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The Best Episodes of Naruto Shippūden

Every episode of Naruto Shippūden ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Naruto Shippūden!

After 2 and a half years Naruto finally returns to his village of Konoha, and sets about putting his ambitions to work. It will not...
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Best Episodes Summary

"The Battle Over the Barrier" is the best rated episode of "Naruto Shippūden". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Yuki Kinoshita and written by Yuka Miyata, it aired on 4/16/2009. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Strange Bedfellows".

  • The Battle Over the Barrier
    10.0/101 votes
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    #1 - The Battle Over the Barrier

    Season 5 Episode 105 - Aired 4/16/2009

    Kabuto plans on breaking Leaf’s The Four-Corner Sealing Barrier from the inside by using Yukimaru’s power and have the Three-Tailed Beast go on a rampage.

    Director: Yuki Kinoshita

    Writer: Yuka Miyata

  • Strange Bedfellows
    10.0/101 votes
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    #2 - Strange Bedfellows

    Season 5 Episode 107 - Aired 4/30/2009

    Guren tries to attack Naruto within the Three-Tails, but, in her weakened state, is unable to do so and passes out. Meanwhile, Kakashi tells Sakura and Ino to heal Yūkimaru while he, Shizune, Kiba, Sai, and Hinata search for Naruto. Naruto and Guren soon encounter a horde of mini Three-Tails that try to attack them, but they evade them and begin to argue about Yūkimaru. While Yūkimaru awakens, Naruto summons a bunch of Shadow Clones to look for a way out of the beast's stomach. Elsewhere, Kabuto gives Curse Marks to Rinji's men.

    Director: Toshiaki Kanbara

    Writer: Yasuyuki Suzuki

  • Counterattack of the Curse Mark
    10.0/101 votes
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    #3 - Counterattack of the Curse Mark

    Season 5 Episode 109 - Aired 5/14/2009

    The Sealing Team prepared to start sealing the Three-Tails and tell Sai to take Yūkimaru somewhere safe, but he gets attacked by Kabuto's men. Kabuto meanwhile prepares his plans while Lee, Tenten, and Kiba are also attacked. Rinji finds his men and converts them back to his side, ordering them to attack the Sealing Team; they're stopped by Kakashi, Yamato and Shino. Rinji then makes Yūkimaru eat the pills to control the Three-Tails, which Naruto and Guren learn about.

    Director: Shigeharu Takahashi

    Writer: Junki Takegami

  • Rookie Instructor Iruka
    10.0/101 votes
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    #4 - Rookie Instructor Iruka

    Season 9 Episode 176 - Aired 9/2/2010

    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.

    Director: Kiyomu Fukuda

    Writer: Shin Yoshida

  • Iruka's Ordeal
    10.0/101 votes
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    #5 - Iruka's Ordeal

    Season 9 Episode 177 - Aired 9/9/2010

    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.

    Director: Naoki Horiuchi

    Writer: Shin Yoshida

  • Iruka's Decision
    10.0/101 votes
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    #6 - Iruka's Decision

    Season 9 Episode 178 - Aired 9/16/2010

    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.

    Director: Atsushi Nigorikawa

    Writer: Shin Yoshida

  • Kakashi Hatake, The Jonin in Charge
    10.0/101 votes
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    #7 - Kakashi Hatake, The Jonin in Charge

    Season 9 Episode 179 - Aired 9/30/2010

    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 tell him right or wrong, Sasuke tells Sakura she is annoying. Realizing Sakura's sadness, Naruto goes to battle Sasuke, but gets defeated. It then goes back to the present and Kakashi claims that it is up to him to stop Sasuke.

    Director: Hiroshi Kimura

    Writer: Junki Takegami

  • Inari's Courage Put to the Test
    10.0/101 votes
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    #8 - Inari's Courage Put to the Test

    Season 9 Episode 180 - Aired 10/7/2010

    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 his rescue.

    Director: Masaharu Watanabe

    Writer: Yuka Miyata

  • Naruto's School of Revenge
    10.0/101 votes
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    #9 - Naruto's School of Revenge

    Season 9 Episode 181 - Aired 10/14/2010

    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 Naruto decides to teach him unusual revenge lessons. Katazu has then took his brother's identity and attracted Shikazo's pursuers while Kageki and his family went into hiding. Tsukado decides not to kill him and ends their years of fighting though Kanabun wants them to keep fighting. The swordsmen, Team 7 and Mr. Ostrich chase the Kanabun Gang out of town.

    Director: Shu Watanabe

    Writer: Yasuyuki Suzuki

  • Gaara's Bond
    10.0/101 votes
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    #10 - Gaara's Bond

    Season 9 Episode 182 - Aired 10/21/2010

    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 danger by people he had wronged, Naruto was the first to come to his rescue.

    Director: Hiroyoshi Kishikawa

    Writer: Masahiro Hikokubo

  • Naruto: Outbreak
    10.0/101 votes
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    #11 - Naruto: Outbreak

    Season 9 Episode 183 - Aired 10/28/2010

    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.

    Director: Maki Kodaira

    Writer: Daisuke Watanabe

  • Deploy! Team Tenten
    10.0/101 votes
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    #12 - Deploy! Team Tenten

    Season 9 Episode 184 - Aired 11/4/2010

    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.

    Director: Shigeru Mita

    Writer: Katsuhiko Chiba

  • Animal District
    10.0/101 votes
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    #13 - Animal District

    Season 9 Episode 185 - Aired 11/11/2010

    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.

    Director: Kiyomu Fukuda

    Writer: Katsuhiko Chiba

  • Ah, the Medicine of Youth
    10.0/101 votes
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    #14 - Ah, the Medicine of Youth

    Season 9 Episode 186 - Aired 11/18/2010

    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 had taken on the form of Gaara.

    Director: Masaaki Kumagai

    Writer: Daisuke Watanabe

  • Gutsy Master and Student: The Training
    10.0/101 votes
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    #15 - Gutsy Master and Student: The Training

    Season 9 Episode 187 - Aired 11/25/2010

    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 that something dark was amidst.

    Director: Atsushi Nigorikawa

    Writer: Junki Takegami

  • Record of the Ninja Gutsy Master and Student
    10.0/101 votes
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    #16 - Record of the Ninja Gutsy Master and Student

    Season 9 Episode 188 - Aired 11/25/2010

    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.

    Director: Naoki Horiuchi

    Writer: Junki Takegami

  • Sasuke's Paw Encyclopedia
    10.0/101 votes
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    #17 - Sasuke's Paw Encyclopedia

    Season 9 Episode 189 - Aired 12/2/2010

    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.

    Director: Hiroshi Kimura

    Writer: Masahiro Hikokubo

  • Naruto and the Old Soldier
    10.0/101 votes
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    #18 - Naruto and the Old Soldier

    Season 9 Episode 190 - Aired 12/9/2010

    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 lessons he learned with the 2nd and 3rd hokages, sees the similarities between Naruto and his father.

    Director: Maki Kodaira

    Writer: Katsuhiko Chiba

  • Neji Chronicles
    10.0/101 votes
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    #19 - Neji Chronicles

    Season 9 Episode 192 - Aired 12/23/2010

    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. They're in trouble until Hiashi shows up and saves them, telling Neji that he's the beloved memory of Hiashi's younger brother. Neji realizes Naruto's speech about destiny was right; he isn't just a slave to the clan name. Konohamaru's team complains that Naruto wasn't in the story at all, and Neji cryptically answers that Naruto was the most important part.

    Director: Hiroyoshi Kishikawa

    Writer: Yuka Miyata

  • The Man Who Died Twice
    10.0/101 votes
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    #20 - The Man Who Died Twice

    Season 9 Episode 193 - Aired 1/6/2011

    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 Village put together by a ninja named Sabiru. Who exactly were Kisuke and Sabiru, and what connection did the two have?

    Director: Chiyuki Tanaka

    Writer: Shin Yoshida

  • The Worst Three-Legged Race
    10.0/101 votes
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    #21 - The Worst Three-Legged Race

    Season 9 Episode 194 - Aired 1/13/2011

    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 a special thread-like technique to bind one of Naruto's hands to one of Sasuke's. Literally stuck to each other, would Naruto and Sasuke be able to work together to save Sakura and keep the golden statue safe at the same time?

    Director: Masaharu Watanabe

    Writer: Yasuyuki Suzuki

  • Team 10's Teamwork
    10.0/101 votes
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    #22 - Team 10's Teamwork

    Season 9 Episode 195 - Aired 1/20/2011

    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 and come up with a plan to rescue the headman's granddaughter.

    Director: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

    Writer: Masahiro Hikokubo

  • Drive Towards Darkness
    10.0/101 votes
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    #23 - Drive Towards Darkness

    Season 9 Episode 196 - Aired 1/27/2011

    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 reason why internationally wanted bandits have entered their border. Kakashi and Sasuke later find out that the bandits intend to abduct Naho. Naruto and Sakura are defeated by the bandits and are taken hostage. Sasuke finds them first and proceeds to defeat the leader and mercilessly punches him because of his jealousy for Naruto's growing power. A cut to the present reveals Naruto contemplating on his promise to have Sasuke return to the village.

    Director: Hiroshi Kimura

    Writer: Daisuke Watanabe

  • Naruto's Plea
    10.0/102 votes
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    #24 - Naruto's Plea

    Season 10 Episode 200 - Aired 2/24/2011

    Naruto stands before the Raikage and begs him to forgive Sasuke. Will the Raikage listen to what he has to say? Later, the Five Kage Summit gets underway. Mifune suggests that the Five Great Nations should form the first alliance of its kind; but also nominates Danzo to be the leader. How will the other Kages react to the latter proposal?

    Director: Shu Watanabe

    Writer: Shin Yoshida

  • Declaration of War
    10.0/101 votes
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    #25 - Declaration of War

    Season 10 Episode 205 - Aired 3/31/2011

    The four Kage are startled by the sudden appearance of Madara Uchiha. Having sent Sasuke away to safety using the Transportation Technique, Madara unveils to the Kage his “Project Tsuki no Me.”

    Director: Kiyomu Fukuda

    Writer: Masahiro Hikokubo