A Side-by-Side Comparison Between Naruto's 20th Anniversary Remake of Iconic Moments and the Original Anime

Welcome, ninjas. Plenty of manga have more than one adaptation. Some anime desperately deserve to be revisited, and other remakes feel a bit pointless. Famously, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is considered a better adaptation of the manga than the 2003 version. It learned from the mistakes of the first anime and fixed pacing issues, kept a more lighthearted tone closer to that of the manga, and has incredibly crisp animation. Similarly, Hunter x Hunter's 2011 adaptation gets more praise than the one that came out in 1999. However, some reboots did so poorly that they almost ruined the legacy of their source material. While many Berserk fans believe that the manga has never had a truly faithful adaptation, almost all agree that the 1997 animated series far surpasses the 3D generated nightmare that came out in 2016. 

Road of Naruto is not a reboot of the series. Rather, it is an OVA (original video animation) released in celebration of Naruto's 20th anniversary. It is a sequence of iconic moments from the original anime, redrawn in the more streamlined animation style that is popular today. See a side-by-side comparison of key moments by scrolling down below. 

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