{"id":"ocho-puertas","name":"Eight Gates","japanese":"忍","category":"techniques","subtitle":"Origin, how it works and limits.","summary":"Releasing the body's limits at a rising physical cost.","facts":[["Procedencia","The profile tells anime and manga apart"],["Alcance","Original summary, not a universal repertoire"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"How they work","t":"The Eight Inner Gates are eight points in the chakra system that limit how much energy the body can use. Opening them removes those brakes and multiplies strength and speed, at the cost of damaging the body. Their names are Opening, Healing, Life, Pain, Limit, View, Wonder and Death. It is not a dōjutsu and needs no special blood: it is trained. Guy reveals it during the Chūnin Exams, and Kakashi scolds him for teaching it to a kid.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-85","ep":"naruto-49","pos":85},{"h":"Lee's Lotus","t":"Lee uses the First Gate for the Front Lotus, with which he lifts Dosu and later Gaara. Against Gaara he opens up to five gates and finishes with the Reverse Lotus, a technique that tears his own muscles apart. Gaara survives and crushes one of his arms and one of his legs. The operation afterward, saved by Tsunade's hands, shows the technique's real physical cost. That is why Guy sets a condition: use the Lotus only to protect someone or to defend his own ninja way.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-86","pos":86},{"h":"Peacock and tiger","t":"Guy handles higher gates. With the Sixth Gate he uses Morning Peacock, a rain of blows that sets the air on fire, against Kisame's copy. Later, on the island turtle, he opens the Seventh Gate to unleash Daytime Tiger, an air-pressure strike, against the real Kisame. Each gate demands more training and leaves more damage. That he can open them without being wrecked is the result of years of daily training; for anyone else, the damage would be far greater.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-506","pos":506},{"h":"The Eighth Gate","t":"The last gate has a price: whoever opens it burns out and dies. Guy recounts that his father, Might Duy, taught it to him and used it in his youth to protect others. Against Madara, Guy opens the Eighth Gate, his body gives off red steam, and he unleashes Evening Elephant, a series of air-pressure strikes. The eighth gate is in the heart, and opening it releases all the chakra at once. Duy had died opening it to save his son from the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-668","pos":668},{"h":"Night Guy","t":"Guy's final attack is Night Guy, a kick that bends space and nearly destroys Madara. Guy's body begins to fall apart and death seems certain, but Naruto, with the power he received from the Sage of Six Paths, manages to save him. He survives with permanent damage and ends up in a wheelchair. Madara, who until then had mocked his opponents, admits no one had ever given him a fight like that.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-672","pos":672},{"h":"Metal Lee","t":"Lee carries on the tradition with his son, Metal Lee. In the Boruto anime he announces he will train him in the Eight Gates, which makes the boy very nervous. Metal does not inherit his father's or Guy's mastery: he has to train it from scratch, and the technique is still the same ladder of power and cost. Metal has talent, but nerves freeze him in front of others, and in that episode he crosses paths with Guy, his father's teacher.","lvl":2,"ep":"boruto-70","pos":711}],"characters":["duy","guy","rock-lee","metal-lee"],"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":["
MORE OPENING · HIGHER COST
Eight Gates · Original diagramA narrative concept of limits and cost. It is not a physical instruction or an exercise to reproduce.
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