( Japanese : ナルトand in Romani : NARUTO) is the title of the completed Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto . The story revolves around the teenage ninja Naruto Uzumaki , who found himself shunned by the people of his village because of the Kyuubi inside him, so he set his sights on getting the title of Hokage , the title given to the village leader and the strongest ninja in it, to gain the respect and recognition of everyone.
The manga was first published in Japan in 1999 by Shueisha Corporation in the forty-third issue of its Weekly Shonen Jump magazine . It is mainly adapted from Comic One Shot by Kishimoto , which was published in August 1997 in Akamaru Jump magazine . So far, 70 manga volumes have been released in Japan, and the 71st volume will be the last manga volume . [1] The Naruto series is one of the best-selling series in the world; It has sold about 100 million copies in Japan .
In North America , Fez Media licensed the manga and published it in English in Shonen Jump magazine, in addition to broadcasting anime episodes , movies and most of the OVA episodes . In the United States , the series appeared several times in the list of books in USA Today, and the eleventh volume won the Quill Award in 2006 . Fans of the series praised the balance between combat and comedy , as well as admiring the distinctive features of the Naruto manga characters .
Later, TV Tokyo and Piero Studios converted the manga into an anime and it was first broadcast in Japan on TV Tokyo on October 3, 2002 . The first part of the anime was released in the name of Naruto and consists of 220 episodes, and the second part of it came under the name Naruto Shippuden , which began broadcasting on February 15, 2007 AD, and the number of its episodes reached 500 episodes, in addition to that, 9 films of the Naruto series and several OVA episodes were released. Other types of products related to the series have also been released and include short novels , video games and trading cards.
Al -Zahra Center is dubbing this anime into Arabic . The first 52 episodes of it were dubbed into a first season and it was shown on Space Power and Spacetoon in 2009 in conjunction with the launch of their experimental broadcast. The channel showed the third season until episode 130 and stopped due to the crisis in Syria that erupted in 2012, a civil war; The dubbing of One Piece, Sword of Fire and other series that were shown at that time also stopped, but he was satisfied with dubbing Detective Conan only due to his great popularity in the world of anime in Arab countries. The video streaming service, Crunchyroll , has licensed Naruto Shippuden anime in many countries, including the Arab world, and shown it in standard and high definition, subtitled into English..
