The episodes for the tenth season of the anime series Naruto: Shippuden are based on Part II for Masashi Kishimoto's manga series. The episodes are directed by Hayato Date, and produced by Pierrot and TV Tokyo. Released on DVD under the name , the season follows the assemblance of the Kage, the five village leaders attempting to stop Sasuke Uchiha and the remaining members of the Akatsuki while Naruto Uzumaki tries to confront Sasuke. The season aired from February to July 2011. Its first Japanese DVD volume was released by Aniplex on September 7, 2011.
The season's English dubbed version aired on Neon Alley from July 13 to December 21, 2013. The season would make its English television debut on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block and premiere from April 8 to October 6, 2018. The season's first episode ran on Adult Swim in its original Japanese audio with English subtitles on April 1, 2018, as part of an annual April Fools stunt by the network, and proceeded to play the same episode in its normal English dub format the following week.
The season contains five musical themes: two openings and three endings. The opening themes are "Diver" by Nico Touches the Walls (used for episodes 197 to 205) and by 7!! (used for episodes 206 to 221). The ending themes are by Aqua Timez (used for episodes 197 to 205), "FREEDOM" by Home Made Kazoku (used for episodes 206 to 218) and by OKAMOTO'S (used for the remaining episodes). __TOC__
Episodes
Home media release Japanese VolumeDateDiscsEpisodesReference 1September 7, 20111197–200 2October 5, 20111201–204 3November 2, 20111205–208 4December 7, 20111209–212 5January 11, 20121213–216 6February 1, 20121217–221
English + Viz Media (North America, Region 1)Box setDateDiscsEpisodesReference16October 8, 20132193–20517January 14, 20142206–21818April 8, 20142219–231
+ Manga Entertainment (United Kingdom, Region 2) VolumeDateDiscsEpisodesReference 16 February 24, 2014 2 193–205 17 April 7, 2014 2 206–218 18 July 21, 2014 2 219–231
+ Madman Entertainment (Australia/New Zealand, Region 4) CollectionDateDiscsEpisodesReference 16 February 19, 2014 2 193–205 17 March 19, 2014 2 206–218 18 June 18, 2014 2 219–231
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