{"id":"tomoe","name":"Tomoe","japanese":"巴","category":"eyes","subtitle":"Marks of the eye, not a tally of victories.","summary":"Curved marks that appear in the Sharingan and help identify how developed it is.","facts":[["Función","Visual trait of the dōjutsu"]],"lvl":0,"sections":[{"h":"The Sharingan's marks","t":"Tomoe are the black commas that appear around the Sharingan's pupil. Sasuke awakens the eye in the Land of Waves with fewer than three, and he can have a different number in each eye: maturation does not always advance evenly. Each new tomoe adds perception and the ability to read movements, but it does not work as a power level that decides fights. The bearer is still limited by their speed, experience and chakra reserves. Counting tomoe describes how mature the eye is, not who would win.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-26","pos":26},{"h":"Up to three tomoe","t":"The complete Sharingan shows three tomoe in each eye, and that is its ceiling. Sasuke reaches it at the Valley of the End, during his fight against Naruto, and with it he reads his friend's movements more clearly. Kakashi, for his part, always used an eye with three tomoe. There is no fourth tomoe after that: what comes next, if anything, is a different transformation of the eye, with other conditions and another cost. Thinking of the Mangekyō as “one more tomoe” is a common mistake worth avoiding from the start.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-229","pos":229},{"h":"Two tomoe at Kannabi","t":"Kakashi's past shows the case of Obito, who awakens the Sharingan during the Kannabi Bridge mission on seeing his team in danger. His eye already appears with two tomoe. Shortly afterward, crushed by a boulder, he gives it to Kakashi. The example confirms that the starting number varies from person to person and that a transplanted eye keeps the maturity it had. From then on, Kakashi's Sharingan shows three tomoe, but that does not make him an Uchiha or let him use it at no cost.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-244","pos":244},{"h":"When the tomoe change shape","t":"After learning the truth about his brother, Sasuke awakens the Mangekyō Sharingan, and the tomoe rearrange into a new pattern of his own. That shape does not add tomoe: it replaces the classic pattern with another that works by different rules and at a much higher cost. At the end of the war, the Rinnegan Sasuke awakens in his left eye keeps tomoe over its rings, a trait Nagato's eye did not have. Tomoe, then, keep appearing at advanced stages, but they no longer indicate the Sharingan's maturity: they are part of the design of a different eye.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-673","pos":673},{"h":"Sarada starts over","t":"In the Boruto era, Sarada repeats the cycle from the beginning. She awakens the Sharingan as a child, during the story built around meeting her father again, and her eye does not appear complete: it matures little by little with training. In the anime she practices with Konohamaru to sharpen her reading of movements. Her case confirms what the earlier examples showed: the number of tomoe describes the eye's maturity, not its final ceiling or the result of a fight. Sarada progresses through effort and judgment, not through the number of marks.","lvl":2,"ep":"boruto-24","pos":701}],"characters":["sasuke","obito"],"related":["sharingan","mangekyo"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 242–244 and 230: development of Obito's and Sasuke's Sharingan.","sources":[{"title":"Sasuke: su familia y el camino de la venganza","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1856"},{"title":"Obito: el Equipo Minato y el sueño perdido","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1706"}],"figures":["
1 TOMOE2 TOMOE3 TOMOE
Tomoe · Original diagramThe marks help recognise how developed a Sharingan is. They are not a universal power scale or a guaranteed evolution.
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