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He is an interrogation professional who understands other people's minds better than anyone, and does not need to raise his voice to command a room.","abilities":[{"name":"Interrogation and intelligence","text":"He reads people and uses psychological pressure to obtain information; he also assesses the character of whoever is in front of him.","figures":[]},{"name":"Shinobi combat","text":"He combines training, weapons and combat decisions; his repertoire is not deduced from his surname.","figures":["Shinobi combat · Original diagramA general example of distance and response in combat. 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Another memory, from Obito's youth, shows him as a genin in the Chūnin Exams alongside Hayate.","abilities":[{"name":"Shinobi strategy","text":"He interrogates prisoners and analyzes information; the work does not credit him with mind reading.","figures":["Shinobi combat · Original diagramA general example of distance and response in combat. It is not presented as a secret technique or an official scene."]}],"sources":["naruto-archive"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 406, 507 and 599: the Amegakure prisoner, Kisame's memory and Obito's.","lvl":1,"from":406,"until":599}],"until":244,"sections":[{"h":"The tenth question","t":"Ibiki runs the first test of the Chūnin Exams: a written exam with nearly impossible questions and penalties for cheating. What looks like a knowledge test is actually an intelligence test, because the candidates must get answers by spying without being caught. At the end he poses a tenth question with a terrible condition: whoever gets it wrong can never take the exam again. Naruto slams the desk and refuses to give up. Ibiki passes everyone who remains and explains that the question measured the courage to face the unknown, also showing the scars left by an enemy interrogation.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-44","ep":"naruto-25","pos":44},{"h":"The runner brother","t":"The filler anime gives him a younger brother, Idate, the protagonist of the Land of Tea arc. Idate had been a Konoha ninja, but left the village after Aoi, a rogue ninja, tricked him into betraying it. Since then he distrusts ninja and earns his living as a runner. The arc ends with Idate winning his clan's race, and with that story the anime gives Ibiki a family dimension the manga never explored, always as animation-exclusive material.","lvl":0,"ep":"naruto-106","pos":180},{"h":"Intelligence against Pain","t":"After Jiraiya's death, Ibiki interrogates the captured Amegakure ninja while Shizune examines the body of one of the Pains and the cryptographers work on the coded message. His task is to extract every possible piece of information about the enemy before it strikes. When Pain bursts into Konoha, Ibiki and his interrogation team try to stop one of the bodies, but cannot hold it. The episode shows the limit of his specialty: his field is information and psychological pressure, not direct combat against an enemy of that level.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-426","ep":"shippuden-160","pos":426},{"h":"Veteran of a new era","t":"In the Boruto era, Ibiki is still in Konoha's intelligence division and appears as a veteran figure, no longer as prominent as before. The anime gives him a specific role in the story of Enkō Onikuma, a former classmate of Boruto's who has carried a summoning beast inside her since childhood and can no longer control its power on missions. Ibiki tells her that, from then on, she will work under his command. It is a gesture consistent with the character: someone used to handling the dangerous and giving a place to those others would fear.","lvl":2,"ep":"boruto-139","pos":711}],"facts":[{"k":"Estado","v":"Alive","lvl":0},{"k":"Cumpleaños","v":"March 20","lvl":0},{"k":"Edad","v":"27","lvl":0},{"k":"Edad","v":"31–32","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-245","pos":245},{"k":"Altura","v":"193.5 cm","lvl":0},{"k":"Rango","v":"Tokubetsu jōnin","lvl":0},{"k":"Afiliación","v":"Konoha · Torture and Interrogation Force","lvl":0},{"k":"Seiyū","v":"Taiten Kusunoki","lvl":0},{"k":"Doblaje latino","v":"Carlos Segundo","lvl":0}],"techniques":[],"debut":{"ch":"naruto-40","ep":"naruto-21"},"databook":{"fuente":"Ibiki Morino","rin":[2.5,3.5,4.5,4,4,3,3,3]}},"genma":{"intro":"Genma replaces Hayate as proctor of the Chūnin Exam finals and is recognizable by the senbon he holds in his mouth.","history":"Genma replaces Hayate as proctor of the Chūnin Exam finals and is recognizable by the senbon he holds in his mouth. 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Se emplean para ataques de precisión sobre puntos concretos del cuerpo, con o sin veneno."}],"stages":[{"id":"shippuden","label":"Shippūden · The Hokage's guard","medium":"Shippūden · Manga y anime","role":"Hokage's escort · Tokubetsu jōnin","intro":"With Raidō he uses the Flying Thunder God Formation to carry a Kage to the front against Madara.","history":"Genma is part of the Hokage's guard and learned from the Fourth the Flying Thunder God Formation, which he performs as a team. In the Fourth War, Shikaku asks him by telepathy to use it with Raidō and another comrade to transport the Mizukage to where Madara is fighting. Later memories show him as a genin, on Guy and Ebisu's team under Chōza, when Guy's father saves them from the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist.","abilities":[{"name":"Flying Thunder God","text":"He uses as a team the Flying Thunder God Formation the Fourth Hokage taught him.","figures":["Hiraishin · Original diagramThe destination is tied to a formula placed beforehand. It is not running, nor a technique Naruto has for being Minato's son."]},{"name":"Senbon and precision","text":"He still carries the senbon in his mouth as a weapon.","figures":["Shinobi combat · Original diagramA general example of distance and response in combat. 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The fight shows how far Orochimaru's guards have come: to defeat the two jōnin they need to activate the second level of their curse mark, and even so they leave them badly wounded. That two ninja of that level end up like this is a sign of what awaits the genin team that sets out in pursuit afterward. The scene also explains why Konoha, already weakened, ends up sending kids on such a dangerous mission.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-185","ep":"naruto-111","pos":185},{"h":"The Fourth's escort","t":"In the Fourth Ninja War, Genma is part of the Hokage's escort along with Raidō and Iwashi. When the Kage need to reach the field where Madara is fighting at once, the three use a Flying Thunder God formation they learned as Minato's guards, and so transport Mei to the battle. 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Cada usuario combina el arma con su propio estilo y, a veces, con chakra."}],"stages":[{"id":"recuerdo-anime","label":"Shippūden · Memory and Impure World Reincarnation (anime)","medium":"Shippūden · Anime y manga","role":"Konoha proctor · Resurrected in the anime","intro":"A memory from Obito's youth shows him as a genin; the Shippūden anime resurrects him with the Impure World Reincarnation.","history":"In the manga, Hayate only returns in a memory from Obito's youth, as a genin in the Chūnin Exams alongside Ibiki. The Shippūden anime resurrects him with the Impure World Reincarnation: Kabuto uses him in an anime-original arc, where he resists his orders several times, and during the war sends him against the medical post, where he sees Yūgao, his partner.","abilities":[{"name":"Kenjutsu","text":"Resurrected in the anime, he keeps his sword and his Dance of the Crescent Moon.","figures":["Kenjutsu · Original diagramSword combat: stance, reach and path matter. 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Under his supervision fight, among others, Sasuke and Yoroi, Sakura and Ino, Neji and Hinata. He is a constant presence throughout the stretch, and his way of running the exam contrasts with the violence of some fights, like Neji's, which the jōnin have to stop.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-80","ep":"naruto-47","pos":80},{"h":"Spying on Baki","t":"During the month before the finals, Hayate discovers a secret meeting between Baki of the Sand and Kabuto, which reveals the Sand and the Sound's joint plan to invade Konoha. He stays to listen and gather information, but is discovered. He faces Baki with his sword technique, the Dance of the Crescent Moon, and dies in the attempt. His body turns up afterward and the village realizes something is brewing. It is an almost silent death, but without it the threat of the invasion would have gone unnoticed for longer.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-92","ep":"naruto-54","pos":92},{"h":"The night of the crescent moon","t":"The Shippūden anime gives him a closure of his own. In the Fourth Ninja War, Kabuto revives him with the Impure World Reincarnation and sends him to steal the register of the fallen from the medical camp. He is pursued by a team that includes Yūgao, his partner in life, who is reluctant to face him. Hayate asks her to stop him and, in an instant when he regains control, lets himself be run through by her sword so they can seal him. 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The same enemy who had caught them effortlessly ends up caught by them, now with a plan and a clear role within the Alliance. It is a continuity detail that often goes unnoticed: the anime and the manga thus close the circle of the two chūnin who set out with Asuma and barely lived to tell it.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-533","ep":"shippuden-273","pos":533}],"facts":[{"k":"Estado","v":"Alive","lvl":0},{"k":"Cumpleaños","v":"July 21","lvl":0},{"k":"Edad","v":"24","lvl":0},{"k":"Edad","v":"28","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-245","pos":245},{"k":"Altura","v":"167.5 cm","lvl":0},{"k":"Rango","v":"Chūnin","lvl":0},{"k":"Seiyū","v":"Tomoyuki Kōno","lvl":0},{"k":"Doblaje latino","v":"Carlos Íñigo","lvl":0}],"techniques":[{"name":"False Gate genjutsu","kind":"tecnica","lvl":0,"article":"genjutsu","ch":"naruto-36","ep":"naruto-21","kindLabel":"Técnica","pos":36}],"debut":{"ch":"naruto-36","ep":"naruto-21"}},"izumo":{"intro":"Izumo works as a pair with Kotetsu.","history":"Izumo works as a pair with Kotetsu. 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The scene also makes clear, amid jokes, that Shiho admires Shikamaru and would rather stay at the office than leave without seeing him again.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-406","ep":"shippuden-153","pos":406},{"h":"The key found","t":"Naruto finds the key in one of Jiraiya's books, and with it Shiho's team finishes deciphering the message: \"The real one is not among them.\" The phrase will be key to understanding Pain. Shiho accompanies Shikamaru to Tsunade's office with the result. Her role is brief, but it shows work that almost never appears on screen: that of those who analyze information behind the lines. 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The genin follow him to a port, defend him from Rain ninja hired by the rival clan and discover that someone from his past is waiting for him on the island where the finish line lies: Aoi, a rogue ninja.","lvl":0,"ep":"naruto-103","pos":180},{"h":"Aoi's deception","t":"Taking shelter with the team in a cave, Idate confesses his story: he had been a Konoha ninja and Aoi tricked him into betraying the village, which forced him to leave. On the island, Aoi awaits him with the Second Hokage's Thunder Sword; Naruto breaks it and defeats him, while Idate takes the shrine's orb and wins the race for the Wasabi clan. 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It is not an eye technique."]}],"sources":["sakura","tsunade"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 245–246, 253 and 264–275: the return, Kankurō's poison and the fight with Sasori.","lvl":1,"from":245,"until":275},{"id":"byakugo","label":"Shippūden · Strength of a Hundred Seal","medium":"Shippūden · Cuarta Guerra","role":"Medical ninja · Shinobi Alliance","intro":"She releases the seal she built up for years and fights on a par with Naruto and Sasuke.","history":"In the war, Sakura releases the Strength of a Hundred Seal, which stored chakra for years. She fights alongside Naruto and Sasuke against the Ten-Tails and summons Katsuyu, as a new generation of Sannin. Later she keeps Naruto alive by massaging his heart with her hand and strikes Kaguya.","abilities":[{"name":"Strength of a Hundred Seal","text":"Chakra stored in her forehead that she releases for the first time in the war.","figures":["Byakugō · Original diagramStoring chakra precisely allows a reserve to be used later. The seal alone does not amount to immortality."]},{"name":"Summoning","text":"Summons Katsuyu, the slug of Tsunade's contract.","figures":["Summoning · Original diagramA particular contract and conditions. The figure does not reproduce official ritual seals or imply that every animal is summoned."]},{"name":"Medical ninjutsu","text":"Keeps Naruto alive until help arrives.","figures":["Medical ninjutsu · Original diagramA conceptual illustration of chakra applied to healing. Medical ninjutsu requires training and precise control."]}],"sources":["sakura","tsunade"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 632–634, 663 and 676–689: the seal, Katsuyu, Naruto's rescue and Kaguya.","lvl":1,"from":632,"until":689}],"until":244,"sections":[{"h":"A genin between two teammates","t":"Sakura joins Team 7 glad to share a group with Sasuke and annoyed to have Naruto beside her. In the bell test she falls into an illusion that shows her Sasuke wounded and faints, a detail that reveals from day one how much he weighs on her mind. In the Land of Waves her role is to protect Tazuna while her teammates fight, and she does it. In the hands-free tree-climbing training, she reaches the top on her first try: Kakashi points out that her chakra control is the best in the group. That talent, which in Part I barely gets a chance to shine, is exactly the basis of everything she will later do as a medical ninja. The work plants it early and quietly.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-33","pos":33},{"h":"The Forest of Death","t":"With Naruto and Sasuke unconscious after Orochimaru's attack, Sakura keeps watch all night alone. At dawn the Sound ninja arrive; Rock Lee defends her and falls, and Kin grabs her by the hair to pin her down. Tired of being a burden, Sakura cuts her hair with a kunai, the same long hair she had grown out because Sasuke liked it that way, and fights with everything she has. Ino, her old friend, comes out to help her with Shikamaru and Chōji. When Sasuke wakes up overtaken by the curse mark and breaks Zaku's arms, Sakura hugs him from behind in tears and the mark recedes. It is the first time that her presence, not her strength, changes the course of a fight.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-56","pos":56},{"h":"Rivals with the same headband","t":"In the exam preliminaries she has to face Ino. The two remember how their friendship began: as girls, Ino defended a shy Sakura from the teasing about her forehead and gave her a ribbon to show it off. The friendship broke the day both admitted they liked Sasuke. Before fighting they tie their headbands on their foreheads, as a sign that they now see each other as equals. The fight is very close: Ino cuts her hair to use it as a trap and enters her mind, but the inner Sakura throws her out. Both end up knocked out in a draw, and neither advances. The rivalry, which seemed to be about a boy, ends up showing that the two need each other to grow.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-73","pos":73},{"h":"The promise and the request to Tsunade","t":"During the Sand invasion, Sakura steps between Gaara and Sasuke and is trapped in the sand; Naruto saves her. Afterward she watches Sasuke drift away from the team. On the night he leaves the village, she waits for him on the road, confesses her love and offers to go with him or help him with his revenge; Sasuke says thank you and leaves her asleep on a bench. Sakura then asks Naruto to bring him back. When Naruto returns wounded and without Sasuke, he promises her he will do it someday. She answers that he should not carry that alone, and for the first time decides to stop waiting: she goes to see Tsunade and begs her to take her as a student so she can become a medical ninja.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-236","pos":236},{"h":"Tsunade's student: the fight against Sasori","t":"Two and a half years later, Sakura reaches Suna as Tsunade's student: she draws the poison out of Kankurō's body, something not even Chiyo had managed, and prepares antidotes. With the old woman she faces Sasori of the Red Sand. Secretly guided by Chiyo's threads, she dodges poisoned puppets and smashes them with strength learned from her teacher. She offers to be Chiyo's puppet herself and, wounded, gets back up because she had injected herself with the antidote before starting. When Sasori attacks Chiyo from behind, Sakura steps in and takes the sword. Chiyo saves her and transfers part of her life to her. Before dying, Sasori reveals to Sakura that he has a spy close to Orochimaru and a meeting at the Tenchi Bridge.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-275","pos":275},{"h":"A new team and the same goal","t":"With Kakashi in the hospital, Team 7 is rebuilt with Yamato and Sai, a Root member who insults everyone at the introductions. Sakura agrees to work with him if it brings them closer to Sasuke, and instead of holding Naruto back when Sai insults her friend, she hits Sai herself. At the Tenchi Bridge, Naruto gives in to the four-tailed fox and wounds her without recognizing her; Sakura heals him without asking, and it is Yamato who tells him. She discovers Sai's picture book and tells him it proves he feels something. When they finally find Sasuke, he rejects them and leaves with Orochimaru. Sakura cries with Naruto over failing again, and Sai, who had come to keep watch on them, promises to help them.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-310","pos":310},{"h":"A burden she will not share","t":"After the attack on the Kage Summit, Kumogakure demands Sasuke's head, and Konoha's young ninja conclude they must stop him themselves. Sakura agrees, affected by Sai's words about the weight Naruto carries alone. She travels to the Land of Iron and confesses to Naruto that she loves him, asking him to stop chasing Sasuke because of the promise; Naruto does not believe her and tells her he no longer does it only for that promise. Sakura sets off on her own, knocks out her escorts and presents herself to Sasuke offering to follow him. When he asks her to kill Karin, she tries to attack him with a poisoned kunai instead, but cannot. Kakashi saves her first and Naruto afterward. Sakura tends to the wounded Karin and discovers how far Sasuke has gone.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-484","pos":484},{"h":"The Strength of a Hundred Seal in the war","t":"In the Fourth Great Ninja War, Sakura works in the Alliance's medical corps. She detects that a fake Neji is a White Zetsu in disguise and, with Shizune, discovers that those clones are born from the First Hokage's cells. When the Ten-Tails appears, she rushes to the front with Naruto. There she finally releases the diamond mark on her forehead, the Strength of a Hundred Seal, which secretly stored chakra for years following Tsunade's example. The forehead they teased her about at the Academy becomes her greatest asset. She fights beside Naruto and Sasuke, and the three summon Gamakichi, Aoda and Katsuyu as a new generation of Sannin. With Naruto's chakra she saves Shikamaru, one of many allies she keeps alive.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-649","pos":649},{"h":"The end of Team 7","t":"When Madara tears Kurama out of Naruto, Sakura massages his heart directly to keep him alive until Minato arrives. She enters Obito's dimension without trusting him, attacks Madara with her seal and, after the Infinite Tsukuyomi, is protected by Sasuke's Susanoo. Against Kaguya she gives her chakra to Obito so he can search the dimensions for Sasuke. But Sasuke, when it is over, leaves her under a genjutsu and goes off to fight Naruto. She finds the two of them missing their arms and heals their wounds; Sasuke apologizes to her for everything. Kakashi pardons him and Sasuke leaves on a journey. Before going, he touches Sakura's forehead with two fingers and tells her he will see her next time.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-699","ep":"shippuden-479","pos":699},{"h":"Sarada's mother","t":"Years later, Sakura is married to Sasuke and raises their daughter, Sarada, on her own while he travels on missions far from the village. She is still one of Konoha's strongest kunoichi. Sarada, who barely knows her father, starts to doubt that Sakura is her mother because of an old photo and a confusing DNA test. During the crisis with Shin Uchiha, Sakura knocks the enemy down with one punch, ends up kidnapped and fights him in his hideout. Sasuke comes to help her, Karin clears up the misunderstanding and Sarada reconciles with her parents. The episode shows the side Part I only hinted at: Sakura's patience, able to hold together a family that is almost never all in the same place.","lvl":2,"ep":"boruto-23","pos":701}],"facts":[{"k":"Estado","v":"Alive","lvl":0},{"k":"Cumpleaños","v":"March 28","lvl":0},{"k":"Edad","v":"12–13","lvl":0},{"k":"Edad","v":"16–17","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-245","pos":245},{"k":"Altura","v":"1.48 m (Part I); 1.61 m (Part II)","lvl":0},{"k":"Rango","v":"Genin","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-3","pos":3},{"k":"Rango","v":"Chūnin","lvl":1},{"k":"Afiliación","v":"Konohagakure","lvl":0},{"k":"Seiyū","v":"Chie Nakamura","lvl":0},{"k":"Doblaje latino","v":"Christine Byrd and Montserrat Aguilar","lvl":0}],"techniques":[{"name":"Medical ninjutsu","kind":"tecnica","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-253","kindLabel":"Técnica","pos":253},{"name":"Chakra-enhanced strength","kind":"tecnica","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-265","kindLabel":"Técnica","pos":265},{"name":"Chakra-blocking seal","kind":"tecnica","lvl":1,"article":"fuinjutsu","ch":"naruto-273","kindLabel":"Técnica","pos":273},{"name":"Byakugō no In","kind":"tecnica","lvl":1,"article":"byakugo","ch":"naruto-632","kindLabel":"Técnica","pos":632},{"name":"Katsuyu Summoning","kind":"invocacion","lvl":1,"article":"invocaciones","ch":"naruto-634","kindLabel":"Invocación","pos":634}],"quote":{"t":"You've always protected me. This time it's your turn to watch my back.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-54","pos":54},"debut":{"ch":"naruto-3","ep":"naruto-1"},"databook":{"fuente":"Sakura Haruno","rin":[1.5,1,3,3.5,0.5,1,1,4],"to":[2,1,3.5,4,1,1,1.5,4],"sha":[3,3,3.5,4,3,3,2.5,4]}}}}