Boruto’s adventures continue in the manga’s third and fourth volumes. With the former following the final moments of the Boruto film and the fourth adapting the first canonical arc of the manga series. Though Volume 3 does include some minor changes & alterations from the film, in most cases the two are exact. Volume 4 follows the new Team 7 on their first mission to protect the Daiymo’s son from kidnappers.

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations is a 2016 shounen manga series it is produced by Shueisha and licensed by Via Media. It is currently available in print & digital formats in English.

Editor’s Note: A review copy of Boruto volumes 3 & 4 were provided by Viz Media in support of this review.

Boruto the Movie villain Momoshiki Otsutsuki in the manga.

Boruto’s manga series is finally producing original material with the final adapted pieces being in the third volume. Volume 3 is fine overall, but seems rather unnecessary if you’ve actually seen Boruto the Movie. As for the first canon arc, or at least what I suppose you could call canon Team 7 must guard the Daiymo’s son Tento from criminals looking to use him for ransom. Boruto is of course less than thrilled over his first real mission being a babysitting job, but he learns that he and Tento are more alike than he had initially thought. Meanwhile, Sasuke Uchiha has been investigating the mysterious group known as Kara.

The mysterious Momoshiki who has connections to Kaguya attacks the Leaf Village.

THE GOOD: Boruto: Naruto Next Generations is finally started to find itself as we step away from the adapted material and into it’s own original territory. As I previously mentioned there’s not too much to talk about as far as volume 3 is confirmed if you’ve seen the movie. If you just so happen to want to read the slight changes then for what it’s worth it’s fine, but the endings are practically shared between print and screen. Moving on to the manga’s first post-movie arc with have two ongoing storylines; the Daiymo & Kara investigation arcs. The former of which focuses on Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki’s first mission to protect a young kid named Tento, while the latter has Sasuke watching a mysterious, but powerful group of Ninja performing dark deeds.

The mysterious Kara work from within the shadows.

Boruto and Tento bond over similar interest & Boruto eventually inspires Tento to one day begin ninja training himself. After being kidnapped Boruto takes it upon himself to find and rescue Tento. Boruto defeats the boss of the group that kidnapped Tento with help from  Mitsuki and Boruto’s curse mark activating.

Tento and Boruto,

THE BAD: Volume 3 feels unnecessary if you’ve seen the film or the animated version of the arc within the anime.

Boruto volume 4 is a great fresh start into original content.

OVERALL THOUGHTS: Boruto’s third volume is probably best owned simply for collection purposes. However the fourth volume does provide new material to keep fans invested into the rest of the series with fast moving pieces into the major storyline of Kara. Otaku Dome gives Boruto volume 3 a 69 out of 100 and volume 4 an 85 out of 100.