Naruto first aired in America before 2007.
== Media ===== Manga ===Written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto was serialized for a fifteen-year run in Shueisha's magazine, Weekly Shnen Jump from September 21, 1999, to November 10, 2014
Naruto was scanlated (translated by fans) and available online before a licensed version was released in North America;  the rights were acquired by Viz Media, who began serializing Naruto in their anthology comic magazine Shonen Jump, starting with the January 2003 issue

