Naruto season 2

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The second season of the Naruto anime television series, labelled as the "2nd 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 fellow genin-ranked ninja participating the Chūnin Exams, surviving Orochimaru's invasion of the Hidden Leaf Village and confronting Gaara in the Leaf Forest. The season ran from June 4, 2003, to May 12, 2004, on TV Tokyo and its affiliates, consisting of 48 episodes. The English dub aired on both Cartoon Network's Toonami and YTV's Bionix programming blocks from June 3, 2006, to April 14, 2007. The season's episodes ran on Adult Swim's relaunched Toonami block in a completely uncut format from December 1, 2012, to November 30, 2013. After the 52nd episode, it was removed from the schedule rotation to make room for its successor series, Naruto: Shippuden. Sony Pictures Entertainment collected the episodes in...

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