It’s me again. It has been a while since my last review. Naruto, if you even don’t know about this one then go home. I’m sure you’re already drunk. Kidding. But, seriously, I so doubt you have watched anime if you never look at this story. So, today I wanna tell you about one of the most precious Japanese manga ever.

Basically, Naruto is inspired by previous legend battle manga titled Dragon Ball. The word of “inspired” really has different meaning with “plagiarism”. Both of them are about copying something but “inspired” is original. Hey, that’s obvious. Fine, it means you have understood it well. I should say it since if you’re Naruto’s big fans like me I’m certain occasionally you have forgotten that this story is based on Dragon Ball. Why? Because it’s hundred times greater than its predecessor I think.

I would like to start some sort synopsis here. It’s all about the story of ninja. Surprisingly, Naruto begins in a normal mainstream story. Naruto’s complete name is Uzumaki Naruto. He lives in a certain ninja village named Konoha-gakurei. It means “hidden leaf village” in English. It’s located in fire nations. In Naruto’s era, ninjas aren’t longer grouped based on family names. They already formed organizations and stay there like the other normal people. They have family, house, school, job, and friend like ordinary villagers. There’s no secret identity anymore in ninja’s life. Even they don’t need a mask and they also can walk freely in vicinity of village everyday as they want. Ninjas use a specific power named Chakra. Using chakra allows you to do something incredible like walking on the wall or water, detecting someone’s presence, healing some wounds, even annihilating enemy. Chakra users are categorized into several levels. The first stage of chakra user, usually beginner ninja, is named Genin. The second stage is named Chuunin. If they want to be a chuunin they have to pass an extreme hard exam. But sometimes there are talented kid ninjas that be able to surpass the exam easily even they can beat chuunin effortlessly. Ninja’s villages develop their economic growth with funds from several jobs called mission. Ninjas have to accomplish certain missions which are given by someone or something and then earn money. Ninja’s missions are also leveled into some stages which start from easy until hard and very hard. During the missions, ninjas usually have confrontation with the other ninjas from different village. And they also often lose their soul because of that. Village’s head ninja is called bla-bla-bla-“kage”. I mean, it depends on where the nation is. There are five nations. Each nation is named based on the style of chakra. There are only five kinds of chakra : fire “katon”, water “suiton”, earth “doton”, wind “fuuton” and the last one is thunder “ration”. But high level chakra users can combine several kinds of those cahakras and then use them at the same time. They’re called “kekkai genkai” It produces new techniques like wood style “mokuton”, particle style “jinton”, etc.

So, when Naruto was a child he was a troublesome kid. He did a lot of prank to other villager. Many villagers hated him because of his attitude. Actually the cause of villager hatred isn’t merely about his impolite behavior. The Demon Fox a.k.a Kyuubi. Kyuubi is one of the nine tailed beast “bijuu” that had served a lot of disaster in the village for long time ago. He killed many villager and Konoha’s ninja who wanted to stop him. Tailed beast is like sacred animal which could produce a huge mass of chakra. It inhuman power can annihilate a city only in a sec. Several ninjas managed a plan for muffling bijuu’s anger. They developed a special ninja technique which can seal these mystical beasts into human body. Humans who have sealed bijuu in their body are named Jiinchuriki. They can obtain an infinity amount of cakra because of the sealed bijuu. Naruto is the Jinchuriki of the strongest bijuu, Kyuubi. Naruto always has a dream to be a Hokage. He will do everything to keep his dream. But unfortunately he is slow to learn about some ninja techniques. He had a rival named Sasuke Uchiha who always pisses him off. Sasuke is the genius pupil. He is from elegant family which ever exist in Konoha called Uchiha. Every Uchiha inherits a rare ninja ocular technique Sharigan. With this Sharigan things they can perform godlike ninja techniques like copying an opponent tech, identifying enemy movement and making an illusion “genjutsu”. Sasuke is the kind of person who’s always seeking for greater and greater power. He never satisfies about what he has had. Sasuke betrayed his village and then decided to follow previous Konoha’s traitor ninja named Orochimaru. In fact, Naruto was being chased by a dark ninja organization named Akatsuki. Their objective was collecting all of bijuu’s power. He knew that he was targeted. But Naruto never holds back. He and other Konoha’s ninja were ready to hunt Akatsuki. That was not easy because all of Akatsuki member have demonic power and forbidden ninja technique. Naruto lost several comrades during the battle with Akatsuki.

My opinion :

Plus :
- This story serves two big moral values. There are determination and idealism. To be honest, Naruto is the kind of hopeless person who is slow to learn about something. He’s really different with Sasuke who can repeat a lesson flawlessly with a single glance. But that weakness can be overcome with determination and keep trying. There was an arc when he almost died because of training methods. In the end he can’t master it correctly but he found other method to use that tech. Well, “Going my way” is the one of Naruto’s motto. Naruto is a person with high idealism too. You know, when people have idealism, usually their idealism will be getting faded if they face a huge hindrance. They will start thinking that their first goal is impossible. But Naruto is not like that. He faced a painful fact that his beloved person was killed. He also knew the gap between his power and enemy’s power is intolerable. Instead of giving up, he just kept struggling with a smile in his face. His idealism will never be faded.
- Just an ordinary people. Seriously, I’m getting tired when I read a manga which serves a perfect protagonist. They always have a victory in every match. Even they often defeat their enemy with a single blow. But for Naruto, being defeated by enemy is a common. I counted there were several battles when Naruto should totally accept his loses. One of them is first battle with Sasuke. Sasuke might kill him whenever he wants.
- Epic drama. This is story with the best drama I ever read. Naruto isn’t only hero here. Several characters in this story are even more heroic than Naruto, according to me. Say it like Uchiha Itachi, Namikaze Minato, Jiraya, etc. Their life, dream, purpose are wonderful. You should find it by yourself. I don’t wanna make some spoiler here.
- Badass villain. Ow men, I have already seen a bunch of villain at the other manga. But the guy named Tobi in this story is special. Tobi is skillful in both of techniques and strategies. He is the biggest troller in the world of manga. You should check that out. He said “Hey world…I’m Madara….I’m alive…Hello…Greeting from hell”. And several moments after that “Problem world? You got trolled…Madara is already being a zombie there…”. Owww, that was the most epic troll. And you also have to see someone named Madara Uchiha. Here is little bit his ability for you all : he can alter a map.
- Unpredictable stories. The best story is story that you can’t predict about the problem solving when the climax is happening. It makes you wanna continue reading it more and more even though you need to wait every week.

Minus :
No minus in this story. It is masterpiece. It is legend. It is fabulous. It is a story that appears once in a hundred year. I give 10 without any hesitating.