Shippuden enrich the story and offer deeper insight into fan-favorite characters, others are little more than time-fillers that stall the main pl ...

One such example of Kishimoto’s utter mastery of contradiction is on display in this episode, where Naruto first meets his mother, Kushina. It goes without saying that, on the surface, these are ...

Naruto is easily one of the most popular anime franchises of all time. It is no exaggeration to say that the beloved anime and its sequel shaped an entire generation of anime fans. In many ways, ...

I have binged the entire Naruto saga more times than I can count, so trimming thousands of minutes into ten essentials felt like defusing explosive tags with my teeth. My litmus test is simple: I ...