ANIME CLASH '07 NARUTO VS. SAMURAI 7

I bet, next year tagalized anime scene will be a fight between a ninja and modern day samurai's.Here is a glimpse about our action heroes before their much awaited comeback and debut.(click image to enlarge)

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NARUTO

Title: Naruto
Based on: Naruto Manga Series
Created by: Masashi Kishimoto
Debut: October 3rd, 2002
Finale: The series is still being made
Naruto (ナルト, Naruto? romanized as NARUTO in Japan)is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime TV series adaptation.Its main character, Naruto Uzumaki,is a loud, hyperactive,adolescent ninja who constantly searches for approval and recognition,as well as to become Hokage, who is acknowledged as the leader andstrongest ninja in the village.The manga was first published by Shueisha in 1999 in the 43rd issue of Japan's Shonen Jump magazine.
VIZ Media publishes a translated version in the American Shonen Jump,and has translated roughly a third of the series. Naruto has become VIZ Media's best-selling manga series.The anime series, produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex, premiered across Japan on the terrestrial TV Tokyo network and the anime satellite television network Animax on October 3, 2002, and is still being aired. Viz also licensed the anime for North American production.

SUMMARY
This above average and well done anime follows the story of Uzumaki Naruto,a boy trodden upon in his village. The village however, is a special village dedicated to the arts of Ninjutsu, and many powerful ninja's emerge from it. Born and infused with a demon nine tailed fox, Naruto was hated with passion by many of the older villagers, and even their children picked up on it and started to hate him as well. Naruto however, felt loneliness and sadness in his life, a pain that isn't normal. He wants to be acknowledged and pledged on becoming Hokage, the title of referring to the strongest ninja in the country. But he has a long way to go. And will meet many people he calls friends in this world of ninja's, where allegiances shift quickly as lightning. Join Naruto on his journey on becoming Hokage, or perhaps even greater.Currently, Naruto is already licensed, so maybe you're lucky and are able to watch it on your local cable television. Also don't forget about the manga, the comic book that started it all. Something worth reading, so by all means, you shall not regret it. Volume 7 of the manga has recently won a Quill Award for best graphic novel in North America.In TV Asahi's latest top 100 Anime Ranking, Naruto ranked 34th on the list.

SYNOPSIS
A long time ago, a demon fox with nine tails appeared. When a tail was swung, it would destroy a mountain and cause a tsunami. To counter it, the people gathered ninjas. One ninja sealed the monster in a life or death battle and died. That ninja was known as the Fourth Hokage... and with his death, he sealed the powers of the Nina-Tailed Demon Fox into the body of a young boy... This young boy's name is Naruto. Naruto hopes one day he can become Hokage. Most people in the village dislike him and consider him a pest. Naruto causes havoc in order to get attention, since he is ignored due to the fact that people think he is the demon fox itself. After failing the Genin exam, Naruto is tricked into stealing a scroll to become Genin. He ends up in severe danger but Iruka, his teacher, comes to saves him. It ends up that Naruto saves Iruka from possible death and for that, he is upgraded to an official ninja where he begins his journey to become Hokage!

DOWNLOADS:
NARUTO MOVIE 1
NARUTO MOVIE 2

SOURCE: www.narutocentral.com

SAMURAI 7

Title: SAMURAI 7
Based on: Akira Kurosawa's 1954 movie The Seven Samurai
Created by: Akira Kurosawa
Debut: June 12, 2004
Finale: Dec. 25, 2004, 26th Ep.
Samurai 7 (サムライセブン, Samurai 7?) is a 2004 Japanese anime series,produced by GONZO and based on Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 movie The Seven Samurai. The series was directed by Toshifumi Takizawa and its music was conducted by Kaoru Wada and Eitetsu Hayashi.There are 26 episodes, each costing around ¥32,500,000($300,000USD)to produce.The series premiered across Japan on the anime satellite television network, Animax, as an exclusive high definition CS-PPV broadcast, and was also later aired by the network across its other respective networks worldwide, including Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America and other regions. FUNimation has acquired the dubbing rights for the North American release. It is airing in America through the Independent Film Channel (using FUNimation's dub) since April 2006 and in high definition on Dish Network's Animania HD channel. It has also been broadcast across Canada by specialty channel Razer and across Hong Kong by TVB Jade.

SUMMARY

Samurai 7 tells the story of a friendly rice village, Kanna, with a significant problem. Every year during the harvest, a group of bandits, known as the Nobuseri, come and steal away almost all of the rice that had been harvested that year. Not only that, the Nobuseri are becoming more demanding, now taking women and children in addition to rice. The elder of Kanna has declared that to protect the village they must hire samurai and fight against the bandits. However, they have no money and thus must find samurai willing to protect the village for the price of all the rice that he/she can eat. He sends three members of the village out to the city to begin looking. And thus the journey begins...

SYNOPSIS

After a long war far in the future, things are far from perfect. Losing to mechanized samurai the people are paying the price. Gangs of these Nobuseri plunder the villages of their rice,leaving the people with nothing, not even enough to live on.One village, Kanna, has had enough. With nothing to lose they decide to hire real samurai, the only ones that can defeat the Nobuseri, with the rice they have left. A young farmer Rikichi, the water priestess Kirara, and her younger sister Komachi leave their small village to find seven samurai that can help them.