Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-30168130-20170527042428/@comment-734582-20170528211211

UltimaDude wrote: @Thekillman Saying the Wind Release: Rasengan is not a Rasengan is denying what it is. It's in fact a Rasengan I think you misunderstood. It's a rasengan for sure, but it's already showing aspects of the Rasenshuriken. It's not the most basic qualification of what a Wind Style rasengan is, the same way that a Rasengan Barrage or a Big Ball rasengan is not the lowest form of Rasengan, even though they are, you know, rasengan. UltimaDude wrote: Also, how would Boruto suddenly know how to make a non-vanishing wind-natured Rasengan? The vanishing is not by design. It is simply a failing rasengan. But even though it looks like the jutsu just fails, the energy it contains is still carried on a bit further. All Boruto has to do to make it non-thrown and non-vanishing is to, well, not throw it.

UltimaDude wrote: Unlike Naruto, Boruto added Wind Release to the Rasengan immediately after he formed the sphere. In other words, Boruto did it wrong. Had he added Wind Release while forming the sphere, he would have ended up with a true Wind Release: Rasengan I don't know if he did it "wrong", but he clearly did it differently. Sasuke said that the Vanishing Rasengan could barely be called a rasengan (meaning, it was more like a different technique). It's possible that the Vanishing rasengan is not a pure wind release, but rather a mixture of wind and non-wind chakra. I can imagine that as the outer chakra shell fades, the wind chakra core continues to move a bit further which is the damage we see.

What sets the Rasenshuriken apart are definitely the blades, as the technique encompasses both the highest shape transform (The orb of rapidly rotating yet confined chakra) and the highest nature transform (Wind release, known for it's cutting power and so adding a shuriken-like blade). The question i then have is: What makes Wind Style: Rasengan a rasengan and not a smaller Rasenshuriken?