Naruto Shippuden
Twenty distinct openings across a decade, changed roughly every cour — one of the largest rotations of title sequences any series has produced.
Naruto Shippuden opens with a main title sequence of 100 seconds.
At 100 seconds, it opens well above the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on TV Tokyo in 2007, when Gintama, Naruto and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
100sCrunchyroll's posting of the first opening, Hero's Come Back, which is the one that can be placed against the first season. Their channel banner sits across the top of it.
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