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Naruto: Naruto Uzumaki
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Naruto Uzumaki is loud, brash and probably the world's most famous ninja, due to the wildly popular Naruto product franchise. From its origins as a humble manga, the Naruto empire has grown to include, video games, television, movies, books, toys and more reaching millions of fans world-wide.
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Masashi Kishimoto has stated that he developed Naruto's character from a character that he created in a failed manga about magic and fox spirits, without any of the ninja theming of the current series. Liking the character, Kishimoto decided to keep using him in the future. The character Kishimoto drew then had very little difference from the Naruto Uzumaki he draws now, all of them minor details. In Naruto's original design, instead of zori, traditional Japanese sandals, Naruto wore boots, and ... wore the goggles he had at the beginning of the current series. It is also because "drawing the goggles was a pain", Kishimoto says, that he came up with the idea of the hitai-ate, the headbands the ninja in Naruto wear. Naruto had also worn a frowning smiley over part of the jacket in the original design.[1]
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Deep within the Hidden Leaf Village, sharp and cunning Ninja carry an ultimate power while Naruto Uzumaki carries inside the ultimate secret. Twelve years ago, the fourth Hokage sacrificed himself and saved the village by sealing the Nine-tailed Fox Spirit an orphaned baby boy. Now, this plucky prankster must do what it takes achieve this life-long goal and become the next Hokage!
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Twelve years before the rest of the series, a giant nine-tailed fox attacked Konoha (Naruto's village). To save the village, the fourth Hokage (deceased) (leader of Konoha) sealed the fox's spirit inside a baby named Naruto Uzumaki. The Fourth Hokage had to die,but he was thought of as a hero in the village. He wanted people to think that Naruto was a hero, too. Sadly, most people thought of Naruto as the nine-tailed fox and hated him. The people that knew that Naruto was the demon could not tell anyone, but it did not stop them from being mean with Naruto.
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Growing up in a village of ninjas, Uzumaki Naruto never knew the adults of the village shunned him because sealed within him was the spirit of the demon fox who had destroyed their village 12 years ago. When his corrupt teacher Mizuki tricked him into stealing a secret scroll of ninjutsu, Naruto learned the truth about who he was, but it didn't change his goal to win the respect of the village by becoming the hokage (strongest shinobi in the village, and its' leader)
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For the character's name, he chose "Naruto", in reference to a ramen topping called kamaboko, which is a sliced stick with a pink whirlpool-like design in the middle. The reason why he chose this name was because Ramen was the character's favorite food in the series. The character's surname "Uzumaki" is a pun on "spiral" (渦巻), while "Uzumaki" refers to a three-dimensional spiral, like a whirlpool or vortex. A more accurate translation for spiral would be "Rasen". The series is seen to make frequent references to spirals, The Konoha village symbol for "leaf" is drawn with an arrow attached to a spiral. Also, Naruto's clothes adorn spirals; but mostly, the demonic seal around his navel is a spiral.
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