“Shunned jinchūriki Naruto trains with Team 7 to earn village respect and become Hokage.”
Naruto
NARUTO―ナルト―
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Synopsis
Shunned jinchūriki Naruto trains with Team 7 to earn village respect and become Hokage.
Whenever Naruto Uzumaki proclaims that he will someday become the Hokage—a title bestowed upon the best ninja in the Village Hidden in the Leaves—no one takes him seriously. Since birth, Naruto has been shunned and ridiculed by his fellow villagers. But their contempt isn't because Naruto is loud-mouthed, mischievous, or because of his ineptitude in the ninja arts, but because there is a demon inside him. Prior to Naruto's birth, the powerful and deadly Nine-Tailed Fox attacked the village. In order to stop the rampage, the Fourth Hokage sacrificed his life to seal the demon inside the body of the newborn Naruto. And so when he is assigned to Team 7—along with his new teammates Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, under the mentorship of veteran ninja Kakashi Hatake—Naruto is forced to work together with other people for the first time in his life. Through undergoing vigorous training and taking on challenging missions, Naruto must learn what it means to work in a team and carve his own route toward becoming a full-fledged ninja recognized by his village.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 85 sampled reviews
What 85 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.33 · split reception
5.5 pts
Recommenders 8.7 · others 3.2
↑ 2.21
Running avg · Jan 2008 → Oct 2025
- 10 “Naruto is the best manga i have ever read. The storyline and art are both amazing! Its very different from any other manga and its definitely a manga that you can't put down. What got me hooked on...”
- 10 “The story is just for some reason alot better in Manga, I dont know why but it just is...The art is just...mindblowing because you ca see every tiny last detail! The characters are...or do get very...”
- 8 “Naruto is a great show in itself, the manga is good it doesn't consist of any fillers, it's a straight main story, every chapter connects, the art style is good, and sometimes emotions hit. I...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 700 × 72 ch × vol
- Total read 93h 20m approx
- Published Sep 1999 – Nov 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0009 catalog