The animation style is cool, the use of simple lines and colorful images, great and funny facial expressions, the story is very interesting and gripping with the past blending in with the future to create a great story that captures your attention and hold you all through. The main character is an orphaned boy who is a social reject, who has the burning desire to be the best there is, has a good heart, always does the right things and always tries his best no matter what, add ninjas, wars and you have a story that everyone loves to watch.
Lots of interesting characters that are unique whether you love’em or hate’em, but you definitely care about them, the music is sometimes sad, sometimes funny, sometimes powerful, then the internet and marketing took it to the worldwide stage, what you have is loyal following that could be called a cult.
Plot
A powerful fox known as Nine-Tails attacks Konoha, the hidden leaf village in the land of fire, one of the Five Great Shinobi countries in the ninja world. In response, the leader of the Konoha, the 4th hokage seals the fox inside the body of a human, his newborn son, Naruto Uzumaki, making him a host of the beast, this feat cost the 4th hokage, Naruto’s father, his life. Naruto is often ridiculed after this by the villagers in Konoha leading to the 3rd hokage who now rules Konoha to make s decree forbidding the mention of this event, Naruto therefore grows up not knowing anything about the beast within him for the next 12years until a renegade ninja tells him about what he carries within. The ninja’s name is Mizuki. See more on https://www.seasonsepisode.watch/tv-shows/naruto-shippuden
Anime
Directed by Hayato Date and produced by Studio Pierrot and Tv Tokyo, the Naruto anime premiered in Japan in October 2002 after 220 episodes on Tv Tokyo, it concluded on February 2007. The first 135 episodes were adapted from the first part of the manga but the remaining 85 were not. In April 2009, the original Naruto anime began to run. The English adaptation of the anime began airing in September 2005 in America and Canada, while United Kingdom and Australia it began airing in 2006, and concluded in January 2009 with 209 episodes aired on Cartoon Network’s Toonami and Viz Media sold Naruto to the American kids prior to September 2005 with constant advertisement through numerous platforms which made it such a hit when it was aired.
Novels
There 26 Naruto light novels, of these the first two have been released in English in North America. The light novels chronicle the Naruto anime series from different storylines and follow different characters. It gives fans of the anime series and manga the chance to follow a character’s journey from one trail to another and ultimately the triumph of good over evil or the defeat of evil over good. Unlike the series, the novels are aimed at kids ages seven to ten. Both independent of the series and dependent on the series novels have been written over time, various characters related the manga/anime series have novels written about their stories making the anime a larger following in terms of fans and followers.
Video Games
Not just novels about the successful anime series but video games which are fighting games, where also produced to give Naruto fans the chance to pick and play as their favorite Naruto characters, either from Team 7’s Naruto, Sakura Huruno, Sasuke Uchiha, Iruka Umino, Kakashi Hatake, the criminal Orochimaru, the legendary ninja Jiraiya, Itachi or even Naruto’s son Boruto. The goal is to reduce your opponent’s health level to zero using basic attack skills and special techniques that are used in the Naruto anime or manga.
Trading Cards
This is a collectible card game based on the Naruto series. It was introduced in 2006 and ended in 2013. It is a multi-player, duel-based game, in which players take alternating turns putting cards into play and attacking Ninja cards with a combination of Jutsu, mission or client cards. The goal of the game is to either earn ten battle rewards before the other player or force the other player to run out of cards. The Naruto cards is divided into two halves, the upper half is art and the lower half illustrates it’s subject.
The Music
Various soundtracks used in the anime series have been released over the years. Ranging from the soundtracks of the opening and ending themes of the series, the original soundtrack, instrumentals, songs from the series remixed and sung by characters of the series. These songs and releases over time have led largely to the cult follower-ship of the hit anime called Naruto.
Naruto is the third best-selling manga series in history, selling approximately 235 million copies worldwide in 35 countries https://www.viz.com/naruto
It has undoubtedly become one of Viz Media’s best-selling manga series that has been adapted into novels, games both video fighting games and cards that give the fans of this all-time successful anime the chance to continue to enjoy the series in different delightful ways. Strong, gripping story line that follow the journeys and trials of the characters we love or hate, perfectly executed fight scenes between different antagonists and protagonists, possible love connections between the hero Naruto and some female characters, references to Japanese mythology which bring magic, fire, spirit, the past, the present and the future together in this anime series, has successfully captured the hearts of people both young and old all over the world and has led to the anime series rising and great success over the years plus it ardent follower-ship. Considering the anime series great success worldwide the story of Naruto continues in Naruto’s son, Boruto Uzumaki as tries to find his own path is the ninja world without having to follow his father’s steps, all add up to make this anime one of the best ever.
