Naruto

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see Naruto (disambiguation).

Naruto

Cover of the first Japanese Naruto manga volume featuring Naruto

Genre

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Manga

Naruto (pilot chapter)

Written by

Masashi Kishimoto

Published by

Shueisha

English publisher

NA

Viz Media

Demographic

Shnen

Magazine

Akamaru Jump

English magazine

NA

Shonen Jump

Published

1997

Manga

Written by

Masashi Kishimoto

Published by

Shueisha

English publisher

AUS

Madman Entertainment
NA

Viz Media
UK

Viz Media

Demographic

Shnen

Magazine

Weekly Shnen Jump

English magazine

NA

Weekly Shonen Jump

Original run

September 21, 1999 November 10, 2014

Volumes

72 (List of volumes)

Anime television series

Directed by

Hayato Date

Written by

Katsuyuki Sumisawa (Episodes #1-132)

Music by

Musashi Project
Toshio Masuda

Studio

Studio Pierrot

Licensed by

AUS

Madman Entertainment
NA

Viz Media
UK

Manga Entertainment

Network

TXN (TV Tokyo)

English network

AUS

Cartoon Network (Toonami)

ABC3, Network Ten (Season 1 only)

Jetix

CA

YTV, Tltoon, Neon Alley

Cartoon Network, Adult Swim (Toonami), Neon

Original run

October 3, 2002 February 8, 2007

Episodes

220 (List of episodes)

Anime television series

Naruto: Shippuden

Directed by

Hayato Date
Yasuaki Kurotsu[1] (Episodes #290-295)[2]

Written by

Junki Takegami (Episodes #1-289, #296-)

Music by

Yasuharu Takanashi

Studio

Studio Pierrot

Licensed by

NA

Viz Media

Network

TXN (TV Tokyo)

English network

AUS

Cartoon Network

CA

Neon Alley
US

Disney XD, Neon Alley, Adult Swim (Toonami)

Original run

February 15, 2007 ongoing

Episodes

414 (List of episodes)

Manga

Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring

Written by

Masashi Kishimoto

Published by

Shueisha

English publisher

NA

Viz Media

Demographic

Shnen

Magazine

Weekly Shnen Jump

English magazine

NA

Weekly Shonen Jump

Original run

April 27, 2015 ongoing

Films

Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow

Legend of the Stone of Gelel

Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom

Naruto Shippuden the Movie

Bonds

The Will of Fire

The Lost Tower

Blood Prison

Road to Ninja

The Last

Boruto
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Naruto ( ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. It tells the
story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and dreams to
become the Hokage, the ninja in his village who is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of
all. The series is based on a one-shot manga by Kishimoto that was published in the August 1997
issue of Akamaru Jump.
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Naruto was serialized in Weekly Shnen Jump magazine from the 43rd issue of 1999 to the 50th
issue of 2014, with the chapters collected into seventy-two tankbon volumes by Shueisha. The
manga was later adapted into a television anime, which was produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex.
It premiered across Japan on the terrestrial TV Tokyo and other TX Network stations on October 3,
2002. The first series lasted 220 episodes, while Naruto: Shippuden, a sequel to the original series,
has been airing since February 15, 2007. In addition to the anime series, Studio Pierrot has
developed ten movies and several original video animations. Other types of merchandise
include light novels, video games, and trading cards developed by several companies.
Viz Media has licensed the manga and anime for North American production. Viz serialized Naruto in
their digital Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, as well as publishing the individual volumes. The anime
series began airing in the United States and Canada in 2005, and later in the United Kingdom and
Australia in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The films, as well as most OVAs from the series, have also
been released by Viz, with the first film premiering in cinemas. Naruto: Shippuden was first released
by Viz in North America in September 2009, started broadcast on Disney XD in October of the same
year and on Adult Swim's Toonami block in January 2014. Viz Media began streaming both series on
their streaming service Neon Alley in December 2012.
As of September 2014, the manga has over 200 million copies in print, with over 130 million copies
in Japan and the remaining 75 million being overseas, making it the third best-selling manga
series in history. The manga is also available in 35 countries outside Japan. [4] It has also become one
of North American publisher Viz Media's best-selling manga series. Their English adaptation of the

series has appeared in the USA Today Booklist several times and volume 7 won the Quill Award in
2006. Reviewers of the series have praised the balance between fighting and comedy scenes, as
well as the characters' personalities, but have criticized it for using standard shnen manga plot
elements.
Contents
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1 Plot

2 Production

3 Media
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3.1 Manga

3.2 Naruto anime

3.3 Naruto: Shippuden anime

3.4 Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals

3.5 Original video animations

3.6 Films

3.7 Music

3.8 Video games

3.9 Novels

3.10 Trading card game

3.11 Art and guidebooks

4 Reception
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4.1 Manga

4.2 Anime

5 References

6 External links

Plot
See also: List of Naruto characters and Ninja World

A powerful fox known as the Nine-Tails attacks the ninja village Konoha. In response, the leader of
Konoha the Fourth Hokage seals the fox inside his newborn son Naruto Uzumaki at the cost of
his life. As a child, Naruto is isolated from the Konoha community, who regards him as if he was the
Nine-Tails itself. A decree made by the current Kage, the Third Hokage, forbids anyone mentioning
the Nine-Tails to anyone else. Twelve years later, renegade ninja Mizuki reveals Naruto the truth
before being defeated by Naruto with the Shadow Clone Jutsu, earning the respect of his
teacher Iruka Umino. Shortly after, Naruto becomes a ninja and is assigned alongside Sasuke
Uchiha, whom he often competes against, and Sakura Haruno, whom he has a crush on, to form a
three-person team named Team 7 under an experienced sensei, the elite ninja Kakashi Hatake. Like
all the ninja teams from every village, Team 7 is charged with completing missions requested by
villagers, ranging from doing chores, and being bodyguards or executing assassinations.
After several missions, most notably one to the Land of Waves, Kakashi allows Team 7 to participate
in a ninja exam in which they can advance to a higher rank, and thus take part in more difficult
missions. During the exams, Orochimaru, a top-wanted criminal, invades Konoha and kills the Third
Hokage in an act of revenge. This forces one of the three legendary ninja, Jiraiya, to search with
Naruto for Tsunade, who has been nominated to become the Fifth Hokage. During the search, it is
revealed that Orochimaru desires to acquire Sasuke due to his powerful genetic heritage,
the Sharingan. Believing Orochimaru will be able to give him the strength needed to kill his older
brother Itachi, who destroyed their clan, Sasuke eventually joins him after a humiliating defeat at his
brother's hands. Tsunade sends a group of ninja including Naruto to retrieve Sasuke, but Naruto is
unable to bring him back to the village. Naruto and Sakura do not give up on Sasuke, however, and
the former leaves Konoha to train under Jiraiya's tutelage in order to prepare himself for the next
time he encounters Sasuke, while the latter becomes Tsunade's apprentice.
Two and a half years later, Naruto returns from his training with Jiraiya, and the criminal organization
called Akatsuki, from which Itachi is a member, starts kidnapping the hosts of the nine powerful
Tailed Beasts, including the Nine-Tails sealed inside of Naruto, to extract them. Several ninjas from
Konoha, including Team 7, fight against the Akatsuki members and search for their teammate
Sasuke. Akatsuki is successful in capturing seven of those creatures whose hosts are killed in the
process, except for Gaara, the host of the One-Tail whose life is saved in time by Naruto and his
comrades. In the meantime, Sasuke betrays Orochimaru and faces Itachi to take revenge. After
Itachi dies in battle, Sasuke learns from the Akatsuki founder Tobi that Itachi was ordered by
Konoha's superiors to destroy his clan to prevent a coup d'tat to which he accepted with the
condition of allowing Sasuke to be spared. Saddened with this revelation, Sasuke joins forces with
Akatsuki to kill Konoha's superiors who orchestrated the Uchihas' elimination and destroy Konoha to
exact revenge. Meanwhile, as several Akatsuki members are defeated by Konoha ninjas, their
figurehead leader, Nagato, kills Jiraiya and devastates Konoha. However, Naruto defeats and
redeems him, reviving those who perished and earning the village's respect and admiration as a
result.
With Nagato's eventual death, Tobi, while disguised as one of Konoha's founding fathers Madara
Uchiha, announces that he wants to obtain all nine of the tailed beasts in order to perform an illusion
powerful enough to control all of humanity, in an effort to create supposedly world peace. The
leaders of the five ninja villages refuse to aid him and instead join forces to confront Tobi and his
allies. This results in a fourth ninja world war between the unified armies of the Five Great Countries
(collectively known as the Allied Shinobi Forces) and Akatsuki's forces of zombie-like ninjas. Naruto,
and Killer Bee, the host of the Eight-Tails, head for the battlefield refusing to sit back as instructed.
During the conflict, it is revealed that Tobi is actually Obito Uchiha, Kakashi's former teammate who
was thought to be dead, but he was saved by the real Madara and has been working with him ever
since. As Sasuke learns the history of Konoha, including the circumstances that led to his clan's
downfall, he decides to protect the village and rejoins Naruto and Sakura to stop Madara and Obito's
plans, which unleash the Ten-Tails. However, Madara's body ends up possessed by Kaguya
tsutsuki, an ancient princess who intends to subdue all of mankind, and a reformed Obito sacrifices
himself to help Team 7 stop her. Once Kaguya is sealed, Madara dies as well, but Sasuke takes

advantage of the situation and takes control all the Tailed Beasts to realize his true goal of ending
the current village system. Naruto confronts Sasuke to dissuade him, and after they almost kill each
other in a final battle, Sasuke admits defeat and reforms. After the war, Kakashi is chosen to become
the Sixth Hokage and pardons Sasuke of his crimes. Years later, Kakashi steps down and Naruto
becomes the Seventh Hokage, raising the next generation.