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Aug 31, 2009 8:58 PM
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This was a pretty decent opener. I think that this opens better than Bleach. It did kinda feel rushed thou. Well I will keep on reading.
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Dec 12, 2011 3:41 AM
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good start, better than Bleach, but not as good as One Piece xD
Jul 18, 2012 10:31 AM
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And many years too late.... I finally started Naruto
Oct 21, 2012 4:05 PM
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I remember the first time I've read this chapter, back in 2000... an amazing experience :D It ages like wine :P
Jul 29, 2014 11:24 PM
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Absolutely Loved this chapter one of the best ones this year. I can honestly say that throughout the past couple of years I didn't lie Obito one bit. But reading this chapter Left me in tears one of the saddest and most impactfull deaths in Naruto.
Jul 29, 2014 11:26 PM
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Absolutely Loved this chapter one of the best ones this year. I can honestly say that throughout the past couple of years I didn't lie Obito one bit. But reading this chapter Left me in tears one of the saddest and most impactfull deaths in Naruto.
Mar 7, 2015 10:00 AM
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The beginning of a great series...
Not much to say but Naruto never gives up, that's what makes him stronger. Also, Iruka is a nice teacher after all.
Feb 16, 2016 2:59 PM
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Here I'm 10 years later. Going to see if I'd be able to catch up to where I left and finish it
Oct 14, 2016 10:48 AM
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First chapter is nice, beginning of a great adventure
Mar 7, 2017 1:33 AM
🥊 CHAMPION 🥊

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"Sex no Jutsu", adorable Naruto´s transformation thecnique !!! kekeke

Beautiful and great first chapter, full of action and atractive plot!!!
Jul 14, 2017 3:00 PM

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Nostalgia kicked in quite hard..
Very emotional. :-(
Aug 6, 2017 9:47 AM

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For the first time in his life, someone treated Naruto like a normal person, way to go Iruka!
Jan 6, 2019 2:34 AM

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Now that Shonen Jump is offering most of their back catalog for only two dollars a month, it finally feels like it's time to finally go through all of Naruto. I've got a lot of fondness for the early portion of the series when it was first airing on Toonami way back when, but I never stayed up with it and there's no way I'm slogging through the anime adaption, so manga here was go.

As a first chapter, this served it's purpose well. Naruto's character was established fairly well, and immediately set up for a lot of room to grow both in terms of personality and power. Naruto's goal was quickly established to, giving something of an end goal motivation for the readers, and I like that the series first chapter is dedicated to exploring Naruto's character more than anything else. His personality, backstory, power, relationships, etc. are all succinctly revealed with the Demon Fox aspect adding an element of intrigue to him. And while I don't necessarily care how Iruka blatantly outlines Naruto's behavioral patterns before showing his connection, I do like that it was at least set-up ahead of time that both of them suffered similar childhoods, otherwise this might've felt a bit more forced and corny. I will say, this chapter definitely reads like a first chapter, in a way that doesn't always come across as organic to me. Visually the series is fine at this point, I did really like the usage of onomatopoeia, with them matching the throwning knives & speeds lines, giving more power to the panel I think.

Final note, the fact that Viz refers to this Art of the Doppleganger really threw me off and I'm almost certainly going to just refer to it as the Shadow Clone Jutsu regardless.
Feb 9, 2021 6:05 AM

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Finally restarting this, half a year back I read 9 volumes got bored. Did not give a fuck.

Then I read One Piece, caught up, it's damn good.
I read half of Bleach, I love it
And now to complete the BIG THREE, let's give this another chance.
--AbiSa--
Aug 4, 2021 3:32 PM
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I really enjoyed the opening of this. It's been a while since I read some volumes of this manga. But I really like the art style. It really suits the tone of the story. I wonder how much better this will be in comparison to the anime.

Side note: I don't remember the Third Hokage walking in on Naruto while he stole the scroll in the anime. I know that must have been embarrassing being knocked out by Naruto's sexy jutsu and then having the scroll taken lol.
Aug 31, 2021 3:52 PM

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dunno why, i decided to reread naruto.

for some reason the manga ver is highlighting more of the "revenge" eyes naruto have when he escapes after iruka saves him, in the anime it's feeling kinda rush.

and the drawing are good, kishimoto knows how to pronounce feelings without words.
Dec 17, 2021 1:31 PM

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Ah man, I was so young when I first started reading Naruto. I actually read 3/4 of the serie, but I got tired of waiting a week for every chapter and stopped reading mangas altogether for several years.
I still miss some volumes but I have enough to start reading it and will buy the missing ones along the way. This is gonna take me a while.
Jan 18, 2022 8:41 PM
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The chapter "numba" 1 of Naruto isn't bad, neither is it perfect imo. Does it work well as the opening chapter? Fuck yeah.

Despite being a first chapter villain ( A not very coveted role tbh ), I expected a little more from Mizuki ( Or Iruka XD ), right? And... I still can't seem to have any affection for Iruka, but I think that's normal so fuck it '-' much less for Naruto.

Nice action scenes and the art isn't too bad, some things are a little sped up but I think it's a really cool chapter to start the manga.
Feb 26, 2022 12:38 AM
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Nice chapter, although it was quite long. Hopefully, Masashi Kishimoto's art work gets better as the series go's on.
May 1, 2022 3:51 AM

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As a super huge Naruto fan, reading the manga was a must!!! Although I've not yet finished the anime (lol). Anyways this chapter reminded me a lot of the very first episode of Naruto!!! I felt really sentimental.

I hope to finish this manga soon, at least in a year's time :)
Sep 25, 2022 3:14 AM
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watched anime some years ago,
finally started manga and it was great.
Feb 25, 2023 12:15 AM
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Same and different from the anime version but I was still good
Jul 21, 2023 3:56 AM
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VERY NICE <3 AMAZIONG
Oct 18, 2023 5:44 PM

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The beginning of the boy who wanted to become Hokage. xD Mizuki's pretty underrated as a first antagonist, ngl.
Mar 7, 2024 8:05 AM
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Gosh, the emotions this brought to me was so impactful in a good way. Can't wait to read the rest of the series no matter how long it is
May 20, 2024 2:36 AM

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I managed to evade anything about Naruto for 20 years, so let's see what I missed.
Jan 12, 12:12 AM
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It was nice and fun

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