Naruto: Shippuuden (Naruto Shippuden)

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Synonyms: Naruto Hurricane Chronicles

Japanese: -ナルト- 疾風伝

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Type: TV

Episodes: 500

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Feb 15, 2007 to Mar 23, 2017

Premiered: Winter 2007

Broadcast: Thursdays at 19:30 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, Aniplex, KSS, Rakuonsha, TV Tokyo Music, Shueisha

Licensors: VIZ Media

Studios: Pierrot

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Theme: Martial Arts

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.27¹ (scored by 1,653,414 users)

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Ranked: #293²

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Popularity: #16

Members: 2,477,196

Favorites: 112,362

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8.27

Ranked #293Popularity #16Members 2,477,196

Episodes: /500

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It has been two and a half years since Naruto Uzumaki left Konohagakure, the Hidden Leaf Village, for intense training following events which fueled his desire to be stronger. Now Akatsuki, the mysterious organization of elite rogue ninja, is closing in on their grand plan which may threaten the safety of the entire shinobi world.

Although Naruto is older and sinister events loom on the horizon, he has changed little in personality—still rambunctious and childish—though he is now far more confident and possesses an even greater determination to protect his friends and home. Come whatever may, Naruto will carry on with the fight for what is important to him, even at the expense of his own body, in the continuation of the saga about the boy who wishes to become Hokage.

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Simone, Jamie

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Hijikata, Makoto

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Kyoutani, Tomomi

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Kon, Chiaki

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	1: "Hero's Come Back" by Nobodyknows+ (eps 1-30)
	2: "distance" by LONG SHOT PARTY (eps 31-53)
	3: "Blue Bird (ブルーバード)" by Ikimonogakari (eps 54-77)
	4: "CLOSER" by Inoue Joe (eps 78-102)
	5: "Hotaru no Hikari (ホタルノヒカリ)" by Ikimonogakari (eps 103-128)
	6: "Sign" by FLOW (eps 129-153)
	7: "Toumei Datta Sekai (透明だった世界)" by Motohiro Hata (eps 152-179)
	8: "Diver" by NICO Touches the Walls (eps 180-205)
	9: "Lovers (ラヴァーズ)" by 7!! (eps 206-230)
	10: "newsong" by tacica (eps 231-256)
	11: "Totsugeki Rock (突撃ロック)" by THE CRO-MAGNONS (eps 257-281)
	12: "Moshimo" by Daisuke (eps 282-306)
	13: "Niwaka Ame Nimo Makezu (ニワカ雨ニモ負ケズ)" by NICO Touches the Walls (eps 307-332)
	14: "Tsuki no Ookisa (月の大きさ)" by Nogizaka46 (eps 333-356)
	15: "Guren" by DOES (eps 357-379)
	16: "Silhouette (シルエット)" by KANA-BOON (eps 380-405)
	17: "Kaze (風)" by Yamazaru (eps 406-431)
	18: "LINE" by Sukima Switch (eps 432-458)
	19: "Blood Circulator (ブラッドサーキュレーター)" by Asian Kung-Fu Generation (eps 459-479)
	20: "Kara no Kokoro (カラノココロ)" by Anly (eps 480-500)

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	1: "Nagare Boshi ~Shooting Star~ (流れ星〜Shooting Star〜)" by HOME MADE Kazoku (eps 1-18)
	2: "Michi ~to you all (道〜to you all)" by aluto (eps 19-30)
	3: "KIMI MONOGATARI (キミモノガタリ)" by little by little (eps 31-41)
	4: "Mezamero! Yasei (目覚めろ!野性)" by MATCHY with QUESTION? (eps 42-53)
	5: "Sunao na Niji (素直な虹)" by surface (eps 54-63)
	6: "BROKEN YOUTH" by NICO Touches the Walls (eps 64-77)
	7: "Long Kiss Goodbye" by HALCALI (eps 78-90)
	8: "BACCHIKOI!!! (バッチコイ!!!)" by DEV PARADE (eps 91-102)
	9: "Shinkokyuu (深呼吸)" by SUPER BEAVER (eps 103-115)
	10: "My ANSWER" by SEAMO (eps 116-128)
	11: "Omae Dattanda (おまえだったんだ)" by Kishidan (eps 129-141)
	12: "For You" by AZU (eps 142-153)
	13: "Jitensha (自転車)" by OreSkaBand (eps 154-166)
	14: "Utakata Hanabi (うたかた花火)" by supercell (eps 167-179)
	15: "U can do it!" by DOMINO (eps 180-192)
	16: "Mayonaka no Orchestra (真夜中のオーケストラ)" by Aqua Timez (eps 193-205)
	17: "FREEDOM" by HOME MADE Kazoku (eps 206-218)
	18: "Yokubou o Sakebe!!!! (欲望を叫べ!!!!)" by OKAMOTO'S (eps 219-230)
	19: "Place to Try" by TOTALFAT (eps 231-242)
	20: "By My Side (バイマイサイド)" by Hemenway (eps 243-256)
	21: "Cascade (カスケード)" by UNLIMITS (eps 257-268)
	22: "Kono Koe Karashite (この声枯らしてfeat. CHEHON)" by AISHA feat. CHEHON (eps 267-281)
	23: "MOTHER" by MUCC (eps 282-295)
	24: "Sayonara Memory (さよならメモリー)" by 7!! (eps 296-306)
	25: "I Can Hear" by DISH// (eps 307-319)
	26: "Yume wo Daite ~Hajimari no Crissroad~ (夢を抱いて〜はじまりのクリスロード〜)" by Rake (eps 320-332)
	27: "Black Night Town (ブラックナイトタウン)" by Akihisa Kondou (eps 333-343)
	28: "Niji (虹)" by Shinkuu Horou (真空ホロウ) (eps 344-356)
	29: "FLAME" by DISH// (eps 357-366)
	30: "Never Change feat.Lyu:Lyu" by SHUN (eps 367-379)
	31: "Dame Dame da (だめだめだ)" by Shiori Tomita (eps 380-393)
	32: "Spinning World" by Diana Garnet (eps 394-405)
	33: "Kotoba no Iranai Yakusoku (言葉のいらない約束)" by sana (eps 406-417)
	34: "Niji no Sora (虹の空)" by FLOW (eps 418-431)
	35: "Trouble Maker (トラブルメイカー)" by KANIKAPILA (eps 432-443)
	36: "Sonna Kimi, Konna Boku (そんな君、こんな僕)" by Thinking Dogs (eps 444-454)
	37: "Ao no Lullaby (青のララバイ)" by Kuroneko Chelsea (eps 455-466)
	38: "Pino to Amélie (ピノとアメリ)" by Huwie Ishizaki (eps 467-479)
	39: "Tabidachi no Uta (旅立ちの唄)" by Ayumikurikamaki (eps 480-488)
	40: "Zetsu Zetsu (『絶絶（ぜつぜつ）)" by Swimy (eps 489-500)

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Mar 23, 2017

AnjuRatty

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Naruto Shippuden : Review |
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Naruto. The series that sold over 220 million manga copies, winning handful of awards along the way. An anime that ranked as one of the most watched series in Japan that got tarnished by a greedy studio and has received tons of internet backlash throughout the years.

Let me start off by saying Naruto is by no means a flawless anime. It's the exact opposite. The series had too many fillers. Sometimes the animation quality was below par and pacing can be painfully slow at times. But please bear with me here. I'm going to tell you why it has ...

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Jul 10, 2018

Kuta1

Mixed Feelings

Back in high school, I was an avid Naruto fan. I discovered the series when I was 14 years old and binged it all in 2 weeks, and started Shippuuden soon after. I loved it at first, and revered it during the Pain arc, but soon after I found the show started to decline in quality. And now looking back, I find the show had pretty serious problems throughout its run.

Just to get this out of the way, the egregious amounts of filler amidst very few canon episodes as well as a lot of episodes consisting of 70% flashbacks and 30% actual content is ...

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Mar 22, 2017

LIQfilms

Not Recommended

Naruto Shippuuden! The series that would never end finally ends! After ten years, five-hundred episodes and several movie tie-ins, this milked cow is finally laid down to rest, resulting in one of the worst shounen anime adaptations ever made. While I did enjoy myself with the series and certainly found myself even liking it for the first two-hundred episodes or so, the insane amount of filler, padding, and the abysmal final three or four arcs made me despise this show by the end, and all of the characters and narrative. The filler in this anime is such a goddamn problem that it destroys the entire ... anime, and at this point, if you did want to get into Naruto, I would recommend reading the manga, or skipping over the filler because, for the most part, the filler is absolutely abysmal and is rarely interesting or adds onto the overall world of the series. Since this review is going to spend a long time detailing all of my problems with the story, I will address the animation and music now. While I still prefer the original soundtrack of Naruto, Shippuuden is still great. The action pumps you up and there is a great variety in songs and moods to fit each moment and scene. The animation is a different story, however. The anime is very inconsistent, and that is to be expected with a show with over five-hundred episode; at its best, it could be movie quality, it’s worst, trashy nineties OVA.

Shippuuden is the direct continuation of the original series, set two years after the events that transpired in the original in which Naruto has trained to hone his skills and jutsu. Upon returning to the village, he fights off against the Akatsuki, a group of powerful, rogue ninja who wants to collect all of the tailed beasts to create the ten tails and rule the world, while trying to save his gay lover, I mean best friend, Sasuke. Now, I want to clarify first of all that I enjoyed the first season very much (excluding the fillers, that is). It was fun, the battles were original and creative, and the characters went through great development; it captured the hard life of a ninja perfectly and the cruel world in which they live in. Shippuuden was also pretty good for a little while in the beginning of the series, albeit not as interesting or engaging as the previous story arcs of the show.

One good thing about the sequel is that Shippuuden is a lot darker and more mature than the original series, now with the Akatsuki clan running amok and killing many of the tailed beasts. There is this constant sense of looming danger and tension in the series and the Akatsuki were easily the best thing about part two. All of them are interesting, had unique abilities, and for the most part, are allowed to shine in their own respective battles. Hell, there are even a few character deaths which took me by surprise, which added onto the steaks and tension of the show. The first one hundred episodes of content (minus the fillers) are pretty great although I did have some problems, most notably being Naruto and Sasuke themselves.

Naruto in part two is annoying, whiny and irritating, and his constant journey to save Sasuke feels boring and without much sense logically, since Saskue becomes a complete dick head, hell bent on destroying the entire village. Sasuke starts off wanting to kill his brother, and after the worst plot twist in the series where we learn his evil brother was, in fact, a good guy, which I’ve always hated, all he wants after that is to destroy the village and everyone in it, and his character fluctuates so much throughout part two that it becomes hard to keep track of. Both of their respective story arcs hit brick walls by the end of the Pain arc and hardly develop at all past that, just in their power levels. Speaking of the Pain arc, the conclusion to that very same story arc was so bad that I lost all hope in the series. After a great fight in which much of the main cast die, Naruto has a friendship speech with the villain in which after, he brings back all of the people in the village who died! This removed all of the tension from the series and was such a cheap way to bring back characters that I began to hate the series from that point onwards. Combine that with characters who did receive some screen time in part one, now being pushed to the sideline with no development, aside from Shikamaru, but even after his own arc, he is pushed to the side to make way for the yellow-haired twit. In addition, Naruto’s character is ruined after we learn he is the child of destiny and was destined to save the world since he was born. This meant all of his hard work was for nothing and is such a giant middle finger from the author, that after this point, I hated the series. From this point on, we know that Naruto can never die nor lose since he is destined to save the world. His fate is pre-determined from the start, which does remove some tension from the later arcs.

It also destroys Naruto's main theme at the same time. Naruto's driving force was that hard work and endurance would pay off in the end, and earn you respect from the people around you, even when the whole world is putting you down. In the early parts of the series there was a genuine sense of satisfaction in watching Naruto grow as a person and the catharsis pay off that entailed was great after all his hard work. Learning that he is a destined child, and was destined with all these great powers from the beginning ruins all of the hard work and endurance he had to go through to gain respect as a shinobi. Essentially, the author shot himself in the foot and omitted one of the driving forces of his story.

Now, let me elaborate a little more on the Itachi plot twist before I go ahead and why I didn't like this twist in the story. To me, Itachi was a great villain, someone who killed his entire village just to test his limits, leaving his younger brother alive to act out revenge on the part of his fallen clan. Like Saskue, we hated Itachi at the beginning, which we should of, since this makes a great villain. Itachi is strong, ruthless, and cunning. All of this, in my eyes, anyway, made him great as a villain, but Kishimoto, works in a twist that reveals he was a good guy all along and killed his clan to prevent a war from occurring. Essentially he had to carry a huge burden on his back from the village elders, which is admirable, but it also causes Saskue's character to go out of control from this point, and fluctuate so frequently. I always found this twist to be kind of "meh", for a lack of a better term. I never hated it per say, to the point where it broke the series or anything, it's just that I think Itachi was much better as a villain than a good guy. But hey, this mini-rant is just down to my own personal preference.

The worst character out of them all is Sakura. Now, I don't think she is useless in this series. Hell, she has a pretty okay fight against one of the Akatsuki members and wins, which is something I can appreciate, it's just that her character goes nowhere. She stays so stagnant and boring, whilst crying about Saskue. And holy hell does her love for Sasuke feel forced as hell. It makes no sense why she loves him to this extent, especially after the bastard almost killed her and threatened to destroy the entire village, killing everyone she loved and had known. Back in the original I could kind of excuse her crush on account that she was a young child, but now it's laughably pathetic and doesn't even make any sense. This applies for most of the female cast in the series since Kishimotot can't write good female characters. They're either completely useless or completely superficial. That's it.

And this brings us to ninja war arc and everything that came after. These final arcs were awful. All of the clever tactics and strategies the characters had are now gone, in favour of who could pull off the most landscape reducing jutsu, and Naruto and Sasuke become so powerful, to the point they rival gods, even going as far as having them both die and then re-birth as an act of destiny. What I always hated was that all of the characters that died before; characters that I liked and had well-completed arcs were brought back to life since the author was too lazy to create new ones. This ruined many of the original arcs these characters went through, and I found this, for the most part, to be completely boring since they just repeat what happened previously. Sure, there is some development and growth with the characters, but it's hardly substantial enough to raise the bar. All of the previous rules and ideas that Kishimoto establishes in the early part of the series are thrown out and it's painfully obvious that he didn't even care about his own series in the end since the justsus and abilities some of the characters can perform goes against the rules of the world that he established. A good example is when Kakashi gets two Sharingan which would require a large amount of chakra to use. We've been told time and time again that this character, while having a wide range of impressive jutsu, doesn't have much in the way of chakra and thus can't battle for too long but in the final arcs he performs so many Jutsu it is unbelievable and when he does require the double Sharingan it makes no sense how he can utilise its power, especially since he obtains it at the end of the war and thus his chakra would have been completely gone! Another example of crap writing is after Naruto is reborn, he somehow saves Gai from dying just by simply touching his chest! It makes no sense why he can suddenly do this and this element is never explained to us at all. Not only that, but a few moments later he restores Kakashi's eye in the same fashion, but fails to restore Gai's dead legs, for whatever reason. What an asshole!

These final arcs are so full of ass-pulls, random power-ups and last for so long that I can’t stand the idea of watching them again. The final fight between Naruto and Sasuke was pretty impressive and I’m glad it wasn't stuffed with filler but it’s not enough to save the whole series. The “final” villain Madara was the only thing I liked about the final arc but even then, he was replaced by the true final villain who was terrible, since the author had no idea how to end the series nor of how to get rid of such a powerful enemy. Kaguya was such a terrible final villain, only being relevant for about ten episodes or so. The biggest problem is that she came out of nowhere. There was no build-up like Madara. Madara felt justified to be the final villain because of the build-up and the pay off with him was pretty good, but Kaguya was boring, dull and had no narrative steaks or intrigue behind her character at all. She was truly the worst final villain I've ever seen.

I could go on and on about every little thing, but I’ve covered everything that pisses me off the most so I’ll leave it at that. I do enjoy Naruto, despite the obvious flaws, but if you want to get into the series, just read the manga.

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