History Naruto / AnimeAndOthers

** In the manga, Iruka stops being an influential character past the first few chapters, and we never get to see him fight. The "Mizuki Strikes Back" {{filler}} arc changes that, revisiting Iruka's important role in Naruto's life and letting him take front stage in dealing with Mizuki again. Later in the story the audience do get a reminder of how important Iruka is to Naruto (when Iruka fails to persuade Naruto to stand down and not join the war; Killer Bee comments that if Iruka couldn't do it, ''no one'' could). But as far as seeing Iruka in a fight goes, that's still a place only the anime ever bothers going to.

** When Tobi is [[TheReveal revealed]] to be Obito the manga has a flashback to his life prior to and immediately after his "death." The anime takes the opportunity to expand on that idea and launch a {{filler}} arc covering the time span between ''Kakashi Gaiden'' and the series proper.
** The Ten-Tails' wooden stake assault on the Alliance brought two expansions:
*** In the manga, Naruto throws a series of three Rasen-shurikens towards random spots in the air, deflecting a small portion of stakes and saving himself and some others. In the anime, he throws ''[[UpToEleven five]]'' Rasen-shurikens straight at the source, disabling five of the beast's tails and saving many more people.
*** Sakura jumps right at Kakashi's side as if she saw a rat or something. In the anime, she pulls up an entire section of dirt like it was sod, shielding herself and another person from the attack.
** In the manga, those [[spoiler: caught in the Infinite Tsukuyomi were only given a single panel of their idea world and only lasted for a few pages]]. The anime, and doubling as another filler, [[spoiler: go much more in-depth of what's happening in their fake world. They are also aware they are in a fake world at first but unfortunately succumb to the Genjutsu at the end]].

* CCGImportanceDissonance

** If you have to name the character who [[AdaptationalBadass got the most mileage]] out of this, it's probably Hinata. In the manga you'd be hard-pressed to find her enjoying even a single fleeting moment of triumph. In the Anime she's learned a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big Lipped Alligator Jutsu]] involving a [[EleventyZillion gazillion]] laser beams, landed solid hits on seemingly undefeatable villains and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking won a ramen eating contest]]. The anime team didn't bother to hide their fondness of her -- they even spent an omake on {{Lampshading}} it.

** Many characters are missing from important events and they are accounted for in the anime. After being knocked out by Kabuto during the chunin exams, Hinata was kidnapped by Cloud Ninja who wanted her eyes. She is saved by Kiba, Akamaru, Tenten, Neji, and [[spoiler: Hiashi]] who were missing from that part of the arc.
** When Tobi is [[TheReveal revealed]] to be Obito the manga has a flashback to his life prior to and immediately after his "death". The anime takes the opportunity to expand on that idea and launch a {{filler}} arc covering the time span between ''Kakashi Gaiden'' and the series proper.

** If you have to name the character who [[AdaptationalBadass got the most mileage]] out of this, it's probably Hinata. In the manga you'd be hard-pressed to find her enjoying even a single fleeting moment of triumph. In the Anime she's learned a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big Lipped Alligator Jutsu]] involving a [[EleventyZillion gazillion]] laser beams, landed solid hits on seemingly undefeatable villains and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking won a ramen eating contest]]. The anime team aren't bothering to hide their fondness of her (they even spent an omake on {{Lampshading}} it).

''Here be spoilers. Anything that has not been aired on the free version[[note]]one week after the paid version[[/note]] of [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Naruto_Shippuden Crunchyroll]] should be spoiler-tagged.''

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* {{Filler}}: Before the TimeSkip, filler made up 38% of the entire series, including 85 episodes in a row. These mostly consisted of various examples of DefeatMeansFriendship, fights against blatant {{Filler Villain}}s and several one-shots of slapstick/potty humor, all with no plot relevance; by the end it was being described by fans as a form of torture. Initially Shippuuden has taken to spreading out the filler arcs, probably to keep this from happening ever again. There's also clearly been a shift from three-episode pointlessness to AdaptationExpansion :The Ninja Guardians arc featured an expanded backstory for a character who probably wasn't going to get another chance to have one; the Three Tails arc created a story arc of 22 episodes out of an event that took all of half an issue in the manga; and the Six-tails Unleashed had one of the jinchuriki as it's protagonist. Unfortunately this ended with the post-Pain's Invasion filler arcs which returned to the random formula told in {{Flashback}}s. The it was taken UpToEleven during the Ten-Tails attack, that got almost as much filler shoved in between plotpoints of a single arc, as the above mentioned filler saga of Part 1. In the end, out of Shippuuden's 500 episodes, 203 were filler.

* {{Filler}}: Before the TimeSkip, filler made up 38% of the entire series, including 85 episodes in a row. These mostly consisted of various examples of DefeatMeansFriendship, fights against blatant {{Filler Villain}}s and several one-shots of slapstick/potty humor, all with no plot relevance; by the end it was being described by fans as a form of torture. Thankfully Shippuuden has taken to spreading out the filler arcs, probably to keep this from happening ever again. There's also clearly been a shift from three-episode pointlessness to AdaptationExpansion (The Ninja Guardians arc featured an expanded backstory for a character who probably wasn't going to get another chance to have one; the Three Tails arc created a story arc of 22 episodes out of an event that took all of half an issue in the manga).

*** In the manga, Naruto throws a series of 3 Rasen-shurikens towards random spots in the air, deflecting a small portion of stakes and saving himself and some others. In the anime, he throws ''[[UpToEleven five]]'' Rasen-shurikens straight at the source, disabling 5 of the beast's tails and saving many more people.

*** In the manga, Naruto throws a series of 3 Rasen-shurikens towards random spots in the air, deflecting a small portion of stakes and saving himself and some others. In the anime, he throws ''[[UpToEleven 5]]'' Rasen-shurikens straight at the source, disabling 5 of the beast's tails and saving many more people.

*** Sakura jumps right at Kakashi's side as if she saw a rat or something. In the anime, she pulls up an entire section of dirt like it was sod, shielding herself and others from the attack.

* TheMovie: Currently eight.

** Subverted in [[LuckySeven the seventh Shippuden movie]]. Since the movie is the {{canon}}ical bridge between the end of the manga and the DistantFinale epilogue, the "girl" of the movie is Naruto's [[OneTrueLove the main love interest]] in the series: [[spoiler:Hinata]]. The movie is the tale of how they fell in love and became the main OfficialCouple.

** Subverted in the seventh, canon, and final movie. Since the movie is a bridge between the end of the manga and the DistantFinale epilogue, the "girl" of the movie is one of the main love interests in the series: [[spoiler:Hinata]]. The film is ultimately a tale of how the two fell in love.

* OvertookTheManga: Resulted in an 85-episode stretch of {{Filler}} after the main events of Part 1, but got better in part 2. They now have the filler spread out more cautiously.

** The sixth Shippûden ending Features Sakura prominently, and makes the show look like it's a romance. While the previous one is ''only'' Hinata and makes it [[MoodWhiplash look like]] a SliceOfLife!

* ColonCancer: Exhibited by the video games ''Naruto: Ultimate Ninja: Storm'', ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm2'', ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStormGenerations'', ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm3'' and the PlayStationPortable game ''Naruto: Ultimate Ninja: Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress''. Technically, one could also insert a colon between "Naruto" and "Shippuden" in some of the titles.

* DissonantSerenity: Naruto Shippuden Ending 31. Not only the BigBad(for the current arc)is smilling while the giant roots of a tree are moving in the background and the moon turns red, but the music itself is cheery against a montage spanning several gory and/or sad moments of the manga and anime. This is intentional: the BigBad is a self-appointed Messiah of the human race that thinks he is saving it from suffering through his evil plan, and the final moments shows him getting closer to his objective with intermissions to his happy childhood memories with his best friend, with who he dreamed together of making the world a better place.

* In the original manga of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', versus the anime adaptation:

* BecauseImJonesy: A Naruto imposter has the misfortune of running into the real Naruto and comes off looking completely pathetic and ridiculous.

* CashCowFranchise

* SpinOff: ''Rock Lee's Springtime Of Youth'', a comical spin-off [[CaptainObvious centered around Rock Lee]], is published in the Jump's monthly.