List of Naruto chapters (Part I)
The "Naruto" manga is written by Masashi Kishimoto and is published by Shueisha in the "Weekly Shōnen Jump" magazine, in twenty-page installments. Part I follows the title character named Naruto Uzumaki, an energetic and determined pre-teen ninja with superhuman ninjutsu abilities, who is the host of the Nine-Tailed Fox that was sealed inside of him 12 years ago before the series began, seeks recognition from his peers, and dreams to become the Hokage, the strongest ninja leader of the Hidden Leaf Village in order to gain respect from the villagers. The  first chapter of "Naruto" was published in issue 43 from 1999. continuing to more than seven hundred chapters in all. The "Naruto" manga is serialized in North America by Viz Media in their manga anthology magazine "Shonen Jump", with the first chapter of the English adaptation published in the January 2003 issue. The "Naruto" manga is split in two parts to divide the storyline; the first part, Part I, covers the first two hundred thirty-eight chapters of the series. Part II of the "Naruto" storyline begins at the two hundred forty-fifth chapter, and takes place two and a  half years after the end of Part I which focuses on teenage Naruto's return. The six chapters between Part I and Part II form a gaiden taking place before the regular storyline, called the . An anime adaptation of the series, produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo, was aired on TV Tokyo, with the first episode shown on October 3, 2002. The last episode of the "Naruto" anime aired on February 8, 2007, with the anime adaptation of Part II, known as "", to replace it. The chapters that make Part I have been composed into twenty-seven "tankōbon" in  Japan by Shueisha. The first "tankōbon" was published on March 3, 2000, and the twenty-seventh on April 4, 2005. Most of the "tankōbon" contains nine chapters from the original manga. Viz Media has also published all twenty-seven volumes of the English adaptation of Part I in North America. In addition, Viz Media has published the twenty-seven volumes within a boxed set, thus constituting the entirety of the "Naruto" storyline before Part II, on August 26, 2008. A "Collector's Edition" of volume 1, adding a hardcover, was also published on September 16, 2008, by Viz. The "Naruto  Nation" campaign, a plan to release three volumes each month in the last four months of 2007, was announced by Viz Media shortly before the release of the fourteenth volume. Cammie Allen, Viz Media's product manager, commented that, "Our main reason [for the accelerated schedule] was to catch up to the Japanese release schedule to give our readers a similar experience to that of our readers in Japan." As such, the English serialization of Part II premiered on December 4, 2007, in "Shonen Jump".