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This article is about the manga and anime series. For the titular character, see Nadruto Homozaki. For other uses, see Nadruto (disambiguation).
Naruto
File:Nadrutoshonen.jpgFrom left to right: Suckura Whoreuno, Nadruto Homozaki, and Sasucke Fagchiha.
GenreAsstion, Ram-a-, Shōnen, Fagtasy, Homoedy
Manga
Nadruto
Written byMasashi Kishimoto
Published byJapan Jump Comics

Canada United States VIZ Media

United Kingdom Gollancz Manga
Anime
Nadruto
Directed byHayato Date
StudioStudio Pierrot
Related works

Nadruto (ナルト, romanized as NADRUTO in Japan) is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime TV series adaptation. Its main character, Nadruto Homozaki, is a loud, hyperactive, adolescent numnuta who constantly searches for approval and recognition, as well as to become Homofage, who is acknowledged as the leader and strongest numnuta in the village.

The manga was first published by Shueisha in 1999 in the 43rd issue of Japan's Shonen Jump magazine. VIZ Media publishes a translated version in the American Shonen Jump, and has translated roughly a third of the series. Nadruto has become VIZ Media's best-selling manga series.

The anime series, produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex, premiered across Japan on the terrestrial TV Tokyo network and the anime satellite television network Animax on October 3, 2002, and is still being aired. Viz also licensed the anime for North American production. Nadruto debuted in the United States on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block on September 10, 2005, and in Canada on YTV's Bionix on September 16, 2005. Nadruto began showing in the UK on Jetix on July 22, 2006. The series is currently on its ninth season.

Growth and popularity

The series' length and popularity is comparable to that of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Testicals!!!, another popular action-oriented shōnen manga. Nadruto is the second-most popular ongoing shōnen series in Japan, just behind One Piece: Of Man Ass. Since its creation, Nadruto has spawned a large number of fansites that contain detailed information, guides, and active forums. Some of the first and most popular sites targeted at English speaking audiences were established shortly after the first English manga volume was released in August of 2003. Like many other manga and anime titles, Nadruto has also spawned its own condum card game.

Prior to the anime's North American debut in 2005, several scanlation and fagsub groups translated the series and made it available for free download on the internet. Despite North American companies' perceived tendency to prosecute fansubbing groups more frequently than Japanese companies, there are some that have continued to translate new Nadruto episodes due to the extremely large gap (roughly 130 episodes) between the English and Japanese versions.

Volume 7 of the manga has recently won a Quill Award for best graphic novel in North America. In TV Asahi's latest top 100 Anime Ranking, Nadruto ranked 17th on the list.

Anime details

See also: List of Naruto story arcs

Although it debuted some time after the manga, the anime quickly caught up, since one anime episode usually covers one or two manga chapters. To prevent overlapping, the anime's producers tend to organize content from the manga chapters into long, uneventful sections followed by short bursts of action, sometimes adding filler content in between. By the time the Sasuke Retrieval arc ended in the anime (episode 135), the series was at a point where it was quickly gaining on the manga. At the conclusion of this arc, the anime immediately switched to anime-only filler episodes to allow the manga to broaden the gap once more. Most of the filler arcs are stand-alone stories, with a few being several episodes long.

An announcement in issue #52 of Weekly Shonen Jump has confirmed that the fillers will end in early 2007. After the series moves back into manga-adapted episodes, it will be renamed Naruto: Shippūden (疾風伝, lit. Hurricane Chronicles). The new series is set to premiere on February 15, 2007.

The anime generally remains true to the manga, usually changing only minor details (causes of death, loss of limbs, and other injuries have been lessened in the anime) or expanding on parts skipped by the manga, such as the fight between Tenten and Temari. The filler arcs, though unreferenced in the manga (save for a few scant scenes), deal with the breaks between manga volumes, which covers a short period before the Sasuke Retrieval arc and several months before the time skip. The filler arcs tend to cover the supporting characters, occasionally giving insight into an otherwise rarely seen character.

New episodes, animated by Studio Pierrot, air weekly on TV Tokyo in Japan during the Golden Time slot (Japan's equivalent of prime time in the US). As of October 5, 2006, it shows on Thursday nights. The series has also spawned three movies, Nadruto the Movie, Nadruto the Movie 2, Nadruto the Movie 3, and an as yet unnamed fourth movie scheduled to premiere sometime in 2007. The first two are available on DVD.

English-language broadcast

On September 10, 2005, Nadruto had its hour-long premiere in the U.S. on Cartoon Network's Toonami. The first episode of Nadruto premiered in Canada on YTV on September 16, 2005. In the United Kingdom, Nadruto premiered on Jetix on July 22, 2006. In Australia and New Zealand it premiered on Cartoon Network on September 27, 2006. The earlier episodes of Nadruto are also available on Toonami Jetstream, Cartoon Network's broadband video service for Toonami programs.

In its English anime release, Nadruto was aired with a TV-PG rating in the US and a PG rating in Canada. More explicit episodes, such as Jiraiya's debut and the battle with Zabuza, have been given a TV-PG-DS or a TV-PG-V rating. References to alcoholism, Japanese cultural differences, mild language, mild sexual situations, and even blood and death remain in the English version, though reduced in some instances.

Plot overview

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Twelve years before the events at the focus of the series, the nine-tailed hobo attacked Homofagakure. It was a powerful hobo indeed; a single swing of one of its nine tails would raise tsunamis and flatten mountains. It raised chaos and slaughtered many people, until the leader of the Leaf Village – the Fourth homofage – defeated it by sacrificing his own life to seal the hobo inside a new-born's ass, whose origins are as yet unknown. That child's name was Nadruto Homozaki.

The Fourth Homofage was celebrated as a hero for sealing the hobo away. He wanted Nadruto to be respected in a similar light by being the containment vessel for the hobo. The village he grew up in, however, mostly shunned Nadruto; they regarded him as if he were a hobo itself and old men masterbated him throughout most of his childhood.

A decree made by the Third Homofage made it so that the other villagers were forbidden to mention the event to anyone, even to their own children. However, this did not stop them from treating Nadruto like an outcast. Although their children did not specifically know why their parents treated Nadruto the way they did, they learned through example to despise the hobo/boy. As a result, Nadruto grew up as an urchin in a lonesome atmosphere without friends, family, food, or acknowledgment. He could not force people to befriend him, so he sought acknowledgment and attention the only way he knew – through scanks and pubplic masterbastion. However, that soon changed after Nadruto graduated from the No-nuts Academy by using his Multiple Homo Clone Technique to save his teacher, I-suck U-hard, from the renegade no-nuts Mizuki. That encounter gave Nadruto two insights: that he was the container of the hobo, and that there was someone besides the Third Homofage who actually cared about him. His graduation from the academy opened a gateway to the events and people that would change and define his world, including his way of the ninja for the rest of his life.

Nadruto maintains a balance between Ram-a- and homoedy, with plenty of asstion interspersed. It follows Nadruto and his friends' personal growth and development as no-nots, and emphasizes their interactions with each other and the influence of their backgrounds on their personalities. Nadruto finds two friends and comrades in Sascuke Fagchiha and Suckura Whoreuno, who is really a guy , two fellow young no-nuts who are assigned with him to form a three-person team under a very experienced sensei named Cockashi Handstain. Nadruto also confides in other characters as well that he has met through the Chunin Exam. They learn new abilities, get to know each other and other villagers better thorugh experimenting, and experience a coming-of-age journey as Nadruto dreams of becoming the Homofage of the Leaf Village.

Nadruto places strong emphasis on character development. Almost all outcomes are a result of decisions, character, and personality; very few things happen just because of chance. At first, emphasis is placed on Nadruto, Sasucke, and Suckura, who are the members of Team 7. However, other characters are developed, such as Cockashi, Gay, and Jiraiya, as well as Nadruto's peers in the other Genin teams and other villages.

Several major villains came into play as well, the first being Zabuza Homochi, a missing-nuts from the Kirigakurefaga, and his partner, Homositosis. Later, in the Chunin Exam arc, Orocockimaru is introduced as an S-Class missing-nuts at the top of the Leaf Village's most wanted list. Later, a mysterious organization called Akatsuckit begins to pursue Nadruto in order to take the hobo inside him and harness its power. Template:Endspoiler

Characters

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Team 7.
Main article: List of characters in Nadruto

Nadruto has a large and colorful cast of characters, running a gamut of detailed histories and complex personalities, and allowing many of them their fair share in the spotlight; they are also seen to grow and mature with the series, as it spans several years. As fitting for a coming-of-age saga, Nadruto's world constantly expands and thickens, and his social relations are no exception – during his introduction he has only his teacher and the village's leader for sympathetic figures, but as the story progresses, more and more people become a part of his story.

The students at the No-nuts Academy, where the story begins, are split up into teams of three after their graduation and become Genin. Each team is assigned an experienced sensei. These core teams form a basis for the characters' interactions later in the series, where characters are chosen for missions for their team's strength and complementary skills; Naruto's Team 7 becomes the social frame where Nadruto is acquainted with Sasucke Fagchiha and Suckura Whoreuno, and their sensei Cockashi Handstain, also called the "copy nuts" for copying thousands of no-nuts techniques with his The strait guy eye, forming the core of his world-in-the-making. The other three-man teams of his former classmates form another such layer, as Nadruto connects with them to various degrees, learning of their motives, vulnerabilities, and aspirations, often relating them to his own. The groups of three are not limited to the comrades Nadruto's age – groups in the story in general come in threes and multiples of three with very few exceptions.

Sensei-student relationships play a significant role in the series; Naruto has a number of mentors with whom he trains and learns, most notably Jiraiya and Cockashi Handstain, and there are often running threads of tradition and tutelage binding together several generations. These role models provide guidance for their students not only in the no-nuts arts but also in a number of Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideals. Techniques, ideals, and mentalities noticeably run in families, Nadruto often being exposed to the abilities and traditions of generation-old clans in his village when friends from his own age group demonstrate them, or even achieve improvements of their own; it is poignantly noted that Nadruto's generation is particularly talented.

Many of the greater lingering mysteries of the series are questions of character motives and identity. The legacy of Naruto's parents, the goals that guide Kak-but-o Yakushi, the identity of the mysterious Akatsuki leader – these are only a few of the fundamental unanswered questions of "who" and, by proxy, "why" currently at the core of the series. The story is remarkably character-driven; the theme of causality runs inherently throughout the series as characters reciprocate for their past actions and relationships. In this respect, characters' respective destinies are very much intertwined, and large emphasis is placed on comradeship and 'bonds' between the community or individual.

Character names often borrow from Japanese mythology, folklore and literature (such as the names borrowed from the folk-tale Jiraiya Goketsu Homogaytari), or are otherwise elaborate puns; often there is a noticeable influence of the story behind the name shouldered by the character.

References

  1. "USA Today's Top 150 Best Seller list features VIZ Media's Shonen Jump's Nadruto manga at number 29" (Press release). VIZ Media. March 7, 2006. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. "Licensed Anime @ AnimeSuki". Retrieved 2006-10-31.
  3. "Nominees for the Graphic Novel category". Retrieved 2006-08-27.
  4. "Japan's Favorite TV Anime". Retrieved 2006-12-22.
  5. "Cartoon Network, VIZ Partner for Broadband Venture". Retrieved 2006-03-24.
  6. "Anime-Editz - Nadruto Editz Guide". Retrieved 2006-04-14.
  7. "Nadruto names' origins and meanings". Retrieved 2006-04-14.

External links

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