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== Personality ==
 
== Personality ==
In the manga, Matsuri is shown simply as a reverent admirer of [[Gaara]] or any other powerful ninja. It is also hinted that she has romantic interests in Gaara.<ref name= "d3"/> This is also shown in her quickness to compliment him and insult, and even strike, others who suggest he could be defeated.<ref name="chapt280">Chapter 280, page 4</ref> In the anime, she was shown to be greatly offended when Gaara was criticised.<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 398</ref>
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In the manga, Matsuri is simply a reverent admirer of [[Gaara]] or any other powerful ninja. It is also hinted that she has romantic interests for Gaara.<ref name= "d3"/> This is also shown in her quickness to compliment him and insult, and even strike, others who suggest he could be defeated.<ref name="chapt280">Chapter 280, page 4</ref> In the anime, it is also evident that she is greatly offended whenever Gaara was criticised.<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 398</ref>
   
 
[[File:Yukata and Matsuri grab Ōnoki.png|thumb|left|Matsuri and Yukata carrying the Tsuchikage despite his protests.]]
 
[[File:Yukata and Matsuri grab Ōnoki.png|thumb|left|Matsuri and Yukata carrying the Tsuchikage despite his protests.]]
In the anime, Matsuri is shown in more depth. She was initially a shy and very soft-spoken girl, but becomes braver and more outspoken under Gaara's tutelage. She remains polite to others, using the proper [[Wikipedia:Japanese honorifics|honourifics]]. While Matsuri is reluctant to use weapons in Part I, she has fewer inhibitions by the start of Part II; she will use weapons to protect her comrades and Sunagakure's reputation, but will avoid causing harm to others. During the [[Fourth Shinobi World War]], it is shown that she also greatly admires [[Naruto Uzumaki]], often referring to him as "Hero of [[Konoha]]". She can even swoon about him with a threat such as the [[Third Raikage]] in front of her.<ref name="shippu301">''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 301</ref> While she shows great respect towards [[Temari]], she is nevertheless willing to tease her about her former acquaintance [[Daimaru]] and her current [[Shikamaru Nara|crush]].<ref name="shippu316">''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 316</ref> She also shows a certain level of boldness, first annoying the current [[Tsuchikage]] [[Ōnoki]] by not knowing him<ref name="shippu276">''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 276</ref> and then disregarding his position by carrying him to a medical tent, even with him complaining about it.<ref name="shippu302">''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 302</ref>
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In the anime, Matsuri is shown more in depth. She was initially a shy and very soft-spoken girl, but becomes braver and more outspoken under Gaara's tutelage. She remains polite to others, using the proper [[Wikipedia:Japanese honorifics|honourifics]]. While Matsuri is reluctant to use weapons in Part I, she has fewer inhibitions by the start of Part II; she will use weapons to protect her comrades and Sunagakure's reputation, but will avoid causing harm to others. During the [[Fourth Shinobi World War]], it is shown that she greatly admires [[Naruto]], often referring to him as "Hero of [[Konoha]]". She can even swoon about him with a threat such as the [[Third Raikage]] in front of her.<ref name="shippu301">''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 301</ref> While she shows great respect towards [[Temari]], she is nevertheless willing to tease her about her former acquaintance [[Daimaru]] and her current [[Shikamaru Nara|crush]].<ref name="shippu316">''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 316</ref> She also shows a certain level of boldness, first annoying the current [[Tsuchikage]] [[Ōnoki]] by not knowing him<ref name="shippu276">''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 276</ref> and then disregarding his position by carrying him to a medical tent, even with him complaining about it.<ref name="shippu302">''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 302</ref>
   
 
== Appearance ==
 
== Appearance ==
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== Part I ==
 
== Part I ==
=== Ultimate Weapon Arc ===
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=== Sunagakure Support Mission ===
 
[[File:Jōhyō.png|thumb|left|Matsuri practising with the Jōhyō.]]
 
[[File:Jōhyō.png|thumb|left|Matsuri practising with the Jōhyō.]]
Matsuri débuted in the final arc of the anime. She was a student of Suna's new ninja academy. At the beginning of the weapon-handling lesson, Matsuri asked if weapons are just dangerous. While the class and the teachers pondered the question, Gaara replied suddenly with, "Your weapon is like…" and made Matsuri think that Gaara was trying to tell her something. Therefore she was the only person out of the entire class brave enough to choose Gaara to be her teacher. Gaara, sensing her hesitation and inhibitions, taught her how to use a [[Jōhyō]], but she was fearful of it and other weapons because she had witnessed her parents' murders in the past. Gaara tried to tell her that weapons can be used to protect comrades, but Matsuri didn't understand him at first.
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While she wasn't débuted into Part II in the manga, in the anime she was introduced in Part I. She was a student of Suna's new ninja academy. At the beginning of the weapon-handling lesson, Matsuri asked if weapons are just dangerous. While the class and the teachers pondered the question, Gaara replied suddenly with, "Your weapon is like…" and made Matsuri think that Gaara was trying to tell her something. Therefore she was the only person out of the entire class brave enough to choose Gaara to be her teacher. Gaara, sensing her hesitation and inhibitions, taught her how to use a [[Jōhyō]], but she was fearful of it and other weapons because she had witnessed her parents' murders in the past. Gaara tried to tell her that weapons can be used to protect comrades, but Matsuri didn't understand him at first.
   
 
Later, the [[Four Celestial Symbols Men]] kidnapped Matsuri, because of her importance to Gaara, trying to lure him out, capture him, and steal the [[One-Tailed Shukaku]]'s chakra stored within him. Gaara, his siblings, and the [[Konoha 11]] (excluding [[Tenten]]) came to her aid, and fought her captors. After being freed, she saved [[Naruto]] from a fatal attack from [[Seimei]] using her Jōhyō, after finally realising that weapons can be used to protect comrades. After Seimei's defeat, she returned to Suna with Gaara, [[Kankurō]], and Temari. But before she left, she asked [[Shikamaru]] to tell Naruto that he had made her understand what Gaara had been trying to tell her, and that she would continue to train as Gaara's student.
 
Later, the [[Four Celestial Symbols Men]] kidnapped Matsuri, because of her importance to Gaara, trying to lure him out, capture him, and steal the [[One-Tailed Shukaku]]'s chakra stored within him. Gaara, his siblings, and the [[Konoha 11]] (excluding [[Tenten]]) came to her aid, and fought her captors. After being freed, she saved [[Naruto]] from a fatal attack from [[Seimei]] using her Jōhyō, after finally realising that weapons can be used to protect comrades. After Seimei's defeat, she returned to Suna with Gaara, [[Kankurō]], and Temari. But before she left, she asked [[Shikamaru]] to tell Naruto that he had made her understand what Gaara had been trying to tell her, and that she would continue to train as Gaara's student.
   
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== Interlude ==
=== Naruto's Back: Friends' Tracks ===
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=== In Naruto's Footsteps: The Friends' Paths ===
Two years later, [[Konohagakure]] decided to host an early [[Chūnin Exams]] to help restore its reputation after the previous exam was ruined by [[Orochimaru]] during his [[Konoha Crush|invasion]]. To better the chances of people joining this, it was co-sponsored by Sunagakure to help promote Gaara as the Fifth Kazekage. Matsuri joined the exams with [[Mikoshi]] and [[Yukata]] as her team-mates, and went to Konohagakure where the first exam would be held. Once entering the exams, Matsuri and her team-mates were randomly split up and sent to different rooms to take the written test. On a monitor, [[Shikamaru Nara]], as proctor, explained that everyone only needs to answer one question on the test, but their combined score with their team-mates will determine if they pass or fail the exam as they need exactly 100 points to pass.<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 396</ref>
 
 
 
[[File:Matsuri teasing Yukata.png|thumb|right|Matsuri teasing Yukata during the Chūnin Exams.]]
 
[[File:Matsuri teasing Yukata.png|thumb|right|Matsuri teasing Yukata during the Chūnin Exams.]]
With the conclusion of the three question choice test, Shikamaru revealed a bonus question, asking to which teammate you would leave to be a decoy. The answer had to be unanimous with the person picked being disqualified. Her team was able to qualify for the second round by not answering, which proved to be the right choice as all members of team would need to be present for the second round. After the exam, Matsuri teased the overjoyed Yukata about her not being able to solve the problems at all. A preliminary round had to be held to lessen the many participants there were. The preliminary round involved a race to Sunagakure with only the first 30 participants qualifying for the primary second round.<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 397</ref> She and her team-mates managed to be part of the 30 shinobi to make it. During dinner, when some shinobi tried to stop [[Burami]] from leaking his sweat on the food, they knocked over all the food in the process, angering her and other shinobi. [[Kiba]] states it was unintentional, but when he comments on Suna's awareness skills, she attacks him, beginning the fight that commenced between the participants in the room. The next day, the second exam proctor, [[Temari]], announced the start of the second round taken place within the [[Demon Desert]].<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 398</ref>
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In the anime, two years later, [[Konohagakure]] decided to host an early [[Chūnin Exams]] to help restore its reputation after the previous exam was ruined by [[Orochimaru]] during his [[Konoha Crush|invasion]]. To better the chances of people joining this, it was co-sponsored by Sunagakure to help promote Gaara as the Fifth Kazekage. Matsuri joined the exams with [[Mikoshi]] and [[Yukata]] as her team-mates, and went to Konohagakure where the first exam would be held. Once entering the exams, Matsuri and her team-mates were randomly split into different rooms to take the written test. On a monitor, [[Shikamaru Nara]], as proctor, explained that everyone only needs to answer one question on the test, but their team's combined score must equal exactly 100 points to pass.<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 396</ref> After time is up, Shikamaru revealed a bonus question, asking to which team-mate you would leave to be a decoy, noting while it had to be unanimous, the person pick woukd be disqualified. She, like her team-mates, left the question blank, and ultimately her team passed the first round. After the exam, Matsuri teased the overjoyed Yukata about her not being able to solve the problems at all. However, a preliminary round had to be held to lessen the many participants there were which involved a race to Suna where only the first 30 teams to arrive at the destination would qualify for the second phase.<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 397</ref>
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Ultimately, her team were among the first 30 teams to make it. During dinner, when some shinobi tried to stop [[Burami]] from leaking his sweat on the food, they knocked over all the food in the process, angering her and other shinobi. [[Kiba]] states it was unintentional, but when he comments on Suna's shinobi awareness skills, she attacks him, beginning the fight that commenced between the genin in the room. The next day, the second exam proctor, [[Temari]], announced the start of the second round taken place within [[Demon Desert]].<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 398</ref>
   
 
== Part II ==
 
== Part II ==
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Matsuri was last seen when [[Madara Uchiha]] arrived alongside [[Mū]] on the battlefield.<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 321</ref> It is unknown if she survived the following confrontation and the final [[Tengai Shinsei|attack]] that wiped out most of the Fourth Division.
 
Matsuri was last seen when [[Madara Uchiha]] arrived alongside [[Mū]] on the battlefield.<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 321</ref> It is unknown if she survived the following confrontation and the final [[Tengai Shinsei|attack]] that wiped out most of the Fourth Division.
   
== Movies ==
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== In Other Media ==
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=== Movies ===
=== Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire ===
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==== Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire ====
 
Matsuri appears in Gaara's thoughts along with several other villagers, including his siblings and Sari, when he thinks of the members of Suna, stating that his villagers lives now "belong to him" and he considers it his duty to protect them.
 
Matsuri appears in Gaara's thoughts along with several other villagers, including his siblings and Sari, when he thinks of the members of Suna, stating that his villagers lives now "belong to him" and he considers it his duty to protect them.
   

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This article is about the genin from Sunagakure. For the Academy student from Konohagakure, see Matsuri.
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マツリ Matsuri
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Manga Naruto Chapter #280
Anime Naruto Episode #216
Movie Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire
Game Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 4
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  • Part II: 17
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  • Part II: 158 cm1.58 m <br />5.184 ft <br />62.205 in <br />
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Matsuri (マツリ) is a genin from Sunagakure. In the anime, she is part of a genin team alongside Yukata and Mikoshi.

Personality

In the manga, Matsuri is simply a reverent admirer of Gaara or any other powerful ninja. It is also hinted that she has romantic interests for Gaara.[1] This is also shown in her quickness to compliment him and insult, and even strike, others who suggest he could be defeated.[2] In the anime, it is also evident that she is greatly offended whenever Gaara was criticised.[3]

File:Yukata and Matsuri grab Ōnoki.png

Matsuri and Yukata carrying the Tsuchikage despite his protests.

In the anime, Matsuri is shown more in depth. She was initially a shy and very soft-spoken girl, but becomes braver and more outspoken under Gaara's tutelage. She remains polite to others, using the proper honourifics. While Matsuri is reluctant to use weapons in Part I, she has fewer inhibitions by the start of Part II; she will use weapons to protect her comrades and Sunagakure's reputation, but will avoid causing harm to others. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, it is shown that she greatly admires Naruto, often referring to him as "Hero of Konoha". She can even swoon about him with a threat such as the Third Raikage in front of her.[4] While she shows great respect towards Temari, she is nevertheless willing to tease her about her former acquaintance Daimaru and her current crush.[5] She also shows a certain level of boldness, first annoying the current Tsuchikage Ōnoki by not knowing him[6] and then disregarding his position by carrying him to a medical tent, even with him complaining about it.[7]

Appearance

File:Matsuri II.jpg

Matsuri in Part II.

Matsuri has straight chin-length brown hair, dark eyes and fair skin. In Part I, she wore a blue-green blouse that hung off her left shoulder, a white and pink sleeveless shirt underneath, a short yellow scarf tied around her neck and a black short skirt. She also wore long, thigh-high stockings, brown sandals and black gloves with a grey elbow-length arm guard on her right arm. During the Chūnin Exams, she still wore the stockings, skirt and sandals, as well as two arm guards instead of one, a dark pink shirt with cuts over the shoulders, a white shirt underneath the other and a Sunagakure forehead protector instead of her scarf.

In Part II, she wears a dark shirt with a skirt of the same colour, a Sunagakure flak jacket and a black forehead protector over her neck. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, she changed her forehead protector with that of the Allied Shinobi Forces.

Abilities

In the manga, Matsuri is shown to possess above average strength, being able to carelessly backhand Naruto, knocking him to the ground.[8]

In the anime, she learned to use the jōhyō, a weapon mainly used to keep the enemy away with the short dart attached to a long rope. She was also chosen to fight in the Fourth Division of the Allied Shinobi Forces, although still being a genin. Matsuri appears to have some skill in Wind Release techniques, having joined other Wind Release users to battle the reincarnated Third Raikage. However, Temari states she isn't a long-distance user.[4]

Part I

Sunagakure Support Mission

File:Jōhyō.png

Matsuri practising with the Jōhyō.

While she wasn't débuted into Part II in the manga, in the anime she was introduced in Part I. She was a student of Suna's new ninja academy. At the beginning of the weapon-handling lesson, Matsuri asked if weapons are just dangerous. While the class and the teachers pondered the question, Gaara replied suddenly with, "Your weapon is like…" and made Matsuri think that Gaara was trying to tell her something. Therefore she was the only person out of the entire class brave enough to choose Gaara to be her teacher. Gaara, sensing her hesitation and inhibitions, taught her how to use a Jōhyō, but she was fearful of it and other weapons because she had witnessed her parents' murders in the past. Gaara tried to tell her that weapons can be used to protect comrades, but Matsuri didn't understand him at first.

Later, the Four Celestial Symbols Men kidnapped Matsuri, because of her importance to Gaara, trying to lure him out, capture him, and steal the One-Tailed Shukaku's chakra stored within him. Gaara, his siblings, and the Konoha 11 (excluding Tenten) came to her aid, and fought her captors. After being freed, she saved Naruto from a fatal attack from Seimei using her Jōhyō, after finally realising that weapons can be used to protect comrades. After Seimei's defeat, she returned to Suna with Gaara, Kankurō, and Temari. But before she left, she asked Shikamaru to tell Naruto that he had made her understand what Gaara had been trying to tell her, and that she would continue to train as Gaara's student.

Interlude

In Naruto's Footsteps: The Friends' Paths

Matsuri teasing Yukata

Matsuri teasing Yukata during the Chūnin Exams.

In the anime, two years later, Konohagakure decided to host an early Chūnin Exams to help restore its reputation after the previous exam was ruined by Orochimaru during his invasion. To better the chances of people joining this, it was co-sponsored by Sunagakure to help promote Gaara as the Fifth Kazekage. Matsuri joined the exams with Mikoshi and Yukata as her team-mates, and went to Konohagakure where the first exam would be held. Once entering the exams, Matsuri and her team-mates were randomly split into different rooms to take the written test. On a monitor, Shikamaru Nara, as proctor, explained that everyone only needs to answer one question on the test, but their team's combined score must equal exactly 100 points to pass.[9] After time is up, Shikamaru revealed a bonus question, asking to which team-mate you would leave to be a decoy, noting while it had to be unanimous, the person pick woukd be disqualified. She, like her team-mates, left the question blank, and ultimately her team passed the first round. After the exam, Matsuri teased the overjoyed Yukata about her not being able to solve the problems at all. However, a preliminary round had to be held to lessen the many participants there were which involved a race to Suna where only the first 30 teams to arrive at the destination would qualify for the second phase.[10]

Ultimately, her team were among the first 30 teams to make it. During dinner, when some shinobi tried to stop Burami from leaking his sweat on the food, they knocked over all the food in the process, angering her and other shinobi. Kiba states it was unintentional, but when he comments on Suna's shinobi awareness skills, she attacks him, beginning the fight that commenced between the genin in the room. The next day, the second exam proctor, Temari, announced the start of the second round taken place within Demon Desert.[11]

Part II

Kazekage Rescue Mission

File:Team Temari.jpg

Matsuri accompanies Temari as backup for Team Kakashi.

In the anime, after Gaara is kidnapped by Akatsuki, Matsuri is assigned to a team led by Temari. When they start doing border patrol, Matsuri complains that they should be trying to rescue Gaara instead.

Later, in her first manga appearance, Matsuri is present when Gaara is revived. She is one of the first people he speaks to when he wakes up. She becomes angry with Ittetsu when he voices his fears that Gaara had died, and then she and Sari gush over him. They rush towards Gaara, pushing Naruto out of the way.[2] Temari is later seen standing between the girls and her little brother with her arms straight out, probably insisting that Gaara needs some breathing space.

Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission

She made a cameo appearance in the anime, in which she appeared in Naruto's dream about peeping into a bathhouse where Sakura and other female characters from the series were gathered.[12]

Five Kage Summit

Matsuri was seen in the crowd, next to Ebizō and Baki, telling Gaara to be careful as he left for the Kage Summit.

Fourth Shinobi World War: Confrontation

Yukata and Matsuri gushing over Gaara's speech

Matsuri and Yukata gushing over Gaara's speech.

In the anime, Matsuri is seen alongside Yukata and a few other Sunagakure shinobi, gushing over Gaara after he unites the troops with his speech.[13] Later, she is seen with Temari, Shikamaru, Chōji, and Yukata discussing about the topic of kekkei tōta. During the first night of the war, she is seen with Yukata, lending towels to Gaara, telling him that he must conserve his strength. Wanting to show kindness to the older kage, Gaara tells them to give them to Ōnoki before him. They did not recognise him at first, which irritated the Tsuchikage, and were surprised when he told them who he was.[6]

Yukata, Matsuri and Temari

Matsuri, Yukata and Temari at the frontlines.

The next day, the Fourth Division makes their move on the reincarnated Kage and Matsuri and Yukata join other Wind Release users in subduing the Third Raikage. Matsuri asks Temari about their next move after Naruto could not damage the Raikage. Yukata asks who Naruto is and Matsuri explains he is the hero of Konoha who defeated the Akatsuki leader Pain. Annoyed with their discussions, Temari orders the two kunoichi to keep their distance.[4] After the Raikage was defeated by Naruto, she and Yukata carried a protesting Ōnoki to the medical tents.[7]

Later, when Temari fights with Daimaru, she and Yukata gush over his confession, and then tease Temari about her crush on Shikamaru.[5]

Fourth Shinobi World War: Climax

Matsuri was last seen when Madara Uchiha arrived alongside on the battlefield.[14] It is unknown if she survived the following confrontation and the final attack that wiped out most of the Fourth Division.

In Other Media

Movies

Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire

Matsuri appears in Gaara's thoughts along with several other villagers, including his siblings and Sari, when he thinks of the members of Suna, stating that his villagers lives now "belong to him" and he considers it his duty to protect them.

Trivia

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Third Databook, page 187
  2. 2.0 2.1 Chapter 280, page 4
  3. Naruto: Shippūden episode 398
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Naruto: Shippūden episode 301
  5. 5.0 5.1 Naruto: Shippūden episode 316
  6. 6.0 6.1 Naruto: Shippūden episode 276
  7. 7.0 7.1 Naruto: Shippūden episode 302
  8. Chapter 280, page 4
  9. Naruto: Shippūden episode 396
  10. Naruto: Shippūden episode 397
  11. Naruto: Shippūden episode 398
  12. Naruto: Shippūden episode 37
  13. Naruto: Shippūden episode 261
  14. Naruto: Shippūden episode 321