#Naruto as sumaru series#
The themes in Naruto are seen in a lot of shounen manga (meaning you will recognize them veterans might even find them hackneyed), but I think Kishimoto weaves them into the story in a way that is more meaningful than some others I have read, in part because his characters are realistically flawed, which gives more weight to the messages as relevant beyond their medium and is one reason why I enjoy the series so much. However, disagreeing with a theme is not the same as the theme not being there). (Note: It is likely that different people will have different interpretations and different reactions to the same messages. Other times it is a conversation surrounding a topic.
Sometimes a theme is a clearly stated moral. So as not to cause confusion, I define "topic" as a concept and "theme" as a message that runs throughout an entire story. To do this I will examine several reoccurring themes in Naruto. The thesis of this essay is to establish a case for Naruto as the protagonist of a manga with a theme-driven purpose, and to demonstrate how Naruto is aptly positioned from the beginning of the story to the end to become a legendary hero among Shinobi. What rhetoric I use to make my point does so within the expectations I have for the story's genre. I expect the story to adhere to shounen manga tropes. It should be noted that I evaluate Naruto as a shounen manga. This essay is complicated in part because what started as an endeavor to make a statement about Naruto's character turned into a reflection of the entire manga as a cohesive story. But then I remembered that at one time it must not have been obvious. Also, the conclusion seemed so obvious after the fifth time that I didn't understand anymore what I was trying to explain. I'll be the first to admit it's rather…involved. It's difficult to evaluate a story in the middle of the telling, and I kept changing my mind. So I kept throwing them away and starting over. I wrote it several times, but the drafts were a jumbled mess for the most part.
I've been writing this essay since July 2008.
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