{"id":"sannin","name":"The three Sannin","japanese":"伝説の三忍","category":"organizations","subtitle":"Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru, the Third Hokage's students.","summary":"The title given to Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru, Hiruzen Sarutobi's three disciples, considered the most outstanding ninja of their generation.","facts":[["Integrantes","Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru"],["Maestro","Hiruzen Sarutobi"],["Invocaciones","Toads, slugs and snakes"]],"lvl":0,"sections":[{"h":"Three students, three summons","t":"Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru made up the team of Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage. Each has a contract with a different animal: Jiraiya with toads, Tsunade with slugs and Orochimaru with snakes. The rivalry between toad, slug and snake shows in the fight at Tanzaku, when Gamabunta, Katsuyu and Manda appear on the same field. The three enter the story by opposite paths: Orochimaru as Konoha's enemy, Jiraiya as Naruto's teacher and Tsunade as a candidate for Hokage.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-170","pos":170},{"h":"Orochimaru's betrayal","t":"Orochimaru was Hiruzen's most brilliant student and aspired to be Hokage. When the Third discovered his experiments on villagers in pursuit of immortality, he let him escape instead of stopping him, a decision he regrets. Years later, Orochimaru returns disguised as the Kazekage to invade Konoha and face his teacher, who loses his life sealing his arms. From then on, Orochimaru seeks a new body and sets his sights on Sasuke.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-137","pos":137},{"h":"Jiraiya and Tsunade","t":"After the invasion, the councillors offer the post of Hokage to Jiraiya, who turns it down and proposes finding Tsunade. She had left the village after losing her brother Nawaki and her partner, Dan, and had developed a fear of blood. Orochimaru offers to bring them back in exchange for healing his arms. Seeing Naruto risk himself for her, Tsunade overcomes her fear and agrees to become the Fifth Hokage. The three-way clash ends with Orochimaru in retreat.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-170","pos":170},{"h":"Where the title comes from","t":"Jiraiya recalls the origin of the name. During the Second Great Ninja War, the three faced Hanzō, Amegakure's leader, and survived. Hanzō spared their lives and called them Sannin, “the three ninja”, in recognition. On that same journey, Jiraiya meets three war orphans, Nagato, Konan and Yahiko, and stays to train them. The title thus comes from an enemy's praise, not from an appointment by Konoha.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-372","pos":372},{"h":"The paths diverge","t":"Jiraiya investigates Amegakure and dies facing Pain, after leaving a message engraved on Fukasaku's back. Orochimaru falls earlier, absorbed by Sasuke when he tries to take his body. With two of the three off the stage, Tsunade is the only active Sannin while Konoha faces the Akatsuki. Jiraiya's death weighs on her and on Naruto, who blames the Hokage at first and then sets about deciphering the message.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-383","pos":383},{"h":"Reunion and succession","t":"Sasuke revives Orochimaru using Anko's curse mark, and Orochimaru joins the war. When Madara cuts Tsunade in two, Orochimaru, Suigetsu and Karin help heal her. In the same stretch, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura summon Gamakichi, Aoda and Katsuyu at once: toad, snake and slug, like their teachers. The work presents them as a new generation of Sannin, in a deliberately symmetrical image.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-635","pos":635},{"h":"In the Boruto era","t":"Orochimaru lives under Konoha's watch and no longer acts as an enemy. Mitsuki, created from him and considered his son, wakes up with no memory, meets Orochimaru and decides to find his own path in Konoha alongside Boruto. His origins are told in the anime and in the Boruto manga with nuances of their own. The team of Boruto, Sarada and Mitsuki thus repeats the Sannin's lineup: the son of a Hokage, the student tied to Tsunade through Sakura and Orochimaru's heir.","lvl":2,"ep":"boruto-39","pos":701}],"characters":["jiraiya","tsunade","orochimaru","hiruzen","hanzo","gamabunta","katsuyu","manda","naruto","sasuke","sakura","mitsuki"],"related":["maestros-konoha","invocaciones","archivo-invocaciones","sello-maldito","orochimaru","byakugo","kage"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 121–170, 372–383, 593 and 634–635; Boruto, episode 39.","sources":[{"title":"Tsunade: familia, Sannin y medicina","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1868"},{"title":"Guía oficial de anime: Naruto y Shippuden","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/anime"}],"figures":[]}