For a franchise that has been around for more than two decades, Naruto has never really gone away. There have been movies, games, Boruto, anniversary projects, merchandise and enough nostalgia to keep the Hidden Leaf Village permanently visible on anime fans' feeds. But now, something new is actually happening.
A new Naruto television anime has been confirmed, and fans won't have to wait much longer to find out what it is.

VIZ Media and the official Naruto accounts have announced that details about a completely new, limited TV anime will be revealed at New York Comic Con on October 10 the event, titled NARUTO What's Next? will feature Junko Takeuchi the Japanese voice of Naruto Uzumaki, Noriaki Sugiyama who voices Sasuke Uchiha and Yoshihiko Tominaga an executive producer at Studio Pierrot. The announcement will also include first look promotional material.
The panel is taking place on October 10 that is on Naruto birthday, making it a pretty fitting occasion for the franchise to reveal where it is heading next. The event will also be streamed worldwide through the official Naruto and Boruto YouTube channel, so fans won't have to be at New York Comic Con to see the announcement.
What exactly this new anime will cover is still being kept under wraps. Sources say that this project is connected to the four episode Naruto anniversary anime that was originally scheduled to air in September 2023 before being postponed to improve its production quality. Since then there has been very little official information about its future. Now after years of silence the franchise is finally ready to talk about a new anime project again.
Whether this it is the long delayed anniversary project in a revised form or something entirely different is something fans will have to wait to learn. The official announcement currently describes it as a completely new anime while VIZ specifically refers to it as a limited TV anime series.
There is also a larger reason this announcement matters.

Naruto isn't simply being brought back because the franchise needs another anime as It remains one of the most recognisable anime properties in the world, with the manga surpassing 250 million copies in circulation and the anime available across more than 145 countries and regions.
So this isn't really a question of whether people will watch? The bigger question is what they are going to watch.