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Susanoo[1] | |||
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Name | |||
| Kanji |
須佐能乎 | ||
| Rōmaji |
Susano'o | ||
| Literal English |
He with the ability to help by all means | ||
| English TV |
Susano'o | ||
| Other |
Tempestuous God of Valour | ||
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| Classification | |||
| Class |
Offensive, Defensive | ||
| Range |
All ranges | ||
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Susano'o, also known as the Tempestuous God of Valour (勇武の荒神, Yūbu no Aragami), is the ability granted to those who awaken the powers of both their Mangekyō Sharingan. It creates a gigantic, humanoid being that surrounds the user. As one of the strongest techniques granted to those that have acquired the Mangekyō Sharingan, it is the user's guardian deity, but at the same time, it consumes the user's life.[1]
Overview
According to Tobi, for a Sharingan user to activate the Susano'o is a rarity.[2] Like the other techniques granted by the Mangekyō Sharingan, the user's eyes and body are strained while using Susano'o because it consumes a large amount of their chakra. Sasuke described it as feeling pain in every cell in his body which only grew from prolonged use.[3] Susano'o is formed through the materialisation of the user's chakra and as such differs in appearance as well as colour between users. Even though it envelopes the user, they can move around within Susano'o freely and use techniques from inside of it,[4] as well as manifest parts of Susano'o — as the situation calls for it.
Despite Susano'o's impressive defensive capabilities, the protection it grants its user is not absolute. The user can be thrown out of the upper half of Susano'o by an enemy manipulating the substance underneath Susano'o. This was seen when Gaara used his sand to pull Madara out of his Susano'o.[5] Also, a sufficiently powerful attack will still result in damage, especially during the technique's developmental stages. The only known ways to attack the user while Susano'o is active is either to draw the wielder out of the technique and then attack,[5] bind and restrict its movements, or to break the defence with overwhelming force. Susano'o users are also vulnerable to attacks which don't actually deal physical damage to it, such as strong lights and sounds, that can also impair their ability to sustain Susano'o.[6] The users are also still succeptible to such things as sound-based genjutsu.[7]
Development
Each Susano'o goes through several different forms, which the user can switch between at will or even leave in a state between forms.[8] The development of these forms was best demonstrated while Sasuke was learning how to use the technique, gaining additional forms as his control over it increased. In its earliest form, users can only manifest some of Susano'o's skeleton. A smaller version of Susano'o's ribcage is generally produced first which, while providing a good defence, can still be fractured[9][10] or even melted.[11] An arm can also be formed, which is sometimes connected to this ribcage, and can then be used to interact with the surroundings.[12] It is also possible to utilise one of Susano'o's weapons using said arm[13][14] and change its size as needed.[15] When first forming, Susano'o manifests around the user like an aura.[16]
As users gain additional control, musculature and skin begins to appear atop of its bones, which progressively complete the full skeletal structure. It is only when Susano'o's growth is fully matured and thus, the user is completely surrounded, are the vulnerabilities of the skeletal form finally eliminated. However, it should be noted that Susano'o can also appear behind the user, instead of just surrounding them.[17] The user can also change the size of it to fit the current situation.[18] Eventually, Susano'o develops into a "complete" warrior-like form, where its skin, armour and final arsenal of weapons are manifested in their entirety. At this stage, it can anchor the user to the ground, preventing opponents from forcibly moving them unless they can get through Susano'o's various layers. In its final form, this fully humanoid shape is further surrounded by a secondary layer of armour that causes Susano'o to resemble a yamabushi.
Though users of this technique often only form Susano'o's upper half, legs can be manifested to give it a complete body, granting it increased mobility. Some users, who have attained perfect mastery over this technique, are capable of stabilizing Susano'o's chakra, causing it enter a colossal "Perfect" form.
Incomplete Susano'o
Complete Susano'o
Final Susano'o
Complete Body — Susano'o
Mastery over Susano'o can allow the user to manifest the Complete Body — Susanoo (完成体 須佐能乎, Kanseitai — Susanoo). In this state, its armour becomes more solid and samurai-like, forming robes, pointed shoes and body armour on its shoulders and waist. It gains a long tengu nose and two lines running down from its mouth to its chin area, as well as hair which is tied up at the sides. Its primary arms lose their plating and decrease in size, while its secondary arms extend behind its shoulders as wings. Rather than undulating blades, this form wields a pair of straight katana, which are sheathed by its winged secondary arms and wielded by its primary arms. The offensive power of this Susano'o is comparable to that of a tailed beast. Users of this have the ability to equip this stabilised Susano'o onto their mounts, to complement their respective abilities.
Indra Susano'o
Although so shrouded in myth it is largely unheard of outside of the occasional theory, there exists one more form beyond the stabilized Complete Body. Or alongside it to be precise, for rather than an even further refinement of the technique it is more akin to an alternative application, attainable only under extraordinary circumstances by those with remarkable ocular prowess. As of this time only two known methods exist; the first and by far more limited one is being a transmigrant of the very same ancestor of all Uchiha the form is named after. While the most recent vessel bears the very same marking that also supplies the necessary power to create the forms core, alongside its other unique traits, those who held the seal in the past will have to find an alternate power source to achieve the form. This is due them possessing only remnants of it anymore, thus enabling only the capability for the abilities.
Anyone else wishing to utilize the form is much in the same boat as the former seal holders, sans the unique abilities. Besides the obvious ocular prowess with Mangekyo, they must also acquire and be capable of manifesting a sufficiently large mass of chakra other than their own.
Regardless of the method the form is utilized through, the execution is ultimately the same; the mass of power acting as the Susano'o's core is wreathed in a manner much like the Majestic Attire technique, then compressed together up until the point it resembles a glowing humanoid. This gives the Indra form a fairly unique appearance as the compressed power is too much for even the Susano'o to fully contain, portions of the humanoid visible between pieces of armor while the back is outright open with the excess power radiating out. While this can provide fairly obvious weak points to the enemy to exploit, it isn't without its benefits either as the user may draw on the overflow behind them to channel into techniques of enormous scale (albeit at cost of weakening the Susano'o).
Weaponry
As users gain more control over Susano'o, they are able to extend their power by forming weapons. Like Susano'o itself, the appearance and abilities of the manifested weapons vary between individuals. Additionally, as Susano'o becomes more powerful, its weapons do so as well.
Sword
All users of Susano'o are able to manifest at least one sword for the ethereal warrior to wield. They can vary in from from a tantō, a sabre or even a kris. Despite their variations, each sword is extremely effective and evolve along with Susano'o. With it, users are able to cut through a Kaguya's bones, which are known to be harder than tempered steel. In a Susano'o's Perfect form, they are strong enough to block a Tailed Beast Ball being pushed against them by an equally-powerful opposing force.
If the user is able to control Amaterasu's black flames, they are able to forge a sword from an orb-like collection of them that their Susano'o can wield. This orb of black flames, as well as the blade it is used to produce, could even be wielded in Susano'o's simpler forms.
Bow
In its completed state, a Susano'o is capable of wielding an unusually shaped bow which usually manifests on its left arm, though it can vary between users. In another hand, a Susano'o can hold an orb capable of creating arrows which can be fired through the bow at such a speed that evading them is nearly impossible. The bow can also double as a shield strong enough to withstand attacks capable of shaving away at the terrain in Susano'o's immediate vicinity. The arrows, which are seemingly made with variable thickness based on the user's discretion, travel at a very high velocity and possess considerable piercing power; enough to easily breach a tree created by Wood Release. Only skilled users utilizing the extrasensory capabilities of Sage Mode are been able to successfully avoid these arrows thus far.
When Susano'o enters its final stage, the bow gains a notable increase in size, more closely resembling a shield. Upon first entering this stage, a Susano'o can also gain access to an orb made up of black flames, which can be manifested in any of it's forms. This can grant the ability to produce arrows made up of black flames from said orb, which can also be used with Susano'o's bow.
Shuriken
Akin to the Yasaka Magatama, performing Susano'o can also manifest multiple shuriken. They take the shape of the user's Mangekyō pattern and while handheld in proportions to Susano'o, their individual size are massive.
Influence
- Similar to other Mangekyō Sharingan abilities, Susano'o was taken from Japanese mythology: Susano'o is the wild god of sea and storms, brother to Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi. He was born from Izanagi washing his nose. Susano'o inherited his father's sword Totsuka no Tsurugi, which Izanagi used to kill his newborn son, Kagu-Tsuchi after his birth burned his mother, Izanami, to death. After his exile for his relentless harassment of Amaterasu, Susano'o redeemed himself when he used Totsuka to slay the serpent Yamata no Orochi and obtained the Sword of Kusanagi from the monster's corpse. He later gave the acquired blade to Amaterasu as a peace offering.
- Susano'o's designs are based on Tengu (天狗), well known yokai that are associated with the ascetic practice of shugendō. In their final forms, the Susano'o are garbed in the attire of shugendō practioners, known as yamabushi, and wear hoods that resemble tengu masks, with Itachi's and Madara's appearing as long-nosed Hanataka Tengu and Sasuke's as a crow-billed Karasu Tengu. In Japanese myth, Susano'o produced the fiend Amanozako who is said to have been the progenitor of the Tengu.
- The Yata no Kagami (八咫鏡; Literally meaning "Eight Span Mirror") is one of the Three Imperial Regalia of Japan (三種の神器, Sanshu no Jingi), together with the Sword of Kusanagi and the Yasakani no Magatama (八尺瓊曲玉; Literally meaning "Eight Shaku Curved Jewel").
Trivia
Sasuke's final Susano'o in the anime.
- In the anime, the final form of Sasuke's Susano'o has few minor changes: aside from having five fingers instead of six, and having straight teeth, it was also shown wielding a gourd in the secondary right hand instead of an orb, making it look similar to Itachi's final Susano'o.
- Itachi and Sasuke's Susano'o are depicted as different colours in the anime than in the manga. This is due to the fact that their Susano'o were illustrated in the anime before being coloured in the manga.
- Prior to the completion of Sasuke's Susano'o, it was glimpsed as a shadowy figure in a genjutsu that Sasuke placed C under.[19]
- Both Itachi and Sasuke's final form of Susano'o's mouth area always appear to face to the right, but the mouth area of Sasuke's new version faces to the left side instead.
- Sasuke's bow-wielding form of Susano'o bears a great resemblance to Raideen the Brave, one of a number of Yoshiyuki Tomino references in the series (another being the Gundam-derived names of Kakuzu's techniques).
- The Totsuka Sword wielded by Itachi's Susano'o is considered to be a "Sword of Kusanagi", although this has been popularly mistranslated as it being the perfect counter to the Sword of Kusanagi.
- Itachi's Susano'o carries the Sword of Totsuka in a gourd. An ethereal weapon inside a gourd could be a reference to the hyōtan-kozō, a gourd spirit from Japanese folklore.
- During the Sasuke vs. Itachi boss battle in Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, Susano'o doesn't appear around Itachi, but behind him. However, during his "awakening", Susano'o appears around him in a much smaller form.
- When it was first shown, Itachi's Susano'o had five fingers on its hands.[20] After that, however, instead of five, it has a total of six fingers per hand, like all other known Susano'o.[21]
- Both Itachi and Sasuke's Susano'o were illustrated earlier with only a secondary right hand. However, in chapter 579 they were both depicted as also having secondary left hands whilst in their incomplete forms.
- Members of the clan have been noted to access Susano'o without having their Mangekyō Sharingan activated.[22][23][24]
- In Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, while conjuring his Susano'o's ribcage to defend himself, Sasuke can also conjure his Susano'o's hand to ensnare opponents.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Third Databook, pages 274-275
- ↑ Naruto chapter 467, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 466, page 5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 479, page 9
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Naruto chapter 560, 12-13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 580, pages 3-4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 585, pages 8-9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 560, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 463, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 464, page 1
- ↑ Naruto chapter 466, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 476, pages 13-14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 577, page 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 585, page 13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 580, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 574, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 552, pages 1-2
- ↑ Naruto chapter 476-479
- ↑ Naruto chapter 462, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 392, page 8
- ↑ Naruto chapter 551, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 393, page 3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 560, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 577, page 15
