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| | Home | | The manga would be later adapted into an anime produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex. It premiered across Japan on the terrestrial TV Tokyo network and the anime satellite television network Animax on October 3, 2002. The first series lasted nine seasons, while Naruto: Shippūden, a sequel of the series, began its first on February 15, 2007 and is still airing. | ||
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by Hayato Date and produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo, the Naruto
anime adaptation premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo October 3, 2002, and
ran for 220 episodes until its conclusion on February 8, 2007.The first
135 episodes are adapted from the first twenty-seven volumes of the
manga, while the remaining eighty episodes are filler episodes
that utilize plot elements not seen in the original manga.
Viz has licensed the anime series for broadcast and distribution in the Region 1 market. The English adaptation of the anime began airing on September 10, 2005.The episodes have been shown on Cartoon Network's Toonami, YTV's Bionix and Jetix UK's programming blocks.In the American broadcast, references to alcohol, Japanese culture, sexual innuendo, and even blood and death were sometimes reduced for the broadcast, but left in the DVD editions.Other networks make additional content edits apart from the edits done by Cartoon Network, such as Jetix's more strict censoring of blood, language, smoking and the like.
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