Il nuovo DataBook

:::Some character stats:::

This is a quick overview of some character's growth, that is their abilities in Sha no Sho compared to how they were in Tou no Sho (2nd guidebook). I know it's impossible to read and it's also pretty difficult to see the lines, but anyway, you mainly need to know what the 8 points are. Starting from the top, clockwise:
-Ninjutsu
-Taijutsu
-Genjutsu
-Intelligence
-(Physical) Strength
-Speed
-Stamina
-Seals
Also, the charas in the lower left are (top>bottom, left>right): Neji, Shikamaru, Gaara, Rock Lee.

Ok, well, I'll be kind enough to type the numbers XD; But only of the newest stats..

Naruto: Nin 4 - Tai 3.5 - Gen 2 - Int 3 - Str 3.5 - Spe 3.5 - Sta 5 - Sea 1.5
Sasuke: Nin 5 - Tai 3.5 - Gen 4 - Int 3.5 - Str 3.5 - Spe 4.5 - Sta 3.5 - Sea 4
Sakura: Nin 3 - Tai 3 - Gen 3.5 - Int 4 - Str 3 - Spe 3 - Sta 2.5 - Sea 4
Shikamaru: Nin 3.5 - Tai 2 - Gen 3 - Int 5 - Str 2 - Spe 2.5 - Sta 3 - Sea 3
Rock Lee: Nin 0 - Tai 5 - Gen 1 - Int 2 - Str 4.5 - Spe 4.5 - Sta 3.5 - Sea 1
Neji: Nin 4 - Tai 4.5 - Gen 2 - Int 3 - Str 2.5 - Spe 4.5 - Sta 3.5 - Sea 3
Gaara: Nin 5 - Tai 2 - Gen 3.5 - Int 4 - Str 2.5 - Spe 3 - Sta 5 - Sea 4

Most of the points definitely don't surprise me.
Naruto's intelligence grew a lot.. He's almost as smart as Sasuke (-0.5 points) XD Sakura is smarter than both (0.5 points higher than Sasuke). I'm surprised about Neji, I thought he was smarter
Naruto should really improve his seal ability... Maybe now that he's been training for Rasen Shuriken etc he will also do that..
Sakura improved a lot, though apparently, as strong as she looks, her taijutsu and physical strength are still lower than the other boys' (well, yes, she's a woman indeed and most of her strength depends on her chakra control, but anyway).


:::Characters - Height & Weight (& Age/Birthday):::

This totally crooked chart (I mean, the photo) compares the height of the various characters. Sasuke looks quite taller than Naruto, although he's actually only 2 cm taller.. Maybe it's the shoulders..

Anyway, here's a list of the height/weight of the characters shown in the chart (it's in centimeters/kilograms, sorry, I cannot convert it for you.... I also included the age and birthday for those ones you might be wondering about XD By the way, Naruto & co. are listed as 16 years old.

Naruto: 166.0cm x 50.9kg
Sasuke: 168.0cm x 52.2kg
Sakura: 161.0cm x 45.4kg
Chouji: 172.3cm x 87.5kg
Shikamaru: 170.0cm x 53.4kg
Ino: 162.2cm x 46.0kg
Neji: 172.1cm x 54.2kg
Tenten: 164.0cm x 47.3kg
Rock Lee: 172.0cm x 54.7kg
Sai: 172.1cm x 53.3kg (17 years old, bday 11/25)
Yamato: 178.0cm x 58.4kg (26 years old, bday 8/10)
Kakashi: 181.0cm x 67.5kg
Kiba: 169.1cm x 52.5kg
Hinata: 160.0cm x 45.0kg
Shino: 175.1cm x 56.6kg
Akamaru: 127.2cm x 80.5kg (7 years old XD)

Here is the same info for other charas you might be interested about (Japanese alphabetical order, except for the Hokage, who are where the "ho" would be):
Kushina Uzumaki: 165.0cm x 47.0kg (age unknown, bday 7/10)
Itachi Uchiha: 178.0cm x 58.0kg
Madara Uchiha: only known thing is his bday, 12/24
Iruka Umino: 178.0cm x 66.2kg
Orochimaru: 172.0cm x 57.3kg
Kakuzu: 185.0cm x 63.2kg (91 years old, bday 8/15)
Gaara: 166.1cm x 50.9kg
Karin: 162.6cm x 45.8kg (16 years old, bday 6/20)
Kankurou: 175.0cm x 61.2kg
Konohamaru: 141.1cm x 36.9kg
Konan: 169.4cm x 45.3kg (age unknown, bday 2/20)
Sasori: 164.1cm x 47.3kg (35 years old, bday 11/8)
Asuma Sarutobi: 190.8cm x 81.6kg
Shizune: 168.0cm x 49.2kg
Juugo: 202.1cm x 75.8kg (18 years old, bday 10/1)
Jiraiya: 191.2cm x 87.5kg
Shin (Sai's "brother" XD): 174.0cm x 55.4kg (age unknown, bday 9/6)
Zetsu: only known thing is his height, 177.0cm
Danzou: 170.0cm x 52.7kg (72 years old, bday 1/6)
Chiyo: 149.1cm x 39.1kg (73 years old, bday 10/15)
Deidara: 166.0cm x 50.8kg (19 years old, bday 5/5)
Teuchi: 170.0cm x 64.0kg (47 years old, bday 8/10) (I know you just wanted to know about him 8D)
Temari: 165.0cm x 47.9kg
Tobi: 175.0cm x 55.9kg (anything else is unknown; and yes, he and Madara have different profiles)
Yugito Nii: 170.2cm x 50.8kg (29 years old, bday 7/24)
Hidan: 177.1cm x 56.8kg (22 years old, bday 4/2)
Pain (by the way, in romaji it's clearly written PAIN, not "Pein"): 176.5cm x 57.2kg (age and bday unknown)
Suigetsu Hoozuki: 177.4cm x 57.0kg (16 years old, bday 2/18)
Hashirama Senju: 185.1cm x 74.0kg (age unknown, bday 10/23)
Tobirama Senju (second Hokage): 182.3cm x 70.5kg (age unknown, bday 2/19)
Hiruzen Sarutobi (third Hokage): 163.1cm x 50.6kg (69 years old, bday 2/8)
Minato Namikaze: 179.2cm x 66.1kg (age unknown, bday 1/25)
Tsunade: 163.1cm x 48.9kg
Kisame Hoshigaki: 195.0cm x 83.1kg (32 years old, bday 3/18)
Maito Gai (yes, I do know the guidebooks have him as "Might Guy" XD): 184.0cm x 76.0kg
Kabuto Yakushi: 177.0cm x 65.0kg
Kurenai Yuuhi: 169.1cm x 54.4kg


:::Character names & quick ages:::

These are actually featured in the above part as well, but anyway...
New names we found about:
-Sai's "brother" was called Shin
-Madara's brother was called Izuna
-Fukasaku's wife is called Shima
-After finding out about Hashirama Senju and Minato Namikaze, now we know about the second and third Hokage's names as well, that is: Tobirama Senju and Hiruzen Sarutobi
-The names of Kakashi's dogs: Pakkun (this one you already know), Shiba (the one with the black crest), Bisuke (little one with droopy eyes), Akino (one with glasses), Guruko (little one with Naruto-like whiskers), Uuhei (one with bandages), Urushi (one with not black crestlike fur), Buru (the big bulldog)
-Sai's senpai from Ne (who we see when he hands Sai the envelope from Danzou) is called Hyou
-The two guys from the Rain village, who Jiraiya questioned: Yuudachi (he got transformed), Ryuusui
-The guy in Orochimaru's lair that Suigetsu kills ignoring Sasuke's orders: Takishi
-The four women who were bathing in the hot springs Yamato & team 7 went to: Emiru, Sumire, Nae, Yui
-Nekobaa's granddaughter: Tamaki

And here's the age of some new charas:
-Sasori: 35
-Deidara: 19
-Kakuzu: 91
-Hidan: 22
-Suigetsu: 16
-Juugo: 18
-Karin: 16
-Sai: 17
-Yamato (Tenzou): 26


:::Jutsu names:::

(Traduzione in Italiano fatta da Stopper89)

Some jutsu names you might want to know. Mostly jutsu whose name we didn't hear in the manga.

-Ukojizai no Jutsu: Pain usa questo jutsu per far cadere la pioggia.
-Kagura Shingan: Karin usa questo jutsu per controllare una vasta zona intorno a se. è etichettata come "segreta".
-Kagerou: il jutsu che usa Zetsu per svanire e riapparire nel/dal terreno.
-Kamui: Il jutsu del Mangekyou di Kakasi. Sembra essere un suo jutsu originale (quindi probabilmente altre persone con alti MS non possono usarlo).
-Karasubunshin no Jutsu: I bushin con cui Itachi si trasforma in corvi.
-Kishou Tensei: il jutsu usato da Chiyo per resuscitare Gaara. Livello S.
-Kyoumen Shuuja no Jutsu: Pain usa questo jutsu per far apparire i cloni del team Gai.
-Kirin è classificato di livello S.
-Kuchiyose - Gamamise no Jutsu: Jiraiya usa questo jutsu per creare il falso pub nel villaggio della pioggia.
-Kuchiyose - Raikou Kenka: Sasuke usa qusto jutsu per evocare le armi nella battaglia contro Itachi.
-Gufuu Suika no Jutsu: Il jutsu combinato di Naruto e Yamato contro Kakuzu.
-Saikan Chuushutsu no Jutsu: il jutsu che usa Sakura per estrarre il veleno di Sasori dal corpo di Kankuro.
-CO (il secondo è una "O", non uno "zero"): l' ultimo jutsu di Deidara.
-Shikigami no Mai: il jutsu di Konan quando stava fluttuando nell' aria trasformata in carta.
-Shikoku Fuuin: il jutsu usato da Jiraiya per lasciare il suo ultimo messaggio nella schiena di Fukasaku.
-Jagei Jubaku:il jutsu usato da Sasuke per fare la spira di serpenti intorno Juugo e Suigetsu per fermarli. La tecnica in realtà è di Orochimaru, quindi non si sa se possa ancora usarla.
-Shouten no Jutsu: il jutsu con cui Pain trasforma degli uomini presi a caso in Itachi e Kisame.
-Suika no Jutsu: Suigetsu usa questo jutsu per trasformarsi in acqua.
-Suiton - Gousuiwan no Jutsu: Suigetsu usa una volta questo jutsu per ingrandire il suo braccio sinistro.
-Sennou Sousa no Jutsu: Sasori usa questo jutsu per controllare la mente di Yura.
-Chidori Eisou: il jutsu con cui Sasuke lancia un raggio di chidori
-Tensha Fuuin - Amaterasu: questo è come è chimato l' Amaterasu di Itachi sigillato nell' occhio sinistro di Sasuke
-Fuuton - Rasenshuriken è classificato di livello S
-Magen - Kasegui no Jutsu: il jutsu che sia Sasuke che Itachi usano quando Orochimaru prova ad entrare nella loro mente
-Yamata no Jutsu è classificato di livello S (l' utilizzatore è Orochimaru, non Sasuke)

:: olls & Rankings:::

The results of some polls XD In most of them the male/female rate is 4:6 or 3:7... No wonder.
Be prepared to also see the results of the overall character popularity poll... XD

The best scenes that went straight to your heart
1) Ch306, "Naruto and Sasuke meet again" - 161 votes
2) Ch279, "Gaara revived" - 132 votes
3) Ch393, "Itachi's death" - 122 votes
4) Ch281, "Gaara's handshake" - 87 votes
5) Ch383, "Sasuke VS Itachi, the fight begins" - 63 votes
6) Ch362, "The last ultimate art" - 56 votes
7) Ch310, "Title 'Friends'" - 49 votes
8) Ch328, "Shikamaru's tears" - 45 votes
9) Ch278, "Cry of grief" - 40 votes
10) Ch339, "Overlapping backs" - 38 votes

The best lines that moved you (my translation will be very rough, sorry)
1) Ch307, "No way you can become Hokage if you can't even save a friend. Right... Sasuke?" by Naruto Uzumaki - 131 votes
2) Ch382, "Not to give up.. That was the real choice I had to make. Naruto, the 'boy of the prophecy' is undoubtedly you. I leave the rest to you." by Jiraiya - 97 votes
3) Ch249, "As Kazekage of the village of the Sand." by Gaara - 90 votes
4) Ch383, "'The Tale of Naruto Uzumaki'... Yeah... That sounds good." by Jiraiya - 75 votes
5) Ch321, "You're the only shinobi able to surpass the Yondaime Hokage. That's what I believe." by Kakashi - 63 votes
6) Ch333, "It's because only the power of the 'wind' is able to save the 'fire' and make it burn higher than before." by Naruto Uzumaki - 61 votes
7) Ch362, "Be scared!!" by Deidara - 57 votes
8) Ch303, "Orochimaru might even try and rip me apart, but I'll definitely steal Sasuke back from him!" by Naruto Uzumaki - 47 votes
9) Ch278, "If you Sand shinobi hadn't put a monster inside of Gaara all of this wouldn't have happened!!!" by Naruto Uzumaki - 40 votes
10) Ch304, "I wanted to show this to niisan..." Sai by - 38 votes

The best battles that heated you up
1) Sasuke Uchiha VS Itachi Uchiha - 361 votes
2) Sasuke Uchiha VS Deidara - 130 votes
3) Sakura Haruno & Chiyo VS Sasori - 107 votes
4) Gaara VS Deidara - 94 votes
5) Shikamaru Nara VS Hidan - 56 votes
6) Jiraiya VS Pain - 50 votes
7) Naruto Uzumaki VS Kakuzu - 46 votes
8) Naruto Uzumaki & Kakashi Hatake VS Deidara - 45 votes
9) Sasuke Uchiha VS Orochimaru - 44 votes
10) Hashirama Senju VS Madara Uchiha - 43 votes

Which shinobi would you like as your teacher?
1) Kakashi Hatake - 268 votes
2) Itachi Uchiha - 104 votes
3) Jiraiya - 100 votes
4) Minato Namikaze - 84 votes
5) Maito Gai - 66 votes
6) Tsunade - 54 votes
7) Yamato - 44 votes
8) Iruka Umino - 40 votes
9) Asuma Sarutobi - 38 votes
10) Deidara - 32 votes

The king of chapter covers (I know that the titles alone don't help you remember the pics, but anyway, you can still look them up somewhere..)
1) Ch384, "Two roads..." - 192 votes
2) Ch317, "The nightmare begins!!" - 144 votes
3) Ch388, "Difference in strength...!!" - 128 votes
4) Ch341, "Results of training...!!" - 64 votes
5) Ch377, "Sennin mode!!" - 52 votes
6) Ch357, "Deidara VS Sasuke!!" - 51 votes
7) Ch294, "The fourth tail...!!" - 50 votes
8) Ch332, "Shikamaru's fight!!" - 45 votes
9) Ch337, "Shikamaru's talent!!" - 37 votes
10) Ch364, "The target is...!!" - 36 votes

Which shinobi would you like as your older/younger brother/sister?
-Younger brother:
1) Naruto Uzumaki - 92 votes
2) Sasuke Uchiha - 76 votes
3) Deidara - 48 votes
4) Gaara - 26 votes
5) Sai - 20 votes
-Younger sister:
1) Hinata Hyuuga - 30 votes
2) Sakura Haruno - 16 votes
3) Tenten - 7 votes
-Older sister:
1) Temari - 52 votes
2) Sakura Haruno - 28 votes
3) Ino Yamanaka - 21 votes
-Older brother:
1) Itachi Uchiha - 158 votes
2) Deidara - 116 votes
3) Naruto Uzumaki - 93 votes
4) Neji Hyuuga - 78 votes
5) Sasuke Uchiha - 50 votes
6) Shikamaru Nara - 31 votes
7) Gaara - 30 votes
8) Kakashi Hatake - 29 votes
9) Sai - 24 votes
10) Sasori - 16 votes

Overall Character Popularity Poll (basically they additioned all the votes of the past popularity polls... XD)
1) Kakashi Hatake - 48431 votes
2) Naruto Uzumaki - 42862 votes
3) Sasuke Uchiha - 33632 votes
4) Iruka Umino - 23532 votes
5) Shikamaru Nara - 11211 votes
6) Sakura Haruno - 9701 votes
7) Neji Hyuuga - 9362 votes
8) Gaara - 8660 votes
9) Rock Lee - 8614 votes
10) Itachi Uchiha - 7067 votes
11) Hinata Hyuuga - 6917 votes
12) Haku - 3551 votes
13) Maito Gai - 2913 votes
14) Temari - 2803 votes
15) Yondaime Hokage (Minato Namikaze) - 2734 votes
16) Deidara - 2555 votes
17) Kiba Inuzuka - 2398 votes
18) Hayate Gekkou - 2183 votes
19) Jiraiya - 2055 votes
20) Shino Aburame - 1963 votes


:::Secret character creation sketches:::

I took some (crappy) photos of the sketches Kishimoto did to create the grown-up versions of his characters. I'll also roughly translate (aka "the meaning is fine, just ignore the horrible English adaptation") what he says about them... Click the names to see the pictures. Note: the "LOLs" are actually in there, it's not my comment (though sometimes I do agree 8D).

Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha
-Naruto: "The forehead protector is slightly wider"
"Actually, the main characteristic of Naruto's clothes is his forehead protector. In the earlier version the line used to show the "thickness" of the metal and the line of the cloth part were very close, and that made it kind of difficult to draw the eyebrows that were right under that. For this reason, I made the cloth wider. This made both the metal's and the cloth's thickness visible, plus the eyebrows are a lot easier to draw. Besides that I also removed the rolled up part of Naruto's pants and changed his shoes from sandals to high-cut boots. Showing too much the ankle looked childish, so I tried to fix that."
-Sakura: "Sakura changed from China-style dress to karate suit..."
"I changed Sakura's clothes from the previous China-style ones to a more lively karate suite style. I gave her boots and gloves. The upper part, though, still has a Chinaesque feeling to it, so as to make her more feminine."
-Sasuke: "I thought I had to make him look cool!"
"I changed my mind a lot of times in my quest to make him look cool. I tried to put a "shimenawa" (the rope, ndt) around him to preserve Orochimaru's style.. I tried a turtleneck to show cleanliness.. I tried a military uniform.. In the end I just chose Japanese-style clothes and left his chest naked (LOL)."

Sai, Shikamaru Nara, Chouji Akimichi, Shino Aburame
-Sai: "I tried to make him look interesting to a certain extent by showing his belly (LOL)"
"Since he's Sasuke's successor, I thought that he had to somehow look cool and interesting...The result is his exposed belly (LOL). I also made him look unbalanced on purpose by making the gloves different in length."
-Shikamaru: "The focal point is the forehead protector on his arm"
"I wanted him to be unique despite wearing a normal chuunin vest. That's why I decided to put his forehead protector on his arm, so that it wouldn't hide his peculiar hair line."
-Chouji/Kiba: "One similar to his dad and a ninken rider"
"As for Chouji, in the past I've drawn his father Chouza, so I thought he might just follow his style. Kiba rides Akamaru, so he has sweat-proof clothes. Like those of a ninken rider (LOL)."
-Shino: "Even Shino's bag is stuffed with bugs"
"I eventually decided that Shino must be dressed in layers (LOL). I decided not to show much his face and other parts of his body to make him look eerie. He's also a bug user, so even his backpack is full of bugs."

Tenten, Akamaru, Ino Yamanaka, Hinata Hyuuga
-Tenten: "Her design is my favorite"
"Tenten wears a comfortable three-quarter China dress. I tried to think about the ease of movement when I drew it. This Tenten is my favorite design."
-Akamaru: "Akamaru..... well, I just made him bigger"
"I just made Akamaru bigger (LOL). His face is the same as before. I never decided a specific breed for him. I just thought of him as a dog that gets bigger and bigger and that would be able to carry Kiba around."
-Ino: "She was full of bandages, so I removed them"
"The previous Ino was covered in bandages, so I first removed those. Then I thought about the ease of movement, and since she's a girl I tried to leave some parts of her body exposed."
-Hinata: "Hinata is cute-but-uncool (LOL)"
"Hinata has to look simple, so I tried to cover all of her body and to give her a "provincial" feel. She's not interested in fashion... so I do want her to look cute, but in an unfashionable way. ...Cute-but-uncool (LOL)"

Pain, Hidan, Konan, Zetsu
-Pain: "I wanted coolness and danger"
"He's Akatsuki's leader, so he has to look cool at least to a certain extent, but I also wanted him to look dangerous. Since his name is "Pain", I decided to put some piercings on his body. Kind of like a person who gives pain to himself".
-Hidan: "Bones and a scythe remind of a shinigami"
"Hidan uses curses and such, so I wanted him to look similar to a shinigami. That's why he carries a scythe and bones. I originally planned the scythe to have a lot of tricks, but I didn't have time to show all of them... (LOL)."
-Konan: "Yeah, she's obscene... but she wears clothes (LOL)"
"I'd thought since the beginning to have Konan as the only woman in Akatsuki, so I tried to make her somewhat obscene, but...... In truth, she wears the Akatsuki mantle above that (LOL). And then, she transforms into paper right away..."
-Zetsu: "I originally wanted to make Akatsuki into a group of monsters"
"Zetsu is modeled after an insectivorous plant. I originally wanted Akatsuki to be a group of individuals with close to no human characteristics. I decided to make Zetsu half black and half white to better show his double personality."

I forgot to take photos of the page with the Nibi and Sanbi, but anyway...
-Nibi: "If it was just a cat it would be too cute..."
"There's actually a youkai (Japanese folklore monster, ndt) called "Nekomata", so the Nibi was easy to imagine. With two tails.. But if it was just a cat it would look too cute, so I tried to make him more beastlike, sort of similar to a tiger or lion, to make him look more powerful."
-Sanbi: "I've always liked monsters (LOL)"
"I've always liked monsters, youkai and huge creatures. With Sanbi I tried to mix many kinds of those. Its body recalls a turtle, and its tails are modeled after shrimps."


:::Kishimoto Q&A Session:::

I'll translate the very short Q&A session to which Kishimoto answered. It's 4am, ignore my horrible English.

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**About the sensei**

(Traduzione in Italiano di Sasori of the red sand)

D: Cm ha scelto i nomi dei personaggi?
R: Ho pensato a dei sostentivi giapponesi e deciso quali sarebbero stati adatti cm nomi...

D:Quale personaggio le piacerebbe avere cm fidanzata?
R: Nessuno, in fin dei conti sn personaggi che ho creato io...

D:Se fosse una ragazza, quale personaggio vorrebbe cm fidanzato?
R:Shikamaru, è intelligente e sembra che potrebbe aver successo nella vita...

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**About the characters**

(Traduzione in Italiano di Sasori of the red sand)

D: Le coppie dell'Akatsuki dormono da qualche parte la notte?
R: Prendono due stanze singole...

D: Adesso che Gaara nn ha più lo Shukaku, è impossibilitato ad usare la sabbia, giusto?
R: Sia il controllo della sabbia che le occhiaie ci sn ancora, nn possono essere portati via...

D: Se un Uchiha ed uno Hyuga avessero un figlio assieme, che occhi avrebbe?
R: L'occhio destro avrà uno Sharingan, e ciò significa che il sinistro avrà un Byakugan...

D: Se bevessi Suigetsu, avrei la diarrea?
R: Semplicemente ti uscirebbe fuori dal fondoschiena...

D: Perchè Naruto può evocare Gamakichi se ha firmato il contratto cn Gamabunta?
R: Perchè firmare un contratto cn Gamabunta nn vuol dire poter evocare solamente lui, ma ogni rospo...

D: Qual'è la nuova tecnica erotica di Naruto?
R: Mi piacerebbe disegnarla un giorno... potrei farlo qnd voglio, ho solamente bisogno dell'approvazione dell'editore...
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**About the mysteries**

Q. Why did the Kyuubi's seal gradually fade?
Q. Why was Naruto able to grow up to four tails?
Q. What did Karin do to Sasuke in the past?
Q. Is Kushina alive?
Q. How did Kakashi awaken his Mangekyou Sharingan?

A. It's a secret!! Just keep on reading the manga!
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