{"id":"pincel-tinta","name":"Brush and ink scroll","japanese":"筆と巻物","category":"tools","subtitle":"Drawings that come to life.","summary":"The brush and scroll with which Sai draws creatures animated by chakra. Inojin learns and adapts that style.","facts":[["Tipo","Personal tool"],["Portadores destacados","2 in the archive"],["Límite","The weapon does not define the user"]],"lvl":0,"sections":[{"h":"Drawings that come to life","t":"Sai fights with a brush, chakra-charged ink and an unrolled scroll. The technique is called Super Beasts Imitating Drawing: he draws in a single stroke, and when he lifts the brush the figures leap off the paper, grow to full size and obey. Birds for flying and scouting the terrain, lions for attacking, snakes for binding, mice for tracking or carrying messages. Without ink or chakra, the brush produces nothing. The drawings come apart with a single blow or when control is lost, and the technique takes practice; according to its own users, it performs worse in the rain.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-283","pos":283},{"h":"Sai's picture book","t":"Sai joins Team 7 as Sasuke's replacement and carries a picture book he never finishes. He painted it thinking of a brother from Root whom he loved, and the last page was left blank because he did not know what to draw on it. The book turns up among his belongings when Naruto and Sakura go through them, and it helps explain that the brush was also the only place where Sai allowed himself to feel anything. The anime expands the story with scenes of its own from his past and the final page.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-298","pos":298},{"h":"Messages, clones and seals","t":"Over the years Sai finds other uses for the brush. He turns the words he writes into little ink animals that travel without drawing attention and become text again when they reach a scroll, and he makes an ink clone that goes looking for Naruto after Kisame's fall. He also draws explosive tags and uses the ink tiger of a sealing technique. In the war, facing his brother Shin revived with the Impure World Reincarnation, the drawing he had left unfinished helps them say goodbye.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-520","pos":520},{"h":"Inojin's modern style","t":"Inojin, Sai and Ino's son, learns his father's technique as a child and combines it with his mother's Yamanaka heritage: sensing, medical ninjutsu and Ino-Shika-Chō teamwork. His version, called modern Super Beasts Imitating Drawing, uses straight, angular lines, and he thinks his father's rounded style is out of date. In the anime he draws with colored ink, extends his perception through his drawings and sticks explosive tags on them.","lvl":2},{"h":"When the ink splatters","t":"The Boruto anime adds a rule not found in the manga: the drawings only hold together if the artist feels real passion for drawing them. Inojin starts photocopying his drawings to save himself the work and discovers the figures fall apart as soon as they leave the paper. Sai deliberately gives him vague advice so he will figure it out himself, and Inojin gets the technique back after finding an old drawing of his family and drawing for fun again, with Himawari's help.","lvl":2,"ep":"boruto-33","pos":701}],"characters":["sai","inojin"],"related":["tinta","yamanaka","pergaminos"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 284–310 (Sai on Team 7); Boruto, Chūnin Exams (Inojin).","sources":[{"title":"Guía oficial de anime: Naruto y Shippuden","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/anime"}],"figures":[]}