When discussing the Uchiha family, what comes to mind is their sense of revenge because of their deep love for the people around them, and they don’t hesitate to bring destruction to the world for the sake of their love.
However, there is a different Uchiha son, and we will discuss it in the following 10 facts about Uchiha Shisui! Uchiha Shisui is a friend of Uchiha Itachi. The two have been friends since they were little, and both became talented Shinobi at a young age.
Approximately, 11 facts about Uchiha Shisui from the series Naruto What are the interesting things we discuss here? Check out the list below!
1. Basic information
crunchyroll.com/Naruto ShippudenLet’s start with the most basic facts. Shisui’s birthday is October 19, which means in two days when this article is written, Shisui will have his birthday!
As for the meaning of the name itself, if the names are put together, namely Shisui (止水), it means “calm water”. If separated, namely Shi (死) which means “death”, and Sui (水) which means “water”, then the meaning of the name could be trivia from the way he died, namely drowning himself in flowing river water.
Shisui’s height is 180 cm and his weight is 68.9 kg.
His blood type is A.
2. Shisui is a descendant of Kagami Uchiha
Kagami Uchiha’s appearance (right) in Naruto Shippuden. (Doc. Pierrot/Naruto Shippuden)Kagami Uchiha is a contemporary of Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura. Even though he bears the name Uchiha, Kagami brings the Will of Fire from Konoha. What does this have to do with Shisui? It is explained that Shisui is still a descendant of Kagami Uchiha, although their family tree is still unknown.
3. Shisui’s death had meaning and purpose
crunchyroll.com/Naruto ShippudenIn the anime it is shown that Uchiha Shisui’s death has meaning and purpose for the future, what is that? The fact that Uchiha Shisui said that he chose to die in front of Itachi so that Mangekyō Sharingan from Itachi got up.
Of course, Shisui’s hope is that the eyes will awaken Mangekyō Itachi’s could be useful for Uchiha and Konoha in the future. Another reason was to fake the condition of his still existing eyes, so that he wouldn’t be sought by Danzo, and Itachi, who had Shisui’s eyes, wouldn’t be targeted by Danzo because of his status. Shisui died with his eyes and his body was not found.
4. One shinobi Talented Konoha
crunchyroll.com/Naruto ShippudenAre all Uchiha talented? Not really, there were mediocre members, but Shisui proved himself that he was one of the talented Uchiha, similar to Itachi. At a relatively young age, he and Itachi were able to beat Konoha’s Anbu. Apart from that, he was the leader of his team, and with his prowess, even the Shinobi from Kiri led by Ao chose to retreat when they found out that what they were facing was Shisui from Uchiha.
5. Kage Bunshin hers is special
crunchyroll.com/Naruto ShippudenShisui has Kage Bunshin which is special, and we have previously featured also in a separate article, but we will explain briefly. Kage Bunshin Shisui’s specialty is using abilities Shunshin no Jutsu, where he moves so fast that he creates a shadow or after image. Now this shadow can attack too, plus what’s even more amazing is that the after image is not affected by the surrounding conditions because it is just a shadow.
6. Privileges Kotoamatsukami
Shishui Uchiha. (Doc. Pierrot/Naruto Shippuden)Shisui is a great ninja? Indeed, this fact about Uchiha Shisui illustrates a technique that is even more powerful, namely Kotoamatsukami. This is a technique genjutsu Shisui’s high level, and also utilized by Danzo.
With KotoamatsukamiShisui can change the target’s memories or goals into something fake, or can roughly be arranged as the user wishes.
Why high level? Genjutsu this leaves the target still conscious, but following what the Jutsu user planned, making him become genjutsu which is hard to know.
7. A figure respected by Danzo
crunchyroll.com/Naruto ShippudenAgain, we are still talking about Shisui who was very strong, even among the Uchiha themselves, Shisui was the best of his time. Danzo Shimura, the person behind the Uchiha massacre, and Shisui’s death of course even admitted that Shisui was the strongest Uchiha he had ever met. What about Sasuke? Wasn’t Sasuke the one who defeated Danzo? At that time Danzo was very old, different from Shisui, who was also quite old at that time.
8. Including the one that Kabuto couldn’t resurrect with Edo Tensei
anime.stackexchange.comAccording to Kabuto, there were two people who were very unfortunate because he couldn’t get their DNA, so Kabuto couldn’t resurrect them with Edo Tensei.
First there was Jiraiya whose body drowned, next there was Shisui who also drowned. According to Kabuto, if he got DNA from these two names, the course of the Fourth Ninja World War would be different.
One thing is certain, just like Itachi, Shisui can definitely escape from Edo Tensei if he is indeed resurrected.
9. Itachi used it as motivation for Sasuke
crunchyroll.com/Naruto ShippudenWhat’s the motivation? The motivation to kill Itachi was of course, and the person who made Sasuke have this motivation was Itachi himself. So, when rumors emerged that Itachi killed Shisui for his Mangekyo, Itachi didn’t bother, and instead told Sasuke that Itachi did kill Shisui, even though he didn’t. This is one of Sasuke’s motivations for getting Mangekyo, namely killing his brother, as well as avenging his family.
10. Has a green Susanoo
crunchyroll.com/Naruto ShippudenLike several other Uchiha characters who succeeded in awakening Mangekyo, Shisui also has his own Susanoo form. The color is Green, and when shown, this Susanoo seems to specialize in long distances (similar to Sasuke), because one of its techniques is Tsukumo. With the Tsukumo technique, Shisui’s Susano’o shoots green Chakra in the form of a large needle that stabs quickly.
11. Shisui’s voice actor
crunchyroll.com/narutoshippudenShisui Uchiha’s voice actor is Hidenobu Kiuchi.
In other anime, Kiuchi has voiced interesting characters such as Nero from One PieceHol Horse from JoJoKenzo Tenma from Monsters.
Little Shisui was voiced by Kengo Kawanishi.
So, those are 11 facts about Uchiha Shisui.
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First published 2020, updated with point 11 on 26 November 2022, republished 2 May 2024.
