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Michael "Mikey Red" Rutkowski (Born in Brooklyn,NY) is the founder of Boxbout, an influential 1980s New York City punk oi reggae band. Mikey was the singer for Public Domain in 1982 and co founding member of hardcore bands Defiance and Lower East Side Allstars. He began DJing reggae at various clubs in NYC in 1982 and is credited as the ceator of Redsound- mixing reggae, funk,disco,country, punk, rap into a sound now known as reds.
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[edit] Donals "Don" Quarrie
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87.74.52.158 04:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC) Don Quarrie is regarded as one of the finest sprinters in the history of track and field. He is also considered the greatest runner around the bend. Don is a world class athlete who is not only respected for his athletic ability but also his discipline and his demeanor on and off the field.
Quarrie competed in five Olympic games. This is an exceptional accomplishment for a sprinter. The high point of his career came in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Don captured the gold in the 200m and the silver in the 100m. His silver finish was just 0.01 seconds behind the winner. While training for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Don met in a car accident. He was able to recover and make the team and ended up with the Bronze medal in the 200m.
The Commonwealth Games is where Quarrie had some of his best performances. He became the first male athlete to earn six gold medals in these competitions. For three consecutive games, Don won the gold medal in the 100m. He won the 200m in the 1970 games and successfully defended his title in the 1974 games. Don was well on his way to winning a third gold in the 200m but he suffered cramps in his semi-final heat and was not able to advance to the final round.
Don's outstanding career would not be complete without being a world record holder. In 1971, Don broke the world record for the 200m. He ran a blistering 19.80 seconds at the Pan American Games in Cali, Columbia. In 1976, he tied the world record for the 100m with a time of 9.9. With all his accomplishments, Don always maintained a good natured attitude and was admired and respected by his peers.
Quarrie has received recognition both on and off the field, a statue of him is proudly positioned at the entrance to Jamaica's National Stadium. There is also a school (Donald Quarrie High School) that bears his name in Eastern Kingston. Musical artists have also sung the praises for Don, "Tribute to Donald Quarrie" is a reggae song written by Joe Gibbs and The Guerillas. Many Jamaicans still refer to him in casual conversation, citing his speed in comparison to an event. Comments like, "I was running so fast, not even Don Quarrie could have caught me that night." are common among Jamaican Nationals.
Don has long since retired from competition but he is still active in the sporting world. He has been working as a sports agent and was Inger Miller’s manager in the 1990's. He also finds time to give back to the community. Don has also given time to help deliver holiday presents to hospitalized children.
Date of Birth - February 25, 1951 Place of Birth- Kingston, Jamaica College - University of Southern California Events- 100m, 200m, 4x100m
Career Highlights
Olympics
- 1976 - Gold 200m, Silver 100m
- 1980 - Bronze 200m
- 1984 - Silver 4x100m
Commonwealth Games
- 1970 - Gold 100m, Gold 200m, Gold 4x100m
- 1974 - Gold 100m, Gold 200m
- 1978 - Gold 100m
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[edit] Small Tales & True
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'Small Tales & True' was an Australian comedy television series created and aired in 1998 on the comedy channel. Only 6 episodes were produced, and no additional series have been reported to be in the pipelines.
The show is a variety of mini (mock) documentaries about small town Australian life. It was written & directed by Matt Cameron, with additonal writing credits going to Robyn Butler, Bob Franklin & Rosaind Hammond.
The show features a variety of well known Australian actors and comedians including; Bob Franklin, Robyn Butler, Rosalind Hammond, Stephen Curry, Wayne Hope, Colin Lane, Sophie Lee, Monica Maughan & Aidan Fennessy.
The episodes are as follows:
conneXions An interesting look at the Australian dating scene. Following 3 guys and 3 girls as they embark on a night out at the local bar for the weekly 'singles night'
Creatutres of Habit A couple in the neighbourhood are discovered to have a 'strange' habit (dressing up in large animal costumes) and the rest of the neighbours are not impressed on the impact that it's having on their quiet little street.
Holy Matrimony The story of 3 couples undertaking a marriage preparation course weeks before their ceremony.
Tigerland A look behind the scenes at the Richmond Tigers fan club. A failing season is causing a mutiny amoungst the members.
Treading the Boards A local theatre group are putting on a production of 'King Lear', yet problems begin from day one.
Private Eye A look into the daily life of a private investigator, dealing with missing girlfriends, cheating husbands and fax frauds.
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where it was aired: http://www.thecomedychannel.com.au
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Artists: Trey Spruance, Trevor Dunn, Danny Heifetz, Eyvind Kang, Bär McKinnon, Phil Franklin, and John Wayne Law
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A limited edition release CD. This CD is a great illustration of just how fantastically shit-hot the Secret Chiefs 3 are live. With a 60-minute setlist made up primarily of songs from their first two albums (The First Grand Constitution & Bylaws and Hurqala: The Second Grand Constitution & Bylaws).
"Set Two" the first track is a medley made up of "Adept Chamber Of The Magian Tavern", "Inn Of Three Doors", "Theme From 23d Nade", "Inn Of Three Doors", "1/4 1/4 1/4 1/4 1/4", "Combat For The Angel", "Theory Of The Supreme Ones", and "Mary Of Magdalen". This 21-minute track is a profoundly good example of everything SC3.
"Renunciation" and "Jabalqa/Jabarsa" are groovy Centro-Asian numbers and again show the band's perfect performance technique. "Zulfikar" and the Morricone-inspired "Assassin's Blade" again are impecably performed. The recording quality is not great, one gets the impression that this was initally intended only as a bootleg live recording - albeit a very good one - not as a proper CD release hence is limited release in a simple cardboard sleeve.
"Ciocarlia", a song that has never appeared on any album, but performed regularly, is the only track here substantially different musically from the rest of the CD. It is a traditional piece with it's roots firmly in Bulgarian and Hungarian music. An intense and joyous way to close the show.
Outstanding live recording of an important American band fusing rock, metal, Middle Eastern/Centro-Asian, surf and the avant-garde.
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Zubeida Malik is a correspondent for the Today programme, and has also reported for Newsnight. She joined the BBC in 1994.
During her time on the Today programme she has reported from Europe, Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. After September 11 she was one of the first journalists to arrive in Pakistan and report on the aftermath. She reported from there and Afghanistan for three months and was the only Western woman to get an interview with the Taliban during that time, before and after their fall. One of her many reports at the time included interviews which predicted ethnic conflict in the country, guerilla warfare and the rise of the warlords.
Zubeida has carried out many investigations for the Today programme. She made a ground breaking series on children dealing crack cocaine. At the height of the fuel protests she exposed how drivers who carried on working were being intimidated by union members, with their families being threatened.
She is the only broadcast Journalist to have interviewed the young men who were innocent of killing Damilola Taylor.
Her interview with the runaway 16 year-old Bobby Kelly, led to questions being asked in the House of commons and a change in the law.
Zubeida has been reporting on Bin laden and Al Qaeda since the nineties; she was one of the first journalists to look into extremist groups holding secret military training camps and encouraging young men to become jihadis. Recently Zubeida revealed how hundreds of Mujahideen are flocking to Iraq, as the country has become a 'new Afghanistan' for them. She's also one of the few people to have interviewed one of Bin Laden's relatives.
She has interviewed key figures for the BBC, including Kofi Anan, President Musharraf, Tony Blair, Prince Saud Al Faisal, Archbishop Tutu, and the spiritual leader of Hamas Sheikh Yassin, amongst many others.
Zubeida has provided breaking news on the military coup in Pakistan, the hijacking of an Indian aeroplane in 2000 and the subsequent release of hostages in Afghanistan, the Genoa riots, and suicide bombings in Israel. In Saudi Arabia she reported on the bombings of western compounds in 2003, the role and reform of women's rights in Saudi Arabia, and the presence of Al Qaeda in the country.
At Newsnight she revealed in an investigation how British girls were being forcibly sent back to Africa to be genitally mutilated. She also got the only interview with the parents of murdered teenager Shafiliah Ahmed.
Winner of the 2003 Carlton TV Multicultural Achievement Award for Television and Radio 2002 EMMA BEST RADIO NEWS JOURNALIST 2002 MEDIA PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR AT THE ASIAN WOMEN OF ACHEIVEMENT AWARDS.1997 BT PRESS AWARD FOR RADIO NEWS BROADCASTER OF THE YEAR. 2001 EMMA BEST RADIO NEWS JOURNALIST. 2000 FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Zubeida has had her work published 'September 11 2001, Feminist Perspectives'
She was voted as one of the Good Housekeeping role Models 2004.
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[edit] The Deal or No Deal Banker. (UK)
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Born on May 12 of an unknown year, The Banker is played by "Himself", as stated on the end credits. He has, on occasion, talked to the player via the Bakelite telephone on the contestant's desk. The character was called "The Dealer" in pre-publicity for the show; evidently, the name was changed before recording started (possibly to avoid any connotations of drugs, though the name "Banker" also appears to be used in other countries' versions so the use of "Dealer" here may have simply been a mistake by the Channel 4 Press Office). Channel 4's website referred to him as such though on their listings page until April 12 when after a number of complaints, including an organised campaign by posters to the forum of the website Cook'd and Bomb'd, the text was changed to say The Banker.
The identity of The Banker has not been revealed - one theory is that it is the series producer Glenn Hugill, although he has refused to either confirm or deny this in the past, continuing to refer to The Banker in the third person. However, it is clear that whoever is "playing" The Banker has some considerable improvisational skills, as the offers and Banker's banter frequently respond to something the contestant has done or said during gameplay. Also, when contestants are handed the phone The Banker frequently is able to make them dissolve into hysterics with his unheard chat. This would suggest that Glenn is indeed the public voice of The Banker, as he has had previous acting experience.
The Daily Mirror and Jo Whiley reported on April 3, 2006 that the actual offers made by The Banker were calculated by Glenn and two 'Executives' (believed to be executive producers Richard Osman and Richard Hague) but that Glenn has the final decision.
On March 9, 2006, contestant Paula H - a barber - enquired about The Banker's hair, to which Noel replied, "I don't think he has much". Other traits have also been suggested for The Banker, such as the fact that he is a bachelor, he refers to his mother on many occasions, and that, according to many of the contestants, he has a "nice voice, very Oxbridge", the character of The Banker does not necessarily bear any relation to the person "playing" him.
On March 10, 2006, he spoke to a member of the audience, named Shaun, who had been giving his own analysis on the game but made a rather unrealistic prediction of The Banker's next offer. He ridiculed him by making him say out loud "I, Shaun, will never be a banker. £35,000 was a silly thing to say. The Banker is always right!"
On March 23, 2006, contestant Dave Cheeseman mentioned about Chinese New Year. The Banker said that whilst Dave was born in the year of the dog, the banker himself was born in the Chinese year of the dragon. This gives a clue to his age, probably 42 or 54 years old - though the Banker's later reference to almost making the Munich Olympics (1972) as a swimmer suggests the age of the "character" may be 54. Although The Banker's speaking voice has never been heard on-screen, he has been clearly heard laughing several times to date, when Noel has held the telephone within audible distance to his microphone on his shirt. The first time was during the end of the aforementioned Nick Bain's 1p show.
On March 30, 2006, The banker gave contestant Lucy a mini 'Deal or No Deal' box with 50 on the front. This was because it was her 50th show. The mini box also contained her name where the amount usually goes and a poem saying how The Banker wished that she win a penny.
In March 2006, The Guardian described The Banker as 'a cult character in the making and no mistake' and included him in their hotlist. On April 1, 2006, the end credits stated that The Banker's name is Richard Oldman. This however, was an April Fool's Day joke; Richard Oldman can be segmented to 'Rich (H)ard Old Man'. Alternatively, this could be an in-joke reference to the two executive producers, both called Richard.
On April 13, 2006, the Banker gave an offer of £4,100 to contestant Maxine. She started saying how the Banker was actually quite 'sexy' because he had quick wit and humour, she liked older men, and he was rich ("what more could a woman want"). At that point the phone rang again, and The Banker changed his offer from £4,100 to £6,100, which was a first for Deal or No Deal. Maxine declined the offer and left with £10,000 at the end of the show - the amount in her box.
On April 15, 2006, Holy Saturday, Gabrielle won £1,000. When she revealed that the money was going to charity, the phone rang and The Banker said (three times) that just that once that he would double the winnings to £2,000. This was a Deal or No Deal first, and shows that the Banker has a 'Compassionate Streak', as Noel put it.
On May 6, 2006, The Banker produced another poem, in honour of Morris' fondness for speaking in rhyme when he opened boxes in other people's games, called "Ode to Morris".
On May 12, 2006, The Banker revealed that that day was his birthday, as well as that of the contestant's mother. It is unsure whether May 12th is The Banker's birthday, due to the fact that three shows are filmed per day, so his birthday could be several days - even weeks - before that. That said, Noel's birthday celebrations took place on the show due to be transmitted on that day. The Banker said he was 'full of cakes and fine wine' but had not received any presents.
On May 13, 2006, The Banker jokingly offered contestant Max "2 Weeks of Therapy". He also revealed that "the position of Mrs Banker is currently vacant!"
On May 15, 2006, The Banker said that he would offer double his offer if contestant Simon could guess it correctly. He guessed correctly at £2,800, the same amount that he said a previous contestant, Susie, would get, thus the offer doubled to £5,600.
At some time in the past it was revealed that The Banker enjoyed the Eurovision Song Contest, this was taken further with the Eurovision-themed show on May 20, 2006.
On May 25, 2006, At the time of the banker's offer, Noel Edmonds questioned the East Wing on what would be the offer given to contestant Rich. When the banker did make the call, he criticised the East Wing and labelled them as "fools" due to the fact that they could not guess his offer. As a result, the offer was £5,146, an offer that seemed impossible to guess.
On May 26, 2006, the banker made a "joke" offer of "£2 and a copy of the rules" to contestant June, due to her apparent confusion at how the game worked. Fortunately, she had dealt earlier at £23,000.
On June 2, 2006, the banker gave a present of a bunch of 22 red roses to contestant Stevie, thanking her for the players' games she destroyed by having high value amounts in her boxes.
On June 6, 2006, the Banker offered contestant Suzanne, instead of a monetary first offer, the opportunity to swap her box, after the first 5 boxes, with any other box she had a 'feeling' for. Suzanne accepted the swap, and swapped box 19 for box 3. The Banker did this because he believed she wouldn't walk at the first offer, and he saw her as a kindred spirit, because he used to be a great swimmer (apparently), and Suzanne was an Olympic-class swimmer before retiring to teach young children. The Banker said he was known as 'The Wet Rocket' because at school other children would throw his abacus into the school pond, and he would dive in for it so quickly. She opened Box 19, her original box, in the third round, it contained £500.
On June 12, 2006, Carlton said The Banker "sounds like the Scream man". A week earlier, James had also told The Banker he sounded like "the voice from Scream".
On June 16, 2006 (the 200th show), the banker said that he used to be a psychic, as the day's contestant, Ron was a hypnotherapist, and predicted that he was going have the worst round in the show's history. However this prediction was proven wrong as Ron took out three blues in the next three boxes. On the same show, the banker asked to talk to a member of the audience because he was angry with Noel. He spoke to Georgina, who told Ron the offer.
On June 16, 2006, the banker offered contestant Chrissie £8,853, which he claimed was equal to the height of Mount Everest in metres. Chrissie had earlier said that she had climbed 19,500 feet up the mountain.
On June 18, 2006, (Fathers Day) Noel asked the Banker whether he had any offspring off his own. The Banker replied by saying he had one estranged son, when asked why he was estranged the Banker said that his son was a charity worker.
On June 23, 2006, during Bianca's game The Banker offered a swap again instead of a monatary first offer, due to the fact that she had box 22 on the table, and it had contained £250,000 the last two times it had been there. She declined the swap. During the second offer the Banker asked to speak to Bianca's mother who was in the audience. They talked for a while and then she put the phone down and said the offer was £10,000. Noel said that she could have made the offer up, so he picked up the phone and 'dialed' the Banker. Noel said "is it true you offered her £50,000!" £10,000 was the offer, and she declined the offer. It was unclear what the Banker's phone number was, but it was presumably just for show. During this show, Noel referred to the banter between Bianca's mother and The Banker by calling her "the potential seventh Mrs Banker", perhaps implying that the Banker has been married six times already. A second wife was mentioned during Debbie's game, though this was presumably as a joke by The Banker, who, through Noel, said: "My second wife was called Mina. I was mean, and she was meaner!"
On July 21, 2006 the Banker offered Naqiyah £7,777 due to her passion of multiples of 7. She responded by saying that she was there to play the game and the money was a bonus and so it seemed she would No Deal at that point. So, before Noel could finish the question, the Banker rang again to increase the offer to £14,014. The Banker rang again before the question could be completed, causing Noel to wonder if he had "holiday fever" (referring to the break the show was about to have) or if he just wanted to torment Naqiyah. This time he just called to state that he was looking forward to hearing her response. After this call, Noel took the phone off the hook so the Banker could not ring up again and he could finally ask "Deal or No Deal?", to which Naqiyah answered "Deal". On the same show, Naqiyah was also offered a swap as the first offer, but never accepted it.
On the same day, July 21, 2006, Naqiyah also said after speaking to him that the Banker sounded just like Lance, who was another contestant in the West Wing. Lance is perhaps best known for his broad, posh accent. When Lance played (August 30, 2006), the banker called Lance "my doppelganger". Lance also suggested that the Banker was a boy he had been to school with many years earlier, whom he referred to as "Meany Minor". In response to this, the Banker claimed instead to be "Meany Major".
On July 22, 2006 the Banker said to Noel that, as it was the last show before the summer break, he had a present for every contestant on that show. It came in the form of a poem saying how he would have more fun than them on his holiday and that he'd come back meaner than ever after the break. He also gave each contestant a bookmark which said "This bookmark belongs to..." on one side and "the next member of the 1p club" on the other. Coincidentally, that day's player Giorgio Fellicini did leave with the 1p.
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[edit] Naruto 2
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This article is about the manga and anime series. For the titular character, see Naruto Uzumaki. For other uses, see Naruto (disambiguation). Naruto 2
NARUTO2 - ナルト - (Naruto2) Genre Action, Drama, Shōnen, Fantasy Manga Authored by Masashi Kishimoto Publisher Jump Comics
VIZ Media
Gollancz Manga
Other publishers:[show]
Tongli
Rightman
Daiwon C.I.
JPFantastica
Kana
Carlsen Comics
Panini Comics (Planet Manga)
Comics House, Komik Remaja
Chuang Yi (Chinese)
Glénat
Elex Media Komputindo
Schibsted Forlagene
Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump
Shonen Jump
BANZAI!
Shonen Jump
Weekly Comic 漫畫周刊
Original run November 1999 – Ongoing No. of volumes 35 volumes with 329 chapters TV anime Directed by Hayato Date Studio Studio Pierrot Network Animax, TV Tokyo
YTV
Cartoon Network
Jetix
Other networks:[show]
Cartoon Network
GameOne
RTL II
TVB Music
Italia 1
Global TV
Tooniverse
TV3, Astro Ria
ABS-CBN, Studio 23, Hero TV
E City
Jetix, Cuatro (planned for Sept. 2006)
CTS
Children Channel
Original run October 3, 2002 – Ongoing No. of episodes 207 Related works Jump Festa 2003: Find the Crimson Four-Leaf Clover (OVA) Jump Festa 2004: Battle at Hidden Falls. I am the Hero! (OVA) Finally a clash! Jonin VS Genin!! Indiscriminate grand melee tournament meeting!! (OVA) Naruto the Movie OVA: Konoha Annual Sports Festival (OVA) Naruto the Movie: Snow Princess' Book of Ninja Arts Naruto the Movie 2: Great Clash! The Illusionary Ruins at the Depths of the Earth Naruto the Movie 3: The Animal Riot of Crescent Moon Island
Naruto (ナルト, Naruto? romanized as NARUTO in Japan) is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime TV series adaptation. Its main character, Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, adolescent ninja who constantly searches for approval and recognition, as well as to become Hokage, who is acknowledged as the leader and strongest ninja in the village.
The manga was first published in Japan, by Shueisha, in the 43rd issue of the Shonen Jump magazine in 1999. In TV Asahi's latest top 100 Anime Ranking, Naruto ranked 34th on the list. VIZ Media publishes a translated version in the American Shonen Jump, and has translated roughly a third of the series. Naruto has become VIZ Media's best-selling manga series.[1]
The anime series, produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex, premiered across Japan on the terrestrial TV Tokyo network and the anime satellite television network, Animax from October 3, 2002 and is currently still being aired. Viz also licensed the anime for North American production. Naruto debuted on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block on September 10, 2005, at 9:00 p.m. EST in the United States, and on YTV's Bionix on September 16, 2005, at 9:30 p.m. EST (since changed to 8:00 p.m.) in Canada. Naruto began showing on Jetix in the UK at 8.00 p.m. on July 22, 2006.
Contents [hide] 1 Growth and popularity 2 Anime details 2.1 Anime filler episodes 3 English-language broadcast 3.1 English localization 4 Plot overview 5 Characters 6 References 7 External links
Growth and popularity The series' length and popularity is comparable to that of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, another popular action-oriented shōnen manga. Naruto is the second-most popular ongoing shōnen series in Japan, behind One Piece.
Since its creation, Naruto has spawned a large number of fansites that contain detailed information, guides, and active forums. Some of the first and most popular sites targeted at English speaking audiences were established shortly after the first English manga volume was released in August 2003.
Prior to the anime's North American debut in 2005, several scanlation and fansub groups translated the series and made it available for free download on the internet. Despite North American companies' perceived tendency to prosecute fansubbing groups more frequently than Japanese companies[2], there are some that have continued to translate new Naruto episodes due to the extremely large gap between the English and Japanese versions. Indicative of Naruto's continued internet popularity are the episodes subtitled by the Dattebayo fansub group, which are downloaded over 100,000 times within the first couple days, almost always surpassing 200,000 downloads within their first weeks.[3]
Like many other manga and anime titles, Naruto has also spawned its own collectible card game.
Volume 7 of the manga has recently won a Quill Award for best graphic novel in North America.[4]
Anime details See also: List of Naruto episodes and List of Naruto media Although it debuted some time after the manga, the anime quickly caught up, since one anime episode usually covers around one and a half manga chapters. To prevent overlapping, the anime's producers tend to organize content from the manga chapters into long, uneventful sections followed by short bursts of action, sometimes adding filler content in between. Currently, in order to give the manga time to get ahead, the anime is only showing filler episodes.
The anime generally remains true to the manga, usually changing only minor details (causes of death, loss of limbs, and other injuries have been lessened in the anime) or expanding on parts skipped by the manga, such as the fight between Tenten and Temari. The filler arcs, though unreferenced in the manga (save for a few scant scenes), deal with the breaks between manga volumes, which covers a short period before the Sasuke Retrieval arc and several months before the time skip. The filler arcs tend to cover the supporting characters, occasionally giving insight into an otherwise rarely seen character.
New episodes, animated by Studio Pierrot, air weekly on TV Tokyo in Japan during the Golden Time slot (Japan's equivalent of prime time in the US). As of October 5, 2006, it has moved to Thursday nights, beginning with a ninety-minute special followed by a regular episode [citation needed]. The series has also spawned three movies, Naruto the Movie, Naruto the Movie 2 and Naruto the Movie 3. The first two are available on DVD.
Anime filler episodes By the time the Sasuke Retrieval arc ended in the anime (episode 135), the series was at a point where it was quickly gaining on the manga, its source material. At the conclusion of this arc, the anime immediately switched to anime-only filler episodes to allow the manga to broaden the gap once more. Most of the filler arcs are stand-alone stories, with a few being several episodes long.
English-language broadcast On September 10, 2005, Naruto had its hour-long premiere in the U.S. on Cartoon Network's Toonami. The first episode of Naruto premiered in Canada on YTV on September 16, 2005. In Australia and New Zealand it premiered on Cartoon Network on September 27, 2006 at 6:00 p.m. AEST. Naruto is also available on Toonami Jetstream, Cartoon Network's broadband video service.[5]
English localization In its English anime release, Naruto was aired with a TV-PG rating in the US and a PG rating in Canada. References to alcoholism, Japanese cultural differences, mild language, mild sexual situations, and even blood and death remain in the English version, though reduced in some instances.[6] The manga was edited in a similar fashion. Recent episodes, such as Jiraiya's debut, have been given a TV-PG-DS rating.
Plot overview Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Further information: Plot of Naruto, Plot of Naruto II, and List of Naruto story arcs. 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.
The Fourth Hokage was celebrated as a hero for sealing the demon fox away. He wanted Naruto to be respected in a similar light by being the containment vessel for the demon fox. The village he grew up in, however, mostly shunned Naruto; they regarded him as if he were the demon fox itself and mistreated him throughout most of his childhood.
A decree made by the Third Hokage made it so that the other villagers were forbidden to mention the event to anyone, even to their own children. However, this did not stop them from treating Naruto like an outcast. Although their children did not specifically know why their parents treated Naruto the way they did, they learned through example to despise the boy. As a result, Naruto grew up as an orphan in a lonesome atmosphere without friends, family, or acknowledgement. He could not force people to befriend him, so he sought acknowledgement and attention the only way he knew – through pranks and mischief. However, that soon changed after Naruto graduated from the Ninja Academy by using his Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to save his teacher, Iruka Umino, from the renegade ninja Mizuki. That encounter gave Naruto two insights: that he was the container of the demon fox, and that there was someone (Iruka and the Third Hokage, initially) who actually cared about him. His graduation opened a gateway to the events and people that would change and define his world and his way of the ninja for the rest of his life.
Naruto maintains a balance between drama and comedy, with plenty of action interspersed. It follows Naruto and his friends' personal growth and development as ninja, and emphasizes their interactions with each other and the influence of their backgrounds on their personalities. Naruto finds two friends and comrades in Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, two fellow young ninja who are assigned with him to form a three-person team under a very experienced sensei named Kakashi Hatake. Naruto also confides in other characters as well that he has met through the Chunin Exam. They learn new abilities, get to know each other and other villagers better, and experience a coming-of-age journey as Naruto dreams of becoming the Hokage of the Leaf Village.
Naruto places strong emphasis on character development. Almost all outcomes are a result of decisions, character, and personality; very few things happen just because of chance. At first, emphasis is placed on Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura, who are the members of Team 7. However, other characters are developed, such as Kakashi, Guy, and Jiraiya, as well as Naruto's peers in the other Genin teams and other villages.
Several major villains came into play as well, the first being Zabuza Momochi, a missing-nin from the Hidden Mist Village, and his partner Haku. Later, in the Chunin Exam arc, Orochimaru is introduced as an S-Class missing-nin at the top of the Leaf Village's most wanted list. Later, a mysterious organization called Akatsuki begins to pursue Naruto in order to take the demon fox inside him.
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Characters
Team 7.Main article: List of characters in Naruto Naruto has a large and colorful cast of characters, running a gamut of detailed histories and complex personalities and allowing many of them their fair share in the spotlight; they are also seen to grow and mature with the series, as it spans several years. Fittingly enough for a coming-of-age saga, Naruto's world constantly expands and thickens, and his social relations are no exception -- during his introduction he has only his teacher and the village's leader for sympathetic figures, but as the story progresses, more and more people become a part of his story.
The students at the Ninja Academy, where the story begins, are split up into teams of three after their graduation and become Genin, or low-class ninjas. Each team is assigned an experienced sensei, or teacher. These core teams form a basis for the characters' interactions later in the series, where characters are chosen for missions for their team's strength and complementary skills; Naruto's Team 7 becomes the social frame where Naruto is acquainted with Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, and their sensei Kakashi Hatake, also called the "copy ninja" for copying thousands of ninja techniques with his Sharingan eye, forming the core of his world-in-the-making. The other three-man teams of his former classmates form another such layer, as Naruto connects with them to various degrees, learning of their motives, vulnerabilities and aspirations and often relating them to his own. The groups of threes are not limited to the comrades Naruto's age – groups in the story in general come in threes and multiples of three with very few exceptions.
Sensei-student relationships play a significant role in the series; Naruto has a number of mentors with whom he trains and learns, most notably Jiraiya and Kakashi Hatake, and there are often running threads of tradition and tutelage binding together several generations. These role models provide guidance for their students not only in the ninja arts but also in a number of Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideals. Techniques, ideals, and mentalities noticeably run in families, Naruto often being exposed to the abilities and traditions of generation-old clans in his village when friends from his own age group demonstrate them, or even achieve improvements of their own; it is poignantly noted that Naruto's generation is particularly talented.
Many of the greater lingering mysteries of the series are questions of character motives and identity. The legacy of Naruto's parents, the goals that guide Kabuto Yakushi, the objective of the mysterious organization Akatsuki and the identity of its mysterious leader – these are only a few of the fundamental unanswered questions of "who" and, by proxy, "why" currently at the core of the series. The story is remarkably character-driven; the theme of causality runs inherently throughout the series as characters reciprocate for their past actions and relationships. In this respect, characters' respective destinies are very much intertwined, and large emphasis is placed on comradeship and 'bonds' between the community or individual.
Character names often borrow from Japanese mythology, folklore and literature (such as the names borrowed from the folk-tale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari), or are otherwise elaborate puns; often there is a noticeable influence of the story behind the name shouldered by the character.[7]
References ^ VIZ Media (March 7, 2006). USA Today's Top 150 Best Seller list features VIZ Media's Shonen Jump's Naruto manga at number 29. Press release. ^ Licensed Anime @ AnimeSuki. Retrieved on 2006-10-31. ^ BitTorrent files for Dattebayo Anime. Retrieved on 2006-04-14. ^ Nominees for the Graphic Novel category. Retrieved on 2006-08-27. ^ Cartoon Network, VIZ Partner for Broadband Venture. Retrieved on 2006-03-24. ^ Anime-Editz - Naruto2 Editz Guide. Retrieved on 2006-04-14. ^ Naruto2 names' origins and meanings. Retrieved on 2006-04-14.
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Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto Naruto universe Franchise: Episode list | Media list | OVA list | Video game list | Naruto Collectible Card Game Plot: Story arcs | Naruto I | Kakashi Gaiden | Naruto II Countries: Geography | Land of Fire | Land of Sound | Land of Waves | Land of Wind Jutsu: Types | Fūin jutsu | Genjutsu | Juin jutsu | Kekkei genkai | Ninjutsu | Taijutsu Movies: Naruto the Movie | Naruto the Movie 2 | Naruto the Movie 3 Miscellaneous: Ichiraku Ramen Bar | Ninja ranks | Puppets | Rookie Nine Characters Main: Naruto Uzumaki | Sasuke Uchiha | Sakura Haruno | Kakashi Hatake | Sai Supporting: Team Kurenai – Kurenai Yuhi, Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuga & Kiba Inuzuka Team Asuma – Asuma Sarutobi, Choji Akimichi, Shikamaru Nara & Ino Yamanaka Team Guy – Might Guy, Neji Hyuga, Rock Lee & Tenten Team Baki – Baki, Gaara, Kankuro & Temari Other: Jiraiya | Tsunade | Third Hokage | Iruka Umino | Shizune | Yamato Konoha-nin: Genin | Chunin | Jonin Clans: Hyuga clan | Uchiha clan Enemies: Zabuza Momochi and Haku | Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi | Akatsuki | Other enemies Animals: Tailed beasts | Summons This box: view • talk • edit
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