Naruto is a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He’s got a wild sense of humor, but Naruto is completely serious about his mission to be the world’s greatest ninja!
Naruto’s friends are tested as an attempt to overthrow Tsunade begins and they must all fight—or fall. Pain commences with the final destruction of Konoha, and Naruto and the Toads prepare to take him on in battle. Naruto inches ever closer to discovering Pain’s true identity, but is it worth it now that he’s morphing into the dreaded Nine Tails? Then, an unexpected confession reveals incredible secrets about his past as Naruto prepares for the ultimate battle with Pain. Can the chakra-challenged Naruto win when one misstep could spell disaster?
Masashi Kishimoto (岸本斉史 Kishimoto Masashi) is a Japanese manga artist, well known for creating the manga series Naruto. His younger twin brother, Seishi Kishimoto, is also a manga artist and creator of the manga series O-Parts Hunter (666 Satan) and Blazer Drive. Two of his former assistants, Osamu Kajisa (Tattoo Hearts) and Yuuichi Itakura (Hand's), have also gone on to moderate success following their work on Naruto.
Kishimoto's first work as a manga artist was Karakuri (カラクリ?), which he submitted to Shueisha in 1995. This earned him the Weekly Shōnen Jump's monthly "Hop Step Award" in 1996, granted to promising new manga artists. This was followed in 1997 by a pilot version of Naruto (NARUTO-ナルト-), published in Akamaru Jump Summer. In 1998, Kishimoto premiered as a Weekly Shōnen Jump artist with a serialized version of Karakuri in Weekly Shōnen Jump, but it proved unpopular and was canceled soon after. In 1999, a serialized version of Naruto began publication in Weekly Shōnen Jump and quickly became a hit.
Once upon a time, the spirit of an evil Nine Tailed Fox wreaked havoc on Konohagakure; the Village Hidden in the Leaves, killing hundreds of honorable ninja in the skirmish and leaving many children without homes or parents. The Fourth Hokage (leader of the village) unleashes a forbidden jutsu (magic spell/ninja ability) to seal the spirit of the evil fox into the body of a newborn baby named Naruto at the cost of his own life. He did this in the hopes that the boy could one day learn to master the power of the demonic spirit and use it to protect the village and become a great hero of the people.
Unknown to the citizens of the Leaf, the Nine Tailed Fox was being controlled by an even more powerful adversary, a legendary rogue ninja that plans to wage war against the entire world from the shadows. The identity of the mysterious ninja that attacked the Leaf Village using the Nine Tails died with the Fourth Hokage, and he used what remained of his life to gift Naruto with the power of one day being able to stop this evil ninja and a clan of outlawed S-rank criminals called the Akatsuki from committing mass genocide against the many hidden villages and clans of the world.
Because of the evil spirit sealed inside him, Naruto grew up hated by the other children of the village because they believe him and the Nine Tails to be one and the same. They believe he’s a ticking time bomb waiting to go off, waiting for the perfect moment to kill them all just like the Nine Tails killed their parents and families. Shunned, dehumanized and treated like dirt, Naruto vows to become the greatest hokage the world has ever seen so that he can receive the love and acknowledgement he never got as a child.
On top of the Nine Tails power and the will to never quit, Naruto also possesses the uncanny ability to turn everyone he meets into a potential comrade. He brings out the best in his peers and tries his hardest to make his enemies see the errors of their ways. He disobeys the rules and ignores cultural traditions to try and make changes to the world and break the eternal cycle of war and hatred through his own methods. His determination is infectious to friend and foe alike. He earns himself the respect he deserves by overcoming one impossible obstacle at a time.
Naruto encounters many fascinating and terrifying ninja over the course of his journey to become hokage. Among them are Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto’s best friend and rival who is driven by the vengeful lust to murder his elder brother after he wiped out their own clan in cold blood. Sasuke warms up to Naruto, but his hatred and trauma are dangerous forces that threaten to break his moral code as a ninja and destroy his reputation among his peers.
Kakashi Hatake is a notorious copycat ninja that survived one of the most brutal and devastating wars in history as well as the Nine Tails attack on the Leaf Village. He becomes Naruto and Sasuke’s mentor and teaches them a great number of valuable lessons about surviving in the dangerous world of rogue ninja, bloodthirsty assassins and clans ruled by corruption.
Jiraiya is a perverted yet wise sage who taught the Fourth Hokage everything he knew and he’s regarded as a god among shinobi that’s famous for his heroic actions in the second great ninja war. He takes an interest in Naruto and raises him as a father figure to carry on the legacy of the Fourth Hokage to prepare him for the many dangerous people that want to use his power for their own nefarious purposes.
The Akatsuki is one such group of wicked ninja. Among them are Sasuke’s brother Itachi who murdered his clan and possesses many dangerous techniques involving illusions, psychological torture and elemental manipulation. Sasori who controls poisonous puppets with magical threads, Orochimaru who mastered the forbidden arts of reanimation and quasi-immortality, Deidara who fights from afar using detonating clay and many other deadly foes.
The entire series chronicles Naruto and his fellow ninja comrades growing through countless trials and tragedies. There are hundreds of unique jutsus, clans, and techniques which lead to some very intense, creative and strategic battles between skilled ninja with diverse abilities that don’t always match up evenly. There are clan based abilities such as the Aburame clan’s ability to control insects, the Yamanaka clan’s ability to jump into other people’s minds and control their bodies and the Inuzuka clan’s ability to bond with wolves that learn to mimic their master’s battle skills. Then there’s ocular genetic abilities such as the sharingan which allows the user to create psychological illusions, copy their enemy’s abilities and manipulate elemental energy. The byakugan allows the user to read their enemies vital points and detect their spiritual energy from faraway. The rinnegan grants control over space and gravity and so on.
On top of having countless unique abilities, nearly every character has a tragic backstory that makes them sympathetic and relatable, even the nastiest of the villains have well-explored reasons for following the paths they do and becoming the way they are. One of my favorite aspects of the series is how well it explores the physical, emotional and psychological effects war can have on society and culture as well as the survivors and future generations that are forced to live in them. How it breeds racism and cultural disputes, how it inspires hatred in orphaned children and war veterans robbed of their homes toward foreign nations, as well as how this eventually leads to further death, war, poverty and destruction. Learning to forgive the ones you hate to prevent further conflict and damaging the world for future generations even further is a major theme throughout the story.
Being a massive 700 chapter series, it’s not too surprising that there’s some plot holes and consistency issues. A rule might be stated regarding the requirements and usage of a certain jutsu or ability only for that rule to be repeatedly broken 400 chapters later. Sometimes the characters and rules contradict themselves, sometimes the chronology of certain events and historical facts don’t match up perfectly, the lore and general backstory go through several retcons that change the philosophy and power scaling of the characters and the scope of world-building; the final arc especially drags on and breaks a lot of the logic and rules that the story spent the whole series setting up, etc...
Naruto’s far from perfect, but I remember it very fondly for being one of the first series that introduced me to things like manga and Japanese entertainment in general. It was one of those childhood classics like Dragon Ball, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin. The series grew up with me and I can’t help but feel grateful to it for introducing me to hundreds of other franchises that I’m still a huge fan of to this day and I continue to find many new ones on the regular. Naruto's journey from a clownish, disrespected outcast into a talented, well-loved and admired hero is a memorable one.
Talk no jutsu to subdue Pain and revive the Konoha warriors who had just fallen in battle. Most memorable sequence in my opinion so far. Naruto meets Nagato and reasons everything out with him rather than exacting his revenge. I don't care much for Sasuke anymore, he's become annoying. Konohagakure was unfortunately destroyed and we still don't know what's up with Killer Bee after Sasuke and his team pulled off nothing but a blunder in the previous omnibus. Tsunade isn't in the best condition after Pain attacked the fifth Hokage's city and that asshole Danzo was elected as the sixth. Naruto was being thought sage jutsu and even surpassed Jiraiya in his training, showing that he is certainly the child of prophecy.
Naruto has definitely grown and matured over the course of the series up to the point where he admits that he might not be the smartest but having the strength to figure it out. His having Kurama to guide him and having met his father in a trance, explaining what the reason he trapped the nine tailed monster within his son, were certainly enlightening. The akatsuki don't seem like much of a threat anymore except for Obito or Madara, maybe Tobirama, whichever hahaha As entertaining as ever though my feelings are actually being played with as the tale progresses and I feel as though I've become a fully fledged character and it's my time to fight. Reader jutsu activate lmao
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Another incredible volume. Gorgeous action panels with really dynamic fights. The panel where Naruto sprouted the 8 tails was especially wicked cool.
Naruto meeting Minato for the first time was really moving. Goes to show that sometimes all you need is for a special someone to believe in you. Kakashi meeting his father was bittersweet as well.
Naruto's debate with Nagato was very well done, too. Despite being the big bad for the first part of Shippuden, Nagato is a really relatable and likeable antagonist. I loved his description of war being nothing but never-ending pain and hatred. Sadly, it rings very true in our current world.
Naruto is a tale about holding true to your own path, your ninja way, and believing that you will achieve your goals no matter what. This volume is a great representation of that.
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Eeeeek! Pain was killing people left and right. Luckily Naruto convinved him to calm the eff down and he died bringing everybody back to life. Now this dude Danzo is taking over while Tsunade is in a coma. And he wants to kill Sasuke.
Meanwhile Sasuke and his buddies want to attack Konoha cuz they manipilated Uchiha and made him kill his family for the "good of the village." And Tobi is keeping an eye on them.
And uuuh there's a meeting in the cloud (?) village and the manga ends with the sand peeps on their way there. And some cloud peeps are there too (the darker skinned blonde ones) to try and get intel on Sasuke and make a deal with Naruto to help each other out.
And that's about it.
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Damn! So much is happening! It's amazing! Really though, Naruto surpassed Jiraiya and the 4th Hokage (by defeating Pain), met his dad (aka the 4th Hokage), and Danzo becomes Hokage (which is gonna be horrible and if ya didn't already hate him you will soon). These three volumes mainly focused on the battle with Pain, but it felt like so much because there are a lot of subsections of each fight. Then there was Nagato maybe giving the rinnegan to Naruto? Not quiet sure that's what happened but it's my theory. And we're getting closer to a face-down with Sasuke I'm pretty sure, so I'm excited to see how this is gonna play out.
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This volume was very well written and very well drawn. The whole event was peak story telling from page one to the last page. The double page spread of Pain above Konoha was very detailed and Mr Kishimoto did not have to show all of the tiny details but he did and the whole storyline and arch was just showing how good he can get. Although I love Chapter four hundred and forty was just so well done. It was well handles and I love how it helped Naruto resolve a great deal of the trauma he had to endure due to having the Nine Tails inside of him. Which spoke to me on a spiritual level as this was how I got the passage "cast your cares upon the Lord".
“However, what about my family, my friends, my village?” This is a quote from Pain, in the height of conflict Pain and Naruto share their ideals about true peace and how it should be achieved. Naruto is my favorite book series and this is one of my favorite books. Masashi Kishimoto creates the most page-turning storylines. Unlike the usual cookie cutter books, Naruto has a good balance of action, sadness and a good cliffhanger. The book’s pacing moves at just the right pace, through the beginning, conflict and the end. The book shows how the different paths Naruto and Pain took shaped who they are. This book subtly sends out a message that, no matter how far you went down you can always come back up. After reading this book, I may start reading more of the Naruto manga. I rate this book a five out of five stars. Those who have read or watched Naruto would like this book a lot. The book being a manga (japanese comic book) is very easy to understand.
Best fight, and perhaps arc of the series in my opinion. I love nagato’s speech about who gets to decide what justice is (similar to Doflamino’s speech in One Piece). Naruto shows some real growth in these panels, admitting he hated pain but decided to let him live because Jiraiya entrusted him with removing hate from the ninja world. The way Naruto moved Nagato at the end of their conversation had me tearing up on my flight. Overall some of the best manga panels I’ve read.
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"if there's such a thing as peace, I promise to find it"
oof this one really delved into how there are no "winners" in war and it's getting so heavy. I really don't know how everything is going to get wrapped up with what feels like such little time left. I also really appreciate that this one, Naruto really showed us why the whole thing is named after him like he really is the main character and doing what no one else can. And Jiraiya has turned into one of my favorite characters ever??
Một điểm đáng chú ý nữa mà các fan hâm mộ đã phát hiện ra, đó là hình ảnh của Cữu Vĩ Hồ Ly trong trang cuối đang say ngủ. Sự xuất hiện đột ngột và quá ít, chỉ trong một khung hình nhỏ ở cuối truyện khiến cho các fan dự đoán rằng sẽ có thể đây là gợi ý để mở thêm một bộ truyện về đời con của Naruto.
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I thought this graphic novel was nice at least before i left this school. I know in this it has narutos greatest enemy yet called pain. pain he has the rennigan which naruto has the nine tales karuma and he has sage mode.
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pein’s attack on kohona is iconic, but honestly this is one of the main examples of how OP naruto became. also, now that the plot is becoming more and more long-winded, nagato’s rinne rebirth definitely feels like i cop-out.
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Such a good action-packed volumed filled with emotional punches left and right. Pain/Nagato has been one of my favorite villains in the series so far and I have enjoyed his contribution greatly.
La trama de Naruto crece exponencialmente al crecer sus personajes, hay muchos momentos donde sinceramente no tengo ninguna idea de cómo se va a desarrollar o solucionar los conflictos en los que se presentan. Hay muchas sorpresas y la historia se vuelve imprescindible.