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Naruto is currently one of the single most overly popular things in existence. It has a bajillian fans boys, a anime series that way to much filler. I’ve seen a few episodes of the dub and I can call it nothing more than “Dragonball Z with ninjas.” But I had a friend who told me that the comics…
Hold on a second, I need to establish something. Manga and comics are one in the same! Okay, the Japanese volumes even has the words “Jump Comics” written on them. Thank you. Okay, containing.
…were much different and much better. Well, she was… kind of right. The plots the same but it’s a bit more enjoyable to read, but it’s still not very good.
So the story starts out with Naruto vandalizing Mount Rushmore for no reason other than the fact that he can, and that he’s a total prick. He gets yelled at by his teacher in Ninja school for doing it, then is forced to do something call Ninjitsu. Which is basically magic only it’s cooler because it has the word “ninja” in it. After failing epically at said Ninjitsu, a classmate I guess, it’s never very well explained, tells him where to get some magic scroll thing that instantly makes you good at Ninjitsu. So Naruto, being an idiot, steals the scroll and then starts reading it in the forest. Meanwhile, his classmate tells everyone that he’s stolen the scroll and he and Naruto’s teacher go to set things straight. After finding him, the classmate betrays them both (what a surprise) and Naruto’s teacher (hold on, I’m going to go look up his name). Okay, so Iruka then gets Yuffie’s shrunken stuck in his back, a fight happens, Naruto finds out that he has a ktisune (demonic fox) in him and then Naruto proceeds to use the Ninjitsu that he magically learned in two minuets to make a bunch of clones of himself who then proceed to kick his classmate’s ***. Afterward we find out that Naruto is only an idiot because he wants attention because everyone doesn’t like the whole “demon stuck inside him” thing. This actually makes a ton of sense, because people who are overly neglected in real life are like this.
Okay, so following this he instantly graduates from Ninja school to move on to Ninja high school I guess, but not before hanging out with the grandson of the best ninja in town. The two really don’t have much to do, so Naruto teaches the kid how to turn into a supermodel. The kid apparently wants to become the best ninja around, and so does Naruto, the kid says that they’re rivals and then goes away for a bit. He’ll probably be back in thirty volumes or so (he’ll pull a Shadi, I just know it) but back to the important part of the plot, the Ninja High School thing. The first thing Naruto does is make some new friends, namely Sasuke, an emo kid, and Sakura, who seems to be there only for the sake of having one female character.. After that, he meets his new teacher, Hatake Kakashi, who is easily my favorite character in this comic just because of how he’s a funny *******. Okay, back to the plot, Kakashi makes the main characters go through a test in which they must try and take a bell from him. The kids fail, and volume one ends in a cliff hanger. And that’s basically the first volume in a nutshell.
This series raises a lot of questions in my head, such as “why is Sasuke so emo?” “Why doesn’t Sakura do anything?” And most importantly, “why are Naruto’s only abilities to make a bunch of clones and change his sex? Wouldn’t that make him a cross between Ramna and Genesis?” And here’s another thing, if Naruto is about ninjas, then why does everyone engage in hand-to-hand combat automatically? Last time I checked, ninjas were stealthy assassins who attacked from behind and killed quickly. You really can’t do much sneaking in an orange jump suit, can you, Naruto?
Speaking of Jump, this series also follows the same plot that almost every series published by Shonen Jump. It’s always about some kid between the ages of twelve and seventeen who want to become the greatest (occupation) in the world, so he goes on an adventure of sorts with various invitational’s who have other goals in mind but join anyway. Along the way the hero ends up fighting other people who are also a (occupation), but beats them all. This is the way it was with One Piece, Shaman King, Beat and Hunter X Hunter, to name a few.
Naruto isn’t anywhere near the best SJ comic I’ve ever read (that award goes to Death Note), but it isn’t the worst (That goes to Rossario + Vampire, although I’ve only seen the anime so that’s somewhat hypocritical, but I guess that makes me a politician).
EDIT: Fix'd it. Also, I'm currently making a video version of this review.
Naruto is currently one of the single most overly popular things in existence. It has a bajillian fans boys, a anime series that way to much filler. I’ve seen a few episodes of the dub and I can call it nothing more than “Dragonball Z with ninjas.” But I had a friend who told me that the comics…
Hold on a second, I need to establish something. Manga and comics are one in the same! Okay, the Japanese volumes even has the words “Jump Comics” written on them. Thank you. Okay, containing.
…were much different and much better. Well, she was… kind of right. The plots the same but it’s a bit more enjoyable to read, but it’s still not very good.
So the story starts out with Naruto vandalizing Mount Rushmore for no reason other than the fact that he can, and that he’s a total prick. He gets yelled at by his teacher in Ninja school for doing it, then is forced to do something call Ninjitsu. Which is basically magic only it’s cooler because it has the word “ninja” in it. After failing epically at said Ninjitsu, a classmate I guess, it’s never very well explained, tells him where to get some magic scroll thing that instantly makes you good at Ninjitsu. So Naruto, being an idiot, steals the scroll and then starts reading it in the forest. Meanwhile, his classmate tells everyone that he’s stolen the scroll and he and Naruto’s teacher go to set things straight. After finding him, the classmate betrays them both (what a surprise) and Naruto’s teacher (hold on, I’m going to go look up his name). Okay, so Iruka then gets Yuffie’s shrunken stuck in his back, a fight happens, Naruto finds out that he has a ktisune (demonic fox) in him and then Naruto proceeds to use the Ninjitsu that he magically learned in two minuets to make a bunch of clones of himself who then proceed to kick his classmate’s ***. Afterward we find out that Naruto is only an idiot because he wants attention because everyone doesn’t like the whole “demon stuck inside him” thing. This actually makes a ton of sense, because people who are overly neglected in real life are like this.
Okay, so following this he instantly graduates from Ninja school to move on to Ninja high school I guess, but not before hanging out with the grandson of the best ninja in town. The two really don’t have much to do, so Naruto teaches the kid how to turn into a supermodel. The kid apparently wants to become the best ninja around, and so does Naruto, the kid says that they’re rivals and then goes away for a bit. He’ll probably be back in thirty volumes or so (he’ll pull a Shadi, I just know it) but back to the important part of the plot, the Ninja High School thing. The first thing Naruto does is make some new friends, namely Sasuke, an emo kid, and Sakura, who seems to be there only for the sake of having one female character.. After that, he meets his new teacher, Hatake Kakashi, who is easily my favorite character in this comic just because of how he’s a funny *******. Okay, back to the plot, Kakashi makes the main characters go through a test in which they must try and take a bell from him. The kids fail, and volume one ends in a cliff hanger. And that’s basically the first volume in a nutshell.
This series raises a lot of questions in my head, such as “why is Sasuke so emo?” “Why doesn’t Sakura do anything?” And most importantly, “why are Naruto’s only abilities to make a bunch of clones and change his sex? Wouldn’t that make him a cross between Ramna and Genesis?” And here’s another thing, if Naruto is about ninjas, then why does everyone engage in hand-to-hand combat automatically? Last time I checked, ninjas were stealthy assassins who attacked from behind and killed quickly. You really can’t do much sneaking in an orange jump suit, can you, Naruto?
Speaking of Jump, this series also follows the same plot that almost every series published by Shonen Jump. It’s always about some kid between the ages of twelve and seventeen who want to become the greatest (occupation) in the world, so he goes on an adventure of sorts with various invitational’s who have other goals in mind but join anyway. Along the way the hero ends up fighting other people who are also a (occupation), but beats them all. This is the way it was with One Piece, Shaman King, Beat and Hunter X Hunter, to name a few.
Naruto isn’t anywhere near the best SJ comic I’ve ever read (that award goes to Death Note), but it isn’t the worst (That goes to Rossario + Vampire, although I’ve only seen the anime so that’s somewhat hypocritical, but I guess that makes me a politician).
EDIT: Fix'd it. Also, I'm currently making a video version of this review.
But I could have sworn that... okay, let me rephrase that. "I'm going to become the best doctor in the world (ect.)"