Jirōbō

The biggest of the Sound Four by a wide margin, Jirōbō stands as a hulking youth whose pale skin and narrow, orange eyes give him a perpetually stern cast. His scalp bears orange hair in three parts, a strip running down the center like a mohawk with a matching tuft flanking each side.

For clothing he favors a beige tunic without sleeves, its hem stamped with the group's crest, worn above black trousers cut off a little below the knee. The look is finished by dark arm warmers, a necklace alternating round red beads with lengths of metal, bandage-wrapped calf warmers atop black sandals, and a purple cord knotted at the waist into a reversed bow. Once brought back through reincarnation, he appears as he had in life, differing only in the grey sclerae that mark every ninja Kabuto raised.

Of the four, Jirōbō is the steady one, reserved and even-tempered, his bearing stiff and controlled. Courtesy toward his allies is his habit, which keeps him perpetually clashing with Tayuya; her crude mouth and taunts such as calling him fat earn a scolding every time. So reliable is that reflex that when Shikamaru Nara once wore his form as a disguise, the failure to rebuke Tayuya gave the trick away. Food, though, is his weakness, an endless hunger that leaves him dropping back to eat and dragging the team's pace down, and he speaks of any chakra he siphons off a foe as a meal.

Like all his unit he carries a swollen pride, branding his enemies as garbage and needling them mid-fight, as when he harps on Chōji Akimichi's size. A personal sense of right and wrong runs under it too, and his contempt for what he saw as Shikamaru's spineless command provoked the enraged Chōji who killed him. Restored to life in the anime, he stews over his defeat and sets his sights on wiping out the Sasuke Recovery Team.

Ranked by Sakon and Ukon as the bodily strongest of the quartet though the frailest in a broader sense, Jirōbō still earns respect from his peers, and Shikamaru pegs his skill at jōnin grade. Sheer muscle is his calling card: no one in Otogakure boasts more powerful arms, and he can wrench up slabs of stone or fling a huge earthen sphere with the Earth Release technique Earth Mausoleum Dumpling. That force feeds his main craft, the Arhat Fist, whose plain strikes hit with enough weight to shut down Kiba Inuzuka's Passing Fang.

His cursed seal escalates in two tiers. The opening stage webs him in triangular marks and lifts his strength; the deeper stage stretches his mohawk into a shaggy mane past the shoulders, tints his skin a reddish brown, sets yellow irises in blackened whites, and studs him with warts while boosting his power tenfold. At that second stage a single hand is enough for him to hoist Chōji even after the boy swells to mountainous scale. He pulls chakra out of opponents by touch or through the earth he shapes, treating it as nourishment, and leans on Earth Release for attack and defense alike, among it a walled dome that bleeds a captive's energy. With his squad he also runs joint methods, among them Four Violet Flames Formation and Four Black Fogs Formation. Chōji's Butterfly Bullet Bombing finally ends him during the Sasuke Recovery Mission, though he later returns amid the Fourth Shinobi World War, and his genetic material gives Kabuto Yakushi a wellspring of borrowed technique.