Naruto's path from a 1999 Weekly Shonen Jump manga to a global anime franchise carries a two-page English reading passage covering Masashi Kishimoto's ninja-lore influences, Naruto Uzumaki's ambition to become Hokage of Konohagakure, the Nine-Tails Fox sealed inside him, and figures such as Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi and Jiraiya. Thirteen questions with ruled answer lines follow, mixing recall (who wrote it, when it was published and adapted), vocabulary work on "resonate" and "straightforward", and text-based argument on whether the characters are drawn as ideal models. Two essay prompts close the set: an opinion piece on the series and a letter of advice addressed to its creator.