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So I've been trying to make one of my friends get into anime. My cousin and I
talk about the Naruto franchise and other animes a lot, so my friends wonders
a bit whats the big deal.

I would like to recommend Naruto to her, but she would want me to summarize it
for her to see if it sounds interesting or not. The problem is that I don't
know how to summarize it. Yes, I can summarize it, but I might get _to_ deep
into the story that I might give out some **BIG** spoilers.

Examples:

> Naruto has a demon inside him (which my friend is going to find out either
> way). Sasuke leaving the leaf village to kill his older brother. Sasuke has
> an older brother. Kakashi, Neji, Jiraiya, Asuma, Orochimaru, Deidara, Gaara,
> etc. die in Naruto Shippuden. Asuma and Kurenai have a kid. There's a war.
> Tobi being Obito all along. Who Obito is. Kakashi coming back from his death
> after Pain destroyed the Konoha (Leaf Village). Konoha getting destroyed by
> Pain. Who Pain is. Stuff like that.

So my question is how to summarize the whole Naruto franchise to make it sound
interesting and not give a lot of spoilers out.


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How to summarise the whole Naruto franchise without giving a lot of spoilers?


Naruto is **massive.** There are 220 episodes in the original broadcast
franchise and over **450** episodes in _Shippuden_.

Naruto is **in-depth.** Even with the filler episodes, there are niches and
nuances about the story which take an incredible amount of time to explain.

Naruto has **a lot of things to like** and **a lot of things to hate**. There
are always going to be some parts of the anime that some people enjoy more
than others.

So, the best way to see if your cousin likes it? Let her watch Season 1.
That's enough time for them to get acquainted with the media and let her
experience what's going on.

If they _really_ don't want to go through all of that waiting, then you can
show them two of the anime's openings - GO!!! and Seishun Kyousoukyoku
(ironically both of these were sequential openings for seasons 4 and 5), which
do a decent enough job to convey both the action, entertainment, and drama
aspects of the series overall.


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Naruto is a coming of age story following the main character learning to be a
ninja, become stronger, and make friends along the way. Naruto grows up
ostracized and accused of being a monster, the nine-tailed fox that devastated
their village, Konoha, when he was born. At first the village trouble-maker,
Naruto learns to be strong, makes friends, loses friends, and grows up quickly
to protect everything he cares about.


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If I wanted to summarize Naruto, I would have to summarize the ideas. You
don't want to give out specifics like who dies, any identity reveals, or for
that matter just about anything revealed in Shippuden.

"Naruto is a boy who, on the day he was born, coincidentally had a giant demon
fox spirit attack his village. Using a special kind of energy called chakra, a
powerful individual sealed this demon fox inside of Naruto to protect the
village. Naruto's parents however die in this attack, and he resorts to
troublemaking for attention, as well as aspires to become the Hokage, the
leader of the village, for people to acknowledge him. To do so, he must become
a great ninja, someone who uses their chakra to perform special techniques,
such as manipulating the elements to spit fireballs, raise walls of rock, blow
gusts of wind that can slice through trees, manipulate the body, or create
illusions and trick the opponent. The story of Naruto is about how he grows
from a 12 year old low class weak ninja with his friends/classmates and their
teachers, including his training to become stronger, personal struggles as
well as the ones with the other villages, and fights with strong opponents. It
also has his internal conflict with the demon inside of him as well as his
attempts to be acknowledged by people as he grows in strength. It constantly
has you wondering how things are going to turn out as strategy in combat is
critical as they often fight enemies more powerful than they are, and must
come up with the strategy to get ahead. Most people find themselves rooting
for Naruto as they watch him do what seems impossible as due to his life as an
orphan, as well has his overall complete lack of talent in all but a few
specific things, has made him vow to NEVER give up, ever, and allows him to
see the truth behind his opponents. Death is there for all sides, but it is
not always the only solution because of Naruto."

The idea of that kind of summary is to bring up every important idea without
saying what actually happens. It's important to mention death in some way, as
well as his lack of talent and how he is still able to become strong, but that
his power is not his ultimate strength, in Naruto, the world is a bad place,
full of wrong, and he is trying to change that in a way no one else ever
could.

If it is interesting enough to consider watching a few episodes, then,
unfortunately, the best summary of the entire series up until the war is the
entire ordeal with Zabuza, the first real opponent they fight. It's probably
quite a few episodes in, as it has been a long time since I was back there,
but it really summarizes everything until the war in Shippuden. If they liked
the Zabuza arc, they will most likely like everything up to at least the war,
where things change a lot, because it's a war, and also really far into the
series.


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