Naruto
Naruto (Naruto romanized as NARUTO in Japan) is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime TV series. Its main character, Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, adolescent ninja who searches for approval and recognition, as well as to become Hokage, acknowledged as the leader and strongest of all ninja in the village.
The manga 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. VIZ Media publishes a translated version in the American Shonen Jump magazine. Naruto has become VIZ's best selling manga series. To date, the first fourteen 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.
Naruto has a large and colourful cast of characters, running a gamut of detailed histories and complex personalities, and allowing them a fair share in the spotlight; they are also seen to grow and mature with 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 anime series, produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex, premiered across Japan on the 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 US 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, although it could be watched on Cartoon Network in 2006. The first series lasted nine seasons, while the second began its first on February 15, 2007.
Characters in Naruto
Ninja: Naruto Uzumaki,
Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno & Kakashi Hatake
Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi,
Ino Yamanaka & Asuma Sarutobi
Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuga
& Kurenai Yuhi
Rock Lee, Neji Hyuga, Tenten & Might Guy
Gaara, Kankuro
& Temari
Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Tsunade & the Third Hokage
Naruto Uzumaki a fictional character and the main protagonist in the anime and manga series Naruto.
Naruto can mean maelstrom, and is also the name for a sliced stick of Kamaboko with a pink whirlpool design in the middle that is used as a topping for Ramen (Naruto's favorite food). The surname Uzumaki is a pun on spiral, while Uzumaki refers to a three dimensional spiral, like a whirlpool or vortex. A more accurate translation for spiral would be "Rasen." The Konoha leaf symbol is drawn with an arrow attached to a spiral, part of the seal on his abdomen is a spiral, the symbol on the back of his jacket and shoulders is a spiral, and one of his attacks is Rasengan, which means Spiraling Sphere. Uzumaki can also mean whirlpool, in reference to the Naruto whirlpool , named after the city of Naruto.
Konohagakure (Konohagakure no Sato?, literally "Village
Hidden Among Tree Leaves"; also known as "Village Hidden in the Leaves"
or "Hidden Leaf Village"), or Konoha for short, is one of the five great
ninja villages. As such, it is one of five villages with a Kage as its leader,
known as the Hokage. On the Mount Rushmore-like mountain overlooking the villages,
the faces of every Hokage are carved into the rock. Tsunade, the Fifth Hokage,
has her face added sometime during the time skip.
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