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The opening arc of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, covering the anime's first fifteen episodes. It follows Boruto's earliest days at the Academy in the wake of the Nue crisis, while the fate of Sumire and stirrings among distant enemies quietly set the wider story in motion.

The Part II arc in which Konoha hunts the immortal Akatsuki pair Hidan and Kakuzu, Asuma falls to Hidan's curse ritual, and a grieving Shikamaru joins a newly trained Naruto to bring the two killers down.

The Boruto arc that introduces the Kara organization and sends Team 7 up against the cyborg swordsman Ao, ending with the discovery of an unconscious boy, Kawaki, who bears the same mysterious mark as Boruto.

A four-episode detour in the original Naruto anime that sends Team 8 and a stubborn Naruto chasing a legendary tracking beetle they hope will lead them to Sasuke. What begins as a clever plan collapses into slapstick, a rival clan ambush, and a breakthrough for Hinata.

One of the war saga's largest arcs, this Part II stretch turns two Uchiha into hosts for the Ten-Tails, unleashes Guy's forbidden Eighth Gate, introduces the Sage of Six Paths, and closes as Madara finally casts the Infinite Tsukuyomi across the world.

The opening arc of Boruto: Two Blue Vortex jumps three years past its hero's exile, with a rebranded, absent Boruto branded a traitor by his own village. It reintroduces the cast in changed roles as Code's assault drags Boruto back into Konoha's orbit.

A two-episode filler outing tests a struggling trio of Naruto, Hinata, and Kiba with a treasure hunt that turns out to be an elaborate setup. Impostors capable of copying more than a face threaten Konoha from the shadows, and Naruto's own double runs up quite a bill.

The sixth arc of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime spans five episodes and turns its focus to Boruto and Shikadai as they contend with the Byakuya Gang, a band of thieves who cast themselves as noble outlaws.

A reflective four-episode set near the end of Naruto: Shippūden that trades battle for memory, pairing off familiar faces and revisiting formative moments from their youth. Each episode splits into two halves, one nostalgic glimpse per character.

The eighth arc of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, also billed as the Super Chōchō Butterfly Mode Arc, hands the spotlight to Chōchō across three episodes drawn from an idea by series creator Masashi Kishimoto.

The exam that made Naruto's world feel vast, this Part I arc throws Team 7 into the Chūnin Selection alongside a crowded field of rookies and foreign genin. Written trials, the deadly Forest of Death, a brutal preliminary bracket, and Orochimaru's shadow all build toward an invasion.

With the Ōtsutsuki threat beaten back, Konoha stages the Chūnin Exams anew in this lengthy Boruto arc. It runs a full written-and-survival gauntlet, a tournament among friends, a hostage rescue, and Kawaki's rocky first steps as a working ninja.

The last arc of the Boruto manga's first part introduces Code, Kara's final surviving Inner, as he breaks free of his limits and awakens the all-seeing cyborg Ada. Vengeance for Isshiki and a plan to grow a God Tree set the stage for what comes next.

A six-episode filler mystery drops Naruto, Neji, and Tenten into the Land of Birds, where a phantom warrior in empty armor haunts a grieving young lord. Palace intrigue, a hidden identity, and a foreign ninja's plot all lie beneath the ghost story.

The long-promised showdown between Sasuke and Itachi drives this Part II arc, ending in a death and a devastating secret that upends everything Sasuke believed. Alongside it, a grieving Naruto decodes his master's last words and sets out to master senjutsu.

A council of the five great villages' leaders anchors this Part II storyline, convened in neutral territory to decide how the ninja world should answer Akatsuki. The talks curdle into accusations, Sasuke storms the venue hunting Danzo, and a masked schemer exploits the chaos to declare open war.

This sprawling Part II storyline pushes the great war toward its peak, pitting the Allied Shinobi Forces against Kabuto, the masked Tobi, and a reincarnated Madara. Across battlefields the Kage stand against a legend, Naruto befriends the tailed beasts, two Uchiha brothers reunite against a foe, and a hidden identity is finally torn loose.

The great war opens in earnest across this Part II storyline, with the Allied Shinobi Forces thrown against fallen legends dragged back from death by the Impure World Reincarnation. Divisions clash with reanimated swordsmen and Kage, Naruto and Killer B break loose to join the fight, and a truly monstrous trump card surfaces at the close.

Every faction braces for the coming conflict in this Part II storyline. The allied villages mobilise and hide their tailed beast hosts, Naruto secludes himself to master the fox within with unexpected help, and the enemy assembles a vast cloned army and a legion of the reanimated dead.

An anime-only assignment sends a young Konoha team to deliver a captured bandit to trial, only to uncover that the prisoner is not the monster his escort believes. Pursued through a maze-like forest by his former gang, the criminal reveals a hidden life of protecting orphaned children.

A short stretch of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime that turns to freshly graduated squads taking on their earliest assignments. It centres on the first mission handled by Konohamaru's Team 7, as the newest generation of Konoha ninja steps into real field duty for the first time.

A brief anime-only assignment from the original Naruto series sends a Konoha trio after a roaming thief out of the Land of Stone. The chase soon uncovers a case of mistaken identity, a bounty hunter chasing the same prize, and a man wrongly branded a murderer.

A brief chapter of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime that follows Shino Aburame's Academy class as they sit the Genin Exams. These tests decide whether the students have earned the right to leave the classroom behind and begin working as full ninja.

A storyline of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime whose title points to a large naval clash tied to Kirigakure, the Hidden Mist village. Standing as the twenty-second arc of the series, it plays out across a lengthy run of episodes set on and around the sea.

An anime-only storyline set during Naruto's years away training, following a second Chunin Exams jointly run by Konoha and Suna. Beneath the tournament lies a double gambit: to bait Akatsuki into the open and to smoke out those plotting against the young Kazekage, Gaara.

A Part II storyline in which two separate hunts converge on a single name. Having discarded his old master, Sasuke gathers a team to kill his brother, while Naruto's squad chases the same quarry hoping the trail will lead them to their lost friend.

An anime-only storyline that traces Itachi Uchiha's life from a war-haunted childhood through the night he was forced to destroy his own clan. It follows the impossible bargain that shaped him and the burden he carried in silence, all for his brother and his village.

A Naruto: Shippūden anime-only arc that unfolds inside a novel Jiraiya wrote, read by Tsunade as she slumbers within the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Its pages reimagine the Hidden Leaf as a world where Minato and Kushina never died, reshaping the whole bond between Naruto and Sasuke.

The Jūgo Arc, also titled the Cursed Seal Infection Arc, is the eleventh storyline of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime. Spanning a short run of episodes, it returns Jūgo to the spotlight while a cursed-seal outbreak becomes its driving concern.

A Part II arc that brings the ancient alien princess Kaguya Ōtsutsuki into the modern ninja world and follows Team 7's desperate bid to seal her. It closes with the long-promised showdown between Naruto and Sasuke at the Valley of the End.

A Naruto anime-only arc sending Anko Mitarashi and a hastily assembled squad to the Land of the Sea, where a monster legend hides the wreckage of Orochimaru's old experiments and a girl named Isaribi who was one of his victims.

A side story bridging Parts I and II that reaches back to the Third Shinobi World War to reveal how Kakashi Hatake came to possess the Sharingan. It follows Team Minato, the loss of Obito, and the gift that made Kakashi the Copy Ninja.

A Naruto: Shippūden anime-only arc that fills in Kakashi Hatake's years in the Anbu, weaving through Yamato's origin, Orochimaru's defection, the Iburi clan, and the tragedy that consumed the Uchiha before he ever led Team 7.

A Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime arc in which the Hidden Leaf first confirms that the shadowy organisation Kara truly exists, tracing its trail from a ruined Amegakure facility to sinister experiments involving Hashirama's cells.

A sprawling Boruto arc that brings the scarred vessel Kawaki into the Uzumaki household, escalates into open war with Kara's leader Jigen, and ends with the true Ōtsutsuki behind him unmasked and the crippling cost Naruto pays to stop him.

A Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime arc that enrolls Kawaki and Himawari at the Academy, where Kawaki secretly guards a foreign princess against a teacher who is really a sleeper assassin.

The opening arc of Part II, in which Team Kakashi races to recover Gaara after Akatsuki abducts him for his tailed beast. It marks Naruto's return from training and the debut of Deidara and Sasori.

A Part I arc covering Orochimaru's invasion of the Hidden Leaf, built around the Third Hokage's fatal duel with his former student and Naruto's clash with a rampaging Gaara.

The closing arc of Naruto: Shippūden, a lighthearted send-off that follows the whole village scrambling to pick wedding gifts and record heartfelt messages as Naruto and Hinata prepare to marry.

The thirteenth story arc in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, a brief four-episode anime run whose title turns the spotlight onto Konohamaru Sarutobi and matters of the heart. It falls between the Steam Ninja Scrolls Arc before it and the One-Tail Escort Arc that comes after.

A filler arc from the original Naruto anime in which a rebuilding Konoha unknowingly puts a legendary saboteur on its payroll. Naruto grows fond of a gentle old laborer named Genno, only to discover the man is an enemy strategist scheming to bring the whole village down from the inside.

A filler arc of the original Naruto anime that dispatches Naruto and Team Guy to a mining town held hostage by a murderous gang. Its leader is Raiga Kurosuki, a rogue swordsman fixated on funerals, whose uncanny strength secretly flows from a young boy he carries on his back.

The twenty-fourth arc in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, an eight-episode anime run whose title points to a maze-like game at its heart. It sits between the Kawaki and Himawari Academy Arc before it and the Sasuke Retsuden Arc that follows.

A filler arc of the original Naruto anime that pairs Naruto and Sakura with Jiraiya on a fact-finding trek into Otogakure's homeland. Their hunt for word of Sasuke draws them into the fractured Fuma clan and a kunoichi's search for a lost cousin.

A filler arc of the original Naruto anime in which Team 7 guards a runner through a treacherous annual race in the Land of Tea. Their charge turns out to be Idate Morino, a bitter ex-genin whose old wounds tie back to Konoha itself.

Part of Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, this is the third arc in the manga's second part. It spans nine chapters, takes its name from Mamushi, follows the Matsuri and Ryu Arc, and gives way to the Post Mamushi Arc.

Part of Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, this is the second arc in the manga's second part. It spans ten chapters, takes its name from Matsuri and Ryu, follows Boruto's Return Arc, and sets up the Mamushi Arc that comes next.

A filler arc of the original Naruto anime that begins when Naruto fishes an amnesiac young man out of a river. Befriending the stranger he names Menma, Naruto is slowly drawn toward the dark secret behind the boy's lost memories.

The ninth anime arc of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, built around Mitsuki slipping away from Konohagakure while his friends set out to bring him home. It also carries the alternate Viz titles Mitsuki's Will Arc and Ohnoki's Will Arc.

A Part I storyline that exists only in the anime, in which the traitor Mizuki breaks out of prison and resurfaces far stronger than before. Chasing a possible lead on Sasuke, Naruto joins Iruka to run the escaped rogue to ground.