Summary
Kara is the main antagonistic organization in theBorutoseries. Led initially bythe Ōtsutsuki clan memberIsshiki Ōtsutsuki, Kara is a secretive group that operates out of hidden facilities. Their main goal involves acquiring vessels to facilitate the resurrection of the Ōtsutsuki. To this end, Kara engineers children like Kawaki to be receptive to powerful Ōtsutsuki transformations through experiments and training.
Under Isshiki’s command, Kara is structured with both inner and outer members. Kara gains notoriety through activities involving cursed seals, scientific experimentation, and terrorism acrossthe Five Great Nations. With assets like mysterious technology and stealth bases, Kara emerges as a credible threat to shinobi villages seeking to cultivate Ōtsutsuki power at all costs.
Kara’s Roots: The Establishment of the Secretive Group
Kara was founded by the Ōtsutsuki clan member Isshiki Ōtsutsuki after he was fatally wounded in abattle with Kaguya Ōtsutsukimany centuries ago on Earth. Forced to take a human host in the monk Jigen to survive, Isshiki went on to establish Kara and its ranks of elite shinobi called “Inners,” who would help him cultivate a divine tree and collect its chakra fruit. Isshiki hoped that consuming the chakra fruit would heal his injuries and restore his full power. Even after his death, Isshiki’s lingering influence continues to shape Kara’s objectives under its new leader.
When Isshiki died after improperly reviving in Jigen’s vessel, command was passed to the Inner, known as Code. As one of the 15 children Isshiki experimented on to find a compatible host, Code bears an unusual white Kāma seal rather than the standard Ōtsutsuki markings. Through this seal, Isshiki’s lingering will instructed Code to take control of Kara and pursue the shinobi’s ambitions to cultivatehis own divine treeand become an Ōtsutsuki. With Code now calling the shots, the organization remains dedicated to advancing the clan’s mysterious goals through whatever means necessary while evading authorities like Konoha.
Order Within Chaos: Kara’s Ranking System
Kara maintains a strict hierarchy,dividing its members into ranksmuch like a hidden village. At the top stand the most elite and powerful Shinobi called the “Inners,” who each oversee different regions for the group. Distinctive facial tattoos in Roman numerals and unique colored cloak linings identify the inner ranks. Beneath them are outside members termed “outers,” who act as spies, sabotagers, and foot soldiers carrying out various missions.
Other known ranks have included the “associates,” like the cyborgs ADA and Daemon, created by Kara’s chief scientist, Amado, to be living weapons. Lower-tier experimental cult members led by the Inner Boro also filled Kara’s ranks before most were wiped out. This pyramidal structure with inners at the peak gives Kara a well-organized command system to deploy agents globally in service of its undisclosed objectives.
Isshiki Ōtsutsuki’s Vision For Kara
When first establishing Kara under his leadership, Isshiki’s core goal was to cultivate a divine tree within a specified period that could grow a chakra fruit capable of fully healing his injuries. Towards this end, Kara’s scientific division greatlyadvanced prohibited ninja toolsand augmented members like the Inners with cybernetic enhancements. Isshiki also began a failed experiment to find a compatible vessel for transferring his consciousness using 15 children, including Kawaki.
However, after Momoshiki Otsutsuki’s possession of Boruto altered the timetable, Kara shifted to targeting the teen as a more suitable host. Isshiki planned to steal Boruto’s stronger body, enhanced by the Karma seal, for himself. When both Isshiki and Jigen later died, lingering within Code’s seal, the Ōtsutsuki modified Kara’s objectives.
Kara’s Transformation Under New Leadership
After Isshiki’s death, his spirit manifested in Code’s White Kāma and gave him orders to take over the Ōtsutsuki will.Code then took controlof Kara, with Amado’s awakened cyborg Ada forming an alliance to seek revenge against Amado. As the new leader, Code aimed to cultivate a Divine Tree to become an Ōtsutsuki himself.
Eat it and upgrade yourself, Code. Do that, and you yourself will become a new Ōtsutsuki.
However, Ada later turned on Code after being persuaded to joinKonohagakure by Shikamaru Nara. With his allies lost, Code now solely commands the remnants of Kara in his goal to destroy Kawaki using the Ten-Tails. Under Code’s leadership, Kara has evolved its goal from merely assisting Isshiki to directly serving Code’s own ambitions. The organization continues to pursue Ōtsutsuki-related objectives through whatever means necessary.
Some of the most prominent members of Kara include:
Continuing the Mission: Kara’s Present Operations
Even after Isshiki’s defeat, Kara maintains clandestine yet wide-ranging operations both covertly and openly that keep the mysterious group as an omnipresent threat. Current known activities under Code’s supervision include:
Though Code’s specific long-term goals evolved from Isshiki’s revival, Kara evidently still seeks some illusive chakra-related power through its continued operations. They also seem determined to eventually either capture Kawaki or eliminate him if he proves an obstacle to Code’s ambitions of ascension. Only by tracking Kara’s unrevealed activities can authorities like Konoha hope to thwart their ominous agenda.
Borutois available to stream onPrime Video.
Boruto
Boruto is an action anime series that continues years after the events of Naruto, now in the shoes of the next generation - many of which are the children of the protagonists from the original series. Boruto follows the titular character, the son of Naruto, who seeks to impress his father. Together with the other ninjas-in-training, Boruto will battle to overcome trials and threats even more significant than his father ever faced.
