Recaps

Genma challenged samurai across the Land of Iron, then entered Sword Mountain to seek Heart’s Blade and learn more about senjutsu. After clashing with Ito Yoko and surviving a Snow Leopard attack, he was seized by a giant bird that questioned him about the Grey Heron.

• Genma defeated Tokugawa Masao and Ito Sasuke, but Ito Yoko beat him with her Drawing Sword Technique and warned him about her father’s Iron Certificate.
• Genma returned to training, challenged Yagyu Yukihane, and won their duel before introducing potato chips to the Land of Iron.
• Gozan Sanban led Genma into the Saber-Sword Immortal Realm, where the elders discussed senjutsu and agreed that he would search for Heart’s Blade with Genshō’s granddaughter.
• Ito Yoko arrived and joined Genma in the trial, where they searched Sword Mountain’s snowy landscape and encountered Snow Leopards.
• At the summit, Genma and Ito Yoko fought over Divine Concealment, leaving both wounded and exhausted.
• Genma treated Ito Yoko and defended her against a pack of Snow Leopards, but a giant shadow scattered the beasts and sent their enormous leader fleeing.
• Genma killed the enormous Snow Leopard, then a giant bird seized him and demanded to know where he had encountered the Grey Heron.
• Genma described finding the Grey Heron in the Land of Birds and said he intended to make it his summoning beast, prompting the giant bird to laugh.

Genma escaped the giant Haedongqing with Heart's Blade, learned its connection to senjutsu, and strengthened his ties with the Ito family while advancing as a shinobi. After bringing Ito Yoko to Konohagakure, Genma joined Minato’s investigation of Orochimaru and helped decode a message suggesting human experimentation.

• Genma tricked the giant Haedongqing with Shadow Clones and escaped to the Land of Iron with Heart's Blade, discovering that Blade Momentum made the blade disappear through Divine Concealment.
• Gozan Sanban and Ito Genshō explained Divine Concealment’s connection to Nature Energy and senjutsu, while Ito Yoko confessed her feelings for Genma and he said he already loved someone in Konohagakure.
• Genma completed the missions required for promotion to Special Jonin and trained with the Ito elders as Ito Yoko arrived in Konohagakure for an exchange.
• Kurenai defeated Ito Yoko in a wooden-sword spar, and Genma later abandoned their outing to investigate villagers’ lost memories and a swarm of snakes.
• Genma used the Flying Thunder God Array to bring Ito Yoko to his home, reported the incident to Minato, and began learning the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Minato formed an investigation team with Genma and Kakashi to search Orochimaru’s bases, but their initial searches uncovered no decisive evidence.
• Genma recognized coded symbols at a hidden base as periodic-table elements and helped decode the message “Child Replication,” which he said suggested Orochimaru was conducting human experimentation.

Genma helped rescue children from Orochimaru’s experiments, adopted Yana into his family, and trained to strengthen his techniques while trying to arrange a match between Haruko and Hatake Sakumo. When the Nine-Tails attacked Konoha, Genma and Sakumo confronted the masked culprit, Obito, while Minato pursued the beast.

• Genma and Kakashi’s team found children in Orochimaru’s laboratory, rescued them with help from Minato and Yakushi Nonō, and buried the researcher who had helped save them.
• Genma discovered that Riya had brought home Yana, an orphan with unusual powers, and helped Riya adopt her while keeping her connection to the First Hokage’s cells secret.
• Genma trained with Minato, developed new uses for Flying Thunder God, and helped stabilize Yana after her Wood Style caused her to lose consciousness.
• Haruko confessed to Genma that she loved Hatake Sakumo and asked him to help bring them together, so Genma promised to arrange meetings and address Sakumo’s concerns about Kakashi.
• Genma missed the start of Nine-Tails Night, but after the village lockdown began he prepared Chakra Cannons and Exploding Tags and sent Riya and Yana to the Capital of the Land of Fire.
• When the Nine-Tails attacked, Genma brought Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi to Minato, who sent Sakumo and Genma to confront Orochimaru while he pursued the beast.
• Obito ambushed Genma and Sakumo, but Genma pierced his chest and Sakumo kept attacking until Obito escaped with Kamui, and Genma then saw that the Nine-Tails had vanished.

Genma helped Minato and Kushina save their family, then guided Yana and Fugaku as they faced personal and clan problems. He expanded Baoduoduo’s network and learned that Kabuto was in Iwagakure, where the young spy quietly confirmed he was safe.

• Genma brought Kana to restore Kushina’s vitality, and Minato split the Nine-Tails between Naruto and Kushina so the family could survive together.
• Genma helped Riya and Yana confront their grief over Hideyoshi, and Yana temporarily stayed with Fugaku and Mikoto after her Wood Style broke a tombstone.
• Genma persuaded Fugaku to address the Uchiha’s resentment and encourage Sasuke and other children to connect with ordinary villagers and aspire to become Hokage.
• Genma and Fugaku began farming together, while Genma continued developing his swordsmanship and completed preparations for a tragic romance novel.
• Genma secured Chiqian Village’s allegiance to Baoduoduo and left the think tank to integrate its people and organize their work.
• Genma began training Yana after she rejected Might Guy’s intense example, then learned that Kabuto was in Iwagakure and decided to contact him.
• Kabuto worked at the Stone Snack Shop, cried over a smiling-face pendant that night, and later replied to Genma’s coded signal that he was Kabuto and everything was fine.