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16 unusual facts about Naruto


Baruto no Gakuen

It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture in Japan.

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

In the fictional world of Naruto, the first ninja puppeteer is named Chikamatsu Monzaemon, a reference to Chikamatsu's puppet plays.

Sasori, of Naruto has claimed that he wants to fight, Chikamatsu Monzaemon demonstrating that the art of puppets is very powerful, as for Chiyo could be the inheritor of his puppets.

Fūma Kotarō

In the manga and anime series Naruto, the character Pain was revealed to have a body that originated from the Fūma clan when he kills his rival Hanzō (there is also another Fūma clan).

Hearts Grow

They are known for performing the ninth opening of Naruto, the fourth ending of Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z, the fourth opening for Gintama and the first opening of Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode.

Hōkai Amplifier

Although the mini-album didn't release any singles, the intro track "Haruka Kanata" enjoyed immense domestic and international popularity after it came to be used as the second opening theme for the anime series Naruto.

Home Made Kazoku

In January 2007, it was announced that they would perform the first ending theme to the anime Naruto: Shippūden entitled Nagareboshi Shooting Star which entered the Oricon charts at 10th place.

Mucc

The third single for the album, "Mother", was released on October 31 and was one of the ending themes for Naruto Shippuden, their fourth anime tie in.

Nagi, Okayama

Masashi Kishimoto (Japanese manga artist) - Notable for creating the anime/manga series Naruto.

Naruto Uzumaki

Incidentally, shortly afterwards CyberConnect2 started developing the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja games although Sadamoto recalls he was unaware of such fact.

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja is a 2007 Xbox 360-exclusive video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal, making it the first Naruto game to be developed by a non-Japanese company.

Naruto: The Broken Bond

There are 30 playable characters, a new tag-team system and original voice acting and music from the original Naruto anime.

No Regret Life

This was followed by their next two singles "失くした言葉 (Nakushita Kotoba)" on June 8, which was used as the 9th ending theme for the anime Naruto, and "あの日の未来 (Ano Hi no Mirai)" on November 2.

OreSkaBand

The band received media attention from their appearance in a commercial advertising the popular Japanese snack Pocky, as well as having their song Jitensha featured as the 13th Naruto: Shippuden anime ending theme.

The Mass Missile

They gained even more prestige when the album's single, Ima Made Nando Mo was chosen as the 5th ending theme of the popular anime series Naruto.

Toshiyuki Tsuru

Toshiyuki Tsuru (都留 稔幸) was the director of the 3rd Naruto movie, Dai Kofun! Mikazuki Jima no Animal Panic Dattebayo! These words translate into The Animal Riot of Crescent Moon Island.


Dinosaur Baby Holy Heroes

One character would be A Guo who looks like Sasuke Uchiha from the Naruto series only A Guo has blue hair with the same hair style that Sasuke Uchiha has.

Eighting

Naruto: Clash of Ninja (series) (produced with Tomy) (Nintendo GameCube, Wii) (2003 (1–2)), (2004 (3)), (2005(4)), (2007 (EX1-2, Revolution 1)), (2008 (EX3, Revolution 2)), (2009 (Revolution 3)), (2010 (Special))

Fábio Lucindo

His best known works for dubbing in anime are the characters: Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shaoran (Cardcaptor Sakura), Ash Ketchum (Pokémon), Krillin (Dragon Ball), Kiba Inuzuka (Naruto), Arnold in Hey Arnold!, Takuya Kanbara (Digimon Frontier) and Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach).

Game One

The channel has shown several Japanese anime on a regular basis, such as Fairy Tail, Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z Kai and Eyeshield 21.

Kakashi Hatake

Kishimoto originally planned to introduce Kakashi in the manga to the series' titular character, Naruto Uzumaki, early on, but pushed back this meeting so that Naruto's teammates could be better developed.

Lars Alexandersson

Outside Tekken, he is also featured as a playable character in the fighting game, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 and in his alternate Tekken 6 costume designed by Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto.

Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel

The movie stars Naruto Uzumaki, Shikamaru Nara, and Sakura Haruno as they deliver a lost pet ferret (that Naruto unwittingly confuses for a cat, as he had never seen a ferret before) to its village.

The Hero Of Konoha

The Hero Of Konoha in beginning was a website only for Naruto arts and news, but very soon after that Dragon Ball popped up.

ZTV

In late 2007, ZTV started to broadcast various anime-series such as Berserk, Black Lagoon, Ergo Proxy, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gungrave, Naruto, Ninja Scroll, Paranoia Agent and Samurai Champloo.