Boruto: Naruto the Movie - The Day Naruto Became Hokage

BORUTO -NARUTO THE MOVIE- ナルトが火影になった日 (Boruto: Naruto the Movie - Naruto ga Hokage ni Natta Hi)

8.0(1)

OtakuDen

7.3(69,502)

MAL Score

Ranked #3050

Popularity #2060

Action
Adventure
Fantasy

Episodes: 1
Duration: 10 min
Aired: Jul 6, 2016
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Packaged exclusively with the limited-edition Blu-ray/DVD release of *Boruto: Naruto the Movie*, *Boruto: Naruto the Movie - The Day Naruto Became Hokage* is a bonus installment tied to the film’s home-video edition.

Otaku Consensus

Otaku Consensus: This bonus OVA earns its 7.31 MAL and 70/100 AniList standing by turning a franchise-crowning milestone into lean, family-scale farce, with Studio Pierrot’s skit pacing and the returning cast selling the generational handoff more efficiently than another exposition chapter. Its limitation is built into its format: viewers looking for the Boruto movie’s action payoff or an adaptation that gives the wider Konoha ensemble room will feel the same compression critics noted around the film’s skimmed-over supporting cast.

Why You Should Watch

If you want the catharsis of Naruto’s endpoint without committing to the long Boruto: Naruto Next Generations runway, this is the cleanest little victory lap. The appeal is not a tournament, villain, or lore dump; it is the shock of seeing a shounen icon’s dream filtered through parenthood, sibling chaos, and the practical messiness of a household on a ceremonial morning. It scratches a different itch than the Boruto movie’s big-screen battles: closer to the domestic epilogue pleasure of Dragon Ball’s post-fight downtime, but with Naruto’s specific generational baggage still in the room. Viewers who liked the anime-original prequel material in Boruto for its character texture, yet skipped the longer adaptation cycle, get a concentrated Pierrot-produced snapshot with the original creator’s world still unmistakably attached.

Key Characters

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Hinata Hyuuga(VA: Nana Mizuki)
Hinata’s presence reframes the franchise’s victory lap around the family life Naruto once seemed too restless to have, giving the short its gentler emotional counterweight.
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Himawari Uzumaki(VA: Saori Hayami)
Himawari stands out because the OVA lets her sweetness coexist with the unmistakable intensity of both the Uzumaki and Hyuuga bloodlines.
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Boruto Uzumaki(VA: Yuuko Sanpei)
Boruto’s appeal here is his brash second-generation energy, which makes the Naruto era feel inherited rather than simply continued.
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Naruto Uzumaki(VA: Junko Takeuchi)
Junko Takeuchi’s returning Naruto performance carries the absurd contrast between legendary status and the very unlegendary logistics of being a parent.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
Studio Pierrot structures the episode as a miniature domestic comedy rather than a battle epilogue, using the one-episode format for punch-line pacing instead of arc setup.
2
The OVA was packaged exclusively with the limited-edition Blu-ray/DVD release of Boruto: Naruto the Movie, making it a home-video companion piece rather than a standard TV installment.
3
It sits at a strange franchise crossroads: the Boruto film previewed the new era, the Boruto manga adapted that film as its first story arc, and the TV anime initially chose anime-original prequel material before reaching the movie’s events.
4
The credited main cast narrows the focus to Hinata, Himawari, Boruto, and Naruto, which makes the short more intimate than the ensemble-heavy movie that critics noted moved quickly past many legacy characters.
5
AniList’s tags place it firmly in shounen and super-power territory at 79% each, while the 20% crossdressing tag points to a minor gag element rather than a defining genre identity.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Masashi Kishimoto is credited as the original creator, keeping the OVA tied directly to the authorial source of the Naruto franchise even though it functions as a bonus release.
Fun fact 2: The episode aired on July 6, 2016, after the theatrical run of Boruto: Naruto the Movie and as part of that film’s limited-edition home-video package.
Fun fact 3: Its reception is unusually consistent across databases for a bonus anime: MAL lists it at 7.31 from 69,502 votes, while AniList records a 70/100 score and 288 favourites.
Fun fact 4: The parent Boruto movie held a 7.7 IMDb rating in the referenced web data, and reviews positioned it as a worthwhile new-era preview mainly for viewers already invested in Naruto’s long-form payoff.
Fun fact 5: The Japanese cast links three generations of the Uzumaki household on one billing sheet: Junko Takeuchi as Naruto, Yuuko Sanpei as Boruto, and Saori Hayami as Himawari, with Nana Mizuki returning as Hinata.