End of December 2022 for the Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Naruto Animestarted Narutop99, a worldwide survey with a big surprise. The winner would have been the protagonist of a short manga, while the first 20 were protagonists of an unpublished work of art. Here are the results.

Naruto’s favorite character has been chosen. THE Fans crowned Minato NamikazeFather of the protagonist Naruto, as well as Fourth Hokage and savior of the Leaf Village during the Nine-Tailed Fox incident. He will therefore be the Protagonist of the new Naruto spin-off manga. Minato: Naruto Previous Generations comes true.

Minato is Naruto’s favorite character with a total of almost 800,000 votes in his favour. Behind it are Itachi Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, who caused a scandal a few days ago because of the manipulated votes for Narutop99’s best fight.

In the survey that opened December 17, 2022 and ended January 31, 2023, 4,600,000 people took part for a total of 488 participating characters. Here is the ranking, from fourth to twentieth place:

  • Shisui Uchiha
  • Kakashi Hatake
  • Naruto Uzumaki
  • Sakumo Hatake
  • Sasuke Uchiha
  • Madara Uchiha
  • Hinata Hyuga
  • Obito Uchiha
  • Jiraiya
  • Shikamaru Nara
  • Tobirama Senju
  • Gaara
  • Hashirama Senju
  • deidara
  • Neji Hyuga
  • sasori
  • Rock Lee

These twenty characters are the protagonists of theGraphic created by Masashi Kishimoto which you can find at the end of the article. The author of Naruto also wanted to include Might Guy and Kurama in his special illustration classified as 21st and 22nd. The Sensei also dedicated a message to the fans.


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