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Naruto Shippuden Vol. 1 (DVD)
Naruto Uzumaki is back! After a long training journey with one of the Legendary Sannin, Jiraiya, Naruto has returned older, a little bit wiser, and a lot stronger! Sakura's been studying under another of the Sannin, Tsunade, and is now an accomplished medic ninja with a few new battle skills of her own. To show off their new skills, Naruto and Sakura team up to take on their old master, Kakashi. While the three battle it out, the Village Hidden in the Sand is infiltrated by the Akatsuki, who are after Naruto's old rival and the newest Kazekage of the Sand--Gaara!
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The most eagerly anticipated anime release of 2009, Naruto Shippuden is the follow-up to the international hit Naruto. Two and a half years have passed since first series ended, which Naruto has spent training under Jiraiya. The character has been redesigned to appear taller and less round-faced, as a teenager should. Although he's learned a lot of new skills and might have matured a little, Naruto remains the irrepressible knucklehead audiences know and love. While's he's been away, Tsunade has instructed Sakura in medical and fighting techniques. When Naruto returns to the Hidden Leaf Village, he and Sakura are given a familiar assignment: take a pair of bells from Kakashi-sensei. While Kakashi measures the skills his former students, have acquired, sinister forces go into action. The Akatsuki, a confederation of outlaw ninja once associated with Orochimaru, begin their campaign to capture the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon imprisoned within Naruto's body. Their first target is the Village Hidden in the Sand, now led by Gaara. An even more formidable warrior than he was as a boy, Gaara battles Deidara, an evil ninja who makes exploding animals out of folded paper--a sort of ballistic origami. Naruto Shippuden reunites director Hayato Date with many of the artists and voice actors from the first series. The results feel familiar yet new: it's just what legions of Naruto fans have been waiting for. (Rated T+ Older Teen, but suitable for ages 12 and older: violence, minor risqué humor) -- Charles Solomon
(1. Homecoming, 2. The Akatsuki Makes Its Move, 3. The Results of Training, 4. The Jinchuriki of the Sand)
