Highlights
- Kara, led by Isshiki Ōtsutsuki, aims to resurrect the Ōtsutsuki by cultivating divine trees through vessels like Kawaki.
- Kara is structured with inner and outer members carrying out missions related to cursed seals, scientific experimentation, and terrorism.
- After Isshiki’s death, Code takes over Kara’s leadership to pursue Ōtsutsuki-related objectives independently, aiming to become an Ōtsutsuki.
Kara is the main antagonistic organization in the Boruto series. Led initially by the Ōtsutsuki clan member Isshiki 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 across the 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 a battle with Kaguya Ōtsutsuki many 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 cultivate his own divine tree and 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 ranks much 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 greatly advanced prohibited ninja tools and 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 control of 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 join Konohagakure 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.
Key Members of Kara
Some of the most prominent members of Kara include:
- Code – Now the sole remaining inner and leader following Isshiki’s demise.
- Delta – The 1st Inner with powerful cyborg enhancements and abilities focused on combat and assassination.
- Koji Kashin – A spy for Kara who was modified by Amado. He defected and killed Jigen but was later defeated by Isshiki.
- Boro – The 3rd Inner who led an experimental cult that became fodder for Kara’s operations until being killed by Momoshiki.
- Kawaki – Former vessel of Isshiki who is now protected by Konoha and targeted by Code.
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:
- Continued scientific research into advancing Ninja tool technology beyond approved boundaries.
- Gathering intel on potential targets like Konoha through networked spy networks of Outers globally.
- Isolationist cult recruitment to build up disposable experimental members, as seen under Boro.
- Monitoring of Kawaki’s activities post-defection, given his significance as a potential Karma host.
- Covert surveillance of the new generation, like Boruto, for any developing abilities that could help its objectives.
- Unidentified experiments using the remnants of Isshiki and Jigen’s genetic material and abilities.
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.
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