The television anime will adapt Takashi Yano’s Naruto: Shikamaru’s Story, Shō Hinata’s Naruto – Konoha Hiden: Shūgen Biyori, and Shin Towasa’s Naruto: Sasuke’s Story – Sunrise novels.
The 480th episode will focus on Naruto and Hinata, and will air on October 20.
A television anime adaptation of three Naruto Hiden/Shinden (Hidden Story/True Story) epilogue stories will premiere this winter.
The new arc is titled “Shōnen Jidai-hen” (Boyhood Arc), and it will return to Naruto’s childhood days when the Nine-Tails was still sealed within him.