Changes: The Bridge to Peace

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"The Bridge to Peace" (平和への懸け橋, Heiwa e no Kakehashi) is episode 253 of the Naruto: Shippūden anime.

Synopsis

Konan traps Tobi in the chasm created by her Paper Person of God Technique, remarking that she studied his abilities the entire time they were comrades and that his Kamui ability only works for five minutes, hence why the explosive tags on her sheets of paper are set to detonate for ten straight minutes. However, Tobi is revealed to have a Sharingan eye in his left eye socket and uses Izanagi to materialise behind Konan, who believes she has killed him. As he stabs her through the back with a metal rod, she asks who he is and how he could have survived. As a favour to her since she helped with the Eye of the Moon Plan during her tenure with the Akatsuki, he reveals the true nature behind Izanagi, likening it to the Sage of Six Paths' Creation of All Things Technique and reaffirms that he is the one and only Madara Uchiha, the self-proclaimed second Sage of Six Paths.

Konan pulls herself off the rod and hobbles away, before noticing that the rain has stopped. Tobi wonders how the perpetual rainfall of Amegakure could end so abruptly, while Konan, seeing a rainbow and remembering how Yahiko told her how he hated the rain as it made it seem like the village is crying, declares to Tobi that Nagato and Yahiko are giving her strength and that Naruto is the true bridge to peace. She forms and fires a Paper Chakram towards Tobi, who is fighting with only one eye and an arm left. Nonetheless, Tobi is able to surpass her defences and chokes her, placing her within a genjutsu to find out Nagato's whereabouts as she passes away from her wounds.

Tobi makes his way to Nagato and Yahiko's Shrine, where he remarks that Nagato performed admirably well with the Rinnegan, declaring him to be the third Sage of Six Paths. As he notices Nagato's white hair, Tobi muses how much he must have strained himself to lose his red hair, the trademark of the Uzumaki clan from whom he is descended. Tobi then uses Kamui to transport himself and Nagato to Kamui's Dimension. Meanwhile, a sheet of paper on Konan's body, which is floating on the water, is soaked red with her blood and begins to drift away.

In the past, Jiraiya had enforced a Water on a Frog's Face Training, which utilised a "hop-in" card system which the Ame Orphans would use whenever they left their hideout. Whenever one member was out of the hideout they were to turn the card onto the side with the frog so that the others would be aware that they were not there, and while they were in the hideout, the card should be on the red side. If one of them was gone but that person's card was still red, it would signify that he or she had been captured and something was wrong and if it should happen that a plank is turned on to the white side yet the person is in the hideout it could mean that an enemy has transformed into said person and has infiltrated the hideout. Jiraiya explained that this was done as a precaution because Amegakure was still war torn and politically unstable. Konan's memories with Nagato and Yahiko are shown, including the formation of the Akatsuki and her first kiss with Yahiko, and how the three orphans were forced to flee their hideout, albeit promising to one day return along with Jiraiya. The blood-red sheet of paper floats all the way to the hideout, where it places itself on Konan's card, signifying that the four have been reunited at last in the afterlife.

Discarding his torn Akatsuki robe and damaged mask, Tobi dresses himself in a new robe, with the Uchiha clan crest on the back, along with a mask depicting the three tomoe design of the Sharingan, although with two eye holes this time. Kabuto notices Tobi's new eye, while Zetsu notifies him that a scroll from Kisame has arrived, depicting the location of the Nine-Tails. Tobi then alerts the two that they are setting off to capture him immediately.

Trivia

In Konan's flashback during this episode, Jiraiya uses the Rasengan against the three Ame Orphans. However, Jiraiya was taught the Rasengan by Minato, who spent three years developing it. This gives Minato a narrow window to have developed and teach Jiraiya the Rasengan as he would have had to do so by the time he was only 15 or 16 as Minato is four years older than the Ame Orphans and Jiraiya spent three years training the Ame Orphans.
In some scenes, especially when Tobi grabs Konan by the throat, her Akatsuki ring does not appear on her finger.
The Akatsuki rings appear to no longer serve a purpose, given that the new attire Tobi chooses to replace his damaged outfit lacks his thumb ring.
In the manga, when Obito attempted to use Kamui to escape, his left hand covered his right eye, and thus his Mangekyō Sharingan. In the anime, his left hand did cover his face but his fingers did not cover his right eye and his, which had his regular Sharingan active. This was most likely because it was not yet revealed Obito's technique is the same Kamui Kakashi used.

Credits

Role	Seiyū			English Voice Actor
	English	Japanese	Rōmaji
Konan	Atsuko Tanaka	田中敦子	Tanaka Atsuko	Dorothy Elias-Fahn
Yahiko	Kenyu Horiuchi	堀内賢雄	Horiuchi Ken'yū	Matthew Mercer
Nagato	Junpei Morita	森田順平	Morita Junpei	Vic Mignogna
Jiraiya	Hochu Otsuka	大塚芳忠	Ōtsuka Hōchū	David Lodge
Nagato (boy)	Tomoaki Maeno	前野智昭	Maeno Tomoaki	Vic Mignogna
Yahiko (boy)	Wataru Hatano	羽多野渉	Hatano Wataru	Matthew Mercer
Konan (girl)	Kaori Mine	峯香織	Mine Kaori	Dorothy Elias-Fahn
Madara Uchiha	Naoya Uchida	内田直哉	Uchida Naoya	Neil Kaplan
Kabuto Yakushi	Nobutoshi Kanna	神奈延年	Kanna Nobutoshi	Henry Dittman
Zetsu	Nobuo Tobita	飛田展男	Tobita Nobuo	Travis Willingham
Hanzō of the Salamander	Ikuya Sawaki	沢木郁也	Sawaki Ikuya	Richard Epcar
Rock Lee	Yoichi Masukawa	増川洋一	Masukawa Yōichi	Brian Donovan
Neji Hyūga	Koichi Tochika	遠近孝一	Tōchika Kōichi	Steve Staley

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 |image=Konan supports the bridge to peace.png
+|english=The Bridge to Peace
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 |romaji=Heiwa e no Kakehashi
 |episode=253
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+|boruto anime=No
 |watchonlinelink=588320
+|arc=Fourth Shinobi World War: Countdown
-|arc=Confining the Jinchūriki Arc
 |chapters=510, 511
+|boruto=No
+|opening song=Newsong
+|ending song=By My Side
 |japanese airdate=March 8, 2012
+|english airdate=August 2, 2014
 |English=A Suspension Bridge to Peace
 }}
+== Synopsis ==
-{{translation|'''A Suspension Bridge to Peace'''|平和への懸け橋|Heiwa e no Kakehashi}} is episode 253 of the ''[[Naruto: Shippūden]]'' anime.
+<section begin=summary />[[Konan]] traps [[Tobi]] in the chasm created by her [[Paper Person of God Technique]], remarking that she studied his abilities the entire time they were comrades and that his [[Kamui]] ability only works for five minutes, hence why the [[explosive tag]]s on her sheets of paper are set to detonate for ten straight minutes. However, Tobi is revealed to have a [[Sharingan]] eye in his left eye socket and uses [[Izanagi]] to materialise behind Konan, who believes she has killed him. As he stabs her through the back with a metal rod, she asks who he is and how he could have survived. As a favour to her since she helped with the [[Eye of the Moon Plan]] during her tenure with the [[Akatsuki]], he reveals the true nature behind Izanagi, likening it to the [[Sage of Six Paths]]' [[Creation of All Things Technique]] and reaffirms that he is the one and only [[Madara Uchiha]], the self-proclaimed second Sage of Six Paths.<section end=summary />
+Konan pulls herself off the rod and hobbles away, before noticing that the rain has stopped. Tobi wonders how the perpetual rainfall of [[Amegakure]] could end so abruptly, while Konan, seeing a rainbow and remembering how [[Yahiko]] told her how he hated the rain as it made it seem like the village is crying, declares to Tobi that [[Nagato]] and Yahiko are giving her strength and that [[Naruto]] is the true bridge to peace. She forms and fires a [[Paper Chakram]] towards Tobi, who is fighting with only one eye and an arm left. Nonetheless, Tobi is able to surpass her defences and chokes her, placing her within a [[Genjutsu: Sharingan|genjutsu]] to find out Nagato's whereabouts as she passes away from her wounds.
-== Summary ==
-[[Konan]] encloses [[Tobi]] in a chasm  with a large amount of [[explosive tag]]s that detonates in a wide area. Tobi, however, manages to survive the assault by sacrificing his left eye to use [[Izanagi]], after which he appears behind a shocked and exhausted Konan and  stabs her with a metal pipe. Noting that it was a favour to a former comrade, Tobi explains his technique to Konan. Konan refuses to give up and continues to fight Tobi. Tobi manages to subdue her and places Konan inside a genjutsu to force her to reveal the location of the Rinnegan. Tobi travels to the location and retrieves Nagato's corpse and then takes his leave. A blood-soaked piece of paper is blown off Konan's body by the wind and travels to her childhood [[Ame Orphans' Hideout|hideout]]. As it travels, more of the [[Ame Orphans]] past with Jiraiya is revealed, as well as some of their time as the original [[Akatsuki]]. Meanwhile, Tobi, dressed in new attire, is told by [[Zetsu]] that they have received intel on the [[Nine-Tails]] whereabouts from [[Kisame Hoshigaki]]. With this, Tobi declares that it's time to capture the Nine-Tails. At the end of the episode, the blood-soaked paper that flew to the hideout covers Konan's [[Water on a Frog's Face Training|frog card]], signifying that she was "home".
+Tobi makes his way to [[Nagato and Yahiko's Shrine]], where he remarks that Nagato performed admirably well with the [[Rinnegan]], declaring him to be the third Sage of Six Paths. As he notices Nagato's white hair, Tobi muses how much he must have strained himself to lose his red hair, the trademark of the [[Uzumaki clan]] from whom he is descended. Tobi then uses Kamui to transport himself and Nagato to [[Kamui's Dimension]]. Meanwhile, a sheet of paper on Konan's body, which is floating on the water, is soaked red with her blood and begins to drift away.
+In the past, [[Jiraiya]] had enforced a [[Water on a Frog's Face Training]], which utilised a "hop-in" card system which the [[Ame Orphans]] would use whenever they left their [[Ame Orphans' Hideout|hideout]]. Whenever one member was out of the hideout they were to turn the card onto the side with the frog so that the others would be aware that they were not there, and while they were in the hideout, the card should be on the red side. If one of them was gone but that person's card was still red, it would signify that he or she had been captured and something was wrong and if it should happen that a plank is turned on to the white side yet the person is in the hideout it could mean that an enemy has transformed into said person and has infiltrated the hideout. Jiraiya explained that this was done as a precaution because Amegakure was still war torn and politically unstable. Konan's memories with Nagato and Yahiko are shown, including the formation of the Akatsuki and her first kiss with Yahiko, and how the three orphans were forced to flee their hideout, albeit promising to one day return along with Jiraiya. The blood-red sheet of paper floats all the way to the hideout, where it places itself on Konan's card, signifying that the four have been reunited at last in the afterlife.
+Discarding his torn Akatsuki robe and damaged mask, Tobi dresses himself in a new robe, with the [[Uchiha clan]] crest on the back, along with a mask depicting the three tomoe design of the Sharingan, although with two eye holes this time. [[Kabuto]] notices Tobi's new eye, while [[Zetsu]] notifies him that a scroll from [[Kisame]] has arrived, depicting the location of the [[Nine-Tails]]. Tobi then alerts the two that they are setting off to capture him immediately.
+{{-}}
 == Trivia ==
-* In Konan's flashback during this episode, [[Jiraiya]] used the [[Rasengan]] while training with the [[Ame Orphans]]. However, given the period that Jiraiya had taught the orphans in, it is unlikely that Minato had created the technique as yet as he would have been a child then or even that Jiraiya had started teaching Minato altogether.
+* In Konan's flashback during this episode, [[Jiraiya]] uses the [[Rasengan]] against the three [[Ame Orphans]]. However, Jiraiya was taught the Rasengan by [[Minato]], who spent three years developing it. This gives Minato a narrow window to have developed and teach Jiraiya the Rasengan as he would have had to do so by the time he was only 15 or 16 as Minato is four years older than the Ame Orphans and Jiraiya spent three years training the Ame Orphans.
+* In some scenes, especially when Tobi grabs Konan by the throat, her Akatsuki ring does not appear on her finger.
+* The Akatsuki rings appear to no longer serve a purpose, given that the new attire Tobi chooses to replace his damaged outfit lacks his thumb ring.
+* In the manga, when Obito attempted to use Kamui to escape, his left hand covered his right eye, and thus his Mangekyō Sharingan. In the anime, his left hand did cover his face but his fingers did not cover his right eye and his, which had his regular Sharingan active. This was most likely because it was not yet revealed Obito's technique is the same Kamui Kakashi used.
+{{-}}
 == Credits ==
+{{CreditsTable|
-{| class="wikitable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; width: 100%;"
+Konan
-|-
+ JA: Atsuko Tanaka
-! colspan=3 | Role
+ EN: Dorothy Elias-Fahn
-! colspan=3 | Seiyū
-|-
+Yahiko
-! English
+ JA: Kenyu Horiuchi
-! Japanese
+ EN: Matthew Mercer
-! Rōmaji
-! English
+Nagato
-! Japanese
+ JA: Junpei Morita
-! Rōmaji
+ EN: Vic Mignogna
-|-
-! [[Konan]]
+Jiraiya
-| 小南
+ JA: Hochu Otsuka
-| Konan
+ EN: David Lodge
-! [[Wikipedia:Atsuko Tanaka|Atsuko Tanaka]]
-| 田中 敦子
+Nagato [Nagato (boy)]
-| Tanaka Atsuko
+ JA: Tomoaki Maeno
-|-
+ EN: Vic Mignogna
-! [[Yahiko]]
-| 弥彦
-| Yahiko
+Yahiko [Yahiko (boy)]
+ JA: Wataru Hatano
-! [[Wikipedia:Ken'yū Horiuchi|Ken'yū Horiuchi ]]
+ EN: Matthew Mercer
-| 堀内 賢雄
-| Horiuchi Ken'yū
+Konan [Konan (girl)]
-|-
+ JA: Kaori Mine
-! [[Nagato]]
+ EN: Dorothy Elias-Fahn
-| 長門
-| Nagato
+Obito Uchiha [Madara Uchiha]
-! [[Wikipedia:Junpei Morita|Junpei Morita]]
+ JA: Naoya Uchida
-| 森田 順平
+ EN: Neil Kaplan
-| Morita Junpei
-|-
+Kabuto Yakushi
-! [[Jiraiya]]
+ JA: Nobutoshi Kanna
-| 自来也
+ EN: Henry Dittman
-| Jiraiya
-! [[Wikipedia:Hōchū Ōtsuka|Hōchū Ōtsuka]]
+Zetsu
-| 大塚 芳忠
+ JA: Nobuo Tobita
-| Ōtsuka Hōchū
+ EN: Travis Willingham
-|-
-! [[Nagato]] (Boy)
+Hanzō of the Salamander
-| 長門 (少年)
+ JA: Ikuya Sawaki
-| Nagato (Shōnen)
+ EN: Richard Epcar
-! [[Wikipedia:Tomoaki Maeno|Tomoaki Maeno]]
-| 前野 智昭
+Rock Lee
-| Maeno Tomoaki
+ JA: Yoichi Masukawa
-|-
+ EN: Brian Donovan
-! [[Yahiko]] (Boy)
-| 弥彦 (少年)
+Neji Hyūga
-| Yahiko (Shōnen)
+ JA: Koichi Tochika
-! [[Wikipedia:Wataru Hatano|Wataru Hatano]]
+ EN: Steve Staley
-| 羽多野 渉
+}}
-| Hatano Wataru
-|-
-! [[Konan]] (Girl)
-| 小南 (少女)
-| Konan (Shōjo)
-! [[Wikipedia:Kaori Mine|Kaori Mine]]
-| 峯 香織
-| Mine Kaori
-|-
-! [[Tobi|Madara Uchiha]]
-| うちはマダラ
-| Uchiha Madara
-! [[Wikipedia:Naoya Uchida|Naoya Uchida]]
-| 内田 直哉
-| Uchida Naoya
-|-
-! [[Kabuto Yakushi]]
-| 薬師カブト
-| Yakushi Kabuto
-! [[Wikipedia:Nobutoshi Canna|Nobutoshi Canna]]
-| 神奈 延年
-| Kanna Nobutoshi
-|-
-! [[Zetsu]]
-| ゼツ
-| Zetsu
-! [[Wikipedia:Nobuo Tobita|Nobuo Tobita]]
-| 飛田 展男
-| Tobita Nobuo
-|-
-! [[Hanzō of the Salamander]]
-| 山椒魚の半蔵
-| Sanshōuo no Hanzō
-! [[Wikipedia:Ikuya Sawaki|Ikuya Sawaki]]
-| 沢木 郁也
-| Sawaki Ikuya
-|-
-|}
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