Missed It: Naruto Passes 100M Mark



I totally missed this until I saw it on a French-language site, but apparently Shueisha has announced that Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto has passed the 100 million mark in terms of overall sales worldwide. They made this announcement on the eve of the 51st volume in the series dropping. That makes it the fifth title at the company to pass this mark after Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo, Dragon Ball, Slam Dunk and One Piece. I always liked Naruto, although that winter when their English-language version came out at a rate four volumes a month for a few months was basically them accelerating away from me as a customer. Naruto has all the required interrelationship material and inspiring, bordering-on-simplistic theme work on might expect with a big fat comics hit. I think it has two other things going for it, too, that are less discussed: the first a conception of kids and teens seeking out an ambitious path for themselves that I bet rings true to a lot of tutored, praised, pressured kids; the second its relentlessly imaginative action sequences that may give the series its best claim to greatness.
 
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