‘Naruto’ Creator Masashi Kishimoto Takes Over as Writer for Boruto Manga

Naruto writer Masashi Kishimoto Takes Over as Writer for Boruto following the spin-off, starting with Chapter 52, after serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.

The first tweets say Kishimoto’s first chapter in his Boruto series will be published in the December issue of V Jump, which will go on sale on November 21. It honors Ukyo Kodachi, who wrote and featured the series from the beginning with Mikio. Ikemoto. To our knowledge, Kishimoto’s choice to write Boruto was deliberate, and the manga will follow Kishimoto’s original writings.

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

As soon as the serialization of the Naruto manga came to an end in 2014, Kishimoto began working on the animated film Boruto spin-off, which he used to develop character designs and build a foundation for its sequence.

If you missed it, here is the cover for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the last book in the series.