{"id":"shoton","name":"Crystal Style","japanese":"忍","category":"techniques","subtitle":"Origin, how it works and limits.","summary":"Guren's crystal ability in the anime.","facts":[["Procedencia","The profile tells anime and manga apart"],["Alcance","Original summary, not a universal repertoire"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"Crystal from matter","t":"Crystal Style appears only in the anime, in the Three-Tails story. Its user is Guren, a kunoichi serving Orochimaru. The technique turns matter into crystal, even the moisture in the air or the ground, and lets her form walls, swords, mirrors or prisons. Most fearsome of all, she can crystallize living beings down to their cells: prisoners caught inside shatter along with the crystal.","lvl":1,"ep":"shippuden-91","pos":347},{"h":"What it is not","t":"At first, the Konoha team does not know what it is facing. Kiba mistakes the crystal for an earth technique, and it is Tsunade who identifies Crystal Style after studying the remains of the attacks. It is not ice or Wood Style: it has its own way of working matter. Guren uses it with flair, for instance with crystal flowers like the camellia she attacks with, and a crystal mirror she looks at herself in.","lvl":1,"ep":"shippuden-97","pos":347},{"h":"Limits","t":"Crystal has weak points. It cannot crystallize chakra itself, only matter. Shino's insects become immune to the crystal. Lightning has also overcome it in battle. Guren can also exhaust herself if she uses too much power: in the past she even fainted from the strain. Her opponents learn not to stand still on surfaces she can crystallize and to use techniques that do not depend on matter. Being powerful does not make it invincible.","lvl":1,"ep":"shippuden-104","pos":347},{"h":"Guren and Yukimaru","t":"The arc revolves around her relationship with Yukimaru, a boy able to control the Three-Tails whom Guren looks after for Orochimaru. Over time, Guren discovers she cares more about the boy than about her mission. In the final battles she even seals herself in crystal along with Kabuto, who was disguised as Rinji. When it is all over, she leaves with Yukimaru. In her past, Guren had killed the boy's mother on Orochimaru's orders, a woman who had healed her, and that guilt weighs on the relationship.","lvl":1,"ep":"shippuden-112","pos":347}],"characters":["guren"],"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":["
CRYSTAL · ANIME · CONDITIONS
Shōton · Original diagramCrystal as an anime element of Guren's. It is not Yuki ice or a reproduced anime scene.
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