Naruto has been licensed by ShoPro Entertainment. You can read the press release here. <a href='http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/pressrelease.php?id=851' target='_blank'>http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/pressrelease.php?id=851</a>We know its been coming... Glad its not 4kids

<span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'>YAAY</span>i've always felt sorry for the established fansubbers who were subbing naruto, they got alot of crap from demanding fans. a community is one thing, but if a high percentage of them are just leechers it's a bad community. the effect of naruto on the subbing community was for the worse as well;, it's sad to see fansubbers ripping translations from other fansubbers, fans inciting flame wars between fansubs, the birth of horrible quality super-speedsubbers, ridiculous oversubbing of one anime, bad-mannered fans who are only taught to leech, hacking of distro bots, etc.imho, if a leecher can spend so much time complaining about subs, why not take the time to learn japanese and not need to depend on them anymore?i hope the subbers who are subbing this will stop. narutards have been spoiled enough. time to go sub less mainstream titles which are actually good.

Bah. not a fan of naruto in the least.it reminds me of inu yasha, but at least inu yasha was good.it's way over rated.it drives my crazy when i go to suncoast and theres a million inu yasha and dbz dvd's cause it's popular. it means less space for really good series like rahxephon or even eva. when you compare ghost in the shell to inu yasha, ghost in the shell maybe has one volume 1, one volume 2, and a vol 4. inu yasha has at least 3 of each volume. now naruto'll be taking up even more space. not to mention, even more fans at otakon. wonderful.no offense to naruto fans, but some seem to think it's the anime to end it all, and it's actually just not.theres a lot of other anime's that deserve to be brough over first. BETTER animes.so i guess i'm saying..."greeeeeeaaaaaaat...<!--emo&-_---><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sleep.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sleep.gif' /><!--endemo-->"

Haha yahoo that's awesome! why? because now all the nar00tards will be like "oh no my naruto, it's not easy coming on the fansubs" haha... personally i dislike naruto so when it is dubbed it's gonna be so much worst... if it were less episodes i would like it but it's too long...i'm still grateful it's not ADV ...i've developed some enmity for them <!--emo&:ph34r:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ph34r.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ph34r.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Licensed? I haven't even watched it halfway yet... It'll be kind of disappointing for those who've been chasing the series up till 121 though.

Oh god. It's been lisensed. I'm pretty sure now we'll be seeing t0ns on hyper little boys and girls running around on halloween sporting a Naruto costume, tons of fangirls screaming "Sasuke!" Even though I hate it, I'm actually kinda happy about it as well.This means, If it ever comes out in Canada (i'm pretty sure it will) I can watch the first few episodes and laugh at the dubbing.<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->it drives my crazy when i go to suncoast and theres a million inu yasha and dbz dvd's cause it's popular. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yeah, that drives me crazy as well. I go to a DVD place looking for a certain anime, and all I see is DBZ and Inuyasha. bleh. <!--emo&<_<--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->i hope the subbers who are subbing this will stop. narutards have been spoiled enough. time to go sub less mainstream titles which are actually good.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->I'm sick of hearing fangirls tell me about downloading Naruto episodes and yelling " The next episode is coming out on (blank)!!! I CAN'T wait!!!" This news is relief. it really is.EDIT: @asher : Yeah it would be kinda dissapointing for those people though.EDIT: hopefully i didn't offend anyone here.. and if i did, sorry bout' that.

It's been licensed ? well, i don't really care about it.as long as the i can still read the manga. <!--emo&:)--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Licensed <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> i can read the manga only <!--emo&:(--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Wahahahahaha good good!!! my dislike towards naruto fans is shared by others here! <!--emo&:D--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> the mangaka is losing it, naruto is turning into DBZ. mark my words, if the next storyline has someone who can bust planets, lunch is on you guys. <!--emo&:P--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> the only bad thing i can foresee happening is the narutards evolving into bleacholes. a scary thought. <!--emo&:ph34r:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ph34r.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ph34r.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Haha, I myself is quite fond of Naruto, having read up to the lateset chapters. I've been slow with the anime..I think i'm stuc to 118, too lazzy to d/l the rest. The manga starting to get into a point where it's either mashimoto blows me away, or totally bombs it.All I can say is, yea, ShoPo is gonna get raped by the so-called "NARUTARDS". While there won't be anymore ridiculious leeching anymore..I swear naruto has some of the highest leeching I've seen, 10,000 leechers to a mere average 2000 seeds. While I myself do LIKE naruto, it's not my "favorite" I'm into all the other less mainstreamy stuff, but mainstream isn't always nessacaryily(sp) bad. Aww..well let's wait for when they release it in the states.

Well i think its an ok series, not among the 10 best but still deservs to be given a chance... if you look att all of the crap they license im happy that they have licensed somthing abit better.. (its still kind of crap though) i follow the series but its mostly because all the anime otakus i know also do...

<!--QuoteBegin-Sakura+Feb 16 2005, 11:25 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sakura @ Feb 16 2005, 11:25 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Well i think its an ok series, not among the 10 best but still deservs to be given a chance... if you look att all of the crap they license im happy that they have licensed somthing abit better.. (its still kind of crap though) i follow the series but its mostly because all the anime otakus i know also do...

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<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->i dunno about everyone else, but i actually gave naruto a chance.i watched the first couple of episodes, and was pulling my hair out. i kept thinking..."maybe it'll get better..." and it never really did. naruto was still incredibly annoying, and the rest of the characters as well. in fact, his very character design annoyed me.but i left it at "not for me."until i went to otakon and everyone and their MOTHER was wearing a freakin HEADBAND. i just thought..."you have GOT to be kidding me. i thought inu yasha was bad with the cosplaying...but this is even worse. it was like when chobits came out and EVERYONE was wearing chii ears (and that was it) the delaers room was hell because all the people that sold the headbands were being mobbed, so trying to get the chance to look at something else at their both was near impossible becaus eyou would get run over by some raving lunatic naruto fan.i mean hey, if you like an anime, show off that you're a fan, but don't be abnoxious about it. naruto fans are by far the most obnoxious people i have ever seen.the series itself is mediocre. it's been done before. and it's been done better.it's not the next eva or akira. it's the nixt mediocre anime with a million idiots for fans. not to say all naruto fans are idiots, but since the ones taht are raving naruto fans are, it's my generalization. just like the million inu yasha fan girls. i like inu yasha, i find it mildly entertaining...but i don't stand in suncoast and squee at all the inu yasha dvd's. there ARE better animes. i mean christ, go buy the eva platinum edition or something actually worth the money.wolf's rain should be raved about more. it's idea and story and concept were very much unique. naruto is dbz with ninjas. ANNOYING ninjas. i saw a friend of mine recently and he was like..."oh, well you have to get to episode 18 for it to get good" well, i'm sorry. but if i have to sit through 16 episodes for it to get good, then it's not a good series. it needs to grab me in the first 3. if it can't captivate me with it's story, character or artwork by the third episode, it's not worth watching. eva grabs you in the first freakin 10 minutes. no, it's not for everyone. but the people that like it, like it for obvious reasons. it was revolutionary, the story was great, the animation was well done, and it was very intelligent.sorry if anyone hates me for this. i'm sure i'll have naruto fans gnawing on my arms and legs at otakon this year, but i'll just use the kamehameha on em <!--emo&:P--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Well, I watched it just because of the hype and honestly, I don't think it's that good either. Naruto's (the character) is annoying with all the "bayo"s. It's not that bad for me though. There are worse stuff... think Pokemon - they even had a commercial airplane covered with the Pokemon design. I think the reason why Naruto caught up was because it made school fun XD You learn to be a ninja. Guess it's better than maths, science and english to all the students hahaAlthough I'm glad it's going to be subbed still.

I laughed when i read kalico's post, it's so funny!<!--QuoteBegin-kalicodreamz+Feb 17 2005, 12:08 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(kalicodreamz @ Feb 17 2005, 12:08 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->well, i'm sorry.  but if i have to sit through 16 episodes for it to get good, then it's not a good series.  it needs to grab me in the first 3.  if it can't captivate me with it's story, character or artwork by the third episode, it's not worth watching. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->yah, the first episode is usually the one that does it for me. the next few episodes are usually the 'character development' episodes, then it's the useless fillers, then the actual story. but the first episode is the key, it determines whether i continue watching or i throw the series in the garbage. the climax of the series will determine whether it enters my 'anime bukuro' of good titles. <!--emo&:P--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> too bad they've been some great first episodes that are bogged down by a less-than-good subsequent episodes (champloo immediately comes to mind). the recent top wo nerae 2 2nd episode raw was another disappointment. recently, the first episode of sukisyo was a rude shock. <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo--> no yaoi plz.... <!--emo&:P--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:rolleyes:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo--> i started reading naruto a really long time before the anime came out. initially, it was an interesting story with ordinary ninjas (with not-so-inhuman abilities) and the cool kakashi. now, the enemies and abilities are getting more and more DBZ-like..... i've stopped following the manga for a while now, after the part where a certain someone morphs into a DBZ character with son-goku hair and dark skin. <!--emo&;)--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-baik!+Feb 16 2005, 06:36 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(baik! @ Feb 16 2005, 06:36 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->i laughed when i read kalico's post, it's so funny!

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<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->HA!damn RIGHT i'm funny loldidn't get to the dmz morphing part.got to the annoying main character and went..."HELLLLLL NoO!"hey, at least i can say i gave it a chance lol