The Toonami Naruto site has updated with short bios on five of the main characters in the series: Naruto, Sasuke, Iruka, Kakashi and Sakura. While they don’t offer too much in the way of information, they serve as a nice intro to the series.

The series starts on Toonami in the U.S. in just under a month on Saturday evening, September 10th.

Pazuzu chimed in to let us know what to expect with next weeks special.

The following areas have new or updated content:

New

+ Ninjutsu: Satetsu Kaihou
+ Manga Vol. 21 Summary
+ Anime Season Three Guide

Updated

+ Manga Vol. 29 Summary
+ Doujutsu
+ What is Naruto?
+ Akatsuki Org.
+ Ninjutsu: Satetsu, Shinranshin no Jutsu
+ Potential Bloodlines
+ Bio: Kankurou, Temari, Kagari, Mubi, Oboro

Episode 146 has aired in Japan. The filler arc continues, what happened in Mizuki’s past to push him to these ends?… Episode 146 is titled Leftover Ambitions, Orochimaru’s Shadow.

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Orochimaru’s gift

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The cover for volume 29 marks the second volume of the second part of the Naruto manga. As I promised, I’ve scanned in a larger version of the cover.

Right click here to download the big version.

Some general bits of Naruto news from around the web.

As you may be aware, the Canadian airing of Naruto on YTV was pushed back to September 16 at 9:30pm.

Naruto Movie Two debuted this past weekend at number one at the Japanese box office, dethroning Revenge of the Sith which had sat up there for several weeks.

Also Anime News Network reports the September issue of Stuff Magazine places Naruto at number one of its Hit List, highlighting the “sick” (cool) acts of violence the series contains. I’m not honestly sure Stuff has even seen the series.