Recaps

Anyo fought Akatsuki over the tailed beasts, awakened Kikyo’s Rinnegan before sealing Hagoromo’s consciousness, and reconciled with Tsunade. He then joined forces with Orochimaru to pursue experiments involving tailed-beast chakra and began targeting Tobi.

• Anyo captured Hidan and gave Kakuzu the Seven-Tails vessel, then worked with Sasori to recruit Deidara and expand their plans against Akatsuki.
• Anyo and Konoha’s team confronted Akatsuki at the One-Tail sealing cave, where Kikyo defeated Deidara and Kakashi and Sakura fought Sasori.
• Anyo captured Sasori’s divided soul and revealed information about Sasuke, then clashed with Tsunade before Kikyo’s Rinnegan led him to take her away.
• Anyo met Hagoromo inside Kikyo’s Rinnegan and sealed his consciousness, then returned Kikyo to Konoha and made peace with Tsunade.
• Anyo revived Orochimaru in a new body, restrained his Eight Branches serpent, and offered to help undo the Reaper Death Seal in return for cooperation.
• Anyo and Orochimaru began cultivating tailed-beast chakra, while Anyo extracted One-Tail and Seven-Tails cells from Gaara and Fū.
• Gaara and Fū escaped toward the imprisoned Aburame Ninja, while Anyo asked Kakuzu to collect Two-Tails cells and decided he would kill Kakuzu for his estate.
• Anyo identified Tobi as Obito Uchiha and sent Orochimaru to separate him from Deidara, who was traveling with Tobi.

Anyo gathered the tailed beasts’ chakra, pursued Kikyo, and traded the Three-Tails to Obito after helping her escape the Kamui Dimension. As the Five Kage Summit began, Pain attacked Konoha, and Anyo confronted Danzo before the village was flattened.

• Anyo and Orochimaru entered Kirigakure to seek the Six-Tails, where Anyo reunited with Mei Terumi and agreed to stay until the village could manage without her.
• Anyo and Sasori recovered resources for Kirigakure and planned for the Five Kage Summit, while Sasori failed to bring Itachi back after Itachi used Kotoamatsukami.
• Anyo found Rin Nohara living as a soul alongside the Three-Tails, persuaded her to let him seal it, and completed his collection of all nine tailed beasts’ chakra with the Five-Tails’ cells.
• Anyo confronted Obito over Kikyo, learned she was trapped in the Kamui Dimension, and helped her escape after she awakened her Rinnegan and used Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Anyo traded the Three-Tails to Obito for Itachi’s Mangekyō eyes, while Obito resolved to bring Madara out and Pain set out for Konoha.
• Sasori opened the Five Kage Summit as the Kage argued over Akatsuki, while Anyo confronted Hanzō and exposed his misuse of the Zero Organization’s support.
• Anyo incapacitated Danzo and stopped his suicide technique, then declared Root would be disbanded as Pain’s attack devastated Konoha.
• Pain flattened Konoha with Shinra Tensei, and Anyo watched as Naruto arrived on giant toads.

Anyo revived allies, brought the Five Great Nations toward unification, and prepared them for war against the Akatsuki. After Samui became the Fifth Raikage, the allied armies converged on Konoha, where Anyo confronted Sasuke.

• Naruto defeated Pain, and Anyo used Kotoamatsukami to direct Nagato’s revival toward White Fang and Sasori’s parents before Nagato died.
• Anyo freed Konan and brought her to Hanzō and Danzo, whom she killed before Haku and Kurenai Yuhi comforted her.
• Anyo revived Kakuzu and Hidan, set Konoha’s reconstruction in motion, and learned that Obito had declared the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Anyo persuaded Samui, Minato, and Mei Terumi to support unification, then brought Ōnoki to Sunagakure, where he agreed to join after seeing the village’s progress.
• Anyo prepared the villages for war, appointed Minato commander of the Allied Forces, and helped Mikoto reunite with Itachi before transplanting Itachi’s eyes into her.
• Anyo rescued Kikyo from a strange creature and investigated the statue with Hagoromo, while Kakuzu, Sasori, and Yugao fought the Raikage and Sasori’s attack ended in a massive explosion.
• Anyo found Samui after she killed the Raikage, helped establish her as the Fifth Raikage, and left Kumogakure the next morning.
• Konan warned Obito that Teacher knew his plans, the villages sent their armies toward Konoha, and Anyo confronted Sasuke, who attacked him with a Susanoo arrow.

Anyo pursued his plan to end the ninja system while confronting old allies, family, and the forces behind the war. As the Ten-Tails emerged and the battle intensified, Anyo completed his transformation, while Obito rejected Kakashi’s plea and impaled himself on Kakashi’s Lightning Blade.

• Anyo defeated White Zetsu and the Third Raikage, then led the Zero Organization in robbing the Five Great Nations’ vaults and securing smaller nations’ signatures on the World Unification Treaty.
• Anyo confronted Konan and Yugao over his past, then joined the war and annihilated White Zetsu while Naruto and Killer B entered the battlefield.
• Anyo saved Sasuke and gave him Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan, then discovered that a masked artificial human made from his blood was claiming to be his child.
• Anyo summoned the Nine Tailed Beasts and sealed the Ten-Tails inside himself, while Orochimaru revived Hashirama, Tobirama, and Kushina to face Madara.
• Anyo accepted Shigemitsu as his successor, while the Five Kage and Sasori fought Madara and Rin confronted Obito about his crimes.
• Black Zetsu trapped Anyo in a Chibaku Tensei, but Anyo escaped after studying its sealing jutsu and revealed that he intended to eliminate the ninja system.
• Anyo and White Fang fought with swords, and Anyo overcame his teacher as the Ten-Tails emerged and routed the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, Minato, and Tsunade restrained the Ten-Tails, Sasuke announced his intention to become Hokage, and Obito impaled himself on Kakashi’s Lightning Blade after rejecting Kakashi’s plea.