Who/What got you in to Naruto?

[exotic]

What made you fall in love with the show Naruto.

[Ocelot]

Not so much the anime but the manga/story but anyways a friend showed me the Neji vs that Spider ninja fight and also Rock Lee vs Gaara. Those are prolly still some of the best fights of the series.

[exotic]

My brother told me it was a good show because before I hated the english dub Naruto on cartoon network. The characters sound so stupid.

[sisi123]

My friends are all anime freaks and they talked about it continuously. I decided to see what all the fuss is about.

[dixieboy]

The anime blows XP, especially the Danish dub (Ear bleeding will happen if you watch that)

What got me into Naruto THE MANGA, was when i had nothing to do and read the first book at the libary...

[Feem]

What got me into Naruto THE MANGA, was when i had nothing to do and read the first book at the libary...

Same thing happened with me, though the library had the Gaara/Rock Lee fight. Spoilers galore!

[Ares050]

i started 2 watch cowoy bebop then saw it and got tooked

[pgaur82]

My brother and a friend of mine used to watch it when we were in college, and they always told me about it but I never cared. Then one day I was at my mom's place helping her move some stuff, and had cartoon network on in the background while they were doing a naruto marathon. It was right when Tsunade was fighting Orochimaru.... watched 4 or 5 episodes in a row and pretty much got hooked after that.

[Darwich]

I think it was the first or second episode...in the forest when iruka is about to get killed by...the purple haired dude....Naruto use Massive shadow clone and he's like "Dont touch Iruma-sensei" that gave me chills...Right after i went to read all the manga...then watch all the anime...EVEN the fillers

[zangetsuclan]

seen on tv and fell in love

[Vnhaln1]

I saw the scenes for it on CN and thought it was a little kids show. Then 1 day they started with episode #1 and I was bored so I figured "what the hell" and watched it and liked it. Then watched another and when Naruto used his shadow clone technique to make "solid" versions of himself I kinda got hooked. But what really cinched it for me was when Naruto summoned Boss Toad that 1st time. I was like "holy shit" and after that watched each and every episode in a marathon on VEOH.com. Then caught up with the manga and now watch Shippuden every week. Great series.

[Turnado]

Actually, I dont really remember what got me into Naruto. I think that i was just online browsing, looking for a new manga to read, and thats when i found it. And that's when i fell in love!

[seiftis]

In around 2003, my sis brought some of Naruto CDs she copied from a friend. Kind of... one of the first fan-subbed anime that I watched (since before this for other anime, I bought the legit copy).

The 2nd exam/Forest of Death arc was good, but my love for this show died after that...

[Starzen]

i found it on my friends pc while fixing it 5yrs ago and i've been hooked ever since then

[Kryn]

I just wanted to try reading manga and naruto was just the first to catch my eye

[Charliehsv]

My friend literally just shoved the first few manga volumes into my face one day and pretty much ordered me to read them. I did, and I liked them :P

[Silphonica]

I honestly don't know, i was flicking about online, through an anime list and saw naruto, watched the 1st ep. Then watched more, and more and more and more and hurry up friday

[wouter]

All the positives things you hear?
I only heared negative things.

[Streetwear_Kid_R]

mine is the weirdest.ive heard about naruto but never really thought anything about it.then i saw my brother playin the ninja council game on GBA.Started playing it cos i was curious,got kinda into it.then i saw neji.that doods badd.learned more on the net and got hooked.lol

[Elikc]

hahahaha its a LONG and crazy story. But short version, my ex fiance.

[dixieboy]

Is that the reason she's "ex"? ^_^

[tsurugi]

i didnt really get into it until shippuuden started....i thought it was dumb before that...mostly cause i was watching the american dubs.....but i like shippuuden cause they were more mature...and it was a little more serious as far as fighting n what not....there are stronger enemies....akatsuki mainly...

[Elikc]

Is that the reason she's "ex"? ^_^

hahahah nah, I wish it was that simple. LONG story which I wont get into but its one of those things I still talk to, and aprpeciate her for til this day is that she got me into one of my favorite passions in lif^ ^ THANK YOU xxxxx FOR GETTING ME INTO NARUTO AND I STILL LOVE YOU.... somewhat

[Tsukune Aono]

Last 2 years or so, my classmates we're watching Naruto and I was wondering "what's good about that show" and all. Of course, I didn't bothered to watch it until the next year. Which about.. when the shippuden episode will start. So I said to myself "I'd give it a try" so yeah, I watched it and guess what, I like it. So yeah, I've started watching Naruto and reading the manga aswell.

[paK0]

the hype itself

i was in another forum which hasnt to da anything with anime, and a lot members were so worked up about naruto and stuff, so i decided to watch it and i kinda liked it =)

[RappingTomato]

It all started with Shonen Jump when I saw the first Naruto manga chapter. Thought it was pretty stupid at the time then I went to anime streaming sites such as Anime6 and what used to be the old TvLinks and after watching all of the currently released anime seris I began to watch the manga.

[tke_489]

I was actually at Denny's and was watching a movie or something on my computer and i went to the bathroom and waled by this guy watching naruto AMV's and was like OMG thats tight what the hell is that? So i went home and downloaded the first like 10 eps and laughed so hard my sides hurt and then i was hooked, then i started reading the manga sarting with shippuuden and now wish i would have never walked by his comp that fateful day

[Vizard-Bankai]

My little brother was watching it first :)

[ThirteenYearOldKid]

This girl i was online dating :P

[Inore Santateresa]

My older bro and my own experiences

[Celiaties]

My friends got me into it. They were really into Naruto and they talked about all the time. Eventually, I had to see for myself what all the fuss was about. I ended up seeing the entire anime in one week, I was hooked . . . :ninja:

[Mithrandir]

My friends got me into it. They were really into Naruto and they talked about all the time. Eventually, I had to see for myself what all the fuss was about. I ended up seeing the entire anime in one week, I was hooked . . . :ninja:

Same for me, some of my friends were constantly talking about it, so I got it and had myself a good old fashioned Naruto marathon. Sigh, it was so nice to just be able to watch episode after episode, the waiting sucks.

[Rollingstar]

I guess you can say my dad got me into it... o.O

back in 2002, he got home from work and he brought back a shonen jump magazine.. I fell in love with it automatically.. mostly because it was hilarious.. but I kind of forgot about it for a few years, then out of nowhere all these kids started talking about it..

[evil_mist]

my friend and his nutty ways

[Green Bean]

Nobody I was really into ninja's at the time.

[Hazey101]

Cartoonnetwork did it. O.O

[uchiha-clan]

my sis ex-boyfriend. his a huge naruto fan, he was downloading the episodes, so i was like o wht the hell. i started watching the episodes and fell in love with it. but i didn't watch the whole thing until months later and catched up to the manga in 2 weeks. o.o

[LordHartel]

I had a buddy who had the tankonban or volumes of Naruto so i borrowed volume one and was hooked, ended up lookign to dattebayo for episodes and got hooked in there as well.

[ichirukia]

my bro and cousin watched naruto..they were really in to it like I was for bleach..still prefer bleach but I've started naruto a few weeks ago and now watch 150 epi cos super hooked like I was for bleach! Love gaara and Tsunade..and neji!

[arech186]

Everyone I know was obsessed with Naruto plus I read it in Shonen Jump along with Bleach so I watched it and it was pretty good. :P

[vitopimpin]

i think it was about a year ago and one of my friend got me into bleach. then cartoon network was running like 2 or 3 day marathon of naruto. and another friend brought over a pack of cds, and in there i saw naruto dvd like the first few eps. then i put it in and watched it. there was like 3-4 people at my house and we all just sat there like retards watching naruto at 2am

[Paragon]

What made you fall in love with the show Naruto.

I had just finished watching Fulll Metal Alchemist and needed a new anime to watch, so by random selection i started off watching Bleach and Naruto on the same day, watched about three episodes of Bleach and three of Naruto. I got hooked on Bleach first and then started watching those in dubs, the dubs ran out in like Episode 50 or so, then i jumped back to Naruto and watched those in dubs, they too eventually ran out but because i was hooked on both animes i juist jumped to the subs and have stuck with subs since then as well.

Started reading the manga of Naruto about a month ago.

[FlameHazel]

Well...It was basically the obsession 5 of my classmates showed about it. I was wathing other animes back then , thinking that Naruto was just another stupid Shonen....but it turned out great ^^

The Online Anime community helped as well.

So I guess It was both ;D

[RannaBebop]

my nephew was watching it one day and i saw kakashi :worried:

[Yellow_Flash6]

I remeber seeing it on t.v. while i was channel surfing then i saw Naruto, i was like this looks cool, i ended up loving it, even though it was only like 10 minutes worth of the show, but it had kakashi in it. now im glad it turned out great, way better then i thought at first.

[huey06]

my friends watched it and they were like hey watch this. so i did and then i liked it so my friend got his dvds of it and i watched all the episodes (yes even the crappy filler). then they got me hooked on bleach after that. once i got caught up in all the anime i started reading the manga cause i wanted to know more of the story. and now here i am.

[djray]

saw the hidden mist bridge arc on cartoon network a couple years ago then there was a comment on youtube that said if you like naruto youll like bleach

[Tachikaze]

accidently downloaded 150 episodes of it >.< decided to watch it and thought it was great

[ShadowKaze]

My cousin was reading shonen jump for as long as I can remember mayber 5-6 years ago. He read them for Naruto and Shaman King and I read them for Dragon Ball Z. He recommended Naruto to me and I fell in love with it.

[NAM1011]

My friend was watching the anime. I saw one episode and got hooked. Also, I could relate to Naruto in alot of ways so I sort of made a connection with the character. Its my fav. manga now.

[fakeobsession]

My friend.He was obsessed with it.I have heard it from others too but I used to underestimate it at first.
But my friend insisted to watch it....& then I loved it.

[blunt_smoker_420]

Just saw it on tv and loved it.

[kades]

I saw it on tv then I bought the manga.

[Kukaku_Yamada]

Well, at first I saw it in a shonen jump but didn't know what it was.
Then it came on toonami. And I started watching it. :D

[darkp]

Well I found it thanks to one of my bad ass friend. He said naruto is better than bleach . Sadly I cant argue about that statement anymore.

[Spectre]

I was watching T.V. And out of boredom, i regretfully watched Naruto. But then it turned out to be good. And later from good to awesome!!

[shadowhitman07]

I was chillin ova at a friends house and he introduced me to it. I found it a bit wierd at first but once u watch the first episode....you always wanna see wat happens next....

[djray]

i saw a marathon on cartoon network like 4 yrs ago and liked it then went to youtube and watched all the episodes

[Korbenik]

Just happened to see it on TV watched it and fell in love =D

[temari]

I played the game first (Naruto : Ultimate Ninja - PS2) without knowing that the anime does exist (yeah i know....) but i did know that the manga does existe
So, i loved the game and one of my friends told me about the anime so i decided to start watching it (and i'm glad i did)

[Miyazaki-Hizashi]

i just saw it on TV when it came out at my place and from there on i watched every single episode even fillers.

[B_K_E]

I remember the first episode I watched was when Kakashi was first assigned with Team 7. I just found the humor in the show and fell in love with it, then went on from that to Shippuden on Youtube, then onto the manga to get even further lol.

[Matie]

Meh, I was at my friend's house and she asked me if I liked animé. So I said "what, like sailor moon?" and she said "eh, just read this" and she threw the first Naruto-pocket book at me. I started to read it and I thought it was AMAZING. So when I got home, I started to watch the animé and I thought it was pretty cool! ^_______^

[notorious UZIMAKI]

oh man, i remember a friend told me about it a few years ago. before that my anime had always been like fist of the north star, ninja scroll, akira movie types. i watched the first episode on veoh and was hooked. probably watched 30 episodes over the next 2-3 days. survived the filler and moved onto the manga. crazy.

[Skye]

lol, i found it when i was really bored and watching telly.. i went on jetix (to see if totally spies was on XP) and naruto was there!!! even if it was english dub it looked pretty badass, so i just started watching it from there ^___^

[GeniusBob]

The character designs were unique, and I liked that about it. It's the only reason I started watching it, though. Everything else is pretty shonen standard.

But as said, the art is quite good.

[Vergil]

It was on TV but I didnt like it at first but then I was searching for some song on Youtube and there was an AMV with this song about Sasuke vs Naruto. So I watched first couple of episodes and during Chunin Exam I thought it was great and watched till filler episodes.

Then I watched Bleach SS arc and understood that Bleach was better continued it on and then started shippuuden.

[MajorSpoils]

I was actually the one who got all my friends into it. I'm not entirely sure how I got into it. Maybe a combination of seeing it online and on TV.

[TW501]

I first began watching a few episodes just out of curiosity after hearing a lot about it. At first, I thought it was pretty stupid, but over time as I was exposed to more of it I began to like it much better. After I started reading the manga, I really started loving it.

[Rosh]

My mates forced me to watch it at first.

[Yadomaru]

- Boredom
- Huge disappointment in the quality of recent Bleach chapters
- I heard a lot about Part II/Shippuden.

So I marathoned all 446 Chapters of the Part II manga. In a week. And I loved it. I may pick up the Shippuden anime once the current filler arc ends.

[nuttychemist]

several members of my family are huge naruto fans... (my oldest & youngest sisters, and my niece) It was my youngest sister who talked me into reading Naruto... but it was the quality of the story that made me fall in love with Naruto.

[Raidori]

I read a chapter of it and one piece in a shounen jump issue I got in the 5th grade.

[GeniusBob]

I read it for the art style, which I liked.

Began to hate it a few weeks later, the story was meh.

[madden89]

i first read it on a local comic magazine a few years ago. didn't really impressed me at that time but a friend of mine always bought the mag and bring it along to school. so, out of boredom i just read it and actually liked it.

[KingtheKing]

One of my friends got me into Anime and naruto was the first...I was saying it was total trash after watching one episode at his place...then I came home and watched another episode while complaining about how bad the show was...after the 5th time of watching it I stareted to accept the fact tha I like the show O_O

[RsR]

A guy by the name of Christoper ________ . He was into video games and so was I. It was around the time when Devil May Cry 2 came out. I had the game and he wanted to borrow it. I didn't hesitate to let him have it...0_O . Upon arriving at room to deliver the game he had on an anime that I have never seen before. I asked him "what is that". fast forward to four days later; I just completed watching 150 episodes.

That guy that wanted to borrow a video game got me into Naruto.

[fifenfk]

It was a very good friend of mine usually when we have our bleach related talks about this weeks manga and anime he suggested i give it a try and that was almost 2 years ago so just I started watching naruto about 2 weeks ago and thus far i am impressed that it has held my interest and not to mention attention until episode 95 i started reading the manga just to see what it is about but didnt push much further than the Zabusa arc and hey 96 episodes later i'm looking forward to see how things turn out.

[zeocloud]

Before when I heard the name naruto was was annoyed because every site I went to had something with naruto at the side. Then one of my friend kept bugging me so I sat down and watched it and liked it since then.

[Linda]

I forced myself to watch the first 10 episodes because it was so damn popular. Then it took me two weeks to catch up the entire (manga) story until I caught up with the latest chapter. At the moment I'm trying my best to convince a friend to start watching/reading lol

[666]

The chunin exam arc.

[bigpipe]

Older Doctor Who episode.
That was the last TV show I watched, which that is on about every Saturday. ¦¦ Like Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds ¦¦

[ismey]

my friends were all manga/anime mad at a time when the only anime i knew was DBZ.....and overtime started making me get more into manga and anime which all eventually lead to naruto

[Rangiku]

My brother had told me to come and watch the fight between Kakashi and Orochimaru in the Chunnin exam part. I then began reading the manga after.

[Avix]

I never fell in love with it, but it has it's good moments. I do enjoy the in depth descriptions of techniques and such. I've just recently been disappointed with some of the current happenings in the manga... That is all I will say for now...:suspicious:

[Sony]

My friend gave me the first episodes he had and i watched them during the holidays two years ago, ever since then i was hooked really

[NewBlackCity]

Well i kept tellin everybody that Bleech is the best Anime Eva and they kept sayin Naruto..,
so i gave it a chance.., its ok but i still think bleech is better.

Naruto vs Itchigo hmmmm....

[samir12]

^Same here, then i found out about the manga, read it and fell in love with it even more.

[Flamzeron]

I just heard a lot of positivity about the series from people. My friends showed me some clips as well, though.

[Yadomaru]

Sheer boredom and the fact that Bleach and Air Gear were both made of SUCK at the time.

[Kariya01]

Was looking for something new to watch and a couple of friends suggested it... Been watching/reading ever since.

[BlackFAG]

it showed up on tv one day and i just started watching.

[Kuhn]

I looked into it because I saw pictures for it almost everywhere online. I finally gave in and looked into it. I decided to watch a random episode, but I think the most current episode was during the Mizuki escape filler bit.

The episode I watched was one from the Naruto vs. Sasuke fight. I thought it was pretty cool and kept watching that fight and then went back to the beginning (fell in love with Iruka only to find out he's never in it lol!). That kept me preoccupied for awhile during the massive filler towards the end of the first Naruto series.

I started reading the manga around the time Sai first appeared for no real reason - just felt that I should probably read the manga too.

[tequilla_boom]

A friend gave me some naruto eps to watch,he said it was "awesome".So i took the risk and it started from there.i eventually got hooked.

[nczhivago]

seen on tv and fell in love

[Momo~Chan]

My ex best friend got me hooked xD

[sakura487]

the anime that first came on, on cartoon network about 4 or 5 yrs. ago i saw one episode and instantly fell in love with it, now i watch shippuden and read the manga Naruto has always been a big part of my life and now its gotten even bigger, i love Naruto and all its characters.....maybe not ALL because Orochimaru is still a jacka**!

[jeuxaijin]

hm, it's hard to remember cause it was so long ago. but i think fma finished and naruto took its place, i'd heard it was dbzesque so i gave it a go and got hooked. bleach started up in the next timeslot and i watched the first ep but totes didn't dig it. ha.

[Shinobi_Sosp]

With some friends, we bought the first mangas 4 years ago. I immediately fell in love with it, and now I own all the volumes up to 43. I just watched the anime 1 year after.

[d2sharp]

It had nothing to do with what was shown on tv, The dubbed version sucked and still sucks, it was me realizing how great the sub version was, oh and realising that itachi is the most badass ninja who ever lived.

[Dumbledore]

^ Hardly at all... Itachi is overrated.

My friend watched Naruto from beginning to end while staying at my house, and also watched a marathon on tv of the dub version on cartoon network. well I happened to see the epsiode where he learns the basics for rasengan, and yeah that is how it went down.

[evanescent]

This is not the thread to discuss whether Itachi is overrated or not. If it was, I'd kick yo ass for saying that, but I'm feeling like following the rules today. So I won't.

Anyways, my friends get me into Naruto. I was a bit hesitant to read it, since, yanno, I didn't want to become a total Narutard like them, but I caved. And am quite glad I did. My friends know me too well. Britty even predicted what character I would like best at first, and who I'd move on to once they were introduced. :odd: It was kinda scary. XP

[xTHHxAimiForevr]

I just started reading it because I thought Hinata was hot. I didn't even care to know what it was about at the time because I was so into Bleach. I was just like; oh hot blind girl wonder what thats from.

[Bushido Brown]

what made me fall in love with Naruto is not an opinion up there but ill still say why. When i first saw naruto i disliked it and stop watching. Cartoon Network took it off the air, then brought it back. I said to myself ill give it a try, and on the second try i liked it, maybe the first time there was no action and the second time there was.

What made me fall in love with the show was the Jutsus and the handsigns. I though that was cool and oringal. Then came the manga. I didnt even know manga existed. I seen a dbz manga about 4 years before i know what manga truely was, but just thought it was a dbz comic. I was chatting with a girl who's name i got off a website and she told me about Naruto and how now there all grown up and stuff. I was so excited that i googled it and there it was. Then they gave me a link to a site where i could read Naruto, luckly by that time i knew how to read manga, but thats a different story

[jeuxaijin]

itachi is the most badass ninja who ever lived.

yesh! i had a pimping itachi wallpaper on my work pc until my boss told me to lose it because it was too pink :mad: it was apricot dammit.


^ bushibrown, i get what you say about 2nd time around. i get that alot w/ anime & manga, like i need to be in the right headspace to get into it.

[xTHHxAimiForevr]

Didn't she just get done talkin' about gettin' off topic?

[Count Alucard]

On youtube through all of those Naruto music vidoes.

[aastik01]

my friend showed me once.
and after that i became crazy to watch it!

[reiatsudown]

Those climactic scenes dealing with the deaths of zabuza and that kid whose name I forgot. The episode where zabuza rages against the mob and then has a last goodbye in the snowfall and sunlight... Emotionally manipulative as fuck, but it got me. It got me.

I've been into the show ever since. In the anime zabuza's final episode is still one of my favorites of the whole series.

[Renji.dk]

some one told me about naruto ones and i started to watch it and ya its great :)

[madis407]

when l swo it on tv

[gongaga]

when I first got into anime a lot people online were talking about Naruto so I decided to check it out.

[xTHHxAimiForevr]

When I saw the anime I hated it. Then I thought back to how I hated the Bleach anime and liked the manga. So I decided to read the Naruto manga and now Ima fan.

[...that came out weird]

[DEADPOOL]

Well my cousin turned it on and I saw the episodes of Jiraiya training Naruto and the Sannin battle, so Jiraiya/the Sannin got me hooked.

[kyoot_matsum0t0]

My cousin came back from Korea and brought a dubbed version with. But only 13eps. At first I thought it sucked, because all dubbs phaiL. Then my brother got us adsl and I started searching for subbed versions. Thats when I found Dattebayo and started DL-ing the subbed ones. I was hooked ever since!!!

[sakura487]

nothing really i was just flipping through channels looking for something to watch and i saw Naruto and instantly fell in love and have ever since, i've been in love with Naruto since i was 12 YEA!!!!!

[Crimson Shinigami]

I first saw the previews on cartoonnetwork, and when I saw the show for the first time I became hooked on it.

[斬月]

one summer i had nothing to do so i watched naruto online. it was time well spent

[Nocturne' Ichigo]

My friends got me into it...my first episodes i watched were the 80 episodes of filler before the shippuuden arc, which was just awful but re-watched the older ones and shippuuden and enjoyed it

[Dattebayo-chan]

I had a couple of friends who loved Naruto and ran around doing hand seals all the time. Eventually, I had to see what the fuss was about. I watched the first arc and liked it. I continued one day when I was bored and got hooked.

[benassi-x]

My cousins were watching Shippuden, and I watched one episode too.Immediately got hooked.

[Uncompressed]

A girl. That's why I started with Naruto, Bleach, and all the other anime/manga I've watched/read, with the exception of DBZ.

:O

[tsyukomi]

My cousin...... saw episode 34 and loved it.....yup

[Uncompressed]

Oh, I still can't force myself to watch it though; it's manga only for me.

[tsyukomi]

lol.....yea the manga is good too

[Revenge]

Saw it on T.V,they were showing naruto vs.neji. From that day I decide to watch the show and read the Manga.

[tsyukomi]

epic battle Naruto vs. Neji

[Revenge]

Yep naruto show him who's the boss when it come for fate xd

[tsyukomi]

he sure does

[Revenge]

think is byakugan can see everything lmao

[tsyukomi]

that's too bad because i think when he saw the fox in Naruto he wet his pants LOL

[Revenge]

lmao good fight, sasuke is the only one left to wet on his pants

[tsyukomi]

well i would say some thing but i could be a spoil so i will not, however i will say sasuke's got a long way to go...

[Natsume]

my friend got me itto naruto also bleach

[Hisagi_Chan]

I blame my sister for the Naruto love. I didn't watch it until she pestered me to watch it. I promised her i'd watch it and poof i am now a fan.

[1kuranai1]

My brother got me started..I was watching it on cartoon network dubbed and he came over and was like "WTF are u doing NEVER watch anime this way" He showed me where to find it on the net and it has been true love ever since. Thanks little bro =)

[Kenpachi Bankai08]

originally watched a shitty dub version, but then started watching and liked it.

[gaga]

greg770 got me into naruto exactly one year ago ^^

[1kuranai1]

greg770 got me into naruto exactly one year ago ^^

Oooo lost your anime virginity one year ago congrats lol...

[gaga]

who said that i started watching anime last year? :weird:

i said greg got me to watch naruto, didn't say he got me to watch anime.. i met him cause i was on a anime forum before that.. don't jump to conclusions on your own ^^

[1kuranai1]

I wasn't jumping I meant to type naruto not anime