Many people made their first acquaintance with anime by watching 'Naruto Shippuuden episodes and it is difficult to imagine a person who has not heard of this famous Tv series. Why is the story about this yellow-haired guy so popular, and what makes people so fond of him that apart from the manga and the TV-series there are so many various computer games about Naruto?
'Naruto' has first appeared in the form of manga, and with the time TV-series was created which popularized the story so that now people all over the world like following the adventures of the mysterious yellow-haired boy and even play computer games about him.
The action of the story takes place in a totally imaginary world, the entire continent with different countries and fancy characters. Naruto Shippuuden streaming is the main character of the story -- a lonely looner who bears inside himself a fox demon. His father sacrificed his own life so that to lock the demon forever in the body of his newborn son and wanted all people to consider Naruto a hero. However, despite the fact that Naruto is the only one who can hold the power of the demon inside himself, people have always been scared of him and thought that he himself was this demon.
It is worth mentioning that the ancient Japanese religion (shintoism, or Shinto) is based upon the cult of many gods and spirits, and the Japanese believed that these spirits can be found anywhere. However, in shintoism there was no division of these spirits upon the 'good' ones and the 'evil' ones: the spirits could become angry if people did not behave nicely towards them, but if you performed all ceremonies and followed all cults, the spirits had always been benevolent and kind. In other words, there was no 'absolute good' or 'absolute evil' in the Japanese culture -- and actually it is pretty much the same now.
Fox is a very traditional animal for the Japanese traditional tales, along with racoon dogs (tanuki). In these tales the animals confront or interact with people -- not other animals like in? uropean tales featuring animals.
The action of the story developed as Naruto was growing up. He studied in the local ninja school together with other boys. However his tricks were driving his teachers crazy. Practically every day he was doing something the whole village was talking about. Naruto did not know that once he was the fox demon -- the same that the old ladies are now telling the scary and dark tales about. Time passed, and he got to know about it, when his teacher put his own life on stake to save him. We may follow Naruto's life while he changes from a good-for-nothing boy with a weird sense of humour into a real warrior, finds true friends and enemies, his love, and the mentor who will teach him how to manage the power of the demon who is inside of him. Naruto eventually achieves his dream and becomes The Hokage -- just like his father. And all this happens in very funny situations that Naruto gets himself into, so all stories about him have an exciting plot, elaborate humour and lots of different characters that are so interesting to observe. The success of the series is not accidental -- it is one of the best in its genre.
We have already mentioned computer games about Naruto. Well, there are lots of them -- all of different kinds. There are few games, however, which are based more or less upon the plot of the manga and series itself - there are, for instance, dress-up games where you need to select outfits for the characters from 'Naruto' (such as 'Dress Up Naruto' or 'Naruto Girls Dress Up'), and lots of other games, such as 'Naruto', 'Naruto Battle Grounds', 'Naruto Bubbles', 'Naruto Invaders', 'Naruto NG', 'Naruto RPG 2', 'Naruto Snowy Battle Field'... There are even 'Naruto Jigsaw', 'Uzumaki Naruto Image Tiles' and... 'Naruto Kissing'! So you can judge how popular this character is.
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