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Even though it has been more than a decade since the Naruto manga ended and eight years since the last episode of Naruto Shippuden aired, the series remains one of the most popular anime in the world. It is so popular that, even after all this time, Google is still celebrating Masashi Kishimoto’s best-selling manga with an Easter Egg in their search engine.

If you go to Google and type “Naruto” into the search bar, you’ll get the usual results you’ve come to expect. The Wikipedia page. Some YouTube clips. However, there is a new symbol at the bottom of the page (or on the bottom right if you’re searching on mobile) that will look very familiar to fans of the series. It is the symbol of Konoha that adorns Naruto and many other characters’ iconic headbands.

Clicking that symbol will unleash a host of 16-bit Narutos across your screen – apparently, his latest skill is the retro shadow clone jutsu – that shake boxes and generally disrupt the search results for a moment before disappearing.

Google does this sort of thing from time to time, creating little Easter Eggs for fans to find when they search for certain terms. However, they usually have to do with recent or upcoming releases. Things that are currently big in the pop culture sphere. The fact that Google is celebrating Naruto in this way when we’re still no closer to knowing when the anniversary episodes are going to come out, is a testament to how strong the series remains even after all these years. Even without new episodes or chapters to showcase, people are still eager for new Naruto.

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