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"Naruto" (2002) More at IMDbPro »TV series 2002-2007

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"Naruto" (2002): :  -- Tsunade believes that Menma has some connection to the Hidden Sound Village, and Naruto and the others head to the Land of Rice Paddies to check into Menma's Memories.
"Naruto" (2002): :  -- While in battle, Naruto finds out that Menma is a member of the gang of bandits that attacked their village.  Being called a traitor by the leader of the gang, Menma reveals his greatest secret.
"Naruto" (2002): :  -- Naruto and the others are shocked at the number of paper bombs placed throughout the village.  While removing the seals, unexpected help arrives in the way of Homura and Koharu.
"Naruto" (2002): :  -- Naruto has a dream about Yakumo wishing to become a ninja and Kurenai threatens to seal her power
"Naruto" (2002): :  -- The ANBU Black Ops suspect that Genno, a carpenter of Hidden Leaf Village, stole important blueprints of the village.  Tsunade concludes that the one who used Genno plans to attack the Village and puts the village on Super S-Rank Alert!

Overview

User Rating:
8.1/10   5,497 votes
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Release Date:
10 September 2005 (USA) more
Plot:
The stories of the struggles of three young ninjas - Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno - as they go through their training. full summary
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Who says adults can't watch cartoons? more (76 total)

Cast

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Maile Flanagan ... Naruto Uzumaki / ... (87 episodes, 2002-2007)

Steve Blum ... Orochimaru / ... (57 episodes, 2002-2007)

Stephanie Sheh ... Hinata / ... (40 episodes, 2002-2006)
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Series Directed by
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (19 episodes, 2002-2006)

Jeff Nimoy (unknown episodes)
 
Series Writing credits
Masashi Kishimoto (58 episodes, 2002-2007)
Steve Blum (46 episodes, 2002-2007)
Liam O'Brien (42 episodes, 2004-2007)
Marc Handler (18 episodes, 2002-2003)
Akatsuki Yamatoya (2 episodes, 2002-2004)

Series Original Music by
Toshio Masuda (unknown episodes)
 
Series Cinematography by
Atsuho Matsumoto (unknown episodes)
 
Series Film Editing by
Seiji Morita (unknown episodes)
 
Series Art Direction by
Shigenori Takada (unknown episodes)
 
Series Art Department
Takuya Kawami .... color coordinator (unknown episodes)
 
Series Sound Department
David W. Barr .... dialogue recording engineer / adr recordist (220 episodes, 2002-2007)
Eric Lewis .... adr engineer: Studiopolis, Inc. (63 episodes, 2002-2007)

Yasunori Ebina .... sound producer (unknown episodes)
 
Series Animation Department
Atsuho Matsumoto .... animation director (unknown episodes)
Tetsuya Nishio .... character designer (unknown episodes)
Hirofumi Suzuki .... character designer (unknown episodes)
 
Series Music Department
Jeremy Sweet .... composer: theme and cues (unknown episodes)
 
Series Other crew
Yuko Iwaoka .... original picture (220 episodes, 2002-2007)
Jessica Renslow .... production coordinator / office translator (81 episodes, 2002-2007)
Marc Handler .... story editor (17 episodes, 2002-2003)

Sean Kelley .... production assistant (unknown episodes)
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn .... voice director (unknown episodes)
Lindsey Myers .... production coordinator (unknown episodes)
Jeff Nimoy .... voice director (unknown episodes)
Jamie Simone .... voice director (unknown episodes)
Katsuyuki Sumizawa .... series story editor (unknown episodes)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Naruto Shounen-hen (Japan) (rerun title)
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Runtime:
Japan:30 min (220 episodes)
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Certification:
USA:TV-PG | Japan:U | Australia:PG (some episodes) | Australia:M (some episodes) | South Korea:12 | Canada:PG (TV rating) | Germany:12 | Brazil:Livre | UK:12 (most episodes) (uncut) | New Zealand:M | Singapore:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The clouds that cover Naruto's breasts when he uses Sexy No Jutsu are smaller in the manga than in the anime. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In some episodes of the series, some symbols on the clothes that the characters wear have some mistakes on them. Like sometimes, the Leaf symbol on the Leaf headbands would not have the pointy part of the symbol on it, and sometimes, the Sound symbol would have either a wavy flag or a non-wavy flag on it. And the Mist symbols would sometimes be lines instead of squiggly lines. On one of the early episodes, Sasuke Uchiha had a blue shirt with the Uchiha Clan symbol on the back, but on one shot where he talks to Sakura Haruno, the Clan symbol is not on his back. And some of the characters' faces were drawn badly in the original Japanese film, but were edited in the English version. As well as the symbol on Neji Hyuga's forehead (in the Japanese version, it looked like a Swastika, but was edited in the English version so that it wouldn't represent fascism). more
Quotes:
Sakura: NARUTO RUN... YOU'RE GONNA GET KILLED.
Kakashi Hatake: Too late... Konoha's hidden village secret taijutsu technique
[sticks fingers in Naruto's butt]
Kakashi Hatake: ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF PAIN!
Naruto Uzumaki: GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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Soundtrack:
Alive more

FAQ

Between Sakura and Hinata, who will Naruto pair up with?
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80 out of 91 people found the following review useful.
Who says adults can't watch cartoons?, 8 September 2004
Author: ToniPane from Maryland, USA

A friend of mine introduced me to the Naruto series, and I have liked it from the first moment I saw Gaara of the Sand walk across the screen! I am now engaged with trying to watch all of the episodes starting with the very first one, and I am impressed beyond measure by it's storyline, which manages to combine action, adventure, humor, science fiction/fantasy, and coming-of-age elements all in one. I wouldn't recommend it for young children due to some very dark elements which surface and, of course, violence. However, the very dark elements succeed in intensifying the storyline, and in character building. All the characters are very unique, no cookie-cutter fill-ins here!, and the bad guys are especially well developed. This is a far cry from Skeletor and Cobra which were the villains of my youth (and oops, I've just dated myself). The only drawback I can think of are the excessively long battle scenes, which can take up several episodes. The number of episodes in proportion to the importance of the battle.

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