Tailed Beast Ball

This article is about the jutsu used by Tailed Beasts. For the manga chapter, see The Tailed Beast Ball.

Tailed Beast Balledit
尾獣玉­ (Bijūdama)
Name
Viz print media	Biju Bomb
English games	Menacing Ball (威鞠, Imari)
Debut
Manga	Volume #33, Naruto Chapter #295
Anime	Naruto Shippūden Episode #42
Movie	Naruto 5: Blood Prison
Game	Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 5
Appears in	Anime, Manga, Game, Movie
Data
Classification	Tailed Beast Skill
Class	Offensive
Range	Long range (10m+)
Derived jutsu
Continuous Tailed Beast Balls Cooperation Tailed Beast Ball Evil Disturbance Waltz Resonance Blast Super Mini-Tailed Beast Ball Tailed Beast Ball Rasenshuriken Six Paths: Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken Tailed Beast Heavy Cannon Yasaka Magatama: Tailed Beast Noka
Related jutsu
Rasengan
Users
Shukaku Son Gokū Matatabi Isopu Chōmei Saiken Kokuou Gyuuki Kurama Killer B Naruto Uzumaki (Manga only)

The Tailed Beast Ball is the ultimate technique of a tailed beast. To form the attack, they gather both positive black chakra (+の黒チャクラ, purasu no kuro chakura), and negative white chakra (−の白チャクラ, mainasu no shiro chakura), shape it into a sphere, and then compress it inside their mouth. The black and white chakra needs to be balanced at an 8:2 ratio respectively or it will backfire. The ball can be fired differently, either in sphere form, which gives it a wide area of damage, or as a concentrated beam of energy which gives it explosive penetrative power. A Tailed Beast Ball is incredibly dense, as when Naruto Uzumaki in his four-tailed form, sunk the ground beneath his weight after he swallowed it. When used in close proximity to other tailed beasts, the Tailed Beast Ball can be combined, vastly increasing its destructive power and size.

The power of the attack is relative to the power of the user. The technique fired from a four-tailed Naruto broke through three Rashōmon gates without losing its momentum. A fully charged Tailed Beast Ball from the Eight-Tails can fill an entire valley with the explosion as well as plough through a multiple layered barrier, while Kurama's own can create an explosion that is far larger than the Hokage Monument and the mountains around it, and equal that of a combined ball of five tailed beasts.

The tailed beasts' jinchūriki can use this ability, though they need to be in their full tailed beast forms. Should the jinchūriki lose control of their tailed beasts, they can perform this technique despite not being fully transformed, as seen when Naruto used it in his four and six-tailed forms.

Minato Namikaze based the Rasengan off of the Tailed Beast Ball. Killer B observes that the process for forming a Rasengan is exactly the same as forming a Tailed Beast Ball. However, the addition of chakra rotation is necessary to control the Ball without being in Tailed Beast form.

The positive and negative chakra is gathered into a ball.

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The ball is compressed to a small size and then ingested.

After the pressure builds, it is fired in a powerful beam.

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The ball can also be fired without being compressed.

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Multiple tailed beasts forming the Tailed Beast Balls.

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A collaborated Tailed Beast Ball from multiple tailed beasts.

Trivia

• According to the Eight-Tails, using this technique feels very much like throwing up.
• Shukaku uses Wind Release: Drilling Air Bullet, a technique of compressed air mixed with chakra from its gut instead of drawing together raw chakra, similar to the Tailed Beast Ball. However, Killer B implied that all tailed beasts can do the Tailed Beast Ball, and Shukaku simply wasn't out long enough to perform the attack when it fought against Naruto and Gamabunta.
• In Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, the Eight-Tails performs a lightning-element version of this technique.
• In Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 5, Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3, and other games, Naruto performs a version of this technique in Four Tails Mode called "Hollow Canine Cannon" (虚狗砲, Kokuhō, English Games "Fake Fox Blast").