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Plot Synopsis

Plot Synopsis: Once, a nine-tailed demon fox attacked Konoha, the Hidden Village of the Leaf. Many brave ninjas lost their lives defending their home. Finally, the demon was sealed by the Fourth Hokage into a human body. Several years later, that boy, Uzumaki Naruto, struggles to gain the acceptance and acknowledgement of the villagers, many of whom still hate him because of the demon inside him. So, Naruto strives to become the Hokage, the strongest ninja in the village, so that the villagers will acknowledge him. Along the way, he gains many new friends, and faces many life-threatening situations.

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Story & Characters

a boy, borned orphaned, isolated and scorned by his entire village, konoha, for all of his childhood. now about to graduate from the ninja acadamy, uzumaki naruto (approx age 14 by the way) fails the exams. being told by the sympathetic teacher mizuki, that there was still a way to gradutate, to master the forbidden jutsus (techniques) stored deep in some forest. doing this, naruto has played himself into a trap, causing a village uproar. mizuki planned to steal the scroll with the teachniques and let naruto take the wrap. iruka, the teacher that reluctantly failed naruto, pursues naruto and tells him he was had, just before mizuki ambushes, and wounds iruka.
in a state of rage, mizuki tells naruto why he's been shunned by the village, (approx) 14yrs ago, a demon fox attacked the vilage and killed many, the hokage (the town's head, also the best ninja) defeated it only be sealing it into an infant (naruto) at the cost of his own life. the battle and loss still fresh in the minds of the parents of naruto's school peers, although made to promise never to tell naruto, treated naruto like dirt, with the upmost contempt and hatred, seeing the demon fox when they looekd at naruto, this attitude was passed passively onto the children, hence naruto's hard childhood.
naruto is a master prankster, gets bad grades and eats only ramen. but other than that, naruto knows empathy because of his childhood, he has an inncoent crush on a girl in his class named sakura, and he is determined to himself become hokage, and finally have the village aknowledge his existence.
naruto masters ONE technique from the scrolls, before the hubbub before iruka & mizuki arrived, "kage bunshin" the ADVANCED version of the technique that always caused him to fail exams. instead of making ghost clones (shadow binshin) naruto is able to make tangible apparations. naruto defeats mizuki by creating 1000 of these. iruka, seeing naruto had what it took to be a shinobi (basically ninja), passes him, and so follows naruto's adventure along with the 2 genins (level 1 shinobi) the hot mama sasuke and split personality sakura, this trio, forming the basis of the series.

not often i give 10 for story, but naruto is the best in terms of storylines, the episodes will pass like cars, before you know it, you'll be up to the lastest episode, which is 134 right now ^_^ this storyline IS NOT predictable, which is what i love most about it, and it is emazingly exciting and hooking!!

Rating

10 (excellent)

Art

the art is excellent, the village, forest, all the aspects of the environment are also great. but the styles in characters gives the sense of different people (dun you hate it when every character looks the same) also. you've got ugly people, and your scream fanatically hotties, which is always a plus (dun you just hate it when everyone's so pretty, so much so it takes away the believable factor in the anime?)
not an anime you'll ever get sick of visually, what kills me is the beautiful haku! >,< who would make an unbelievably beautiful woman... if only haku wasnt a man...
also i like how sometimes when shadow it at it's utmost darkest, the shadow is emphasized with lines, cross-hatching SOMETIMES, just like the manga

Rating

9 (very good)

Sound

the soundtrack is AMAZING, a rival to that of "bleach's" which is also amazing, but the opening and closing sequences are super-duper-well-done, though it kinda gets a little on the abstract side later on in the series, you'll know what i mean if you've seen it, though i still cant get over the 1st opening, that one sucked, lucky they didnt keep it too long, and then the 2nd opening was one of the best ones naruto has had yet gotta love the naruto music
even the music for during the series is great, unique, simple and it gives "naruto" the arty edge

Rating

9 (very good)

Presentation

every facet of naruto is practically perfect, some people say it'll attain dragonball-status, but personally, i think it far outdoes dragonball, which gets really repititive like halfway. naruto is never boring and the story, as i said before, will knock your goddamn socks off and leave you wanting more, its THAT GOOD!

any anime with over 100 episodes must be doing something right, and naruto is at about 134 right now (12/6/05) and is still going strong, although not as much as it did at the start, its's probably 90% compared to the first 100 or so eps, but damn, thats still quite an achievement, the saga. episode #100 is one to remember forever, all i'll say is, go toilet before you watch and make sure you arent too heavily asthmatic, cos that episode would make darth vader piss himself. also, there are SO many characters to love and adore, nearly none are boring, some you'll remember forever (touch wood, haku ^_^")

it appeals to practically all ages and theres no stopping this anime, it's gonna go down in bloody history.

Rating

9 (very good)

Final Verdict

9.33 (very good)

Reviewed by Patchy, 3y 12wk ago