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I recently started watching _Naruto_ (I'm only 51 episodes in), and I was
wondering if I had to watch _Naruto_ before watching _Shippuden_. Ninja-themed
anime isn't really my favorite, but _Shippuden_ really appealed to me for some
reason, and so I started watching _Naruto_ because it seemed natural to watch
before _Shippuden_.

However, I have seen a few of the _Naruto_ movies, and I've seen clips from
_Shippuden_ , and it seems like I could just skip _Naruto_ and watch
_Shippuden_ because of the many flashbacks that they use.

I might just watch _Naruto_ before _Shippuden_ anyway, but I was just curious.
Do I have to watch _Naruto_ before _Naruto Shippuden_?


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Do I have to watch Naruto before Naruto Shippuden?


You don't really have to watch the first part of Naruto before the Shippuden
part, but I strongly recommend you to watch it.

There are several reasons of why you should watch the first part (or at least
read the manga):

**\- Character development:**

You will start by following the characters since their first days in the
academy, and you will start to watch them grow every episode, you will know
their life, their personalities, love some, and hate some, you will understand
them and how they feel toward each other, and witness every single piece of
event that made them arrive to what they are in the Shipudden part.

**\- Grow in strength:**

Starting by the first Naruto part will make you start by seeing the beginners
ninja techniques, you will start by seeing that creating a clone is a huge
achievement ! And after long episodes and long days of training/fighting, you
will start to see the development of each ones techniques and feel the value
of it even if it's still small, and that's the most important part in every
anime: character development, precisely for this part: the growth in strength
(physical and mental). By starting with Shippuden you will start already by
large techniques, strong characters, big fights.. and that's not that cool as
a start.

**\- The Story:**

Of course if you skip a part of the anime, you will skip a part of the story,
precisely the childhood of the famous characters (and it was the fun part of
the story, since Shippuden is a part of war).

There are several other points that you can miss by skipping the first part,
but as I said first, it's not that you can't watch Shippuden directly, it's
that it's better for you to grow with the characters since their first days.

**There are many people who wish to lose their Naruto-memory so they can watch
it again, you still didn't watch it ! don't waste this chance : )**


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