Naruto and Gintama Anime Music Videos Kick Off Jump MV Series

Earlier in March 2023, Shueisha announced some Naruto and Gintama music videos would appear as part of a Jump MV series. Now both are available. Each one is an original and features black-and-white art, often from the manga, interspersed with brief flashes of color. They also both use opening and ending theme songs from the anime adaptations of both series.

First, here’s the Naruto music video featuring the second anime opening theme song. It focuses on Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi, and Jiraya back when the story first began before the timeskip while Asian Kung-Fu Generation’s “Haruka Kanata” plays.

This is the second recent Naruto video to show up. Another official one focused on Itachi and members the Akatsuki.

Meanwhile, the Gintama music video features one of its anime adaptation’s ending theme. People can listen to DOES’ “Shura” while scenes showing characters like Gintoki and Shinsuke facing each other

Both the Naruto and Gintama anime adaptations are available to watch on Crunchyroll. The mangas are handled by Viz Media. The next video game inspired by one of these two series is Naruto x Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections. It will appear on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch, and PC sometime in 2023.