Episode
Naruto Shippūden: Friends You Can Count On
Overview
While talking with his students, Shino talks about how he and his team got together and became more close as friends and teammates. The story switches to Shino's flashback during the first part of Naruto. They are on a mission assigned by Kurenai in which a Jonin assassin from a neighboring village. Shino gets defeated because of weak taijutsu and descends into depression. He even reveals he was going to abandon the team that helped him because he didn't think he was useful to them. But after his friends get in trouble with the rouge Shino comes back and defeats the rouge.
Details
- Series
- Naruto Shippūden
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 236
- Air date
- 2011-11-10
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
Friends You Can Count On is Episode 236 in S11 • Paradise Life on a Boat of Naruto Shippūden. It aired on 2011-11-10. The runtime is 23 min.
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