NarutoFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis article is about the media franchise. For the title character, seeNaruto Uzumaki. For other uses, seeNaruto (disambiguation).Naruto

Cover of the first JapaneseNarutomanga volume featuring Naruto Uzumaki.

GenreAction,Adventure,Fantasy

Manga

Naruto(pilot chapter)

WrittenbyMasashi Kishimoto

PublishedbyShueisha

English publisherNAViz Media

DemographicShnen

MagazineAkamaru Jump

English magazineNAShonen Jump

Published1997

Manga

WrittenbyMasashi Kishimoto

PublishedbyShueisha

English publisherAUSMadman EntertainmentNAViz MediaUKViz Media

DemographicShnen

MagazineWeekly Shnen Jump

English magazineNAWeekly Shonen JumpShonen Jump(formerly)

Original runSeptember 21, 1999November 10, 2014

Volumes72(List of volumes)

Anime television series

DirectedbyHayato Date

WrittenbyKatsuyuki Sumisawa (Episodes #1-132)Junki Takegami (Episodes #133-220)

MusicbyMusashi ProjectToshio Masuda

StudioStudio Pierrot

LicensedbyAUSMadman EntertainmentNAViz MediaUKManga Entertainment

NetworkTXN(TV Tokyo)

English networkAUSCartoon Network(Toonami)AUABC3,Network Ten(Season 1 only)BIJetixCAYTV,Tltoon,Neon AlleyUSCartoon Network,Adult Swim(Toonami),Neon Alley

Original runOctober 3, 2002February 8, 2007

Episodes220(List of episodes)

Anime television series

Naruto: Shippuden

DirectedbyHayato DateYasuaki Kurotsu[1](Episodes #290-295)[2]

WrittenbyJunki Takegami (Episodes #1-289, #296-)Satoru Nishizono (Episodes #1-53)Yasuyuki Suzuki (Episodes #54-71)Yasuaki Kurotsu[1](Episodes #290-295)[3]

MusicbyYasuharu Takanashi

StudioStudio Pierrot

LicensedbyNAViz Media

NetworkTXN(TV Tokyo)

English networkAUSCartoon NetworkCANeon AlleyUSDisney XD,Neon Alley,Adult Swim(Toonami)

Original runFebruary 15, 2007 ongoing

Episodes414(List of episodes)

Manga

Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring

WrittenbyMasashi Kishimoto

PublishedbyShueisha

English publisherNAViz Media

DemographicShnen

MagazineWeekly Shnen Jump

English magazineNAWeekly Shonen Jump

Original runApril 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 Japanesemangaseries written and illustrated byMasashi Kishimoto. It tells the story ofNaruto Uzumaki, an adolescentninjawho constantly searches for recognition and dreams to become theHokage, the ninja in his village who is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all. The series is based on aone-shot mangaby Kishimoto that was published in the August 1997 issue ofAkamaru Jump.Narutowas serialized inWeekly Shnen Jumpmagazine from the 43rd issue of 1999 to the 50th issue of 2014, with the chapters collected into seventy-twotankbonvolumes byShueisha. The manga was later adapted into a televisionanime, which was produced byStudio PierrotandAniplex. It premiered across Japan on theterrestrialTV Tokyoand otherTX Networkstations on October 3, 2002. The first series lasted 220 episodes, whileNaruto: 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 severaloriginal video animations. Other types of merchandise includelight novels, video games, and trading cards developed by several companies.Viz Mediahas licensed the manga and anime for North American production. Viz serializedNarutoin their digitalWeekly Shonen Jumpmagazine, 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: Shippudenwas first released by Viz in North America in September 2009, started broadcast onDisney XDin October of the same year and onAdult Swim'sToonamiblock 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 thirdbest-selling manga seriesin 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 theUSA TodayBooklist several times and volume 7 won theQuill Awardin 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 standardshnenmangaplot elements.Contents[hide] 1Plot 2Production 3Media 3.1Manga 3.2Narutoanime 3.3Naruto: Shippudenanime 3.4Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals 3.5Original video animations 3.6Films 3.7Music 3.8Video games 3.9Novels 3.10Trading card game 3.11Art and guidebooks 4Reception 4.1Manga 4.2Anime 5References 6External linksPlotSee also:List of Naruto charactersandNinja WorldA powerful fox known as the Nine-Tails attacks the ninja village Konoha. In response, the leader of Konoha theFourth Hokage seals the fox inside his newborn sonNaruto Uzumakiat 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, theThird 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 theShadow CloneJutsu, earning the respect of his teacherIruka Umino. Shortly after, Naruto becomes a ninja and is assigned alongsideSasuke Uchiha, whom he often competes against, andSakura Haruno, whom he has a crush on, to form a three-person team named Team 7 under an experiencedsensei, the elite ninjaKakashi 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 forTsunade, 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, theSharingan. Believing Orochimaru will be able to give him the strength needed to kill his older brotherItachi, 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 calledAkatsuki, 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 forGaara, 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 founderTobithat 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 fathersMadara 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 supposedlyworld 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 ninjaworld warbetween the unified armies of the Five Great Countries (collectively known as the Allied Shinobi Forces) and Akatsuki's forces of zombie-like ninjas. Naruto, andKiller 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 byKaguya 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.