Well, Naruto was the third manga to be translated into Dutch, so my mom bought it for me because she thought it would be interesting. I started reading it, thought it weird at first because the main character was an orange wearing (what kind of ninja wears orange for god's sake?) too loud, idiotic boy, but after a few mangas he grew on me

I actually started watching Shippuden first because those have Dutch subtitles while the first series have only French (I collect them now with English subtitles, well the first series anyway)
Now I've started collecting the mangas in English because the English version is much further than the Dutch one ^^;