Naruto season 3

The third season of the Naruto anime television series, labelled as the "3rd Stage" in the Japanese DVD release, is directed by Hayato Date, and produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo. Based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga series of the same name, the season follows Naruto Uzumaki and his friends on a mission to prevent Sasuke Uchiha from leaving the Leaf Village in search for greater power by joining up with Orochimaru. The season ran on TV Tokyo and its affiliates, from May 19, 2004, to April 20, 2005.
The English dub aired on both Cartoon Network's Toonami and YTV's Bionix programming blocks from April 21, 2007, to January 12, 2008.
Sony Pictures Entertainment collected the episodes in a total of twelve DVD volumes, each containing four episodes, between January 1 and December 7, 2005. The English adaptation of these dub was released between twenty-first and thirty-second DVD volumes released by Viz Media, while various compilations were later released.
The Japanese version of this season features seven theme musics: two openings and five endings. The openings are "Go!!!" by Flow, "Seishun Kyōsōkyoku" by Sambomaster. The endings are "Ima Made Nando Mo" by The Mass Missile, "Ryūsei" by TiA, "Mountain A Go Go 2" by Captain Straydum, "Hajimete Kimi to Shabetta" by GaGaGa SP, and "Nakushita Kotoba" by No Regret Life. The English version replaces the ending themes with an instrumental version of "Rise" by Jeremy Sweet and Ian Nickus.

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