Boruto Reveals Kawaki's Explosive Awakening
✖
This was put to the test with Episode 188 of the series as Kawaki has fully been brought into the events of the anime. After Boruto and the rest of Team 7 found Kawaki lying in a crater with the previous episode (and Boruto quickly realized that he had the same mark as this mysterious young man), Kawaki finally wakes up and explodes with an unforeseen kind of dark chakra.
Episode 188 of the series took a step back from the previous cliffhanger to fill in some of the blanks of Kawaki's past. In some original content made for the anime exclusively, Kawaki is revealed to be a young boy who's been experimented on by Kara for quite a long time before Boruto and the others eventually meet him in the newest episode. Then we begin to see the fruits of these experiments.