In a long-awaited replace, it has been revealed that the brand new Naruto anime, which can consist of 4 episodes, can be launched this fiscal yr, which implies someday between now and March 2025.
This announcement was made throughout TV Tokyo’s annual outcomes briefing for fiscal yr 2024, which was launched on Could 23, 2024.
“Whereas the brand new sequence ‘BORUTO’ is at the moment on hiatus, we plan to air new episodes (of Naruto) to commemorate the twentieth anniversary this fiscal yr. By way of distribution, along with international distribution, we now have expanded to Central and South America and the Center East, and the remaining area is Jap Europe. We’re within the remaining levels of negotiations to discover a good associate for the peripheral actions.“
The anime is ready to launch on September 3, 2023. Nonetheless, this was postponed to additional enhance the standard of the sequence.
The model new one Naruto episodes, produced for the primary time in roughly six years and 5 months, are being launched as a part of the twentieth anniversary celebrations.
Famend Japanese rock band FLOW will carry out each the opening and shutting theme songs for the 4 new episodes.
The opening theme will function a particular twentieth anniversary model of their hit ‘GO!!!’, whereas the ending theme can be a fascinating cowl of ORANGE RANGE’s ‘Viva★Rock’, as interpreted by FLOW.
Based mostly on the manga sequence of the identical identify by Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto anime aired on October 3, 2002. Produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex, the primary a part of Naruto anime aired from 2002 to 2007 with 220 episodes. A sequel titled Naruto Shippuden aired the identical yr and lasted till 2017 earlier than ending.
Naruto Shippuden aired for a complete of 500 episodes.
The primary story then continued, specializing in the youthful technology, with Naruto’s son Boruto taking part in the titular character in Boruto: Naruto subsequent generations.
The manga was serialized in Shueisha’s shonen manga journal Weekly Shonen Bounce from 1999 to 2014, with the chapters collected into 72 tankobon volumes.
The sequence relies on two one-shot manga by Kishimoto: Karakuri (1995), which earned Kishimoto an honorable point out in Shueisha’s month-to-month Hop Step Award the next yr, and Naruto (1997).
Supply: TV Tokyo’s annual outcomes briefing for fiscal yr 2024
