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Sony Yay Airs Naruto Shippuden Anime in India

Sony Yay is airing promotional videos for the Naruto Shippūden anime stating that it will begin airing the series on March 18. The anime will air from Monday to Friday at 10:00 p.m. IST.

The company also streamed a trailer for the anime.

Sony Yay began airing the Naruto anime's first season in August 2022. It aired the second season in December 2022. The company launched the Anime Booth channel on Airtel Digital TV with Naruto as one of its launch titles in February.

Netflix is currently streaming all nine seasons of the original Naruto anime in India. It began streaming the first four seasons of the Naruto Shippūden anime in India in August 2022 and began streaming seasons four through nine in September 2022. The service began streaming seasons 10 through 18 of the anime in October 2022. Anime Times also added the series to Amazon Prime Video in February.

The Naruto franchise includes multiple television anime, anime films, and original video anime. The Naruto television anime aired from 2002 to 2007. The Naruto Shippūden anime sequel series premiered in 2007 and ended in 2017. The Boruto sequel manga inspired the television anime series Boruto: Naruto Next Generations that premiered in April 2017 and ended its first part in March 2023. Part II of the anime has been green-lit.

Four "brand-new" episodes of the original Naruto anime were slated to air in September to celebrate the franchise's 20th anniversary, but are delayed.

Source: Sony Yay, Sony Yay's YouTube channel via Anime News India