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Naruto

"NARUTO" redirects here. For other uses, see Naruto (disambiguation).

This article is about the manga and anime franchise.
For the title character, see Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto (NARUTO - ナルト -, Naruto?) is a Japanese manga series
written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime adaptation.
The main character, Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive,
unpredictable adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage,
the ninja in the village acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all.


Kishimoto first authored a one-shot of Naruto in the August 1997 issue
of Akamaru Jump.[1] The plot differed substantially in that Naruto was
the son of the demon fox instead of being the container,
and the story was placed in a more modern setting.[2] This early
version of Naruto already had the ability to transform into a sexy
young woman - but when he did so, a fox tail sprouted. Kishimoto then
rewrote the story to its current form, which was first published by Shueisha
in 1999 in the 43rd issue of Japan's Shonen Jump magazine. As of volume 36,
the manga has sold over 71 million copies in Japan.[3] Viz Media publishes
a translated version in the American Shonen Jump magazine.
Naruto has become Viz's best-selling manga series.
[4] To date, the first 27 volumes are available.
In order to catch up to the translated anime,
Viz plans to release volumes 16 to 27 three at a time over the months of September to December 2007.
[5]

The first of two anime series,
produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex, premiered across Japan on the terrestrial
TV Tokyo network and the anime satellite television network Animax on October 3,
2002, and is still being aired. Viz also licensed the anime for North American production.
Naruto debuted in the United States on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block on September
10, 2005, and in Canada on YTV's Bionix on September 16, 2005.
Naruto began showing in the UK on Jetix on July 22, 2006.
It began showing on Toasted TV on January 12, 2007 in Australia,
which features the German dub opening, although it could be watched on Cartoon Network in 2006.
The first series lasted nine seasons, while Naruto: Shippūden began its first on February 15, 2007.

Plot introduction


Twelve years before the events at the focus of the series, the nine-tailed demon fox
attacked Konohagakure. Powerful enough to raise tsunamis and flatten mountains
with a swish of one of its tails, it raised chaos and slaughtered many people,
until the leader of the Leaf Village – the Fourth Hokage – sacrificed his own
life to seal the demon inside the newborn, Naruto Uzumaki.The Fourth Hokage,
who was celebrated as a hero for sealing the demon fox away, wanted Naruto to
be respected in a similar light by being the containment vessel for the demon fox.


The Leaf Village, however, shunned him, regarding Naruto as if he were the demon
fox itself and mistreated him throughout most of his childhood. A decree made by
the Third Hokage forbade anyone to discuss or mention the attack of the demon fox
to anyone, even their own children. However, this did not stop them from treating
him like an outcast and as a result he grew up an orphan without friends, family,
or acknowledgment. He could not force people to befriend him, so he sought acknowledgment
and attention the only way he knew – through pranks and mischief.


However, that soon changed after Naruto graduated from the Ninja Academy
by using his Shadow Clone Technique, a technique from a forbidden scroll
that he was tricked into stealing, to save his teacher, Iruka Umino, from
the renegade ninja Mizuki. That encounter gave Naruto two insights: that
he was the container of the demon fox, and that there was someone besides
the Third Hokage who actually cared for and acknowledged him. His graduation
from the academy opened a gateway to the events and people that would change
and define his world, including his way of the ninja for the rest of his life.[6]

The main story follows Naruto and his friends' personal growth and development as ninja,
and emphasizes their interactions with each other and the influence of their backgrounds
on their personalities. Naruto finds two friends and comrades in Sasuke Uchiha and
Sakura Haruno, two fellow young ninja who are assigned with him to form a three-person
team under an experienced sensei named Kakashi Hatake. Naruto also confides in other
characters that he meets throughout the series as well. They learn new abilities,
get to know each other and other villagers better, and experience a coming-of-age journey
as Naruto dreams of becoming the Hokage of the Leaf Village.

Throughout all of the Naruto plot, strong emphasis on character development changes the plot,
with very few things happening because of chance. At first, emphasis is placed on Naruto,
Sasuke, and Sakura, who are the members of Team 7. However, other characters are developed,
such as Kakashi, Tsunade, and Jiraiya, as well as Naruto's peers in the other teams and villages.
Several major villains come into play as well, the first being Zabuza Momochi,
a missing-nin from Kirigakure, and his partner, Haku. Later, in the Chunin Exams arc,
Orochimaru is introduced as an S-Class missing-nin at the top of Konoha's most wanted list.
Also During this arc three ninjas known as The Sand Siblings are introduced. These siblings
are from Sungakure and include Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara. Later still,
a mysterious organization called Akatsuki begins to pursue Naruto for the
nine-tailed demon fox inside him.

Origins


In the original one shot of "Naruto," Naruto Uzumaki is the
son of powerful fox demon, whose spirit was sealed away by nine
powerful warriors. Only one, the current chief of the village of
the fox spirits on Mt. Oinari with a large resemblance to the Third
Hokage from the current series, survived, and he took on the duty of
raising Naruto. Naruto, however, is mischievous and a trouble maker,
pulling multiple pranks on others with each passing day. The village chief,
angry, sends Naruto on special training to the human world to find a human
friend he can trust, otherwise he will not be welcome to the village any longer.


While in the human world, Naruto meets the artist Kuroda, who trusted no
one after his father's death, struggling to finish an important painting.
After Kuroda's assistant, Takashi, is killed and the painting is stolen,
Naruto is framed and arrested. Kuroda, however, sympathizes Naruto enough
to legally take all punishments that would have been given to Naruto.
Naruto, attempting to repay Kuroda, searches for Takashi's murderer,
eventually finding out that Matsushima, who hired Kuroda to make the
painting, and his body guard plotted the whole thing and framed Naruto.
Naruto defeats both of them with ease, and the two get arrested, with no
one believing their stories about Naruto's abilities. Although Naruto befriends Kuroda,
however, Kuroda is too busy to follow Naruto to Mt. Oinari, and thus Naruto leaves to
continue his quest.

The original Naruto has a significant theming on friendship and trust.
At the beginning of the story, neither Naruto or Kuroda trusted anyone,
but by the end both befriend and trust each other. Despite its high results
in the reader poll after getting released, Kishimoto currently thinks the
"art stinks and the story's a mess!" Kishimoto also revealed that he was
originally working on Karakuri for the Hop Step Award when, unsatisfied by
the rough drafts, decided to work on something different instead, which later
formed into Naruto.

Noticiably, in the original Naruto, scrolls and stickers are used for the lesser jutsu,
rather than using hand signs to initiate Jutsu.
Naruto: Shippūden

From volume 28 onward, the series takes a new setting, taking place 2½ years after
the previous volume. While simply referred to as Part II in the manga, the anime
gave this part of the series the name Naruto: Shippūden (ナルト 疾風伝, Naruto: Shippūden?
lit. Naruto: Hurricane Chronicles). Between where volume 27 leaves off and the beginning
of volume 28, to distance the gap between the manga and anime, the anime adds a series
of filler episodes totalling 85, the longest number of filler episodes in any anime series.

Naruto: Shippūden tells the story of a matured and older cast from the original
series. After training for 2½ years with Jiraiya, Naruto Uzumaki, now fifteen,
returns to Konohagakure, reunites with the friends he left behind, and reforms
the original Team 7, excluding Sasuke Uchiha.

Unlike the original series, the organization of Akatsuki, which played a minor
role earlier, takes on the main antagonist factor in their attempts of world domination.
All of Naruto's classmates have matured and improved in the ranks, some more than others.
Characters

Naruto has a large and colorful cast of characters, running a gamut of detailed
histories and complex personalities, and allowing many of them their fair share
in the spotlight; they also seem to grow and mature throughout the series, as it
spans several years. As fitting for a coming-of-age saga, Naruto's world constantly
expands and thickens, and his social relations are no exception – during his introduction
he has only his teacher and the village's leader for sympathetic figures, but as the story
progresses, more and more people become a part of his story.

The students at the Ninja Academy, where the story begins, are split up
into squads of three after their graduation and become Genin, rookie ninja.
Each squad is assigned an experienced sensei. These core squads form a basis
for the characters' interactions later in the series, where characters are
chosen for missions for their team's strength and complementary skills;
Naruto's squad 7 becomes the social frame where Naruto is acquainted with Sasuke
Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, and their sensei Kakashi Hatake, forming the core of his
world-in-the-making. The other three-man teams of his former classmates form another
such layer, as Naruto connects with them to various degrees, learning of their motives,
vulnerabilities, and aspirations, often relating them to his own. The groups of
three are not limited to the comrades Naruto's age – groups in the story in general
come in threes and multiples of three with very few exceptions.

Sensei-student relationships play a significant role in the series; Naruto has
a number of mentors with whom he trains and learns, most notably Iruka Umino, the
first ninja to recognize Naruto's existence, Kakashi Hatake, his team leader, and
Jiraiya, and there are often running threads of tradition and tutelage binding together
several generations. These role models provide guidance for their students not only
in the ninja arts but also in a number of Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideals.
Techniques, ideals, and mentalities noticeably run in families,
Naruto often being exposed to the abilities and traditions of generation-old clans in his
village when friends from his own age group demonstrate them, or even achieve improvements
of their own; it is poignantly noted that Naruto's generation is particularly talented.

Character names often borrow from Japanese folklore and literature (such as the
names borrowed from the folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari), or are otherwise elaborate puns;
often there is a noticeable influence of the story behind the name shouldered by the character.[7]
Anime details

Even though it debuted some time after the manga, the anime quickly caught up,
since one anime episode usually covers one or two manga chapters. To prevent overlapping,
the anime's producers tend to organize content from the manga chapters into long, uneventful
sections followed by short bursts of action, sometimes adding filler content in between.
By the time the last canonical arc of the anime concluded, it was quickly gaining on the
manga and consequently switched to anime-only filler episodes to allow the manga to broaden
the gap once more. Most of the filler episodes are stand-alone stories, with a few being part
of arcs that are several episodes long. The filler episodes lasted for 85 episodes, the
duration of the first series. After the series moved back into manga-adapted episodes,
it was renamed Naruto: Shippūden (疾風伝, Naruto: Shippūden? lit. Hurricane Chronicles).
The new series premiered on February 15, 2007.

The anime generally remains true to the manga, usually changing only minor details
(causes of death, loss of limbs, and other injuries have been lessened in the anime)
or expanding on parts skipped by the manga. The filler arcs, though unreferenced in
the manga (save for a few scant scenes), deal with the breaks between story arcs,
most prominently the period between the mission to retrieve Sasuke and Naruto's
departure from Leaf Village at the end of the original series. The filler arcs
also often shine the spotlight on minor characters that have received little
narrative attention otherwise.


New episodes, animated by Studio Pierrot, air weekly on TV Tokyo in Japan during
the Golden Time slot (Japan's equivalent of prime time in the US). As of October 5,
2006, it shows on Thursday nights. The series has also spawned four movies, Naruto the
Movie, Naruto the Movie 2, Naruto the Movie 3, and Naruto: Shippūden the Movie. The first
three are available on DVD, while the fourth one was released in theatres on August 4, 2007.
It has also been confirmed by Shonen Jump that there will be a fifth Naruto movie in the summer
of 2008.

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