Senju Collection

The **Senju Collection** (千手集, *Senju Shū*) is the Puppet collection of Asōgi Ōtsutsuki, encompassing all of his life's work into a set. However, despite being an Ōtsutsuki, Asōgi uses his alias of **"Asōgi Senju"** (千手阿僧祇, *"Senju Asōgi"*) for the namesake, falsely giving credit to the Senju Clan as a result.

Each puppet is adorned with the crest of Asōgi, where each location is different. Some of the crests are in peculiar places, such as inside the puppet's own body.

The puppets within the collection, at least within the beginning of the story, are separated between normal puppets and a breed of puppets Asōgi makes known as Human Puppets. Each puppet has its own unique set of abilities, along with its own purpose. While most puppets are made for combative purposes, some puppets were created as aids more than anything else.

## Puppets

The puppets created by Asōgi come in many different type of materials and rankings. While most of the puppets are created via wood, especially when it comes to Asōgi's Wood Release, there are some that may come in a strengthened-type of wood, a different material entirely, or a mixture of various materials. Asōgi has stated that he is trying to create the perfect type of puppet that lacks any sort of weakness, so that if that puppet were to fail, it would prove that the puppeteer was just incapable of using it.

Asōgi seems to build off of other puppets for types of inspiration, preferring to use the basics, or his E-ranked Puppets, as blueprints for all of his puppets. However, because puppets are supposed to be able to move easily at the most simplest of commands, he studies many types of anatomies, especially human's. However, it took him 203 attempts in making his own puppets to being able to actually create a functional puppet.

Because puppets can be of any inspiration, Asōgi's puppets, regardless of the rank, can be peculiar in how they look, such as taking inspiration between two species, and ending up in making a amalgamation.

* **Rank E Puppets** are the most basic type of puppets created by Asōgi. They are not amazing in their functions, generally, but they are decent at what they do. They tend to serve only one purpose in combat, such as the **Kenjutsu Puppet** that is only made for Kenjutsu-based attacks.

### Rank E Puppets

#### Kenjutsu Puppet

The **Kenjutsu Puppet** (剣術傀儡) are a breed of wooden puppets that solely serve the purpose to allow their users to perform Kenjutsu techniques. The puppets are half Asōgi's height, being around 4 feet, 0 inches, making them rather tiny by comparison. They are adorned with three rather large, but separate, claws on each hand, giving it a wider range. Its limbs also seem to be long enough to give its user even more range for their attacks.

However, because of its rather pathetic material, is easily susceptible to Fire Release and Lightning Release effects, burning its wood, thus making it useless. On top of this, they cannot take too many hits until they start to break down, making them rather flimsy against stronger opponents.

#### Barrier Puppet

The **Barrier Puppet** (結界傀儡) as a breed of sturdy wooden puppets that are made to mostly act as defense for their puppeteers. They are adorned with a singular modified-Barrier Tag on the back of their body to enhance their defenses, even if slight, further. While a Barrier Tag would normally create barriers, and the name of the "Barrier Puppet" may be a bit misleading, Asōgi preferred to use it as a more defensive-type of puppet. They were made with Asōgi's height in mind, thus reaching up to 8 feet in height, slightly taller than Asōgi himself. While they were made with Asōgi's height in mind, it seems to follow closely follow Asōgi's anatomy as well, holding the same length of his limbs.

There is nothing sharp on the puppet, so it's not really made for fighting purposes. If the Barrier Tag is removed, which can be done rather easily, it will weaken its defenses. Along with this, if the Barrier Tag even so much as receives a tiny rip, it will disrupt the Jutsu placed on it, thus making it null and void. Though it can tank Nature Releases, like Fire and Lightning, better than most other E-ranked Puppets, it is still made out of wood, so it can only last so long.

Despite being made for defense, however, Asōgi found out that it can ram itself into objects well enough, due to its defenses, so it hold some combat potential.

## Human Puppets

In his search for the "perfect puppet", Asōgi eventually took puppet making to a different route, looking at the corpses of those that have been fallen by his hand. Because he was already studying anatomy, he tends to find Human Puppets the best type of puppets, even if he is aware that people deem them morally wrong.

Though they are called "Human Puppets", not all of his Human Puppets look like humans, as some could even look like animals. The process in making these Human Puppets primarily lies in its preservation methods, as they are made from corpses of fallen beings. This means having to get rid of things like the internal organs, as they could clog up the puppet in the process, making less room for secret weapons. Interestingly enough, they keep what they knew in their life, such as their Nature Types and usage of Chakra. Though Human Puppets can be so useful for him, it took 78 corpses until Asōgi was able to make the corpse function like a puppet. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the story, Asōgi is still not a master in the Human Puppet creation arts, as they do not retain all, if any, of their abilities during their life.

Asōgi saw that puppets can be used as distractions for enemies in the battlefield, but they would be more likely to face off against the puppeteer than the puppet. As such, Asōgi added a second layer of wood around the Human Puppet so it looks more human-like in its design, thus making the distinction between puppet and human difficult to discern, unless they are using special methods. Along with these special characters, their joints at not easily noticeable, if at all, so the weakness of joints is generally not present within his Asōgi's Human Puppets.

* **Rank E Human Puppets** are seen as Asōgi's "test" products. They are far more durable than their regular Rank # Puppet counterparts, seeing as they are layered with a second coating of wood. Though rare, they can retain their abilities during their life, but even if they did, they generally only have one or so abilities.

### Rank E Human Puppets

#### Honki

**Honki** (本虫, *"Bookworm"*) was a Konohagakure Kunoichi that was killed by Asōgi and turned into a Human Puppet, being his first successful Human Puppet. Because of her affiliation with Konohagakure, Asōgi was able to obtain a headband from the village, thus allowing for him to keep up his facade as a Senju Clan member. She is 5'4".

Asōgi commented that she didn't have much proficiency in anything but Fire Release, as that was all she was able to show within their battle. He has stated that Honki wasn't very resilient, compared to some of his opponents, but her defenses were above average, along with her speed. Aside from her capabilities in Fire Release, Asōgi outfitted her elbows with a compartment that allows her to throw smoke bombs onto the area, thus making it easier for Asōgi to run away if need be, or make sneak attacks through the smoke.

* **Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique**: The only technique that Asōgi was able to salvage from Honki was her Great Fireball Technique. When Asōgi commands Honki to use it, after performing the proper hand seals, she releases it from her mouth in the form of a flamethrower in front of her.

## Trivia

* The symbol that Asōgi uses is that of the Unicursal Hexagram, a symbol that can be made from any starting point, and infinitely wrap around itself if you so wish to via tracing. This is a reference towards Asōgi's dream of mastering every single Jutsu in history.
* The design for the majority of the puppets used by Asōgi are from the Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
	+ The Kenjutsu Puppet uses the design of Psycho-Puppet from the Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
	+ The Barrier Puppet uses the design of Inpachi from the Yu-Gi-Oh! series.