Friday, March 5, 2010
5:26 PM
Naruto
This is a pretty long Manga, talking basically about 2 friends, Naruto and Sasuke. This Manga is set in a ninja village in the ancient Japan, when there is no technology and the people depended heavily on ninjas and their ninjitsu. Naruto is the child of the hokage( Most powerful ninja and leader) of the hidden village of leaf( Konoha). He sealed a nine tails beast inside Naruto's body when he was still a baby and died because of the sealing ninjutsu. Sasuke is the only survival from an elite clan, Uchiha, that was eliminated by his brother in a night. Due to these reasons, Naruto was discriminated by the whole village and Sasuke was filled with the thoughts of revenge. As the story goes on, Naruto grew more and more attached to the village, while on the other hand, Sasuke severed ties with the village and wanted to destroy it because of revenge.
This manga, due to its length, has got a lot of values and things that we can learn from. The most obvious thing here is friendship. This manga is basically talking about friendship throughout the whole manga. Friendship and teamwork appeared in the biggest and smallest detail of the manga. Friendship is observed through the ninjas of Konoha when they trusted one another by leaving them to fight the enemies because their teammates requested for it. Friends have complete trust over one another and in this case, it is not abandoning the teammate to make he fight with the opponents and buying time for the rest of the team to escape, but rather, completely trusting the teammate to defeat the opponent and catching up with the team afterwards. Team work can also be seen when the ninjas fight each other. In many instances, Naruto encountered enemies much stronger than himself, but because he has got teammates, he worked together with them and eventually defeated the enemies. There are also many lessons learnt but I do not have the time to list them down one by one so you can analysis the manga yourself.
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