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"Road to Sakura" (ロード・トゥ・サクラ, Rōdo Tu Sakura) is episode 271 of the Naruto: Shippūden anime.

Road to Sakura (ロード・トゥ・サクラ, Rōdo Tu Sakura) is episode 271 of the Naruto: Shippūden anime.

Summary

As Ino strolls through the outlying forest of the village, considering what she should do on her day-off, she sees a bright light and hears a scream. Looking up she sees her friend Sakura falling through the sky. Rushing to her aid, as Sakura lay unconscious on a tree branch, Ino brings Sakura back to Konoha and has Tsunade check on her. Noting that Sakura had developed amnesia, a comical argument develops as Sakura unreservedly calls Tsunade's breasts gigantic (and voices the suspicion, that Tsunade enlarged her breasts artificially) and Shizune's underdeveloped which culminates in Ino having to stop them both from further hitting Sakura on the head, reminding them of her condition. As they go through the village, and encounter the other members of the Konoha 11, Sakura notes that they look vaguely familiar but not as how she remembered them. In an attempt to jog her memory everyone attempts to represent themselves the way Sakura remembers (which is the complete opposite of their current personalities), though this endeavour is ultimately unsuccessful. Later when Sakura realises that she had lost a pendant of a cherry blossom she had around her neck, she and Ino begin searching frantically for it. Her parents, Kizashi and Mebuki end up finding a dazed Sakura and her father returns the pendant, which she had dropped at their doorway, to her. Remembering parts of her past, Sakura runs to embrace her parents, crying. Though this puzzles her parents greatly, they depart telling her to come home later. Sakura ends up telling Ino that it was likely that she was not the Sakura she knew before disappearing again in a bright light, leaving Ino severely confused, wondering where was the Sakura she knew then.

Trivia

  • This episode is a tie-in to the upcoming movie and as such even had a promotional poster in the background during the episode.

Credits

Role Seiyū
English Japanese Rōmaji English Japanese Rōmaji
Sakura Haruno 春野サクラ Haruno Sakura Chie Nakamura 中村 千絵 Nakamura Chie
Ino Yamanaka 山中いの Yamanaka Ino Ryōka Yuzuki 柚木 涼香 Yuzuki Ryōka
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
Shikamaru Nara 奈良シカマル Nara Shikamaru Shōtarō Morikubo 森久保祥太郎 Morikubo Shōtarō
Chōji Akimichi 秋道チョウジ Akimichi Chōji Kentarō Itō 伊藤健太郎 Itō Kentarō
Kiba Inuzuka 犬塚キバ Inuzuka Kiba Kōsuke Toriumi 鳥海 浩輔 Toriumi Kōsuke
Hinata Hyūga 日向ヒナタ Hyūga Hinata Nana Mizuki 水樹 奈々 Mizuki Nana
Shino Aburame 油女シノ Aburame Shino Shinji Kawada 川田 紳司 Kawada Shinji
Rock Lee ロック・リー Rokku Rī Yōichi Masukawa 増川 洋一 Masukawa Yōichi
Neji Hyūga 日向ネジ Hyūga Neji Kōichi Tōchika 遠近 孝一 Tōchika Kōichi
Tenten テンテン Tenten Yukari Tamura 田村ゆかり Tamura Yukari
Mebuki Haruno‎‎ 春野メブキ Haruno‎‎ Mebuki Kazue Ikura 伊倉 一恵 Ikura Kazue
Kizashi Haruno 春野キザシ Haruno Kizashi Yasunori Matsumoto 松本 保典 Matsumoto Yasunori
Aunt おばちゃん Oba-chan Noriko Miyashita 宮下 典子 Miyashita Noriko
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