<p>He needed a break!</p>

<p><a href="https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2015-10-14/masashi-kishimoto-at-new-york-comic-con/.94188" rel="nofollow noreferrer">An excerpt from an interview he did at New York Comic Con (per Anime News Network)</a>:</p>

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  <p><strong>Christopher Butcher:
  <em>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?</em></strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>Masashi Kishimoto:</strong> 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.'</p>
</blockquote>

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

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if people only knew how amazing a feat of endurance and hard work authoring a shonen manga for 15 years truly is, they would not begrudge him a holiday.
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Makoto
<p>I mean he successfully completed <strong>Naruto</strong>, so why not continue it ?</p>

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Why Masashi Kishimoto did not author Boruto?
# Why Masashi Kishimoto did not author Boruto?
Posted by: username_0 on 2019-12-28
I mean he successfully completed **Naruto**, so why not continue it ?
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### Answer by username_1 on 2019-12-29. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
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.
> **Comments:**
> **username_2** (2020-02-24): if people only knew how amazing a feat of endurance and hard work authoring a shonen manga for 15 years truly is, they would not begrudge him a holiday.  
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