Father and Child

Bottom line

Boruto Episode 65 is twenty minutes of the franchise remembering exactly why Naruto and Sasuke became legends, then handing the final Rasengan to the boy who thought strength could be downloaded from a wrist device. “Father and Child” is spectacular. The choreography is fast without becoming unreadable, the animation stretches bodies and faces for impact, Naruto and Sasuke fight like two people sharing one tactical brain, and Boruto finally wins with a technique he actually learned.

The giant Parent and Child Rasengan works because Boruto knows where the power comes from. Naruto gives the chakra. Sasuke creates the opening. The Kage absorb punishment. Boruto carries the attack. Unlike the Chūnin Exams, nobody is pretending the help does not exist. That is the lesson, wrapped inside one enormous glowing sphere: receiving help was never Boruto's sin. Lying about the source was.

Quick reaction

This episode is ridiculous in the best possible way. Naruto weaponizes Sasuke's sword, Sasuke weaponizes Naruto, Momoshiki creates a lava gorilla, Kurama wears Susanoo armor again, and Boruto's tiny disappearing Rasengan humiliates a god who can absorb almost anything he sees coming.

Director and key animator Chengxi Huang gave the fight a physical rhythm that still feels electric years later. Characters skid, bend, recover, improvise, and hit with weight. Episode 65 does not merely show powerful people exchanging special effects. Everybody thinks while moving.

Momoshiki eats Kinshiki and calls that power

Momoshiki consumes Kinshiki's chakra fruit and transforms. Kinshiki accepts his role within their clan's hierarchy, but the image remains ugly: one person reduced to fuel so another can climb higher.

That is the Ōtsutsuki model. They consume worlds, chakra, and each other. Power flows upward. Identity becomes material.

Episode 65 later answers that image with Naruto giving chakra to Boruto. Both moments transfer power between generations. Momoshiki erases Kinshiki. Naruto remains present, named, and emotionally connected to his son. One inheritance devours. The other supports.

The other Kage learn how bad the transformation is

Gaara, Darui, Chōjūrō, and Kurotsuchi attack the transformed Momoshiki. Their confidence lasts about as long as a snack near Chōchō. Momoshiki overwhelms them with speed and raw force.

The sequence establishes scale without making the Kage look foolish. These are leaders who just handled Kinshiki together. Fused Momoshiki has moved beyond that level.

Gaara manages a sand defense and earns one of the coldest moments when Momoshiki tears through. The Kage are not irrelevant. Their defeat tells Naruto and Sasuke exactly how much room for error remains.

Naruto and Sasuke step forward together

Boruto watches his father and teacher enter the fight. Naruto activates Kurama's chakra. Sasuke opens the Sharingan and Rinnegan. There is no speech about rivalry because they no longer need one.

Their partnership carries the entire history of Naruto. These two spent years chasing, fighting, rejecting, and finally understanding each other. Adult coordination is the reward. Sasuke knows what Naruto will do before Naruto finishes moving. Naruto trusts every switch without looking back.

Boruto wanted Sasuke as a mentor because Sasuke was the only person he believed could challenge Naruto. Now he sees why being Naruto's equal is not about matching a number. Sasuke can move with him.

The taijutsu sequence deserves the reputation

Naruto and Sasuke rush Momoshiki with hand-to-hand combat that feels loose, dangerous, and alive. The animation changes proportions for motion instead of freezing everyone into model-sheet perfection.

Naruto fights with clones, kicks, and misdirection. Sasuke uses his sword and spatial swaps to make every angle unsafe. Momoshiki counters fast enough to keep the exchange from becoming a victory parade.

This is sakuga serving character. Naruto overwhelms through multiplication and improvisation. Sasuke controls position. Momoshiki relies on vision, absorption, and superior force. Their personalities remain legible inside the speed.

Sasuke throws his sword and Naruto is the trick

One of the episode's best combinations begins with a weapon exchange. Sasuke throws his sword, Naruto catches the rhythm, and transformations stack inside transformations. A shuriken becomes Naruto. A Rasenshuriken becomes Sasuke. Amenotejikara shifts the board again.

Momoshiki has powerful eyes, but seeing an attack does not mean understanding every layer. Naruto and Sasuke keep changing what each object means before contact.

That is veteran shinobi combat. Power matters. Deception decides where the power lands.

Momoshiki cannot absorb a punch to the face

Momoshiki's Rinnegan palms absorb ninjutsu and return attacks with greater force. Naruto and Sasuke answer with taijutsu, weapons, and physical feints. They fight the ability instead of feeding the spectacle.

The contrast becomes very important when Katasuke appears later. Naruto and Sasuke study the opponent and change tactics. Katasuke sees a target and fires every stored technique available.

Episode 65 is quietly an argument for judgment over output. The biggest attack is useless when the enemy can eat the attack. Sometimes the correct jutsu is a coordinated kick.

Kurama wears Susanoo armor again

Momoshiki creates massive elemental constructs, including a rock-and-lava creature that looks like the landscape decided to throw hands. Naruto answers with Kurama. Sasuke wraps Kurama in Susanoo armor.

The majestic attire returns from their final war against Obito and later battle with Sasuke. Here the combination is effortless. No ideological conflict. No competing control. Their powers lock together because the men finally do.

Sasuke's blade cuts through Momoshiki's construct, and Boruto sees the impossible made practical through cooperation. That image prepares him for the Rasengan he will carry.

The fight almost ends before Katasuke arrives

Naruto and Sasuke corner Momoshiki. The adult heroes have solved the battle. Then Katasuke rushes in with the Shinobi Gauntlet and decides the exhausted god needs a buffet.

Sir. The enemy has eyes in his hands that absorb ninjutsu. Everybody just demonstrated why direct techniques are dangerous. Put the gadget down.

Katasuke fires stored attacks anyway. Momoshiki absorbs them, restores his strength, and sends the power back. One man's need to display technology reverses the entire victory.

The Scientific Ninja Tool is not the villain

The gauntlet works exactly as designed. The user makes a disastrous decision. That distinction matters because Boruto has spent the arc learning the wrong lesson about tools.

Technology can store techniques, support people with less chakra, improve accessibility, and expand tactical options. None of those benefits excuse using an unapproved prototype during an exam or feeding ninjutsu to an enemy who absorbs ninjutsu.

Katasuke and Boruto share the same earlier mistake: both wanted the visible result badly enough to hide or ignore the context. Episode 65 does not condemn invention. The episode condemns reckless performance.

Momoshiki pins everyone with borrowed techniques

Recharged, Momoshiki uses attacks absorbed from the gauntlet and restrains Naruto, Sasuke, and the Kage. The strongest adults on the field become trapped by power Katasuke delivered.

Boruto remains free because Momoshiki barely considers him a threat. That arrogance creates the opening.

The boy who entered the exams using borrowed jutsu now faces an enemy doing the same thing on a monstrous scale. Momoshiki consumes technique without discipline, relationship, or gratitude. Boruto's answer must come from something he truly trained to use.

Sasuke bets on the Vanishing Rasengan

Sasuke tells Boruto to attack with his Rasengan. The technique is small. Boruto knows Momoshiki can absorb ninjutsu. The plan sounds impossible until Sasuke explains what he noticed during training.

Boruto adds Lightning Release without realizing the full effect. The Rasengan disappears after being thrown but continues toward the target. Sasuke has been paying attention to the skill Boruto dismissed because the result looked too small.

That is excellent mentorship. Sasuke sees value before the student does. He does not give Boruto a replacement technique. He teaches Boruto to trust the one he made.

The smallest Rasengan frees the battlefield

Boruto throws. Momoshiki watches the Rasengan vanish and assumes the threat is gone. The invisible attack hits him anyway and breaks his concentration, freeing the others.

The moment is satisfying because size does not win. Precision and surprise do. Boruto spent the Chūnin Exams chasing techniques that looked impressive. His own accidental variation succeeds because the enemy cannot read the timing.

Naruto's reaction is pure pride. He recognizes the Rasengan, understands that Boruto learned the technique, and sees his son's individual twist. The tiny sphere carries more honest achievement than every scroll hidden in Boruto's sleeve.

Naruto finally sees what Boruto learned

Naruto missed much of Boruto's training. He saw the cheating at the worst possible moment and had little evidence of the work underneath. The Vanishing Rasengan changes that.

Boruto learned chakra control from Konohamaru and refined the technique under Sasuke's challenge. He failed, adjusted, and accidentally created something new. Naruto sees the result without a camera, exam score, or public ceremony between them.

The father's pride lands because Boruto no longer needs to trick him into showing that expression.

Naruto builds the Rasengan with him

For the final attack, Naruto places his hand beside Boruto's and pours chakra into the Rasengan. The sphere grows until Boruto can barely comprehend the scale.

Inside the light, Boruto senses the hands and memories behind Naruto: Jiraiya, Minato, Kushina, Neji, and the people whose bonds shaped the Seventh Hokage. The technique becomes a family history without turning into a lecture.

Naruto is not simply lending chakra. He is finally letting Boruto feel the road that produced that chakra. Boruto wanted to know who his father was beyond the office. The answer arrives through everyone Naruto carried.

Help is not cheating when nobody hides the help

Boruto's final Rasengan is overwhelmingly powered by Naruto. Sasuke creates the strategy. The Kage and Naruto survived the first assault. By tournament logic, the finishing move is not an unaided accomplishment.

This is not a tournament.

The mission is to stop Momoshiki and save lives. Everybody knows whose chakra fills the sphere. Boruto does not claim he created that power alone. Collaboration becomes ethical because the goal, rules, and sources are clear.

The episode finally separates assistance from fraud. Help was never shameful. Concealment was.

Sasuke creates the final opening

Momoshiki swallows more chakra pills and prepares another attack. Sasuke coordinates Boruto's approach through swaps, clones, and feints. Boruto cannot overpower Momoshiki directly. He does not need to.

A shadow clone takes the expected hit. Sasuke moves pieces across the battlefield. Boruto gets inside Momoshiki's defense with the giant Rasengan still under control.

The victory belongs to a chain of trust. Naruto trusts Boruto to carry the power. Boruto trusts Sasuke's timing. Sasuke trusts the technique he watched Boruto create.

Boruto drives the Rasengan through Momoshiki

Boruto commits. Momoshiki pushes back. The Rasengan contains more chakra than Boruto could produce alone, but the boy still has to hold the line and move forward.

The final impact destroys Momoshiki's body and splits the divine tree behind him. Boruto's scream sounds less like triumph than the release of every frustration he has carried toward Naruto, himself, and the exam.

He wanted a spectacular result. He finally earns one by listening, training, admitting limits, and accepting support openly.

Time stops after the victory

Momoshiki appears before Boruto in a frozen moment that nobody else can perceive. He sees Boruto's inherited Byakugan blood and warns that those blue eyes will eventually take everything from him.

The enemy also tells him that anyone who defeats a god can no longer remain ordinary. Then Momoshiki touches Boruto's palm.

The battle ends, but the invasion becomes personal. Boruto helped destroy Momoshiki's body. Momoshiki plants Kāma and begins a much longer occupation.

The prophecy turns Naruto's eyes into a threat

Boruto's blue eyes came from Naruto. They have always marked family resemblance even when father and son were fighting. Momoshiki takes that feature and attaches catastrophe.

That cruelty matters. A child who just reconciled with his father receives a prophecy suggesting the inherited resemblance will cost him everything. The warmest symbol in the family becomes a source of dread.

Episode 66 will place Sarada's compliment about those eyes beside the memory of Momoshiki's words. Episode 65 plants the knife.

The animation makes strategy readable

The episode's reputation often gets reduced to “good animation,” but craft goes deeper than smooth movement. The camera tells us where each fighter is, which hand can absorb, what has transformed, and why each substitution works.

Smears and distorted faces sell speed. Brief pauses make the impacts land. Naruto and Sasuke's choreography communicates intimacy without stopping for explanation.

Chengxi Huang's direction understands that spectacle becomes memorable when viewers can follow the thought inside the movement. That is why fans still replay the fight frame by frame.

The anime improves the movie battle

Episode 65 adapts the film and manga climax while expanding Naruto and Sasuke's fight against Momoshiki. The additional choreography gives Boruto time to watch the legends operate before he joins them.

That choice strengthens the parent-child theme. Boruto does not replace Naruto and Sasuke. He witnesses what they can do, understands the gap, and contributes the one technique Momoshiki fails to anticipate.

The anime also makes the final victory feel like a relay. The previous generation runs most of the distance, then places the last stretch in Boruto's hands.

Replay notes

Watch Sasuke's eyes during every exchange. He is constantly reading positions and preparing the next swap. Naruto follows without needing a verbal cue.

Watch Boruto when the Vanishing Rasengan lands. His surprise reminds us that Sasuke understood the technique better than its creator.

Watch Naruto's hand beside Boruto's. The scene mirrors instruction, inheritance, apology, and trust without forcing either character to explain the symbolism.

Finally, watch Momoshiki's palms. His absorption makes power transactional. Every jutsu becomes something to consume. The Parent and Child Rasengan becomes powerful because relationship remains attached.

What worked

Nearly everything. The Naruto and Sasuke choreography is among the franchise's best. The Vanishing Rasengan pays off Boruto's real training. Katasuke's interruption reinforces the arc's theme without making technology inherently evil. Naruto and Boruto reconcile through action rather than a speech alone.

The final Rasengan gives the finishing blow to Boruto without pretending he surpassed the adults. The Kāma scene then prevents triumph from becoming a simple ending.

Most importantly, Episode 65 makes inherited power feel emotional. Chakra carries people, memory, and trust.

What did not work

The other Kage become measuring sticks quickly, especially after Episode 64 gave them strong entrances. A little more coordinated resistance would preserve their authority before Naruto and Sasuke take over.

Katasuke's entrance is so reckless that the plot machinery becomes visible. The episode needs Momoshiki recharged for Boruto's finish, so the scientist temporarily loses every survival instinct.

Boruto receives the decisive credit even though the adults create nearly every condition. The episode mostly handles that balance well, but later public praise risks simplifying the battle into “Boruto defeated Momoshiki.”

The final Rasengan tells the truth about borrowed power

The Chūnin Exams punished Boruto for borrowing power while hiding the source. Episode 65 gives him a massive attack built from other people and calls the moment growth. No contradiction exists. The difference is honesty, consent, and participation.

Naruto supplies the chakra openly. Sasuke creates the strategy and final opening. Boruto contributes the Vanishing Rasengan, the nerve to approach Momoshiki, and the hand that carries the attack through. Nobody pretends the result came from Boruto alone. Shared power becomes a bond rather than a counterfeit achievement.

That distinction also exposes why the Scientific Ninja Tool was never automatically evil. A tool can extend ability, preserve knowledge, and let one person use work created by another. Katasuke’s gauntlet becomes destructive because Momoshiki absorbs the stored techniques and because Boruto used the device to deceive judges. The moral problem lives in use and disclosure, not circuitry.

Katasuke arrives at the worst possible moment and demonstrates the lesson with almost comic precision. He wants footage, recognition, and proof that his invention matters. Firing techniques at an enemy who absorbs chakra turns ambition into ammunition. Momoshiki does not need a clever counterattack. Katasuke reloads him in public.

Boruto’s small Vanishing Rasengan repairs the situation because Momoshiki dismisses what he cannot see. The technique contains Boruto’s own training and Sasuke’s willingness to trust a student. A flashy shortcut failed during the Exams. An imperfect skill practiced honestly becomes the move a god cannot read.

Naruto finally witnesses that work. Earlier, Boruto wanted his father’s attention without understanding the burden Naruto carried. Naruto wanted Boruto’s patience without giving him enough presence. Building the Rasengan together allows both of them to communicate through a language Naruto has always understood better than conversation.

The enormous sphere carries family history. Minato created the technique. Jiraiya taught Naruto. Konohamaru learned from Naruto. Sasuke trained Boruto to shape his own variation. Boruto stands beneath layers of inheritance and still adds something new. The attack does not erase his individuality. The invisible change proves inheritance can become creation.

Naruto and Sasuke remain the strongest fighters on the field. Their taijutsu, substitutions, weapon exchanges, Kurama armor, and complete trust break Momoshiki’s control. Boruto receives the final movement because the story needs his choice, not because the episode secretly claims he surpassed them overnight.

Momoshiki recognizes the distinction too late. He consumed Kinshiki and countless chakra pills while insisting stolen accumulation made him superior. Boruto accepts help without pretending the help belongs solely to him. One boy stands inside a network of relationships. The other alien turns every relationship into food.

That is why the final clash works beyond spectacle. Both attacks contain borrowed power. Momoshiki devours the people beneath his strength. Boruto carries the people beside his. The Rasengan wins because shared effort has structure, memory, and somebody willing to be accountable for the hand at the center.

RaeRae verdict

“Father and Child” is Boruto at full power as a series. The old generation looks legendary without making the new generation pointless. Naruto and Sasuke fight with the trust they spent hundreds of episodes earning. Boruto wins because his small, imperfect Rasengan contains something Momoshiki cannot predict.

The giant final attack is not proof that Boruto suddenly became stronger than a god. The Rasengan belongs to Naruto's chakra, Sasuke's plan, Boruto's training, and every bond carried inside the technique. The episode names that shared power instead of hiding the receipt.

Then Momoshiki freezes time and leaves a mark. Victory becomes inheritance of another kind. Boruto finally understands his father just as an enemy claims part of his future. Gorgeous fight, devastating setup, no notes except somebody please confiscate Katasuke's gauntlet before he feeds another alien.