List of Naruto chapters (Part I)

The Naruto manga is written by Masashi Kishimoto, and is published by Shueisha in the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in twenty-page installments. The first chapter of Naruto was published in 1999, continuing to more than four hundred chapters in all. The Naruto manga is serialized in North America by Viz Media in their manga anthology magazine Shonen Jump, with the first chapter of the English adaptation published in the January 2003 issue. The Naruto manga is split in two parts to divide the storyline; the first part, Part I, covers the first two hundred thirty-eight chapters of the series. Part II of the Naruto storyline begins at the two hundred forty-fifth chapter, and takes place two and a half years after the end of Part I. The six chapters between Part I and Part II are part of a gaiden taking place before the regular storyline, called the "Kakashi Chronicles" (カカシ外伝). An anime adaptation, produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo, was aired on TV Tokyo, with the first episode shown on October 3, 2002. The last episode of the Naruto anime aired on February 8, 2007, with the anime adaptation of Part II, known as Naruto: Shippūden, replacing it.

The chapters that make Part I have been composed into twenty-seven tankōbon in Japan by Shueisha. The first tankōbon was released on March 3, 2000, and the twenty-seventh on April 4, 2005. Most of the tankōbon contain nine chapters of the original manga. Viz Media has released all twenty-seven volumes of the English adaptation of the manga. In addition, Viz Media released all twenty-seven volumes in a boxed set, thus constituting the entirety of the Naruto storyline before Part II on November 13, 2007. A "Collector's Edition" of volume 1 including a hardcover was also released on September 16, 2008 by Viz.

Shortly before the release of the fourteenth volume, Viz Media announced its "Naruto Nation" campaign, planning to release three volumes each month in the last four months of 2007. Cammie Allen, Viz Media's product manager, commented that, "Our main reason [for the accelerated schedule] was to catch up to the Japanese release schedule to give our readers a similar experience to that of our readers in Japan." As such, the English serialization of Part II was featured on December 4, 2007 in Shonen Jump.