BORUTO: NARUTO THE MOVIE

Boruto Uzumaki is the son of Naruto Uzumaki, the Seventh Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village. Though his father is celebrated as a hero, Boruto sees him mainly as a parent who is almost never home, and the boy's frustration with that distance shapes much of his outlook. He wants to be recognized on his own terms and quietly aims to surpass the man everyone else admires.

His path takes an unexpected turn when Sasuke Uchiha, a legendary shinobi and one of Naruto's oldest comrades, returns to the village. Impressed by Sasuke's skill and independence, Boruto asks to become his apprentice, hoping to gain the strength and guidance he feels he is missing at home.

At the same time, a new danger arrives that threatens the hard-won peace Naruto helped secure after the Fourth Great Ninja War. As Boruto prepares for the Chunin Exams and struggles with his relationship to his father, he is drawn into a conflict far larger than his own ambitions. This novel-length retelling follows the young protagonist as he confronts what it means to be a shinobi, a son, and his own person.

BORUTO: NARUTO THE MOVIE appeared in print as a single-volume light novel in 2015, published on August 10 of that year and now marked as finished. The book is divided into seven chapters and retells the story of the animated feature released under the same name, carrying Masashi Kishimoto's name as the driving creative force behind the Naruto saga and its new generation. The catalog classifies its source material simply as Other, a nod to the fact that this is a prose adaptation of an animated film rather than a conversion of a manga serial.

The film it adapts was directed by Hiroyuki Yamashita in his directorial debut and was the second movie to belong to the canonical Naruto storyline, positioned as a sequel to the original manga series and set after the finale of the Naruto: Shippuden anime. The novelization therefore preserves a turning point for the franchise in book form, letting readers follow the same material across a compact seven-chapter volume. Its catalog tags place it alongside the parent series in the Action, Comedy, and Shounen categories, aimed at the established readership for the Naruto world.

Because the record identifies this entry as an individual work tied to a larger franchise, its production background centers on the 2015 novelization itself: the single-volume format, the one-day release window, and the direct relationship to the film's scenario. No later reissues, spin-off volumes, or expanded print editions are recorded in the supplied data.

This entry sits within the wider Naruto franchise as a prose adaptation of the 2015 film Boruto: Naruto the Movie. The film was the second theatrical release counted as part of the canonical Naruto storyline, arriving after the conclusion of the Naruto: Shippuden anime and helping to open the Boruto era. Masashi Kishimoto is credited as the original creator, and Hiroyuki Yamashita made his directorial debut on the movie. The novel-format version retells that same story across seven chapters gathered into a single volume.

Because it adapts the film instead of continuing an ongoing serial, this work functions as a companion to the movie and as a bridge between the Naruto generation and the generation that follows it. The film's events were later adapted into episodes 53 through 66 of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime, so this novel remains an alternate-format telling of the same narrative moment rather than a separate branch with its own continuity. It is not the starting point of the franchise, nor a spin-off standing apart from the main line, but a retelling tied directly to the parent film.