List of Naruto: Shippuden episodes

This article is about the episodes in the Naruto: Shippuden series. For the list of episodes from the original Naruto series, see List of Naruto episodes.

Key visual of the series.

Naruto: Shippuden is an anime television series mainly adapted from Part II of Masashi Kishimoto's original Naruto manga series, with exactly 500 episodes. It is set two and a half years after the original series in the Naruto universe, following the teenage ninja Naruto Uzumaki and his allies. The series is directed by Hayato Date, and produced by Pierrot and TV Tokyo. It began broadcasting on February 15, 2007, on TV Tokyo, and concluded on March 23, 2017.[1][2]

On January 2, 2009, Viz Media and Crunchyroll provided eight English subtitled Naruto: Shippuden episodes on the official Naruto website.[3] Later the following 2 weeks, Viz began providing subtitled versions of the latest Naruto: Shippuden episodes a week after they first aired in Japan, with a new episode being added to the Naruto website each subsequent Thursday.[3] On July 24, 2009, Viz Media announced that the series would be released on the iTunes Store.[4] The first DVD release of the series in North America was released on September 29, 2009.[5] The English dub of Naruto: Shippuden made its US premiere on Disney XD on October 28, 2009.[6][7][8]

Naruto: Shippuden stopped airing on Disney XD on November 5, 2011 after 98 episodes.[9] The English dub was streamed on the Neon Alley web channel from its launch in October 2012, and beginning December 29 of the same year with episode 99, dubbed episodes premiered every week until March 25, 2016 after 338 episodes, about a month before Neon Alley's closure. Adult Swim's Toonami programming block began airing the anime from the beginning on January 5, 2014 in an uncut format.[10] The network started showing never before aired dubbed episodes at the 339th episode mark by May 2021.[11]

In four regions, episodes from the series have been released on DVD and Blu-ray by single volumes and box sets. In Japan, twenty six sets of volumes have been released based on which arc it represents. In North America, twelve single volumes and thirty eight box sets have been released. In the United Kingdom, twenty eight single volumes and six box sets have been released. In Australia and New Zealand, twenty-eight collections have been released.

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  4. ^ "Viz Media Brings the latest Naruto: Shippuden Story Arc to iTunes For Digital Download". Viz Media. Archived from the original on August 5, 2009.
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  6. ^ "Viz Confirms Plans to Present New Dubbed Naruto". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 14, 2016.
  7. ^ "Naruto Shippūden's Main English Dubbing Cast Announced". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 14, 2016.
  8. ^ "It's Official -- Naruto Shippuden to Air on Disney XD Channel". Viz Media. Archived from the original on September 15, 2009.
  9. ^ "Naruto Shippuden Disney XD schedule". toonzone.com. December 11, 2009. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012.
  10. ^ "Naruto Shippuden Debuts on Adult Swim's Toonami This Sunday 1/5 at 12:30AM". Anime News Network. January 3, 2014. Archived from the original on February 8, 2014.
  11. ^ Nick Valdez (May 2, 2021). "Naruto Shippuden Hits New Toonami Milestone". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on January 2, 2023. Retrieved January 2, 2023.