Masashi Kishimoto took to Twitter to announced that he will be taking over writing the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga. Previously, Ukyo Kodachi was writing the script for it with Kishimoto supervising.
Kishimoto states in the tweet that this was the plan from the beginning but when Boruto started, Kishimoto was focusing on his new series, Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru. Samurai 8 was originally planned to be a 10-volume series but ended up wrapping up with the fifth volume. With Samurai 8 over and done with, Kishimoto put the plan into action and tagged himself in to continue writing Boruto.
Kishimoto is set to take over as soon as the November chapter of the manga which is serialized in Shueisha’s V Jump.
You can view the original tweet below:
漫画『BORUTO』について
Vジャンプ12月号（11/21発売）掲載の『BORUTO』52話をもって、当初からの予定に則り、制作体制が変更となります。
ここまで脚本を務められた小太刀先生、本当にお疲れさまでした。
今後、岸本斉史先生の原案をもとに連載して参ります。— NARUTO・BORUTO【原作公式】 (@NARUTO_kousiki) November 16, 2020
Source: Crunchyroll
