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The Jump Festa ’22 event on Saturday announced that two novels in the Naruto franchise are getting manga adaptations on the Shonen Jump+ app and website.
Natsuo Sai (Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System manga adaptations, Psycho-Pass: Inspector Shinya Kōgami) is drawing the manga adaptation of Naruto: Konoha Shinden: Yukemuri Ninpōchō. Additionally, Shingo Kimura is drawing the manga adaptation of Naruto: Sasuke’s Story–The Uchiha and the Heavenly Stardust (Naruto: Sasuke Retsuden: Uchiha no Matsuei to Tenkyū no Hoshikuzu).
Naruto: Konoha Shinden: Yukemuri Ninpōchō has three protagonists — Guy, Kakashi, and Mirai (the daughter of Asuma and Kurenai) — and takes place at a hot spring. The novel “ties together Naruto and Boruto,” and is set between the final chapter of the original Naruto manga and the Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring spinoff manga. Shō Hinata (Naruto: Konoha Hiden – Shūgen Biyori (novel) wrote the novel, which shipped in Japan in August 2016.
The Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime adapted the novel starting in May 2019.
Jun Esaka’s Naruto: Sasuke’s Story–The Uchiha and the Heavenly Stardust novel originally shipped in August 2019. Viz Media will release the Retsuden novels including Naruto: Sasuke’s Story–The Uchiha and the Heavenly Stardust starting next summer.
The livestream event also revealed a video, logo, and visual for the upcoming 20th anniversary celebrations for the Naruto anime next year.
(The below video is region locked to Japan only.)
Additionally, the event revealed a digest video for the Kawaki Arc of the Boruto anime, as well as a new key visual for the anime.
(The below video is region locked to Japan only.)
Sources: Jump Festa ’22 livestream, Naruto franchise’s Twitter account
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