Crunchyroll to Stream Naruto Shippuden Hindi, Tamil and Telugu Dubs in July
The addition of Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu dubs for a flagship series like Naruto Shippuden signals Crunchyroll's strategic bet that local-language content is the key to growing anime viewership in India, a market where subtitled or English-dubbed anime has limited reach.
Reporting from 2 sources: AnimationXpress Anime, Animehunch.
Crunchyroll announced it will begin streaming Naruto Shippuden with Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu dubs in India starting July 6. The Hindi dub will be exclusive to Crunchyroll. The dubbed episodes will roll out in batches through September 2026, covering the first 220 episodes of the anime. The move is part of Crunchyroll's push to expand anime's reach in India, where demand for local-language content is growing. Naruto Shippuden follows a teenage Naruto returning to his village to face the Akatsuki organization, with higher stakes and bigger battles. The series is one of the biggest franchises in anime, and the addition of regional dubs aims to make it more accessible to Indian audiences. The rollout will include all three languages, with episodes releasing in phases over the next few months.
Crunchyroll will begin streaming Naruto Shippuden with Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu dubs in India starting July 6, covering the first 220 episodes of the series. The Hindi dub is exclusive to Crunchyroll, while all three dubbed versions will release in batches through September 2026. The announcement follows Crunchyroll's broader push into Indian markets, where the platform has been adding regional language options for other popular titles. Naruto Shippuden, which originally aired from 2007 to 2017, follows a teenage Naruto Uzumaki as he returns to the Hidden Leaf Village after years of training and confronts the criminal organization Akatsuki. The series is the direct sequel to the original Naruto anime and is one of the most widely recognized anime franchises globally. The phased rollout means episodes will not all be available at once; instead, batches will drop over the summer. The move is part of a larger trend of streaming services investing in Indian-language dubs to tap into a growing audience that prefers content in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu over English or Japanese audio.
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