Naruto (Dub) Episode 168 PATCHED
However, when the Black Bulls members let their guards down, Zenon arrives and abducts an exhausted Yami, taking both him and Vangeance back to the Spade Kingdom. In episode 168, the enigmatic Black Bulls vice-captain might show up at the base and take charge.
Naruto (Dub) Episode 168
"The Fourth Hokage"edit四代目火影 (Yondaime Hokage)Episode dataPrevious"Chibaku Tensei"EpisodeNaruto: Shippūden #168 (Watch Online)Next"The Two Students"ArcPain's AssaultMangaNaruto Chapter #439, Naruto Chapter #440, Naruto Chapter #441, Naruto Chapter #442MusicOpening"A World That Was Transparent"Ending"Transient Fireworks"Air datesJapanese July 15, 2010English March 16, 2013"The Fourth Hokage" (四代目火影, Yondaime Hokage) is episode 168 of the Naruto: Shippūden anime.
Naruto is an anime series based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga series of the same name. 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. The series was directed by Hayato Date, and produced by Pierrot and TV Tokyo.[1] The episodes are based on the first twenty-seven volumes in Part I of the manga, while some episodes feature original, self-contained storylines.[2]
The 220 episodes that constitute the series were aired between October 3, 2002, and February 8, 2007, on TV Tokyo in Japan.[1] 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.[3] 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 January 31, 2009 when episode 209, the last episode to air in the US was shown, due to the closure of Toonami Jetstream.[4]
On March 23, 2009, Viz stated that they were still dubbing new episodes and intended to see them aired on television.[5][6] Ultimately, the final eleven episodes of the series never aired in the United States, but they were collected on DVD by Viz, which was released on September 22, 2009.[7] The remaining eleven episodes of the English version aired on YTV's Bionix programming block in Canada from October 25 to December 6, 2009.[8] Adult Swim's relaunched Toonami block reran the first 52 episodes in a completely uncut format from December 1, 2012, to November 30, 2013. After the 52nd episode, the series was removed from the schedule rotation to make room for its successor series, Naruto: Shippuden.[9]
Naruto: Shippuden is an anime series mainly adapted from Part II of Masashi Kishimoto's original manga series, with exactly 500 episodes. It is set two and a half years after the original series in the Naruto universe, following the ninja teenager Naruto Uzumaki and his allies. The series is directed by Hayato Date, and produced by Pierrot and TV Tokyo. It began broadcasting on February 15, 2007, on TV Tokyo, and concluded on March 23, 2017.[1][2]
On January 2, 2009, Viz Media and Crunchyroll provided eight English subtitled Naruto: Shippuden episodes on the official Naruto website.[3] Later the following 2 weeks, Viz began providing subtitled versions of the latest Naruto: Shippuden episodes a week after they first aired in Japan, with a new episode being added to the Naruto website each subsequent Thursday.[3] On July 24, 2009, Viz Media announced that the series would be released on the iTunes Store.[4] The first DVD release of the series in North America was released on September 29, 2009.[5] The English dub of Naruto: Shippuden made its US premiere on Disney XD on October 28, 2009.[6][7][8]
Naruto: Shippuden stopped airing on Disney XD on November 5, 2011 after 98 episodes.[9] The English dub was streamed on the Neon Alley web channel from its launch in October 2012, and beginning December 29 of the same year with episode 99, dubbed episodes premiered every week uncut until March 25, 2016 after 338 episodes, about a month before Neon Alley's closure. Adult Swim's Toonami programming block began airing the anime from the beginning on January 5, 2014 in an uncut format.[10] The network started showing never before aired dubbed episodes at the 339th episode mark by May 2021.[11]
In four regions, episodes from the series have been released on DVD by single volumes and box sets. In Japan, twenty six sets of volumes have been released based on which arc it represents. In North America, twelve single volumes and thirty eight box sets have been released. In the United Kingdom, twenty eight single volumes and six box sets have been released. In Australia and New Zealand, twenty-eight collections have been released. 041b061a72