Naruto: Minato\u2019s side story explores the origin of Rasengan Viz MediaThe highly anticipated Minato\u2019s side story officially makes its debut. Here\u2019s how the manga one-shot explores the origins of one of the series\u2019 most powerful Jutsu. Naruto\u2019s most famous character isn\u2019t the protagonist or everyone\u2019s beloved Kakashi sensei. Instead, the one who stands at the pinnacle of fame is actually Minato Namikaze, Naruto\u2019s father. The global popularity poll held in April 2023 gave a tremendous victory to the Yellow Flash of Konoha. The difference in the number of votes between the first and second ranks is a whopping 287k. In May 2023, Naruto\u2019s creator Masashi Kishimoto announced a manga spin-off dedicated to the Fourth Hokage due to Minato\u2019s popularity. The manga was scheduled to release in July 2023. Titled \u201cNaruto: The Whorl within the Spiral,\u201d Minato\u2019s side story features the origin of Rasengan and how that name came to be. Fans finally learn the secret behind Minato giving a normal name to a Jutsu. Delve deeper to find out how many Minato\u2019s side story reveals the truth behind Rasengan\u2019s creation. Minato\u2019s side story reveals how Rasengan was created Unfortunately, the side story is only a one-shot that features Minato\u2019s adventures as well as the origin of Rasengan. It was released on 17 July 2023, having 56 pages with four colored pages and a cover. The story is set during the warring times when the villages were preying on Konoha\u2019s Nine-Tailed Fox. At that time, Minato and Kushina were yet to be married, and the latter had yet to learn how to control the tailed beast properly. Throughout the ordeal, Minato was there to help her and take any risk necessary to ensure her safety. Minato\u2019s side story also features Kushina remembering Mito Uzumaki talking about \u201cRasen,\u201d meaning a helical staircase that leads to a spot where one can clearly see the statues of all the Hokage. Later, after barely controlling the fox with Minato\u2019s help, the latter reveals how he used the Jinchuuriki\u2019s chakra sphere as a reference to create a new Jutsu. He calls it \u201cIce Pop Inspired Nimbus Jiraiya Twin Whorl Sphere,\u201d even though Jiraiya disagreed. As expected, Kushina instantly rejects such a stupid name. Then, she asks him to let her name the Jutsu since he created it for her. She shows the helical staircase to Minato and names the Jutsu \u201cRasengan.\u201d Naruto can currently be streamed on Crunchyroll. In the meantime, you can check out more anime coverage below: One Piece chapter 1088 spoilers | Jujutsu Kaisen Nobara\u2019s status | Jujutsu Kaisen Toji forgets Megumi | Jujutsu Kaisen Gojo\u2019s Hollow Purple | Jujutsu Kaisen chapter 230 | One Piece Episode 1070 spoilers | Jujutsu Kaisen manga ending | Jujutsu Kaisen Shibuya arc schedule | Jujutsu Kaisen major deaths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Naruto: Minato\u2019s side story explores the origin of Rasengan Viz MediaThe highly anticipated Minato\u2019s side story officially makes its debut. Here\u2019s how the manga one-shot explores the origins of one of the series\u2019 most powerful Jutsu. Naruto\u2019s most famous character isn\u2019t the protagonist or everyone\u2019s beloved Kakashi sensei. Instead, the one who stands at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}