Naruto Manga

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