{"id":"izanami","name":"Izanami","japanese":"イザナミ","category":"techniques","subtitle":"The loop ends when reality is accepted.","summary":"A forbidden technique that traps its target in a loop of perceptual experiences.","facts":[["Usuario mostrado","Itachi"],["Coste","Loss of sight in the eye used"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"An unexpected trap","t":"Itachi uses Izanami against Kabuto in his final fight alongside Sasuke. Kabuto, who has enormous power, does not understand why he keeps returning to the same moment of the fight. The technique works silently: the target does not notice the trap until they are already inside it. Itachi has to set it up during the fight, while his body and Kabuto's remain exposed in the real world, which makes it risky.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-586","pos":586},{"h":"How it works","t":"Izanami records the sensations of one moment of the fight and then reproduces them at another: it links two almost identical instants and traps the target in a loop between them. The user's body and the victim's remain exposed while it lasts. There is a way out: whoever is trapped gets out once they accept reality as it is, instead of clinging to the version they want. The cost to the user is losing the eye they use it with, just as with Izanagi.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-587","pos":587},{"h":"Why Itachi chose it","t":"Itachi explains that Izanami was created to correct those who abused Izanagi, and that it does not seek to destroy the enemy but to make them face themselves. By using it against Kabuto, Itachi aims for him to accept who he is instead of chasing someone else's identity. While Kabuto is trapped, Itachi takes the chance to stop the Reanimation Jutsu. An easily missed detail: Itachi tells Sasuke he is doing it for Kabuto's sake too, not just to win the fight.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-590","pos":590},{"h":"The way out","t":"Kabuto eventually gets out of Izanami some time later, when he accepts his own past. The technique thus fulfills its purpose: it does not kill him, it frees him after forcing him to look at himself. From then on Kabuto changes his attitude and, once out of the loop, helps Sasuke. It is proof that Izanami is not a permanent prison, but one that only opens from the inside. No other user employs it in the story.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-667","pos":667}],"characters":["itachi","sasuke"],"related":["izanagi","genjutsu","sharingan","experimentos-de-orochimaru"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 586–587.","sources":[{"title":"Sasuke: la verdad sobre Itachi y un nuevo camino","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1858"}],"figures":["
PERCEPTUAL LOOPMOTIONLESS BODY
Izanami · Original diagramA loop of experiences in the mind, not a physical loop of the universe. The body remains in the outside world.
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