Title: Boruto: Two Blue Vortex Vol. 3
Author: Masashi Kishimoto (Creator), Mikio Ikemoto (Art)
Publisher: Viz Media
Language: English
Format: Digital
Pages: 177
Genre: Shonen, Battle
Publication Date: October 7, 2025
The Story
We open up with Jura and an unknown divine tree with Sasuke’s chakra signature in Konoha. Jura is there for Himawari, stating that it has to do with detecting the signature of Kurama, the Nine Tails! The Ino-Shika-Cho hold off Jura and escape with Himawari, but Jura gives chase. They eventually have to fight him, but before they do, Himawari falls unconscious and meets a smaller, reborn Kurama, who explains that even if their lives are snuffed out, it is in a tailed beast’s nature to be reborn. Still, they don’t know where or when it would happen. Apparently, Himawari’s chakra is attuned to Kurama more than Naruto or any other Jinchuriki’s was.
Himawari accepts the offer of Kurama’s power and enters Biju Mode! She holds off Jura on her own, but is eventually overpowered. This is when Boruto locks onto her location and rescues her, then returns to the village to help out with Sarada, as the “Sasuke” there is aiming right for her. Meanwhile, Kawaki detects Boruto’s return and rushes to his location. Even though everyone doesn’t trust Boruto thanks to Eida’s jutsu, they work with him to help bring down “Sasuke.” We learn that it’s not really Sasuke, but a being born from borrowing Sasuke’s chakra after he was captured by Code’s divine tree a while ago.
After being defeated, he turned into a Spike Soul Bulb, but before Boruto could take it with him, Jura attacked again from a distance and stole the bulb to end our third volume.
Characters
Isn’t it funny that people truly never die in shonen manga? Even if they do die, they just get brought back by Impure World Resurrection or something similar! In this case, Kurama has back after regenerating inside of Himawari. Although he is a chibi now, it seems that Himawari’s attenuation to his chakra was, indeed, much higher than Naruto’s because she was able to use a Biju Bomb during her very first transformation. Plus, she never went crazy like Naruto did before making the deal with Kurama. The fact that she can control Kurama’s chakra at that level immediately backs up what he told her. We still don’t know why Jura is after the Nine Tails, but given the fact that everyone is born from the Ten Tails, it’s only natural to think that Jura, being a part of the tree itself, wants a piece of him back. That’s not confirmed, but it’s a pretty educated guess based on the lore of this series.
We learned a bit more about Sasuke’s fate and how he can be saved, although not much more was revealed. I figured I would mention it here because, while it was almost a footnote in size, just learning it is pretty significant.
We still don’t know much about Jura except that he’s seeking information and trying to understand the way things are on this planet. Obviously, being part of the divine tree, he’s connected to the Ohtsutsuki, who are off-planet beings, so it’s natural for him to question the way things are. For some reason, I can’t see him as an evil entity, though. He even admitted that he doesn’t want to fight anyone and would rather avoid conflict if necessary. He simply wanted Himawari because he didn’t understand why he detected Kurama’s signature. He just wanted to know what was going on, but he lacks human compassion because he is just the product of the divine tree. He’s programmed to act through instincts, and in that sense, you can’t blame him for his actions, evil or otherwise. It’s no different than an animal acting on instinct because that’s how nature programmed it. I think he never answered them when they asked what his goals were because he, himself, doesn’t know. He just knows he detected Kurama, a part of the divine tree, and instinct told him to understand why it exists, and why it’s not part of the tree as it should be. This makes him a pretty interesting character. Sure, he is an antagonist, but it’s as if he’s innocent via instinctual innocence. That’s quite a unique take on a villain!
Final Thoughts
After last volume’s lull, we end up with another action-packed and interesting volume. From Himawari and Kurama’s interactions, to her power-up, to Jura’s interesting character archetype, to learning about Sasuke, to him turning into a spiked soul bulb with a Rinnegan embedded in it, to everything else in between, this volume threw a lot of information at us, but it did give us some hope that Sasuke could be saved. Also, with Kurama back, Himawari is probably going to start training to master utilizing him, so I would expect her to become a bigger force moving forward. Hopefully, they don’t repeat the storyline with Naruto and just have her protected all the time. Himawari definitely found the will to fight, so I say let her fight!
Edia’s jutsu is starting to get annoying, though. Having everyone hate Boruto because of her jutsu has kind of run its course. Sarada obviously knows the truth, but it’s like she doesn’t want to press the issue and get the jutsu taken care of. Of course, there have been some distractions from the divine trees, but now that they have retreated for the time being, perhaps we can shift gears and find a way to dispel the jutsu. Then again, I’m sure they are saving that for the eventual final clash between Kawaki and Boruto… much like they built up the final clash between Sasuke and Naruto in the original series.
We’ll see how it plays out, but at least this volume gave us some interesting directions to go in!
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