulling it off with just one.
Episode 171: Results of Training
- Boruto has already proven his status as a prodigy by creating his own version of Naruto's Wind Style: Rasenshuriken with minimal instruction, however, what no one expected is that he would create, yet another version even more powerful. By changing his mindset, he created a new highly compressed Rasengan.
- Sakura training Sarada. It served as a clear reminder that despite the fact she's often overshadowed by Naruto and Sasuke, she is by no means a terrible ninja. Doubles as a heartwarming moment as Sarada develops a greater sense of respect for her mother after facing her.
Episode 174: The Revival of the Divine Tree
- As Mugino is escaping with the Land of Valley's Feudal Lord, he is confronted by Victor's assistant. Before she can attack them, she is blocked by someone in a cloak, who quickly does away with her with a Wind Style technique, without lifting a finger. The person pulls down their hood to reveal it's Orochimaru. He may not be God tier as Naruto and Sasuke anymore, but he's still a Legendary Sannin and a powerful, dangerous person.
Episode 186: How You Use It
- The episode adapts the fight against Ao, and it follows the anime's tradition of greatly animating every major fight, if the manga version was already awesome, this time not only the scruffle between Ao and Mitsuki and Sarada are extended a bit, but Boruto actually fights his drones, destroying some of them with a an awesome use of his Boruto stream, shurikens and explosive tags.
Episode 189: Resonance
- The episode adapts Kawaki's first fight in the manga, and it is gloriously animated, with awesome sequences of hand to hand (or, claw) combat between Kawaki and Garo, and a bigger emphasis on Kawaki struggling to beat his opponent, and then Garo being utterly paralyzed by the fear when Kawaki activates the karma seal and is about to kill him. The artsytle for the episode has also been changed to resemble more Ikemoto's style, as shown by the higher number of details of the character designs. What makes this episode even more awesome is the notion that the fight itself, wasn't one of the most important ones in the manga, it only served to show off Kawaki, and the fact that it has been adapted in this way, paints a good future for the anime, when it will adapt the incoming major fights against Kara.
Episode 204: He's Bad News
- To say the animated battle of Naruto and Sasuke vs. Jigen was impressive is an understatement. Sporting incredible choreography and animation on par with episode 65, it clearly illustrated just why Jigen is such a deadly opponent while not downplaying Naruto and Sasuke's abilities. Jigen's ages of experience means he keeps up with their every move despite being caught off guard a couple times, and in the end defeats them both without even using any particularly large-scale techniques; as his shrinking, chakra rods, karma-based powers, flight and taijutsu mixed with superhuman strength prove enough. Particularly notable is when he hits right through Susanoo, and knocks Naruto out of his full bijuu mode, outright beheading the Kurama chakra form in the process.
- And while Jigen seems to make it all look surprisingly easy, Naruto and Sasuke prove they were worthy opponents when Jigen outright collapses to his knees after the confrontation ends, the next episode proving that beating them cost almost all of his chakra and showing he indeed did not have the strength left to actually kill Naruto.
- Jigen declares that next time he and Naruto meet will be the last, and despite being impaled in multiple places and being sealed away, Naruto quite convincingly declares he's going to throw those words back at him.
Episode 207: Regeneration
- Sarada's first use of Chidori in a real battle gets a well deserved Animation Bump, showcasing her newfound speed and precision in one of the most epic animated presentations of Chidori ever seen.
- The anime having done a lot more to build up Boro's view of himself as a divinely chosen, superior being, makes Momoshiki's awakening and dismissal of him all the more impactful.Momoshiki: Don't get cocky, you inferior creature.
Episode 217: Decision
- The animators pulled out all the stops to showcase Baryon Mode, made all the more impressive in that taijutsu was the main focus of the battle. Whether it be Naruto's casually incredible reflexes keeping up with and countering everything Isshiki threw at him, or their speed that even Sasuke could barely see, to even a reference to a famous part of the battle between Sasuke and Naruto in the original series (where Naruto hits Sasuke with a series of punches that steadily pushes him into the air). He concludes the fight with a simple Rasengan, and you know that this finishing move is very significant when he says the technique's name calmly. And on top of that, it's made all the more awesome in how Naruto's voice gains a heavy reverb as his and Kurama's voices essentially merge together during the battle.
