I am rewatching Naruto for the third time. Naruto Shippuuden, I have watched once. Are there any canonical references to what Orochimaru is? As in, what kind of being? I have never read the manga, except for a few random volumes, so if you know something that the manga reveals that the anime does not, feel free to spoil! 😊🐍

  • silly_goose@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    He is one of the 3 sanin along with tsunade and jiraiya.

    His body is destroyed. He found a way to be immortal by taking over someone’s body until their life force is exhausted. So he has to do it every now and then.

    He also has the power of curse mark. He can give it to anyone. The curse mark contains a copy of himself that can awaken at the right time and take over the person. He gave it to many.

    So basically he’s a human who transcended his humanity and mortality. All these things make him pretty much impossible to kill.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    He’s human.

    But basically a “crazy scientist” that has no problem playing around with genetics, corpses, hybridization and whatever else he thinks might prove useful.

    He also uses the knowledge he has gained on himself, hence why he’s become a bit of a “creature”.

    But he did start off a normal human.

    • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Thanks! Do you have any references/sources on that? It’s well known that he would do anything - including playing with human lives - in his pursuit for eternal life and the acquisition of all techniques in existence. But I have never heard about that endeavor being the reason he got those snake eyes and other… Attributes xD

      • devfuuu@lemmy.world
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        23 hours ago

        There was explicit mentions multiple times about his laboratories and about his illegal experiments while he was still in the village and afterwards all the experiments on children he kept doing over the years to absorb their powers.

      • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        it’s explained more in the manga, but he essentially did a lot of taboo experiments and was outcast iirc

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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        1 day ago

        He’s already modified his body extensively to extend his life.

        He is the same age as Jiraya and Tsunade. And unlike Tsunade, he’s not just using a giant pool of stored up chakra to appear young.