It was May 22, 2022, that Boruto episode 250, titled The Blood of the Funato, was made available. After the previous eight episodes had intensified the fight between the Funato pirate clan and the Land of Water, this one was even more dramatic. The plot focused on the whereabouts of Ikada, the webbed hand apprentice shipwright who volunteered to accompany the Funato in order to look after his sister Seiren’s well-being. Ikeda’s evil side was on display in this episode, which revealed a lot about the Funato clan and Ikada in particular.
A look back at the 250th episode of Boruto
As we saw in Boruto episode 250, the Funato family is in deep trouble. Tenma, Funamushi, and Seiren have all been killed, with Seiren on life support, and their ships continue to sink as a result of the growing number of casualties.
However, even though clan chief Araumi continues to proclaim that his people would conquer the oceans and turn them red with Hidden Mist Village blood, the motivation to battle is waning among his followers.
As seen in Boruto episode 250, the clan’s female repair workers are overcome with sadness for the deaths of their husbands, brothers, and kids, and the threat of destruction hangs over them all. Araumi is enraged since they can’t even fix most of the broken ships and don’t have the manpower to grab supplies. A peace pact was secretly negotiated by Ikada’s older brother Isari, who defied his father’s orders in front of him. It doesn’t look like peace is in the near future, based on the episode’s conclusion.
Sorrow and grief
They ended up in tears after Araumi and Isari’s argument. Ikada was a baby when Araumi’s wife died in combat, therefore Araumi is placing all of his hopes on Ikada. Isari, on the other hand, accuses Ikada of sending Seiren on a quest to find him and blames him for it. Also, Isari and Araumi argued, that each of them had no idea what the other had gone through, especially with the deaths of vital individuals around them and egotism at play. Boruto was amused by Kobuna, the son of Funamushi, in episode 249 of Boruto. In that episode, Boruto himself showed deep sadness and scepticism about what was happening.
After Funamushi murdered Kagura and Hebiichigo, it’s simple to kill someone who’s attempting to kill you and dehumanise them. Even if it’s a youngster no older than Boruto, it’s a lot more difficult to confront one’s own blood relatives. In episode 250 of Boruto, Kobuna is a happy, confident young man who is eager to help the Funato. The sight of his father’s lifeless body eventually drives him to madness and revenge, which is fueled by the hateful speech and atmosphere he is surrounded by. Meanwhile, Ikada learns that Seiren’s injuries are so terrible that they cannot be treated. That wasn’t a surprise, given that she absorbed Kagura’s sword stroke head-on in episode 242.
To make matters worse, when Seiren awakened and sought to return to battle, her wounds reopened and she died as a result of Ikada lying to her to make her death go more smoothly. Ikada takes vengeance on his sister because he has no other choice in the face of the tough circumstances in which he finds himself. Before jumping into the water, he rips up the treasured drawing of the boat design that he had shown Boruto back in episode 241. He had created a tremendous wave to save his life, as shown in a flashback in the same episode.
Now it’s reawakened his actual abilities if you will. He seemed to be on board with his father’s deadly plans, his eyes now a deeper silver grey and gills appearing around his neck with vengeance in his heart. It doesn’t take a genius to see that Ikada may be on a similar path to Funamushi, which required the deaths of two highly skilled ninjas, Tenma and Seiren, in order to end Funamushi. Boruto episode 250’s last scene has an unsettling air to it as if something bad is about to happen. It appears from the promo for Boruto episode 251 that Boruto is having difficulty resolving the dilemma of ending the fight. Ikada, on the other hand, appears to have a newfound sense of purpose. This is bad news for everyone concerned, but it’s unclear if the Funatos will perish or whether there’s still hope for reconciliation.