Naruto Review

Originated from Japan, the Manga Naruto is the story of a teenage kid striving to be the best Ninja of his village while learning the true meaning of friendship and acceptance.  Naruto, an adolescent Ninja who pledged to become a Hokage, the strongest and acknowledged as the leader of their village.  This ongoing Japanese Manga series is written and illustrated on a weekly basis by Masashi Kishimoto.  Popular aross the globe and translated into numerous languages, it was first publised in Weekly Shunen Jump Magazine in Japan in 1999.  The most recent Volume is Vol. 45, which was released in June, 2009 in the US published by Viz Media.  The manga has been adapted into an anime, and was premiered across Japan on the terrestrial TV Tokyo network in 2003.  It has also been developed into movies, light-novel, action-figures, and Video games.  The story includes Ninja fighting scenes and intense plots that was well written accompanied by the beautiful and precise linework of the artist.  The Manga demenstrats a strong sense of film cinemaography with brilliant use of page-frames.