Changes: Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique

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Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique^[1]edit

火遁・豪火球の術 (Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu)

As a ball of flames.
As a continuous flame-thrower.

Name

Viz print media

Fire Style: Blaze of Glory

English anime

Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu
Fire Style: Grand Fireball Technique

Debut

Manga

Volume #1, Naruto Chapter #7

Anime

Naruto Episode #5

Novel

Akatsuki Hiden: Evil Flowers in Full Bloom

Movie

Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow

Game

Naruto: Konoha Ninpōchō

OVA

Find the Four-Leaf Red Clover!

Appears in

Anime, Manga, Novel, Game, Movie

Data

Classification

Ninjutsu

Nature

Fire Release

Rank

C-rank

Class

Offensive

Range

Short range (0-5m)

Hand seals

Snake → Ram → Monkey → Boar → Horse → Tiger

Derived jutsu

Users

Fugaku Uchiha
Itachi Uchiha
Madara Uchiha
Obito Uchiha
Sarada Uchiha
Sasuke Uchiha
Hōki ^{(Anime only)}
Izuna Uchiha^{(Anime only)}
Kakashi Hatake^{(Anime only)}
Shisui Uchiha^{(Anime only)}
Suika^{(Anime only)}
Hiruzen Sarutobi^{(Game only)}
Naruto Uzumaki^{(Game only)}
Rōshi^{(Game only)}
Scarlet Blaze^{(Game only)}

The user kneads chakra in their body and turns it into fire, which they then expel from their mouth; the more chakra they use, the more flames that are produced. Sometimes the flames lack a distinct shape, being only a stream, but more often than not they take the form of a giant orb that maintains its shape until hitting a target. Upon impact, the fireball is powerful enough to crater the ground and vaporise the surroundings.^[1] Against living targets, the fireball can cause extensive burns.

The Great Fireball Technique was created by the Uchiha clan, and over time became one of their signature abilities.^[2] The Uchiha in fact used the Great Fireball Technique as a coming of age rite, with members not being considered true adults until they learned to perform it.^[3] In keeping with this, the manga has only ever shown Uchiha using this technique; the anime at times depicts non-Uchiha performing it.

Trivia

The characters for "Fireball (火球) also mean "bolide", "comet", and "shooting star".
Several different hand seals have been given for this technique during the course of the series:
- Rin no Sho lists the hand seals as Horse and Tiger.^[1]
- Hyō no Sho lists the hand seal as just Tiger.^[4]
- In Naruto: Shippūden episode 15, Itachi uses Boar, Horse, and Tiger.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Rin no Sho, page 174
↑ Naruto chapter 260, page 15
↑ Naruto chapter 223, page 9
↑ Hyō no Sho, page 162

[d1-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Rin no Sho, page 174

[2] Naruto chapter 260, page 15

[3] Naruto chapter 223, page 9

[4] Hyō no Sho, page 162

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-|ref=<ref name="Databook 1">First Databook, page 174</ref>
+|ref=<ref name="d1">''[[Rin no Sho]]'', page 174</ref>
 |image=Grandfire Ball.PNG; As a ball of flames.
 Obito using fire technique.png; As a continuous flame-thrower.
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 |romaji=Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu
 |literal english=Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique
-|english tv=Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu
+|english tv=Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu<br>Fire Style: Grand Fireball Technique
 |viz manga=Fire Style: Blaze of Glory
-|other names=Fire Style: Grand Fireball Technique
 |jutsu rank=C
-|jutsu classification=Ninjutsu,
+|jutsu classification=Ninjutsu
 |jutsu type=Fire Release
 |jutsu class type=Offensive
 |jutsu range=Short
-|users=Fugaku Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha, Madara Uchiha, Obito Uchiha, Sasuke Uchiha, Hōki (Watari)~anime, Izuna Uchiha~anime, Kakashi Hatake~anime, Shisui Uchiha~anime, Suika~anime, Hiruzen Sarutobi~game, Naruto Uzumaki~game, Rōshi~game
+|users=Fugaku Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha, Madara Uchiha, Obito Uchiha, Sarada Uchiha, Sasuke Uchiha, Hōki (Watari)~anime, Izuna Uchiha~anime, Kakashi Hatake~anime, Shisui Uchiha~anime, Suika~anime, Hiruzen Sarutobi~game, Naruto Uzumaki~game, Rōshi~game, Scarlet Blaze~game
-|hand signs=Tiger<ref>First Fanbook, page 162</ref> or Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger
+|hand signs=Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger
 |debut manga=7
+|boruto=No
 |debut anime=5
 |debut shippuden=No
+|boruto anime=No
-|novel debut=Naruto Jinraiden: The Day the Wolf Howled
-|game debut=Naruto: Clash of Ninja
+|novel debut=Akatsuki Hiden: Evil Flowers in Full Bloom
+|game debut=Naruto: Konoha Ninpōchō
 |movie debut=Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
 |ova debut=Find the Four-Leaf Red Clover!
 |jutsu media=Anime, Manga, Novel, Game, Movie
 }}
+The user kneads [[chakra]] in their body and turns it into [[fire]], which they then expel from their mouth; the more chakra they use, the more flames that are produced. Sometimes the flames lack a distinct shape, being only a stream, but more often than not they take the form of a giant orb that maintains its shape until hitting a target. Upon impact, the fireball is powerful enough to crater the ground and vaporise the surroundings.<ref name="d1"/> Against living targets, the fireball can cause extensive burns.
-A technique where chakra kneaded inside the body is converted into fire and expelled from the mouth either as a massive orb of roaring flame or as a continuous flame-thrower. The scope of the attack is altered by controlling the volume of chakra that is mustered. The released flames will engulf their target, and leave a crater in the ground's surface.
-The [[Uchiha clan]] uses this technique as a "''[[Wikipedia:Coming of age|coming of age]]''" [[Wikipedia:Rite of passage|rite]] and as such was a common and one of the more favoured techniques amongst them.<ref>Chapter 223, page 9</ref>
+The Great Fireball Technique was created by the [[Uchiha clan]], and over time became one of their signature abilities.<ref>''Naruto'' chapter 260, page 15</ref> The Uchiha in fact used the Great Fireball Technique as a [[Wikipedia:Coming of age|coming of age]] [[Wikipedia:Rite of passage|rite]], with members not being considered true adults until they learned to perform it.<ref>''Naruto'' chapter 223, page 9</ref> In keeping with this, the manga has only ever shown Uchiha using this technique; the anime at times depicts non-Uchiha performing it.
 == Trivia ==
+* The characters for {{translation|"Fireball|火球}} also mean "[[Wikipedia:bolide|bolide]]", "[[Wikipedia:comet|comet]]", and "[[Wikipedia:shooting star|shooting star]]".
-* According to [[Kakashi Hatake]], this technique was originally created by the Uchiha clan, becoming one of their favoured moves at which they became very adept.<ref>Chapter 260, page 15</ref>
+* Several different [[hand seal]]s have been given for this technique during the course of the series:
-* The characters for {{translation|[[Wikipedia:Fireball|Fireball]]|[[wiktionary:火球|火球]]}} also means a "[[Wikipedia:bolide|bolide]]", a "[[Wikipedia:comet|comet]]", and a "[[Wikipedia:shooting star|shooting star]]".
+**''[[Rin no Sho]]'' lists the hand seals as Horse and Tiger.<ref name="d1"/>
-* The manga portrays use of this technique as unique to the Uchiha clan, while the anime has portrayed it as a common [[Fire Release]] technique used by several non-Uchiha.
+**''[[Hyō no Sho]]'' lists the hand seal as just Tiger.<ref>''[[Hyō no Sho]]'', page 162</ref>
-* In the video game ''[[Naruto Shippūden: Dragon Blade Chronicles]]'', [[Naruto]]'s [[Dragon Blade]] enables him to perform this technique (though he refers to it as Fire Shot) despite Fire not being his nature type.
+**In ''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 15, Itachi uses Boar, Horse, and Tiger.
-* In ''[[Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 4]]'', after learning all other techniques and beating Kakashi in battle, he will teach the player this technique and allows the player to customise it to characters in free battle.
-* In ''[[Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 5]]'', during ''The Chambers of the Darkness: The White Chapter'', the player gets a scroll with this technique in the last room of [[Orochimaru]]'s Hideout.
+== See Also ==
-* In ''[[Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Impact]]'', when [[Tobi]] uses this technique after reinforcing it, he [[Kamui|teleports]] himself in the air and shoots a volley of giant fireballs.
+* [[Blaze Release: Great Fireball Technique]]
-* During his battle with Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura and Chiyo, Itachi was seen using the hand seals: Boar, Horse, and Tiger to create this technique.<ref>''Naruto: Shippūden'' episode 15</ref>
+* [[Cat Flame Roaring Fire]]
-* In ''[[Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4]]'', [[Sasuke Uchiha]] uses a [[Blaze Release: Great Fireball Technique|form of this technique]] that incorporates [[Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi]] into it.
 == References ==
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 [[Clan::Uchiha clan| ]]
+[[id:Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu]]
+[[es:Elemento Fuego: Jutsu Gran Bola de Fuego]]
 [[he:ג'וטסו כדור האש]]
+[[pt-br:Liberação de Fogo: Técnica da Grande Bola de Fogo]]
 [[ru:Стихия Огня: Дзюцу большого огненного шара]]
-[[es:Elemento Fuego: Jutsu Gran Bola de Fuego]]