Hey, I know that to most, if not all that this will be a stupid question, but I keep seeing Naruto on here and fanfiction.net, and am interested in reading it.

What I am basically asking is, do I need to buy and read every volume found here?

http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Volumes

And if so, would this be a good start to my collection?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Naruto-Ma...ultDomain_3&hash=item4169bb7ce8#ht_500wt_1361

Cheers

PlutoGoU

 

Rather than doing that, you'd be better off reading the manga online.

Naruto

Start from chapter 1 and go from there. Or just type in "read Naruto manga" on Google to find a different website, if you prefer.

 

You could just watch the anime, but that would probably take awhile. If watching it is more to your tastes than reading through the manga; you should be able to watch it here.
http://www.narutoget.com/

 

Or, instead of reading the earlier chapters, you can catch up on the story through the anime. There are several filler episodes in there, but the anime sticks faithfully to the overall plot.

EDIT: ninja'd. So...

The anime is however, split into 2 series - the earlier half of the manga is shown in "Naruto" (about 230 of these, though its all filler after episode 150 or so) and the later half in "Naruto Shippuden". When you get the Shippuden series I'd recommend you shift to the manga.

 

Thanks for the replies, especially knight504. I'm definitely more of a reader than a watcher so I'll read them online. Cheers

 

I would still recommend watching some of the anime because some of the battles are pretty fucking cool.

 

When I first got interested in Naruto (thanks to DLP actually), I started by watching the anime of the first part. I liked the series despite its flaws, so I then moved on and watched the shippuuden anime for fun, but also read the shippuuden manga. These days I do both (I read the manga which is further ahead in the storyline when it comes out, but also watch the anime for the animated fights and such). I also went back and read through the original manga, but thats not really all that necessary (the anime follows the plot quite well and you get all the info you need to move on to shippuuden and understand everything).

I will say of the part 1 anime, that after a certain point (#135 or something I think), it basically becomes a filler fest. Some of those are watchable I guess, but ultimately most basically follow a very similar plot so there is little to lose by skipping straight to shippuuden after that. An episode guide can help look for the ones that sound interesting to you if you don't want to watch them all, but still want to watch some.

There are also certain parts of anime shippuuden that have fillers that are of lower quality which can be skipped, but others are actually ok enough if you like the series (and if you actually reach shippuuden you probably will). Regardless, its again easy enough to find which parts are filler using an episode guide and which canon so you can just skip ahead if you want to.

Hope you have fun

 

Is shippuuden just the name of the second volume?

 

Ah ok cheers. And by several volumes you mean close to 100 altogether with over 500 chapters lol

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Yea I've just quickly read up to chapter 9 in volume 2, and I can imagine that actually watching the battle scenes is much better

 

Once you've made it to the end of the chuunin exams I highly recommend giving Inert's fics a read, Hurricane suite has to be my favourite fic in the Naruto fandom. It doesn't really contain many spoilers once you're to that point in the manga. What it does contain though is a whole lot of badassery and epicness.

 

Well, yesterday morning I had finally decided to kerb my Harry Potter fanfic addiction (not totally, but from 5+ times a day, to 2-3 times a week).

And then I had to go and ask about Naruto. Now I can't stop reading about the little brat :/

It's a good job I never did drugs, because I become addicted to new stuff waaay too easily.

I've just reached the start of the chuunin exams, so will have a look at Inert's fic as soon as i've finished them.

Any more good Naruto fics I should be aware of, that won't spoil the plot, at least too much?

Cheers

PlutoGoU

 

Most good Naruto fan fiction involves plenty of Shippuden spoilers, so I recommend you continue reading and watching before delving too much into fan fiction.