Naruto Vol. 24
- ISBN
- 9781421518602
- Publisher
- Viz Media
- English release
- Pages
- 192
- Chapters
- 209–217
- Anime
- Season 3 (3rd Stage) ep. 84–131
The rescues arrive here, and the book still does not stand alone: it opens mid-fight and closes at the start of a bigger one. Chapters 209 to 217 resolve the three duels the previous book left hanging, mostly by bringing in help from outside Konoha, and then hand the arc to the meeting the whole pursuit has been for. Rock Lee, back from surgery, is the first to arrive. Nothing in here can be followed without Vols. 21 to 23 in front of it, and the book withholds its own ending: the last chapter puts Naruto and Sasuke in the same place and stops. Season 3 has eight chapters left after this book before it stops at 225. Viz states the contents of its 3-in-1 books only up to the sixth, so a buyer cannot check this one against the listing.
Spoilers — why this volume matters. Tap to reveal.
The Sand siblings save the Konoha team, and that pays off what the Gaara chapters in Vols. 15 and 16 were for. Temari buries Tayuya under debris, Kankuro kills Sakon and Ukon, and Gaara takes the fight Lee cannot finish. Three people who tried to destroy the village two years of publication earlier arrive as its reinforcements, and the series does not remark on it, which is the right call. Kimimaro is the exception nobody won. He recovers from everything Gaara does to him, gets close enough to kill both Gaara and Lee, and then dies of the illness that had taken him out of the Sound Four in the first place. That is the only duel in the retrieval arc settled by something other than a fighter, and it is the one place the arc pays for its own rule that every fight is one against one. The last chapter is the reason to own the volume: Naruto catches Sasuke at the Valley of the End, where the First Hokage fought Madara Uchiha, an ancestor of Sasuke's. The book stops there, and what happens is Vol. 25.
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