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I mean he successfully completed **Naruto** , so why not continue it ?


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Why Masashi Kishimoto did not author Boruto?


He needed a break!

[An excerpt from an interview he did at New York Comic Con (per Anime News
Network)](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2015-10-14/masashi-
kishimoto-at-new-york-comic-con/.94188):

> **Christopher Butcher: _72 volumes of Naruto. Did the editors of Shonen Jump
> want you to keep going? Some of the Shonen Jump series go for a hundred
> volumes or two hundred volumes. Did the editors want you to keep going on
> Naruto?_**
>
> **Masashi Kishimoto:** I would be lying if I said there wasn't some pressure
> from management, the powers that be as they were, but I had a pretty clear
> idea of how I wanted the story to come to a close, so I had to put my foot
> down and say, 'No, I'm sorry, this is it.'

It's also the case that during the creation of _Naruto_ , Kishimoto got
married and was supposed to go on his honeymoon with his wife, but never did.
After the series was completed, [he was finally able to do
that](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-07-28/naruto-creator-on-
being-asked-for-sequel-please-let-me-rest-now/.90993), even though his son was
(at the time) about as old as Boruto would be in-canon.


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