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Naruto (Jap:. ナ ル ト - Naruto) - manga by Masashi Kishimoto in the genre syonen and its anime adaptation of. Its main character is Naruto Udumaki, noisy and restless teenage ninja who wants to achieve universal recognition and become Hokage - head of his settlement and the strongest ninja. To gain the respect of others, he had to go through thousands of obstacles: ninja exams, various missions and fights.

The first edition of the manga was published on 21 September 1999 by the Japanese publisher Shueisha in the 43rd issue of Weekly Shonen Jump. Launched in the 72 volumes of the manga. Its last edition was published on 10 November 2014 in the 50th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump.

In her filmed eponymous anime television series created by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex companies. The first television series Naruto demonstrated in Japan by TV Tokyo channel and the satellite channel ANIMAX starting from 3 October 2002 to February 8, 2007 and ended on the 220th series. The second TV series Naruto Shippuuden, continues to be broadcast on February 15, 2007, and the new series appear almost every week. Since the start of the broadcast aired over 600 episodes and their production continues to this day. The anime adaptation has two television series, ten animated feature films and eight OVA. The production is the 11th movie premiere is scheduled for August 2015. video games have been created based on the manga and anime, novels ( "light-story") and collectible card games.

Manga and anime have been very popular in Japan and abroad. At the time of the 70 th volume of the first edition of which was 1`400`000 copies - it was reported that total sales of "Naruto" volume exceeded 200 million copies. In the US, the manga "Naruto", licensed publisher Viz Media, regularly ranked in the best-seller lists, and in 2006, its sales amounted to almost 10% of all manga sales in the country. In Russia the rights to publish and distribute the manga are owned by "Eksmo" and "Comic Art". The distribution of anime in the CIS engaged in "megasystems" . The distribution of anime in the CIS engaged in "megasystems".