Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 4, 2025
Naruto is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. It tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja who seeks recognition from his peers and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the leader of his village. The story is told in two parts: the first is set in Naruto's pre-teen years, and the second in his teens. The series is based on two one-shot manga by Kishimoto, Karakuri (1995) and Naruto (1997). Naruto was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from September 1999 to November 2014, with its 700 chapters collected in 72 tankōbon volumes. Two anime television series by Pierrot ran from October 2002 to March 2017 on TV Tokyo. Naruto inspired 26 light novels, two of which have been released in North America. Naruto is one of the best-selling manga series of all time, with 250 million copies in circulation. The story continues in Boruto, where Naruto's son Boruto Uzumaki creates his own ninja path instead of following his father's. (Full article...)