Dance of the Shikigami

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Dance of the Shikigami[1]
Name
Kanji	式紙の舞
Rōmaji	Shikigami no Mai
Literal English	Dance of the Shikigami
Debut
Manga	Chapter #372
Anime	Naruto Shippuden Episode #129
Data
Classification	Ninjutsu
Rank	B-rank
Class	Offensive, Supplementary
Range	All ranges
Users Konan

Using her high origami and ninjutsu skills, Konan will turn her body and clothing into many sheets of paper. She can control and reshape every sheet at will, making such forms as weapons for attack, butterflies for spying, paper airplanes for quick transport, or simply covering her enemy in sheets of paper, restricting their movements. Her ability to make wings of paper mirror her title as God's Angel in Amegakure.

In this form, she is weak to oil-based techniques, which causes the paper to stick, but she is not weak against water to the same extent, as Pain washed the oil off her with Water Release: Violent Bubble Wave.

[edit] Trivia

• Shikigami, when written as 式神, refer to a kind of spirit summoned to serve an Onmyōji (a kind of sorcerer). These spirits are often depicted as changing into small pieces of paper once harmed or finished with their task. In the name of this technique, the kanji for "god" (神, kami) has been replaced with the kanji for "paper" (紙), which is pronounced the same. This is likely done to emphasise the paper nature of Konan's shikigami and to point out the subtle difference between them and traditional shikigami.

[edit] References

1. ↑ Third Databook, page 264