Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-14250-20190920160719

As opposed to the various sequel animes such as Shipuuden, Boruto, Super-Deformed, Gaiden, etc.

The follow-up anime all have specific titles so that you can specifically refer to them, whereas "Naruto" by itself might refer to the franchise as a whole, or its star character.

I know that retroactively the TV series Star Trek began to be referred to as "Star Trek: The Original Series" once sequels like Next Generation / Deep Space Nine / Voyager came out, so I'm wondering if the first Naruto anime has any titles like, I suppose either in fan slang (Naruto TOS?) or preferably in some official capacity.

I suppose I'm curious about that with other anime too, like for example when Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood came out, would you just call the original "FMA TOS" or something?

Shipuuden coming out in 2007, should we just casually describe the original pre-timeskip anime preceding it as "Naruto (2002)" or something?

I know One Piece also has a massive timeskip which might have fans referring to its 2 eras separately, even though it didn't involve a title change or restarting the episode numbering from 0 like the Naruto anime did (despite Naruto also being continuous chapters and there being no separate Shippuden manga) 