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Naruto achieves extra quality through what cultural critics call "glocalization"—the perfect fusion of distinctly Japanese mythology (Shinto spirits, the nindo [way of the ninja], the chakra system based on Buddhist cosmology) with universal coming-of-age tropes.
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