Sasuke Uchiha ia a part of Team 7, the same team as Naruto. His character was created as an ‘archetypical rival’ for Naruto’s character and was created to be a ‘cool genius.’

Sasuke’s past holds the secret to understanding his character fully. Sasuke had a rather unhappy childhood which was further scarred by catastrophe.

Sasuke’s older brother Itachi was the acknowledged prodigy of the family. Sasuke kept struggling throughout his entire childhood to match his brother’s reputation, but remained unsuccessful. As Itachi grew older, he began straying further away from the family hold until he was completely gone.

In this time, Sasuke’s attempt at gaining his family’s acceptance showed some great results. However, his happiness was short-lived. One day he finds that his entire clan has been gruesomely by his very own brother. To further insult his ego, his brother does not even consider Sasuke worth killing.

The desire to avenge himself and kill his brother is what shapes Sasuke’s character through the entire series.

Naruto Uzumaki is the primary character and protagonist of the series. The character of Naruto was heavily influenced by Son Goku of Dragon Ball. He is characterized by a straightforward attitude and a large dose of mischief.

Naruto’s father has trapped the nine-tail demon fox inside Naruto in an attempt to save their village from it. However, Naruto faces ostracism from the villagers because of their fear of the non-tail demon fox within him. The demon which is trapped inside him gives Naruto supernatural powers, but there is always the fear that the demon fox may overpower Naruto and free himself from inside his body.

In the series, Naruto takes it upon himself to win the respect of the villagers and his dearest ambition is to be the Hakoge, or the acknowledged leader of their village, Konohagakure. Naruto becomes part of a group of Ninjas to accomplish this and we begin a series of adventures as this group of ninjas defies its adversaries.

The widely popular Naruto Manga is essentially a story of groups of ninjas with supernatural powers who come from different countries and who combat each other for power. The story takes place in a fictional universe, although we are treated to a visage of minutely detailed Japanese culture. The plot of this series involves the exploits of the titular character Naruto Uzumaki and his group of ninjas. Naruto’s aim is to become the Hokage, or the acknowledged leader of his village Konohagakure. In his quest to be accepted as aleader, he fights a number of different adversaries including Orochimaru, a powerful ninja gone bad, and ninjas from Akatsuki, a criminal organization.

The storyline of Naruto Manga is divided into two parts, which are simply called Part I and Part II, and they consist of continuing chapters. Part II begins about two and a half years after the end of Part I.

Naruto Managa was created by Masashi Kishimoto. He wanted to create a triumvirate of characters to be the protagonists for this series. He also wanted to make his characters as unique as possible in the world of manga. He looked upon all major manga characters for influences and came up with three top characters: Narito Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Hanuro.

Kishimoto admits that the biggest influence on the character was Son Goku, the protagonist of Dragon Ball, the series for which Kishimoto had worked as an apprentice. He also wanted to create a character to rival the character of Naruto, and he wanted this character to be a ‘cool genius’ as well. That is how the character of Sasuke came to be created. Kishimoto admits to having difficulties in creating the primary heroine of the series until he finally created Sakura whom he characterized with energy and high spirits.

Naruto was created by Masashi Kishimoto who has had a long history and career with animation. In fact, he was the apprentice of Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragonball Z. Not unlike Dragonball Z, Masashi Kishimoto has populated with memorable characters that are involved in larger than life scenarios. The Japan shown in this animated series is filled with such minute details that make watching it a visual and cultural treat. This is a huge achievement considering the series is set in an entirely fictional world. The characters in the series are involved with solving mythical or supernatural crisis, and there are large numbers of exciting action-packed fight sequences interspersed with the story.

Naruto made its debut in 1999 in the pages of ‘Shonen Jump.’ This was the most popular shonen manga magazine of the time that has still retained its position. Since its debut, Naruto Manga became a huge favorite among fans across the world.

Here’s the latest news on the new Naruto chapter which should be out very soon:

Spoiler Translation (unconfirmed):

Deva Realm: “Myobokuzan…the holy land of the toads?”

Deva Realm: “Call back the Nine Tails Jinchuuriki this is an order from God.”

Tsunade: “I already told you we will fight you with everything we have.”

Tsunade: “Even if it cost us our lives.”

Tsunade charges a huge amount of chakra to her legs and feet preparing to dash at Pain. Next Page is of Shizune and Human Realm

Ino(Desperately cries): “You have what you want now let her go.”

Human Realm: “None can live after going against the laws of God.”

Shizune’s soul is ripped out before the konoha shinobi can react and she falls on the ground persumably dead. Next Page is back to Deva Realm and Tsunade. Tsunade almost reachs Pain with her attack but stops short of him.

Anbu/Tsunade: “!!!”

Pain’s body lets out a divine light that causes the ground to shake and blinds Tsunade and the Anbu

Anbu 1: “What is this terrible chakra.”

Anbu 2: “Is he really a god?!”

Tsunade: “Hold your ground no one can truely be a god.”

The Anbu Begin backing away despite this. Next Page of Konan and Shino and his dad. Shino and his dad are the only two left the other were sufficated by Konan’s paper. The Divine Chakra of Pain reaches the area they are fighting and the bugs begin to fly away

Shino: “This chakra it has the overwhelming feeling of death.”

Shino’s Dad: “Even the bugs flee whats happening over there.”

Konan: “Pain you….”

Konan(desperatly): “Nagato if you do this you will only shorten your life.”

Konan thinking: “Its the same as that time…”

Small three panel flashback of Pain being enraged by Madara at their first meeting in the manga and Konan saying “Pain you…” Next Page Fusaku and Naruto

Naruto: “I’m almost there just a little bit more time and I should be able to do it.”

A Tadpole and Shima(ma toad) Comes Rushing up

Tadpole: “Elder Frog come quickly Kousuke’s name has disappeared from the list on the frog scroll.”

Fusaku: “If thats true then somthing terrible must be happening back there.”

Shima: “Quickly we have to Summon the Eldest Sage only he can take naruto back in time.”

Fusaku and Shima form handseals. The Next two Pages have very little dialog they are just off the 5 pain bodies deactivating. First Human realm is shown deactivating right before he stabs Inoichi with the black spear, then Animal Realm before the dog summon crushes Ibiki and the Anbu, then Hungry Ghost who has his hand on Kiba’s mom’s throat, and finally Hell Realm who has gotten back up and is about to stab Konohamaru and Ebisu from behinde. Next Page is Deva Realm

Deva Realm: “Chou Shinra Tensi”

Huge explosion of gravity sweeps through the streets of Konoha destroying everything in its path. A bunch of slugs cover the building sakura is in and saves sakura and the wounded. Next page Sakura walks outside the building and sees dozens of dead konoha villagers and basically a post-apocalyptic konoha

Sakura(Crying): “Where ever you are naruto….”

Sakura(Crying): “I beg of you…Save us”

Final Page is birds eye view of the village completely destroyed and smoke rising from it. Next time: “A hero’s sad return”

This week actually revealed a lot of secrets finally! We found out where Pein’s conusing powers come from, it turns out there’s one guy (the only real Pein?) who reanimates corpses and uses them and their signature jutsus to fight. There was some technobabble about using metal transmitters (Pein’s piercings) and chakra waves to control the multiple bodies…

And meanwhile Konohamaru and Ebisu continue to fight one of the Peins, and Konohamaru is definitely being way cooler than he ever used to be. It looks like Pein had him in his grasp for the final kill…but then *poof* he got tricked by the ninja replacement trick! And then Konohamaru suddenly used Rasengan on him??!! crazy. well the mangaka does always play up the idea of the next generation of ninjas being very similar to their elders, looks like Konohamaru is definitely the next generation Naruto…

Konohamaru in action: you can kind of take him seriously for real when he says his full name.

Also maybe I shouldn’t give away the ending of the chapter…but…what the heck? The “real Pein” has psychic abilities to read minds, and that’s how he figures out naruto is not actually even in the village…….dude……why didn’t he use that power like 5 chapters ago???

Long hair Pain appears before “team” Inoichi.
Then Neji’s father appears.
Neji: “This guy is strange”
Inoichi team: ?!

Change to Shino’s family.
They’re trying to fight Konan, but she turnes into paper and escapes, tho they planted a bug on her.

Change to Tsunade.
She talk with Pain a bit and then fights.
She pretends that was attracted by his gravitation, but then gives him a single blow.

Konan appears.
Tsunade: ?!
Pain crushes in mountain.
Tsunade: “You used your repulsive power to throw yourself to the rear?”

So the end of this week’s chapter is setting up for a big fight of Tsunade vs. Pein- and probably some flashbacks of how they know each other and how they also probably have a long history of being enemies. Or who knows maybe they were friends or something and then became enemies later (!!??). But, I also can’t help wondering if the author (mangaka) Kishimoto is considering this an opportunity for putting Tsunade out of commission and thus Naruto would have his chance at becoming hokage?? I always thought the series would end when Naruto becomes hokage…but even though the series has been running for so long I still don’t think it seems like the end yet. Fighting Pein doesn’t seem dramatic enough of a climax to end Naruto’s journey to becoming hokage…

(Next week: it’s on!)

Has it reached the limit yet of how many weeks we can see Pein fighting with everyone in the village of Konoha?? He’s fought almost everyone we know- Iruka, Kakashi, Chouji, Chouji’s dad, Ebisu-sensei, now even Konohamaru…who by the way seems a whole lot less annoying than he used to be, now that he’s growing up and stuff…but anyway somebody better hurry up and beat Pein or there won’t be many people left inthe village…

At the end of the chapter, Tsunade finally gets in there and challenges Pein ( shouldn’t she have done that like 3 chapters ago?)- and the weird thing is that he knew her from the past- more secrets!