Isobu

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   Born of the Ten-TailsDebut Arc · Kakashi's Story

   Named by the Sage

   Isobu comes into being when Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki splits the Ten-Tails into nine beasts. Like its siblings, it is given a name and a self of its own.

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   The timid turtle

   A gentle voice in a vast body

   Isobu takes the shape of a great spiked turtle — but its manner is small and shy, the gentlest-spoken of the nine beasts, not the fiercest.

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   The seal that failed

   Sealed into Rin Nohara

   Kirigakure seals Isobu into the Konoha medic Rin Nohara, meaning to unleash it inside her village. Rin, aware of the plot, chooses her own death rather than carry the beast home.

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   Bound to a controlled Mizukage

   Harmony, inside a puppet

   Isobu is later sealed into Yagura, the Fourth Mizukage — the one host to reach true harmony with it. But Yagura is himself a puppet of Obito, and so Isobu is, by extension, controlled.

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   Taken by the Akatsuki

   Sealed in the statue

   Isobu is in time extracted from its host and sealed into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, gathered with the other captured tailed beasts.

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   Freed at last

   Out of the cycle of capture

   At the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Isobu is freed — released, at last, from the long cycle of being sealed, used, and taken.

Isobu fights as a fortress and a flood at once. Its crab-like shell and spiked body make it brutally hard to harm, and it commands water, swimming at tremendous speed and growing coral to trap whatever it cannot outrun. Beneath all of it sits a tailed beast's vast reserve of chakra — the same well of power that runs through every one of the nine.

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• Who is Isobu?+

  Isobu is the Three-Tails, one of the nine tailed beasts. A vast, spiked turtle, it is timid for so large a creature, and passed through one of the most troubled jinchūriki histories of the nine.
• What does Isobu look like?+

  Isobu takes the form of an enormous turtle with a crab-like shell, spikes across its body, and three shrimp-like tails. Beneath the shell is red, muscle-like tissue, and it tends to keep one eye closed.
• Who were Isobu's jinchūriki?+

  Kirigakure first tried to seal Isobu into the Konoha medic Rin Nohara — a plot Rin foiled by choosing her own death. Isobu was later sealed into Yagura, the Fourth Mizukage, the only host to reach true harmony with it.
• Is Isobu shy?+

  For a tailed beast, yes. Isobu speaks of itself in a timid, child-like way and is far less rude or outspoken than several of its siblings — it is thought to have got along well with its jinchūriki Yagura.
• What happened to Isobu?+

  After its host Yagura, Isobu was eventually extracted and captured by the Akatsuki, sealed into the Demonic Statue. It was freed only at the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Has Isobu been a Narutodle answer?+

  Isobu is in the daily answer pool of 210 characters. The Previous Narutodle Appearances list on this page shows every date it was the Classic answer, each linking to a replayable archive puzzle.
• How do you guess Isobu in Narutodle?+

  Isobu's Tailed Beast attribute is the giveaway — a column hit only the nine beasts share. Its Village and Ninja Rank both read None, and its Nature column holds only Water.