Boruto is getting a Shippuden-style time skip: this is our first look at Sarada Uchiha

A before and after for Boruto. This is how Masashi Kishimoto defined the 4-month break that is taking place and will end next August. We didn’t quite understand what he meant... until now. The first image of the manga’s return shows us that there will be a time skip and a name change. The series will no longer be called Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, but will become known as Boruto: Two Blue Vortex.

Boruto changes name to Two Blue Vortex

The characters will not be the only ones that grow when the manga returns, but rather its the series itself which will grow, emancipate itself, and delete any allusion to Naruto out of its name. With the change, a distinction similar to the one between Naruto and Naruto Shippuden will be sought. Take a look at Sarada Uchiha’s new look:

The new mangenkyou sharingan

The last episode of Boruto said goodbye with one of those cliffhangers that leave us in suspense biting our nails and clawing at the walls. Boruto became a renegade ninja, an enemy of Konoha, and Sarada awakened the mangenkyou sharingan, but she was the first of her clan to achieve it thanks to the intensity of her love and not the strength of her hate (as was the case with Sasuke, if you remember). It’s like the new generation of Uzumaki and Uchiha was destined to repeat the story of their parents, but backwards. Instead of Naruto chasing after Sasuke and wanting to be Hokage, now it will be Sarada who is looking for Naruto and yearning to be the leader of Konoha in the future.

It’ll be a busy summer for Naruto fans. Asides from Boruto’s time skip we must add the new spin-off manga based on Minato, the return of the original Naruto anime with 4 special episodes (for which there is already a release date) and a new video game in the series, Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm CONNECTIONS, of which we should have news soon, because it will come out this same 2023.