A fairly standard hot-blooded anime protagonist, he starts out as an outcast loser, and grows to be one of the most powerful ninja in the world. He eventually realizes his dream of becoming Hokage, and passes the protagonist torch on to his son Boruto. As the main character, Naruto probably has the most character designs out of everyone. There's a lot of contention over where his design peaked, but we think it's when he reaches Hokage.
He's grown out of his baby face, and he's finally adopted the Hokage cloak, following in his father's footsteps. He's also stopped wearing a jumpsuit, so that's a big plus. Sakura Haruno is a controversial character. Usually, at the center of the shipping wars surrounding Naruto , she made a lot of people mad over the course of the show. She usually got hit with the common criticism of uselessness, which was honestly pretty fair before the time skip. Still, she grew up and became a highly talented ninja.
Part of Sakura's problem came from her generally weak character design. Her initial design wasn't great, then it took an upturn for Shippuden , then Boruto rolled around and she just went off the deep end. The questionable midriff hole, the butt-cape, the capri pants, it's all just a mess. Kiba Inuzuka is another of the Konoha 11, on a team with Shino and Hinata. Kiba was definitely one of the more memorable rookie ninja, thanks to having an adorable puppy as a partner.
Like the rest of his cohort, he grew to be a talented ninja, although he would chafe under being continually in Naruto and Sasuke's shadow. His design started off with a fur coat and a mesh shirt, then evolved into some sort of motorcycle leathers look. Kiba reached his peak, though, in The Last. He returned to his more classic look with the fur coat, although he added a flak jacket underneath, and got some great wavy hair.
Kankuro is a Hidden Sand ninja, and brother to Gaara. Like Gaara, he started out as an antagonist, but evolved into a trusted ally. He proved a talented ninja in Shippuden , and became second-in-command to Gaara's Kazekage. His unique puppetry skills set him apart from most other ninja. Now, Kankuro generally has a good design. His facial tattoos are striking, and a bold choice for the character.
Unfortunately, his Boruto design made a fatal error. Before, he wore a hat that came down to his browline. Now he wears a hood that reveals his forehead, and makes him look bald.
Konohamaru Sarutobi is Naruto's junior, and grandson of the Third Hokage. He looks up to Naruto, and often treats him as an older brother and mentor. He started out, much like Naruto, as a hard-headed kid, always making trouble for his elders.
He eventually grew out of it and became a talented ninja in his own right. Like Hanabi, his initial designs weren't particularly interesting, as he was still a kid.
He also grows out of his child design obviously , and adopts a fairly standard Hidden Leaf ninja design. The most important detail is his signature blue scarf, now no longer long and flowing as it was when he was a kid, but still an eye-catching flash of color to set him apart from other ninja.
He was first seen in Shippuden , as the last surviving member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. As a tertiary character, he never received the sort of detailed development the Hidden Leaf ninja did, and wasn't really featured all that heavily in the original series. Chojuro, unfortunately, has never had a great design. The main failing was the weird goggles he wore, particularly the earpieces.
He keeps them through to his tenure as Mizukage. His Boruto design really isn't that far removed from his original look, although the fit is considerably less flattering. Onoki is the Third Tsuchikage, and one of the oldest characters in the show. Despite his advanced age, he remained an immensely powerful ninja well into his elder years.
He was key to the war against Madara Uchiha, and his Particle style proved to be exceedingly useful. In Naruto , he already had a unique design, almost cartoonishly small compared to the rest of the cast. Although he survived through to Boruto , he managed to somehow become even smaller. The real strength of his new design came from shadowing his eyes, giving it much more impact when he chose to reveal them. Kabuto is just about the most irredeemable garbage of a person to exist in the Naruto universe.
He worked first for Orochimaru, then for Madara, performing all sorts of vile experiments for little reason other than to satisfy his curiosity. The worst part of all of it is that after everything, he got away without any punishment and opened an orphanage. In this piece, we have a Nine-tailed Fox, who has transcended both its physical and animal form, becoming a human woman with hair that acts like the nine tendril-like tails that are keeping Naruto captive.
Instead, this artist has imagined an entirely new look for Tenten, the feminist with attitude. Rather than her usual occupation of fighting evil shinobi and rolling her eyes at the antics of her companions, here we can see that she has been overcome by a devilish force.
Alongside Neji and Rock Lee, the trio train with their group leader Might Guy, specializing in aggressive, close-quarters combat. Rock Lee is an especially iconic Naruto character. He's known best for his shiny bowl haircut, prominent lower eyelashes, and thick eyebrows that earn him the nickname "Centipede Brows. This atmospheric piece reimagines Neji and Rock as dark Akatsuki disciples.
Rock has ditched his bowl cut for a shaggier look and it appears that Neji is enchanting his kunai with a form of evil magic. Shikamara is another more obscure Naruto character, but he has become a fan-favorite over time.
Shikamaru is a classic anime staple - he's the lazy genius. Throughout the series, he is depicted as a sleepy layabout, a shinobi who only makes an effort when he really really has to. This is a darker piece for such an amusing character in the show, but the stunning colors and shadows make it too striking not to include.
Poor Hinata seems to be a constant subject of twisted, villainous fan art thanks to her spooky, pale eyes. No villain has caused Naruto and his team of shinobi quite as much grief as the corrupt Orochimaru, a former ninja who is obsessed with immortality. The serpentine antagonist is instantly recognizable by his long, greasy hair, and even longer tongue, which he uses in combat.
This artist has had the idea to combine the two characters into one horrible mutation - and it's incredible. He is seen as a violent and hated ninja who resides in the neighboring Sand village. However, after getting to know Naruto, he begins to idolize and emulate him. This piece brings Gaara back to his villainous roots.
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He is thus able to build meaningful relationships that he lacked in early life; the Sage of Six Paths believes Naruto's kindness is a special gift that allows him to save Kurama from its hatred. Naruto deeply cherishes these bonds and will go to great lengths to protect them, best seen with Sasuke after his defection from Konoha. Naruto's time at the Falls of Truth revealed that a part of him hated the villagers for ostracizing him, only to admire him after he saved them during Pain's Assault.
This allowed Kurama to manipulate Naruto's rage until he confronted it and learned to let it go, becoming greater than what he suffered. Another of Naruto's prominent traits is his desire for acknowledgment; his pranks around the village were for people to notice, or at least scold him.
Therefore, he dreamed of one day becoming Konoha's Hokage, the epitome of acknowledgment and respect from everyone in the village. This life-long philosophy serves as the cornerstone of Naruto's great self-confidence; he believes he can accomplish any goal with enough hard work and perseverance, no matter how big the obstacle is or how long it takes to complete it. This guides him in many aspects of life besides a battle, such as his promise to Sakura of bringing Sasuke back to Konoha.
Over time, his goal to be Hokage grew from a desire for the acknowledgment to a desire to help and protect the people close to him, which Tobi attributed to the Will of Fire.
His belief in hard work and perseverance made him detest people who would use insincere shortcuts to achieve their goals. After the death of his master Jiraiya, talking to his father Minato, and listening to Nagato's tragic story. Naruto grew to understand the cycle of hatred and vowed to break it in order to bring real peace to the world.
To that end, his participation in the Fourth Shinobi World War is not only to protect his friends, but also to bear and erase the world's hatred all by himself. After encountering a reincarnated Itachi Uchiha, however, Naruto realizes that he cannot handle everything alone and that he must allow his friends to support and fight alongside him.
As he does so in the war's climax, his fighting spirit inspires the Allied Shinobi Forces to join him and keep fighting to end the war as well, ultimately becoming an example for many people to admire, follow, and believe in. On his part, Naruto remained largely oblivious to Hinata's feelings for him and even considered her "weird" because of her shyness around him.
In Part II, as Hinata becomes willing to risk her life to protect Naruto, he, in turn, sees her as a strong person despite his speechlessness at her love confession. Naruto did grow to love Hinata subconsciously, but he was never able to consciously realize it because he kept "fighting" for Sakura, which was just another way for him to compete with Sasuke.
In The Last: Naruto the Movie , Naruto finally recognizes the love that Hinata has always had for him, causing him to become more bashful and protective of her, just as she was for him. Realizing that she alone has always had faith in him and that she has always been there for him, he reciprocates her feelings and desires to be with her for the rest of his life.
As an adult, Naruto becomes wiser and more mature, though he retains some of his negligence for honorifics. Although he finally achieves his dream of becoming Hokage, its many tasks not only overwhelm Naruto at times, but often leave him unable to spend time with his family, particularly upsetting his son Boruto. He admits that part of this stems from not having grown up with a father himself, making it difficult for him to know how to interact properly with his own children, mostly with his son.
Nevertheless, Naruto deeply loves his family, as he creates shadow clones to tend to them while he's busy, protects them in times of danger, spends time with them when he can, and expresses pride in his children's successes. He in fact adopts Hiruzen's philosophy that everyone in the village is his family, believing that true relationships are made up of love rather than blood relations.
His refusal to give his son any special treatment due to their blood relationships, along with the insistence that the boy professionally addresses him as "Seventh" or "Hokage" while in the office, is a testament to Naruto's lack of bias and prejudice.
According to Jiraiya, Naruto strongly resembles his father: he has blond, spiky hair and blue eyes, while inheriting the shape of his mother's eyes and face. His trademark characteristic are the three whisker markings on his cheeks. Naruto originally wore green goggles on his forehead, though he discards them upon becoming a genin.
In Part I, Naruto wore an orange and blue jacket with a white collar, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, and a red Uzumaki crest on the back. He also wore orange pants with a shuriken holster on his right knee, blue sandals, and a blue forehead protector, given to him by Iruka after graduating from the Academy. In Part II, Naruto wears a more form-fitting outfit after wearing out his original one while training with Jiraiya, with a T-shirt or mesh armor underneath.
While retaining the swirls and orange pants, the blue pieces of his outfit changes to black: his forehead protector which is currently longer , sandals, and orange jacket, the black color showing more prominence than the blue did originally. During his battle with Pain, Naruto briefly wore a short-sleeved red coat with a black flame pattern around the hem and carried a large scroll on his back. Naruto loses his right arm after the Fourth Shinobi World War, though it is later replaced by a fully maneuverable prosthetic arm made of Hashirama Senju's cells, wrapped completely in bandages.
In The Last: Naruto the Movie, Naruto is years-old and grew taller again, cut his hair short, and wore a black elastic forehead protector. Over his pants and sandals, he wears a black uniform jacket with an orange zipper and buttons on the waist and sleeves, which can be folded up at times. He has a red armband with an Uzumaki crest on his left arm.
Underneath this, he wears an orange sweatshirt with black stripes reverse in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations , black pants, and sandals. He occasionally wears the traditional Hokage headpiece, but has stopped wearing a forehead protector. Naruto has massive reserves of strong chakra, estimated as being at least four times greater than Kakashi's, and described by Karin as "bright and warm.
Naruto's control improved greatly over time: he could transfer his chakra to others, and perform one-handed hand seals. Naruto's powerful life force grants him an extreme longevity, healing power, stamina, and vitality, and this allowed him to survive the extraction of a tailed beast for a while.
These traits are all augmented after he receives a prosthetic forearm made from Hashirama's cells. While naturally a short-range fighter, Naruto wasn't very adept at taijutsu in Part I, as he required unpredictable attacks to surprise combat experts like Kiba Inuzuka and Neji.
He often utilized shadow clones or Kurama's chakra to engage and overwhelm his enemies in combat; with the former, he created techniques such as the Naruto Uzumaki Combo and its stronger versions.
Although these tactics resume in Part II, Naruto becomes more adept at taijutsu due to Jiraiya's training. After his tutelage under Fukasaku, he was capable of fending off a pair of skilled kenjustu users on his own. Two years after the war, Naruto's taijutsu improved to such an extent, that he could defeat dozens of opponents without requiring shadow clones or enhancements. Naruto also learned how to counter Genjutsu from Jiraiya, but had limited skill in using it. Once he had earned the cooperation of Kurama, his tailed beast partner, this would no longer be an issue.
While accessing Kurama's chakra, typically through sheer rage, enhanced Naruto's abilities, the fox's negative influence made Naruto more aggressive and feral. This gave him uncontrolled access to the Version 1 and Version 2 forms, and he would need Kurama's power to be suppressed through various methods to regain control. These drawbacks caused Naruto to rely on his own strength instead of Kurama's until he proved capable of controlling it completely.
In the Academy, the Sexy Technique was the only technique that Naruto could perform successfully, which had no practical use other than to shock his instructors. Naruto could also sense chakra, but only through his enhanced modes.
He could identify chakra signatures from vast distances in Sage Mode, detect negative emotions in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, and empower his sensory abilities to the highest possible level in Six Paths Sage Mode.
This allowed him to sense the invisible shadows of Limbo. In the anime, Jiraiya introduced Naruto to cooperation ninjutsu, where two or more people combine their techniques to create an even more powerful one. The collaboration techniques he performed with other individuals typically utilized his own elemental affinity. Naruto's first trademark technique was the Shadow Clone Technique.
In the Academy, Naruto was unable to perform most of the basic techniques taught, including a basic Clone Technique. However, when Iruka risked his life to save Naruto, he overcame this by performing the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, effectively conquering his inability to create a clone. From that point on, Naruto's skill with the Shadow Clone Technique blossomed to great heights. As a ninja with unusually high chakra reserves, Naruto could use this technique, as well as its advanced version, to create hundreds of shadow clones and retain a decent amount of chakra in each one with relative ease.
He could use them to outnumber or deceive his enemies in combat, maneuver himself in mid-air, transform into weapons, scout an area, or test an opponent's abilities. During his elemental-affinity training in Part II, Naruto learned that the user of the Shadow Clone technique would receive all of the knowledge and experience that the shadow clones had gained once they had dispersed.
This method allowed him to drastically speed up his training, as he could in effect gain years worth of experience in just days.
By the time he became Hokage. Naruto's usage of this technique on mass-scale and prolonged periods allowed him to constantly perform various simultaneous tasks throughout the village daily.
Although he does have a tendency to overexert himself which leaves him exhausted afterward. Naruto's second trademark technique was the Rasengan, a one-handed technique created by his father.
Due to his poor chakra control, Naruto often used a shadow clone to form the spherical shape while he provided the chakra. Over time, Naruto's improved skill allows him to produce larger versions of the Rasengan, perform it faster, and even have his shadow clones make their own Rasengan.
During the Fourth Shinobi World War, he learned to use the Rasengan and its variants without the aid of any shadow clones or transformations, and could even form one in both hands simultaneously. He also increased the size of his standard Rasengan, making it noticeably larger.
Naruto had also shown the ability to release the Rasengan as an energy wave, or as a projectile in the anime. Using senjutsu or Kurama's chakra, Naruto could create more powerful and elaborate variations of the Rasengan; using the latter, he even developed the Super Mini-Tailed Beast Ball, performing it in a similar manner to the Rasengan.
In an instant, the user creates a Rasengan of gigantic proportions. When it impacts, there is a large shock wave unleashed that can send unsuspecting shinobi flying. As with many Rasengan variants, Naruto needs the help of a shadow clone in the Massive Rasengan's formation. By the time he's Hokage, Naruto can perform this technique with one hand and even pass it on to Boruto Uzumaki to use.
This jutsu is so chakra-intense that it was capable of overwhelming Delta 's shinobi-ware's formidable chakra absorption capabilities. After training under Kakashi Hatake and Yamato. Naruto finally applied his Wind Release nature style into his Rasengan. And created a Rasenshurike. Naruto's natural affinity is Wind Release , which he learned from Asuma Sarutobi to flow into his weapons to increase their offensive might.
Using shadow clones, he was able to complete the difficult task of adding his elemental nature to the Rasengan, something his father had not been able to complete before his death. One shadow clone helped form the Rasengan, while the other provided the Wind chakra, which produced the Wind Release: Rasengan and the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.
The latter, when used as a melee attack, inflicts cellular damage on both the enemy and Naruto. Two years after its creation, he became skilled enough to form a Rasenshuriken without any shadow clones and throw it in his base form, a feat which he previously could only accomplish while using Sage Mode or Kurama's chakra, which removed the negative side-effect to himself.
He also created different-sized variations, and could even use two Rasenshuriken simultaneously. During his reign as Hokage, Naruto became able to use his nature transformations with a single hand seal, able to use Earth Release to quickly create a long stretch and strong stone wall. He could make perfect use of the latter to revitalize life-forces, heal whomever he touches, and restore missing organs.
Unlike Jiraiya, he was able to perfectly balance natural energy with his chakra, and enter Sage Mode, symbolized by the orange pigmentation around his eyes. Using Sage Mode made Naruto's techniques stronger, enhanced his physical parameters, and allowed him to utilize the Frog Kata taijutsu style.
Since Fukasaku was unable to fuse with Naruto and gather natural energy for him due to Kurama's interference , Naruto had to employ shadow clones instead to maintain the technique.
Once they disperse, the natural energy they absorb would transfer to the original, allowing him to use Sage Mode a number of times. However, creating more than five shadow clones overall would disrupt the focus of the clones gathering natural energy. The need for this method diminishes over time as Naruto became capable of entering Sage Mode much faster.
Naruto learned how to combine Sage Mode with Kurama's chakra to further enhance his abilities, such that he could resist Nagato's control and shatter Truth-Seeking Balls. In this mode, his eyes become yellow and his pupils take on a cross-like shape — without manifesting the orange pigmentation around his eyes present in Sage Mode.
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