Summary
Boruto’s new Rasengan proves he is ready to destroy villains. Boruto’s ruthless attitude towards villains contrasts with Naruto’s redeeming tendencies, making the story more interesting.
While the latest chapter of Boruto provides enough sensational ninja action to remind readers that this is a worthy sequel Naruto franchise, it also helped assuage one of the most enduring criticisms of the original series, namely that it was too light on the level of evil its villains displayed.
While Naruto is one of the most beloved manga in pop culture history, it’s surprising that it achieved such a dominant status while omitting one of its fan-favorite elements. of the genre – the irredeemable villain. To be sure, Naruto’s preference for “fixable broken villains” has become a constant negative for many fans of the series, and it has also inspired countless Several other manga followed.
Still, an exciting update to the franchise that finally delivers on the promise of Boruto (Part I) as a Naruto sequel by updating the “redemptive villain” issue. . In Boruto: Two Blue Vortex chapter #3 Boruto uses his newfound Rasengan abilities to make longtime villain and existential threat Code one step away from meeting his maker.
Boruto is ready to destroy his villain
Considering the franchise’s history of having a sympathetic attitude towards villains, the quickness with which Boruto goes from winning the fight to deciding to kill Code is astonishing. That is, Code doesn’t have time to redeem himself or show why he’s simply imperfect rather than eternally and utterly evil. Indeed, there’s good reason why fans aren’t happy with depraved villains like Orochimaru, Pain, or even the child-abducting Amado being reinstated as people who have admitted their mistakes and should have a second chance to become a model citizen.
Although Code was not killed in the end – taking advantage of Kawaki’s appearance on the scene to bring himself back to his hiding place – the circumstances were not unlike the case of a villain escaping death in Naruto. The fundamental difference in Two Blue Vortex is Boruto’s mindset. For all intents and purposes, if Code doesn’t give him the information he wants about the Ten-Tails, Boruto truly intends to end his life on the spot. In fact, if his newly upgraded Rasengan was what he said it would be, Boruto would have killed Code. According to Boruto, once he hits Code with Rasengan Uzuhiko, unless he reverses the process, the villain will die at some point in the future.
Naruto’s trend of villain redemption is over
Boruto’s ruthless attitude towards villains is in stark contrast to Naruto’s behavior in similar situations. No matter how much hurt, harm, and death evil people may cause or facilitate in their efforts to achieve their misguided goals, Nauto can always find some good qualities or being redeemable allows them to move towards the light and, at times, do good to overcome the initial pain they caused. For example, for all the harm Sasuke has caused to Naruto personally and to the Konoha community as a whole, Naruto still risks his life and limbs to save him time and time again.
The constant reinvigoration of Naruto villains, while arguably making them more popular with the fanbase, has also created some controversy. The overall effect of not having an irredeemable villain is to make the story too focused on gray morality, which at some points hurts its realism. Luckily, by allowing its protagonist to be ruthless and willing to kill, Boruto: Two blue tornadoes handle Naruto’his “redemptive villain” problem, and doing so makes the story that much more interesting.
Boruto: Two blue tornadoes is available now from Viz Media