I have been fond of cartoons since childhood, and more specifically of Japanese animations and also “cute” characters like pon and zi. But who could have thought that I would be crazy over a Japanese animation at the age of 21! Well, I have my own fair reason for that because I hadn’t seen such a great cartoon almost all my life (well, except Sponge Bob, but that is another story).
So, the cartoon that I’m fond of is called Naruto. The whole cartoon is about ninjas and their villages, teams and friendship and can set really nice examples of characters for children and not only! The main character who is among my favorites is Naruto, the son of the Hokage (The chief of the Village) who died fighting against the Kyuubi (legendary creature with nine tails -the most powerful among the tailed creatures). So the Hokage manages to seal the beast into his new-born son to tame him, and dies. Naruto grows up alone as the villagers look at him with fear.
But eventually he makes friends – Sakura, Sasuke and their coach Kakashi, and also learns to control the powers of Kyuubi inside. But there is an organization called Akatsuki, hunting for the tailed beasts sealed in people, in order to control their power and govern the world. A character among Akatsuki named Deidara blows my mind off as well because he is too cute for an anime character, creepy at the same time (he has mouths on his palms of the hands which help him make explosive clay birds). His slogan is “Art is a blast”. There is constant clash of characters between the teams and inside the team as well when sasuke, my next favorite character, leaves the group to seek power from a legendary Sannin to grow strong and kill his brother, Itachi. This is a really touching part between the brothers when he uncovers the truth why Itachi killed all his clan members and left little Sasuke alive. So, Itachi is another favorite of mine with cute appearance and mysterious character. All in all, this is a fascinating animation, and I would definitely advise everyone to watch at least the 1st series of it (because I am more than sure they will go on watching it to the end)!