Why Live-Action Naruto is Destined To Fail

With the great success of the One Piece live-action series, the question is: Could a Naruto live-action show work? There would be many challenges for this hypothetical Naruto live-action. Making things look good such as the outfits and world. Using good cgi for jutsus. And cast the proper actors for the roles.
We will be talking about how to adapt Naruto into live-action. Let's use the One Piece live-action series as a comparison to how they could create a live-action Naruto using the same formula.
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[@DygoKnight]

Would you watch a Naruto Live-Action series?

[@justinarzola4584]

Yes.

[@johnsmith0001]

Dpense who make it

[@ShadowMaster-jb2vr]

It depends

[@ryumple]

No.

[@alessandrolizzio6338]

No, the animation is part of the charm

[@luizricardo4165]

An Naruto adaptation westernizing the series for the western audience is literally what Boruto is

[@Cosmik60]

Cowboy lookin Boruto

[@kevinlezo1046]

Boruto is peak

[@LeDaddyJamesThe3rd]

@@kevinlezo1046💀💀💀

[@sebastienmagloire1139]

@@LeDaddyJamesThe3rdit’s true 😂

[@luizricardo4165]

@@kevinlezo1046 peak trash

[@mariohurtado4275]

Something that also helped one piece, is that the directors, producers and actors read one piece and where actually fans of it.

[@youpedia4614]

True. Especially the actors

[@Stefan0v1]

People, that doesn't matter one bit. People should understand that the only reason the series got to where it is, is because of Oda.. Oda didn't give the rights to his series away, he has complete control over everything... The series happens as he see fit. The directors can't even put one fart in the cut without asking Oda for permission. That's why the series was great and had success. Remember, the series should've launched 2 months earlier than it did, but Oda didn't like some things and probably reshoots and edits happened.. They gave a100m budget initially, so they were expecting about 12.5 mill per episode..They reached almost 18 mil per episode... I am not saying that the director or the cast is trying to push this show into politics and signaling, but someone from above...and with Oda in charge these things can't happen. My point is, if you want the show to have success, do what Oda did.. Have complete control over it..Don't let them change the material as they see fit..

[@intextor763]

@@Stefan0v1 The directors, producers and especially the actors reading one piece and being fans of it, is definitely one of the major reasons of its success. It doesn't lie all on Oda, a huge majority yes, but not all of it.

[@Dawg-ou3gd]

​@@Stefan0v1Sometimes that is not the case, Sometimes what a author wants to show on the show/Movie would not translate well to live action

[@Stefan0v1]

@@intextor763No , he actors were not fans..Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji were not fans.. Only Nami's actress was.. The directors were too, but what's to say they didn't like Cowboy Beebop?XD It's the same studio..and that failed hard due to politics.

[@ShatteredGlass916]

Step 1: Removed Kaguya entirely

[@justinarzola4584]

It would be interesting if they altered the ending closer to what Kishimoto may originally wanted,with either Obito or Madara as the Final villain and actually seeing Naruto become the Hokage and his marriage instead of that Boruto pilot that was the last manga chapter.

[@Avarn388]

@ShatteredGlass916 Agreed or if you want to have her, set her up better and not within the final arc with a horrendous exposition dump.

[@baeber]

​@@justinarzola4584this right here I want Madara to be the final boss

[@jdeleon5816]

no

[@ShatteredGlass916]

@@Avarn388 honestly, Kaguya fits better as Boruto's final boss. If Naruto ended with Madara as it's highest ceiling, then we can comfortably get introduced with Outsutsuki as the new villains in Boruto. Maybe have Kaguya pissed that somehow a human tapped into the power of Jyuubi/ Ten Tails despite it supposedly sealed and tucked away safely

[@ayhamahmad2277]

I hope they allow kishimoto change and improve and fix the story allow him to aid the arc like he wanted

[@scorpionor9865]

Especially the last arc. Lol

[@user-md5vw7ec6n]

@@scorpionor9865 thats not his fault just like kubo kishimoto had to rush his ending because of shinsuei just as kubo had to rush bleach for the same reason. Still, the only difference is that kubo can now change his ending while kishimoto has to stick with the desision he made. Now he is doing boruto so hes most likely never changing or doing anything with naruto so i hope they change some things with the show.

[@whiteknights8812]

Kishimoto wont do shit..just like how he aint do shit with how shit boruto are

[@scorpionor9865]

@@user-md5vw7ec6n Not really, he watsed too much screen time on Uchiha, there are many unnecessary events were setup but didn't pay off. He changed the direction of the story to become too complicated without contributing or reinforcing the world building that was already very well established in the first half.

[@ayhamahmad2277]

​@@scorpionor9865he original wanted to have more arc before the chunin exam but they didn't allow him to do that and they told him to end at chapter 700 and he wanted to end because he was tired it's one of the issues In the weekly manga he even missed his father ferinal his dad passed during the war arc and got married in 2003 but never got to his honeymoon until he was finished with Naruto in 2015 and got injured as well

[@ElectricalMatthew]

If they made a live action I’m curious to see how the Jutsu’s would look especially things like shadow clones

[@rascoehunter3608]

Shadow Clones would be hard to do because human skin is still hard to animate in CGI.

[@pkj2148]

​@@younes5813Most action movies are Taijutsu. It is the Ninjutsu that will look goofy. I'm surprised that you think Naruto would look goofy even though One Piece didn't. One Piece is much more goofy than Naruto.

[@pkj2148]

​@@rascoehunter3608You don't need CGI for that. There are so many ways of placing multiple versions of the same actor in the same scene. That's how you have movies where one actor plays twins, and both appear at the same time on camera.

[@kohaiame2691]

​@@younes5813Eh, I've seen some fanmade live action naruto fights that didn't look too bad. The fights are possible considering a lot of it is martial arts. I can also forgive bad cgi too if they get the characters and story right; but tbh I don't have much faith there. Personally I think the biggest problems would be if they'd be able to get the casting right, and how they adapt the story plot.

[@namillion1120]

@@younes5813 how would taijutsu look corny? Have you never seen a well choreographed fight in a movie before?

[@calvintrombone]

How to adapt Naruto into live action: Don’t

[@slevinchannel7589]

One Word: Plot Holessss! Oh s-it, that's 2 words

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

Naruto's hair being yellow instead of blonde like Tsunade, Ino and Bee is a problem. Lee's massive circular gollum eyes are a problem. Everybody excluding the Kumogakure residents being vaguely Japanese/East Asian but also kinda White so they're all vaguely somewhere on the whasian scale with facial structures falling somewhere in one category(Shikamaru, all of the Uchiha, Guy, Gaara, Tenten, Hinata)/the other (Minato, Kakashi, Deidara, Nagato)/or both (Minato, Kakashi, Deidara, Nagato, Naruto, Sakura, Temari), sometimes changing between scenes is gonna be hard to translate to live action; plus the Kumogakure ninja being either black, blasian, or blwhasian, it's just gonna be really weird to get each of the characters to look right.

[@rascoehunter3608]

Naruto SFX wise would just be too expensive. Almost everything the ninja's do is a special effect.

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

@@rascoehunter3608 Not to mention either having an insane makeup budget to give everybody their unique hair & eye colors, or spending all the extra time to do it in CG. Just having them on screen chilling & eating ramen is already expensive asf lmao. And I haven't even gotten to the dojutsu yet.

[@LoopyLemon775]

⁠@@MarioTheLiopleurodon It’s rather simple? Get Asians to play most of the hidden leaf and other villages like the hidden cloud can have black and white people 🤷

[@John-jc3ty]

in naruto live action they could be 15 or even 17 yo, it really doesnt matter much. also this way, a hashirama flashback showing actual 12 yo killing each other would really hit hard.

[@dragoonfirestorm1171]

There were a lot of changes to the One Piece live action you totally missed. 1) Garp/Koby plot was added with Oda's resistance for Western audiences since tv is usually done with 2 or more concurrent plots 2) A lot of scenes were moved indoors to have better quality and to use less resources. 3) It wasn't just minor characters that were cut. The order of events were changed to meet the truncated format. 4) The show was a labor of love with easter eggs everywhere. Some things that were hard to execute were cut, but where possible they did a nod to them. Even things like Ussop's nose and Sanji's eyebrows. 5) The characters were changed while retaining the heart of the characters. Luffy was a little less dumb and meat hungry and Sanji wasnt a perv. They toned down the right things to make it work. 6) While the live action didn't hit all of the emotional points of the anime it hit many of them, and most fans agree some moments may have hit harder than the original anime. 7) The live action captured a sense of adventure. The fantasy elements were well thought out in the world building they did for the live action, which differed a bit from the anime. Like in the anime deaths were msotly for flashbacks and crew walks an inconclusive line if they ever killed. 8) The action scense didn't take priority over the storytelling and the characters were not 1-dimensional. Even though Mihawk had only brief scenes and half was action, he was able to command attention. I'd love if he even got his own spinoff. His characterization was just amazing and memorable, Buggy too.

[@afanzatara5139]

Thisss! People need to read this!

[@LuisHSK]

Yes, you are correct! Everyone in the op la production loved one piece, that's why It worked!

[@naranciaghirga750]

Garp and koby have extra new scenes yea i completely totally missed that

[@WieldMyWord]

The OP adaption was cringe, and kinda rushed and stuff like Zeff eating his own foot makes no sense (I know its in the manga, but the anime adaption did it better). The soundtrack was god awful and gives a cheap "Pirates of the caribbean" knockoff and sometimes during the scenes its like the marines assumes its the "Straw Hat Pirates" when they never gave a name or showed off their sail flag (they only had a bootleg one but it was never put on the Going Merry) until the very end of the season. Also silly stuff like Zoro bending his Wado Ichimonji when he rolled due to cheap material they used on set.. people saying the OP adaption was good have smoked something, because its nothing different compared to past live action stuff and the only exception is due to high budget and decent actors that carried the whole show.

[@naranciaghirga750]

@@WieldMyWord anime only see the manga in the manga zedf eats his foot

[@twelfthknight]

The biggest issue with a Naruto adaptation is that they would definitely want to age-up the characters -- yes, yes, there are examples of successful media with child actors like Harry Potter and Stranger Things but none of them have their premise be children participating in bloody conflicts as essentially soldiers like with Naruto. Which is what Genin are, despite how the manga tries to frame using pre-teens as natural and acceptable. It would not realistically go over well in live action, especially in the West. So, yeah, the producers would want to age them up to whatever age they deem violence as permissible.

[@Heavenly9999]

The stage play Song of the Akatsuki had pretty good costuming which was a good balance between looking like the original designs while also looking like real clothes someone would wear. The bane of all live action anime designs will always be the hair which almost always looks so bad.

[@hobbyhorse5848]

Since you brought up the hair, there would probably half to be significant changes to the styling to make the hair styles more achievable because well…if they try to recreate them 1 for 1 then characters like Kakashi, Sasuke, Naruto etc will look like they’re in a visual kei band. I actually think costuming will be difficult too for the Akatsuki…it seems like every costume I’ve seen has failed to recreate the silhouette of the Akatsuki cloaks while also making them look lightweight.

[@user-md5vw7ec6n]

@@hobbyhorse5848 fr the main problem is the naruto hair and also narutos whiskers like that is what i like about naruto as a anime I like how kishimoto makes his charatcers look foreign looking but at the same time he makes them pull it off, but as a live action its i don't know but besides team 7 everyone hair should be easy.

[@hobbyhorse5848]

⁠​⁠@@user-md5vw7ec6n I don’t necessarily think hair would even be impossible…but you either have to commit to a specific creative aesthetic or just not. The hair and clothing styles of Naruto characters ESPECIALLY part 1 draw heavily from early to late 2000s Japanese fashion and styles which itself was influential in the west as well … OPLA shows us that if you commit to a distinct aesthetic vision people will just accept it at face value. imo I would actually want a Japanese cast speaking Japanese with Hollywood production value for a LA Naruto.

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

@@hobbyhorse5848 For Sasuke's hair in live action, a good reference is Noctis from Final Fantasy 15; he literally just looks like a rip-off of Sasuke. As for Naruto, I'm more concerned about the color of his hair - since it's distinctly bright yellow, not blonde like Tsunade & Ino. The yellow might not look that good in live action, but would making him just a normal blonde hurt Naruto's appearance? Minato is the *yellow* flash, not the blonde flash so I really don't know.

[@user-md5vw7ec6n]

@@hobbyhorse5848 i never said it would be impossible i said it would be hard plus lets be honest the way naruto looks hes just better off staying as a anime character cause it would look so weird to see his whiskers in live action espicially since all i see how they would do his whiskers is by drawing them on.

[@aceknowledgable9403]

I believe 12-16 episodes per season which could help develop the most important characters AND not be rushed or slowed down like in the anime. Also, more writers could help Kishimoto fix Sakura and other female characters, plot holes like the power scaling of the Hokage, and the plot twist of Black Zetsu introducing Kaguya. But that would depend on who these other writers are.

[@slevinchannel7589]

One Word: Plot Holessss! Oh s-it, that's 2 words so my comment has a Plot Hole

[@ShonenKing]

I wouldn't put much hope into the live action adaption fixing these issues to begin with. Netflix already had lots of controversy with how they handled Cowboy Bebop with it's choices and people who like Naruto would just want it to be adapted accurately. It's not that it can't be done, but expecting this adaption to "fix" things such as plot holes in a long running anime series from the 2000s, is really challenging. Especially with the people who write this stuff not understanding a thing about Naruto.

[@aceknowledgable9403]

@@narendrakadam3894 That wouldn't work. I think more episodes like 12-16 is better for more important moments while still keeping a good pace based on the manga.

[@SamuelSouza-di6nq]

Not enough money

[@Sev7nthHeaven-qz1cz]

@@ShonenKing that studio that made the cowboy bebop are the one who made the One Piece lol...

[@m1bl4n]

Why do people always forget about Rurouni Kenshin? That live action adaptation was stellar.

[@drollyrancher7020]

It was. They somehow made the fight scenes seem realistic while also being anime-like ridiculous

[@samar9614]

My first fav live action adaptation

[@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr]

I don’t think those ones were Hollywood or Netflix though. They weren’t for the western market, I don’t think. Weren’t they Japanese? I know they’re on Netflix now, but I don’t think they were always.

[@TheOne11111]

I like Kenshin a lot. The difference between Kenshin and other superpower anime is any characters from Kenshin don't any special goofy looking superpower and most of them are just Samurai. Kenshin movies are same with the classic samurai movies. It is like comparing with Martial Art movies and Supernatural movies.

[@nikhilhembrom8952]

Ruronin kenshin is not power fantasy it is set in real world so it is easier to adapt

[@Unwantedbroacast]

Following the original story is the key to all adaptions and keep it simple. Other most important factor is finding a cast of new actors who love the source material. Lastly I be afraid that Sakura would be a girl boss.

[@multifandomdg1357]

if its kishimoto, she might be able to rewrite her properly this time. Maybe she'll end up being like nobara or sarada. I hope she gets some background fights cuz she's pretty much useless till the timeskip

[@jdeleon5816]

NOBARA?! Ya'll just saying anything. Nobara sucks and has been missing for 70% of the manga. Nobara is the definition of "muh girlboss" screw that@@multifandomdg1357

[@KegaB3]

i think the biggest thing is to take inspiration from the same real life things the creator took inspiration from. like the design of the konoha shinobi i feel could look really really damn good in live action. i dont know how they would tackle naruto yet but alvida looked good in one piece, she was intimidating AND goofy. a perfect balance.

[@suh-guy]

It's how Japan looked back during Kishimoto's youth.

[@KegaB3]

@@suh-guy but with lots of small additions, modern amenities in rural japan

[@panzerslayer1158]

My thought is that if a Naruto live action series was made it could possibly improve upon things narratively, but it could also lose some of its meaning as well. For example I think they could flesh out Sasuke's fall to the dark side more and possibly have Obito involved earlier on. There's also the possibility that the live action series would try something different like having Naruto's generation be around 17-19 and adapt more of Shippuden while still doing certain things from part 1.

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

Definitely needs more Naruto-Sasuke interaction. We don't get enough in Part 1, so Naruto just seems weirdly desperate in getting Sasuke back during Shippuden. If they were closer, did more small missions together, trained together more, did more Team-7 shenanigans, etc, it would show a much closer bond than we got in the manga & anime. This would make Naruto's relentless pursuit of Sasuke make more sense and carry more weight. They can still be rivals, but with more onscreen history to make Sasuke's dissertion that much more impactful. Other things like cleaning up retcons, having Obito involved earlier, hinting at the final Big Bads (plus fixing Madara's death if they still add Kaguya) would also be nice.

[@maxwellwelcome6810]

They could also try to somehow make Sakura a better character

[@caramelcandys]

I just hope sakura gets more characterization

[@txtzx]

And delete kaguya's existence, please

[@Andrewwwwwww]

Some cuts that would make sense for the story would be like cutting the number of sound ninja, and then making sasuke fight one of the main 3 sound ninja. I would agree that the whole chi in exams can be cut down, many fights are not necessary for how much time they take. preliminaries one episode, training, the finals, and the crush arc can be the last 3 episodes. The finals can be cut down to Naruto’s and sasuke’s fights, so it wouldn’t even be a full episode to cover, leaving 1.5-2 eps at least for the finale with gaara

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

Ik budget is a big concern but they *need* at least 12-16 episodes, 45min-1hour each *at a minimum.*

[@JalebJay]

Alice in Borderland was a great live action manga they released past 2 years. Would recommend to watch that one too.

[@kennygadden676]

THAT WAS A MANGA? I'm starting that shit today. I was hooked on the show the entire way through.

[@JalebJay]

@@kennygadden676 Along with 2 spin off mini-series.

[@Lupinemancer87]

In case some people are already starting to complain that Naruto "should be japanese" which I've also heard lots of people say about the Live Action One Piece cast. I don't remember where, and it has been many years since I read it, but I'm sure I remember it being in an interview, or something. But basically Kishimoto stated that the characters in Naruto aren't neccesarily Japanese, and if he was to pick a place they would be from IRL then Sasuke would be Japanese, but Naruto would be Nordic, due to his blonde hair and blue eyes. Correct me if I'm wrong, cuz admittably, is has been many years. But I'm sure I saw that somewhere.

[@hobbyhorse5848]

Kishimoto actually drew photorealistic drawings of Naruto and Sasuke during one of the cover pages for one of the last 10 or so chapters in Shippuden and he depicted them both as having Japanese facial features, but Naruto still having his hair. So Naruto and Sasuke would be Japanese. The only characters that are racially different are the black cloud villagers and the darker skinned people from the waterfall village like Fu and Kakuzu

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

The Uchiha, Shikamaru, and a couple other characters are definitely Japanese and have East Asian features. Naruto seems to have an Asian face but blue eyes and yellow hair. The problem with a live action version is that Naruto isn't blonde. We've seen plenty of blondes in the anime & manga: Ino, Tsunade, the Kumogakure residents, etc. Naruto and Minato have distinctly *yellow* hair, and idk if it would translate well to live action. They could just make him blonde or something, but idk how that would go over - but the same applies if they just kept the yellow hair.

[@LXnobia]

it would make sense if nordic culture actually exist in naruto world but its not, everything are related to japanese culture and folklore. Everybody living and follow japanese rule, art, even food. it’s not the same with One Piece at all where every culture in our world actually references, even taco exist in One Piece. Kishimoto should show it in his manga than just talk in interview.

[@robotboy765]

​@@hobbyhorse5848kishimoto literally said Naruto and Sakura are white but okay.

[@LoopyLemon775]

Many people love using the kishimoto Q and A to justify the whitewashing of naruto, the thing is Naruto doesn’t really look white? He has a Japanese face he just has yellow hair and blue eyes mainly for aesthetic reasons. It’s the same case with sailor moon? 🤷 It’s easy to just get a asian kid to play naruto.

[@jonahsampson4843]

They should do season 1 -land of waves arc. Season 2- first half of chunin exams- season 3- Chunin conclusion/Konaha crush. My reasoning is that the land of waves arc would be a great first season to test viewership. The climax is KakashixZabuza and Haku, which isn’t super hard CGI. Chunin exams starts getting more expensive, so save that for season 2 to make sure you are going to get your money back

[@vannieuwenbergwilliam7792]

The issue is that the Land of Waves is way too short to be an entire season. I think One Piece had the right rythme in the adaptation, never too long or too short on each part of the plot, 1st season went to the point when they left the East Blue for the next part of the world. In Naruto, it would mean eps 1-2 LoW, eps 3-4 1st+2nd stage and eliminatory matches, ep 5 training for finals, 6 final matches and beginning of crush, 7 pursuit, a bit of the background fights, beginning of Orochimaru vs Hiruzen, 8 conclusion of the fights and Naruto wins against Gaara, consequences of the Konoha crush (Hiruzen's death ceremony, Naruto's will reinforced or his values shaken, Sasuke acknowledging Naruto when talking to Sakura, bird view of the damage of the crush on Konoha, then the characters walk around town and help the people rebuild) and then a teaser of s2 with Jiraiya taking Naruto out and Kisame and Itachi heading for Konoha with a few lines in an ominous ambient.

[@chrismejia7627]

act 1: we get intoduced to team 7, we get sasuke and narutos backstory. we have a few scenes to portray the village and the villagers and how they treat naruto do a bit of world building within the village. we also get the bell test to end act 1. act 2: we get team 7 mision to escort the bridge builder, we get introduced to the main villian, Zabuza, then we can have them traveling and meet challanges along the way with them thinking kakashi beat zabuza and we get a training sequence to really end act 2. act 3: the bridge fight. basically the story could be about team work and learning about the shinobi world forcing naruto to growup out his antic ways and he can learn this from zabuza kakashi and haku and learning how to work as part of a team with sasuke and we need that rivalry to be there from the jump. with a good budget they can pull it off. you cant really do other arcs because the naruto world just gets bigger and bigger so why not start from the beginning

[@jager3090]

Perfect. And then this way, you can dedicate the entire season to the Chunin Exams. Have the big climax be Naruto vs Gaara then have Sasuke leave. And then the team rolling out to go bring back Sasuke will be your big cliffhanger for the end of S2

[@chrismejia7627]

@@jager3090 u can’t forget search for tsunade arc but that arc is short so u can do like 2-3 episodes where Naruto is training to do the rasengan while they look for her than we can get the 3 way deadlock as like a mid season finale

[@elrick44]

the preliminaries are actually pretty easy to fix with a bit of rearranging.you start with Sasuke's match which would lead into a montage of the less important fights (Shino v Zaku, Sakura v Ino, Choji v Dosu, Tenten v Temari, etc) then when you come back for main fights, I'd have it go something like Naruto v Kiba, then Gaara v Lee and then end the preliminaries on Neji v Hinata as our cliffhanger due to Naruto vowing to beat him.

[@Cacany99]

Fuck that i wanna see zaku vs shino that was one of my favourite fights

[@elrick44]

@@Cacany99 it's a great fight, I especially want to keep the bit from the manga where Zaku's arm gets blown off, but sacrifices would have to be made for the pacing. I didn't say it in my initial comment, but my favorite character in the show (Kankuro) is on the montage block.

[@coreyadams8630]

I liked the video DygoKnight wouldnt mind hearing more on this from you. 💪👍

[@itachisusanoo3689]

kishimoto has always been a movie buff of some sort. He's talked about producers in interviews. He's the one who suggested the producer for the anime i think.

[@bafbaas1210]

i think they'd have to age the characters to like 15, otherwise they'll lose the grimyness of the series. The anime could get away with it but idk if a life action could

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

Stranger things style could work. Young looking actors playing vaguely tweenish-teenage kids around 12-14 (actors ~15), then in shippuden they're vaguely older-teenish like 18 (when the actors are 18 or older). It could work. I'm just concerned with Naruto's hair; Tsunade, Ino and Bee are blonde, but Naruto's hair is different - it's bright yellow. I don't think that would translate well to live action, but I also don't know how well making him just a normal blonde would go.

[@renab.7390]

Yeah. If they pick actors who look young for their age they could even cast 18-19 year olds and pretend they're younger.

[@joshuareid4654]

My thinking is, if they are going to do a live action Naruto. Use the episodes outisde of the focus of Naruto to expand the worldbuilding and Konoha 11 BEFORE the Chunin Exams. Perhaps show the other teams or have mission reports be ABOUT the other teams. That way Season 2 (IF there is a season 2) can begin with the Chunin Exams.

[@legoroan9866]

The anime already has so much filler. Are you asking there to be more?? Anyway. Doing that would prevent it from being about Naruto imo. Not only that but it would pad the runtime so hard

[@joshuareid4654]

@@legoroan9866 I think it doesn't have to follow the story soo closely that it forgets about the characters. It's why I said, we might not need to see them until the Chunin Exams, but at least mention or imply the other Konoha 11 BEFORE the Chunin exams. That's what I meant.

[@10weslleynereu]

Thats what we want! Not only the adaptation, this video about it too hehe

[@christianduncan3801]

I believe they should make each arc into a movie and combine extremely closely relate arcs into movies. Clombine the Prologue and Land of Waves, Chunin Exams and Konoha Crush. However, certain arcs need to be left as their own movies, such as Search for Tsunade and Sasuke Recovery. Hopefully they bring in Kishimoto so we see what is truly canon.

[@irishdarwindavid5537]

I think Naruto Live action will be quite hard to work for casting especially looking for young looking teens that has some Martial arts skills.

[@needsanameedit4982]

I would prefer if Kishimoto was allowed to re-do the entire series in a manga or anime format to fix the giant plotholes, story inconsistency and terrible fight scaling.

[@Neamio]

Agreed lol

[@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr]

With the announcement of The One Piece. That might be a possibility with all the remakes coming out now.

[@ayhamahmad2277]

Give him more time like a monthly manga because most of Naruto issues comes form the weekly manga because kishimoto has time limit to deliver in time and it won't effect his health and some arc like hidan arc was rushed because of the weekly manga and freedom because original he wanted to have more before the chunin exams but the editor forced him to cut down and allowing him to kill some characters like guy because the only reason he is alive because he was pupuler kishimoto is a great writer but he needs more time and freedom writing in the weekly manga is a nightmare

[@THE_Number_ONE_1_HATER]

Tom Holland as a Naruto💀 not my Spider-Man, I’m terrified like he can play a lot of characters sure, but not fucking Naruto

[@LoopyLemon775]

agreed maybe he can be cee from naruto 🤷

[@clownzii3222]

I feel like monster would be perfect for a live action adaptation, I really just want some more monster content so a live action show could be pretty cool

[@user-in3qr2nl5g]

i agree monster is one of my fav mangas an live action remake would be fire

[@__babyghoul]

Same

[@strider_hiryu850]

18:08 another option is to end season 1 at the end of Land of Waves arc. this would give the story more time to breathe in 8, 50+ minute episodes. we could then get a Chunin Exams/Konoha Crush season. and then a Search for Tsunade/Sasuke Retrieval season. i know this goes against the 95 chapter template set out by One Piece, so one option is to add more scenes from the prequel chapters. or extended canon "filler" scenes, such as Sasuke vs the Demon Brothers for example. 24:12 yeah i mean the child actors thing would be a huge problem. i think going for 14 year olds is a pretty good compromise. they'll (in theory) be a little more convincing in their roles, it's still young enough that it gets the message across of child soldiers but still old enough that it doesn't quite feel like a kids show. it'll still be a problem to find good enough actors at that age. but also, part of the charm of Naruto is that he does act like a kid. he's goofy, reckless, hot headed, highly emotional, etc. so, it might not be as big a problem as we think!

[@ryumple]

Short answer: no. Just how much CGI would be needed for the kaiju fights?

[@milliondoller06]

Many people are going find out especially with one piece it's second season when they have a lot more stuff to work with like a literal creature like chopper. The first season is already a budget as being one of the most expensive show ecer

[@ryumple]

@@milliondoller06 With Chopper, they would need to go practical effects given how important he is. It might look better than some of the hollywood CG has been. The CG in the LA was decent but also brief.

[@Iamstaringatursearchhistory]

​​@@milliondoller06i hope they get the rock to play chopper

[@bullettime1116]

​@@Iamstaringatursearchhistoryi want to hear the rock sing tony tony chopper now

[@MikkieDAgoat1455]

Bro I’m not even kidding my grandma watched one piece live and when she told me I literally dropped dead

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

I am so fascinated you are using classic Ragnarononline Music as background ^^ hah

[@TheNisjerrit]

"Naruto is the Most popular Anime of all time. One Piece sold much more, ist going since 1998, gets its second Netflix Adaptation and the author is one of the ten best selling authors of all time but trust me, some people do the Naruto Run" Laughing my ass off

[@ayhamahmad2277]

Naruto anime is more popular than one piece you must taking about the manga

[@AniBashShow]

As a convention runner cosplayers do character costumes perfectly with out millions of a budget so costumes aren’t an issue it’s how it’s managed.

[@bogdan_._6702]

You're the best broo

[@mcgryko]

Rurouni Kenshin movies are the best anime to live adaptations ive seen yet.

[@xGoldenArrow]

Live Action just got announced

[@linx4538]

A darker, grittier live action series I think would be great, it's what the series lost as it aged. I never really thought of it before but if it was well crafted the I think could be pretty good

[@hugorodriguez8672]

I really disagree with the whiskers thing, if the whiskers look odd on live action then I wouldn't mind for them to be removed in the LA, the OPLA did something very similar with Usopp and his long nose which arguably his most iconic character trait, yet despite that the character still felt like Usopp in the LA.

[@davonjohnson178]

I think naruto is the most popular world wide but barely now. One Piece catching up quickly to it to the point you can't definitely say it's the most popular worldwide.

[@tesytes318]

Bro one piece has been the best selling manga since 2011 or 2012 . It is 2nd all time in comic book sales only behind superman which came out in thw 1930s and has had a lot of different writers over 80 plus years . One piece is 25 years old now and only getting bigger . It only seems like naurto is more world wide . Because it's a easy story to start and it was a lot of people's first anime however during the running of both series naruto never once out sold one piece.

[@EggiRoll]

Tbf Naruto has been over for like almost a decade now lol. I believe One Piece is a lot more popular in the East while Naruto is more popular in the west.

[@jinkun2629]

@@EggiRoll That's only in the USA. Everytime I see people say that Naruto is more popular, they keep showing Americans doing the Naruto run. Meanwhile, One Piece took over Naruto years ago in France, which is the second highest consumer of manga. And I've seen stuff like African people singing the opening song of One Piece with japanese fans during the 2018 football World Cup, and Olympics athletes doing iconic One Piece poses. Pretty sure all of them were from Western countries that weren't the USA. Americans need to first understand that they don't represent the West, much less the entire world.

[@fjcc9]

Naruto isn’t more popular than dbz

[@muhammadibrahimardiansyah2326]

And db evolution is fkin failed and worst, so what's your point?

[@godzilla2827]

Holy crap one second there one like and the other there’s 6 likes

[@fie4426]

The creator of naruto should be so proud. I wish i had a sibling like Naruto

[@BROPLAYS_ANDSCRIPTS]

11:20 I would say that super hero movies/comic adaptations have good looking suits is because they focus on mostly 1 - 3 suits per movie (not including avengers infinity war, etc.) since the whole show focuses on mostly just 1 hero and 1 villain or occasionally 2 villains or heroes and or 1 hero and 3 villains and one of them becomes good and just over all focus on a few people however what makes one piece or Naruto hard to make a live action is their clothing are all one theme and they mostly look all different whereas as I said super hero movies have only a few people to make stand out and they can just put on normal clothes for civilian actors. They just need to change the clothes where ever the location is like if in an office wear a suit.

[@pikachu3b366m]

Isn't Naruto already getting a Live Action movie in the future? I remember seeing Naruto and MHA also being confirmed to get a live adaptation from Netflix. If I'm not mistaken Naruto LA is being adapted by the same people that did The Witcher Blood Origin. And what we know so far Kishimoto is not involved in this production like the way Oda was with OPLA. So honestly as much I was looking forward to Naruto LA, I'm super scared cuz unlike the team that worked for OPLA Idk if they're gonna hire people that love Naruto for this project. Also the biggest issue is Kishi not being involved in this. Even with Oda's involvement OPLA was barely just a decent adaptation. And Oda had to be super strict about it. If we don't have the author working on these project than it is set for failure and so far it isn't looking too good for Naruto LA. Let's just hope for the best and wish that a big Naruto fan will work on this project and do the series justice. But seeing what they did to OPLA as a huge One Piece fan, I would recommend yall to set your expectations super low. That way if it does end up sucking. It wouldn't feel too bad.

[@LeDaddyJamesThe3rd]

I ain’t reading allat

[@jpcsdutra]

I don't know if anything got confirmed but the big 3 had been in talks for live action stuff for as long as I can remember. I think Bleach live action made by Warner Bros was in the talks since what, 2010? By some weird ass Adam Sandler team no less. We ended up getting it on Netflix in 2018. These things are so full of bureaucracy that they take so long to make and greenlight and it's crazy.

[@naranciaghirga750]

@@LeDaddyJamesThe3rd then dont reply

[@LeDaddyJamesThe3rd]

@@naranciaghirga750 I ain’t reading allat

[@mitchellalexander9162]

>The Witcher Cast doing Live Action Naruto Dear God...We'll get our Monkey's Paw wish for Sakura being not useless but it will be at the Expense of Everything Else...

[@kirby17]

I can't stop thinking the Live Actor that acts as Luffy looks like a Brazilian and a Mexican at the same time

[@F1refly86]

I agree that having 15 episodes for season 1 and the rest of the seasons. I do not know if Netflix will do that. Just to get everything there. The 2nd thing is using the same CGI that was used for Detective Pikachu for fight scene between the giant toad and the sand monster. The last thing that all of us forgot is people who are dwarfs or little people. They can be used for playing 12 years in the series. I mean they can be 16 to 20 who plays 12 years base on their height.

[@jonathanweigl]

I really hope in the next live adaptation of an anime Hollywood will be smart enough to stick to the source material. I really hope they got their lesson from one piece. Naruto is by far my favorite anime, if they did a live adaptation similar to one peace- who knows it might work.

[@John-jc3ty]

we dont need live action, we need the anime remastered without fillers and with some scenes improved with the manga ones

[@igortristao3102]

imagine shippuden with good arc exploring the other jinchuriki and other villages

[@scorpionor9865]

I hope they can fix Uchiha massacre better. This event in manga made no sense, even when Kishimoto tried to add Danzo to put all the blame on him.

[@Andrewwwwwww]

I think if the live action was focused on part 1, they can leave itachi’s motives vague, since it’s not important to sasuke’s character why the massacre happened, just that it did and his brother was behind it. Like, if supporting his clan drove him to madness for example.

[@scorpionor9865]

@@Andrewwwwwww sure, If the movie is successful, obviously a sequel will be developed. The incident of the clan massacre that should have been built by the Uchiha had indeed committed undeniable crimes. Just plotting to rebel then Konoha wanted to massacre them is not reasonable at all, not to mention that the Uchiha also produced many ninjas that brought fear to Konoha's opponents. Kishimoto was too biased towards both the Uchiha and Konoha when he wanted to make that tragedy no one else's fault but Danzo's. He wanted everyone to be good people but because of circumstances, they had to be evil. Such thinking is too naive about life. The weight of the philosophy in the story is significantly reduced because of that approach.

[@brettvandermeer5297]

Yu Yu Hakusho was dope too, my 90s are back

[@Bloooo95]

I don’t really know how they do it well. Especially with the chuunin exams having so many fights where emotional development is done via flashbacks. I just can’t picture it.

[@EverythingAnimePodcast]

Also the problem with Naruto was that he had great characters… but unlike other anime we only learn about Naruto, Sasuke and partially others

[@anonymousgaslighter345]

Lmao the fact One Piece is getting so much hype and Naruto is just producing more Boruto must be breaking Dygo's heart. Also Alita Battle Angel was a brilliant Anime to live action Finally every episode of the One Piece live action adapted a whole arc and was about an hour long so there is absolutely no way something like the land of waves arc wouldn't take a single episode, at best the chunnin exams would take 2 episodes but that's stretching it. Most of the chunnin exam's battles would be simplified to a montage and the focus will be on Orochimaru vs Hiruzen/Naruto vs Gaara. I am willing to bet that if there was a live action Naruto season 1 will cover ALL of Naruto part 1 and will at the very very most will have 10 episodes.

[@milliondoller06]

One piece story structure in its arcs is way more different knowing la had to skip a lot of things one where your able to tell self tame arcs without setting up a lot of stuff or characters or world too much in romance dawn just mostly introducing the star hat crew

[@shibitoobscura3348]

Le parfum de Cupidon, a French live movie based on the manga City Hunter, is another great western live-action adaptation of an animé. It also came before the movie based on One Piece so it's technically the first good one from the West. However, you English-speakers probably never heard of it.

[@emeraldace541]

You keep on getting funnier and funnier

[@Trapping_with_jay]

Cap one piece has been on number one for Shonen jump for over 20 years. How is naruto more popular?

[@iErthLouis]

Naruto doesn't need a live action adaptation, It needs a reboot.

[@Lyestan]

Please it's 100% even if it gets old as years goes by anyone that desires to watch it should watch the already made anime. Guy seriously it's PERFECT please.

[@iErthLouis]

@@Lyestan and the plot holes?

[@maxpops8427]

@@iErthLouisand the Filler

[@GaionSputro]

We need 1 rules for anime maker. Only 1 reboot for 1 series.

[@bakeeral-sakran5499]

well said Dygo .. totally agree on every point u mentioned .. it's just a too risky process with a huge amount of mistake/fails potential,

[@emm308]

Have you seen the announcement about the Naruto live action adaptation? Sounds like we're getting a movie (not a series), led by the director of the Shang Chi marvel movie and apparently Kishimoto is involved. I'm nervous about it lol especially around the points about cramming too many characters in and under developing them. Honestly for a movie, I think it would be great if it could finish with the land of waves (with the zabuza battle being the climax), maybe dip into setting up the Chunin exam. Not rushing the story means we get more time building the character arcs and the world. Then if there was a sequel movie, maybe that could be Chunin exams & konoha crush (though that's a lot to pack into one movie). Im intrigued but overall skeptical about this movie lol

[@Jm16694]

Dragon ball is the most popular anime world wide

[@gamingparadise3390]

Naruto is not the most popular anime in the world tho , its dragon ball or pokemon

[@Kyonari]

or One Piece it really depends on what its based on

[@thatdragon_fromspyro1219]

Eh it depends. Here in my country Naruto is so popular it made it's way to CNN News (No joke) and EVERYONE here knows who Naruto is, like even the boomers. I think there's like an actual world map showing which anime is most popular, Naruto and DB are actually more recognizable compared to One Piece in most countries. People know Rasengan/Kamekameha, or a leaf headband/Goku hair but I bet not all will know about Gomu Gomu no bajrang gun lol. Pokemon is no doubt the most popular and recognizable tho

[@Anonymous-on7tb]

Will you make one piece video?(discussion/review/explanation/theory/etc)

[@KegaB3]

does that mean that the big fight of season one would be lee v gaara? my original thought was konoha crush but i can see that being a good finale fight

[@williamargott398]

One piece is also the most popular manga, but anime is more popular than manga to begin with, so honestly it’s gotta be boruto that prevented Naruto from having these opportunities. Probably the same reason Luffy joined Goku in the thanksgiving day parade and not Naruto. That being said, I did always think Naruto would at least have been the easiest to make into a live action series due to the nature of the show not having the more goofy powers of one piece, but now that one piece has succeeded so much, Naruto should be a snap, but people can certainly mess things up beyond any of our expectations, so we’ll just have to wait and see

[@user-xl6dj1tw8v]

one piece anime pacing is terrible

[@williamargott398]

@@user-xl6dj1tw8vit certainly is, with Naruto you can at least skip the filler episodes if you want, a lot of one pieces filler is in the episodes themselves

[@frogfarmer3551]

Is it weird that i actually liked bleach live action? It wasnt great but the actors were having a blast lol and renjis sword tearing up the town was cool

[@davidlee6996]

Maybe a movie between the timeskip to boruto see how all the konoha 13 were like while dating/getting ready for marriage and also balancing being jounins. Dont have to worry about casting children cause they're all in their 20's. I see it being a nice romcom/action movie.

[@Shadowsmoke11]

All the characters are voiced by adult actors anyhow. I am sure they could use older actors to portray them.

[@TurrettiniPizza]

Do a video on Sasuke’s pre-MS sharingan feats (suppressing the nine tails, reversing Orochimaru’s body stealing Jutsu, etc)

[@Maxpain350]

One piece live action has major changes Not a single arc was the same as the anime That was the part of the success it received, it's because it didn't look like cheap Copy of the anime like what happened to cowboy bebop It did follow the same narrative of the story & kept the same spirit of the story & the characters But at the end of the day they added , removed & changed some of the events to fit the live action

[@kamikaze.33]

NOTHING important was changed at all!!! I'm one of the biggest, die-hard fans of One Piece and I can assure you, there's was nothing substantive changed about it! Like there were a few changes to help condense the story, but nothing "MAJOR" as you put it. That's a huge hyperbole!

[@RogueAndroid]

Bleach live action movie was pretty good imo. There's already some awesome (semi)-pro Naruto live action to be found on KZbin. DBZ also has some impressive live action made and produced on KZbin by fans, "Light of Hope" is my favorite fan-made DBZ movie.

[@Avarn388]

@RogueAndroid I liked the Bleach live action but I had some serious problems with it. The general problem was that it tired to tell Subsistute Shimigami arc in one film as opposed to two films. I get why the movie cut out Kon and even with the ending(even if the ending undercuts a lot of the journey) but for me the lack of presence for Ishida, Chad and Inoue was disappointing. That said, the one thing I will praise about that movie is the cast they picked and the fact we got shots of the Shimigami and Hollows fighting from the human perspective. Tite Kubo has had a lot of influences for Bleach, Saint Seiya being a big one, but for the designs of the Hollows and Subsitute Shimigami, he took a lot from classic J-horror. Something that the manga drifted away from as it became more battle oriented. So I appreciated the movie leaning into that element a lot more.

[@jpcsdutra]

Truth is Japan has been doing pretty decent to great live actions of their own stuff for a while because not only they get it, they have easy access to the creators, they also respect the source material. It's western live actions that usually do shit. Bleach and Yu Yu Hakusho were great despite cramming a season in a less than 3h run time. FMA did fine though the costumes were low budget. Alice in Borderland was fire. Long time ago they had a couple Death Note features that the fandom was crazy about. Even Seinen like 20th Century Boys had a banging movie adaptation. They even did that kind of spin off of Shingeki no Kyojin that even though it wasn't recieved super positively, no one complained about either. On the western side... Saint Seiya did poorly. Cowboy Bebop did poorly. Death Note did poorly. Dragon Ball did horrendous. Detective Pikachu did fine because the only thing western in it was the casting. If Netflix Japan gets ahold of Kishimoto and has control over everything other than casting, I'm pretty sure it can be great. Otherwise... meh.

[@madcow4863]

Episodes: 1. Chapter1 plus introducing narutos classmates 2. Bell test plus genin teams talking 3-4. Land of waves 5. First exam plus beginning 2nd exam 6. 2nd exam ends 7-8. Fights. The climax is when you learn land of sand is working with orochimaru and they plan to invade konoha. If you can focus on the genin teams in first 2 episodes then you only need to introduce half the characters in the chuunin exam. One piece added a whole storyline involving marines, so you dont need it to be exactly the same. All of one piece's arcs were changed. The important part is making the characters feel like the characters despite the changes.

[@vasanthakumaranr7908]

They are making movie

[@miobiuscrimson2828]

I'd say it's possible to do it 7 seasons, 10 episodes each, 1 hour per episode, 10 chapters each. Seems doable with certain adjustments and trimming

[@bluestarsaberstarwarsfan3838]

The best change they could do to the live action is the romance, because no way would that be accepted by genreal audiences, unless their twlight fans

[@bobsmartinez8283]

Naruto more popular than dragon ball. Thas funny😂

[@mj_youtube]

Great video

[@hyu1049]

I think the ideal would be to make season one from ninja academy to the fight against zabuza and Haku, season two is the churning exams and invasion of Konoha and season 3 from the search for tsunade to Naruto vs Sasuke

[@Thecrimsonking01]

Saying Naruto is more mainstream than dragon ball or Pokemon is stupid

[@BubblesChika]

I strongly agree. Pikachu is most recognizable character thanks to the anime and you can find many refenrences to Dragonball littered across all media. Even in a hard "hoodlum film" like Blue Story has a DBZ quote *Man was like a saiyan.* Where do you hear someone saying *he went Sage Mode* like they say he went *Super Saiyan* in relation to any athlete or celebrity going beyond in something? Never happens.

[@chuckynocheese3271]

The problem with Naruto is, the story just isn't that good. Most people gravitate towards it because of the awesome fights and because its ninjas. The land of waves has a great story, but the chuunin exam is just set up for fight after fight with really no story. That will turn a lot of casual people away from a live action because of the focus on action rather than an engaging story. Fans of Naruto and people who enjoy action will enjoy it, as long as they nail the fight scenes, but it won't have the same wide appeal that One Piece had.

[@Kyonari]

true

[@hrayrgrigoryan6679]

Naruto's story is way better than one piece, it actually makes sense. like bigmom falling and losing memory? lmao that is 5 years old plot twist, Naruto is for mature audience

[@chuckynocheese3271]

@hrayrgrigoryan6679 So of all the different plot points you choose this one to complain about? 🤣🤣🤣 Tell me you haven't watched One Piece without telling me you haven't watched One Piece. If you want to nitpick, Big Mom losing her memory is nothing compared to Kaguya popping out of nowhere to get rid of Madara, who was the big bad that was built up over the course of literally half the series. That's one of the dumbest "plot twists" in fictional history.

[@hrayrgrigoryan6679]

@@chuckynocheese3271 I have watched one piece fully. No I can say thousand, all one piece powers are dumb make no sense. Bro you complain about Kaguya look at one piece villains 😂😂 who is good villain buggy bigmom foxy kuro cp9 when turn into a giraffe lmao it's a kids show, even Kaguya has much more depth to it that any one piece villain

[@chuckynocheese3271]

@@hrayrgrigoryan6679 the more you talk, the dumber you sound. All you're complaining about is character designs for One Piece villains and trying to use that to justify that they are bad villains. Again, tell me you haven't watched One Piece without telling me you haven't watched One Piece. Or maybe you have seen it but you're too stupid to understand the story. That wouldn't surprise me either based on your dumbass arguments 🤣🤣🤣

[@KaleidoAbridged]

Following the life of child soldiers has a level of separation when its anime and manga, but watching adults beat up 12 year olds will inherently give the live action a much different tone from the original.

[@vannieuwenbergwilliam7792]

I think for the fights, they should watch a few fan short movies that were well made (for Naruto and other adaptations like Avatar short movies) instead of trying the Hollycrap method. As for the rythm of the show, I'll quote myself: "I think One Piece had the right rythm in the adaptation, never too long or too short on each part of the plot, 1st season went to the point when they left the East Blue for the next part of the world. In Naruto, it would mean eps 1-2 LoW, eps 3-4 1st+2nd stage and eliminatory matches, ep 5 training for finals, 6 final matches and beginning of crush, 7 pursuit, a bit of the background fights, beginning of Orochimaru vs Hiruzen, 8 conclusion of the fights and Naruto wins against Gaara, consequences of the Konoha crush (Hiruzen's death ceremony, Naruto's will reinforced or his values shaken, Sasuke acknowledging Naruto when talking to Sakura, bird view of the damage of the crush on Konoha, then the characters walk around town and help the people rebuild) and then a teaser of s2 with Jiraiya taking Naruto out and Kisame and Itachi heading for Konoha with a few lines in an ominous ambient."

[@SavageRush012]

"Dragonball fans are getting old." Dude, Naruto started in 99. The anime in 02. The original Naruto demographic is in their 30s now. And DB is more of a part of the zeitgeist than Naruto. No one uses "Sage mode" or "tailed beast" in a sentence. But people will unironically drop the phrase "super saiyan' or "ultra instinct" in regular talk.

[@Kyonari]

I heard neither one being actually used tho in my Country One Piece was more popular than the other 2

[@SavageRush012]

@@Kyonari How old are you this instance?

[@Kyonari]

17@@SavageRush012

[@prajwal1230]

​@@Kyonaristop talking for your whole country dude you dont know everyone 🤣

[@Kyonari]

I'm talking about the majority, not everyone@@prajwal1230

[@kyleochoa9004]

No other live action adaptation of an anime or manga will ever work our for a western studio like One piece did. It only works because they had the creator of the IP who loves and cares for his story enough to look over their shoulder the whole time and make sure they did his story justice. That said I do think that IF someone cared about Naruto like that the first half of the series could translate really well into live action.

[@darling..............]

Nah the one piece live action was ass but its still better than others but then agains thats like saying a lump of turd is better than explosive diarrhea

[@iamthehobo]

I think I already watched a live-action version of Zabuza and Kakashi shoving huge water dragons into each other

[@oilslicknl]

Add a few more episodes and end on naruto vs neji. That way you end with a banger and a satisfying character growth moment for naruto and also the cliffhanger of sasuke being late and the foreshadowing of the sand and sound. Your age solution also sounds good, 15 year olds fighting wars is still fucked up enough to hammer home the point that this is a cruel world

[@hydregyoutube7630]

Your opinion on Naruto's popularity is hilariously biased. In Japan One Piece is exponentially more popular among the target demographic. Naruto never topped its sales. And everywhere else Naruto has been long superseded by other titles. And being closest to becoming mainstream? I remember moral panic at the rise of popularity of Pokemon, it was named in the same breath with Dragon Ball and Harry Potter as the corrupter of youth. My 80 yo neighbor plays Pokemon Go on his morning walks. Naruto at large has never entered public consciousness. I know you make a living talking about Naruto and fans are still out there, but it really isn't all that. Naruto can't even really ride on a nostalgia like Dragon Ball, since the Naruto hype happened at the same time as the rise of weaboos, so Naruto has inadvertently become an icon of the cringe era in America's anime history (the behaviour of its fans didn't really help). And the live-action adaptation would just corraborate that cringe status.

[@170skeith]

Naruto isn't more popular than One Piece just look at the numbers alone I don't see Naruto outselling Batman and Spiderman globally 😂. It never ceases to amaze me how when I think you can't get any dumber you manage to one up yourself. Kishimoto has been in charge of Boruto for a while now and it still sucks but you still refuse to accept that

[@DygoKnight]

I never said the Naruto manga sold better than one piece, but overall, Naruto is a far more famous ip

[@BubblesChika]

He is a very stupid person tbf. Most Naruto fans are in their 30s, so his claim of Dragonball fans being too old doesn't make sense. I don't see anyone unironically making references to Naruto like they do for Dragonball either

[@soyjoyy]

In popular consciousness - no, One Piece is not as popular as you think it is. ESPECIALLY outside of Japan or North America. My mom, who has no idea what anime is, recognised Naruto on screen when it was still airing in Europe. One Piece never even aired in my country - Naruto did for almost a decade. You delusional fans really exaggerate the importance of your favourite show sometimes. Speaking worldwide, One Piece is an anime that all anime fans know. Naruto is the anime almost everyone, regardless of their interests, knows. Older generation refers to anime AS A WHOLE as "naruto thing" where I live. Dude, you must be deluded.

[@nomorok15]

If they ever have the chance to make a life action pls for the love of god make Neji and Lee die when they are supposed to. This would give the adaptation such a dark and uncertain tone that would rly make it stand out.

[@Luzz4136]

Yeah, neji dying after beating kidomaru would make Sasuke's runaway weigh so much heavier

[@blezzing0603]

I honestly feel like for adaptations for long running animes like Naruto & mha need to be series not full fledge movies (I say do both .have some arcs be season lonh arcs and major arcs like the sasuke retrieval arc can be made into movies like how demon slayher does)

[@Drewan27]

Naruto is not more popular than One Piece worldwide. I know it’s your whole schtick, but come on bro.

[@NameUserOf]

It is. I have seen a lot of kids with bands and kunais running around and screaming rasengan and chidori. My friend, who is not an anime guy have watched Naruto, doesn't know any other anime. My mom saw Naruto on TV, the last episodes of Sasuke retrieval ark. I told her there is a part 2 and thats were the story ends, however after she knew how much episodes, she refused and just asked what happened, the main plot points. My co-worker that doesn't watch anime knew about Itachi taking out Sasuke's eye scene and overall conflict but didn't watch much and doesn't know any other anime aside from Flying Phantom Ship. One Piece is marginal among the majority of people. I'm sure it is popular in anime territory but regular people know about Naruto and never even heard anything about One Piece. Even live action adaptation didn't help. I can assure you that quality adaptation would bring far more people investing their time in Naruto universe than Once Piece one.

[@BubblesChika]

@@NameUserOf You're probably American then because I can assure you I've never seen a single kid running around making Naruto references in England

[@NameUserOf]

@@BubblesChika I'm from Ukraine. Going by both statistics of our TV channels and my personal observations(both in personal life as well as small anime fests before the war) Naruto and Pokemon are more popular than One Piece and Dragon Ball.

[@BubblesChika]

@@NameUserOf I'd say that's just a Ukraine thing. Overall, Naruto will never be as popular in Dragonball. You don't really see athletes make references to Sage Mode like they do to Super Saiyan, the Fusion dance and dragonballs

[@firefangblitz6738]

Naruto is NOT the most popular anime worldwide

[@AnimeBoy0811]

Not anymore atleast they stopped 2017 I think but there was a time that Naruto was really popular tho

[@alphasaiyanrex1616]

Imagine if they got Dave Ardito to do the effects with a higher budget

[@RodrickMarsMoon]

I had a pitch bible and screenplays for the first three episodes of a Naruto live-action series adaptation ready for me to propose, with me as the director for the whole season, with some of the cast meticulously planned... And then I saw the announcement for the movie and I "...shit!" 😖😅.

[@elvinrivera5638]

The Naruto whiskers I believe should be like dark noticeable birthmarks

[@Rizscreation]

That would cost SOOO MUCH to make and we’ll have to wait for so many years 😭.

[@damagiantisson8188]

Jalex on KZbin should be in charge of the animation for any Naruto adaptation

[@TheLuigiBrother77]

I've always thought you could make a trilogy of movies out of the Zabuza and Chunin exams arc. First movie is focused on the land of waves, with a short intro covering Haku, naruto's and Inari's backstories. Put all the flashbacks in the intro. Weave the Bell test into the same timeframe as Gato invading the land of waves since you can't really cut it. Show Tazuna slipping out of the land of waves, then skip to a few months later, him arriving at the Leaf village etc. Then, the rest of the movie is the land of waves, not too long though, and emphasis has to be put on Naruto's speech to Zabuza Second movie is Chunin exam 1 and 2. Fairly self-explanatory, written test, forest of death, and third exam preliminaries, ending with Rock Lee VS Gaara as the climax. Could also start it off with an intro sequence like in the first one telling Sasuke's backstory, since this one is the only one that can really be focused on Sasuke out of the three, since he doesn't really have a lot to do in the other ones. You could also release a couple of special features to the internet before the cinematic release telling Rock Lee, Zaku's and Hinata's backstories etc as promotional material to generate hype, and then slap that on to the special features on the DVD. Since you likely couldn't fit all the preliminaruy fights either, you could also have those as special features. But generally, just trim off all the flashback stuff along with some more, otherwise keep it the same, and make sure Gaara VS Rock Lee is epic af. Finally, the third movie is Konoha Crush. As the first and second movies started with an intro involving Naruto's and Sasuke's backstories, this one tells Gaara's backstory. Then we jump to present day, Naruto training with Jiraya etc. Most of the rest of the movie is the same as in the anime, though I'd keep Dosu alive, and also have the finals be three months later rather than one month. Possibly the biggest difference is that after learning the water walking I'd have Jiraya start training Naruto with learning the Rasengan. This would obviously mean in the movie universe (NCU) the Rasengan would be a B-rank technique rather than a really difficult A-rank technique that's incredibly hard to learn, with it's better variants stretching into A-rank and S-rank territory. The reason I'd make this shift is partly because the Rasengan is an iconic jutsu, and it'd be a shame to not have it in the movies. It's also partly because all things considered, it isn't all that powerful, like it hits hard, but it doesn't cover a lot of area, utility is very limited etc. Third reason is a bit of a spoiler for the rest of this comment =O. Regardless, naruto fails to learn the rasengan, and so instead, Jiraya decides to teach im the summoning jutsu. The rest goes the same as in the anime. Then, we get to the Neji fight. Here, Naruto does not win because of the 9-tails chakra. Instead, he does some clever manuever to have it so that Neji hits a shadow clone or similar with some of the trigrams, so he has some few chakra points left. Then, he figures out how to make the rasengan work, the same way he did against Kabuto. He then rushes in against Neji who's doing the rotation, same way as in the show, but now it's Rasengan VS Rotation. Same explosion happens, and Naruto wins the same way by diggy diggy hole. The rest of the finals go the same way as in the anime and manga. The most important thing of the movie IMO is to get the part where Naruto turns the tables on Gaara right. The "But, what's this feeling, running through me, like I was on fire" then cutting to the Haku flashback and "I finally get it, I finally understand, I won't lose, I can't lose even if it kills me!" part is so powerful, and putting emphasis on it and getting it right should be the most imporant part of the movie, especially as it ties the whole triology together. We could also have Shikamaru and Hinata be present at the scene along with Sakura so that he's fighting for more people. Then, we can have him use the Kyubi chakra to summon Gamabunta instead of where he used it against Neji, since it becomes more fair here, Jinchuriki VS Jinchuriki after all, doesn't ruin the whole hard work thing. Then, he wakes Gaara up with another Rasengan, and the rest is the same as in the show. It ends with the third Hokage's funeral, and at the end credits, "Those who inherit the will of Fire" plays. I think something like this could work. They'd have to resist the temptation to tell the whole story though, they'd have to keep it small and stick to first half of part 1. If they did something like this, I think a lot of dads would take their kids to see the movies, and it could introduce a new generation to the show, and maybe even to the cinema experience haha. The movies would be called "Naruto, Way of the Ninja" "Naruto 2, Raising Fihgting Spirit" and "Naruto 3, Those who inherit the Will of Fire". They'd also have to redo the character designs quite a bit, the colourful looks work for anime, but in live action, they'd look like silly costumes, especially the hairstyles. Naruto's outfit works since he's supposed to stand out, bis hair would have to be curly instead of "spiky" though. Kakashi's hair is a big red flag, generally speaking people should be wearing a less saturated palette, can't have too many unwieldy accesories that would drop every five seconds irl, etc, what they're wearing should look more like something you'd buy on target than a custom tailored outfit and they shouldn't be wearing the same clothes all throughout every day. Little things like that would have to change, but overall, I think there'd be a lot of potential in telling the story of early part 1 as a triology like this, hope some of you have read some of this and would be inclined to agree =)