‘Naruto‘ is one of the big three anime along with ‘One Piece,‘ and ‘Bleach‘. It has earned its popularity and its title for a reason and that is because of its plot and amazing characters. It has some very unique abilities that interest the users. The Uchiha clan’s Sharingan is one of them.
The Sharingan is a very rare and powerful ability in ‘Naruto‘. The Uchiha clan had some extremely powerful Sharingan users. One of the well-kept secrets of the Uchiha clan that was revealed later was the Mangekyou Sharingan. Find out what the Mangekyou Sharingan is and how Uchiha Sasuke attained it.
What Is The Mangekyou Sharingan?
Mangekyou Sharingan is the advanced version of the regular Sharingan in its essence. The Mangekyou, like its less advanced version, can only be accessed by the Uchiha, and that too only by a handful of the Uchiha. Each awakened Mangekyou Sharingan has similar abilities but they might differ from each other.
The Mangekyou Sharingan can be differentiated from the regular one by the shape of its Tomoe Seal. Each Time adapts a different seal upon activation, but they all resemble a pinwheel.
The Mangekyou retains the abilities of the regular Sharingan such as casting a genjutsu and seeing through the user’s opponent’s attacks. In addition to each user’s Sharingan abilities being different, some abilities such as Amaterasu seem to be common for all.
Interestingly both eyes of the user need not have the same ability, for instance, Itachi’s one eye has Amaterasu and one eye has Tsukuyomi.
How Did Sasuke Obtain The Mangekyou?
To obtain the Mangekyou Sharingan, an Uchiha needs to witness something traumatic to somebody close to them. Something traumatic generally happens to be the death of the person close to the Uchiha. In all of the Uchiha clan, it was believed that the Uchiha who wants to awaken Mangekyou, needs to be the reason why their loved one is dead.
Due to this one reason, many Uchihas throughout history have killed and betrayed their teammates, friends, and even family. Sasuke Uchiha is an Uchiha that awakened the infamous rinnegan but that was only due to Hagoromo’s Chakra.
Sasuke Uchiha awakened his Mangekyou Sharingan when he saw his brother Itachi die in front of him. Itachi and Sasuke fought due to the wrongful grudge he held against him. Itachi was already ill before the fight and he died after it. Itachi told Sasuke about the truth of the Uchiha clan massacre and that traumatized Sasuke.
As a result of his brother’s death and due to the truth of his brother’s actions, Sasuke awakened his Mangekyou. Sasuke could create and transform Amaterasu. He was also able to use the Susanoo due to awakening Mangekyou in both eyes. This is how Uchiha Sasuke got his Mangekyou Sharingan in ‘Naruto‘.
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