50 Fun Facts About Naruto Shippuden

Which US channel first broadcast the English dub of Naruto Shippuden, starting in October 2009?

Disney XD showed only the first 98 episodes before dropping the series in 2011. The dub returned in 2014 on Adult Swim's Toonami block, starting over from episode one.

What does Shippuden, the subtitle the Naruto anime gained in 2007, literally mean in English?

Hurricane Chronicles signals a fresh start: the sequel adapts Part II of the manga, picking the story up after a gap of two and a half years.

Which ninja rank does Naruto still hold all through Shippuden, even as his friends are promoted?

Genin is the lowest rank of all, and Naruto never climbs off it: creator Masashi Kishimoto decided his hero would skip every step in between and go straight to the top job.

Which mentor and godfather takes Naruto away for two and a half years of training before Shippuden?

Jiraiya takes the boy away to make him strong enough to bring Sasuke home, and to protect himself from the Akatsuki agents hunting the fox sealed inside him.

Which young Kazekage do Naruto and his team race to rescue from Akatsuki in Shippuden's first arc?

Gaara dies when Akatsuki pull the One-Tail out of him, and lives again only because an elder of his village, Chiyo, gives up her own life to revive him.

What is the name of the Nine-Tailed Fox sealed inside Naruto after it attacked the Hidden Leaf?

Kurama starts out hating mankind for using it as a weapon, yet ends up as Naruto's companion, lending him new powers once the two make peace.

What do Naruto and Sasuke each lose in their final Shippuden battle before they reconcile?

An arm apiece is the price of their last duel, and it is only after losing his left that Sasuke admits defeat and makes peace with his oldest rival.

Which shy Hidden Leaf kunoichi steps in to defend Naruto from Pain and admits her feelings for him?

Hinata is impaled by Pain for stepping in, but she survives and Sakura heals her wounds. Years later, she and Naruto marry.

Which late Hidden Leaf hero appears in Naruto's mind while he fights Pain and says he is his father?

Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, had left an imprint of his own chakra inside his son, and it surfaces just in time to stop the Nine-Tails breaking loose.

Which American actress has voiced Naruto in English from his childhood through Shippuden and beyond?

Maile Flanagan had never heard of Naruto before she auditioned, and the dub's producers called him the hardest character in the whole cast to find a voice for.

Which artist, raised to feel no emotion, joins Team Kakashi in Shippuden as Sasuke's replacement?

Sai was deliberately drawn to look like Sasuke so that he would stand out as the missing teammate's stand-in. In battle, his ink drawings spring to life.

Which origami-wielding ninja is the only woman in Akatsuki and the partner of its leader, Pain?

Konan can split her body into countless sheets of paper and fold them into wings, which is why the people of her rain-soaked village call her God's angel.

Which rhyming swordsman, host of the Eight-Tails, teaches Naruto to control the Nine-Tails' power?

Killer Bee fakes his own capture by Akatsuki so he can slip away and chase a career as an enka singer, before being hauled home to tutor Naruto.

Which animation studio made Naruto Shippuden, launching it a week after the original anime ended?

Pierrot kept the sequel on air for a full decade, from February 2007 to March 2017, by which time it had reached exactly 500 episodes.

Which legendary Uchiha, reanimated for the Fourth Great Ninja War, defeats all five Kage at once?

Madara had helped found the Hidden Leaf alongside a childhood friend, the future First Hokage, before the peace between their clans soured into a lifelong grudge.

Which childhood teammate of Kakashi, long believed dead, proves to be the masked man secretly leading Akatsuki?

Obito Uchiha was crushed by a landslide as a boy and, sure he was dying, gave Kakashi his left Sharingan. He was secretly rescued and groomed to remake the world.

Which being, worshipped as the Rabbit Goddess, is the final enemy Naruto and Sasuke face together in Shippuden?

Kaguya gained her power by eating the fruit of the Divine Tree, and her descendants branched out into the Uzumaki, Uchiha and Hyuga clans, among others.

Which world-spanning genjutsu in Shippuden is meant to end war by trapping humanity in an illusion?

Infinite Tsukuyomi is sold as a world with no war and no death, but its caster does not know it would in time turn every sleeper into a White Zetsu.

Which taijutsu teacher of Rock Lee unlocks the Eighth Gate of Death, staking his own life on it?

Might Guy learned the Eight Gates from his own father and passed them on to Lee. Opening the last one lets him keep pace with the strongest enemy of the war.

Which Jonin prodigy of the Hidden Leaf dies shielding Naruto in the Fourth Great Ninja War?

Neji tells Naruto he chose to die protecting those dear to him, just as his own father had. His name means screw, and Boruto, the name of Naruto's son, means bolt in a nod to him.

Which Akatsuki bomber shapes explosive clay with mouths in his palms and dies trying to kill Sasuke?

Deidara calls his bombs sculptures and holds a grudge against every Uchiha, convinced that their Sharingan eyes look down on his art.

Which Akatsuki member, who turned his own body into a puppet, falls to Sakura and his grandmother?

Sasori lets the fatal strike land after seeing the puppets he once built of his dead parents. Years earlier, he had turned the Third Kazekage into his main weapon.

Which Wood Style user becomes stand-in captain of Team Kakashi to keep the Nine-Tails in check?

Yamato is only a codename: as a child he was abducted by Orochimaru and experimented on in an attempt to copy the First Hokage's Wood Style.

Which immortal Akatsuki member kills by wounding himself after tasting an enemy's blood?

Hidan cannot be killed, so Shikamaru blows him apart and buries the still-talking pieces in a forest where Akatsuki will never find them.

Which son of the Third Hokage is killed by Akatsuki while Kurenai is expecting his child?

Asuma was rarely seen without a cigarette and never fully made peace with his father. His closest student, Shikamaru, takes up his knuckle blades to avenge him.

Which Akatsuki bounty hunter lives on stolen hearts, with spares kept in masks sewn to his back?

Kakuzu turned rogue after his own village punished him for failing an impossible mission: assassinating the First Hokage.

Which Akatsuki founder is the true controller of the six animated corpses known together as Pain?

Nagato, won over by Naruto, spends the last of his strength reviving everyone killed in the attack on the Hidden Leaf, and dies from the strain.

Which Root leader becomes acting Hokage after Pain's attack, only to die after a duel with Sasuke?

Danzo used Tsunade's coma to have the feudal lord name him to the job, and one of his first acts in office was to declare Sasuke a wanted criminal.

Which former right hand of Orochimaru raises an army of dead ninja with the Reanimation Jutsu?

Kabuto grafts some of his defeated master's remains into his own body so that he need never serve anyone again, and ends the story running an orphanage.

Which shark-like partner of Itachi in Akatsuki wields Samehada, a living sword that feeds on chakra?

Kisame, once captured, summons sharks and lets them eat him, though not before one of them carries the intel he had stolen back to Akatsuki.

Which previous host of the Nine-Tails appears inside Naruto to help her son finally subdue the fox?

Kushina passed on more than the fox: Naruto gets his brash temper, his love of ramen and even his verbal tic from her rather than from his father.

Which wind attack does Naruto develop under Kakashi and later perfect while learning Sage Mode?

Rasenshuriken is the Rasengan infused with Naruto's own wind chakra, and it proves instrumental in bringing down one of the Akatsuki.

Which eye power, wielded by Pain, does Sasuke receive in his left eye from the Sage of Six Paths?

The Rinnegan in Pain's face was never truly his: the story's hidden villain had planted the eyes in him years before, to keep them safe for his own return.

Where does the elder toad Fukasaku take Naruto to train in Sage Mode before the battle with Pain?

Mount Myoboku is where Naruto, mourning his master, is drilled with toad oil and whacked with a club every time he starts turning into a toad himself.

Which Mangekyo Sharingan ability lets Kakashi send anything he targets into another dimension?

Kamui is a power born of grief: the eye Kakashi had been given awakened it when he saw his teammate Rin die.

Which reanimated Hokage tells Sasuke how two warring clans came to found the Hidden Leaf together?

Hashirama Senju recalls meeting his future enemy in secret as a boy, when their clans were at war and the two friends shared a dream of a world without fighting.

Which first recruit to Sasuke's team can turn to water and wants the Seven Swordsmen's blades?

Suigetsu wants the swords in memory of his late brother, who had been one of the Seven himself, and he soon claims Zabuza's great blade as his first.

In which neutral nation, defended by samurai, do the leaders gather for the Five Kage Summit?

The Land of Iron is neutral ground, but the meeting is anything but peaceful: Sasuke attacks it, and a masked intruder uses it to declare the Fourth Great Ninja War.

Which film, the first with Masashi Kishimoto involved, strands Naruto in an alternate Hidden Leaf?

Road to Ninja had the manga's creator write its main story and design its new characters, the first time he had worked on one of the films himself.

Which band recorded Blue Bird, the Naruto Shippuden opening that became its first top-three single?

Ikimonogakari released Blue Bird as their tenth single, and it was the first of the ten to break into the top three of Japan's Oricon chart.

Which samurai general duels his old rival Hanzo of the Salamander in the Fourth Great Ninja War?

Mifune had earlier served as mediator of the Five Kage Summit, where he was the one to suggest that the villages form their first alliance.

Which Kana-Boon song, the sixteenth opening of Naruto Shippuden, had a TikTok dance revival in 2025?

Silhouette returned in a big way when dancing to it caught on across social media, eleven years after its release, and it spent nine straight weeks in the top ten of Billboard Japan's anime chart.

Which elderly Tsuchikage can fly and wields a Particle Style that disintegrates whatever it touches?

Onoki admits at the Kage Summit that he often hired Akatsuki himself, and that record, along with his age, costs him the leadership of the allied army.

Which forbidden genjutsu does the reanimated Itachi use to trap an enemy in a never-ending fight?

Izanami locks its target in a loop of the same battle, and the ordeal pushes the master of the undead army to re-evaluate his whole life.

Which of the Six Paths of Pain, the one most often seen, flattens the Hidden Leaf by itself?

The Deva Path does the damage, but it is only one of six corpses steered from afar, and the body itself is that of its controller's dead friend.

What is the name of the Four-Tails, which swallows Naruto before he frees it from enemy control?

Son Goku is being steered through a piercing in its body when it gulps Naruto down, and he sets the beast free by pulling the thing out.

Which seal, the pinnacle of chakra control, does Sakura awaken after storing chakra for three years?

Byakugo crowns three years of patient work by Sakura, who also learned to pack chakra into her fists for punches of superhuman strength.

Which actor, later Joel in The Last of Us, voices Pain in the English dub of Naruto Shippuden?

Troy Baker plays both sides in the dub: as well as the villain, he voices the wood-style captain who watches over Naruto's own team.

Which hip-hop band from Nagoya performed Hero's Come Back!!, the first opening of Naruto Shippuden?

Nobodyknows+ were chosen to open the sequel, and their single reached the shops in April 2007, two months after the show's debut.

Which actress, also the 1999 voice of Gon in Hunter x Hunter, plays Naruto in the original Japanese?

Junko Takeuchi is also the Japanese dub voice of the YouTuber MrBeast, a long way from the Hidden Leaf.