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Character guides

Plain answers to the questions people actually search — with game originals and manga characters kept clearly apart. No rumors presented as canon.

Kishimoto's rough pencil sketch of Naruto and Sasuke, from the teaser PV — Kishimoto's rough pencil work — the draw of Shadow Rising is seeing these characters back on his own desk.

Game-original characters

Nanashi Uchiha

Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections

Nanashi Uchiha is a game-original character introduced in Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections (Bandai Namco, 2023) — not a character from the Naruto or Boruto manga. Search interest around the name spikes whenever the game is re-released or featured, and a lot of it comes from people asking exactly one question: “who is Nanashi Uchiha?”

Manga characters

Shibai Ōtsutsuki

Boruto: Two Blue Vortex

Shibai Ōtsutsuki is a god-like celestial being referenced in the Boruto manga — the most powerful Ōtsutsuki ever described, whose abilities transcended flesh. He is the lore's ceiling: the being whose inherited powers underpin some of the series' most shocking abilities.