BORUTO · Chapter 75
"The Domain of Gods" (神の領域)
Kami no Ryōiki · Masashi Kishimoto / Mikio Ikemoto · November 2022
Amado holds the keys to godhood. And he's been lying about the locks.
The chapter opens with Amado explaining Eida and Daemon's abilities in clinical detail. Boruto is skeptical — Daemon reflecting even murderous intent seems impossible. Kawaki tests it: thinks about killing Daemon, and immediately gets hit. Confirmed.
Naruto asks the question that's been haunting the fandom: how did a human scientist create god-tier powers? Amado's answer rewrites the cosmology. He didn't create them. He transplanted them.
Enter Shibai Ōtsutsuki — an Ōtsutsuki who achieved godhood by consuming Chakra Fruits across millennia, resurrecting through Kāma again and again, until he transcended physical form entirely. Only his corpse remains. Amado harvested DNA from those remains and implanted abilities into Eida and Daemon.
These aren't ninjutsu. They aren't senjutsu. They're shinjutsu — divine miracles. Storms summoned with a wave. Thunderbolts called with a roar. Ninjutsu is a "pale imitation." Sarada is offended. Shikamaru is suspicious.
The list of shinjutsu is staggering: Kāma, Code's Claw Marks, Kawaki's Sukunahikona and Daikokuten, Eida's Senrigan, Daemon's Reflection. All divine. All beyond human comprehension.
Then Amado cracks open his soul. His daughter Akebi died 12 years ago at age 24 from an incurable disease. He cloned her. Downloaded her memories. Created Delta — who looked like Akebi, sounded like Akebi, remembered everything Akebi remembered, but wasn't Akebi. The personality was wrong. The humanity was gone.
He broke. Then Isshiki (as Jigen) approached him: "Help me, and I'll reunite you with your daughter." Amado didn't know Isshiki's goal was planetary destruction. He just wanted his girl back.
His plan: implant Akebi's data into Kawaki's restored Kāma. When Kawaki applies it to a cloned body, Akebi returns — not as a copy, but as a true resurrection. Kāma preserves soul and personality, not just memories.
Boruto is relieved — he expected something "more nefarious." Shikamaru isn't. He brings in Katasuke to verify the science, asks Eida to confirm Akebi's existence. She does.
But Momoshiki whispers in Boruto's mind. Their thoughts now bleed together — a side effect of Boruto's resurrection with Momoshiki's data. Momoshiki confirms the Shibai lore but drops a bomb: Eida's enchanting ability is NOT shinjutsu. Amado lied by omission.
Then Boruto sees the future. Konoha shinobi chasing someone. Chocho, Inojin, Shikadai worried. Sarada running. Mitsuki in Sage Mode, furious. Kawaki activating Kāma.
Eida notices his expression. She suspects something. Two beings who can see across time, watching each other.
Amado's confession about Akebi — the panel where he admits Delta "had all her memories, but a completely different personality." The art shows Amado's face crumbling, the clinical scientist reduced to a grieving father who tried to resurrect his daughter and created a stranger instead. Then the reveal that he broke, that Isshiki found him at his lowest, that his entire alliance with Kara was built on a father's desperation. Fans called it "the most human moment in Boruto" and "the scene that made Amado the best-written character in the series." The juxtaposition of cosmic godhood lore with a dad who just wants his little girl back hit like a truck.
- The domain of the father — Amado's entire arc is about a man who tried to play god to save his daughter and created a monster (Delta) instead. The chapter asks: is resurrection worth it if the person who comes back isn't the one you lost? And if Kāma can truly bring back the soul, does that make it holy or heretical?
- The domain of the imitation — Ninjutsu is a "pale imitation" of shinjutsu. Delta is a pale imitation of Akebi. Amado's science is a pale imitation of divine power. The chapter argues that humanity's greatest sin isn't hubris — it's settling for copies when the real thing is just out of reach.
- The domain of the inevitable — Boruto sees the future. Momoshiki sees through Boruto. Eida sees Boruto seeing. The chapter is a hall of mirrors where every character's sight is weaponized. The domain of gods isn't a place — it's a perspective. And once you have it, you can't unsee what's coming.
Chapter 75 is a cosmological earthquake disguised as an exposition dump. Amado's backstory transforms him from a mad scientist into a tragic father. Shibai Ōtsutsuki recontextualizes the entire Ōtsutsuki threat from "alien invaders" to "gods we can become." The shinjutsu revelation elevates Kāma from a curse mark to a divine mandate. And Momoshiki's whispered suspicion — that Eida's charm isn't what Amado claims — plants a bomb that won't detonate for dozens of chapters. The future vision is the cherry on top: a glimpse of the Omnipotence Arc's devastation, delivered as a passing panel.
If you love chapters that explain everything and make you trust nothing… this chapter will wreck you.
📖 Where to Read
Available digitally · Shōnen Jump+ · Official English translation
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