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"Akamaru Unleashed! Who's Top Dog Now?" (赤丸参戦!!負け犬はどっちだ?, Akamaru Sansen!! Makeinu wa Dotchida?) is episode 44 of the original Naruto anime.

Synopsis[]

Naruto is immediately at a disadvantage, realising that Kiba fights with the assistance of his dog, Akamaru. Kiba charges at him, and delivers a blow to his stomach, knocking him down. Assuming he won, he tells Hayate to call the match, when Naruto gets back up, taunting him he’d be better off sending his puppy. Kiba throws Smoke Bombs, before using the commotion to deliver more blows. When the smoke clears, he sees an unconscious Naruto laying on the ground, unaware it’s just a Shadow Clone, and calls “Akamaru” towards him who latches onto his arm. Naruto reveals himself to have transformed into his dog, while his clone holds the real Akamaru.

Kiba flicks a food pill at him, causing his fur to turn red and ferocious, before taking one himself. Once powered up, Kiba and Akamaru use a combination of Four Legs Technique and Beast Human Clone to overwhelm Naruto with two beastly opponents. Finishing the combination with Fang Passing Fang, Naruto falls flat on his face, and swears to persevere in order to become Hokage, while being taunted.

Credits[]

RoleSeiyūEnglish Voice Actor
EnglishJapaneseRōmaji
Naruto UzumakiJunko Takeuchi竹内 順子Takeuchi JunkoMaile Flanagan
Sakura HarunoChie Nakamura中村 千絵Nakamura ChieKate Higgins
Kakashi HatakeKazuhiko Inoue井上 和彦Inoue KazuhikoDave Wittenberg
Kiba InuzukaKosuke Toriumi鳥海 浩輔Toriumi KōsukeKyle Hebert
Hinata HyūgaNana Mizuki水樹 奈々Mizuki NanaStephanie Sheh
Shikamaru NaraShotaro Morikubo森久保 祥太郎Morikubo ShōtarōTom Gibis
Ino YamanakaRyoka Yuzuki柚木 涼香Yuzuki RyōkaColleen O'Shaughnessey
Chōji AkimichiKentaro Ito伊藤 健太郎Itō KentarōRobbie Rist
Rock LeeYoichi Masukawa増川 洋一Masukawa YōichiBrian Donovan
Neji HyūgaKoichi Tochika遠近 孝一Tōchika KōichiSteve Staley
TemariRomi Park朴 璐美Paku RomiTara Platt
KankurōYasuyuki Kase加瀬 康之Kase YasuyukiMichael Lindsay
IrukaToshihiko Seki関 俊彦Seki ToshihikoQuinton Flynn
Hayate GekkōNozomu Sasaki佐々木 望Sasaki NozomuLex Lang
Asuma SarutobiJurota Kosugi小杉 十郎太Kosugi JūrōtaDoug Erholtz
Kurenai YūhiRumi Ochiai落合 るみOchiai RumiMary Elizabeth McGlynn
BoysTaisuke Yamamoto
Hiroyuki Tsuru
山本 泰輔
鶴 博幸
Yamamoto Taisuke
Tsuru Hiroyuki
Julianne Buescher
Derek Stephen Prince
Third Hokage: SarutobiHidekatsu Shibata柴田 秀勝Shibata HidekatsuSteve Kramer
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