Naruto In Every Episode Meme
Overview
The meme depicts a bright suburban outdoor scene, with a green grass lawn, deciduous trees, and a residential house visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky. Multiple identical, motion-blurred copies of a heavyset man wearing a white karate gi with a black belt are shown running toward the viewer across the lawn. The joke references the long-running anime Naruto, where the protagonist Naruto Uzumaki regularly uses his signature Shadow Clone Jutsu to conjure dozens of copies of himself, with group shots of all the clones running together appearing frequently across episodes of the series, leading to the joke that this is what Naruto looks like in every episode.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from the Reddit Meme subreddit via RSS feed. It is an edited derivative work: creators took an existing photo of a man in a karate uniform running, duplicated the figure multiple times, and added motion blur effects to parody the common shadow clone running scenes from the Naruto anime franchise.
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