{"info":{"name":"Akimichi","kind":"clan","japanese":"忍","selected":"choza","article":"akimichi","location":"Naruto / Boruto","description":"Body expansion, reserves and cooperation. Chōza, Chōji and Chōchō have their own skill sets; Karui is shown through family ties.","contextTitle":"Akimichi","context":"Body expansion, reserves and cooperation. Chōza, Chōji and Chōchō have their own skill sets; Karui is shown through family ties.","generationBadge":"NEW GENERATION","branches":["ORIGIN AND CONTEXT","MEMBERS AND BONDS","SCOPE"],"originNote":"Identified family ties only.
No in-between generations are invented.","eras":{"mayores":"Previous generation","konoha":"Naruto / Shippuden","nueva":"Boruto and sequels","fundadores":"Ancient history"},"eraNotes":["Earlier families and figures.","Training, choices and conflicts in Naruto.","Anime and manga are told apart in each profile.","Documented historical characters."],"sourceIds":["naruto-archive"],"medium":"Naruto / Boruto","contextLvl":2},"nodes":[{"id":"choza","x":470,"y":90,"era":"mayores"},{"id":"choji","x":380,"y":285,"era":"konoha"},{"id":"chocho","x":470,"y":490,"era":"nueva"},{"id":"torifu","x":850,"y":90,"era":"mayores"},{"id":"karui","x":560,"y":285,"era":"konoha","affiliation":"Vínculo familiar Akimichi · No recibe expansión corporal por matrimonio"}],"size":{"width":1060,"height":650},"details":{"choza":{"intro":"Chōza is Chōji's father and, with Inoichi and Shikaku, forms the previous generation of Ino–Shika–Chō.","history":"Chōza is Chōji's father and, with Inoichi and Shikaku, forms the previous generation of Ino–Shika–Chō. He appears in Konoha after the invasion, among the jōnin who bid farewell to the Third Hokage.","personality":"Chōza is a huge man with a warm voice and a calm manner, who gives a sense of security to those who fight beside him. He embodies the Akimichi idea that size and strength are put at the service of the group. With Inoichi and Shikaku he forms a trio of veterans who understand each other almost without words, the same model their children later inherit. As a father he is patient and proud, and prefers to support Chōji rather than pressure him.","abilities":[{"name":"Body expansion","text":"Akimichi body enlargement techniques, backed by reserves and chakra control.","figures":["
RESERVES · TRAINING · COST
Akimichi expansion · Original diagramSize and reserves relate to training and costs. The illustration does not credit every Akimichi with advanced mastery.
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DISTANCE · MOVEMENT · RESPONSE
Shinobi combat · Original diagramA general example of distance and response in combat. It is not presented as a secret technique or an official scene.
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RESERVES · TRAINING · COST
Akimichi expansion · Original diagramSize and reserves relate to training and costs. The illustration does not credit every Akimichi with advanced mastery.
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DISTANCE · MOVEMENT · RESPONSE
Shinobi combat · Original diagramA general example of distance and response in combat. It is not presented as a secret technique or an official scene.
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RESERVES · TRAINING · COST
Akimichi expansion · Original diagramSize and reserves relate to training and costs. The illustration does not credit every Akimichi with advanced mastery.
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PHYSICALSPIRITUALMOULDED CHAKRA
Chakra control · Original diagramChakra combines physical and spiritual components. The amount available and the precision to use it are different qualities.
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RESERVES · TRAINING · COST
Akimichi expansion · Original diagramSize and reserves relate to training and costs. The illustration does not credit every Akimichi with advanced mastery.
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PHYSICALSPIRITUALMOULDED CHAKRA
Chakra control · Original diagramChakra combines physical and spiritual components. The amount available and the precision to use it are different qualities.
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RESERVES · TRAINING · COST
Akimichi expansion · Original diagramSize and reserves relate to training and costs. The illustration does not credit every Akimichi with advanced mastery.
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PHYSICALSPIRITUALMOULDED CHAKRA
Chakra control · Original diagramChakra combines physical and spiritual components. The amount available and the precision to use it are different qualities.
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Against him she drops the jokes and fights with a pride no one expected, though it is not enough to beat him.","lvl":2,"ep":"boruto-59","pos":704},{"h":"Missions and promises","t":"The anime gives Chōchō several stories of her own: she falls for an actor during an escort mission, competes with her father in an eating contest and shows her serious side again when the Ino–Shika–Chō fights in the Hidden Stone village. Her friendship with Sarada is put to the test in a real fight between the two. Sarada wins with the Chidori, and Chōchō cries for not having kept the promise she had made to herself, a moment that shows how much it matters to her not to fall behind.","lvl":2,"ep":"boruto-225","pos":758},{"h":"Three years later","t":"In Two Blue Vortex, Chōchō is still on Team 10 with Shikadai and Inojin, and the group protects Himawari when Jura and Hidari follow the trail of the Nine-Tails' chakra. Later, when Konoha is invaded by Mamushi's copies, she fights alongside Shikadai and Himawari. The copies keep appearing, and the team launches Himawari's Tailed Beast Bomb into the air so as not to destroy the village. It is a more seasoned Chōchō, now fighting on the front line.","lvl":3,"ch":"tbv-30","pos":810}],"facts":[{"k":"Estado","v":"Alive","lvl":2},{"k":"Cumpleaños","v":"August 8","lvl":2},{"k":"Rango","v":"Genin","lvl":2},{"k":"Seiyū","v":"Ryōko Shiraishi","lvl":2}],"techniques":[{"name":"Body expansion","kind":"tecnica","lvl":2,"article":"expansion-akimichi","ep":"boruto-59","kindLabel":"Técnica","pos":704}],"debut":{"ch":"naruto-700","ep":"boruto-1"}},"torifu":{"intro":"Torifu appears among Hiruzen's and Danzō's comrades in Tobirama's generation.","history":"Torifu appears among Hiruzen's and Danzō's comrades in Tobirama's generation. His role adds historical context to the Akimichi clan. No parents, descendants or detailed repertoire are invented from his appearance.","personality":"Little is known of Torifu's personality. What is clear is that he was proud of his physical strength, very much an Akimichi trait, and that he was a practical shinobi with no illusions about war: faced with a desperate pursuit, he was one of those who said out loud that whoever acted as a decoy would be sacrificing themselves. Surviving those years made him a ninja famous throughout the shinobi world. He is a background figure, but from the generation that built the village.","abilities":[{"name":"Documented scope","text":"He was famous for his physical strength and, as an Akimichi, could turn calories into chakra for his clan's techniques; in battle he used a bō staff and a shield.","figures":[]},{"name":"Limits of his repertoire","text":"His appearances are brief flashbacks, so the real scope of his techniques is never shown.","figures":[]}],"mangaReference":"Contextual reference: Naruto / Shippuden; Tobirama's generation. The official guide provides context; it does not confirm every detail of this profile.","sources":["naruto-archive"],"tools":[],"stages":[],"sections":[{"h":"The Second's escort","t":"Torifu Akimichi appears in one of Danzō's memories as part of the group that served the Second Hokage directly, together with Hiruzen, Danzō, Homura, Koharu and Kagami Uchiha. During the First Great Ninja War he is part of Tobirama's escort when Kumogakure's Kinkaku Force pursues them. When Kagami suggests that someone must lure the pursuers away, Torifu points out that whoever does it will, in practice, be a sacrifice. He witnesses Tobirama naming Hiruzen his successor, and surviving that clash makes him famous.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-481","ep":"shippuden-211","pos":481},{"h":"Against the Nine-Tails","t":"Decades later, Torifu appears again, now older and wearing more modern armor with his clan's emblem, among the ninja who face the Nine-Tails when the beast is unleashed in Konoha. He fights alongside Hiruzen, Homura and Koharu, with a bō staff and a shield shaped like a sake cup, until they manage to push the fox beyond the village limits. Curiously, in that scene he does not have the cheek markings every known Akimichi has, and which he did have in his first appearance.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-502","ep":"shippuden-248","pos":502}],"facts":[{"k":"Rango","v":"Jōnin","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-481","pos":481},{"k":"Seiyū","v":"Junpei Endō","lvl":0}],"techniques":[],"debut":{"ch":"naruto-481","ep":"shippuden-211"}},"karui":{"intro":"Karui is a Kumogakure kunoichi who teams up with Omoi under Killer B.","history":"Karui is a Kumogakure kunoichi who teams up with Omoi under Killer B. She is Chōji's partner and Chōchō's mother. Her family tie to the Akimichi does not automatically grant her body expansion or the clan's whole tradition.","personality":"Karui is impulsive, direct and loyal to the point of stubbornness. When something offends her she reacts with her fists first and thinks later, and she will not tolerate anyone taking lightly what matters to her. That same intensity makes her a fierce teammate: she defends her team and her teacher with the same force with which she argues with them. She often clashes with Omoi's excessive calm, and together they form a contrast the series uses to ease tension without taking weight away from her anger when it is justified.","abilities":[{"name":"Shinobi combat","text":"She carries a sword on her back and fights head-on, with direct blows and little patience for detours.","figures":["
DISTANCE · MOVEMENT · RESPONSE
Shinobi combat · Original diagramA general example of distance and response in combat. It is not presented as a secret technique or an official scene.
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PHYSICALSPIRITUALMOULDED CHAKRA
Chakra control · Original diagramChakra combines physical and spiritual components. The amount available and the precision to use it are different qualities.
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