Orochimaru
Orochimaru
Orochimaru大蛇丸Orochimaru
Debut (Manga)
Chapter 45
Debut (Anime)
Naruto Episode 27
Appears in
Anime and Manga
Seiyū (Japanese)
* Kujira (as original form)
* Yuriko Yamaguchi (as Shiore)
* Mayumi Yamaguchi (as a child)
* Sachiko Kojima (as female body)
* Masahiko Tanaka (as 4th Kazekage)
Voice actor(s) (English)
* Steven Jay Blum (as original form)
* Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (as Shiore)
* Michelle Ruff (as female body)
* Crispin Freeman (as 4th Kazekage)
Classification
Sannin, S-Class, Missing-nin
Birthdate
October 27
Age
* Part I: 50-51
* Part II: 53-54 (Sealed, presumed deceased)
Height
* Part I: 179.4cm (female body)
* Part II: 172cm (Gen'yumaru's body)
Weight
* Part I: 63.9kg (female body)
* Part II: 57.3 kg (Gen'yumaru's body)
Gender
Male
Blood type
B
Ring
空 (Void)
Ring position
Left Little Finger
Previous partner(s)
Sasori
Affiliation
Otogakure
Previous affiliation(s)
* Konohagakure
* Akatsuki
Previous team(s)
* Team Hiruzen
* Team Dosu
Previous occupation(s)
Founder and Leader of Otogakure
Nature Type
* Earth
* Wind
Jutsu/Weapon
* Earth Clone Technique
* Eight Branches Technique
* Five Elements Seal
* Hidden Shadow Snake Hands
* Juinjutsu
* Kusanagi Sword: Long Sword of the Heavens
* Leech All Creation: Attack Prevention Technique
* Living Corpse Reincarnation
* Multiple Hidden Shadow Snake Hands
* Myriad Snake Net Formation
* Oral Rebirth Technique
* Snake Authority Spell
* Soft Physique Modification
* Summoning Technique (Snakes)
* Summoning: Impure World Resurrection
* Summoning: Triple Rashomon
* Temporary Paralysis Technique
* Twin Snakes Mutual Death
* Vanishing Facial Copy Technique
* Wind Release: Great Breakthrough
Orochimaru (大蛇丸, Orochimaru) was one of Konohagakure's Sannin. He later became a member of Akatsuki and the leader of Otogakure. He was the primary antagonist for most of Part I.
Contents
* 1 Background
* 2 Personality
* 3 Part I
o 3.1 Chunin Exams arc
o 3.2 Invasion of Konoha arc
o 3.3 Search for Tsunade arc
o 3.4 Sasuke Retrieval arc
o 3.5 Pre-Shippūden filler arcs
* 4 Part II
o 4.1 Sai and Sasuke arc
o 4.2 Three-Tails Arrival arc
o 4.3 Hunt for Itachi arc
* 5 Movies
o 5.1 Shippūden the Movie 2: Bonds
* 6 Abilities
o 6.1 Ninjutsu
o 6.2 Immortality Jutsu
o 6.3 Kinjutsu
o 6.4 Snake Techniques
* 7 Creation and Conception
* 8 Trivia
* 9 Quotes
* 10 References
edit Background
The first meeting of Team Hiruzen.
Orochimaru was originally a student of Hiruzen Sarutobi as a part of a three-man team consisting of himself, Jiraiya, and Tsunade. From a young age, Orochimaru stood out as a prodigy. His talents, knowledge, and determination were considered by his sensei a sight seen once a generation. Orochimaru was kind as a child and for much of his adult life, but later grew to become aloof, arrogant, and somewhat sadistic. His sadistic attitude was presumably due to the death of his parents, which led him to study kinjutsu. Jiraiya theorized that Orochimaru went down this path in an attempt to forget about his painful memories. Sarutobi in particular had very high hopes for Orochimaru, often berating the clumsy Jiraiya and telling him he should be more like his teammate. After becoming the Third Hokage, Sarutobi hoped that one day Orochimaru would succeed him.
While Orochimaru's ambitions did include becoming the Fourth Hokage, his eyes were set upon goals quite alien to the ideals traditionally associated with the title and emphatically embraced by his teacher. Hiruzen knew that "a shinobi's true strength will manifest when protecting something important," and the Hokage's role is to love and protect the people of the village as if they were a family. For Orochimaru, however, Hokage was nothing more than a potential conquest on the way to what truly interested him - power.
Hiruzen had hoped to make his student see the error of his ways, but as more time passed, it became evident that Orochimaru was a lost cause. When Hiruzen finally retired years later he chose a student of Jiraiya's, Minato Namikaze, over Orochimaru as his successor, thus making Minato the Fourth Hokage. Realizing that he had hit a dead end in his quest to become the ultimate being and therefore had nothing to gain from staying in Konoha, Orochimaru began to be less discrete with his actions. Over the years he had been kidnapping his fellow Konoha shinobi as human guinea pigs. He experimented on them to develop techniques that would grant him immortality, as he had already decided that he would settle for no less than to learn all jutsu in the world (a task that would take much more than one human lifetime). When the many disappearances were finally traced back to Orochimaru, Hiruzen knew that it was his duty to kill him. At the time however, Hiruzen was unable to bring himself to kill his prized student for whom he had had such high hopes.
Orochimaru defected from the village and joined the elite criminal organization of Akatsuki. His old teammate, Jiraiya, tried to convince him to reconsider, but to no avail. Although the role Orochimaru played in Akatsuki is unclear, it is known that he was partnered with Sasori prior to his defection (the two apparently had great respect for each other when they were partners; Sasori also claimed that Orochimaru and him did a lot when they were partners in the organization). It was around this time that Orochimaru tried to steal Itachi Uchiha's body. Orochimaru tried to use his Living Corpse Reincarnation, but Itachi used his Sharingan to reverse it and damage Orochimaru's body, causing him to leave Akatsuki to acquire a new body. He eventually founded his own village, Otogakure.