Naruto Cosplay

So here it is, a list of Naruto main characters. Please be aware that there are both protagonists and antagonists as in any literary piece, and these characters are divided into teams, the main team being the Team 7 comprised of Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura, headed by their leader, Kakashi Hatake.

Naruto is the primary hero, protagoist of the series. He has main traits of shonen characters, especially Son Goku. His ambition is to become a Hokage, the most powerful ninja of Konohagakure village. He was ostracized by other villagers due to the misfortune of him being the host of nine-tailed demon fox. His boisterous and cheerful personality gave him the ability to befriend many of ninjas. He is the main hero for Naruto Cosplay performances.

Sasuke Uchiha is a member of Team 7, too. He is a cool genius and a rival to Naruto, an integral part of the main plot. He is one of two members of his family, along with Itachi who killed all the rest. So Sasuke wants only the revenge, to kill his brother. Thus he develops a cold and withdrawn personality. He is not successful in their first encounter, so he decides to leave his village in search for more power.

Sakura Haruno is the only girl in the Team. She was taunted by other children due to her large forehead, and only Ino Yamanaka was able to comfort her. Their friendship started to diminish when they both felt affection for Sasuke Uchiha, though. After Sasuke leaves, she began training with Tsunade, and gained many highly developed skills.

Kakashi Hatake is the leader and sensei of Team 7. He is a kind of easygoing personality. He treats his leading position with detachment, and is always late for meetings. He witnessed a death of his teammates, and acquired some great qualities along with disadvantages of tardiness. Thus he gained a Sharingan eye and a reputation of a skilled ninja.

Orochimary is one of the primary antagonists. He appears pasty and sickly, and is clearly distinguished from the protagonists. He is a former ninja of Konohagapure and a student of the Third Hokage. He wants to obtain immortality, and to destroy his former home. He has an ability to transfer consciousness between different host bodies, and desires to host Sasuke. This is one of the main driving motivations throughout the series.

Akatsuki is an organisation of mischievous ninjas who want nothing less than world domination.

Masashi Kishimoto is well known all over the world as creator of Naruto manga series. His first success came in 1995 when he published Karakuri manga in Shueisha. He even has been awarded as a promising manga artist. His Naruto masterpiece of manga is ongoing, with more than 46 volumes, with more than 100 million copies sold worldwide.  It is the first manga to win the Quill Award as Best Graphic Novel in 2006.

Masashi likes to speak about his plant that died due to poor feeding in his office. Many of his plants did not survive.

Kishimoto tried to make his heroes as unique as possible. Thus he studied a lot of other shonen mangas. He quotes Dragon Ball as one of them to look at, and notes that Son Goku was a key character to influence Naruto Uzumaki, due to his energy and mischief. To make tension and intrigue, he had to create a rival, a “cool genius”, as an archetypal rival character. Thus Sasuke Uchiha was born, with all the necessary qualities.

For main heroine Masashi eventually created Sakura Haruno, with emphasis on her energy and flirtatious spirit. Despite difficulty in depicting her appearance, Sasuke became his favorite character to draw.

When drawing his animation characters, Masashi uses a five-step process: concept and rough sketch, then drafting, inking, shading and in the end – coloring. Sometimes he used an airbrush but afterwards decided that it requires too much cleanup, and abandoned it.

Kishimoto was very particular on designs for the village of Konohagakure, the main initial setting for the series. He tells that initially it was created spontaneously, without much thought, but admits that he took a lot from his home in Okayama prefecture. The village does not belong to any time or place, it is “just a place in (his) head”. He included some modern elements such as convenience stores but neither projectile weapons nor vehicles.

He conducts his own research into Japanese culture a lot for better details and reference material for his “Japanese fantasy world”, as he needs to “set certain rules systematically” to convey the story in a logical way.  He also wanted to draw in Chinese zodiac tradition which has a long presence in his country.

He said that Naruto would not have any firearms.  He may make use of automobiles or air craft, and some simple computers, like “eight-bit computers, but definitely not sixteen-bit”.

Naruto Uzumaki is a main hero of a continuing Japanese manga series created and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. Naruto is a boy ninja seeking for recognition and trying to become the leader of his village and the strongest of all, Hokage. The whole series is generally based on a one-shot comic that was published in Akamaru Jump in the August of 1997.

The manga first appeared in Shueisha in 1999, and is going on and being serialized with 47 tankobon volumes. Later on it was transformed into anime. It premiered across Japan on October 3, 2002. The first series included 220 episodes. A sequel to the original anime, Naruto Shippuden, started airing from February 15, 2007. The English adaptation of the series appeared in the USA Today Booklist several times. Naruto fans enjoy the balance of fighting and fun scenes and enact them in Naruto cosplay.

Naruto is a boy who has a fox demon with nine tails sealed inside him. That demon attacked his village Konohagakure twelve years ago and killed a whole bunch of people. The leader of villagers, the Fourth Hokage, sacrificed his life to get rid of the miscreant and sealed him in newborn Naruto. Nevertheless, habitants of Konoha regarded innocent boy as a demon himself, and thus mistreated him throughout his short life.

Our hero was not aware of his supernatural powers and of presence of a demon in himself before his encounter with Mizuki, a renegade ninja. Then Naruto became capable of Jutsu Shadow Clone technique that creates clones.

Later on Naruto and his friends Sasuke Uchina and Sakura Haruno formed a team named Team 7, under experienced sensei Kakashi Hatake. Their squad was in charge of completing missions for the benefit of their village. During one of their exams, a well-known criminal Orochimaru attacked the village killing their Hokage. This bastard wanted Sasuke Uchiha to become his comrade due to powerful genetic heritage of the boy. Sasuke believes Orochimaru to help him with his revenge against his brother, and joins him. Naruto has been sent to fight Sasuke to return him to Konoha, but with no success.

Then Naruto leaves Kohoha for two and a half years of training under Jiraya’s tuition. Then we see a lot of fighting and events with Team 7 and attack of Akatsuki clan attempting to kill nine tailed beasts including the one sealed in Naruto. All kinds of these events are enacted in Naruto cosplay, with gorgeous costumes and attributes.