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| “ | Big brother... Are you playing hide and seek with me~? Are you here…? Hehehehehe. | „ |
| ~ Himawari Uzumaki |
| “ | Next time maybe we can come together with big brother! | „ |
| ~ Himawari Uzumaki |
Himawari Uzumaki is a supporting character in the anime/manga series Boruto. She is a citizen of Konohagakure and, like her brother, a member of both the Uzumaki and Hyūga clans. She later became the next Jinchuriki of Kurama. Himawari is the daughter of Naruto and Hinata Uzumaki, and the younger sister of Kawaki and Boruto Uzumaki.
After Boruto was falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit, out of all the people of the Konohagakure wanting to take him down, she knows her older brother is a good person and plans to help him at all costs, as well as find out if their parents are still alive. Because in her head Boruto was Kawaki, and it didn't make sense for him to kill Naruto, since Kawaki had saved Naruto a few times.
As a child, she is voiced by Saori Hayami in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Melissa Fahn in the English version of the anime.
As a toddler, she is voiced by Yūki Kuwahara in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Stephanie Sheh in the English version of the anime.
Background[]
Himawari is the second child and only daughter of Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyūga. On one peaceful morning during the wintertime, Himawari and her older brother, Boruto, were seen embracing their father and starting a snowball fight, along with their mother joining in.
Personality[]
Himawari seems to be a curious and considerate little kid, asking her mother if Neji would like sunflowers. She also seems to be fond of her older brother. Judging from the ending of The Last: Naruto the Movie, she appears to be fairly energetic like her father and brother.
In one-shot manga The Day Naruto Became Hokage despite being the nicest like her mother she is also violent and short-tempered like her paternal grandmother Kushina when Boruto accidentally rip off her panda teddy bear, she become enraged with active Byakugan which terrified Boruto after she attack him and knocked out their father with one-hit. Her anger even frightens Kurama. Nevertheless, she is normally cheerful and compassionate when on screen, such as when she was sizably more understanding of Naurto's fatigue than Boruto, which caused his shadow clone to drop her birthday cake, and when aiding Inojin in reviving the power and passion he had in his art.
Iruka Umino lets Himawari know something special that she's just as "gutsy" and bright in her personality (especially winning people over) as her father Naruto Uzumaki is.
Appearance[]
Himawari has short dark blue hair with straight bangs, like her mother. Like her brother, her hair flares out on the sides and she has an ahoge on the top of her head, which resembles the stem of a leaf. She has blue eyes and a pair of whisker markings on each cheek, which she inherited from her father. Himawari wears a collared, long-sleeved yellow shirt with an orange crosshatch pattern that resembles a sunflower, and red pumpkin shorts.
In The Last: Naruto the Movie, she wears a pink sweater, a three-layered white flutter skirt, black pants, and a pair of flat pink sandals. She also wears a twin bead hairband on her ahoge.
Later in the anime, when joining the academy Himawari wears a black long-sleeved, turtleneck shirt with a yellow jacket and white shorts with black leggings.
Three years after Boruto's departure from Konoha, Himawari grew noticeably taller, almost reaching her brother's classmates' height. Her hair also grew long, reaching her mid-back, with bangs framing the sides of her face and reaching slightly past her shoulders. She wore a dark short shirt under a yellow cap-sleeved crop top with a sunflower design on the lower left side, exposing her midriff. Himawari also wore blue baggy pants with a long, pink belt that the end hangs loosely at her knee, two bracelets of blue and purple on both wrists, grey shinobi sandals with white soles, and a black choker around her neck with a yellow sunflower design hanging to the left side.
Abilities and Powers[]
Before, she began training as a kunoichi, Himawari showed considerable potential and prodigious talent for it similar to her older brother. Even more, when her untrained might was able to terrify her brother and knock out her father in a single blow as a young child. Since entering the Academy, she quickly standout among her fellow students for her performance. Following her new status as a jinchūriki, her potential even excited Daemon, a cyborg whose power surpassed that of the unrestrained Code. After unlocking her new powers, she is briefly able to hold her own against Jūra the leader of the sentient God Trees.
Byakugan[]
At a young age due to her Hyūga lineage she subconsciously awaken the Byakugan out of anger after her favourite toy was torn by Boruto. With her materal grandfather Hiashi noting how impressive it was to awaken it at a young age without any prior training. When activated, her blue eyes take on the white featureless apperance of the Byakugan with the veins on her temples bulging. With it, she possesse a near 360° field of x-ray vision (except for a small blind spot at the upper thoracic vertebrae), she can see through soild surfaces, see across great distances, and also clearly prerceive the chakra pathway system. Despite no prior training, she was able to quickly make effective use of it. At the same time, she had originally have no coscious control when her Byakugan is activated only involuntarily in moments of extreme emotional build-up. By age 10, she learned to access it at will, although she struggles to maintain if for long periods of time.
Ninjutsu[]
Himawari is considerable in shurikenjutsu, having practised regular with her brother able to easily hit the bullseye. Since entering the Academy, she has becoeme proficeint in various basic skills like the Rope Escape Technique. Later, Himawari learned to manipulate her hair as tendrils to grab and attack with.
Physical and Chakra Prowess[]
Himawari shown to have deceptive raw might. She can launch large amounts of metal scraps into the air with a single strike and jump a considerable distance into the air. She likewise could move too fast for Boruto to follow. Himawari has remarkable agility and athleticism, easily completing an Academy training course and beting other children who had trained rigorously to become ninja. Since joing the Academy, hier skill in both taijutsu and Gentle Fist enable her to compete against bigger and more experienced opponents, and evenfoverpower them at points. As an Uzumkai, she has a powerful life-force. She is also have very advance chakra control. Without any prior training, she was able to perform the Tree Climing Practive on her first try and had only failed from losing focus. With Himawari's raw might she can launch a large amount of scraps of metal with a single strike and jump at a considerable distance into the air, likely able to move too fast for Boruto to follow. Himawari has naturally remakable agility and athleticism, able to easily completle an Academy training course, beating other participants who trained rigorously. At a young age, she's shown an innate talent for the Gentle Fist, capble of knocking out Naruto in a single blow for an entire day, while shutting down all of his tenketsu. Since joining the Academy, her skills in both coventinlal taijutsu and the Gentle Fist have also enable her to compete against much bigger and more experienced opponents, even overpower them at points.
Jinchūriki Transformations[]
Shortly after Kurama's demise, the tailed beast resurrected itself within Himawari, making her a jinchūriki and granting her access to the same powers and immense chakra reserves that Naruto once had. This was first noticed by Daemon, who sensed an unspecified intensity emanating from her. It is believed that the lingering kernels of Kurama's life-force were drawn to Himawari due to her heritage, combining the strengths of her two powerful bloodlines and inheriting some of Kurama's chakra naturally at birth from her jinchūriki father. Three years after Boruto left Konohagakure, Kurama's resurrection matured enough to communicate with Himawari within her subconscious at will. According to Kurama, Himawari's unique heritage gives her greater compatibility with the tailed beast than any of her predecessors, allowing her to access even more power.
In moments of great rage, Himawari can tap into Kurama's power. In this state, her eyes turn red with vertical slitted pupils, she gains dark rings around her eyes, and her nails and canine teeth grow longer and sharper. Her hair also grows longer and thicker, flowing in nine locks resembling tails, and her whisker-like marks become more pronounced. While new to her abilities, she shown remarkable effciency, noted by Jūra noting of her potency is more akin to a true Tailed Beast rather than a jinchūriki, able to unleash a Tailed Beast Ball that's powerful enough to match Jūra's.
phsyical parameters grew tremendously, able to effortlessly break free from a Wood Release binding. She also has strong regenerative abilities, able to heal msot maiming of injuries with lingering signs in seconds. Due to her unique compatibility with Kurama, she can also heal others just as seamlessly. But at the same time, repeated healing on herslef apparently quickly depletes her stamina, able to pass out from it. With Kurama's genuine partnership to Himawari, she can access the power with no ill effects to her health or mentality. This can also grant her immunity to genjutsu.
Post-Part II[]
Epilogue[]
Himawari accompanied her mother in visiting her first cousin once removed, Neji Hyūga's grave, asking if he would like the sunflowers she brought. Hinata tells her he would, because they are the same as her name. She says next time she wants to go with her brother.
Boruto: Naruto the Movie[]
On the day of her birthday, Himawari and her mother were cleaning in Naruto's study when she found her father's old tattered jacket and showed it to her mother, making her smile. Later on, they met up with Boruto and his teammates in the village and Himawari excitedly told him that they had to hurry home for her birthday. On the night, Naruto was unable to make it home to celebrate and sent a shadow clone instead, which ended up disappearing and dropping her birthday cake. This angered Boruto, who had already warned Naruto to not miss the event, although Himawari was less upset than her brother.
When Boruto came home, after successfully passing the second round of the Chūnin Exams, Himawari excitedly congratulated him. She later attended the last round of the Chūnin Exams with her mother to watch Boruto's fight with Shikadai. She cheered for him when Boruto won the fight, but he ended up being disqualified for cheating. Himawari asked her mother if Boruto did something bad, but Hinata remained silent and just hugged her without actually answering. When Momoshiki and Kinshiki suddenly appeared and attacked the arena, she fled with her mother.
After the attack, when Hinata was injured while trying to protect Naruto, Himawari anxiously stood by her mother's bedside, holding her hand as she was healed by Sakura Haruno. In the anime, Himawari and Boruto shared a belated birthday dinner, with Naruto even appearing in person instead of sending a shadow clone. After Boruto punched Naruto, thinking it was a shadow clone, Naruto began scolding him, while Himawari asked for a piggy back ride. Hinata maintained order by threatening to throw the cake away. The next day, Himawari had breakfast with her family. As her father and brother prepared to leave for the day, she told her father not to forget his lunch and gave it to him before she and her mother saw them off at the front door.
Trivia[]
- Himawari is Japanese for sunflower". When reversed, the first two kanji spell "Hyūga", which can also be read "Hinata," making her name a reference to both her mother and the Hyūga clan.
- Like her brother Boruto, Himawari's hair resembles the shape of a leaf.
- Unlike her brother, she's the only one to awaken the Byakugan.
- Her Second English Voice Actress, Melissa Fahn also voices Gaz Membrane from Invader Zim, Rika Nonaka from Digimon Tamers, Kristy Damon from Digimon Data Squad, Nene Amano from Digimon Fusion, and Melissa was the former voice of Betty Boop from Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery.
- As seen in the "The Day Naruto Became Hokage" OVA, Himawari being upset at her brother for destroying her panda toy as meant that not only did she inherited her paternal Grandfather's talent she also in paternal Grandmother's temper.
- Himawari is one of the youngest people to awaken the Byakugan.
- Himawari is one of the six people (along with Sarada, Sumire, Sasuke, Koji Kashin and Shikamaru) determined to help Boruto prove his innocence as well as to get his life and their parents, Naruto and Hinata, back.
- Out of all the people, who are affected by Ada’s Omnipotence, wanting to eliminate Boruto, Himawari truly cares about her big brother and not only sees him as a good person, but has the desire to help him as well.
- Himawari is the first known jinchūriki whose tailed beast is sealed into her without the use of a sealing forumla.
External Links[]
- Himawari Uzamaki on the Boruto Wiki
- Himawari Uzumaki on the Naruto Wiki
