Title: Boruto: Two Blue Vortex Vol. 1
Author: Masahi Kishimoto (Creator), Mikio Ikemoto (Art)
Publisher: Viz Media
Language: English
Format: Digital
Pages: 185
Genre: Shonen, Battle
Publication Date: February 4, 2025
The Story
Three years have passed since Boruto disappeared from Konoha, fleeing after Edia’s Omnipotence ability caused everybody to see Kawaki and Boruto as opposites. Boruto became the villain accused of killing Naruto and Kawaki was seen as Naruto’s son instead of Boruto. Despite this, Konoha has been feverishly tracking Boruto in an attempt to locate him; however, they are not going to have to wait long.
Soon after Kawaki receives reports that mysterious claw marks have been sighted, Code’s tools appear and begin to attack Konoha! Code himself appears and says that he’s tired of looking for Boruto and figures that if he comes and attacks Konoha, it will draw him out… which it does! Boruto appears and he is no longer the happy-go-lucky kid we remember. Now three years older, there is a coldness in his eyes that we haven’t seen before. He tries to make a deal with Code… to have him show him the location of the ten tails in exchange for letting him live. Code refuses and we see Boruto’s new insane technique!
Code escapes but Boruto, through communication with a toad, tracks him down. He then uses a technique from someone in his lineage’s history to transport himself there; however, things are much worse than they seem. The ten tails disappeared and what is left behind are sentient beings calling themselves The Divine Trees… all of which are in possession of the rinnegan! Even with this setback, Boruto isn’t about to give up as a huge test lies before him.
Characters
The biggest focus here is on Boruto. His shift in personality is astonishing. We are used to him running around, playing, laughing, being goofy, and just being all-around immature; however, three years after he fled Konoha, he has become an entirely different person. When he speaks, it’s bluntly, to the point, and his words are very cold. He seems to have powered up tremendously by improving the Rasengan to a level we’ve never seen before, learning the technique of a former Hokage, and, apparently, becoming a toad sage like Naruto and Jiraiya before him. Plus, his swordsmanship skills are on another level, no doubt the teachings of Sasuke. This newer mature Boruto will take some getting used to but through his coldness, he was still relieved to know that Himawari was safe and sound so bits of the old Boruto are still there.
Code quickly lost his confidence after Boruto wiped the floor with him. There seemed to be a possibility for a change in character for Code; however, in the end, he’s still the same Code, although, he is a bit more curious now that his plans kind of went up in smoke. There’s still an opportunity for him to come around but we’ll see.
Outside of that, there hasn’t been much development since the first series. You would think Kawaki would see some major change but outside of his new look, he isn’t all that different than he was before.
Final Thoughts
This was a great way to kick off the second part of the series. Edia offered up some hope in possibly learning how Omnipotence works so that opens up a future plot point for turning things back to normal. Code’s plans being ruined also opens up a few paths… one of which might end up aiding Boruto, and the other one could have him go completely rogue. He is a bit unstable and always has been so the second route seems like the more likely option here.
I will say, there was a fair amount of action to open this series. It didn’t feel like a typical first volume that focused more on story than action but it can be forgiven since this was preceded by twenty volumes of story and content. This is not a separate series but a continuation of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations with a different subtitle so there was no need for dedicating the entire volume to the story and setting things up. Everything is already established which means Two Blue Vortex requires you to have read the first twenty volumes to know what’s happening. There is no recap here for people who want to jump into the series at this point.
Be that as it may, the likelihood of someone starting off here is super low. If you’re reading this, then you’ve already read Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, so as a continuance of the series, it hits all the notes it was supposed to and makes things very interesting by giving Boruto’s character a complete overhaul from design to personality to moveset, and everything else in between. While most of everything else stayed the same, nothing else truly needed to change. By just changing Boruto, they changed the entire feel and mood of the series… for the better, if I do say so myself.
Excellent start! Can’t wait to see where it goes from here!
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This item was provided for review by VIZ Media.
