'' Naruto: Shippuden'' is an

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series mainly adapted from Part II of

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's original

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, with exactly 500 episodes. It is set two and a half years after the original series in the ''Naruto'' universe, following the ninja teenager

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and his allies. The series is directed by Hayato Date, and produced by Pierrot and

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. It began broadcasting on February 15, 2007 on TV Tokyo, and concluded on March 23, 2017. On January 2, 2009,

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and

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provided eight uncut English

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''Naruto: Shippuden'' episodes on the official ''Naruto'' website. Later on January 15, Viz began providing subtitled versions of the latest ''Naruto: Shippuden'' episodes a week after they first aired in

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, with a new episode being added to the ''Naruto'' website each subsequent Thursday. The English dub of ''Naruto: Shippuden'' made its US premiere on Disney XD on October 28, 2009. On July 24, 2009, Viz Media announced that the series would be released on the

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. The first DVD release of the series in North America was released on September 29, 2009. ''Naruto: Shippuden'' stopped airing on Disney XD on November 5, 2011 after 98 episodes, in which the network cited more frequent violence that was shown in later episodes. DVD box sets generally containing thirteen dubbed episodes from episode 1 onward were released quarterly in their uncut format. The English dub was streamed on the Neon Alley

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from its launch in October 2012, and beginning December 29, 2012 with episode 99, dubbed episodes premiered every week uncut until March 25, 2016 after 338 episodes, about a month before Neon Alley's closure.

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's Toonami programming block began airing the anime from the beginning on January 5, 2014 in an uncut format and as of 2022 it is still running on a weekly basis. The network started showing never before aired dubbed episodes at the 339th episode mark by May 2021. In four regions, episodes from the series have been released on DVD and Blu-ray by single volumes and box sets. 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 Japan, twenty six sets of volumes have been released based on which arc it represents. In Australia and New Zealand, twenty-eight collections have been released.

Series overview

Episode list

Season 1 (2007)

Season 2 (2007–08)

Season 3 (2008)

Season 4 (2008)

Season 5 (2008–09)

Season 6 (2009–10)

Season 7 (2010)

Season 8 (2010)

Season 9 (2010–11)

Season 10 (2011)

Season 11 (2011)

Season 12 (2012)

Season 13 (2012–13)

Season 14 (2013)

Season 15 (2013–14)

Season 16 (2014)

Season 17 (2014)

Season 18 (2014)

Season 19 (2015)

Season 20 (2015–16)

Season 21 (2016–17)

Home media release

Region 1 (North America)

Single volumes

Box sets

Region 2 (UK)

Box sets

Series sets

Region 3 (Japan)

Region 4 (Australia/NZ)

Hokage Box Sets

Chakra Collection

Notes

References

Bibliography

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External links

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