{"id":"arcilla","name":"Deidara's explosive clay","japanese":"忍","category":"techniques","subtitle":"Origin, how it works and limits.","summary":"A fictional style of sculpting and explosive chakra.","facts":[["Procedencia","The profile tells anime and manga apart"],["Alcance","Original summary, not a universal repertoire"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"Explosive art","t":"Deidara, who comes from Iwagakure, mixes clay with chakra in the mouths on his hands and sculpts it into figures, birds, spiders or dragons, which fly or walk toward the target and explode. To him it is art, and he ranks it in levels from C1 to C4. Riding a giant bird he enters Suna and drops a bomb that Gaara stops with his sand. The technique is Deidara's: the Akatsuki does not share it among its members, and it is not based on real-world explosives.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-249","pos":249},{"h":"Arms and clones","t":"Chasing Deidara, Kakashi uses Kamui and tears off one of his arms. Short on hands, Deidara makes a clay clone to fool Naruto and prepares a self-destruction, but Kakashi sends the explosion somewhere else. Later Tobi recovers the arm. The lesson: without free hands, his technique is badly limited. With only one arm, Deidara has to adapt his style: his hands are the core of the technique, because that is where the mouths that mix clay and chakra are.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-281","pos":281},{"h":"C2, C4 and lightning","t":"With Tobi as his partner, Deidara captures the Three-Tails. Then he goes after Sasuke, who humiliated him, and attacks him with a C2 dragon and with C4, a cloud of microscopic bombs that get into the body and disintegrate it from inside. Sasuke discovers the clay's limit: lightning neutralizes it, because it cancels out the earth charge. Deidara also carries a trauma from Itachi's Sharingan.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-361","pos":361},{"h":"C0","t":"Cornered, Deidara uses his final work, C0: he opens a stitched mouth on his chest, swallows the clay and turns himself into a bomb with a ten-kilometer radius. Sasuke survives by using the snake Manda as a shield. It is a suicide technique: Deidara destroys himself with it. Deidara considers it his masterpiece and keeps it as a last resort, for when he can no longer win with his other bombs. The radius is so large that almost nothing nearby can escape.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-363","pos":363},{"h":"Reanimated","t":"In the war, Kabuto reanimates him with the Impure World Reincarnation. Deidara uses his birds and bombs again against Ōnoki on the island turtle and against the Alliance, until he is captured. His clay is a form of Explosion Style, the combination of earth and lightning used by Iwagakure's Explosion Corps. As a reanimated body, he rebuilds himself after taking damage, so wounding him is not enough: he has to be immobilized or sealed.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-518","pos":518}],"characters":["deidara"],"related":["chakra"],"reference":"Reading guide for the series indicated. The linked source offers editorial context and does not by itself verify every detail of the technique.","sources":[{"title":"Guía oficial de anime: Naruto y Shippuden","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/anime"}],"figures":["
SHAPE · SIZE · PREPARATION
Deidara's clay · Original diagramFictional art and chakra. No composition or instructions for making real explosives are depicted.
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