The
Narutois 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 that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of...
mangaManga consist of comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century...
is divided in two parts to divide the storyline; the first one, Part I, covers the first two hundred and forty-four chapters of the series. The chapters are written by
Masashi Kishimotois 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 666 Satan and Blazer Drive.- Works :...
and published by
Shueishais a major publisher in Japan. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The following year Shueisha became a separate, independent company. Magazines published by Shueisha include Weekly Shōnen Jump, Weekly Young Jump,...
in the
Weekly Shōnen Jumpis a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.7 million readers...
magazine. The first chapter was published in 1999, continuing for a total of two hundred and forty-four chapters. The last six chapters are part of a
gaidenis a Japanese-language word with two distinct meanings, depending on the way it is represented in Japanese text or speech. The first meaning, "side story" or "tale", is used to refer to an anecdote or supplementary biography of a person...
taking place before the regular storyline, called the
Kakashi Gaiden.
The
Narutois 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 that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of...
mangaManga consist of comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century...
is divided in two parts to divide the storyline; the first one, Part I, covers the first two hundred and forty-four chapters of the series. The chapters are written by
Masashi Kishimotois 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 666 Satan and Blazer Drive.- Works :...
and published by
Shueishais a major publisher in Japan. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The following year Shueisha became a separate, independent company. Magazines published by Shueisha include Weekly Shōnen Jump, Weekly Young Jump,...
in the
Weekly Shōnen Jumpis a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.7 million readers...
magazine. The first chapter was published in 1999, continuing for a total of two hundred and forty-four chapters. The last six chapters are part of a
gaidenis a Japanese-language word with two distinct meanings, depending on the way it is represented in Japanese text or speech. The first meaning, "side story" or "tale", is used to refer to an anecdote or supplementary biography of a person...
taking place before the regular storyline, called the
Kakashi Gaiden. The chapters after the gaiden are part of
Part II, the second part of the
Naruto storyline that takes place two and a half years after the end of the
Naruto manga. An
animeis animation originating in Japan. The world outside Japan regards anime as "Japanese animation". Anime originated about 1917.Anime, like manga , has a large audience in Japan and high recognition throughout the world...
adaptation, produced by
Studio Pierrotis a Japanese animation company, founded in 1979 by former employees of Tatsunoko Production. They are considered specialists in the magical girl sub-genre, especially with their magical girl series of shows....
and
TV Tokyois a television station headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as , a portmanteau of "terebi" and "Tokyo", it is the key station of TX Network. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime...
, was aired on TV Tokyo, with the first episode shown on October 3, 2002. The last episode of the
Naruto anime aired on February 8, 2007, with the
anime adaptation of Part II, known as
Naruto: Shippūden, replacing it. The
Naruto manga is serialized in
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by
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in their manga anthology magazine
Shonen JumpShonen Jump, officially stylized SHONEN JUMP and abbreviated SJ, is a shōnen manga anthology published in North America by Viz Media. It debuted in November 2002 with the first issue having a January 2003 cover date...
, with the first chapter of the English adaptation published in the January 2003 issue.
The chapters have been composed into twenty-seven
tankōbon, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series, though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...
in Japan by Shueisha. The first tankōbon was released on March 3, 2000, and the twenty-seventh released on April 4, 2005. All of the tankōbon contain nine chapters of the original manga, with the exception of the first tankōbon, which has seven chapters. Viz Media has released all twenty-seven volumes of the English adaptation of the manga. In addition, Viz Media released all twenty-seven volumes in a boxed set, thus constituting the entirety of the
Naruto storyline before Part II on November 13, 2007. A "Collector's Edition" of volume 1 including a hardcover was also released on September 16, 2008 by Viz.
Shortly before the release of the fourteenth volume, Viz Media announced its "Naruto Nation" campaign, planning to release three volumes a month in the last four months of 2007. Cammie Allen, Viz Media's product manager, commented that, "Our main reason [for the accelerated schedule] was to catch up to the Japanese release schedule to give our readers a similar experience to that of our readers in Japan." As such, the English adaptation of Part II was featured on December 4, 2007 in
Shonen Jump, as will the
Kakashi Gaiden.
Volume list
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