Uzumaki Bolt
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During the original series, it was made clear that Minato originally wanted the Rasengan to be Raiton based. Having failed to do so, he settled for the regular Rasengan, which itself was plenty powerful as a finisher. When he tried it, he understood the inner workings of a TBB, and probably understood the chakra ratio required for that. He still failed.
Kakashi tried his own luck at this, but his attempt landed him with the Chidori. It's unlikely that Kakashi understood the workings of a TBB, seeing as he never bothered helping Naruto out with it, at any point in time.
Naruto became the first person to apply Nature to the Rasengan, but he only managed it with Wind at first. He later did it with Lava, Magnet Release, Bubble Release, and what not, but never Lightning. In the games, Jiraiya cooked up a Katon Rasengan, but that's just videogame filler.
That brings us to the surprise revelation that Boruto's Vanishing Rasengan is actually Raiton (which to me is bullshit. A different sort of Fuuton application would have made more sense). I am, however, here to share the results of my attempt to justify it being Raiton anyway, because that's what manga fans do. We make sense of nonsense.
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To answer our question, we'll answer two questions.
1. Why is Raiton so hard, when Fuuton seemed easy enough?
2. What is the difference between Boruto's subconscious application and the conscious attempts of Minato and Kakashi?
For 1. Raiton techniques throughout the series have one thing in common - they're erratic and uncontrolled. They give off sparks that the user has no control over, and such a thing in the shape manipulation that is Rasengan would make things very dangerous very easily. The sole exception to this rule IMO is Vanishing Rasengan, which should tell us something. I'd also say Laser Circus, but that's not exactly Lightning Release. Fuuton techniques, on the other hand are precise, impactful, and disciplined - just the things that made sense in a Rasengan.
Coming to #2., at the start of this post, I mentioned the difference in knowledge between Minato, Kakashi and Boruto.
Minato, knowing what he did, would have theoretically tried to replicate the TBB, complete with chakra ratios (perhaps lightning:normal), and precise spiraling flow. The latter is impossible with Raiton, due to the impossibly erratic nature. Minato thus failed.
Kakashi, from what we knew, theoretically just attempted to make a Rasengan out of Raiton chakra, which succeeded as far as the circular form goes, but the spiraling part failed miserably. In order to match the Kinetic energy that would normally be in the form of the spiraling chakra, he added the dashing movement to it, which resulted in its original weakness of tunnel vision. The incomplete Chidori was born.
Both of them were fixated on using Raiton for this technique, and both of them failed to make the lightning bend to their will.
With Boruto, he never actively tried to use Raiton. When he developed it, he got ideas from Himawari. Moving chakra around in spirals around a set point in place achieved the Rasengan for him. His version of Rasengan, instead of being chakra flowing around inside a shaped ball, was chakra flowing around a focused point in space. Centripetal vs. Centrifugal, if you may. My theory is that he subconsciously applies lightning nature to this focus point. Being in place, and in too small amounts to be useful in combat, the lightning nature doesn't give off the usual sparks, and is contained well by the chakra revolving around it. When he releases it, instead of dispersing like a normal Rasengan, it simply weakens, but remains in motion, due to the attracting nature of the focus point. Too weak to be noticeable to a Byakugan trained for detecting threats, but still strong enough to stagger.
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TL;DR
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Minato tried to emulate TBB with Rasengan. Failed due to erratic nature of lightning.
Kakashi tried a pure lightning Rasengan. Failed to give it a spin and kinetic energy; created Chidori instead.
Boruto reversed the whole equation. Instead of "chakra trapped in a ball trying to get out", he made "chakra rotating around a focal point of focused chakra." His focused chakra became lightning nature by default.
Disclaimer
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Much of this is speculation from my part, and is mostly an attempt to come up with a viable explanation.
Kakashi tried his own luck at this, but his attempt landed him with the Chidori. It's unlikely that Kakashi understood the workings of a TBB, seeing as he never bothered helping Naruto out with it, at any point in time.
Naruto became the first person to apply Nature to the Rasengan, but he only managed it with Wind at first. He later did it with Lava, Magnet Release, Bubble Release, and what not, but never Lightning. In the games, Jiraiya cooked up a Katon Rasengan, but that's just videogame filler.
That brings us to the surprise revelation that Boruto's Vanishing Rasengan is actually Raiton (which to me is bullshit. A different sort of Fuuton application would have made more sense). I am, however, here to share the results of my attempt to justify it being Raiton anyway, because that's what manga fans do. We make sense of nonsense.
----------------------
To answer our question, we'll answer two questions.
1. Why is Raiton so hard, when Fuuton seemed easy enough?
2. What is the difference between Boruto's subconscious application and the conscious attempts of Minato and Kakashi?
For 1. Raiton techniques throughout the series have one thing in common - they're erratic and uncontrolled. They give off sparks that the user has no control over, and such a thing in the shape manipulation that is Rasengan would make things very dangerous very easily. The sole exception to this rule IMO is Vanishing Rasengan, which should tell us something. I'd also say Laser Circus, but that's not exactly Lightning Release. Fuuton techniques, on the other hand are precise, impactful, and disciplined - just the things that made sense in a Rasengan.
Coming to #2., at the start of this post, I mentioned the difference in knowledge between Minato, Kakashi and Boruto.
Minato, knowing what he did, would have theoretically tried to replicate the TBB, complete with chakra ratios (perhaps lightning:normal), and precise spiraling flow. The latter is impossible with Raiton, due to the impossibly erratic nature. Minato thus failed.
Kakashi, from what we knew, theoretically just attempted to make a Rasengan out of Raiton chakra, which succeeded as far as the circular form goes, but the spiraling part failed miserably. In order to match the Kinetic energy that would normally be in the form of the spiraling chakra, he added the dashing movement to it, which resulted in its original weakness of tunnel vision. The incomplete Chidori was born.
Both of them were fixated on using Raiton for this technique, and both of them failed to make the lightning bend to their will.
With Boruto, he never actively tried to use Raiton. When he developed it, he got ideas from Himawari. Moving chakra around in spirals around a set point in place achieved the Rasengan for him. His version of Rasengan, instead of being chakra flowing around inside a shaped ball, was chakra flowing around a focused point in space. Centripetal vs. Centrifugal, if you may. My theory is that he subconsciously applies lightning nature to this focus point. Being in place, and in too small amounts to be useful in combat, the lightning nature doesn't give off the usual sparks, and is contained well by the chakra revolving around it. When he releases it, instead of dispersing like a normal Rasengan, it simply weakens, but remains in motion, due to the attracting nature of the focus point. Too weak to be noticeable to a Byakugan trained for detecting threats, but still strong enough to stagger.
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TL;DR
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Minato tried to emulate TBB with Rasengan. Failed due to erratic nature of lightning.
Kakashi tried a pure lightning Rasengan. Failed to give it a spin and kinetic energy; created Chidori instead.
Boruto reversed the whole equation. Instead of "chakra trapped in a ball trying to get out", he made "chakra rotating around a focal point of focused chakra." His focused chakra became lightning nature by default.
Disclaimer
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Much of this is speculation from my part, and is mostly an attempt to come up with a viable explanation.
