Beginner Japanese Book Club // Now Reading: ポケモンスペシャル

** ナルト - Naruto**

Summary Amazon.com:
“‘With a richly detailed background, complex, sympathetic characters, superb action and a main character who somehow balances tragedy with comedy, this is a series that delivers in every way. So strap on your leaf headband and join the oddest ninja in town. You won’t regret it. 4/5’ NEO magazine”

Availability
Amazon JP
Kindle

Personal Opinion
Though the story is told through Ninjas, it is still a story about people and getting through hardship. Naruto is a very lonely orphan with no friends and through their trials he grows as a person and finds his place, and becomes a beloved member of the society.

Naruto, being as popular as it is, might pull in new members to the book club (while others might have an aversion to it…)

Pros and Cons for the Book Club

Pros

  • Uses a lot of kanji, all with furigana (no wall of kana)
  • Uses rude language, which means a good bit of plain speech

Cons

  • Manga specific terminology

Pictures

First Three Pages of Chapter One


Additional Pages

Difficulty Poll
How much effort would you need to read this book?

  • No effort at all
  • Minimal effort
  • Just right
  • Challenging
  • Impossible, even with everyone’s help
  • I don’t know (please click this if you’re not voting seriously)

0 voters

.* I butchered the template somehow, couldn’t get it to work ^^; *

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