Recaps

Konoha and Iwagakure fought in a fierce battle, with Tsunade and Minato Namikaze coming under pressure from the Iwagakure attackers. Nanako defeated Kushina and trapped Minato, but Uchiha Fugaku used his Susanoo to shield and free him.

• Tsunade escaped Roshi's attack after Uchiha Fugaku's Susanoo grabbed him, and both sides formed their battle lines.
• Minato Namikaze attacked Ōnoki, but Kitsuchi's Earth Style defense and Ōnoki's Dust Release forced him to retreat while Tsunade was pushed back by the Iwagakure fighters.
• Uchiha Fugaku raised Susanoo to its second stage as Roshi and Han transformed into the Four-Tails and Five-Tails, and Minato struck Han with a Big Ball Rasengan.
• Minato used a marked piece of rubble to appear behind Ōnoki and attack him, but Nanako bound Minato with Adamantine Sealing Chains after defeating Kushina.
• Nanako restrained Minato while fighting Kushina, and Ōnoki prepared to hit the immobilized Minato with Dust Release.
• Uchiha Fugaku raised Susanoo to its third stage, blocked Ōnoki's Dust Release, and used another arm to rescue Minato.

Uchiha Fugaku struggled to withstand attacks from Han, Roshi, and Ōnoki while Nanako suppressed Kushina’s Nine-Tails transformation. In the ruins of Konoha, Didaze rejected Hashirama Senju’s attempt to talk unless he agreed to have Konoha absorbed into Iwagakure.

• Tsunade hurled Han into the air, forcing Uchiha Fugaku to reduce his Susanoo and spend more ocular power blocking Ōnoki’s Dust Release with Rewind.
• Ōnoki attacked Kushina, and Minato Namikaze panicked as she grew more tails while trapped by Nanako’s Wood Release.
• Nanako used Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands to suppress Kushina and sent Adamantine Sealing Chains to hinder Tsunade and the others.
• In ruined Konoha, Didaze told Hashirama Senju he would talk only if Hashirama agreed to have all of Konoha absorbed into Iwagakure.
• Hashirama Senju tried to argue for peace, but Didaze cut him off and demanded a yes-or-no answer.

Didaze forced Hashirama Senju to convince Konoha to surrender, and Hashirama used his power to halt the fighting and compel the village’s ninja to stand down. After Didaze demonstrated the devastation he could unleash, all forty thousand Konoha ninja surrendered.

• Didaze gave Hashirama Senju one minute to persuade Konoha to surrender or face a massacre, and Hashirama agreed.
• Didaze brought Hashirama to the battlefield, where Hashirama used Sage Art: Gate of the Great God to stop the fighters and identified himself as Konoha’s First Hokage.
• Hashirama told Konoha’s ninja that they had lost and should surrender, shocking them and prompting Gari to realize Didaze had captured him.
• Hashirama used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to restrain those who still wanted to fight and explained that the village could not come before its people.
• Didaze detonated a C5: Sun in the wasteland, and all forty thousand Konoha ninja knelt and surrendered.

Didaze defeated Hashirama Senju and brought him to the decisive battle, where Hiruzen Sarutobi was killed and Hashirama persuaded Konoha to surrender. Didaze offered the survivors a choice to leave or join Iwagakure, and Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Uchiha Fugaku made their decisions.

• Hashirama Senju told Didaze he was satisfied with the surrender and learned that Didaze intended to kill Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Didaze brought Hashirama Senju to the battlefield, where Hashirama subdued Kushina and the fighting stopped.
• Didaze killed Hiruzen Sarutobi, leaving Orochimaru frightened and the other Konoha ninja largely unmoved.
• Hashirama Senju admitted defeat and urged Tsunade to surrender, explaining that Didaze had agreed to spare everyone except Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Didaze let the Konoha ninja choose whether to leave or join Iwagakure; Tsunade chose to wander the world, Orochimaru offered to research for Iwagakure, and Uchiha Fugaku chose to stay.

Didaze became the Fourth Tsuchikage after Iwagakure destroyed and annexed Konoha, while keeping Konoha’s name temporarily to prevent an uprising. He declared plans to annex the remaining villages, and the news left them fearing Iwagakure’s next move.

• Didaze explained to Ōnoki that Konoha’s name would remain until its shinobi accepted their defeat, and predicted that the other three nations would form an alliance.
• Didaze returned home, where Nanako told him she sensed an early pregnancy; he then revealed that he would become Tsuchikage that afternoon.
• At the succession ceremony, Ōnoki placed the Tsuchikage’s hat on Didaze, who became the Fourth Tsuchikage.
• Didaze told the cheering crowd that Iwagakure would bring Konoha under its control and then annex the other hidden villages, naming Kumogakure as the next target.
• News of Didaze’s succession and ambitions spread across the Shinobi World, frightening the remaining villages.

A year after Tsunade and Dan Katō left Konoha, Didaze’s rule brought changes that improved life in the village, and Nanako gave birth to their son, Deidara. Six months later, Didaze traveled to the Land of Demons, where he told Miroku that Moryo’s seal had already been broken.

• Tsunade and Dan Katō chose to wander the world, while Didaze rejected Minato Namikaze as her successor and made the Tsuchikage the only Kage, bringing Konoha under Iwagakure’s control.
• Konoha’s ninja gained better treatment and the Uchiha Clan remained in the village, while Orochimaru joined Iwagakure’s research team and Minato settled down with Kushina.
• In Konoha’s Year 50, Nanako gave birth to Didaze’s son, and Didaze carried her and Deidara home from the hospital shortly afterward.
• At six months old, Deidara cried when he could not play with the Explosive Tags Kari had given him, and Nanako suspected he would awaken Explosion Release.
• Didaze left Ōnoki in charge of the Tsuchikage’s office and traveled to the Land of Demons to investigate his suspicions.
• Didaze entered Miroku’s hall and said he could settle Moryo’s threat once and for all, then revealed that Moryo’s seal had already been broken.

Didaze confronted the resurrected Moryo and repeatedly destroyed his body, discovering that Moryo could survive even a devastating C5: Annihilation. As Didaze prepared another attack, Moryo begged Lord Jashin to save him.

• Miroku rushed toward Moryo’s seal, and Didaze flew her there on a Clay Giant Bird.
• Yomi released Moryo, who suppressed Yomi’s consciousness and made him a loyal servant.
• Didaze sent Miroku to watch from the sky and easily dispelled Moryo’s wind attack.
• Didaze blasted Moryo apart with C3 No. 18, but Moryo regenerated and proposed that they rule the world together.
• Didaze obliterated Moryo and Yomi with C5: Annihilation, but Moryo revived and feared the attack could kill him.
• Didaze prepared another C5: Annihilation, and Moryo begged Lord Jashin to save him.

Jashin empowered Moryo and set him against Didaze, but the White Snake Sage trapped Moryo and helped Didaze destroy him. Jashin then appeared again and clashed with the White Snake Sage, whose attack was swallowed by his black mist as it spread toward the land.

• Jashin devoured Moryo and returned him to life with a greatly enlarged body, then challenged Didaze to face him.
• Moryo attacked Didaze, whose punch shattered one of Moryo’s heads before it regenerated.
• Didaze summoned the Three Snake Princesses and the White Snake Sage, who trapped Moryo with Inorganic Reincarnation.
• The White Snake Sage explained that Jashin controlled Moryo, then held him in place while Didaze destroyed his body with Sage Art: C5: Annihilation.
• Jashin’s black mist rushed toward Didaze, but the White Snake Sage seized and crushed it.
• Jashin reappeared and turned the White Snake Sage’s stone attack to black mist, which spread downward toward the land.

Didaze used the Shinigami Masks and the Jashin Statue to drive Jashin away, though the White Snake Sage said he had escaped and would need a thousand years to recover. After learning that Didaze knew Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was alive, she returned to Ryūchi Cave, and Didaze told Miroku she no longer had to guard Moryo's seal.

• Didaze summoned two Shinigami, who attacked Jashin and shattered his body before he dissolved into black mist.
• Didaze used the Jashin Statue to absorb most of the fleeing black mist, and the White Snake Sage said Jashin would need a thousand years to recover.
• The Shinigami took portions of the Six-Tails clone's soul to fulfill their contract, then disappeared as Didaze thanked the White Snake Sage.
• The White Snake Sage warned Didaze that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was still alive, and Didaze implied he already knew before she returned to Ryūchi Cave with the Three Snake Princesses.
• Didaze brought Miroku down and told her she no longer had to guard Moryo's seal, while Yomi shouted that everything was Genjutsu.

After destroying Moryo, Didaze left Miroku to remain in the Land of Demons and traveled to the Land of Snow, where he reunited with Kazahana Koyuki. He agreed to buy the thousand sets of Chakra Armor she had made and gave her a scroll containing payment.

• Miroku killed Yomi for colluding with monsters and chose to stay in the Land of Demons to help its people.
• Didaze sent a Shadow Clone to escort Miroku to the shrine maiden's palace, then traveled to the Land of Snow.
• Didaze saw that the Land of Snow had warmed and bloomed after Kazahana Koyuki activated her father's secret treasure.
• Asama Sandayu welcomed Didaze to the royal palace after Didaze knocked down a guard who had insulted him.
• Kazahana Koyuki told Didaze that she had made a thousand sets of Chakra Armor, with each set now costing only three to four hundred thousand to produce.
• Didaze agreed to pay the previously quoted price and handed Kazahana Koyuki a scroll full of banknotes.

Didaze visited Kazahana Koyuki in the Land of Snow, asked her to develop her country, and collected its Chakra Armor. He left after urging her to move on from her feelings for him, then returned to Iwagakure and found Ōnoki enjoying the view through the broken window.

• Didaze told Kazahana Koyuki that the Land of Snow could help Iwagakure by developing and eventually leading other small nations to surrender.
• Kazahana Koyuki escorted Didaze to the Chakra Armor facility, where he collected 1,058 suits and paid one billion ryo toward future orders.
• Didaze told Kazahana Koyuki to find her own true love, then rejected her plea to stay and flew away on a Clay Giant Bird.
• Didaze returned to Iwagakure and found Ōnoki admiring the scenery through the unrepaired hole in the Tsuchikage's office.

Five years after Iwagakure absorbed Konoha, Deidara secretly trained in the woods and was attacked by a man in black seeking to capture him. Didaze and Nanako watched from above as Deidara fought back, and the man in black realized he had struck a Shadow Clone.

• Didaze told Ōnoki that he had seen Jashin and wounded him with the Reaper Death Seal, and Ōnoki warned him to stay alert.
• Five years later, the other three villages allied against Iwagakure and hired the Rinnegan-wielding Akatsuki to help them.
• Deidara evaded Kurotsuchi and went to the woods, where he used Explosive Tags to kill a charging black bear.
• A man in black attacked Deidara with Wind Release, hoping to capture him and keep Didaze from attacking his village.
• Nanako asked Didaze whether they should intervene, but he said Deidara needed real combat experience and assured her he would protect their child.
• Deidara countered the man's attacks with fire and earth techniques, then used a Shadow Clone to evade his Vacuum Wave.

After Deidara defeated and killed a masked captor, Didaze destroyed Kumogakure and demanded that the remaining villages submit to Iwagakure. Most small countries surrendered, while Didaze prepared to deal with Amegakure himself.

• Deidara used Explosive Tags and Shadow Clones to defeat the man in black, then killed him with a kunai.
• Didaze and Nanako agreed to wage war on Kumogakure, and Didaze destroyed the village, killing the Third Raikage, Killer B, and A.
• After news of Kumogakure's destruction spread, Rasa heard Granny Chiyo and Ebizo advise Sunagakure to surrender but delayed his decision.
• Didaze ordered every village to submit to Iwagakure within a week, and the Land of Snow, the Land of Birds, and most smaller countries surrendered.
• Takigakure negotiated with Minato Namikaze over terms, while Didaze prepared to go to Amegakure and reassured Nanako before departing in a Clay Airplane.

Didaze attacked the Akatsuki forces in Amegakure and defeated the Six Paths of Pain, prompting Nagato to consider surrendering. Obito Uchiha tried to steal Nagato’s Rinnegan, but Didaze tracked him into the Kamui Dimension and attacked him.

• Didaze equipped his clay plane with missile launchers and flew toward Amegakure.
• Obito Uchiha brought out Madara Uchiha’s corpse while Deva Path Pain assembled Kakuzu, Hatake Sakumo, Sasori, and the other Paths to face Didaze.
• Didaze redirected his missiles toward Naraka Path, but Sasori used the One-Tail, Shukaku, to destroy them.
• Didaze knocked Preta Path unconscious, then detonated a Dust Release missile that killed the other five remaining Pains; Obito Uchiha had already taken Hatake Sakumo into the Kamui Dimension.
• Nagato decided to surrender and prevent Madara Uchiha’s revival, but Obito Uchiha tried to seize Nagato’s Rinnegan.
• Didaze followed Obito Uchiha into the Kamui Dimension, knocked off his mask, and began punching him.

Didaze defeated Obito Uchiha, secured Amegakure and Takigakure’s surrender, and traveled to the future to confront Madara Uchiha during the Fourth Shinobi World War. He stopped Madara’s attack and stayed behind to fight him as the Allied Shinobi Forces withdrew.

• Didaze removed Hatake Sakumo’s Cursed Seal, restored his heart, and sent him back to Konoha before killing Obito Uchiha and taking both his eyes.
• Nagato surrendered Amegakure, and the next day Amegakure and Takigakure surrendered to Iwagakure while Sunagakure began surrender negotiations.
• Didaze used the Dragon Vein to travel to the future, where the Fourth Shinobi World War was underway and Kabuto Yakushi had summoned Madara Uchiha through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Madara Uchiha attacked the Allied Shinobi Forces with Tengai Shinsei, but Didaze destroyed the falling mass with C5: Annihilation and ordered the forces to withdraw.
• Deidara taunted Sasori during their battle, and the others stayed out of their way because Sasori restrained himself only against Deidara.

Didaze fought Madara Uchiha on the main battlefield while the other Kage and their allies battled Obito Uchiha and Nagato’s forces. Elsewhere, Obito Uchiha, Nagato, and Sasuke pursued the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails, while Kabuto Yakushi had avoided reviving Uchiha Itachi, leaving no one able to undo Impure World Reincarnation.

• Ōnoki, Jiraiya, and the Fourth Raikage fought Nagato’s Jinchūriki Six Paths of Pain while Tsunade, Mei Terumi, and Gaara battled Obito Uchiha.
• Madara Uchiha attacked Didaze with his Susanoo and Wood Release, but Didaze answered with his own wood dragon and Sage Mode techniques.
• Didaze used C4: Karura and Extreme Corrosion to expose Madara Uchiha’s invisible Limbo: Border Jail clones.
• Madara Uchiha summoned a Wood Human clad in Susanoo and continued fighting Didaze, who held back his killing move while considering the threat of Six Paths Obito.
• Obito Uchiha, Nagato, and Sasuke set out to capture Killer B’s Eight-Tails and Naruto’s Nine-Tails.
• Kabuto Yakushi avoided using Impure World Reincarnation on Uchiha Itachi, leaving no one able to undo the technique.

Naruto received Yang Power from the Sage of Six Paths after losing Kurama, while Obito absorbed the Ten-Tails and became its perfect Jinchuriki. Obito defeated the Five Kage and prepared to kill them, but Didaze arrived to challenge him.

• Naruto woke in his mental space without Kurama, and the Sage of Six Paths gave him Yang Power to keep him alive.
• After hearing that Naruto was dead, Sasuke showed grief while Obito began absorbing the Ten-Tails with help from Nagato and Sasuke.
• Didaze learned how Obito sealed the Ten-Tails and left the battlefield, while Madara pursued him until a familiar figure blocked the way.
• Obito suppressed the Ten-Tails, became its perfect Jinchuriki, and knocked the Five Kage down twice with the Sword of Amenonuhoko.
• Didaze arrived as Obito raised his sword to kill the Five Kage and attacked him with a Senjutsu Clay Bomb.

Didaze outmaneuvered Obito Uchiha, killed Black Zetsu, and sealed the Ten-Tails inside himself, becoming its Jinchuriki. He then flew toward Naruto Uzumaki and Madara Uchiha, who were still fighting.

• Didaze blocked Obito Uchiha’s attack, but Obito cut through his wooden figure and struck back with the Sword of Amenonuhoko.
• Obito Uchiha believed he had killed Didaze after unleashing Cross Fire Formation, but Didaze’s hidden Shadow Clone ambushed him with Jashin’s black energy.
• Didaze grabbed Black Zetsu as he tried to seize the Ten-Tails, snapped his neck, and destroyed him with Senjutsu.
• Didaze sealed the Ten-Tails inside his body and became its Jinchuriki.
• Didaze flew toward Naruto Uzumaki, who was fighting Madara Uchiha with help from two Toad Sages.

Didaze defeated Madara Uchiha, revived the Jinchūriki, and returned to his own world, where he strengthened the Six-Tails and killed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. After resolving the Sage Lands, he turned his attention to developing technology and the Ōtsutsuki Planet.

• Didaze destroyed Madara Uchiha and the God Tree, gave Naruto Uzumaki a piece of his power, and left him with Nagato and Sasuke.
• Didaze revived the five Jinchūriki and killed Hidan before returning to his own world.
• Didaze transferred the Dragon Vein’s power to the Six-Tails, who spent a month devouring the Ten-Tails.
• Didaze killed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki after overpowering his Daikokuten and sealing his escape portal.
• Didaze moved Mount Myōboku to the Shinobi World, while the Katsuyu Sage abandoned Shikkotsu Forest for Ryūchi Cave.
• Didaze decided to develop technology after learning the location of the Ōtsutsuki Planet.

Five years later, Didaze and Orochimaru completed a chakra-powered carrier to take the fight to the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and Didaze prepared to recruit Kaguya. After freeing her from the moon, he revealed that he had killed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and demonstrated his overwhelming speed, leaving Kaguya wary of him.

• Five years after beginning the project, Orochimaru completed a vast carrier, and Didaze learned it could run on Nine-Tails' chakra.
• Didaze extracted Yin Nine-Tails from Kushina to power the carrier and set the expedition's departure for one month later.
• Didaze visited the Sage of Six Paths and asked him to release Kaguya so they could eliminate the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Didaze and the Sage of Six Paths went to the moon, where the Sage dismissed Hamura's last two descendants from their vigil and put them to sleep.
• The Sage of Six Paths released Otsutsuki Kaguya, and Didaze told her he had killed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Didaze briefly vanished from Kaguya's perspective and appeared with a hand around her throat, proving his speed and alarming her.

Didaze revived Madara Uchiha and assembled the Shinobi world's strongest fighters to invade the Ōtsutsuki planet. After killing guards and many clan members, the group headed for the royal palace when the Ōtsutsuki gathered their forces there.

• Didaze persuaded Otsutsuki Kaguya to join the fight against her clan, and she reconciled with Hagoromo.
• Didaze revived Madara Uchiha, revealed the Ōtsutsuki Clan's threat and the Eye of the Moon Plan's deception, and Madara agreed to join if Hashirama came too.
• Didaze led the fighters to the Ōtsutsuki planet aboard Orochimaru's carrier and killed the guards outside it with an Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb.
• The invaders slaughtered Ōtsutsuki across the planet, while Black Zetsu devoured Kinshiki's transformed fruit and killed Momoshiki.
• Ōtsutsuki Tenshiki summoned the clan heads and their strongest forces to the royal palace, and Madara urged Didaze to attack it directly.

Didaze defeated Ōtsutsuki Tenshiki, but the God of Ōtsutsuki emerged and killed Kaguya and Hagoromo before attacking him. Didaze escaped into the three-dimensional world and erased the God from the manga, then returned to celebrate with Nanako as the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s defeat was confirmed.

• Didaze and his allies attacked the Ōtsutsuki palace, where Ōtsutsuki Tenshiki confronted Kaguya and Didaze struck him with an Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Didaze transformed the planet into a Truth-Seeking Orb and killed the Ōtsutsuki foot soldiers, then destroyed Ōtsutsuki Tenshiki by making him shatter a golden orb containing part of Didaze’s soul.
• Ōtsutsuki Tenshiki revived as the God of Ōtsutsuki, consumed the remaining clan leaders, killed Kaguya and Hagoromo, and seized Didaze.
• Didaze tricked the God of Ōtsutsuki into touching half of his soul, then his destroyed body freed him to enter the three-dimensional world and erase the God from the manga.
• Didaze returned to the Ōtsutsuki Planet, where Nanako embraced him as everyone celebrated the victory.