Minato Namikaze

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Minato Namikaze is a male anime and manga character who features in Naruto.

Biography

Minato, his wife Kushina and their son Naruto in Naruto v1 #53.

Minato Namikaze (Japanese: 波風 ミナト, Hepburn: Namikaze Minato) was a male human who lived in the village of Konohagakure in the Ninja World. He came to be placed at the Konoha Academy where his dream was to earn the village's respect and recognition by becoming Hokage. Minato proved to be a natural prodigy as a ninja who was said to only appear once in a generation. Around this time, a young girl named Kushina Uzumaki had moved to the hidden leaf where she was placed in the same class as Minato. He came to be immediately drawn to her and found her bright red hair to be beautiful. Around this time, he was placed on a genin team under the leadership of Jiraiya who took a special interest in the young Minato with him taking Namakaze on as his apprentice. Under the Sanin's training, Minato learnt many Jutsu and began developing his own signature abilities as a result. His exceptional skills led Jiraiya to believe that Minato may had been the Child of the Prophecy who was said to be someone that would save the world. Years later, his class came to graduate from the Academy and became ninjas where during this time Kushina was kidnapped by shinobi from Kumogakure. Konoha came to assemble its own ninja to retrieve her but only Minato came to notice that Kushina cut off strands of her hair to leave a trail for others to follow her. Acting alone, Minato travelled to rescue her from her captors where he defeated the enemy shinobi. Taking Kushina back, he came to confess his admiration of her strength and hair which surprised Uzumaki as she thought he did not like her. This resulted in her falling in love with him in turn leading to the two becoming a couple. Their love helped Kushina keep the Nine-Tails within her at bay where the two eventually came to marry. Minato also maintained his training as a shinobi where he developed the Rasengan by observing the Tailed Beast Bomb with this taking him 3 years to create a technique that was considered the height of chakra shape transformation. Over time, he proved himself to be an accomplished and responsible ninja where he was set to take on students. Upon becoming a skilled ninja, he was assigned a team of young shinobi that he was set to train with these being Rin Nohara, Obito Uchiha, and Kakashi Hatake. The Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi expressed a desire for Minato to help guide the young Kakashi who was ealing with the bitterness of his father's defeat. With this in mind, Namakaze had his 3 students conduct the bell test where he intended them to learn team work. He ultimately passed them though urged them to improve on their ability to work together which was something Rin and Obito took to heart but not Kakashi.

When Konoha became involved in the Third Shinobi World War, Minato's obligations became split between training his students and helping with the war effort. During a mission into Kusagakure to destroy the Kannabi Bridge, Minato transferred leadership of the mission to Kakashi – who had recently become a jōnin – while he headed to the front lines. He met up with the surviving and out-numbered Konoha ninja and single-handedly wiped out the opposing Iwagakure forces. In the anime, his victory in this battle against a thousand ninja convinced the Third Tsuchikage to accept a peace treaty. When he rendezvoused with his team afterwards he found Kakashi and Rin and surrounded by Iwa-nin, Obito having already been lost. He rescued them, helped them complete their original mission once they recovered, and returned to Konoha with them to mourn Obito. Minato's competing obligations would later repeat the tragedy of Obito's death: while he was away on another mission, Rin was kidnapped by Kirigakure and died during Kakashi's attempt to retrieve her. Minato later encountered A of Kumogakure a number of times during the war. During their first meeting, Minato and A fought with their speed, with Minato proving the faster. He received orders to retreat before their competition could resolve, but he lingered to compliment A and his brother, B, a jinchūriki like Kushina; he encouraged A to take care of B and remember he was a person. A pursued Minato, so Minato moved against B, threatening to kill him if A didn't let him and his team go. Minato was confident he and A would someday meet as Kage. For his performance during the War, Minato was chosen over Orochimaru to become Fourth Hokage. He taught the Flying Thunder God Technique to the Hokage Guard Platoon to better aid them in their duties of serving the Hokage at any given time.

On October 10, Kushina was ready to give birth in the night with a special site being chosen where a barrier was in place, midwives ready to help her and Anbu guards stationed around the site. It was then that Naruto Uzumaki was born with the happy couple greeting their son. Minato then made preparations to restore the Nine-Tail's weakened seal but was interrupted by a Masked Man who eliminated everyone at the scene. He held Naruto hostage to prevent Minato from interfering as he intended to kidnap Kushina so that the Masked Man could claim the power of the Nine-Tails. Namikaze managed to recover his son and evaded the paper bombs the Masked Man had put on Naruto's clothing where he took Naruto to a nearby hideout via teleportation. Minato then went to recover his wife where he managed to prevent her from being killed by the Nine-Tails that had been successfully extracted by the Masked Man. Namikaze then took Kushina to their hideout where he reunited her with their son Naruto. It was then that Minato went to confront the Masked Man who had successfully controlled the Nine-Tails.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Minato Namikaze was a male with blue eyes and spiky, blond hair. Minato also had jaw-length bangs framing either side of his face. According to Jiraiya, Minato was considered to be very handsome. Such was his speed and talent that he came to be renowned all over the world as Konoha's Yellow Flash (木ノ葉の黄色い閃光, Konoha no Kiiroi Senkō, English TV: Yellow Flash of the Leaf). It was his skill that led to him being chosen as the Fourth Hokage (四代目火影, Yondaime Hokage). His normal attire consisted of a standard Konoha uniform with two bands on both of his sleeves, a green flak jacket, blue forehead protector, and blue sandals. After becoming Hokage, he started wearing a short-sleeved long white haori over his normal attire, closed in the front by a thin, orange rope. The haori was decorated by red flame-like motifs on the edges, with the kanji for "Fourth Hokage" (四代目火影, Yondaime Hokage) written vertically down the back.

Minato was shown to be calm and collected man who was also a natural genius.

A natural genius, he was noted for being very perceptive and shrewd with Jiraiya stating that Minato did not doing something without a reason. He appeared to be respectful of those around him; he did not like to freely speaking about others' pasts, and was said to be a very nice person.

When faced with an enemy, he could kill in cold blood, and seemed well aware of the terror his reputation inspired in his foes. He was also shown to be very analytical from how quickly he could determine the strength and weakness of Kakashi's new technique. All in all, Minato was known for his unbeatable determination and unbelievable drive, which he passed onto his son.

His devotion to the village and his love for his friends inspired all those around him, and, as a result, he became well-liked by the villagers. Minato was nevertheless understanding, that Naruto might feel hurt by the fact that his own father had sealed a monster inside him.

From a young age, he looked to gain recognition and love of his village by becoming Hokage.

He eventually came to marry Kushina who became pregnant with his son who they came to name Naruto Uzumaki (うずまきナルト, Uzumaki Naruto). The couple named their son after the hero in Jiraiya's story. It was said that Naruto resembled Minato though the boy inherited his mother's temperament.

When he as a young shinobi, he was taken under the training of the sanin Jiraiya who took Minato on as an apprentice. He had close ties to his sensei Jiraiya who was friends with his family. In fact, Minato decided to name his son after the hero in Jiraiya's first novel. This saw him and Kushina naming Jiraiya to be the godfather of their son.

Powers and abilities

Minato Namikaze was a human who had the ability to manipulate chakra allowing him to achieve various feats and allowed him to perform a number of jutsu.

Among the techniques known to him included:

• Flying Thunder Formation Technique (飛雷陣の術­, Hiraijin no Jutsu) :
• Flying Thunder God Slash (飛雷神斬り­, Hiraishingiri) :
• Flying Thunder God Mutually Instantaneous Revolving Technique (飛雷神互瞬回しの術­, Hiraishin Goshun Mawashi no Jutsu) :
• Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder (飛雷神・導雷­, Hiraishin: Dōrai) :
• Rasengan (螺旋丸­, Rasengan) : a technique created by Minato which he based on the Tailed-Beast bombs and involved the creation of a spinning ball of chakra formed that was held in the palm of the user's hand. It was noted that it took him 3 years in order to create the Rasengan.

Namikaze made use of a custom kunai called the Flying Thunder God Kunai (飛雷神クナイ, Hiraishin Kunai) that had three blades instead of one and the thicker handle served as the 'marker' for Minato's teleportation ability. Minato also said that these blades were a bit heavier than a normal kunai.

Notes

• Minato Namikaze was created by Masashi Kishimoto where he featured in the setting of Naruto.

In other media

Television

Video games

Appearances

• Naruto:

External Links

• Naruto Wiki Entry

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