It’s a ramen shop in Kyushu locatednear the university that Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of Naruto, attended. All Naruto fans know the name of the character's favorite ramen shop! It’s“Ichiraku.” And it actually exists in real life.
If you pay attention to the first chapter of the manga, Chouji’s father can be seenin a panel as part of the group that wanted Naruto killed. It wasYura, a Jōnin who impersonated Itachi. That being said, Naruto himself has technically only killed one person canonically.
Theyissued a complaint, requesting that one of the show’s sponsors pull their funding.Then they saw the ratings and were like, you know what? Money is awesome. At one point, the Naruto anime was almostcancelled because an organization was displeased with the series’ high death count. Naruto wasn’t always going to be a ninja.At first, the the creator intended for him to use a form of magic instead of ninjutsu,but he decided this was too confusing. Sasuke Sarutobi was, in turn, named after a famous Japaneseliterary character. Here we go! Sasuke Uchiha is named after Sasuke Sarutobi,the father of the Third Hokage.
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