Naruto: The Symphonic Experience reveals North American tour dates

Tuesday, December 3, 2024, saw the North American tour dates for Naruto: The Symphonic Experience concert announced via the anime’s official English X account. The tour dates range from Friday, February 28 through Sunday, May 18, 2025, and will travel across the United States and Canada for a total of 58 shows.

The Naruto: The Symphonic Experience concert also announced that tickets for the shows will go on sale this Friday, December 6, 2024, at 10 am Eastern Standard Time (EST). These announcements were made by GEA Live, Un Pour Tous Productions, RoadCo Entertainment, and Viz Media, all of whom are involved in the concert’s production in some way.

Naruto: The Symphonic Experience orchestral concert reveals dates, material, and more

The upcoming North American tour for Naruto: The Symphonic Experience comes after the concert series’ debut in France in 2022 and its European tour in 2023. The concert will feature songs and themes from the anime series set to a two-hour subtitled film by Julien Vallespi and Quentin Benayoun. The film is a cut of material from the first 220 episodes of the original Naruto anime series.

The listed showings for the North American tour are primarily for the United States, with the only Canadian dates being Kitchener, Ontario, and Toronto, Ontario, on May 8 and 9, 2025. However, there are several other dates relatively close to the American-Canadian border, at least offering Canadian citizens wanting to attend an option to do so. As of this article’s writing, it seems unlikely that additional Canadian dates will be added to the tour.

Recently, the Naruto Shippuden Symphonic Experience, based on the Shippuden anime series, launched in France on October 25, 2024. No international dates have been announced for the Shippuden Symphonic Experience as of this article’s writing. However, if the original Naruto: The Symphonic Experience’s North American tour proves successful, it’s likely that the “sequel,” for lack of a better term, will eventually come.

Masashi Kishimoto’s original Naruto manga series began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in September 1999. The manga ran there until its end in November 2014, being collected into 72 total compilation volumes. The series is one of the best-selling manga series of all time, with the latest reported numbers claiming 250 million total copies in circulation, with 153 million in Japan alone.

The series was adapted into a television anime by Studio Pierrot, which ran from 2002 to 2017 in totality. However, the series was split up into two parts, with the original Naruto running from 2002 to 2007 and Naruto Shippuden finishing the series from 2007 to 2017. The series also has a sequel titled Boruto, which has been running since 2016 and is also split into two parts, the second having begun in 2023.