The Super Beast Scroll Slump!

With Academy graduation exams looming, Inojin decides to photocopy his sketches ahead of time rather than draw them mid-fight, a shortcut that troubles his father Sai. During a spar, the pre-made copies crumble before they can land a hit, and when Inojin switches to a fresh drawing it falls apart the same way, leaving him afraid he has lost the jutsu entirely. Sai tells him the copies caused the failure but declines to spell out the rest, nudging his son toward an art contest instead, convinced that simply naming the problem will not cure it.

Inojin is stunned when Himawari wins the competition with a piece he considers crude, and he chalks it up to her being the Hokage's daughter. Sai worries his son may never wield Super Beast Imitating Drawing again and suggests he compare his own work against Himawari's, but Inojin can find no explanation for his slump.

Guest-lecturing at the Academy, Sai gets the class to draw Chōchō and remarks that even Boruto's rough sketch shows promise for the jutsu, which baffles Inojin, whose own animations barely peel off the page. Discouraged, he tells Chōchō he will fall back on his mother's mind techniques, but in training under Shino his brief takeover of Iwabee's body fails from lack of practice, and his hesitation over his art supplies costs his team the match. At home he starts gathering his brushes to throw them out, until Ino stops him, and among the pile he uncovers a picture from his early childhood.

Inojin asks Himawari to coach him, though she has no method to offer. When his jutsu misfires and scatters her drawing over the water, he chases it and realizes at last what sets her work apart: she pours real emotion into it. Bringing that spirit to his own art, he animates his drawing and rescues hers, then brings it to life again at her request. He shows his parents the recovery, and Sai reveals his favorite of Inojin's pieces, one of the whole family together. The next day Himawari, untroubled that her drawings vanished from the paper, simply plans to make new ones to delight her father.

This entry in the Boruto anime centers on the younger Ino-Shika-Chō generation and the theme of art carrying emotion. It aired in Japan on November 15, 2017, and in English on June 2, 2019, opening with Over and closing with I Keep Running.