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Naruto: where to start reading

Adapts Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.

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After Naruto (the original 220-episode series), in the books you are

at Volume 27 (manga chapter 244).

Shippuden picks the manga up at chapter 245, so the original series covers Part 1, through chapter 244.

The original series covers Part 1 of the manga, ending where Shippuden begins. Continue from chapter 245, the first chapter of Part 2. Note that a large share of the anime's episodes are filler with no manga counterpart, so the book will feel considerably tighter than the show did.

Start reading at Chapter 245
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
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Naruto (the original 220-episode series) leaves off around chapter 245. Pick the manga up right there:

Volume 27

Masashi Kishimoto
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Sources disagree slightly on this one, so we used the earlier chapter. You may re-read a little rather than risk reading past yourself.
Where this comes from: animefillerguide.com · animestoryguide.com. Spotted a mistake? The report link at the foot of this page comes straight to us.
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Split by series rather than by season, because both runs carry a lot of filler and episode numbers map badly onto chapters. The original Naruto anime covers Part 1 of the manga; Naruto: Shippuden adapts chapters 245 through 700, which is the manga's ending. So a viewer who has finished Shippuden has already seen the whole story: there is nothing left to read, only a full 700-chapter version of what the filler episodes stretched out.

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