Fun fact : There’s a city in Japan called ‘Naruto’. In 2010, in honor of the manga selling over 100M copies, the city printed 100M yen of ‘Naruto money’ that could be used as currency in over 250 shops in the city.
Junko Takeuchi revealed that the producers originally planned to pick a male voice actor for Naruto but after her audition Kishimoto personally chose her.