Danzo

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Shimura Danzo (团藏) 37 109
Alias(es)	“Darkness of the Ninja World” 128
Species/Race	Human 92
Gender	Male 16 76
Affiliation	Hidden Leaf Village (Konoha); Root; Shimura Clan 32 76 128
Occupation/Role	Hokage adviser; leader of Root; member of Konoha’s four-person leadership council 30 52 76
Status	Deceased—killed by Root shinobi controlled by Uchiha Yuan’s genjutsu 107 108
First Appearance	Mentioned through Root’s involvement in the Nine-Tails aftermath; introduced directly during the Sea Country mission 7 14

Background / History

Tobirama’s Research and Root

Danzo inherited Tobirama Senju’s research materials rather than the Hokage position, which went to Hiruzen Sarutobi. He was among the few people who knew about Tobirama’s secluded laboratory 76.

He participated in experiments implanting Hashirama Cells into infants to produce Wood Release ninja. Yamato’s survival was an accidental success; Danzo personally trained him and kept him as part of a plan to become the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki 32 52 76.

Root’s recruitment involved forcing candidates to kill one another, with only survivors permitted to join. This training stripped away much of their humanity and produced intense loyalty to Danzo 107 108.

Sea Country Operation

Danzo commanded Konoha’s operation against Kirigakure from Forest Villa on Strange Island. His reputation for surviving by using teammates as shields made members of Orochimaru’s squad uneasy about cooperating with Root 14.

A Root assassin attempted to capture Yuan during the mission. Yuan inferred that Danzo wanted his Sharingan as a replacement for a potentially deteriorating right eye; the eyesight problem was Yuan’s deduction, not a confirmed diagnosis 16.

During the struggle over Isobu, Danzo ordered Yuan to locate the Three-Tails through the Spiritualisation Technique and disrupt Harusame’s sealing attempt with Phantom Lotus Kill. He then demanded five seconds of sensory interference against Kirigakure’s bloodline ninja despite the danger to Yuan, enabling Orochimaru’s assault 22 23.

Yuan retaliated from Isobu’s mental space using borrowed tailed-beast chakra. His Water Severing Wave missed Danzo’s head after Danzo twisted aside, but a redirected slash bisected him at the waist. Emergency medical treatment and Danzo’s strong vitality kept him alive 25.

The operation helped plunge Kirigakure into internal strife. Konoha’s leadership acknowledged that Danzo’s dishonorable methods had temporarily protected the village’s interests, while returning villagers publicly praised him 29 30.

Surveillance and the Laboratory Dispute

Danzo sought ANBU surveillance of Yuan and later ordered Mu to eliminate him before he became an uncontrollable Uchiha genius. Mu’s earlier assignment had been to use the Reverse Four Symbols Seal against Orochimaru if he acted beyond his mission 30 32.

Danzo also maintained Uchiha Setsuna as an informant inside the clan. After Setsuna’s death, he interpreted unusual Police Force activity as grounds for further suspicion 60.

When Shinigami Masks disappeared, Hiruzen connected the theft to Wood Release and suspected Danzo. He arrived at Root with ANBU and removed Yamato from Danzo’s custody. The masks had actually fallen into Yuan’s hands 74 75 76.

Danzo later investigated Tobirama’s laboratory himself. The Old Baboon Sage defeated his escorts and knocked him unconscious, although Danzo inflicted a lasting scar on its cheek. He subsequently accused the Police Force of exploiting the attack to occupy the laboratory 92 93 98.

Campaign Against the Uchiha

Danzo genuinely believed the Uchiha had engineered Nine-Tails Night to kill Minato, elevate their reputation, and secure the Hokage position. He cited Mikoto’s connection to Kushina, Yuan’s absence from the village, and Yuan’s later battlefield strength, but Hiruzen rejected these claims as speculation rather than evidence 92.

Root agents infiltrated the Police Force to monitor the clan. Danzo then planned to provoke an Uchiha ninja into killing a Hidden Cloud envoy, forcing the clan to face Kumogakure alone. His scheme relied on the Uchiha refusing to abandon a clansman or endanger the village’s peace 98 106 107.

Yuan recognized the trap and deliberately used it to obtain the war he wanted. Danzo and the other elders judged the clan strong enough to confront Kumogakure but expected the fighting to severely deplete its talent; they did not know the full capabilities of Yuan’s Sage Art inner armor 107.

Death and Replacement

Returning to Root’s underground base, Danzo found his followers under genjutsu and confronted Yuan. He attempted to impose an obsession through his Mangekyo, then used Wind Release attacks to create either an escape opening or a disturbance that would summon ANBU 107.

His apparent escape through a devastated Root base was itself an illusion. In reality, Yuan removed his Mangekyo and threw him to the controlled Root shinobi, who killed him with their ninja tools 107.

Yuan then made Root perceive him as Danzo and the mutilated corpse as an unnamed intruder. He seized the organization’s intelligence, ninjutsu, and forbidden-technique archives 108.

Appearance

Danzo is a gaunt elderly man who walks with a cane and normally conceals his right eye beneath bandages 16 85 105 107.

• Bandaged right eye: Hides an implanted Sharingan that displays a Mangekyo pattern during his final confrontation 16 107.
• Cane: Used as a walking aid 85.
• Voice: Cold and hoarse 53.

Personality

Danzo presents ruthless measures as necessary protection for Konoha. He considers threats to the village—and to himself—something to eradicate at the roots. Yuan distinguishes his talent for exploiting people’s darker impulses from Hiruzen’s ability to appeal to their better instincts 82 93.

He is composed and capable as a commander. Even Yuan, already hostile toward him, recognizes the unusual steadiness with which he directs the Sea Country operation. Praise is rare, but Danzo acknowledges Yuan’s successful interference against Isobu 22.

His village loyalty coexists with personal ambition. He covets bloodline powers, seeks control of the Nine-Tails, and hopes that such control will qualify him to become Hokage. He accepts blame on Hiruzen’s behalf when necessary, reasoning that remaining useful will eventually let him step into the sunlight 52 85 111.

Abilities & Skills

Mangekyo Sharingan

Danzo possesses an implanted Mangekyo in his right eye. After removing it, Yuan identifies its genjutsu as belonging to Kagami Uchiha’s Mangekyo; the circumstances of Danzo obtaining it are not given 107.

• Great Demon’s Predestined Fate: Converts an order into the target’s obsession. Until the genjutsu is dispelled, the target acts to fulfill that obsession 107.
• Documented use: Controls the Hidden Cloud envoy involved in Danzo’s scheme against the Uchiha 107.
• Limit: Fails against Yuan, whose Demonic Statue Fragments continuously supply chakra and render Danzo’s genjutsu ineffective 107.
• Vulnerability: Danzo himself falls under Yuan’s illusion during their final confrontation 107.

Wind Release

Danzo uses cutting wind attacks for direct combat, crowd displacement, and attempts to force tactical openings 92 107.

• Vacuum Wave: Releases transparent wind blades; used against the Old Baboon Sage 92.
• Great Breakthrough: Blows away the controlled Root shinobi before Danzo attacks Yuan 107.
• Vacuum Serial Waves: Produces overlapping wind blades over thirty feet long 107.
• Limit: His Wind Release feeds the Old Baboon Sage’s senjutsu-enhanced fire, and Yuan neutralizes his final attacks 92 107.

Combat Experience and Vitality

Danzo is explicitly described as a Kage-level combatant, though not as a holder of the Hokage office 25.

• Reacts quickly enough to avoid Yuan’s supersonic water attack striking his head 25.
• Survives being cut in half at the waist with emergency treatment; his wound begins closing soon afterward 25.
• Recognizes that Yuan, who can oppose the Fourth Raikage, is beyond his ability to defeat alone 107.

Intelligence and Covert Operations

Root provides Danzo with extensive intelligence on foreign villages and Konoha’s clans 32 108.

• Places informants inside the Uchiha Clan and infiltrators in the Police Force 60 98.
• Coordinates with the Third Mizukage and Genji to instigate Kirigakure’s bloodline-clan conflict 108.
• Leaks Hyuga main-family movements to Kirigakure during the Third Shinobi World War, enabling Ao to obtain a Byakugan 108.
• Studies Uzumaki sealing texts and retains substantial ninjutsu and Forbidden Jutsu collections 76 108.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Implanted right-eye Mangekyo Sharingan — Source of Great Demon’s Predestined Fate; removed and collected by Yuan before Danzo’s death 107.
• Right-eye bandages — Conceal the implanted eye 16 107.
• Cane — Walking aid 85.
• Tobirama’s research materials — Inherited scientific and forbidden-technique records 76.
• Root archives — Intelligence files covering hidden villages and ninja clans, alongside ninjutsu and Forbidden Jutsu reserves 108.

Relationships

• Hiruzen Sarutobi — Longstanding comrade and political partner. Danzo undertakes ruthless measures and accepts blame for him, but resents the limits imposed by Hiruzen’s Hokage authority 52 76 85.
• Tobirama Senju — Teacher whose research materials Danzo inherited 73 76.
• Uchiha Yuan — Target, temporary subordinate, and eventual killer. Yuan reverses Danzo’s schemes, takes his eye, and appropriates Root and his identity 16 22 107 108 109.
• Orochimaru — Operational collaborator whom Danzo also prepares to restrain through Mu’s suicide-sealing assignment 23 25 32.
• Yamato / A / Jia — Personally trained Wood Release operative and key asset in Danzo’s Nine-Tails ambitions; taken away by Hiruzen 32 76.
• Mu — Root subordinate trained to serve Danzo through sealing techniques; ordered to eliminate Yuan 32.
• Uchiha Setsuna — Internal informant used to monitor the Uchiha radicals 60.
• Third Mizukage and Genji — Covert partners in orchestrating Kirigakure’s bloodline-clan persecution 108.
• Old Baboon Sage — Laboratory guardian who defeats Danzo; Danzo leaves a scar on its cheek 92 98.

Posthumous Identity

Danzo’s appearances after his death do not represent his survival. Yuan possesses a White Zetsu that has absorbed Danzo’s chakra and copied his appearance. Its disguise cannot be penetrated by the Byakugan or Sharingan 109.

Event	Identity behind “Danzo”	Notes
Uchiha war vote	Yuan possessing disguised White Zetsu	Plays Hiruzen’s political partner to secure approval for the Uchiha campaign 109.
Police Force transfer	Yuan	Secures joint Root–Hyuga administration while preserving his own control 110.
Debate after Kumogakure’s defeat	Yuan	Probes Hiruzen’s intentions by urging another Uchiha deployment 128.
External Special Operations Force	Yuan	Uses Danzo’s identity as commander, with Fugaku as deputy 140.
Asuma operation	Yuan	Directs recruitment and covert preparations against Hiruzen 145 146 147.
Public elimination and funeral	Danzo identity retired	Kakuzu believes Yuan has newly eliminated Danzo; funeral music for Konoha’s four elders is heard afterward 148 149.

Notable Quotes

“From now on, you are under my command. Just follow orders.” 22

“Hiruzen, I told you long ago that the battlefield is the best graveyard for the Uchiha Clan.” 106

“Hiruzen, save me!” 107