Choji Akimichi
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| Choji Akimichi | |
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| (秋道チョウジ)
<tr> <td align="center" colspan="2">Image:Choji001.jpg | |
| Profile
<tr> <th>Age</th> <td>12-13 in Part I | |
| Information
<tr> <th>Current rank</th> <td>Chunin</td> </tr><tr> <th>Current affiliation</th> <td>Akimichi clan, Konohagakure</td> </tr><tr> <th>Current team</th> <td>Team 10 (Kakashi Hatake, Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, Choji Akimichi) | |
| Signature jutsu/Kekkei genkai | |
Choji Akimichi (秋道チョウジ Akimichi Chōji?) is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Naruto.
"Choji" means "butterfly (Cho-)" and "the second son (-ji)" added together. Butterflies are insects known to eat sweets. Ironically enough, slim Ino has a name meaning "boar" and plump Choji is a "butterfly". Choji also manifests butterfly wings made of chakra after eating the third red pill during his fight against Jirobo. The names "Ino", "Shika" and "Cho" are a pun on the "Ino-Shika-Cho" winning combination in Hanafuda.
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[edit] Part I
[edit] Background
Choji Akimichi is a member of the Akimichi clan, one of the four noble clans in Konohagakure. As one of the 'Rookie Nine', Choji became a Genin in the same year as Naruto Uzumaki. Together with Shikamaru Nara and Ino Yamanaka, he was assigned to Asuma Sarutobi's Team 10. Choji, Shikamaru and Ino call themselves the "Ino-Shika-Cho Trio", just like their fathers before them.
As an Akimichi, Choji knows various secret jutsu that allow him to expand body parts to several times their normal size, the most common of which is the Multi-Size Technique. He uses this to perform his Human Bullet Tank attack, where he turns himself into a giant ball and attacks opponents by running them over, shouting "roll" repeatedly as he does. Choji is easily motivated by the prospect of food and becomes highly agitated when somebody calls him fat (he refers to himself as "big boned", "chubby", or "pleasingly plump"); however, he does not hide his love for food, enjoying Korean barbeque and wearing the kanji for "eat" on his shirt. His nigh-constant hunger is also a constant annoyance for his teammates, as sating himself often comes before other necessities such as stealth and teamwork. However, Choji is also very loyal and kind-hearted, proving himself throughout the anime as a good friend and genuinely nice person.
The members of the Akimichi clans look upon themselves as caterpillars that do nothing but eat and eat and eat, possibly why Choji means butterfly and not pig, like Ino. Choji did become what was the dream of many in the Akimichi; he became the caterpillar who evolved into a butterfly as shown in his battle against Jirobo.
Choji's favorite foods are Korean barbeque, snacks and sweets. His least favorite foods are anything inedible. His hobby is buying snacks and his favorite phrase is "Meat".
[edit] Choji and Shikamaru
Choji has a longstanding friendship with Shikamaru Nara. The two have complete trust in each other and Shikamaru is probably the only one who can see Choji's true strength. Choji also has unconditional faith in Shikamaru and, if necessary, would give his life for him.
During the Sasuke Retrieval Arc it is revealed that Choji, when he was younger, was often put down for not being good at a game called "Ninja", which appears to be a cross between tag and hide and seek, often using shuriken made out of cardboard. His peers were always berating him; telling him that any team that he is on is bound to lose. One day they simply refuse to let him play at all. However, Shikamaru sticks up for him saying that the teams would be uneven. This gives Choji a little hope, although in the end they still refuse to let him play. As he's walking away, however, he notices a butterfly stuck in a spider's web and frees it. Shikamaru sees this and ends up ditching the game.
A few minutes later, Choji and his father are seen talking on the roof of a building, the former still upset over the way he was treated by the other children. His father tells him that one day he will meet someone that he can get along with and that eventually they will be the best of friends. Right after that, Shikamaru walks up the stairs and Choji recognizes him as the one who had defended him earlier. He asks Shikamaru why he isn't playing the game, to which he responds that it was too troublesome. He then tells Choji that he likes to come up there to watch the clouds, and that Choji happens to be sitting in his spot. Choji moves over to give him room and Shikamaru proceeds to lie down and he introduces himself to Choji, and vice versa. Shikamaru tells him that he should be lazy and watch the clouds with him. This delights Choji and he eagerly asks Shikamaru if he wants to eat some snacks that he has brought. Shikamaru says that it sounds great and Choji is overjoyed that someone is being so nice to him. Shikamaru was the first person to ever look past Choji's athletic deficiencies and see that he was a good-hearted person and because of that he and Choji become best friends.
In the anime he has mentioned that he trains on his own.
[edit] Chunin Exam Arc
Choji was one of the rookie 9 that took the exam. Choji's answers, during the first part of the exam, were not even written down by him, thanks to Ino's Mind Body Switch Technique as she used it to write all his answers for him. During the second part of the test when Choji's team decided to help Sakura fend off Dosu, Zaku, and Kin, we learn that Choji does not like being called fat, to put it lightly. When Zaku calls a fearful Choji 'fatass' after a moment of silence Choji proceeds to comically go berserk as he voraciously proclaims he is just big-boned, ridiculously exaggerates the severity of the insult, and yells that Konoha and the Sound nin are now at war. During the brief fight we see Choji's skills in action. In the third exam preliminaries, Choji is matched against Dosu. At first he is in no mood to fight, but Ino yells to him that he is fat to motivate him, and he immediately yells that he'll beat Dosu fast so he can teach Ino a lesson. He is defeated quickly despite using earplugs; Dosu transmits the sound through the water in Choji's enlarged body.
[edit] Sasuke Retrieval Arc
Image:ChojisChakraButterfly.JPG Choji was one of the genin Shikamaru chose for the mission to return Sasuke Uchiha. Shikamaru was able to get Choji to come by eating Choji's favorite type of snacks with Naruto right in front of Choji's home. Then, when they had gotten to the last chip, Shikamaru called it out and Choji came bursting through the door in his nightwear. When Naruto asks why Choji wanted the last chip Choji merely answered, "The last chip always tastes the best." This mission, however, was complicated by, and ultimately failed because of the Sound Four. Choji took on the powerful Jirobo by himself and was only able to defeat him thanks to the Akimichi clan's special Three Colored Pills (三色の丸薬 Sanshoku no Ganyaku?). The pills, colored green (spinach), yellow (curry), and red (pepper), give the user increasingly large boosts of chakra at the cost of health. The red pill alone is said to be fatal to the consumer; Choji consumed all three. After consuming the red pill, Choji's physical appearance changes dramatically from the rapid conversion of fat into chakra. This increases his strength a hundredfold, in addition to sprouting a pair of butterfly-shaped wings made of pure chakra. His power becomes so great that when he punched the prone Jirobo, the ground underneath him produced a huge crater. In the field, he was kept alive for a short while by the friendship of his teammates, who had faith that he would defeat Jirobo and had etched directions onto tree trunks so that he could catch up. With the help of the Nara family's medical guide and Tsunade, he was able to make a full recovery. Soon after, he was back to his normal size.
[edit] Anime Filler Arc
Choji appears for two missions in this arc, one to help rescue Ayame, the Ichiraku ramen shop's owner's daughter, and another along with Naruto and Hinata to escort some peddlers. In the mission to rescue Ayame, they are required to make the perfect ramen for the ryunin (cooking ninja). His part in helping was his expertise with food, and in increasing the size of his arms to assist in making noodles. In the peddler's arc, he serves a small, but lethal role. When Naruto and Choji were fighting the water user, they both saved each other's lives a few times and they used teamwork to defeat the water user. Later, he frees Naruto from under a giant boulder, comically causing Naruto to get squished; this minor role leads Naruto to be able to save Hinata after she defeats the magnet user.
[edit] Part II
Image:Vol32Choji.png Choji makes his Part II debut in Chapter 283; he now wears a red top with armor on his torso, arms, and upper legs similar to his father. On the front of his chest armor is the obligatory kanji for "eat". His appearance has also changed; his hair has grown longer, and he now looks less obese and more muscular, just like what he himself always claimed: big-boned. Like most of the rookie nine, he has reached the Chunin rank.
It also seems that he now has improved skills, including the ability to enlarge various body parts without much concentration. This is as compared to the past where he needs more concentration to bring about a change in his body size. He was also able to react immediately to an attack from Sai, and was able to keep Naruto and Shikamaru safe from the attack.
After they returned from the Grass Country, Team 7 (Naruto, Sai, and Sakura) went out to eat to introduce Sai to Team Asuma. Thinking about giving more nicknames out, Sai nearly calls Choji "fatass". Luckily, Naruto managed to stop him.
Later he arrives as part of the reinforcements to help Shikamaru and his team against Hidan and Kakuzu. With Ino, he prepares to take the barely breathing Asuma back to Konoha. However, Asuma knew his time was up, and instead gave Team 10 some parting words—To Choji, Asuma says that he is a kind hearted boy who thinks about his friends, and therefore, may be a stronger ninja than anyone else and to believe in himself more. He also tells Choji to diet a bit more, in which Choji said though it may not work, but he will try. Asuma dies in front of him, right after smoking his last cigarette. He and Ino attend Asuma's funeral. After the funeral he, Shikamaru, and Ino pack to continue with the mission of tracking down Hidan and Kakuzu.
During the fight against Hidan and Kakuzu, Shikamaru calls for Choji to attack. He uses an updated form of his Spiked Human Bullet Tank. He no longer requires kunai and instead grows and hardens his hair in a manner similar to Jiraiya's Needle Guardian jutsu.
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