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Promoting and Supporting: Naruto 25th Anniversary Collab

Posted by ShangXian - November 27th, 2024


Hello everybody! Another promotion journal here and it's about one of the best-selling manga series of all time, having 250 million copies in circulation worldwide in 47 countries and regions, with 153 million copies in Japan alone and remaining 97 million copies elsewhere: I am referring to Naruto.


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Cover art of the first volume of the manga series Naruto, released in Japan by Shueisha on March 3, 2000 [1]

Source: Shueisha


This is the 25th anniversary of this series that makes use of cultural references from Japanese mythology, Buddhism and Confucianism, and to celebrate this @MBY98 started a nice collab in which you have to choose among the 72 volumes that make the manga series in order to create this collage of artworks. The collab is inspired by 40th Anniversary “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” in which various artists from the Japanese comic industry redrew volume covers of the Dragon Ball book series.


Only ONE cover per USER, meaning that you can only draw one cover, choose from the following list:


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As you can see there are still plenty of vacant covers to draw, so if you love this series and want to participate to this collab check this link below to the forum thread:


https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1536106/1


You will find more info about it and the rules to follow, now go, participate (if you want) and have fun! Believe it!


Copyright note [1]


This image is from a comic strip, webcomic or from the cover or interior of a comic book. The copyright for this image is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic or the writer(s) and/or artist(s) which produced the comic in question. It is believed that:


the use of low-resolution images of the cover of a comic book to illustrate:


-the issue of the comic book in question

-the periodical comic book series of which this issue is a part; or

-the copyrighted comic book character(s) or group(s) on the cover of the issue in question


or the use of low-resolution images of a single panel from a comic strip or an interior page of a comic book to illustrate:


-the scene or storyline depicted, or

-the copyrighted character(s) or group(s) depicted on the excerpted panel in question;


where no free alternative exists or can be created,


qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law

Thank you for understanding why I used the cover art of the first volume here in this blog.


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Comments

That sounds like an awesome idea.

@DoctorStrongbad

Thanks^^
Plus it's open to every style and skill level.

"You like Naruto? You're dead to me now..." ;)

I honestly 'do' despise 'Naruto', though. And for good measure: I also hate 'One Piece' - as well as _your_ favorite anime/manga, dear reader.

But I would never discriminate others just based on what they like or don't like.

No problem at all XD
I like this anime but it's not among the first three anime I love the most. I like the Buddhist elements present in it, especially the battle against Pain.

Same here, I hate Teen Titans Go but I would never hate or harass those who enjoy it. Live and let live^^

I second what Yatsufusa said, mostly because of the titular character, though I’m not too bothered about One Piece.
You did great promoting the series in this journal.

I like Naruto's underdog nature at the beginning of the series but my favourite character will always be Gaara. His character arc is quite intriguing and I love how he evolved during the series.
I don't mind Once Piece but the length of the series made me lose interest for the series.

Thank you! I tried with my very and extremely little influence, lol, to boost this collab since I would love to see all volumes drawn in different styles. You can already see how many cool artworks were made from this tag:

https://www.newgrounds.com/search/conduct/art?match=tags&tags=naruto25th

@ShangXian For me personally, I just found Naruto to be too aggressive, pretentious and pathetic when I saw just a few episodes of the series and he really just put me off from further investing.

It didn’t help that I later heard about him becoming an abusive father towards Boruto (who ironically I actually don’t have any problems with, as I recall Boruto being a LOT more positive than his dad).
But hey, this is all just coming from a guy who hardly knows anything else about Naruto, so feel free to correct me if I completely misunderstood him.

One Piece on the other hand does interest me occasionally, yet I am far too late to fully invest in such due to how long the franchise has been going for, so I just skipped straight to 5th Gear Monkey D. Luffy going Animaniacs on Kaido the Bad Dragon.

And those are some nice artworks you showed me as well. I wish for the best with your collab.^^