Animes
New Naruto anime to premiere this fiscal year
Advertisement
In a long-awaited update, it was revealed that the new Naruto The anime, which will consist of 4 episodes, will be released this fiscal year, that is, anytime between now and March 2025.
This announcement was made during TV Tokyo's Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Results Briefing, which was released on May 23, 2024.
“While the new series of 'BORUTO' is on hiatus, we are planning to air new episodes [of Naruto] to commemorate the 20th anniversary this fiscal year. For distribution, we have expanded to Central and South America and the Middle East in addition to worldwide distribution, and the remaining region is Eastern Europe. We are in the final stages of negotiations to find a good partner to handle the peripheral business.“
The anime was supposed to premiere on September 3, 2023. However, it was delayed to further improve the quality of the series.
The brand new Naruto episodes, which are being produced for the first time in about 6 years and 5 months, are being released as part of its 20th anniversary celebration.
Renowned Japanese rock band FLOW will perform the opening and ending themes for the 4 new episodes.
The opening theme will feature a special 20th anniversary version of their hit song, “GO!!!,” while the ending theme will be a catchy cover of ORANGE RANGE’s “Viva★Rock” performed by FLOW.
Based on the manga series of the same name by Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto The anime began airing on October 3, 2002. Produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex, the first part of Naruto anime aired from 2002 to 2007 with 220 episodes. A sequel titled Naruto Shippuden began airing the same year and continued until 2017 before ending.
Naruto Shippuden aired a total of 500 episodes.
The main story then continued, focusing on the younger generation, with Naruto's son Boruto playing the titular character in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.
The manga was serialized in Shueisha's shonen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump from 1999 to 2014, with its chapters collected in 72 tankobon volumes.
The series is based on two one-shot manga by Kishimoto: Karakuri (1995), which earned Kishimoto an honorable mention in Shueisha's monthly Hop Step Award the following year, and Naruto (1997).
