Momoshiki Otsutsuki

Momoshiki Otsutsuki is a male extraterrestrial anime and manga character who features in Naruto.

Biography

Momoshiki Otsutsuki (Japanese: 大筒木 モモシキ, Hepburn: Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki) was a male member of the extraterrestrial Ōtsutsuki Clan who wandered the universe to plant God Trees (神樹, Shinju, English TV: Divine Tree) that would produce chakra fruit from a worlds life energy.

At some point, he came upon a world containing a god tree which came to be devastated by the clan. Momoshiki then proceeded to eat from the chakra fruit where he was approached by Kinshiki, who had observed substantial tears in Kaguya's world, with its space curvature exceeding 16. After Kinshiki noted that she violated their clan's laws by failing to report the abnormal space curvature, Momoshiki wondered whether she had betrayed the clan, or had somehow been overthrown and destroyed by the 'inferior lifeforms' inhabiting her world. Finding that possibility interesting, Momoshiki ordered Kinshiki to prepare to depart, hoping that Kaguya's world would have an abundance of chakra worthy of being consumed.

While seeking out Kaguya's whereabouts at her former castle, Momoshiki and Kinshiki encountered Sasuke as he was seeking information on a threat greater than Kaguya. In a blizzard, Kinshiki fought against Sasuke, while Momoshiki watched from afar and was enticed by the power of Sasuke's Rinnegan. After Sasuke escapes, Momoshiki and Kinshiki continued investigating at another of her dimensions before encountering Urashiki Ōtsutsuki, whom briefed the two about her former territory: the planet Earth and the fact the chakra of its God Tree was spread amongst humanity, including the Tailed Beasts. Momoshiki and Kinshiki eventually made their way to the real world and began their quest to gather the chakra. They first encountered Killer B, and Momoshiki easily manages to defeat him by absorbing his attack and using it against him. He then absorbs Gyūki's chakra from within Killer B and leaves him unconscious, despite the attack, Killer B survives. Unsatisfied with their chakra consumption, they then focused their attention on their next objective: capturing the Nine-Tails by kidnapping its current jinchūriki, Naruto. Momoshiki and Kinshiki appeared in Konoha during the Chūnin Exams and created massive chaos. Momoshiki kicked Naruto out of the arena and remained on the side while Kinshiki destroyed most of the arena and tried to attack Sasuke and his daughter. Momoshiki calmly walked past a frightened Boruto, who tried to use his Kote to attack him but all of his attacks were absorbed through Momoshiki's Rinnegan. Sasuke related to Naruto their purpose based on what was deciphered from Kaguya's scroll and they are a stronger threat than Kaguya. When asked by Naruto what they wanted, Momoshiki explains he and Kinshiki want to gather Kaguya's scattered chakra into a new Chakra fruit and complete what Kaguya failed to do by cultivating it into a new 'cinnabar panacea', which he says will grant them eternal youth and supernatural powers. Because of Kurama's powerful chakra, they desired to take Naruto and extract the beast's chakra so they could use it for their own purposes. Momoshiki and Kinshiki attacked Naruto, Sasuke, and their children, leading Naruto and Sasuke to combine Kurama and Susanoo to shield themselves. All the while, Momoshiki laughed hysterically at their efforts. To end the battle, Momoshiki created a giant black ball that was amplified by the powers he stole from Boruto and launched it upon them. Ultimately, Naruto allowed himself to be captured by Momoshiki and Kinshiki while Sasuke protected Boruto and Sarada.

Momoshiki and Kinshiki took Naruto to another dimension and bound him to begin the ritual of extracting Kurama's chakra from inside him. Upon absorbing half of Kurama's chakra over a long period of time, Sasuke, Boruto, and the four other Kage arrived to rescue Naruto. Momoshiki fought Sasuke while the other Kage fought against Kinshiki and was defeated with ease. Wanting to finish everyone off once and for all, Momoshiki turned Kinshiki into a chakra fruit and devoured him, which increased his strength and his body underwent a drastic change. In the novelisation he instead transforms Kinshiki into a number of chakra pills, consuming them throughout the battle to increase his strength and further transform. Naruto and Sasuke fought against him and almost had the advantage until Momoshiki briefly imprisons Naruto in boulders and severally burns Sasuke. However, Momoshiki was severely weakened from the combined efforts of the pair. When Katasuke used his Kote in an attempt to kill him for good, his attacks were absorbed by Momoshiki, restoring his strength. He captured the other Kage with the Shadow Paralysis Technique and was about to kill the other Kage, except for Naruto. With no other options, Sasuke decided to have Boruto use Rasengan to put an end to the threat. Boruto hit Momoshiki with his small Rasengan and freed his father and the other Kage. Enraged at Boruto for damaging his garments, Momoshiki absorbed more chakra pills and increased his strength. Naruto then lent Boruto his chakra to help his son create a Parent and Child Rasengan while Sasuke distracted Momoshiki long enough for Boruto to launch his attack on Momoshiki. First, Boruto ambushed Momoshiki with a shadow clone to take out his Rinnegan and then attacked him with his Rasengan, which collided with Momoshiki's own Rasengan look-alike, destroying him for good. Momoshiki's spirit stayed intact for a while, noticing that Boruto could feel his presence thanks to his blood of the Byakugan users. He approached Boruto and told him that despite his inability to foresee his own fate, he could see Boruto's fate clearly. Momoshiki warned him that someday his blue eyes would take everything from him and that he's no longer an ordinary human after defeating a god. He also left a mark on Boruto's right palm and added that he should continue to follow his own path before disappearing.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Momoshiki Otsutsuki was a male humanoid with pale skin and pale-blue hair that he kept in a long ponytail. His hair was parted down the middle in a zig-zag pattern whilst his head was adorned with a pair of flat, curved horns. He dressed in traditional nobleman's attire consisting of a white kariginu hunting robe, baggy pants, a pair of tengu-geta, and a single black glove on his left hand, with a hole cut into the palm for his Rinnegan, which was red in colour. He also wore a transparent hagoromo veil over his head. In the manga the lining of his robes and his shin guards are maroon, while in the anime they are gold and gray.

Typically, Momoshiki was shown as being a calm, collected, and calculating person. However, he was prone to demonstrate sadistic tendencies.

It was shown that he was uninterested in hard-work, preferring to absorb and use the techniques of others instead of relying on his own personal strength. Due to this, he has very limited skill in taijutsu, becoming one of his main crippling weaknesses. Any effort on his part disgusted Momoshiki, and grows visibly annoyed at anything not going smoothly for him, as he was angered by his clothes being ripped by Boruto. As such, he is very arrogant and reckless in battle, never implementing any attempts with strategy or attempting to conserve chakra, but simply flaunting his self-perceived superior power in the vain belief that his powers alone secure him victories. He always convinced himself he can simply replenish his chakra with what he gains from his Chakra Fruit and pills, or by whatever samples he obtained by absorbing others' attacks. Despite his lazy nature, Momoshiki is shown to be a talented schemer, able to adapt to the sitution to suit his need. He is also rather innovative, able to create variations of techniques acquired from others.

He was shown as possessing a severe superiority complex and thought very lowly of people other than himself, calling humans 'lowly beings'.

Similarly, he was also unsociable amongst his fellow clansmen.

Despite his callous attitude, he was staunchly committed to the Ōtsutsuki Will and his clan's goal of attaining godhood.

Momoshiki is also uninterested in hard-work, preferring to absorb and use the techniques of others instead of relying on his own personal strength. Due to this, he has very limited skill in taijutsu, becoming one of his main crippling weaknesses. Any effort on his part disgusted Momoshiki, and grows visibly annoyed at anything not going smoothly for him, as he was angered by his clothes being ripped by Boruto. As such, he is very arrogant and reckless in battle, never implementing any attempts with strategy or attempting to conserve chakra, but simply flaunting his self-perceived superior power in the vain belief that his powers alone secure him victories. He always convinced himself he can simply replenish his chakra with what he gains from his Chakra Fruit and pills, or by whatever samples he obtained by absorbing others' attacks. Despite his lazy nature, Momoshiki is shown to be a talented schemer, able to adapt to the situation to suit his need. He is also rather innovative, able to create variations of techniques acquired from others. He is also well-versed in the Ōtsutsuki's full recorded history.

Fitting of his lazy personality, he is also rather cowardly when faced with an actual challenge, as he is occasionally seen becoming visibly nervous when his opponents are powerful enough to threaten him and even more exploit his weakness.

Although believing himself to be superior to everybody, Momoshiki is not completely unable to accept defeat, as after death, his spirit lingered enough to leave Boruto a foreshadow of his future, showing no outward anger nor hatred otherwise. He even continually makes the effort to talk to him and jokingly gets upset by Boruto not enjoying his company. Additionally, when controlling Boruto he doesn't target any of Boruto's friends or even Naruto, who killed him, despite having easy chances to do so. He doesn't try to hurt them until they actually try to stop him during his fight with Kawaki. Momoshiki will do anything to keep his vessel alive. He seems unfazed when he loses the ability to resurrect into Boruto, instead laughing at Boruto with the thought that the boy will lose everything.

Powers and abilities

Momoshiki Otsutsuki was of the Ōtsutsuki Clan who possessed massive chakra reserves and the ability to manipulate it to produce a number of superhuman feats such as the power of flight. His reserves were considerable, as he was able to fight for a significant amount of time against multiple Kage-level opponents.

He possessed a pair of Byakugan (白眼, literally meaning: White Eye, meaning (Viz): All Seeing White Eye) in both eyes that granted him telescopic vision, x-ray vision, a near 360° field of visual perception and the ability to see the chakra pathway system and its tenketsu.

Meanwhile, he wielded a pair of Rinnegan (輪廻眼, literally meaning: Saṃsāra Eye) in the palms of his hands, and also initially red in colour instead of light purple. With his right one, he could use to absorb any chakra-based technique he came in contact with, and utilise afterwards unleash the said technique with augmented power and scale through his left, where he proclaimed that he was able to perform this to a limitless degree. With his right Rinnegan, he could turn a target into pills, which when eaten, grants him extended youth along with their chakra and technique arsenal. It would also cause a metamorphosis to his being, increases his size and muscular tissue. He could create black receivers as well, which he used to either fight with, or fire at an individual to impale and restrain them.

It was shown that he was effortlessly capable of destroying a world and its entire population. Momoshiki claimed that he could have defeated Kaguya himself.

Among the techniques known to him included:

• Deep Crimson Spiral (深紅螺旋­, Shinku Rasen) :
• Inukaitakerunomikoto (犬飼健命­, Inukaitakerunomikoto) :
• Takamimusubinokami (高皇産霊尊­, Takamimusubinokami) :
• Tailed Beast Ball (尾獣玉­, Bijūdama) :

In the event of death, he along with others of the clan were familiar with a Kāma (楔カーマ) that was a type of Fūinjutsu (封印術, English TV: Sealing Jutsu, literally meaning: Sealing Techniques). This allowed them to create a compressed backup of an Ōtsutsuki clan member's biological data that they can embed in the body of a compatible recipient known as a vessel (器, utsuwa). Over time, the Kāma will gradually overwrite the vessel's genetic profile until they transform into a perfect Ōtsutsuki. Should the Ōtsutsuki be slain, their soul will migrate to one of their vessels and become anchored to the world of the living, and when the Kāma completes will reincarnate (転生, tensei) through their body, completely replacing them. In the interim, the vessel can learn to activate the Kāma and utilise a portion of the Ōtsutsuki's power and abilities, and if reincarnation has not yet been achieved, the soul of the slain Ōtsutsuki can even manifest and temporarily take control over their body.

Momoshiki was a senior noble with the main family of the Ōtsutsuki Clan (大筒木一族, Ōtsutsuki Ichizoku) where he was often accompanied by a retainer.

Notes

• Momoshiki Otsutsuki was created by Masashi Kishimoto where he featured in the setting of the Naruto universe.

Appearances

• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations:

External Links

• Naruto Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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