With the Boruto series continuing the Naruto legacy, new generations of fans are digging back into the "Golden Age" of the 2000s fandom to find classic works featuring the original cast. Impact on the Naruto Fandom

You might wonder why a release from 2007 is tagged with "new" in modern searches. This is usually due to two factors:

To understand the "C72" prefix, one must look at , or Comiket, the world’s largest self-published comic fair held twice a year in Tokyo. Comiket 72 took place in the summer of 2007. This was a pivotal era for the Naruto franchise; the Naruto: Shippuden anime had recently debuted, and the manga was deep into the "Hidan and Kakuzu" arc.