Naruto Gaiden: Nanadaime Hokage to Akairo no Hanatsuzuki

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Synonyms: Naruto Side Story: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring Month

Japanese: NARUTO外伝七代目火影と緋色の花つ月

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 1

Chapters: 10

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 27, 2015 to Jul 6, 2015

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Authors: Kishimoto, Masashi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.16¹ (scored by 31,963 users)

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Ranked: #6409²

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Popularity: #337

Members: 49,008

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MangaShounen Jump (Weekly)Kishimoto, Masashi (Story & Art)

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The sun has set on Naruto Uzumaki's youth and is rising on the children of the next generation. One of these kids is Sarada Uchiha, daughter of Naruto's best friends Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. Sharing a strong likeness with her father, Sarada has always wondered why she doesn't have any of her mother's features. When she discovers a photograph featuring Sasuke's old comrade Karin, Sarada is shocked to discover that she bears more of a resemblance to this strange woman than she does to her mother.

When Sasuke returns to the village with news of a massive impending threat, Naruto obeys his duty as the Seventh Hokage and accompanies his old friend on an investigative mission. Unbeknownst to them both, Sarada and her friend Chouchou Akimichi pursue them, intent on solving the mystery of Sarada's parentage.

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Naruto Gaiden: Nanadaime Hokage to Akairo no Hanatsuzuki was published in English as Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint on January 5, 2016; in Polish by J.P Fantastica on March 18, 2016; and in Brazilian Portuguese by Panini Comics/Planet Manga in October 2016.

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Uzumaki, Naruto

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Uchiha, Sasuke

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Uchiha, Sarada

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Akimichi, Chouchou

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Hatake, Kakashi

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Nara, Shikamaru

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Haruno, Sakura

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Orochimaru

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Uzumaki, Boruto

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Mitsuki

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May 26, 2018

mozukki

Recommended

I felt Gaiden is more for the fans who wants a slice of the nostalgia from the naruto universe than an actual story with good development. I read it wanting to see the characters and how they were 12 years after the ending of Naruto and it was a nice trip down memory-lane. Plot-wise, I do think some aspects were drawn out for the sake of a storyline but overall, it's a good read.

Story: 6
The plot was very predictable, nothing was suspenseful. The basic "a new villian appears but somehow the main character, in this case it's Sarada, somehow defeats them with the power ...

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Apr 10, 2016

Kaitou

Mixed Feelings

My Review from Japanator:

It’s been a few months since I published my review for Boruto: Naruto The Movie, so make sure to check that out as well. It is important to note that Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring is the prequel to the movie so obviously you don’t need to watch the movie to enjoy it, but you definitely need to be familiar with the main series. Taking place after Chapter 700, this chapter focuses on the new generation, mostly Sasuke and Sakura Uchiha's daughter—Sarada.

Although meant as a prologue for the movie, and just a side story, this Gaiden ...

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Feb 2, 2017

ZimSan

Not Recommended

I just read Naruto Gaiden again and I want to say that this 10 Chapter manga is the worst story Kishimoto has put out yet. Yes. Worse than early Part 2 Naruto and Final Arc Naruto. Kishi had all the time in the world to make a great story like with The Last and the Boruto movie but for some reason he decided to take inspiration from Keeping up with the Kardashians for Naruto Gaiden.

Sarada is a Mary Sue. She gets all the power ups in the world without proper training and Chouchou just reminds me of Jar Jar Bings. The "comedy" in this is ... just the worst. None of the new characters most of us were interested in, like Mirai, Metal Lee or even Himawari got some lines to make this story better.
Naruto and Sasuke also have been nerved for this arc to make Sakura look good AGAIN. Onion Boy is probably the most forgettable villain since Gateau and the whole "who's your mommy" conflict could have been resolved in one chapter without this stupid melodrama.

It's also amazing how many plotholes have been condensed into this one story like why would Sarada claim that her father left her when she was a baby but then remember a time that she held hand with her parents when she was a little kid. Why does she know how to use her mother's punching skills when it took Sakura one year to master them. Why would Sasuke write a letter to Naruto but never bother to write a letter to his family? Why did Sasuke take on this mission to look for a villain for the Boruto movie and never bother to visit his own family? He didn't have a problem to eat some dinner with them at the end of the manga. While we're at it. Sasuke's mission that he got when Naruto was already the hokage became entirely pointless because the villain of the Boruto movie still attacked Konoha and kidnapped Naruto. Why couldn't Onion boy see Sakura even though he had Sharingan eyes all over his body? I could go on and on.

Sakura became even more unlikeable than she already was in this story. Yes she took care of Sarada and put on a few moe faces here and there(she even stole Hinata's Ch.700 design lol) but why the fuck did she paste her own image over a friend like Karin that helped giving birth to Sarada? What kind of asshole friend would do something like this? Why didn't Sakura just answer to Sarada instead of destroying her own house and bringing her daughter to tears?

Taka, Yamato and Orochimaru were entirely pointless to the plot and I wonder why Kishi even bothered to write them into the story.

Naruto Gaiden is bad. Almost nothing works in this 10 chapter abomination. While Sarada is likeable at times, she still is a complete Mary Sue and her story crumbles apart near the end and the action bits are some of the worst in all of Naruto. The Uchiha cancer also took over the story again even though 90% of the Naruto fandom was already sick and tired of it.

What bothers me the most about Naruto Gaiden is that this whole manga feels insincere, like Kishi didn't want to put any effort into the plot. He always had a few hickups throughout the story of the Naruto manga but this could have been justified because he was always pressured to produce a new chapter every week for multiple years. Naruto Gaiden had months to get a half decent story but it still turned into shit.

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