User:Joolushko Tunai Fenta Hovalis/Arcs

Arcs are based on story logic: a scene can only be part of one arc. Manga chapters contain multiple scenes and can therefore be part of more than one arc. Volumes contain multiple chapters which is why arcs often end in the middle of a volume.

What binds scenes together to form an arc can be: An example of the first would be the Search For Tsunade arc. An arc based around an event would be the Sasuke Recovery Mission. The whole Itachi Pursuit arc is based around revenge and the goal of killing Itachi. And the combination of the Chūnin Exams arc and the Konoha Crush arc would have as theme the intersection of economics, politics, sports and war.
 * a character
 * an event
 * a motivation and/or goal
 * a theme

= Manga =

Part 1
Notes:
 * 1) There's a mini time-skip in the transition of chapter 8-9 marking the end of the introduction/prologue arc.
 * 2) There's a mini time-skip in the transition of chapter 33-34 marking the end of the Land of Waves arc.
 * 3) While the official end of the Chūnin Exams arc is chapter 115 (and for good reasons), it's very natural to make chapter 109 the end of this arc. The hokage and kazekage have been bending the rules to prevent Sasuke from disqualification and this is the point where Sasuke appears. In fact, it's not unreasonable to start the Konoha Crush arc with the fight that was suspiciously postponed. To summarize: the arc can span either chapters 34–109; or chapters 34–110; or chapters 34–114; or chapters 34–115.
 * 4) While the official end of the Chūnin Exams arc is chapter 115 (and for good reasons), in reality the whole fight between Sasuke and Gaara is a gradual transitioning from one arc to another: from the metaphor for war (which the exams are) to the reality of war. In chapter 113 the Temple of Nirvana Technique is first used. In chapter 114 Team Sunagakure announces the start of the operation. But in chapter 115 snakes appear and start destroying Konoha's defensive walls, while the hokage is taken hostage and kept inside a barrier to fight Orochimaru. However, chapter 115 is also where the original plan to unleash Gaara inside Konoha fails and where a confused Sasuke is informed that the exams are over and he's told to be useful by pursuing Gaara and the others.
 * 5) There's a mini time-skip in the transition of chapter 138-139 marking the end of the Konoha Crush arc.
 * 6) There's a mini time-skip in the transition of chapter 171-172 marking the end of the Search for Tsunade arc end.
 * 7) There's a mini time-skip in the transition of chapter 237-238 thus making chapter 238 the epilogue of Part 1.

Part 2
Slightly different take on the arcs in terms of naming schemes and making the name fit the content.
 * Akatsuki Attacks, Part 1: Deidara and Sasori &mdash; Kazekage Rescue Mission
 * Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission (Sasuke and Sai)
 * Akatsuki Attacks, Part 2: Hidan and Kakuzu &mdash; Akatsuki Suppression Mission
 * Itachi Pursuit Mission, Part 1
 * Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant
 * Itachi Pursuit Mission, Part 2: Fated Battle Between Brothers
 * Akatsuki Attacks, Part 3: Team Taka versus the Eight-Tails' Jinchūriki
 * Akatsuki Attacks, Part 4: Konan and Pain versus Konoha &mdash; Pain's Assault
 * Five Kage Summit
 * Fourth Shinobi World War: Countdown
 * Fourth Shinobi World War: Confrontation
 * Fourth Shinobi World War: Climax
 * Birth of the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki
 * Kaguya Ōtsutsuki Strikes

Note 1: The Itachi Pursuit arc should start with the scene in which Sasuke defeats Orochimaru (approximately) and it should finish when Konoha ninja arrive at the scene where Itachi and Sasuke fought.

Note 2: What follows is an arc in which Akatsuki is on the move. It starts with Obito telling Sasuke the history of the Uchiha clan which leads to Sasuke donning Akatsuki cloaks and attacking Killer B.

Note 3: Pain's Attack start with...obviously...the chapter in which he first attacks Konoha. It ends with the scene in which Naruto is celebrated as a hero.

Note 4: The Kage Summit is effectively an arc in which the ninja world responds to these attacks by Akatsuki.

Note 5: In chapter 488 Tsunade wakes up which is a fitting ending for the Kage Summit arc.

= Anime =