Asōgi Ichimaru

**Asōgi Ichimaru** (市丸阿僧祇, *Ichimaru Asōgi*), otherwise falsely known as **"Jin Senju"** (千手神, *"Senju Jin"*), is a Genin from Amegakure and a member of both the Ichimaru Clan and the Senju Clan.

Born within the outskirts of Amegakure, after his father abused his mother for months and ultimately ended up raping her and leaving her, resulting in his birth, Asōgi lived a poor life. Eventually, he was brought into the academy and became fascinated with the concept of Jutsu, wanting to understand all the Jutsu in the world and lay claim to it for himself. He eventually learned of the concept of Puppets and began to create his own, often using his Kekkei Genkai to do so. However, he saw the limitations of what Puppets could offer, so he created Human Puppets.

After creating two distinct types of Puppets, Asōgi saw fit to create two different Collections, an abnormal decision for Puppet makers. One would be deemed the Senju Collection, in "honor" of his father, while the other would be deemed the Ichimaru Collection, in honor of his family and mother.

He serves as one of the main protagonists of ???.

## Personality

Asōgi is best described as a man who only acts when things interest him. Luckily for him, virtually everything intrigues him, and tries to find an understanding to it, in any way, shape, or form. He wishes to understand the world on a fundamental level, including its inhabitants, sentient or non-sentient. For these reasons, he tends to hate places that can't provide him a source of entertainment, let alone a source of knowledge, no matter how small the knowledge may be. If he deems a place no longer to be useful to him, then he will move onto greener pastures if possible.

Despite this, Asōgi can be a lazy person when it comes to doing stuff because of his lack of knowledge in certain things, or not understanding why something is exciting for others. This is caused by his upbringing in that he was birthed for the purpose of being a weapon. However, because others stopped taking interest in him, he tends to project the same feelings he felt onto others, or things of others. Though, this is not always intentional, as he can do this absentmindedly for the aforementioned reasons.

Through his intelligence and wanting to understand things, he often likes to dismantle things so he can gain further knowledge. This is why puppets tend to fascinate him because they could be made in any which way and still function, at least if done right, unlike most sentient beings that if you start to dismantle them, and try to put them back together, they won't function in the way they were intended initially. This can also be a reason why he has little respect for the dead, often entertaining the idea of grave-robbing or using a corpse for his experiments.

He is not truly evil at heart, and tends to not care about other's sins, not really holding it against them, with the exceptions of actually being angered by something, or completely disagrees with. Above all else, he seems to focus on himself, but can be soft when it comes to people he has shown care for. For these reasons, he tends to not hold grudges against the majority of people he has encountered, but will still be wary if they have done something that put him, or someone he cares about, in harm's way.

Asōgi seems to understand his own weaknesses, and will do what he can to circumvent these issues, but he knows that he can only get stronger so quickly. He tends to use his puppets to further try and strengthen himself in areas that he lacks. However, despite knowing his own weaknesses, he doesn't seem interested when it comes to people bragging about their powers, especially when it comes with demonstrations.

## Equipment

* **Umbrella Sword**: Asōgi carries with him an umbrella that he modified to make a compartment for. While the handle of the umbrella may seem like a normal, plain, handle, it hides a nodachi-like sword within the compartment that he could take out at any time.

## Powers & Abilities

### Nature Transformation

Asōgi was born with the purpose of having the child achieve Wood Release, to which he was able to born with such a Kekkei Genkai, granting him both Earth Release and Water Release as a result. In his search for trying to master all Jutsu, he seems to have an affinity for trying to understand Ninjutsu the most, especially Ninjutsu of elemental natures.

#### Earth Release

As a matter of boosting his own minuscule defenses, at least when the story started, Asōgi uses his Earth Release for more defensive-related purposes, or for trying to gain a territorial advantage. Interestingly enough, he takes a large amount of inspiration for his puppets from Earth Release, wanting to make sturdier puppets. However, since Earth Release can be so rigid, it does not make good material for him, despite trying.

* **Earth Shore Return**: By slamming his hands on the floor, Asōgi can uproot the ground to create a barrier of earth in front of him. In the beginning of the story, it doesn't seem to be too wide, only being as wide as him.

#### Water Release

Because of his initial poor usage of Wood Release, Asōgi used Water Release as his most major form of personal offensive Ninjutsu techniques. However, because of water being so versatile, he tends to take a lot of inspiration when it comes to it, especially with its requirement of kneading chakra for potent effects with other Nature Releases.

* **Wild Water Wave**: By concentrating Chakra near his mouth, and changing its property into water, Asōgi is able to expel a stream of water that can damage his opponent.

#### Wood Release

At the beginning of the story, Asōgi was shown to barely be a novice in the usage of Wood Release, primarily focusing in specific techniques that he would instead prefer to master, where he seemed to focus more on the sensory side of himself for them.

* **Wood Clone Technique**: One of the first techniques Asōgi learned with his Wood Release is trying to create clones. However, he has shown to not make very stable clones, as they can be destroyed rather easily, especially in the face of Fire Release users. However, he admits that he initially took an interest in the technique for assistance in creating more potent puppets. Though, he does use them as a way of training himself quicker than most people due to them.
	+ **Transmission Wood**: By dismantling his Wood Clones, or simply making them small enough, he is able to create seeds from them. These seeds allow for him to keep tabs on a being, be it by having the seeds stay on their body, or if it's inside their body, such as from ingestion.

### Taijutsu

Despite his higher than average strength, Asōgi does not seem to be well-versed in using Taijutsu techniques, at least at the beginning of the story. The only technique he knew at the time was Leaf Gale.

* **Leaf Gale**: By swiping at the back of the target's legs, Asōgi can make them trip onto the ground, using their vulnerability to his advantage. However, due to him not being too fast at the start of the story, he only seemed to use it on enemies that were vulnerable enough to begin with. However, this technique works better for his puppets, as he can manipulate them to move faster than himself.

### Genjutsu

At the beginning of the story, Asōgi's knowledge of Genjutsu was so mediocre that he seemed to believe that Genjutsu concepts were things that truly happened, despite his intelligence. For this reason, he had a hard time grasping even the basic concepts of Genjutsu, and, at times, can get confused by techniques that aren't Genjutsu, but treating them as such.

### Fūinjutsu

Asōgi's want of learning Fūinjutsu is primarily in assistance with his Puppets, along with material for them. Though, he does like the idea of sealing Ninjutsu within them for quick Jutsus.

* **Enclosing Technique**: Asōgi uses the Enclosing Technique to keep his puppets at the ready within his scrolls so he can use them during combat, or otherwise. Though, he has shown to be able to seal more than just puppets within them. Though, he has shown to have difficulties the bigger the target is.
	+ **Unsealing Technique**: A simple Fūinjutsu technique that allows him to unseal things from sealed places. He seems to have shown rather great ability in doing so, even going as far as unsealing seals that don't belong to him.

### Sensory Perception

Because of his over-reliance on puppets, Asōgi has to learn to not be too into battles, and instead hiding in the shadows, in order to be a proper wielder of puppets. However, as a way to make sure he doesn't get ambushed, he has looked into the sensory arts to aid him in combat.

* **Sensing Technique**: By closing his eyes, Asōgi is able to change his Chakra into **Sensory Mode**, thus allowing for him to learn of the presences nearby. At the beginning of the story, Asōgi is able to detect presences around him in a fixated range. He seems to be able to distinguish at least if a person is lying or not. He has been shown to know when beings are within a Genjutsu trance, including himself.

### Chakra

Asōgi was born with relatively low statistics, especially in his physical and Chakra-usage department. The Ōtsutsuki deemed Asōgi a failure, lacking proper talent in anything, at least to their standards, especially with his poor misuage of Wood Release. However, they made note that despite his many faults, his innate Chakra levels were higher than 99% of the children they've been able to bring into the world throughout the clan's history. They suspect that, if he was able to harness this Chakra, he could truly be a threat to the world's stability.

Unfortunately, even with this major pro, Asōgi ended up aligning with the Ōtsutsuki's predictions, as he seems to hold relatively low performances, especially in the Ninjutsu department, lacking the type of Chakra control a proper Shinobi would have. This aspect remained with him since the beginning of the story, where he has shown to struggle with proper techniques, taking longer than others to learn. Because of so many cons over-weighing the good, the Ōtsutsuki saw no point in honing Asōgi's lack of potential. Asōgi himself believes that they mostly discarded him because he didn't have the basic standards they were searching for, especially in a Wood Release user, being too drunk on their ambitions to properly deal with someone like him.

## Weaknesses

* **Puppetry**: Because his primary form of combat is so reliant on his puppets, Asōgi himself can be left defenseless at times because of this. While he has tried to circumvent this issue with his sensory abilities, it has not made him omniscient, therefore he can still struggle if people have abused this weakness. Furthermore, because of his reliance on puppets, if they tend to be destroyed, he has to resort to battle tactics he is not too capable in.

* **Genjutsu**: Asōgi has no form of understanding the art of Genjutsu, despite his intelligence. He, by default, believes that whatever is happening is truly happening. As such, Genjutsu users tend to be the bane of his existence.

* **Wood Release**: Despite being gifted a Kekkei Genkai in the form of Wood Release, Asōgi has an extremely basic understanding of the art, only being able to, at most, make Wood Clones and techniques related to Wood Clones. However, these Wood Clones tend to lack the autonomous aspect, and as such, he tends to use them as a base for his puppets.

* **Speedy Enemies**: Be it by basic speed or Hand Seal usage, many Shinobi within the Shinobi World tend to be faster than him, which can often prove to be a problem for him. Even if he can devise plans on a dime, he still holds the issue of actually enacting said plans. This can further be a problem if he does not have a puppet to assist him in his battles, as they tend to be able to mitigate this issue.

## Trivia

* Asōgi Ichimaru uses the design of Kensei Muguruma from the Bleach series.
* The Kanji for "Asōgi" can be interpreted as 10^56, at least in Japan's case. However, it also holds the definition of an infinitely large number. Asōgi's name is a reference to his infinite search for Jutsu.
	+ The information pertaining to Asōgi is directly taken from the Ace Attorney Wikia from Kazuma Asōgi's page.
* His age is a play on the joke of high schoolers, or even middle schoolers, looking nothing like their age in Anime. In Asōgi's case, he was inspired by Jotaro Kujo's peculiar appearance for a high schooler, from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.