
On September 20, 2008, Cartoon Network ended its Toonami block, but the channel continued sporadically airing episodes of Naruto in the time slots originally occupied by Toonami's programming until Januwhen episode 209, the last episode to air in the US was shown, due to the closure of Toonami Jetstream. The English version of the series was released in North America by Viz Media, and began airing on September 10, 2005, on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block in the United States.

The 220 episodes that constitute the series were aired between October 3, 2002, and February 8, 2007, on TV Tokyo in Japan.

The episodes are based on the first twenty-seven volumes in Part I of the manga, while some episodes feature original, self-contained storylines.

The series was directed by Hayato Date, and produced by Pierrot and TV Tokyo. The series centers on the adventures of Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja of the Hidden Leaf Village, searching for recognitions and wishing to become the ninja by the rest of the village to be the leader and the strongest of all. IF I WANTED TO LOOK AT PEOPLE TALKING I WOULD'VE RE-READ THE MANGA!!!!!!! SHOW SOME MOVEMENT ON THE ANIME!!!!!! Animation is supposed to be from the Latin animātiō meaning "to give life to," for Kishi's sake.Naruto is an anime series based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga series of the same name. after that will be the kages talking to each other, then two more eps. will be Naruto talking to Iruka, and probably the ep.

If Choji got over himself in 5-7mins of screen time, he might actually gain some sympathy for his struggles as it is, however, I spent 40mins wanting someone to give him a damn good thrashing. All the talking and stupid flashbacks could've been over in half an episode, then the anime could have focused on animating the way that damn fatso "ends the battle now." That's adding to/enhancing the manga! That's what the anime should be doing! But no we have to sit through 2 episodes of people casually chatting and soul-searching in the middle of a damn battlefield.
