In October 2002, Studio Pierrot launched the anime adaptation of Mashashi Kishimoto’s Naruto. The manga was a giant deal on the time and was grouped in with Bleach and One Piece as “the Large Three,” whereby every have been the most well-liked and longest-running shonen collection on the time. Naruto’s anime had comparable success: throughout 20 years, it spawned a considerable amount of merchandise together with movies, mild novels, and video games (a few of which nonetheless persist to this present day). Although the large 2-0 milestone got here months in the past, Pierrot isn’t fairly completed celebrating the ninja collection fairly but.
Revealed forward of the weekend by the Naruto Twitter account, Pierrot is releasing 4 wholly new episodes of the unique Naruto anime. The studio hasn’t divulged any particulars past that in the meanwhile, however they’ll be premiering in September, following a number of episodes re-airing in Japan throughout the summer time. Again in October 2022, Studio Pierrot launched a 10-minute retrospective of the unique collection, Naruto Half I (2002-2007) and its sequel collection, Naruto Shippuden (2007-2017). That retrospective featured new animation in some spots and an artwork fashion paying homage to the one at the moment seen within the sequel collection, Boruto: Naruto Subsequent Generations.
To associate with that, Pierrot additionally revealed that manufacturing on Boruto Half I has wrapped, and can finish with the present’s upcoming 293rd episode on March 26. Half II of that collection is at the moment in manufacturing, however a launch window for it hasn’t been given at time of writing. Whereas Boruto has a stable fanbase of its personal, it’s but to achieve the heights of its predecessor; past the close to 300-episode rely, it has a handful of sunshine novels and a few video video games, it’s but to spawn a dwell stage play or perhaps a film of its personal past the 2015 film that acted as a semi-backdoor pilot forward of the Boruto anime’s launch in 2017.
If the thought of recent Naruto episodes excites you, all the authentic present’s episodes could be watched over on Crunchyroll and Hulu. It’s a whole lot of episodes, however there’s loads of time to refresh one’s recollections forward of the brand new 4 episodes within the fall.
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