Naruto


Genre:Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Creator:Masashi Kishimoto
Manga/Anime/BothBoth
Seasons:1, still running

Adoogen's (Anime) Rating
4
out of 5
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Adoogen's (Manga) Rating
5
out of 5
Trigun Kitties

Itchy's (Anime) Rating
5
out of 5
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Itchy's (Manga) Rating
4
out of 5
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Summary:

A small boy grows up in a village of ninjas with dreams of becoming the Hokage (the number one ninja in the village). The boy, Naruto, has an edge over a lot of people because unknown to the other children, Naruto has a demon trapped inside him. The demon-fox that nearly destroyed the ninja village is now trapped inside of Naruto but even in the first episode you find out it doesn't make him a great ninja by any means. So it's up to Naruto to improve his ninja-skills through the help (and competion) of his fellow ninja companions. One being Sasuke, the number-one rooke ninja and the smart (but useless) Sakura. Of course, who could forget Kakashi, the high-level ninja that helps the three! Whoo!


Explanation for Rating:

Adoogen:
Naruto manga is addicting, very very addictive at least for me. It's a must-read for either people new or old to anime/manga world. The anime is good too, the action is really nice and smooth, but sometimes after someone does something complicated, they spend too much time explaining what they just did. In the manga it doesn't bother me but it does in the anime for some reason. Still good though.

Itchy:
Naruto to me is a lot like Harry Potter is to other people. A lot of people read (or watch) Harry Potter stuff and think to themselves "Man, I wish there really was a school where I could learn magic." When I watch (or read) Naruto, I think to myself, "Man, I wish that there really was a school where I could learn to be a ninja." For real. To tell you the truth, the anime and the manga are almost exactly the same (at least to the point that I've seen), I just find that a manga can't put across emotions as vividly as the anime can. The action generally ends up more fluid in the anime as well.

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