Menma Namikaze

This article is about Menma in the anime. For Menma from the Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie, see Menma Uzumaki.

editMenma Namikaze
波風メンマ Namikaze Menma
Debut
Anime	Naruto Shippūden Episode #427
Game	Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Blazing
Appears in	Anime, Game
Voice Actors
Japanese	Junko Takeuchi
English	Maile Flanagan
Personal
Birthdate	October 10
Sex	Male
Age	Part II: 16
Height	Part II: 166 cm1.66 m <br />5.446 ft <br />65.354 in <br />
Weight	Part II: 50.9 kg112.215 lb <br />
Blood type	B
Classification	Jinchūriki Sensor Type
Tailed Beast	Kurama (Forms)
Affiliation	Konohagakure
Team	Team Kakashi
Rank
Ninja Rank	Part II: Chūnin
Ninja Registration	012607
Academy Grad. Age	12
Family Minato Namikaze (Father) Kushina Uzumaki (Mother)
Jutsu Negative Emotions Sensing Nine-Tails Chakra Mode

Menma Namikaze (波風メンマ, Namikaze Menma) is a descendant of the Uzumaki Clan in Tenten's Infinite Tsukuyomi dream.

Background

Menma's life was greatly different than Naruto Uzumaki's, as Menma didn't lose his parents, and had many friends during his childhood. At some point, Kurama was transferred from Kushina Uzumaki onto Menma, and both of them eventually became friends. After graduating from the Academy, Menma became a member of Team Kakashi alongside Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha. Eventually, Menma became a chūnin.

Personality

Menma's personality is very different than Naruto's, taking more after his father, Menma is calm, collected, talking only when he feels it serves a purpose. In contrast to Naruto, who is usually childish and cheerful, Menma is mature and very serious, only speaking when he feels it serves purpose. He is also shown a sharp wit, able to see the underline nature of the situation at hand. His insight appears to make him the smartest of his graduating class, and also acting as the de facto leader of the group, as Lee asks Menma to scold Neji Hyūga for his perverted actions towards Tenten.

Much like the real world's Sasuke, Menma is somewhat distant, showing little respect at times when talking to others, even to his parents. He also shows no interest in women despite both Sakura and Hinata fighting over his love, simply telling them to leave him alone. Despite his seriousness, Menma is very loyal to his friends, as he claimed that Tenten's problems were bothering him and wanted to help, and been watching Tenten for a while. When Tenten was framed for stealing a scroll from the village, Menma worked diligently to clear his friend's name. Menma is also not above to show a happier side, as he smiled while congratulating Tenten for helping him defeat Hanzõ.

Appearance

Menma looks virtually identical to Naruto, though his blond hair is longer and more shaggy-looking in style with jaw-length bangs framing either side of his face, similar to his father's. His attire is virtually identical to Naruto's in Part II, consisting of a black and orange slim outfit, with a long black bandana for his forehead protector, and black sandals reaching his ankles. In addition, Menma wears black fingerless gloves and instead of the Uzumaki symbol on the back of his jacket, he instead has a green circle with five smaller red circles in it, one in the center and four around the ends connected by a crossed line, with two more lined-up red circles above and bellow the green circle, which could possibly be the Namikaze clan logo, as Menma received his father's surname instead of his mother's.

Abilities

Much like Naruto, Menma is a very skilled shinobi, and has almost the exact same abilities and skills as Naruto, able to fight on par Hanzō, who alone was able fend off the entire Sannin. Menma is also a respected shinobi within the village, as Menma personally spoke with the higher-ups of the village about Tenten's situation, and helped her being freed from jail. As member of the Uzumaki clan, Menma has an especially strong life-force, granting her tremendous reserves of chakra and vitality. Derived from these traits is also an incredible healing factor and incredible longevity. He is also noticeably strong and fast, able to quickly intercept Tenten's attack and easily block her giant ax with a kunai and single arm.

Jinchūriki Transformation

Menma in his Tailed Beast Chakra Mode.

As with his counterpart Naruto, Menma possessed Kurama sealed within him, granting him even greater reserves of equally strong chakra. Having long since made conscious contact with the demon fox and developed at least a strong relationship, Menma is able to access Kuruma's chakra and powers whenever necessary. In battle, he can clad himself in the unique Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, greatly augmenting all his physical parameters and also allowing him to sense people's negative emotions. Going even further, Menma is able to manifest a life-sized chakra avatar of Kurama to battle larger enemies, including salamanders, summoned by Hanzō.

Part II

When Menma and his team found Neji using his usual (for this world) perverted antics on Tenten, Menma was asked to set Neji right about his actions. Later, Menma joined his friends for dinner out. While Menma brushed off Hinata and Sakura usual advances on him, Tenten was noticeably distant, quickly excusing herself from the meal. The following day, as Tenten became hostile towards her team-mates and everyone was unsure of how to handle this, Menma suggested they give her some space yet keep an eye on her. Ultimately, Hinata confronted Tenten about her new attitude, taking her scroll to force Tenten to apologize. This resulted in Tenten attacking Hinata, to which Menma quickly intervened, stopping the conflict from continuing by giving Tenten back her scroll. Menma insisted that friends should never assault each other, but Tenten insisted she does not consider any of them her friends.

The following night, Tenten was branded a traitor to the village for seemingly delivering information to the Amegakure and locked up. Not long after, the village was attacked by several Ame-nin teleporting in the village's grounds with a summoning seal. Menma, who had been tailing Tenten since the other day, figured out that Tenten was framed by a Ame-nin posing as a traveling merchant as a means of distracting the village after looking into Minato's personal intel. Using this knowledge, he talked to the higher-ups and convinced them of Tenten's innocence. After capturing the Ame-nin and letting Tenten out of her cell, he acknowledged that Tenten is not the Tenten he knows, but still thinks of her as his friend. He was then contacted on the current danger to the village and went off to join the fight, along with Tenten who decided to help. Menma then faced-off with the leader of the invasion, Hanzō. As Menma began to push back the Hanzō, the Amagekure leader summoned and additional giant salamander. Menma quickly received help from Tenten who summed two Benihisago the Treasured Tools of the Sage of the Six Paths. Together, they were able to defeat the invaders. After which, Menma and everyone applauded Tenten, convincing her she belonged in this village, while inadvertedly causing Tenten to give up her attempts to break out of the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Trivia

• "Menma" is the name of a Japanese condiment which is also found in ramen. This is a parallel to where Naruto's name originates. His family name "Namikaze" (波風) means "waves and wind".
• Unlike the Menma from Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie, Menma's surname is Namikaze instead of Uzumaki and Menma's Kurama is the exact same from the real world, instead of the Black Nine-Tails.
  • The Studio Pierrot's blog entry about episode 427 still names him "Menma Uzumaki" and further states that unlike his Road to Ninja version, this Menma didn't turn evil.