Narutopedia
Register
Advertisement
This article is about the episode of the anime. For the chapter of the manga, see Homecoming.

"Homecoming" (帰郷, Kikyō) is episode 1 of the Naruto: Shippūden anime.

Homecoming (帰郷, Kikyō) is episode 1 of the Naruto: Shippūden anime.

Synopsis

Team Ebisu is seen scampering out of a forest in Konoha, chasing a cat. Konohamaru runs into Teuchi, the owner of Ramen Ichiraku. The cat finds himself in an alley and is subdued after a short bout with Konohamaru. They then report to Ebisu, their commander. As Naruto had in the past, Konohamaru demands higher ranked missions. The genin promises that he will become the Seventh Hokage, because he is totally convinced that Naruto will be the Sixth.

Meanwhile, Naruto arrives back in Konoha, and finds that it hasn't changed much since he had left for training with Jiraiya, except that Tsunade's face had now been added to the Hokage monument. Sakura and the others soon spot him, and while Sakura notes Naruto's physical change, Naruto blatantly tells her that she hasn't changed one bit, making her slightly angry. Konohamaru meets up with them, performing the Sexy Technique in front of all of them. Naruto says he will not do that again because he's no longer a kid. Sakura thinks that Naruto has matured and starts to miss the old Naruto, but when he reveals he has an even better version, it causes Sakura to punch and verbally assault Naruto for almost not having changed one bit mentally (with Naruto thinking in his mind that Sakura also has not changed at all). Naruto later catches up with Tsunade, who wishes to see how much he's learned by putting him up against a certain opponent who hasn't been given missions in a while just for this purpose. Before the name of the opponent can be given, the door to the office opens and the episode ends.

Trivia

  • It was first aired along with episode 2 as an hour-long premier special.
  • The episode begins with Naruto's first post-timeskip reunion with Sasuke, something that does not actually occur until Naruto: Shippūden episode 51.
  • Konohamaru and his team's capture of Tora is identical to a mission Team 7 went on in the first Naruto anime.

Credits

Role Seiyū
English Japanese Rōmaji English Japanese Rōmaji
Naruto Uzumaki うずまきナルト Uzumaki Naruto Junko Takeuchi 竹内 順子 Takeuchi Junko
Sakura Haruno 春野サクラ Haruno Sakura Chie Nakamura 中村 千絵 Nakamura Chie
Kakashi Hatake はたけカカシ Hatake Kakashi Kazuhiko Inoue 井上 和彦 Inoue Kazuhiko
Jiraiya 自来也 Jiraiya Hōchū Ōtsuka 大塚 芳忠 Ōtsuka Hōchū
Fifth Hokage: Tsunade 五代目火影・綱手 Godaime Hokage: Tsunade Masako Katsuki 勝生真沙子 Katsuki Masako
Shizune シズネ Shizune Keiko Nemoto 根本 圭子 Nemoto Keiko
Iruka Umino うみのイルカ Umino Iruka Toshihiko Seki 関 俊彦 Seki Toshihiko
Ebisu エビス Ebisu Nobuo Tobita 飛田 展男 Tobita Nobuo
Sasuke Uchiha うちはサスケ Uchiha Sasuke Noriaki Sugiyama 杉山 紀彰 Sugiyama Noriaki
Itachi Uchiha うちはイタチ Uchiha Itachi Hideo Ishikawa 石川 英郎 Ishikawa Hideo
Nine-Tailed Fox 九尾の狐 Kyūbi no Kitsune Tesshō Ganda 玄田 哲章 Ganda Tesshō
Izumo Kamizuki 神月イズモ Kamizuki Izumo Tomohiro Tsuboi 坪井 智浩 Tsuboi Tomohiro
Kotetsu Hagane はがねコテツ Hagane Kotetsu Tomoyuki Kōno 河野 智之 Kōno Tomoyuki
Teuchi テウチ Teuchi Eisuke Asakura 朝倉 栄介 Asakura Eisuke
Konohamaru 木ノ葉丸 Konohamaru Inoue Ōtani 大谷 育江 Ōtani Inoue
Moegi モエギ Moegi Noriko Shitaya 下屋 則子 Shitaya Noriko
Udon ウドン Udon Tomo Shigematsu 重松 朋 Shigetmatsu Tomo
Madam Shijimi マダム・しじみ Madamu Shijimi Nozomi Takatsuki 高月 希海 Takatsuki Nozomi
Advertisement