Naruto

Naruto

NARUTO -ナルト-
2002 -2007 Studio Pierrot TV Tokyo 220 episodes Completed
Action Adventure Martial Arts
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Details & Synopsis
Naruto Uzumaki was born on the night the Fourth Hokage sealed the Nine-Tailed Fox inside him to save the village. The village watched the demon go in. It forgot to tell the child what it had done to him. What followed was twelve years of a boy growing up knowing he was hated and not knowing why, loud, relentless, failing every test, eating ramen alone, until the day he graduated dead last from the Academy and became a ninja anyway through sheer refusal to stay down.
That is the premise. What the series becomes is something larger.
Naruto ran for 220 episodes on TV Tokyo from 2002 to 2007, produced by Studio Pierrot from Masashi Kishimoto's manga. The Chunin Exam arc is one of the great tournament sequences in shonen history. Naruto vs. Neji is a thesis statement about fate and effort that the show earns through fifty episodes of buildup before it delivers. The Sasuke Retrieval arc ends on failure, the hero does not get his friend back, does not keep his promise, is found in the dirt by Kakashi while Sasuke walks away, and that failure is the most radical thing a shonen series had done to its protagonist in years.
In the West, Cartoon Network aired a version. That version was not this. The broadcast cut removed blood, altered dialogue, and softened the things the show was specifically built around. The fansub community knew it immediately. ANBU-AonE, the result of a merger between two of the era's most respected groups, became the definitive answer. Their karaoke openings. Their translation fidelity. The weekly releases that IRC rooms and BitTorrent trackers distributed before streaming existed as a concept. Before Crunchyroll. Before legal alternatives. Before anyone in the industry believed Western audiences would watch anime subtitled in volume.
This archive holds the complete ANBU-AonE fansub run, all 220 episodes, the version the community actually watched, the version that built the Western Naruto fandom from the ground up. Not the broadcast. Not the remaster. The original release, as it was distributed, as it was intended.
This is provenance. This is the record.
Alt Title NARUTO -ナルト-
Studio Studio Pierrot
Network TV Tokyo
Aired 2002 - 2007
Episodes 220
Genre Action, Adventure, Martial Arts
Status Completed
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Jutsu Encyclopedia

Academy Baseline Arts (E-Rank)

Body Replacement Technique

Kawarimi no Jutsu · E-Rank Utility
The fundamental defensive reaction taught to all academy students. Swaps the user's physical body with a nearby wooden log or object in a fraction of a second, leaving the opponent striking empty wood while the user repositions.

Transformation Technique

Henge no Jutsu · E-Rank Utility
Alters the user's external physical appearance into another person, animal, or inanimate object. Requires continuous concentration and chakra molding; high-level variants (like Naruto's Sexy Jutsu) use it as psychological distraction.

Clone Technique

Bunshin no Jutsu · E-Rank Utility
Creates intangible, optical illusion copies of the caster. Unlike Shadow Clones, basic clones possess no physical substance, cannot strike targets, and disappear upon any physical contact.

Ninjutsu (Ninja Arts)

Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique

Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu · C-Rank
The rite-of-passage technique for the Uchiha clan. The user kneads chakra in the stomach, converts it to fire at the mouth, and expels a massive, roaring sphere or flame stream. Requires the Tiger hand sign.

Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique

Katon: Ryūka no Jutsu · C-Rank
A high-precision fire technique often channeled down wire strings. The flames rush along a physical line directly toward an immobilized target, concentrating heat onto a single point rather than a wide area.

Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique

Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu · C-Rank
Spits a rapid volley of small fireballs aimed in chaotic trajectories. Shinobi frequently hide shuriken or micro-blades inside the fireballs, creating a deceptive physical trap underneath the heat wave.

Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet

Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu · B-Rank
Pioneered by Mist shinobi. Shapes surrounding water into a massive, roaring dragon that crashes down on targets with crushing physical mass. Infamously requires a 44-hand-sign chain when executed by novices.

Water Release: Water Prison Technique

Suiton: Suirō no Jutsu · C-Rank
Traps a target inside an inescapable sphere of high-density water. The caster must maintain physical hand contact with the sphere to preserve the density seal, making it a powerful setup for clone strikes.

Water Release: Water Clone Technique

Suiton: Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu · C-Rank
Creates a physical clone out of water. While possessing 10% of the user's physical strength and limited range, the clone dissolves back into liquid upon taking critical damage, serving as a liquid decoy.

Earth Release: Headhunter Jutsu

Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu · D-Rank
A subterranean ambush art. The user hides undetected beneath the soil, reaches up to grab an enemy’s feet, and pulls them underground up to their neck, leaving them immobilized for interrogation or strike setup.

Earth Release: Mud Wall

Doton: Doryūheki · B-Rank
Converts internal chakra or existing soil into a dense, solid rampart of mud that instantly hardens into stone. Essential front-line defense against wide-area elemental blasts or projectile barrages.

Chidori (One Thousand Birds)

Raiton · A-Rank · Lightning Blade
Kakashi Hatake’s sole original invention. Concentrates high-frequency lightning chakra into the palm until it sounds like thousands of birds chirping. Grants extreme piercing power at high sprint velocity, requiring a Sharingan to compensate for kinetic tunnel vision.

Rasengan

A-Rank · Pure Shape Transformation
Invented by the Fourth Hokage. Spins raw chakra in multiple directions simultaneously, compacting it into a palm-sized sphere that unleashes catastrophic kinetic rotation upon impact without needing hand signs.

Tile Shuriken

Kawara Shuriken · C-Rank Utility
Uses levitation chakra to lift ordinary roof tiles or stone fragments, spinning them into razor-sharp projectiles. Demonstrates how master shinobi convert mundane environmental debris into lethal ordnance.

Multiple Shadow Clone Technique

Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu · A-Rank Kinjutsu
Creates a massive number of physical shadow clones by dividing the user's chakra across every copy at once. The technique is forbidden because an ordinary shinobi can exhaust or kill themselves by splitting their chakra too many ways; Naruto's enormous reserves make the risk unusually manageable for him.
Naruto Uzumaki

Wind Release: Rasenshuriken

SPOILER! Fūton: Rasenshuriken · S-Rank · Wind-Nature Rasengan
Naruto completes the Rasengan's unfinished nature transformation by adding Wind Release and shaping the result into a spinning shuriken. The microscopic wind blades attack the target's chakra network and cells; early close-range use also damaged Naruto's own arm badly enough that Tsunade ordered him to stop using it in that form.
Naruto Uzumaki

Flying Thunder God Technique

SPOILER! Hiraishin no Jutsu · S-Rank Space-Time Ninjutsu
A space-time technique created by Tobirama Senju that allows the user to teleport instantly to a location marked with the technique formula. Minato later becomes its most famous practitioner, scattering marked kunai across battlefields and placing permanent formulas on targets for instantaneous repositioning.

Flying Thunder God — Second Step

SPOILER! Hiraishin: Ni no Dan · Minato Combat Variation
Minato throws a marked Flying Thunder God kunai past or near an opponent, then teleports to it at the instant their attention is committed elsewhere and attacks from the blind side. It is a combat application of Flying Thunder God rather than a separate forbidden technique.

Genjutsu (Illusion Arts)

Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique

Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu · D-Rank
Pulls a visual nightmare straight from the victim’s subconscious mind. The target sees a horrifying illusion of their worst fear or a deceased loved one, inducing panic or total physical paralysis.

Demonic Illusion: Tree Bind Death

Magen: Jubatsu Shibari · B-Rank
Creates the sensory perception of an ancient tree sprouting beneath the target to coil its branches around their limbs, leaving them helpless against a physical follow-up strike from inside the trunk.

Temple of Nirvana Technique

Nehan Shōjō no Jutsu · A-Rank
A wide-area mass-hypnosis genjutsu. White feathers fall gently from the sky over an entire stadium or field; anyone who sees them falls into an involuntary, deep sleep unless they disrupt their own chakra pathway.

Hiden (Clan Secret Arts)

Shadow Possession Jutsu

Kage Mane no Jutsu · Nara Clan Hiden
Extends the user's physical shadow across surfaces to merge with a target's shadow. Upon connection, forces the victim to mimic every physical movement of the caster while completely locking their motor control.
Shikamaru Nara

Shadow Strangle Jutsu

Kage Kubi Shibari no Jutsu · Nara Clan Hiden
An offensive evolution of Shadow Possession. The shadow creeps up the immobilized target's limbs to form a shadow-hand around their throat or joints, applying heavy kinetic pressure to fracture bones or strangle.
Shikamaru Nara

Mind Body Switch Jutsu

Shinsen no Jutsu · Yamanaka Clan Hiden
Launches the user's consciousness forward in a straight line to enter an opponent's mind. Takes full control of the victim's body for espionage or self-sabotage, though missing the target leaves the caster incapacitated.
Ino Yamanaka

Multi-Size Technique

Baika no Jutsu · Akimichi Clan Hiden
Converts body calories into raw chakra to dramatically inflate muscle mass and skeletal frame. Allows the user to turn into a bowling-ball-like kinetic sphere (Human Bullet Tank) or expand limbs for crushing blows.
Choji Akimichi

Secret Technique: Insect Sphere

Hijutsu: Mushi Dama · Aburame Clan Hiden
Commands thousands of parasitic destruction bugs (Kikaichū) to surround a target in a solid, buzzing dome. The insects systematically drain every drop of the victim's chakra while preventing physical movement.
Shino Aburame

Fang Over Fang

Gatsūga · Inuzuka Clan Hiden
High-speed beast-human synergy attack. The user and their transformed Ninken partner spin at blinding RPMs like armored drill bits, tearing through earth and flesh from dual vectors.
Kiba Inuzuka

Sand & Sound Foreign Arts

Sand Coffin & Sand Waterfall Funeral

Sabaku Kyū / Sabaku Sōsō · Gaara
Gaara's terrifying signature execution combo. Sand Coffin wraps high-density, chakra-infused sand tightly around a victim, immobilizing them in mid-air. Sand Waterfall Funeral then crushes the sand inward with hydraulic force, instantly vaporizing the target into red mist.
Gaara

Shield of Sand & Armor of Sand

Suna no Tate / Suna no Yoroi · Gaara
Gaara's dual passive defense. The Shield of Sand automatically leaps to intercept incoming physical and kinetic attacks without Gaara's conscious input. If bypassed, the Armor of Sand forms a thin, dense crust directly over his skin as a secondary shock absorber.
Gaara

Sea Dragon Wind Scythe

Kamaitachi no Jutsu · Temari
Swinging her giant Iron Fan (Tessen), Temari unleashes high-velocity, slicing air currents infused with nature chakra. The cutting winds chop down entire forests and dismember targets from long range while deflecting incoming projectiles.
Temari

Resonating Echo Speaker

Kyōkanbu · Dosu Kinuta (Sound Trio)
Uses a specialized metal gauntlet to emit high-frequency sound waves directly into an opponent's ear canal upon physical impact. Disrupts the victim's inner ear fluid, causing immediate nausea, paralysis, and severe vertigo.

Decapitating Air Waves

Zankūha · Zaku Abumi (Sound Trio)
Channels internal air pressure and chakra through mechanical tubes implanted in the user's palms. Fires ultra-dense gusts of compressed wind and sonic blasts capable of shattering rock and blowing through subterranean defenses.

Taijutsu (Body Arts)

Front Lotus (Omote Renge)

B-Rank · Forbidden Kinjutsu
Requires opening the First Gate (Gate of Opening). The user kicks the target into the air, wraps them tightly with arm bandages, and executes a high-speed downward spinning pile-driver that shatters the ground on impact.

Reverse Lotus (Ura Renge)

A-Rank · Forbidden Kinjutsu
Requires opening at least the Third Gate (Gate of Life). The user launches an opponent into mid-air at speed exceeding human reaction time, striking them continuously from all vectors with a high-velocity, bone-fracturing final blow.

Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms

Hakke Rokujūyon Shō · Gentle Fist Lineage
Extinguishes 64 key tenketsu (chakra points) across the target’s body in a rapid sequence of precise open-palm strikes, completely shutting down their internal chakra circulation and mobility.

Eight Trigrams Palms Heavenly Spin

Hakkeshō Kaiten · Absolute Defense
Releases raw chakra from all 361 tenketsu simultaneously while spinning at blinding speeds. Creates an impenetrable kinetic force barrier that repels all physical and energy attacks.

Puppetry & Medical Ninjutsu

Chakra Threads

Chakra no Ito · Puppet Master Foundation
Emits micro-thin, invisible strands of chakra from the ten fingertips. Allows puppet masters to manipulate complex mechanical weapons, articulated limbs, or even living bodies like marionettes across distance.

Mystical Palm Technique

Shōsen Jutsu · Medical Ninjutsu Foundation
Focuses green-glowing medical chakra onto the hands to accelerate cellular regeneration and repair internal tissue or external lacerations without surgical equipment. Requires precise chakra control.

Chakra Scalpel

Chakra no Mesu · High-Precision Medical/Combat
Converts chakra around the palms into razor-thin energy blades capable of making internal surgical incisions or severing muscle tissue and blood vessels upon combat impact without leaving external scars.

Fūinjutsu & Barriers

Five Elements Seal

Gogyō Fūin · A-Rank
An odd-numbered sealing technique applied directly over an existing seal (e.g., the Nine-Tails seal). Disrupts the target’s ability to mold or control their own chakra flow.

Four Violet Flames Formation

Shishienjin · B-Rank Barrier
Executed by four elite shinobi stationed at cardinal directions. Forms a massive, purple cube barrier that incinerates anything coming into contact with its inner or outer surfaces.

Dead Demon Consuming Seal

SPOILER! Shiki Fūjin · Forbidden Soul-Sealing Technique
Summons the Shinigami behind the caster and allows it to seize and seal a target's soul. The caster pays for the technique with their own soul as well, which is consumed by the Shinigami after the sealing is completed.

Dead Demon Consuming Seal: Release

SPOILER! Shiki Fūjin: Kai · Uzumaki Shinigami Mask Ritual
A reversal ritual for freeing souls trapped inside the Shinigami. The user wears the appropriate Shinigami mask, allows the entity to possess their body, and cuts open the Shinigami's stomach through their own abdomen, releasing the sealed souls at severe physical cost to the person performing the ritual.

Summoning Arts (Kuchiyose)

Summoning Technique

Kuchiyose no Jutsu · Space-Time Contract
A space-time jutsu that teleports an animal boss or familiar to the user's location. Requires a blood sacrifice on a signed parchment contract and the Boar-Dog-Bird-Monkey-Ram hand sign chain.

Toad Mouth Bind

Gama Guchi Shibari · Sannin Contract
Summons the living esophagus of a giant fire-breathing toad from Mount Myōboku to encase an entire room or hallway. The digestive walls trap enemies, absorbing blasts and melting intruders in gastric acid.

Tracking Hounds

Kuchiyose: Doton: Tsuiga no Jutsu · Kakashi Hatake
Kakashi uses a blood scroll to summon eight Ninken hounds underground. Guided by scent through the earth, the pack bursts through the surface simultaneously to lock their jaws onto an enemy's limbs.
Kakashi Hatake

Forbidden & Dark Medical Arts

Impure World Reincarnation (Edo Tensei)

SPOILER! S-Rank Kinjutsu · Tobirama / Orochimaru
A forbidden summon that binds the soul of a deceased warrior to a living human sacrifice, surrounding them with dirt and ash to recreate their original body. Reincarnated souls possess infinite stamina and automatic regeneration unless sealed.
Orochimaru

Curse Mark Activation

Juinjutsu · Orochimaru's Brand
An enzyme-based curse seal derived from Jūgo's bloodline. Brands the victim with a mark that forcefully channels senjutsu energy into their body, boosting physical power while gradually corrupting their mind and binding them to Orochimaru's will.
Orochimaru

Soft Physique Modification

Nan no Kaizou · Snake Infiltration
Surgically alters bone and joint elasticity, allowing the user to stretch, dislocate, and manipulate their limbs like rubber or snakes. Used for extreme close-quarters grappling and creeping through narrow gaps.

Twin Snakes Mutual Death Jutsu

Sōshōsa no Jutsu · A-Rank Suicide Sealing
A high-risk assassination technique. The user grabs the target's hand and uses both of their index fingers to weave a single joint hand sign, summoning two venomous snakes that strike both victim and caster simultaneously, killing both.

Explosive Clay / Iwagakure Kinjutsu

SPOILER! Kinjutsu-Modified Body · Chakra-Kneaded Explosive Clay
Deidara steals an Iwagakure kinjutsu that gives him additional mouths capable of kneading chakra directly into clay. The modified clay becomes the basis of his numbered explosive creations, culminating in C0, where the chest mouth consumes clay and Deidara uses his own body as the final detonation.

Dōjutsu & Forbidden Eye Techniques

Izanagi

SPOILER! Uchiha Kinjutsu · Reality / Illusion Rewrite · Eye Sacrifice
A Sharingan genjutsu applied to the user's own reality, allowing unwanted events such as injury or death to be treated as illusion for a limited period while favourable actions remain real. When the effect ends, the Sharingan used to cast it permanently loses its light.

Izanami

SPOILER! Uchiha Kinjutsu · Sensory Loop · Eye Sacrifice
A forbidden Sharingan genjutsu created to stop Uchiha who abused Izanagi. The caster records matching sensory moments and links them into a repeating loop that continues until the victim stops trying to escape the outcome and accepts the reality they have been avoiding. The casting eye permanently loses its sight.
Itachi Uchiha