Before Naruto's birth, a great demon fox had attacked the Hidden Leaf Village. A man known as the 4th Hokage sealed the demon inside the newly born Naruto, causing him to unknowingly grow up detested by his fellow villagers. Despite his lack of talent in many areas of ninjutsu, Naruto strives for only one goal: to gain the title of Hokage, the strongest ninja in his village. Desiring the respect he never received, Naruto works towards his dream with fellow friends Sasuke and Sakura and mentor Kakashi as they go through many trials and battles that come with being a ninja.
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Don't head to the garage and swallow a shotgun just yet. Crisis is just as efficient and harmless as it is creatively bankrupt. That light-novel-derived short-story structure serves the series in good stead; its arcs are short, to-the-point, and briskly-paced enough that their immense predictability doesn't have the time to really piss you off. The extra depth of the setting does its part by providing secret societies, leveled enemies, evil crime families, and a handful of mysteries (the most interesting involving Ryuji's past) to distract from the plot's cliché-constructs. Ryuji's chaste relationship with Rose takes the potentially icky sting out of their romance, while his strictly platonic relations with the remainder of the female cast blunts the series' harem intent enough that it's unlikely to raise the hackles of even the most sensitive of anti-harem-ites. In fact, there's little of anything to offend anyone. Crisis is the kind of show where racist dragon-haters turn out to be nice guys with a few ingrained misconceptions, where hardened artifact thieves turn out to be cuddly lovelorn teens and cruelly manipulative boyfriends are simply guys too driven by trauma to care who their actions hurt. The only real villain is arc one's black dragon, and likely as not he's got his own set of extenuating circumstances. You can almost feel the series bending over backwards to be nice. Heck, even the fan-service goes out of its way to be inoffensive.
A list of locations where fans can donate money towards relief efforts in Japan following the March 11 earthquake
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?idb=0&5052.donation=form1&df_id=5052
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