Naruto s grown up
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Everyone had another language they spoke at home and with friends. My neighborhood was both like and unlike Ginger East in Like Home. Almost everyone was newly from somewhere else, which made for an enriching childhood. I grew up in a city called Mississauga, in a homely, primarily immigrant neighborhood. Like Konoha’s past, it seemed as though history was just a collection of horrible things happening in succession by people who went unchecked for too long. In school, we learned about horrible things that happened in history. When I was younger, maybe around the same age as Chinelo, my book’s protagonist, I never thought much about the world and where things came from. Without knowing who the other was, they became friends and realized they shared the same dream for the ninja world: The establishment of a new community where kids could be kids and ninjas weren’t fighting. This is the stage that’s set when Madara Uchiha of the Uchiha clan met Hashirama Senju, a member of the Senju clan. The prevalence of child soldiers meant that generations of kids were growing up only knowing the terror of war. In episode 368, the viewer learns that prior to the current period, different ninja clans and factions were always at war with one another. In many, many instances, these histories are cruel and ugly and displace the people who originally lived there. Often, people fight to carve borders, maintain culture, or create systems that support the people who have chosen to stay. Like the fictional Konoha, places don’t just come into being. Only in my adult years did I begin to understand why history was important. I was overcome with a strange sense of giddiness as I watched in the dark of my room at one a.m. I finally got my answer in episode 368 of Naruto Shippuden, where the viewer gets the backstory on the origin of the protagonists’ home, Konohagakure, the Hidden Leaf Village in the Land of Fire. I want to know what people do for fun or where they hang out. This is what draws me into a good contemporary story too. I know I’ve fallen for something when I want to know more about what it’s like to live there. There was so much that immediately pulled me in: The soundtrack, the animation, the foolish determination of its protagonists.
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#NARUTO S GROWN UP SERIES#
I was introduced to Naruto in high school, although I didn’t make it through the entire series until a few years ago. This is where Naruto and its sequel, Naruto Shippuden, come in. But as I’ve come to learn, we are reflections of the places we’ve lived, the history that has shaped a community. I was too different, too changed by the place I had grown up, and for a while, I felt that was a bad thing. After a certain age, after leaving a community I loved, I didn’t think I would ever really fit into one again. I haven’t always been interested in the ways that communities form. When I started drafting my contemporary debut Like Home, I thought I was writing a story about friendship, love, and above all, community. I never intentionally set out to write a story about change.