{"id":"kotoamatsukami","name":"Kotoamatsukami","japanese":"別天神","category":"techniques","subtitle":"An order that feels like your own decision.","summary":"A genjutsu of Shisui's Mangekyō that can influence someone's will without them recognizing the manipulation.","facts":[["Origen","Shisui's eyes"],["Tipo","Manipulation through genjutsu"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"A samurai under control","t":"At the Kage Summit, Ao, the Mizukage's bodyguard, detects that Danzō manipulated Mifune, the samurai leader, into proposing him as commander of the alliance. Ao recognizes the eye Danzō hides under his bandages: it is the Sharingan of Shisui Uchiha, whom he had fought in the past. The technique lets the victim take someone else's idea as their own, without realizing they have been manipulated. The anime adapts this scene in Shippūden episode 201.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-459","ep":"shippuden-201","pos":459},{"h":"How it works","t":"Kotoamatsukami is the most powerful genjutsu of Shisui's Mangekyō: it implants a will in the target's mind, which they experience as their own decision. It does not force, it persuades from within, and that is why it is almost impossible to detect. Its great limit is the recovery time: after being used, the eye needs a very long time, years, before it can activate it again. Danzō, who has Shisui's right eye and Hashirama's cells implanted, can shorten that period, which explains his interest in the technique.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-550","pos":550},{"h":"The eye that reached Naruto","t":"Shisui had entrusted his left eye to Itachi, and Itachi kept it in a crow that he later left inside Naruto. When Kabuto revives Itachi with the Reanimation Jutsu and forces him to fight, the crow appears, uses Kotoamatsukami on Itachi himself and frees him from control: the implanted order, to protect Konoha, is stronger than the summoner's. The anime adapts this moment in Shippūden episode 298. Itachi is then free to go after Kabuto.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-550","ep":"shippuden-298","pos":550},{"h":"What the anime adds","t":"The anime develops Shisui's story further. In Shippūden episode 358, anime only, Shisui plans to use Kotoamatsukami to stop the Uchiha clan's coup, but Danzō steals one of his eyes; Shisui gives the other to Itachi and takes his own life. The Itachi Shinden series (episodes 454–455) returns to that friendship and shows Shisui handing over the eye before he dies. The manga tells the essentials through Itachi, without as much detail.","lvl":1,"ep":"shippuden-455","pos":678}],"characters":["shisui","itachi"],"related":["genjutsu","mangekyo","anbu","raiz"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 459 and 550.","sources":[{"title":"Shisui: Kotoamatsukami y su legado en Itachi","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1625"}],"figures":["
SUBTLE INFLUENCEPERCEIVED DECISION
Kotoamatsukami · Original diagramThe influence can feel like one's own decision. The drawing symbolises perception and will, not a literal anatomical mechanism.
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