Trivia / Boruto

• Anime First: The first 10 issues of the manga are dedicated to retelling the events of Boruto: Naruto the Movie with some significant differences.
• Approval of God:
  • Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto supervises the project, both the manga and the anime.
  • Kishimoto himself has praised Ikemoto's own art style in the manga, saying how he doesn't want the latter to just copy his drawing style.
• B-Team Sequel: As stated above, Kishimoto only supervises, it is written by Ukyō Kodachi and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto. Kodachi was the author of Gaara Hiden: A Sandstorm Mirage and co-author of Boruto: Naruto the Movie. Ikemoto was an assistant to Kishimoto for the past 15 years. This was then subverted when Kishimoto was announced to be taking over as writer of the manga beginning with Chapter 52.
• Character Outlives Actor:
  • The voice of Homura Mitokado, Hikaru Miyata, died in late October of 2018 from acute aortic failure. Homura will need a recast should he appear again.
  • Hikari Yono, the voice of Shima and Samui, died from an unspecified illness in November of 2020 while undergoing treatment. Both characters will require recasts should they appear again.
  • Metal Lee's English VA, Billy Kametz, died of colon cancer in June 2022. He is now voiced by Sean Chiplock.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Played straight with Naruto, Boruto and all the child and young characters in both the original Japanese and most foreign dubs, English incluided, with a rather odd exception in the Korean dub: adult Naruto is voiced by a male voice actor, in this case, Um Sang-hyun, better known for non-Korean viewers as the voice of both Hwoarang and Baek Doo-san, rather than his previous voice actress, Lee Seong-ju.^note The reason why this is odd is because, with very few exceptions, South Korean dubs seems to use female voice actresses when voicing kids or teens, and keep them all their life, something that already happened in the Korean dubs of Dragon Ball and One Piece, both having protagonists voiced by women just like in the original Japanese versions, being Boruto a break on this habit.
• Edited for Syndication: The fight between Sarada and Buntan is much more graphic in the DVD release than it was on the episode aired on TV, in the former, Buntan is actually shown decapitating Sarada in a genjutsu.
• Meaningful Release Date: Episode 218 ("Friend") aired on October 3rd, 2021, concluding with Kurama dying after giving all his chakra to Naruto. It happens to coincide with the exact same date of Naruto's first episode 19 years ago, where Kurama's rampage on the Hidden Leaf Village was the opening shot. It comes to show just how much Kurama has changed since then.
• No Dub for You: Surprisingly subverted like hell in the Latin American Spanish dub: Many fans in that region had lost hope to ever hear a Spanish dub from this series, much less from the last half of Shippuden, after the whole franchise lost steam in Latin America for many reasons. It was later announced this show will get a Latin American dub at 2021, while trying to bring many of the voice actors.
• The Other Darrin: The titular character himself was voiced by Kokoro Kikuchi in the Flash Forward of The Last Naruto the Movie before Yuko Sanpei took over for the series. Kikuchi would be moved to the part of Sarada Uchiha instead. In the American dub, Boruto, at first, shared his father's actress Maile Flanagan for The Last and the video game Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4. It wasn't until Boruto: Naruto the Movie that established Amanda Céline Miller as the primary voice of Naruto's son going forward. It helped to make Boruto sound more distinct from his dad especially given the initial resentment he holds for the latter.
  • Himawari had this happen with her too. In Japanese, she was voiced by Yuuki Kuwahara in The Last but by Saori Hayami in the series while on the American side Stephanie Sheh, the voice of her mother Hinata, played her in the movie whereas Melissa Fahn would play her in the series proper to distinguish her as an individual.
  • Like with the Boruto example, Sarada Uchiha's voice was done by Laura Bailey in the English dub of Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 but is voiced in the dub of the series by Cherami Leigh instead. This change was obviously due to Laura mainly distancing herself from anime dubbing with focusing on western-based animation and video games. Leigh also replaced Laura in the role of Anko Mitarashi, the latter herself was the other darrin to Anko's original actress Julianne Buescher. The same applies to Kurotsuchi.
  • In Japanese, Kawaki was voiced by Iwabee's actor Shinya Hamazoe in the opening episode before Yūma Uchida became his definitive voice during the anime Kawaki arc. It happened in the American dub as well with Chris Niosi being replaced with Michael Schwalbe, likely due to the 2019 controversy that caused the former to lose a good portion of his roles to other actors.
  • Dōshu Goetsu was voiced by Kazuki Ohta originally but was replaced in episode 139 onwards by Daiki Kajimoto for unclear reasons.
  • White Zetsu was recast on both fronts for his clone's appearance. Nobuo Tobita was replaced by Atsushi Abe in Japanese and Travis Willingham was replaced by Aaron LaPlante in English.
  • Kyle McCarley continues to be the voice of Iruka Umino in English due to Quinton Flynn's busy schedule with video game voiceover, as the same applies for Matthew Mercer continuing in Troy Baker's stead as Yamato. Sascha Alexander has also permanently taken on Karui due to Danielle Nicolet's focus on live-action projects.^note Nicolet herself was the other darrin to Cindy Robinson, who'd voiced Karui in her debut. On the Japanese side, there's Toa Yukinari continuing to voice Karin after Kanako Tojō got married and moved overseas to focus on her family life. Plus Aoi Inase is now firmly Tamaki after her original actress, Ayano Ishikawa, quit acting in 2016 to pursuit painting.
  • Jūgo is now voiced in English by Kyle Hebert, also the voice of Kiba Inuzuka, since Travis Willingham, like his wife Laura Bailey, mainly works on video games and western animation these days.
  • Inojin was initially voiced by Spike Spencer, but is now voiced by Xander Mobus after Spencer got locked in Australia when COVID began in March of 2020.
  • Metal Lee is now voiced by Sean Chiplock following Billy Kametz's passing from Colon Cancer.
  • The Latin American Spanish dub, while managed to bring most of the voice cast, had also to replace many voice actors for a myriad of reasons, due to the time skip from the dubs of Shippuden and Ultimate Ninja Storm 4:
    • Boruto Uzumaki goes from José Ángel Torres, who voiced him in Ultimate Ninja Storm 4, to Karen Vallejo.
    • Sakura Haruno goes from Christine Byrd to Monserrat Aguilar, after the former retired from voice acting in order to move abroad.
    • Sarada Uchiha goes from Annie Rojas, who voiced her in Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 to Azul Valadez.
• Overtook the Manga: The anime tried different ways to avoid this because of the monthly release of the manga, like adapting some of the light novels and greatly expanding some story arcs, as it happened with "Mujina Bandits Arc". Instead of making infamous filler arcs, the characters got explored before the events of the movie, which were adapted in the first 10 chapters of the manga. The show doesn't reach the events of the manga's first chapter until around the 50th episode, and even after, only with episode 141, the show reaches the second arc of the manga. "Kara Actuation Arc" is also an only anime canon arc that precedes the Mujina Bandits Arc, but is directly tied up to the manga, because expands some characters, like Victor, or create an entirely new one, like Deepa who is made part of Kara, but also offers a better explanation for characters motivations by exploring them, which is a thing the manga cannot do properly because of its monthly release.
• Promoted Fanboy: As revealed on the "Naruto to Boruto The Live 2019" event:
  • Voice actors Yuko Sanpei (Boruto) and Kensho Ono (Shikadai) revealed to have been fans of Naruto and how they grew up reading the original manga.
  • Members of the Kana-Boon band revealed to have been Naruto fans since high school. And how they're honored and thrilled to perform some of the openings and endings of Boruto.
• Real-Life Relative: Shikadai's voice actor Kensho Ono and Eida's voice actor Kana Hanazawa are married.
• Referenced by...: Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon on the Episode "Big Brawl! Battle Royal 151!!" featured a Pikachu named Boruto who also sports Boruto's hairstyle.
• Refitted for Sequel:
  • According to Kishimoto, he wanted Toneri to make an appearance in Boruto: Naruto the Movie, but they couldn't find a way to include him, although he was mentioned in the movie's novelization. He has made his appearance in Episode 8 of the anime.
  • The director of the anime, Hiroyuki Yamashita (who also directed the movie), has said in an interview that the Boruto anime has given him opportunities to include stuff that was cut from the movie. (All but confirming that the anime will eventually also adapt the events of the movie)
  • The character of Urashiki Otsutsuki was originally designed for the movie but it had to be cut, it wouldn't be until the anime adaptation where he would make his appearance.
• Screwed by the Network: Toonami originally gave the show a good timeslot at 10:30pm right before Dragon Ball Super, which regularly pulls in high ratings for the block. But due to some schedule shifts (for Toonami in general, not the show), the show had to move to an 11:30 pm slot, this time right after DBS. Throughout this whole ordeal, the show wasn't pulling the ratings the block wanted, so it got shunted to a 2:30 am timeslot. To make matters worse, the show was removed entirely in October 2019, while the long-running predecessor Naruto Shippuden is still airing despite the show's ratings being mediocre at best. Toonami has said they intend to bring the series back at some point, but such promises are dubious at best. Luckily, it continues to be distributed by Viz on home media.
• Series Hiatus:
  • Due to the shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic this anime, alongside others like Black Clover and the Attack on Titan manga had to miss their scheduled releases from May to June 2020. The Boruto anime resumed its normal broadcast schedule in July 2020.
  • As of 26 March 2023, the anime went on another hiatus, part one officially ending with the episode 293.
  • The manga also went on hiatus for the first time as of April 20 2023, with the last chapter released being issue 80. But it will return with chapter 81 in 21 august 2023. The hiatus was needed to prepare for the next arc and new volume of the manga.

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