how did you pick up naruto manga?

[legarcon]

I remember i was in high school and i met this guy from my same class who happened to like Resident evil, then he introduced me to more of his friends and most of them used to talked a lot about naruto, at the beginning i thought this guys were just weirdos because i had seen people wearing headbands and covering one eye to imitate kakashi-

But since i sometimes felt left out of the conversations i decided to find out what this naruto thing was about, so i started watching naruto in toonami and after watching the zabuza arc i got caught by the intensity, the backstory and cool abiliities of the characters. I have to say that after Vote1 i left naruto once more because of the huge filler arc after part 1 but since people kept talking about naruto shippuden i decided to pick it up once more and i remember thinking that naruto shipudden was even cooler than part 1, it was up till pain invasion that i pick up the manga.

The funny thing is that most of the friends who introduced me to naruto dropped it while i kept reading it till the very end.

So how did you pick up naruto?
Discuss

 

[Pirate King]

watched anime when i aired on cartoon network, they dropped it so i stopped, this picked it back up like a year or 2 later with the manag

 

[brunette1cookie]

I was on Gaia Online and was told a lot of the accessories were because of Naruto. I had just moved to a new country in 8th grade and suddenly had a lot of time on my hands and started watching the anime in Japanese. By the end of the year, I caught up which was roughly Shippuuden episode 56. I stopped watching sometime after the Guren fillers. It was a filler with some blonde girl that Naruto and Sakura were protecting, I think another jinchuuriki was involved. After that, I saw that Hinata appeared close to confessing her love to Naruto in the manga (it ended up being about 4 chapters before) and I started reading from that point onward.

I went back and read all of part 1, never did read all of part 2, sadly. I went back and read the truth about Itachi though. I really should reread when I have the time. I made a lot of AMVs back in the day.

 

[Zebulonfox]

I remember that I was in 6th grade an all my friends at church were watching it or playing the games. one morning when I was getting ready for school and the anime was on so I watched it after I left for school that morning I thought I would give it a shot. I think I started the manga a little bit afterwards I think around the start of the shippuden story and I found this website were I tried to stay caught up with the manga until the end.

 

[Kaneki Kun]

Watched on Cartoonetwork when I was a kid then when they stopped showing it I picked up the manga in the stores.
Then I would just re-watch the series and re-read the manga over and over again till i heard about Shippuden, around that time they finally reached Sasuke and that's when I started watching the anime for Shippuden. Then I started reading the manga online around the Five Kage Arc summit I believe.

 

[069]

One day when I stumbled upon a Manga website and saw Naruto 3XX and clicked on it.
Then I read the chapter and then every other chapter leading onto it.

I bookmarked it and here we are today.

 

[Cruciatus]

Realized that fillers existed and that anime was a waste of time, therefore manga :|

 

[Funky Tiger]

got bored of the anime after akatsuki died out, then picked up the mango

 

[Norman Bates]

Emma told me about it.