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Seelentau wrote: There are no official arcs aside from the anime arcs. Actually, the data books do have named arcs, as did the more recent Road to Ninja guidebook and the Weekly Shonen Jump website, via the now-defunct 2012 Naruto movie commemoration special feature website (which still works via archive.org).

Naruto Movie Commemorative Special Feature Site Naruto: Thorough Introduction to the Story of the Fourth Great Ninja War

The Road to Ninja guidebook was sold in Japan alongside Naruto Volume 61, and was designed as a companion piece for the Naruto collection, matching the design and appearance of a standard Naruto volume (it was actually even titled "Naruto Volume 忍: Road to Ninja"). In addition to an interview with Kishimoto, the Road to Naruto the Movie oneshot, and a bunch of behind-the-scenes info, it included a section called "Road of Naruto," which was an overview of the entire series up to Madara's reanimation, divided into 19 arcs. That list of arcs was reproduced on the website I linked above, with minor alterations.


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I don't have the databooks on hand, but they generally had more formal titles for the arcs, like "The Kazekage Rescue Mission," "The Tenchi Reconnaissance Mission," and "The Akatsuki Suppression Mission."