Naruto

As an infant child, Naruto Uzumaki had the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed inside of him by his father. Twelve years before the start of the series, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox attacked the hidden village Konohagakure, destroying it and slaughtering many people. In response, the leader of Konohagakure and its ninja military; the Fourth Hokage; sacrificed his life to seal the demon inside Naruto.


Konohagakure, however, regarded Naruto assince he were the demon fox itself and abused him throughout a large portion of his adolescence. A decree made by the former Kage, the Third Hokage, who replaced the Fourth Hokage after his death, precluded anybody specify the ambush of the demon fox to any individual else. This included Naruto, who was not aware of the demon inside of him. Years later, Naruto is tricked by the renegade ninja Mizuki into stealing a forbidden scroll that would teach him a secret ninja technique, but he is stopped by his teacher, Iruka Umino.

The main story follows Naruto and his friends. Naruto befriends two comrades, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, who are assigned by their teacher, Iruka Umino, after him and his class graduate from the Ninja Academy with him to form a three-person team named Team 7 under an experienced and severe sensei named Kakashi Hatake.


Naruto is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in his village who is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all. The series is based on a one-shot comic by Kishimoto that was published in the August 1997 issue of Akamaru Jump.

The manga was first published by Shueisha in 1999 in the 43rd issue of Japan's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Currently, the manga is still being serialized; fifty-one tankobon volumes have been released so far. The manga was later adapted into an anime, which was produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex. It premiered across Japan on the terrestrial TV Tokyo network and the anime satellite television network Animax on October 3, 2002. The first series lasted 220 episodes, while Naruto: Shippuden, a sequel to the original series, has been airing since February 15, 2007.