Naruto: How I Followed Him from Orphan to Hokage

***Spoilers be raining down like a shadow clone Uzumaki Barrage***It’s as if the Naruto Gods have been closely following my journey through the summer of 2016. Twas a sunny Tuesday afternoon; a day that will forever live in Konoha infamy. I casually posted on Omar’s wall about finally watching this show he and the rest of the staff kept talking about: Naruto. Iiight. Bet. Seems like some regular regular. Little did I know, this would be the day I would embark on the daunting path to Binge-kage by promising my BNP fam that I was finally going to find out “what this Naruto was all about.” I had no fucking clue what I was getting into. Did I mention I promised the team that I’d be starting from the original series, where Naruto is a kid, and not the Shippuden series that is widely considered the insanely action-packed and more interesting half of the series? I ain’t give a damn. I was gonna do this shit and I was gonna do it right. So I hit Netflix and binged the original series. All of it. Did I mention I promised to watch every single episode, fillers and all? I was wylin…cuz anyone who has watched this series knows that shit is damn near impossible. Anyway, I watched it all and it was beyoooooonnnddddd glorious! I’m talkin Kakarot vs. Vegeta showdown greatness. I’m talkin hyperbolic time chamber training next level shit. I’m talkin first time Charizard decided to bang with Ash level shit. I’m talkin first fusion dance you ever saw jaw-dropping type epic shit. First time Lio…