Season 9
🎬 21 Episodes 📅 2010 ⏱ 25 min
A warrior's journey transcends time itself when he returns home transformed by experience and hardened by sacrifice. Naruto Shippūden captures the raw intensity of reunion paired with the weight of impossible choices, as childhood bonds are tested against the emergence of shadowy threats. Stunning animation brings gravity to every clash, weaving action-packed sequences into a deeper meditation on loyalty, redemption, and the price of power. The series stands as a testament to how far one will go to save those who matter most.
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21
Episodes
2010
Year
25
min / ep
8.8
Watch Hours
9/20
Season No.
⭐ 8.5
Best Episode
Ep. 193 · The Man Who Died Twice
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🎬 Episodes 21 episodes
176
⭐ 7.7
Rookie Instructor Iruka
In the aftermath of the destruction of the Leaf Village, Iruka thinks back to the time when the Third Hokage first gave him the task of being Naruto's homeroom teacher at the Academy, since no one else would take him in.
🎬 Kiyomu Fukuda ✍️ Shin Yoshida
177
⭐ 8.0
Iruka's Ordeal
Iruka struggles to deal with his hate for the Nine-Tailed Fox inside Naruto as he tries to connect with Naruto after seeing him shunned by his peers.
🎬 Naoki Horiuchi ✍️ Shin Yoshida
178
⭐ 8.0
Iruka's Decision
After discovering a kunai knife with a secret message on it, Naruto winds up being pursued by three kunoichi from the Hidden Waterfall Village. Iruka mangaes to find him, but when the situation grows worse, Kakashi appears to save them both.
🎬 Atsushi Nigorikawa ✍️ Shin Yoshida
179
⭐ 7.7
Kakashi Hatake, The Jonin in Charge
Kakashi has a flashback back when he was assigned to be the sensei of Team 7. In a bid to know his students, Naruto, Sasuke & Sakura, better, Kakashi spies on them and to see how they would all get along as a group. Angered by Sakura's talk about calling Naruto a brat and that he has no family to te…
🎬 Hiroshi Kimura ✍️ Junki Takegami
180
⭐ 7.3
Inari's Courage Put to the Test
As the ninja of the Hidden Leaf Village work on repairing their village in the aftermath of Pain's invasion, Naruto and Sakura come across a familiar face among the carpenters: Inari and Tazuna have arrived to help out. Inari recalls what happened after Gato's death and how Naruto and Sasuke came to…
🎬 Masaharu Watanabe ✍️ Yuka Miyata
181
⭐ 7.3
Naruto's School of Revenge
In a flashback of Naruto and Sakura's, Team 7 is on a mission to take an ostrich called Mr. Ostrich to his home. They arrive at a village where they see a swordsman named Tsukado who has a vendetta to carry on a man named Katazu who killed his distant relative Shikazo. Tsukado fails to defeat him so…
🎬 Shu Watanabe ✍️ Yasuyuki Suzuki
182
⭐ 7.7
Gaara's Bond
After hearing the news about Akatsuki's attack on the Hidden Leaf Village, Gaara worries about Naruto's well-being. He remembers a time in the past where Team 7 was assigned to help him out with a problem, and how nobody, especially Naruto, was eager to trust him. Yet, when his life was put in dange…
🎬 Hiroyoshi Kishikawa ✍️ Masahiro Hikokubo
183
⭐ 7.7
Naruto: Outbreak
Sakura reflects upon a time when she was infected with a strange disease by Naruto. In order to find a cure, an order was issued for Naruto to be quarantined at all costs before he could infect anybody else.
🎬 Maki Kodaira ✍️ Daisuke Watanabe
184
⭐ 7.7
Deploy! Team Tenten
While she and Neji prepare to visit an old man who makes ninja weapons, Tenten remembers the first time she visited him alongside Naruto and Neji. Utilizing a strange new weapon she had never seen before, Tenten fought against two ninja who had stolen two of the man's powerful weapons.
🎬 Shigeru Mita ✍️ Katsuhiko Chiba
185
⭐ 7.3
Animal District
An ostrich tells a story of when Naruto, Rock Lee, and Shino, all led by Kotetsu, entered the Leaf Village's animal district in an effort to find and subdue him. However, he and the other animals proved that they weren't willing to go down without a fight.
🎬 Kiyomu Fukuda ✍️ Katsuhiko Chiba
186
⭐ 7.3
Ah, the Medicine of Youth
Back before Rock Lee had his surgery, Naruto, after donning the suit given to him by Guy, set out on a mission with Sakura and Ino to obtain a special flower which was a necessary ingredient for Lee's medicine. When Naruto picked one of the flowers, however, he had to face a strange technique that h…
🎬 Masaaki Kumagai ✍️ Daisuke Watanabe
187
⭐ 7.5
Gutsy Master and Student: The Training
During the two-and-a-half-year time period in which Naruto was training under Jiraiya, the latter decided that it was time for Naruto to learn how to repel genjutsu. During this training session, the two traveled to a village which Jiraiya had previously been associated with, but they discovered tha…
🎬 Atsushi Nigorikawa ✍️ Junki Takegami
188
⭐ 7.8
Record of the Ninja Gutsy Master and Student
After having discovered that the village was under the control of rebels from the Hidden Rain Village, led by Hanzo, Naruto and Jiraiya decided to take action to help save the women and children taken hostage and free the village from the Rain's tyrannical control.
🎬 Naoki Horiuchi ✍️ Junki Takegami
189
⭐ 7.8
Sasuke's Paw Encyclopedia
In the past, Naruto and Sakura joined Sasuke on a mission to collect the paw print of Nekomata, a large and powerful two-tailed ninja cat that ruled over all of the ninja cats.
🎬 Hiroshi Kimura ✍️ Masahiro Hikokubo
190
⭐ 8.2
Naruto and the Old Soldier
Naruto, two jonin and an elder known as "the Eternal Genin" set off to a mission to patrol the border of the Land of Fire following Orochimaru's attack. After some days with no incidents, a group of enemy ninjas cross the borders. The Eternal Genin proves to be a brave ninja and remembering the less…
🎬 Maki Kodaira ✍️ Katsuhiko Chiba
191
⭐ 7.6
Kakashi Love Song
A female spy, Hanare, from the Hidden Lock Village (Land of Key) is caught by ANBU pretending to be a musician. She is interrogated. However, the interrogation proves unsuccessful. Slowly, her past is revealed and so is her relationship with Kakashi. Team 7 spy on the two as they go around town, und…
🎬 Shu Watanabe ✍️ Yasuyuki Suzuki
192
⭐ 7.8
Neji Chronicles
Konohamaru's team asks Neji to talk about Naruto's heroism. Instead, Neji tells them about an incident during the Chunin exams three years prior. While Orochimaru attacked Konoha, two rogue ninja take advantage of the commotion and kidnap Hinata. Neji, Tenten, Kiba, and Akamaru rush out to save her.…
🎬 Hiroyoshi Kishikawa ✍️ Yuka Miyata
193
⭐ 8.5
The Man Who Died Twice
Naruto thinks back to the time when he encountered the soul of a man named Kisuke. Kisuke didn't recall anything about who he was, but a visit to the Leaf Village's hospital revealed something startling. Meanwhile, higher-ups of the Fire Country met to decide on a new security system for the Leaf Vi…
🎬 Chiyuki Tanaka ✍️ Shin Yoshida
194
⭐ 7.8
The Worst Three-Legged Race
Naruto thinks back to the time when Team 7 was on a mission to capture a group of thieves who stole a golden statue. When making a move on the thieves, Naruto and Sasuke had managed to take back the statue but were separated from Sakura, who was captured. On top of that, the thieves' leader had used…
🎬 Masaharu Watanabe ✍️ Yasuyuki Suzuki
195
⭐ 8.0
Team 10's Teamwork
Shikamaru remembers the time when Teams 7 and 10 joined together to flush out a band of bandits who were terrorizing a nearby village and had kidnapped the headman's granddaughter. With no assistance available from Kakashi or Asuma, Shikamaru was forced to lead the team of genin to the bandits' fort…
🎬 Hiroyuki Tsuchiya ✍️ Masahiro Hikokubo
196
⭐ 7.5
Drive Towards Darkness
Sasuke has a flashback while traveling to Konoha with his team, Taka. He once saved a girl named Naho not knowing that she's a relative of the Feudal Lord. Meanwhile, Naruto and Sakura are sent on a mission to accompany Naho and act as her bodyguards while Kakashi and Sasuke are sent to discover the…
🎬 Hiroshi Kimura ✍️ Daisuke Watanabe