Naruto’s Untapped God Chakra Could Eclipse Baryon Mode — So Why Is Boruto Ignoring It?

If you keep asking yourself why Boruto acts like Naruto misplaced his god-tier powers, welcome to the club. The short answer: Naruto still has his Six Paths stuff. The long answer: the show just rarely uses it, and the flashy upgrades that used to make it obvious are gone.

The quick version

Naruto did not lose his Six Paths Sage Mode. Hagoromo did not hand him a 24-hour trial. The core power is permanent, baked in like regular Sage Mode. The disconnect comes from Boruto mostly treating him like a burned-out Hokage who left his demigod mode at home.

What Naruto actually kept

Back in Shippuden, Hagoromo gave Naruto full-on Six Paths Senjutsu. That included the ability to patch up catastrophic injuries, sense chakra on a massive scale, manipulate Yin-Yang Release, and even deal with Kaguya-level nonsense like All-Killing Ash Bones. And no, those abilities are not reliant on Kurama. None of that was retconned out. There is no canon line where it quietly expires. It is still there in Boruto.

So why does Boruto make him look nerfed?

Because the series tends to show him using basic Sage Mode or a toned-down Kurama cloak, and it almost never spotlights the subtler Six Paths perks. The vibe shift from reality-bending powerhouse to overworked dad who runs out of gas mid-mission is a creative choice, not a power-loss event. That gap is why fans call it lazy writing: not that Naruto lost anything, but that the show acts like he never had it.

What changed after the war

• During the war, Naruto had Kurama plus bits of chakra from every Tailed Beast, which supercharged Six Paths Sage Mode into that glowing, tomoe-marked, flying, Truth-Seeking-Orb-tossing form.
• After the war, the borrowed Tailed Beast fragments faded.
• He burned through his supply of Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• The Tailed Beasts went back to their normal states.
• Result: the visuals and spectacle of Six Paths naturally dialed down, even though the underlying Senjutsu stayed.

The Kurama problem made it worse

Then Boruto took Kurama off the board in the Isshiki fight. That was Naruto's biggest amplifier. Without Kurama, he cannot hit KCM2, cannot blend that cloak with Six Paths, and he cannot recreate the Shippuden-era Six Paths look. The core Senjutsu is still in there; the show just lost the turbo button and the fireworks.

What we are actually left with

Base Six Paths Senjutsu: potent, precise, and apparently not flashy enough for Boruto to highlight. So no, Six Paths did not vanish. The amplifiers did, and the anime largely ignores the quieter side of the form.

"Naruto did not lose Six Paths — Boruto lost interest in showing it."

How the audience feels about it

If you are wondering whether viewers noticed the downgrade, the numbers kind of say it all. On IMDb, Naruto sits at 8.4/10 and Naruto Shippuden at 8.7/10. On Rotten Tomatoes, those are 81% and 86%. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations? 6.3/10 on IMDb and 52% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Where to watch

Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, and Boruto: Naruto Next Generations are streaming on Crunchyroll.