Transformation Technique

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Transformation Technique
Image 1 Image 2 The user gathers chakra... ...to transform into something else.
Name
Kanji	変化の術
Rōmaji	Henge no Jutsu
English anime	Transformation Jutsu
Debut
Manga	Naruto chapter 1
Anime	Naruto episode 1
Novel	Naruto: Innocent Heart, Demonic Blood
Movie	Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison
Game	Naruto: Konoha Ninpōchō
Appears in	Anime, Manga, Novel, Game, Movie
Data
Classification	Ninjutsu, General Skill
Rank	E-rank
Class	Supplementary
Hand seals	Dog → Boar → Tiger
Other Jutsu
Derived Jutsu ● Beast Human Clone ● Combination Transformation → Human Beast Combination Transformation: Double-Headed Wolf → Human Beast Combination Transformation: Garuda → Human Beast Mixture Transformation — Three-Headed Wolf ● Face Copying Technique ● Sexy Technique → Harem Technique ● Transformation: Adamantine Staff → Adamantine Prison Wall ● Wood Release: Transformation
Related Jutsu Substitute Technique
Users
Original Universe: ● Tsunade ● Hyōi Yorishiro (Anime only) ● Kagerō (Anime only) ● Kazan (Movie only) Fanon Universe: ● Tsunade Senju (RW109)

The Transformation Technique allows the user to take the appearance of anyone or anything they choose.

Overview

This technique is most often used to disguise the user as another person, but they can also turn into an animal, plant, or inanimate object; though inanimate objects are the most difficult to transform into. Users will gain the attributes and physical features of whatever they transform into, such as a weapon's sharpness or an animal's fangs. To be able to assume so many different forms makes this technique invaluable for not just combat, but intelligence gathering and diversionary tactics as well.

Being able to use the Transformation Technique does not necessarily mean one can use it well. Ideally, the user's transformation should be indistinguishable from the original, so that if they were placed together they could not be told apart. Inexperienced users, particularly Academy students, will often have obvious discrepancies in their transformations, making them useless for deception. Even practised users, though their transformations may lack any serious flaws, can overlook small details of whoever they're impersonating (such as minor scrapes or blemishes), thus enabling careful observers to expose them as impostors. Even if a transformation is a perfect likeness, users can still inadvertently reveal themselves if they don't act the same way as their subject. Users can also be identified as fakes if their scent is wrong.

Special Usage

• Tsunade uses the Transformation Technique to constantly appear several decades younger, keeping it active regardless of where she is or what she's doing. She only reverts to her original form when she no longer has the chakra to maintain her transformation.
• In the anime, Kagerō keeps her Transformation Technique active for long periods of time, taking the form of a buck-toothed, hunchbacked man.
• In Akatsuki Hiden, the citizens of Shangri-la use the Transformation Technique at all times in a concerted effort to make new lives for themselves; their transformations only dispel when they die.