Honest Trailers Anime - Naruto is the 1st episode of Screen Junkies spinoff series Honest Trailers Anime. It was written by Astor Khang, Max Song, and Spencer Gilbert. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the Japanese anime television series Naruto, as well as its direct sequel, Naruto: Shippuden. The video is 4 minutes 11 seconds long. It was first published on March 22, 2017 and was originally exclusive to the paid subscription service Screen Junkies Plus. It is now exclusive to the Screen Junkies Facebook page.
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"Man, this show would be so dumb if it wasn't for the fight scenes... and, you know, all the feels. Oh... Oh, God! The feels! How do I hold them all...?" ~ Honest Trailers Anime - Naruto
Script[]
From the studio (Studio Pierrot) that has a chokehold on all of the most popular franchises (plays clips from Bleach and Beelzebub), comes the 17-year-long series that made ninjas... well, just about as cool as they always were. (plays clips from 3 Ninjas, Surf Ninjas, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)) Heh, ninjas are so awesome!
Naruto
Enter the mind of [Masashi] Kishimoto, creator of Naruto -- not that he needs to do much else -- as he delivers a fiery ninja adventure full of friendship and betrayal, with some of the best animation (shows Itachi Uchiha in a sword fight)... and the worst animation to date (shows Pain's face distorting during his fight with Naruto), in this worldwide hit that made a whole generation of weeaboos run with their arms behind their backs. (shows a group of people doing a "Naruto run")
Sneak in to the hidden ninja village of Konoha, where young ninjas will learn the art of combat, stealth, and magic... instead of math, science, or sex education, as they fight to protect their nation from numerous threats, that are mainly just more ninjas, and thrill at the constant dick-measuring contests between other countries, in a world that seems like there's not much going on besides ninja wars... and, like, two ramen chefs.
Don the orange jacket of Naruto as he tries to prove himself by becoming the Hokage, a fact that he'll remind you of over and over again.
Young Naruto: I'll be Lord Hokage!
Naruto: I'm gonna be the Hokage. / --to be the greatest Hokage. / I'll be Hokage. / --to be Hokage.
(montage of Naruto saying "Hokage")
Ugh, okay, we get it! Enough already!
But Naruto's not the only annoying orange in town. Join the members of Team 7: Sasuke, the emo genius who's a liability for all the people that care about him; Sakura, the completely useless third member... until she gets a One-Punch Man-style upgrade; Kakashi, an elite warrior and decorated hero reduced to babysitting selfish asshole tweens; and all of these other characters that are eventually just drowned out by Naruto and Sasuke.
Witness the greatest bromance of all time, as Naruto tries to bring his friend Sasuke back home, despite the fact that he ran away; defected to another country; subjected himself to evil experiments; almost beats Naruto to death; keeps saying he's not going home; tried to kill his friends; tried to kill Naruto, again; tried to destroy his country; tried to kill all the world leaders; and, did I mention how he tried to kill Naruto? Because he tries that a lot. (montage of Sasuke and Naruto yelling each other's names) Ugh, get over it, Naruto! He's just not that into you!
Follow the epic story that spans multiple generations, that begins as a coming-of-age story about a boy persecuted for harboring a cursed power. Then experience the time skip of Shippuden, that takes whatever happy feelings you had, and crushes them in an avalanche of betrayal, conspiracy, and death, as Naruto fights absurdly overpowered bad guys one after another, which he eventually defeats by inspiring them to death, all ending with the whole ninja world working together to take down a giant evil... bunny rabbit (?) (shows Kaguya Ōtsutsuki transformed into the Ten-Tails), that wants to put everyone i-in a giant evil tree, to create a ninja Matrix? Man, this show would be so dumb if it wasn't for the fight scenes... and, you know, all the feels. (crying) Oh... Oh, God! The feels! How do I hold them all...?
Starring: Therapy no Jutsu (Junko Takeuchi/Maile Flanagan as Naruto Uzumaki); Fallout Boy (Noriaki Sugiyama/Yuri Lowenthal as Sasuke Uchiha); She-Hulk (Chie Nakamura/Kate Higgins as Sakura Haruno); Plagiarism Ninja (Kazuhiko Inoue/Dave Wittenberg as Kakashi Hatake); Best Nii-san (Hideo Ishikawa/Crispin Freeman as Itachi Uchiha); My Brand (Nana Mizuki/Stephanie Sheh as Hinata Hyūga); Snake Gobbler (Kujira/Steve Blum as Orochimaru); Pervert Frogger (Hōchū Ōtsuka/David Lodge as Jiraiya); Japanese Two-Face (Wataru Takagi/Michael Yurchak as Tobi/Obito Uchiha); Tina Turner (Naoya Uchida/Neil Kaplan as Madara Uchiha); and The Rest of These Guys That You See, Like, Once or Twice, Sometimes [These Guys as Well] (shows a group shot featuring several minor characters).
Teenage Human Ninja Ninjas
The honest title for Naruto was 'Teenage Human Ninja Ninjas'. Titles designed by Sarabeth Kett.
So, Naruto saves the world by turning into a harem of sexy men? (shows Naruto using Reverse Harem Jutsu on Kaguya, then punching her while she's distracted) Stay weird, Japan!
Trivia[]
- This video was originally exclusive to the paid subscription service Screen Junkies Plus. The video is also uploaded in unlisted format to YouTube, and is freely available on Facebook.
- Screen Junkies also produced episodes of Honest Trailers Anime for Tokyo Ghoul, Fairy Tail, One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Bleach, Sword Art Online, Attack on Titan, One-Punch Man and Hunter x Hunter. In 2019, the team produced an Honest Trailer for Pokemon: The First Movie as part of their regular series.
- Additionally, Screen Junkies have also produced many Honest Trailers for some Western adaptations of Japanese anime including Dragonball Evolution and Ghost in the Shell. See list of Honest Trailers for more.
Reception[]
Honest Trailers Anime - Naruto has a 98.5% approval rating from YouTube viewers. The Nerdist wrote that in Honest Trailers Anime - Naruto "Honest Trailers doesn’t pull any punches, and that’s why we love them. The way they break down our favorite shows to their base elements and play with the fragility of our feelings would be almost tragic if it weren’t so laughable." The site wrote that the parody video "dissects the epic ninja thrown downs, Sasuke and Naruto’s one-sided bromance, and the feels. Oh, the feels." In the same article, the Nerdist also wrote "Fans love when Honest Trailers give characters honest names and now Team 7’s true forms are finally revealed: Therapy No Jutsu (Naruto), Fall Out Boy (Sasuke), She-Hulk (Sakura), Plagiarism Ninja (Kakashi), and many more hilariously on-point descriptions."
Production credits[]
Video thumbnail for Honest Trailers Anime - Naruto
Series Created by Andy Signore
Written by Astor Khang, Max Song, and Spencer Gilbert
Voiceover Narration by Jon Bailey
Art Direction by Robert Poole
Lead Design by Adam Hlvac
Title Design by Sarabeth Kett
Edited by Max Song and Astor Khang
Post Production Supervision by Brett Noborikawa and Gracie Hartmann
External links[]
- THE NARUTO HONEST TRAILER HAS ALL THE FEELS - Nerdist article
- Defy Media Brings The ‘Honest Trailers’ Brand To The World Of Anime - Tubefilter article
- Naruto gets an Honest Anime Trailer- Flickering Myth article
- Anime Trailers’ Debuts with This NARUTO Video! - Rama Screen article