Shimura Danzō

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Shimura Danzō (志村团藏)
Alias(es)	“Darkness of Konoha”; “nation thief”
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Konohagakure and Root (formerly); later allied with Ibuse Hanzo
Occupation/Role	Former Konoha Elder; founder and leader of Root
Status	S-Rank missing-nin; wanted for crimes attributed to his impersonator
First Appearance	Chapter 19, in Root’s underground base 19

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Kage-level Wind Release and sealing specialist	22 23	His A-rank character data lists Wind Release and sealing mastery, elder-level combat experience, and Izanagi supported by ten Sharingan.
Sharingan/Hashirama Cell arm	147 167	After losing an arm while being pursued, he receives a replacement bearing ten Sharingan and Hashirama Cells.
Sandevistan-enhanced combatant	167 168	A Sandevistan implanted in his arm grants extreme acceleration, irregular directional movement, and a “slowed time” combat state; it also begins driving him toward cyberpsychosis.
Mature Sandevistan: Bullet Time	193	Activates a second-stage Bullet Time burst and combines it with Izanagi, but Uchiha Jun severs the Sandevistan arm and takes the core module.

Background & History

Danzō operated from Root’s underground base as a Konoha elder and covert power broker. He held deep hostility toward the Uchiha Clan and sought to weaken or eliminate it, while maintaining ambitions for the Hokage position. Root’s authority allowed its leader to secretly investigate, arrest, and interrogate shinobi deemed threats to Konoha without prior Hokage approval. 19 110 201

Uchiha Jun obtained Danzō’s ninja fragments and deliberately chose him as a scapegoat for criminal operations. Jun copied Danzō’s appearance, mannerisms, Wind Release, sealing techniques, and later even his contracted summon, creating incidents that appeared to have been committed by Danzō himself. 19 23 25

When reports reached him that “Shimura Danzō” had attacked the Land of Fire Daimyo Palace, killed nine of the Twelve Guardian Ninja, looted its treasury, and survived Reverse Four-Symbols Sealing, Danzō was genuinely bewildered. He had remained in Root throughout the attack, yet the culprit’s techniques and appearance matched his own too closely to dismiss. 31 32

The framing escalated when further reports linked Danzō to Wood Release, the Baku summon, and the capture of the Third Raikage. He denied possessing those powers, arguing that he would have openly earned military achievements rather than destabilize Konoha if he truly had them. 55

After another raid on the Land of Lightning’s Daimyo Palace was attributed to him, the Five Great Nations blamed Danzō for worsening the war. Konoha issued an S-Rank missing-nin notice charging him with the unauthorized palace raid, treasury looting, diplomatic damage, and prohibited forbidden-jutsu research; the bounty was 300 million ryō, dead or alive. Danzō subsequently defected, leaving Root leaderless and in disarray. 94 97 110

While hunted by Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure forces, Danzō lost an arm to the Fourth Raikage and Killer B. He maintained contact with Orochimaru after defecting and eventually allied with Ibuse Hanzo in the Land of Rain. Together, Danzō and Hanzo eliminated foreign spy networks, sealed the country, and moved against Akatsuki. 147 163 192

Orochimaru sold Danzō a replacement arm secretly engineered by Orochimaru and Uchiha Jun. Presented as a Hashirama Cell-based enhancement, it contained a Sandevistan designed to grow through combat while turning Danzō into an unwitting experimental subject. 164 167

The enhancement restored his physical vigor and encouraged increasingly reckless, strength-based behavior. Danzō defeated the Fourth Raikage in a direct confrontation after demonstrating Sandevistan acceleration and Izanagi, but his obsession with the new power worsened. 167 168

Uchiha Jun later confronted him while disguised as another version of Danzō. In the ensuing battle, Danzō activated Bullet Time twice and used Izanagi to erase a serious injury, but Jun ultimately cut off his right arm and claimed the mature Sandevistan core. 192 193

Impersonation Incidents

The following notorious acts were committed by Uchiha Jun while impersonating Danzō, not by Danzō himself:

• Land of Fire Daimyo Palace raid — Jun used Danzō’s identity and techniques to kill nine Twelve Guardian Ninja, loot the treasury, and escape Namikaze Minato’s pursuit. 23 25 31
• Land of Lightning Daimyo Palace raid — Jun again assumed Danzō’s appearance, destroyed the palace, defeated its guards, and stole valuables, provoking international outrage. 91 92 94
• Second Land of Fire Daimyo Palace raid — Jun returned in Danzō’s disguise, defeated Hatake Kakashi and Sarutobi Shinnosuke, and stole more than ten billion ryō. 195 196

Appearance

Danzō is an elderly man with a cross-shaped scar on his chin, a bandaged right eye, and a cold, snake-like exposed left eye. His appearance was distinctive enough that Jun’s transformation into him was accepted as flawless. 23

• Cross-shaped scar on his chin. 23
• Right eye typically concealed beneath bandages. 23
• A later prosthetic right arm contains ten implanted Sharingan and a Hashirama Cell-grown face. 167
• The Sandevistan arm develops dark-gold markings, metallic cables, and circuit-like patterns connected to his nerves and veins. 167 193

Personality

Danzō is secretive, authoritarian, and intensely political. As Root’s leader, he favors surveillance, coercion, clandestine arrests, and the use of forbidden techniques to secure Konoha’s interests. His control over Root’s broad authority reinforced both his influence and his distrust of rival clans. 110

His prejudice against the Uchiha Clan is central to his ambitions. He considers their power a threat to Konoha and repeatedly seeks to suppress them, placing him directly against Uchiha Jun’s rise and Orochimaru’s elevation. 42 201

After receiving the Sandevistan, Danzō becomes increasingly fixated on direct strength. His former preference for traps and ambushes gives way to aggressive combat, excessive kunai violence, pride in his acceleration, and signs of cyberpsychosis. 167 168

Abilities & Skills

Wind Release Mastery

Danzō is a Kage-level Wind Release specialist whose techniques are difficult to imitate because of the required chakra nature and shape transformation control. 22 23 32

• Wind Style: Vacuum Great Sphere — Fires a compressed, high-pressure wind projectile. 22 192
• Wind Style: Vacuum Serial Waves / Chain Waves — Releases successive cutting wind attacks. 22 23
• Wind Style: Vacuum Blade / Vacuum Sword — Coats a weapon or kunai in Wind Release chakra to form a highly destructive cutting edge. 32 193
• Wind Release: Chakra Wind Sword — Listed among his combat techniques. 22

Sealing Techniques

Danzō possesses advanced sealing knowledge and several dangerous restraint or self-sacrificial techniques. 22 23

• Self-Exerting Curse Binding Seal / Curse of Karma — Restrains a target’s movement, making it effective for capture. 22 23
• Reverse Four-Symbols Sealing — An ultimate mutual-destruction sealing technique. 22 23
• Limitation — Reverse Four-Symbols Sealing is lethal without a separate survival method such as Izanagi. 25 196

Izanagi

Through the Sharingan implanted in his right arm, Danzō can use Izanagi to rewrite unfavorable outcomes, including fatal injury. 22 23 193

• Consumes a Sharingan when used to reverse the result of an attack. 193
• Allowed him to restore himself after Uchiha Jun’s heavy strike during their battle. 193
• Depends on the implanted Sharingan arm, which was ultimately severed by Jun. 167 193

Sandevistan

The Sandevistan is a chakra-fed bioweapon embedded in Danzō’s replacement arm. It enhances neural response and movement speed, allowing him to perceive combat as though time has slowed. 164 167

• Produces abrupt “frame-skip” movement and mid-charge directional changes that conventional opponents cannot track. 168
• Its mature form grants Bullet Time, allowing extreme bursts of speed for brief periods. 193
• Requires combat to develop and needs a cooldown after use. 167 168
• Causes cyberpsychosis, increased bloodlust, and an overreliance on overwhelming force. 167
• Places a severe lifespan burden on ordinary users; Danzō’s Hashirama Cells partly sustain him and dull his awareness of the damage. 193

Summoning Jutsu: Baku

Danzō possesses the contract for Baku, an exclusive summoned beast associated with Root intelligence. 22 55

• The Baku contract was considered secure enough that its use by an impostor deeply alarmed Sarutobi Hiruzen. 55
• Jun’s ability to imitate or reproduce the summon helped make the framing of Danzō convincing. 55

Relationships

• Sarutobi Hiruzen — Fellow Konoha elder and political rival. Hiruzen struggled to manage the international fallout attributed to Danzō and eventually allowed circumstances to drive him into defection. 55 94 97
• Uchiha Jun — Primary enemy and architect of Danzō’s downfall. Jun framed him for multiple raids, arranged his Sandevistan implantation, and later removed the arm and core module himself. 19 164 193
• Orochimaru — Former associate who remained in contact after Danzō’s defection. Orochimaru supplied his replacement arm and Sandevistan, though the arrangement secretly served Jun’s experiments. 147 164 167
• Ibuse Hanzo — Post-defection ally in the Land of Rain. Their partnership targeted foreign spies and Akatsuki. 163 192
• Fourth Raikage A — Pursuer and combat rival. A previously took one of Danzō’s arms, but Danzō later used the Sandevistan and Izanagi to force him to retreat. 147 168
• Aburame Tatsuma — Root subordinate who sparred with Danzō and witnessed the abnormal movement granted by the Sandevistan. 167 168
• Uchiha Clan — Danzō’s long-standing political target; his effort to suppress the clan made him a major obstacle to Jun’s plans. 42 201

Notable Quotes

“This is not taijutsu. This is... new power!” 168

“Power... power!!” 167

“And do not mention that man in front of me!” 168

Trivia

• Danzō paid approximately 600 million ryō—all of his savings—for the Sandevistan arm. 167
• Although he was blamed across the shinobi world for palace raids and the abduction of the Third Raikage, these acts were engineered by Uchiha Jun using Danzō’s identity. 19 25 92
• His S-Rank wanted notice offered a 300 million ryō reward for his capture, dead or alive. 97