Minato
Name: Minato Namikaze
Ninja Registration Serial Number: Unknown
Ninja Academy Graduation Age: 10
Birthday: January 25 (Aquarius)
Height: 179.2cm
Weight: 66.1kg
Blood Type: B
Hair Colour: Blonde
Eye Colour: Blue
Personality: Generous, kind
Favourite Food: Kushina’s Cooking
Least Favourite Food: None in particular
Person He Would Like to Fight: Jiraiya
Favourite Phase: The fire of the shadow illuminates the village.
Hobbies: Reading (His favourite are especially Jiraiya’s novels)
Seiyuu: Toshiyuki Morikawa (森川 智之)
* Translated from Naruto 闘の書 Character Official Data Book and Naruto 者の書 Character Official Data Book
Quick Biography
Minato Namikaze, perhaps better known as the Yondaime Hokage was known throughout the ninja world as one of the most powerful shinobi ever – a genius who sacrificed his own life for the sake of his village and all the people he loved.
After graduating from the Ninja Academy at the age of 10, he and two other unnamed teammates went under the study of Jiraiya, one of the Sannin or legendary Konoha Three. While possessing great intelligence and also a good personality, he was also very self-driven, with fierce guts and a strong desire to succeed.
It is unknown at what age he became a chuunin and later a jounin, but at some time during his status as a jounin, he was the sensei or teacher of Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Obito, and Rin – and in some time from period which the Kakashi Gaiden took place (Kakashi was 13 at the time) and the birth of Naruto Uzumaki a year later, he became the Yondaime Hokage of Konohagakure.
Very deep into the story, it is revealed that he had a child with a ninja of the former Whirlpool Country, Kushina Uzumaki, and sealed the Kyuubi no Youko, or Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, inside of his infant son. Before passing, he told the Sandaime Hokage that he wanted his son, Naruto Uzumaki, to be seen as a hero – a ninja whose life was to act as a sacrificial container of the Nine Tales.
