Naruto

Naruto is one of the best worldwide selling Manga and Anime today.The author, Masashi Kishimoto is a huge manga fan since he was a kid. Naruto is based on his old manga concept called Hiatari- Kun, a story about a shadow ninja boy.
Naruto's story begins twelve years before the events of the series, when a powerful nine tailed demon fox (Kyuubi in Japan) attacks the village of Konoha (Konohagakure). It was a powerful demon indeed; a single swing of one of its nine tails would raise tsunamis and flatten mountains. It raised chaos and slaughtered many people, until the leader of the Leaf Village - the Fourth Hokage - defeated it by sacrificing his own life to seal the demon inside a newly-born child, whose origins are as yet unknown. That child's name was Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto Uzumaki grown to be a very lonely child. Since everyone in the village knows about the demon sealed in his body, no one want to be his friend. This lonely feeling makes him a somewhat rebel and naughty kid. He leaves a 'destruction' path wherever he goes. He actually lonely and crave for some attention. The first attention comes from his sensei Iiruka, who cares for Naruto and even saves his life once. After he passed his first Ninjutsu exam and become a Genin, Naruto teamed up with Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura. The three young ninjas are put under the wings of a new teacher, a slack, mysterious, but powerful Kakashi. These three young ninjas, along with their master, are the main characters of the manga.

The story goes with these three young genin and their progress into a mature and powerful ninjas. Especially Naruto, who has a very big dream, to one day become Hokage of Konoha. This is a classic story of a dream believer pursuing his dream, and maybe it's safe to guess, one day, achieve it. As he goes from a 'loser' ninja into a pretty powerful one, Naruto make a lot more friends, each with his unique ninjutsu abilities. Naruto will also meet some powerful ninja masters, The Three Legendary Sannin. Jiraiya, Tsunade, and the evil Orochimaru. Later in the story, the three young Genin is in the way to become the next generation legendary ninja, since Naruto has become the disciple of Jiraiya, Sakura become the disciple of Tsunade, and Sasuke with Orochimaru.

The first Naruto storyline ends after a duel between him and his rival best friend Sasuke. This is the fight with the classic theme Genius vs Persistent. The same theme used in the first Son Goku vs Vegeta’s fight in Dragon Ball Z. Only in this fight, both characters are already the main character of the story, and already a best friend. This heightened the emotion involved dramatically. After won the fight (by a hairline), Sasuke disappeared with Orochimaru, and thus ends fist chapter of Naruto, and starts Naruto Shippudden.

 

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