Anime-Manga Differences

This page lists the differences that occurred during the transition from manga to anime.

Censorship

 * In the manga, Ebisu fixes his glasses with the middle finger, in the anime, he uses his index finger as well.
 * In the manga, Kaiza has his arms chopped off. In the anime, they are instead only broken.
 * In the manga, when Kakashi uses his Lightning Cutter to punch through the chest of his opponent. It is usually seen going through all the way. In the anime, it is blurred out by the lighting of the jutsu.
 * In the manga, Zabuza decapitates Gatō to kill him, while in the anime, Zabuza cuts him multiple times and Gatō falls off the bridge.
 * In the manga, especially in Part I, Naruto and Kiba "flips the bird" several times, in the English adaptation of the manga and in the anime they only close their fist and look angry.
 * In the manga, when Anko Mitarashi threw a kunai at Naruto and cut his cheek, she licks the blood directly from Naruto's cheek. In the anime, she touches it with her fingers.
 * In the manga, during the preliminary rounds of the chūnin exam, Zaku Abumi's right arm is blown off when Shino Aburame uses his bugs to block Zaku's airtubes. In the anime, both arms remains attached to Zaku's body and it appears his skin breaks on his arms.
 * The design of the Hyūga Main Family's Juinjutsu is different in the manga and anime. In the manga, it was a variation of a manji, a Buddhist symbol, but due to its similarity to the swastika, it was altered into a X in the anime.
 * In the manga, when Hiruzen Sarutobi raids Orochimaru's lair, there are corpses strung to the walls. In the anime, these corpses are replaced with shelves containing jars.
 * In the manga, when Naruto prevents Kabuto Yakushi from attacking Tsunade, Kabuto's kunai goes through Naruto's hand. In the anime, its get caught between Naruto's fingers.
 * In the manga, when Shikamaru Nara gets caught in Tayuya's genjutsu, he sees his skin and flesh melt off his bones. In the anime, the entire arm melts away.
 * In the manga, Shikamaru is briefly seen smoking after Asuma's death. In the English adaptation of the manga and in the anime, he doesn't smoke, he only carries Asuma's lighter with him; although at a certain moment, visiting Asuma's grave, he leaves a lit cigarrette. Even though we don't see him lighting it, it's implicit that he had to put it in his mouth to do so.

Other

 * In the manga, Naruto sneaks into the Hokage Residence to steal the Scroll of Seals and is caught by Hiruzen Sarutobi, but escapes by using Sexy Technique. In the anime, Hiruzen simply sends out the ninja after Naruto.
 * In the manga after Kakashi's first encounter with Zabuza, Team 7 attempts to look at his face while he is sleeping. In the anime, this event is simply skipped.
 * In the manga, during the second phase of the chūnin exam, Team 8 gets their second scroll from a Konoha team. In the anime, it was changed to a team from Amegakure.
 * In the manga, Jiraiya starts Naruto's training at the Konoha Hot Springs. In the anime, he tries to escape from training by attempting to elude him through a series of antics, eventually he trains him nearby a river.
 * During the Third Hokages fight with Orochimaru he rams Monkey King: Enma, who has transformed into an adamantine staff, into the Grass Long Sword, and his Enma is shown partially reversing the transformation. In the anime, this is removed.
 * In the manga, immediately after ramming his adamantine staff into the grass long sword, Hiruzen Sarutobi places exploding tags on the left leg of Hashirama Senju and the right leg of Tobirama Senju, they are later shown healing while standing. In the anime, the tags are placed on the left leg of Hashirama Senju and the right arm of Tobirama Senju, they are shown healing while lying face down.
 * In the manga, Hashirama Senju uses the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique. In the anime, Tobirama Senju performs it.
 * In the manga, when Naruto and Gamabunta do the Combination Transformation they transform into a giant fox with a single tail. In the anime, they transform into the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.
 * In the manga, when Jiraiya uses Rasengan on Gantetsu, he also steals his wallet, while in the anime, he is given it out of respect.
 * In the manga, Hiruko was a normal puppet, in the anime, he was a Human Puppet.
 * In the manga, none of Chiyo's puppets in White Secret Technique: Ten Puppet Collection of Chikamatsu were destroyed, however in the anime, at least four were shown being heavily damaged.
 * In the anime, the Sannin's actions during the Second Great Shinobi World War war are incorrectly stated to have occurred during the Third Great Shinobi World War.
 * In the anime, Jiraiya used Rasengan to knock down the first Animal Path. But in the manga, he is just shown stabbed by the path.
 * In the manga, Chidori surrounds the users hand in lightning, in the anime, it creates lightning in the palm of the users hand.
 * In the anime, Hanzō's eyes are not alike as the ones drawn in the manga.
 * In the manga, when Naruto returns from his trainning with Jiraiya, the person he first re-encounters is Kakashi. While in the anime he first meets Sakura and Konohamaru.
 * In the anime, the Asura Path's original body (not belonging to the Six Paths) is shown wearing a rice hat, while in the manga, his bare forehead and crown of the head are shown.
 * In the manga, Konan's eyes are shown to be a light greyish-blue with golden hints. In the anime, her eyes are depicted as a deep shade of amber.
 * In the manga, Konan's eyelashes are shown to be a diagonal line at the bottom corner of her eyes. In the anime, they are shown to be three distinctive lines.
 * In the manga, Jugo's arm after he is knocked down by Killer Bee near the beginning of the battle between Taka and Killer Bee is designed differently than how it is in the anime. It is also not shown how Killer Bee dealt with him in the manga, while in the anime, he puts the hole on Suigetsu's blade around his neck and swings the sword around to throw Jugo off, and then, when Jugo removes the blade, attacks him.
 * In the manga, Utakata, the jinchūriki of the Six-Tails has already been captured by the time of Akatsuki and Taka's alliance. Kisame notes that seven of the tailed beasts have been captured and there are two left to catch: Killer Bee and Naruto Uzumaki. In the anime, however, Utakata has yet to be captured. An upcoming OVA will detail the events of his capture. Kisame notes the difference in saying that Akatsuki has captured six of the tailed beasts, as opposed to the seven in the manga.
 * In the manga, the triangle on Hidan's Jashin amulet points up, while in the anime, it points down.

Animation Errors

 * In the manga, Gamabunta is shown to have not to have had a scar on his left eye when sitting next to Jiraiya. In the anime, he has a scar.
 * In the manga, members of the Uchiha clan are shown to have strange facial markings, . In the anime only one of the members retains part of their distinct facial markings.
 * In the manga, the color or Killer Bee's tattoo's are black. In the anime, their color is blue.