Naruto: facts that everyone should know, but known only to units
What is anime? Only a dozen years ago, most Russians answered: "Chinese porn-cartoons." However, everything changes, with the popularization of the Internet, numerous titles of Japanese animation, manga, ranch and goods for them literally flooded the virtual market. Today, any otaku (the number of which in Russia has long exceeded a million) will immediately call the main genres of anime and manga, as well as the most popular works in them, be it Death Note, One Peace, Bleach or Naruto. The latter, incidentally, has the largest number of fans in our country, but the level of their possession of additional material rarely goes beyond knowing the meaning of the names of characters and their techniques. While there are many interesting facts about the world of the most restless ninja. And some of them we'll tell you today.
Mythology and references
For most fans, Naruto's storyUzumaki and his friends are original and have no analogues. However, even there is an omission of the obvious plot lines and stamps, it will be obvious that this is not so. The whole work is literally imbued with the spirit of Japanese (and not only) mythology. For example:
Prototypes for Biju (tailed beasts) and some of their battles can be easily found in various myths and legends of the country of the rising sun.
According to the author himself, the chakra and folding of seals are partly borrowed from the system of Chinese zodiac signs.
The legendary Trio (Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru) andthe animals they called literally one by one were written off from the history of "Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari", which tells how a young descendant of a once powerful genus named Jiraiya becomes a criminal and attacks an immortal hermit. However, he not only avoids the attack, but also teaches the outcast boy to call the toads (which, in addition, may increase in size) and turning into them. Subsequently, Jiraiya marries a girl named Tsunade, who has similar abilities (only for slugs), and they both fall prey to Jiraiya's former comrade-in-arms Orochimaru, who, as it is not difficult to guess, poisoned the young couple with snake venom (and could become a huge snake himself) .
A bunch of "snake-frog-snail", which passed tothe disciples of the great saninas are also not accidental. In Japan, it is a parallel to the "Scissors-paper-stone" bundle and has the same rules: the snake is stronger than the frog, but weaker than the snail, the frog is stronger than the snail, but weaker than the snake, the snail is stronger than the snake and the frog is weaker (to some extent, in character characters).
It is quite obvious that Sarutobi Hirudzen (and youknew that this is the name of the 3rd hokage?) was written off from Sarutobi Sasuke, one of the members of the really legendary ninja group "The Ten Daredevils of Sanada", as well as the main character of the story of the same name.
Some characters of the manga are written off from odnogrupnikovMasashi Kishimoto in college, the main character in many respects repeats the fate of the author himself, who in an interview confessed that he knows firsthand what it's like to be an outsider.
The names and essence of the key techniques of MangakerSharingana: Amaterasu, Susanoo, Tsukuemi and Isanagi are the names of the Japanese gods of the sun, wind and moon (respectively), as well as one of their creators, Izanagi.
A little about the numbers
Fukasaku is the only frog in the world "Naruto", which has five fingers on its paw. All the rest have four.
Haku for folding seals is enough for one hand.
The capacity of each Sasuke roll is 40 items, including 25 shuriken, 10 regular and 5 exploding Kunai.
Among the cosplayers of the whole world Naruto Uzumaki is considered one of the most popular characters for the incarnation.
The first chapter of the manga was first published in 43the release of "Weekly Shonen Jump" on September 21, 1999, and the last one in the 50th edition of the same edition on November 10, 2014. The total manga (not taking into account the publication of tankobonts) was released in Japan for 15 years.
Only the first edition of the 70th volume of the manga in Japanthere are 1 million 400 thousand copies, and the total number of volumes sold in the world for 2010 reached 200 million printed books (excluding electronic copies and illegal transfers).
In the US, the Naruto manga stably ranks among the best bestsellers in the country and occupies the lion's share of the country's manga market in sales.
Among other things, Naruto is being released todaya huge amount of staf (figures, accessories, dishes, etc.), and exciting online games in which you can not only fight the villains of Akatsuki, but also deliver ramen, bike, promote very bold fashion trends and much other.
We listed only a small fraction of the interesting facts about Naruto, of which there really is much more. And which ones are known to you? We will be glad if you share your comments.
