The special lovable ninja Naruto! Back in
the day Naruto was a very small little
dude. He was four feet nine inches or
145 centimeters at the very start of the
series. Although this is perfectly normal!
Naruto was only 12 years old. This was
when Naruto was running around tagging
up the Hokage head. You might even be
curious about his weight at that time.
Little naruto was 88.2 pounds or about 40
kilograms. For comparison that's the
weight of almost 270 cup of noodles or
about 130 bowls of delicious ramen! In
other words when Naruto eats in a year.
Anyway as for your favorite ninja's
birthday you could go ahead and
celebrate that was a huge ramen cake
on October 10th. The creator of the
series Kishimoto may have actually
picked the date for a special reason.
October 10th was known as "Taiko no hi"
this translates to Health and Sports Day.
This holiday was originally created in
honor of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Unfortunately for Naruto this is no
longer the case as of two thousand.
Taiiku no Hi is now celebrated every
second monday in October but let's not
forget about the most important thing!
Hardcore ninja fans may also know
October 10th as another important day
in the Naruto series. This Day marks
the end date for the fourth great ninja
war.
Naruto and his anime series have become
very famous worldwide although something
it's famous for are better than others.
Depending on when you start watching
Naruto you might remember the pain from
all those goddamn Naruto fillers! The
Naruto anime actually holds the world
record for the anime with the most
fillers. Second place by the way it goes
to BLEACH. The original Naruto anime
has a total 220 episodes. Over forty
percent of those are lovely delicious
fillers. This gets even more insane when
you find out that the original Naruto
anime also holds the record for the most
consecutive filler episodes. It's got
over 80 episodes in a row that are all
filler. Holy crap! I'm just getting
Naruto filler flashbacks just thinking
about it! How many Naruto fillers did
you manage to get through?
Your favorite jumpsuit weary Ninja has
been around for over 20 years now. Since
they debut the anime Naruto has always
been voiced by the lovely Junko Takeuchi.
What's interesting is Naruto's
connection to other anime series from
this. This includes Digimon. Junko has
always voiced a little puppy gomamon
from Digimon Adventure. In addition to
that one she's also voiced a main
protagonist Takuya from Digimon Frontier
aka the fourth Digimon season. You might
also know some of these other roles.
There's Gon from Hunter x Hunter, Sabo
from One Piece, Red from Pokemon Origins,
that's right she also had a hand in
Pokemon too. You may also be surprised
that she also did the voice for Akamaru!
You heard that right. Both Naruto and the
little doggy are voiced by the same person!
You could debate on which one she voiced
better!
Naruto was always famous for being that
one special ninja who only knew a
handful of ninja techniques. Naruto
notably managed to learn a jounin level
technique super early on, the Shadow
Clone Jutsu but let's not forget, Naruto
is known for his own special technique
the Sexy Jutsu. this one in particular
has even been combined with the previous
jutsu to make it even much more
effective. The interesting part about
this sexy jutsu is a slight difference
between an anime version and what you
see in the manga. Notice anything
different? Feel free to pause the video
so you could examine it thoroughly. It's
also interesting to find out that this
technique was around all the way back in
the Naruto manga pilot. The earlier one
in that pilot was similar to the one we
know although that one was much more
foxy. Literally a foxy Naruto.
So about Naruto Uzumaki. Have you ever
wondered about the origins of this
blonde ninja's name? It's funny since Naruto's
connection to ramen is deepened by this!
The name Naruto Uzumaki comes from
Naruto maki. They're are these type of
spiky fish cake ramen topping that have
a pink spiral design in the middle. You
may have even had some in the past have
you ever had a bowl of Japanese ramen!
mmm yummy, this is making me hungry.
Naruto Uzumaki's full name is also
a reference to Naruto whirlpools or
Japanese "Naruto no Uzushio", this
being a city in the Tokushima prefecture
in Japan. What's also funny is Naruto
almost had a connection to One Piece.
Sanji from One Piece was supposed to be
named Naruto. Of course this was
changed last minute otherwise we would
have had two giant series with
characters that shared a common name. You
could imagine everyone's confusion when
talking about them. Are we talking about
Naruto Naruto or Naruto One Piece?
Remember back in the day when Naruto
used to wear goggles? You see Naruto
running around with his green goggles in
episode one. Perhaps Kishimoto was just a
huge digimon fan! It's also funny since
these goggles appeared in a super
different pilot series but more on this
later. Anyway as you know eventually
Kishimoto ended changing this. A main part of
this was really just convenience for him
as a manga artist. Naruto was a weekly
series so leaving Naruto with goggles
meant having to draw these a lot. This is
how the idea of the famous ninja
headband eventually came about. Instead
of goggles Naruto got a huge upgrade
with this. These ninja headbands are
definitely much easier to draw. Even I
could draw them! So in the end you could
say these headbands came from the author
just being lazy. hehe. But let's not
forget about the huge second part of
this. One word merchandising. Every
series has that one special item.
Pokemon has the pokeballs and these
mention headbands are definitely a
notable one from Naruto. I bet money that
you even own one too!
At this point I'm sure you're very
familiar with Naruto and his ninja world.
What's super interesting it's just how
drastically different the Naruto series
could have been. The original manga
pilot that kishimoto created for Naruto
was super different. In that Naruto pilot
instead of having this ninja Naruto
land, the setting was a modern city with
huge buildings and it also had modern
technology, like Facebook, smartphones,
tinder, all of that jazz. Naruto himself did
look similar to what we know of him
today. The difference with Naruto was that
instead of having a nine-tailed sealed
inside of him Naruto himself was a demon
Fox. The original nine tails that
attacked a village in that pilot was
actually Naruto's father. After taking
that beast out they felt really bad
about killing this little nine tails fox
so they let Naruto live. What's even more
interesting is that this pilot series
didn't even involve ninjas. Naruto just
went around solving crime and even beat
up a thief with the gun. Could you imagine
what Naruto would be like today if this
story wasn't rejected! Practically every
one of your favorite Naruto characters
wouldn't you even exist either. For some
of the characters that may not be a bad
thing . . .
About Naruto's favorite food, I could
just say that sentence and you will
instantly think of ramen. Ninja boy could
easily put down a few bowls of ramen.
Specifically Naruto's favorite ramen
is the miso flavored kind. You may even
be interested in trying this out for
yourself one day too! Turns out that the
Ramen Ichiraku shop from Naruto actually
exists in real life. This was definitely
Kishimoto's inspiration for it. The
real-life ramen shop was located close
to the university that author attended.
Yes you heard that right, was, that wasn't
a mistake. Unfortunately the exact one
that he loved closed back down in 2014.
Fortunately it is a chain so there's a
few more of them still around. If you
ever happen to be in Japan be sure to
drop by and get a bowl of the miso
chashu pork ramen.A bowl of this stuff
is around eight dollars. My god! Just
talking about this is making me really
hungry mmm.
It's no surprise Naruto is huge
worldwide but have you ever wondered
just how big? So far the Naruto manga has
sold over 220 million copies. To put that
into perspective the first Harry Potter
and The Hobbit have each third over a
hundred million copies. Right now
the Naruto manga stands in the top three
selling manga of all time. There's only
two above it. One of those is Dragon Ball
with over 240 million copies sold and the
top spot is surprising no one, that goes
to One Piece with over 350 million copies.
Still being in the top three is quite an
accomplishment. Perhaps one day Naruto
could even surpass Dragonball, that is if
they include Boruto in that total.
Have you ever wondered what Naruto and
his ninja world will look like in real
life? Yup I'm talking about a live-action
series. In fact, a big-budget Hollywood
movie! Right at this moment Lionsgate is
in production to bring Naruto to real
life. Lionsgate is that same studio that
brought you movies like the entire
Hunger Games franchise but also the
whole Twilight series and most recently
Power Rangers. Honestly I kind of like
that one. I could already imagine all of
you guys screaming out there. You might
be hoping that this is not another
Dragonball Evolution disaster. Nobody
wants that. Unfortunately there's nothing
you and I could do about it. We could
only hope that they don't screw it up
too bad. So far there is no release date
for this movie yet and no one's been
cast either. We do have some good news.
Kishimoto himself will be involved in
the production of the movie so this
right here is already huge improvement
from Dragonball Evolution but honestly
I'm not even sure we could play Naruto,
Sasuke or Sakura. What's interesting is
what Kishimoto had to say about this
Kishimoto said that if team 7 was real
Naruto would be American, Sakura would be
European, and Sasuke would be Asian. I
wonder how many people will complain
when the official casting comes out. I
don't think anyone's going to be happy.
Let's just hope this doesn't turn into
another Ghost in the Shell situation. So
let me ask you, do you have anyone in
mind that could play Naruto, Sasuke, or
Sakura in this live-action movie? Thanks
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