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Naruto is a new, upcoming, and very promising anime. It is, in fact,
still in production in Japan. Naruto is so new that the manga used in
the creation of the anime is still in production. As of this writing,
there are 46 episodes of Naruto, as well as 182 chapters of manga.
A new episode to the anime is aired weekly in Japan, during their
Golden Time slot (equivalent of prime time in the US) each Wednesday
night at 7:27PM.

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