How can someone who can't even save his friends become Hokage...? Isn't it so, Sasuke?
（仲間ひとり救えねぇやつが、火影になんてなれるかよ なぁサスケ・・・！）
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Twelve years before the start of the series, a powerful creature known as the Nine-tailed Demon Fox attacked the ninja village Konoha, killing many people. In response, the leader of Konoha– the Fourth Hokage– sacrificed his life to seal the demon inside the newborn Naruto Uzumaki. Konoha, however, regarded Naruto as if he were the demon fox itself and mistreated him throughout most of his childhood. A decree made by the current Kage, the Third Hokage, forbade anyone mention the attack of the demon fox to anyone 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...
This is also one of the best known and popular Japanese comics over the world besides One Piece. The comic is created by Masashi Kishimoto and on-going at weekly Shonen Jump magazine.
Some people may say Naruto should be the true successor of Dragon Ball but for me Naruto depicts a lot more dark side of the human beings rather like Akira created by Katsuhiro Otomo, which attracts me in a bit different way from One Piece or Dragon Ball.
The most important characters in this comic are Naruto and Sasuke. Their characters are quite opposite and contrasted but they have their loneliness and own destiny in common. Therefore, they became friends and respect each other. However, their destiny doesn't allow them to be such friends but to conflict against....
Even aside from Naruto and Sasuke, there are a lot of characters having their own background and stories. It is quite fascinating Kishimoto can weave those and create such a grand stories by using Japanese Ninja as its background.
I have to admit this contains some brutal scenes for children but I also believe it's also a part of Ninja and wars Kishimoto couldn't avoid to depict.
If you haven't read or watched any of Naruto before, please try it. I bet you will get hooked!
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