TOW #19 (Visual) Naruto: the Last trailer

     Here's a topic a little new to my TOWs, anime. I have a passion for manga and anime, especially a manga called "Naruto" that recently ended after 14 years of popularity. Naruto is considered one of Japan's greatest mangas and has been within the world's top five best selling mangas since 2001, the year of its first release. In commemoration of Naruto, there is a movie even coming to America on February 21, in which Steven Sung and I will watch in New Jersey. The trailers for the movie are extremely exciting to me and I've been watching them and preparing myself for the movie for the past week and a half. One particular trailer uses scenes from the manga and a timeline of the entire story to remind viewers history of Naruto and how much they love Naruto in order to get more people to watch the movie.

     This trailer uses scenes from the manga to remind viewers of their love Naruto. Naruto has many epic moments and the trailer tries to capture all of it. Every person that has read Naruto through the mangas knows the scenes that appear on the trailer, the scene where he learns his first ninja jutsu, the scene where he blocks a punch with his head for his friend, his battle with Sasuke, his first attempt at sage mode (that's the part where his pupils turn into blocks), and his emergence as the Sage of Six Paths. Now this undoubtedly will not make sense to people who don't know Naruto, but for a fan, this is 14 years of his life that he dedicated to Naruto and lived with Naruto. The trailer captures these nostalgic and emotional moments through the actual scenes in the manga which makes the Naruto loving audience have the need to watch this last movie of Naruto.

      The trailer also follows a timeline format where it starts with the young Naruto and as the trailer goes on, the story of Naruto also goes on. The very beginning of the trailer shows Naruto being born and his young self. As time went on, Naruto grew and Naruto got stronger. The trailer shows the momentous moments in Naruto's life, the suffering he went through, the enemies he faced, the friends he made, the friends he lost. The fan is reminded of his life with Naruto and 14 years of growth. To myself personally, this trailer made me sort of sad since I knew that the anime and manga that I loved for my whole life was ending and this movie was going to be its last mark in history. This made me want to watch the trailer even more because the timeline system reminded me of Naruto's growth and my growth with him which made me really need to watch this movie. I know it may sound silly to "grow with a fictional character," but when something has been a part of your life for almost the whole of it, it becomes very real, and this trailer wants to remind me of that.