
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. Naruto is an anime series based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga series of the same name. For the list of episodes from Naruto: Shippuden, see List of Naruto: Shippuden episodes. On January 5, 2014, Adult Swim's Toonami programming block began airing Naruto: Shippūden weekly from the beginning where it still runs, starting English broadcast airdates on 339 episodes, on May 2, 2021.This article is about the episodes in the original Naruto series.

Viz Media has also released uncut DVDs of Naruto: Shippūden containing the original uncut English dub and Japanese version, on their online store. Uncut dubbed episodes are released on iTunes and Amazon Video on demand. The English dub episodes of 99–338 premiered uncut on streaming platform Neon Alley via Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 until the digital platform shut down in Spring 2016. The show was cancelled on the channel after the 98th episode due to the prevalence of more violent scenes in future episodes. on Saturday night, the edits were far less noticeable.

When the dubbed episodes aired on Wednesdays, they were edited and censored for blood, language, and anything suggestive: however, when the time slot had changed to 11:00 p.m. The dubbed episodes aired on Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. The English dub episodes 1-98 aired on television on Disney XD from Wednesday, Octoto Saturday, November 5, 2011. Viz distributed a subtitled version of the series on its website on Thursdays during its run in Japan.
