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List of Naruto chapters (Part I)

The Naruto manga is divided in two parts to divide the storyline; the first one, Part I, covers the first two hundred and forty-four chapters of the series. The chapters are written by Masashi Kishimoto and published by Shueisha in the Weekly Sh?nen Jump magazine. The first chapter was published in 1999, continuing for a total of two hundred and forty-four chapters. The last six chapters are part of a gaiden taking place before the regular storyline, called the Kakashi Gaiden. The chapters after the gaiden are part of Part II, the second part of the Naruto storyline that takes place two and a half years after the end of the Naruto manga. An anime adaptation, produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo, was aired on TV Tokyo, with the first episode shown on October 3, 2002. The last episode of the Naruto anime aired on February 8, 2007, with the anime adaptation of Part II, known as Naruto: Shipp?den, replacing it. The Naruto manga was serialized in North America by Viz Media in the United States Shonen Jump magazine. The first chapter of the English adaptation was published on January 7, 2003.The English adaptation of the Naruto anime has been shown on Cartoon Network’s Toonami and YTV’s Bionix programming blocks, with the first episode airing on September 10, 2005.

The chapters have been composed into twenty-seven tank?bon in Japan by Shueisha. The first tank?bon was released on March 3, 2000, and the twenty-seventh released on April 4, 2005. All of the tank?bon contain nine chapters of the original manga, with the exception of the first tank?bon, which has seven chapters. Viz Media has released all twenty-seven volumes of the English adaptation of the manga. In addition, Viz Media released all twenty-seven volumes in a boxed set, thus constituting the entirety of the Naruto storyline before Part II on November 13, 2007. A “Collector’s Edition” of volume 1 including a hardcover was also released on September 16, 2008 by Viz.

Shortly before the release of the fourteenth volume, Viz Media announced its “Naruto Nation” campaign, planning to release three volumes a month in the last four months of 2007. Cammie Allen, Viz Media’s product manager, commented that, “Our main reason [for the accelerated schedule] was to catch up to the Japanese release schedule to give our readers a similar experience to that of our readers in Japan.”As such, the English adaptation of Part II was featured on December 4, 2007 in the United States Shonen Jump, as will the Kakashi Gaiden