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Neji Hyuga日向ネジHyūga Neji

Debut (Manga)

Chapter 36
Debut (Anime)

Naruto Episode 21
Appears in

Anime and Manga

Seiyū (Japanese)

* Kōichi Tōchika
* Keiko Nemoto (as a child)

Voice actor(s) (English)

* Steve Staley
* Wendee Lee (as a child)

Highest rank

* Part I: Genin
* Part II: Jonin

Birthdate

July 3
Age

* Part I: 13-14
* Part II: 16-17

Height

* Part I: 160.1 cm
* Part II: 172.1 cm

Weight

* Part I: 46.8
* Part II: 54.2 kg

Gender

Male
Blood type

O

Affiliation

Konohagakure
Team

Team Guy
Previous team(s)

Team Shikamaru
[hide] Family

* Hyuga Elder (Paternal grandfather)
* Hizashi Hyuga (Father, deceased)
* Hiashi Hyuga (Uncle)
* Hinata Hyuga (Cousin)
* Hanabi Hyuga (Cousin)

[hide] Jutsu

* Eight Trigrams Empty Palm
* Eight Trigrams Mountain Crusher (Anime only)
* Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms (Anime only)
* Eight Trigrams Palms Heavenly Spin
* Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms
* Gentle Fist

battle, he is able to stay relatively calm in most situations and carefully look at the situation at hand. As stated by Tsunade, Neji has excellent instincts, both on the battlefield and as a leader. When forced to make difficult decisions on missions, he shows himself able to make a decision through keen observation and analysis.

While under the belief that his father had died because he was a member of the branch house, Neji concluded that fate is something decided at birth and that no matter what one does, people cannot escape their destiny. Neji often applied this to people he viewed as weaker than himself, such as his cousin, Hinata. During his match in the Chunin Exams, he told Hinata that she was unfit to be a ninja, due to being too kind and not confident enough. When she was eventually able to turn his philosophy against him, telling him that she believed that he was suffering from trying to become worthy of the main house, despite his being born into the branch family, Neji became enraged, and attempted to kill Hinata. He was stopped by multiple Jonin, but Hinata nevertheless was left in critical conditions from his earlier attacks. In this instance, Neji's only concern was that he could not complete his attack, and he accused the Jonin of giving special treatment to the head family members. He disregarded Hinata's personal growth in the match, concluding that, because she was defeated, "a failure will always be a failure".

Neji displayed similar efforts to condescend others during his match with Naruto Uzumaki who, despite being repeatedly struck down, continued to try and fight him. While Neji tried to show Naruto that fate cannot be fought, and that someone who is weak will always remain weak, Naruto was unwilling to accept this mindset, arguing that Neji, for all his belief in fate, had not accepted his own destiny. Naruto went on to defeat Neji, suggesting that, if a "failure" like himself could change his destiny, a "genius" like Neji could, too.

With this example of overcoming "destiny", as well as finding out the truth about his father's death soon afterwards, Neji abandoned the concept of inescapable fate. No longer bound by the idea that he was stuck at his current status, Neji resolved to become strong enough to never again lose a battle. To do so, he began putting more emphasis on working well with his team, and started to value a mission's successful completion and his teammates' safety over his own betterment, even encouraging Rock Lee to continue pursuing his own dream. In addition, Neji began trying to remedy the estranged relations between himself and the main house members, most particularly by being kinder to Hinata. His efforts seem to be effective, as he begins training with Hiashi, and, in Part II, even starts to wear traditional Hyuga robes. He similarly has great confidence in Naruto's capacity to change others, as he stated that the latter could redeem Sasuke and bring him back to Konoha.

When Team Guy was first formed, Neji dismissed Lee's dream of becoming a great ninja, despite his inability to mould chakra, as hopeless, and suggested that Lee could never defeat him. After abandoning his fatalistic philosophy, he suggested that he would not have persevered in Lee's situation, and believed that, if Lee worked hard enough, he could surpass the gifted. They became good friends because of this, though Neji tends to spend most of his time with Tenten, as neither of them can compete with Lee or Guy's antics.

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