Caught by his teacher Iruka Umino while defacing the Hokage monument, Naruto tells his teacher that he did it for attention and of his dream to become a Hokage to win everyone's respect.

The opening and ending theme for the English airing is 'Rise' by Jeremy Sweet and Ian Nickus, with an instrumental version played as the closing theme.įor the first twelve years of his life, an orphaned boy named Naruto Uzumaki lived a life of enduring the apparent unsolicited hate from a majority of the villagers of the Hidden Leaf Village with a strong ambition to be acknowledged. The two closing themes are Japanese pop singer Akeboshi's ' Wind' and ' Harmonia' by Rythem, used for the first twenty-five and remaining episodes respectively. The two Japanese opening themes are 'Rocks' ( R★O★C★K★S, 'Rocks' ?) by Hound Dog, used for the first twenty-five episodes, with the rest using ' Haruka Kanata' ( 遥か彼方, ' Haruka Kanata' ? lit. During 2009, Viz released two other DVD boxes containing episodes 1-25 and 26-52, respectively.įive pieces of theme music are used for the episodes two opening themes and two closing themes in the Japanese episodes and single an opening theme and ending theme in the English ones. Episodes from this season were released on nine DVD compilations by Viz Media between Maand February 20, 2007, with two compilations of thirteen and twelve episodes released for the first season, The first of these compilations was nominated at the American Anime Awards for best package design. A total of twelve volumes were released by Sony Pictures Entertainment within 2003 from January 1 to December 3. In Japan the season was collected in both VHS and DVD format. It was shown on Cartoon Network's Toonami and YTV's Bionix programming blocks.

The English airing of the first season was from September 2005 to May 2006. The first season ran from October 2002 to May 2003 in Japan on TV Tokyo. He is assigned to Team 7, a three-person cell that has to complete missions for the village. They are based on the Naruto manga series by Masashi Kishimoto The series follows the young teenager Naruto Uzumaki who wants to become the Hokage, the leader from ninja village where he lives, in order to become a respectable ninja. The episodes were released in North America by Viz Media and on Europe and South America by Warner Bros. The first season of the Naruto anime series is directed by Hayato Date and produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo. Cover of the first Naruto DVD released by Sony Pictures Entertainment on January 1, 2003.

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