The Chunin Exam Stage 2: The Forest of Death Special Report: Live from the Forest of Death! Start Your Engines: The Chunin Exam Begins! Genin Takedown! All Nine Rookies Face Off! The Number One Hyperactive, Knucklehead Ninja Joins the Fight! Marked with Orange, These episode are adapted 100% of the manga that follows story. Marked with Blue, Not adapted from the manga, but it has snippet of original story. The episodes were released in North America by Viz Media and on Europe and South America by Warner Bros.
Marked with Red, Not adapted from the manga, so it does not follow the original story. The first season of the Naruto anime series is directed by Hayato Date and produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo. Why filler episodes are added in the anime series, because when the manga can’t keep up with the anime then the anime studio will add these fillers to help or to ease the workload of mangaka. It is a path filled with betrayal, pain, and loss but with hard work, Naruto may achieve Hokage. But the road to becoming Hokage, the title for the strongest ninja in Konoha, is a long and arduous one. As Naruto grows he decides to become the strongest ninja in Konoha in an effort to show everyone that he is not as they perceive him to be, but is a human being worthy of love and admiration. The fight was soon won by Yondaime as he sealed the evil demon in a human body. The battle ensued for a long time until a man known as the Fourth Hokage, Yondaime, the strongest ninja in Konoha, fiercely fought the Kyuubi. Long before Naruto came to be, a Kyuubi (demon fox) with great fury and power waged war taking many lives. The distrust of the boy has little to do with the boy himself, but it’s what’s inside him that causes anxiety. TL DR there's no one filler list that 100% agrees with each other, viewer discretion is advised.Naruto closely follows the life of a boy who is feared and detested by the villagers of the hidden leaf village of Konoha. Source for most of this information was the Naruto Wiki. In the manga, it was between what became the first and second series (the time jump).Īdditionally, none of the movies are based on Manga plots. Ep 422-423: "Konohamaru's training" arcĪlso of note is the Kakashi backstory "Kakashi Gaiden" is shown in the Shippūden (Ep 119 - 120), which is out of order as to how it appeared in the Manga (Chp 239 - 244).Ep 303 - 320: From the "Shinobi World War" Arc.Ep 290 - 295: "Chikara" Arc 500 Episodes (total) celebration.
Ep 144 - 151: "Tsuchigumo Kinjutsu" Arc.Ep 54 - 71: "Twelve Guardians Ninja" Arc.Naruto and Jiraiya leave the village for training, and others begin training as well Ep 216 - 219/20: "Ultimate Weapon" Arc - Note that 220 is part of this arc, but also includes some canon when.Ep 202: "The Top 5 Ninja Battles!" Recap Episode.Ep 194: "The Mysterious Curse of the Haunted Castle".Ep 193: "Viva Dojo Challenge! Youth is All About Passion!".Ep 192: "Ino Screams! Chubby Paradise!".Ep 185: "A Legend from the Hidden Leaf: The Onbaa!".Ep 174: "Impossible! Celebrity Ninja Art: Money Style Jutsu!".Ep 161: "The Appearance of Strange Visitors".Ep 158: "Follow My Lead! The Great Survival Challenge".Ep 148 - 151: "Search for the Bikōchū" Arc.Ep 142 - 147: "Mizuki Strikes Back" Arc.Ep 136 - 141: "Land of Rice Fields" Arc.Ep 136 - 219-ish (This is where they let the Manga truck along a lot).Ep 26: "Special Report: Live From the Forest of Death" - Summary Episode.Both series have a fair share of anime exclusive plots, so here's the breakdown of Anime exclusive plots: The second is Naruto: Shippūden, which starts after that jump and continues onwards.
The first is Naruto, which covers events up until the 3 year time jump in the manga. The Naruto anime is broken up into two "Series".