OM Rank: 01
Categories: action, adventure, anime, comedy, drama, fantasy, shounen
Author: Masashi Kishimoto
Artist: Masashi Kishimoto
Original Publisher: Shueisha
US Publisher: Viz Media
Start Date: 1999
Chapters: 511 - ongoing – weekly
Summary
Twelve years before the events at the focus of the series, the nine-tailed demon fox attacked Konohagakure. It was a powerful demon indeed; a single swing of one of its nine tails would raise tsunamis and flatten mountains. It raised chaos and slaughtered many people, until the leader of the Leaf Village - the Fourth Hokage - defeated it by sacrificing his own life to seal the demon inside a newly-born child, whose origins are as yet unknown. That child's name was Naruto Uzumaki.
NOTE: The anime equivalent of Shippuden starts at chapter 245