Hand signs are used to mold chakra to perform most jutsu. Having both hands mean that you have that much more control over your chakra. When Minato used one hand for hand signs in the war arc, he had to completely stop moving and focus on his chakra control. He couldn’t really do this at any other point in his life because he wouldn’t have had time to stop and focus.
Look at the SPEED difference. That’s the handicap. Kakashi is known as having some of the fastest hand seals in the series. Look at how long those 1 handed jutsu take to cast. And they also seem like they have to stay still and focus more on producing both halves of their chakra. Similar to sage mode not allowing for movement while gathering
Huh, good note. I never realized just how much slower it is. Still useful, but a logical negative. I thought Sasuke was gonna die the first time I saw that. … WELL..
@@ViltrumiteIsRite99 yea a large skill and timeframe to master, just to be the slowest on the field lol. Hence why we only see it when it’s out of necessity
I always figured that Haku's one handed jutsus were part of his Kekkei Genkai; and that is even more evident in time when we learn about the elements of chakra. That people are born with elements, maybe more than one, and the mixing of them is what creates secondary elements. In that sense, the one handed jutsu makes more sense as a Kekkei Genkai than Ice Style does. (Maybe even a mix of both. The Uchiha have the Sharingan but Lightning and Fire Styles also seem to be a norm for them). The thing is that at one point hand signs kinda become like magic words in Harry Potter. Yeah it's "needed" for people with low power, but it seems most powerful jutsus or ninjas don't even require handsigns. Shadow Clones have their own, Chidori is used frequently without any. Akimichi's Baika jutsus don't usually have signs. The Rasengan doesn't need signs. If so many don't need signs, I think there's a point to be made that high level ninjas don't even need them because they're already that good at chakra manipulation
The Rasengan is the clearest example of how hand signs are useful. It's the ultimate expression of chakra-shaping, so while Minato didn't design it with any hand signs because his chakra-shaping was perfect and he could just make a Rasengan in an instant, Naruto initially needed a clone to focus entirely on manually shaping the chakra, doing with two hands for an extended period what traditional hand signs do in a few movements.
@@ThermiteKitty It kinda proves my point though. What are the ninjas we have seen use the Rasengan? Minato, Jiraya, Kakashi, Naruto and Konohamaru. Out of these, Konohamaru is the weakest one by far and even then he is kind of a genius with Hokage ancestry. None of them even need to bother with handsigns for the most part and are absolute chakra monsters. If someone would to "perfect it" and make it attainable with handsigns that fix how much chakra it spends... would that many more people actually use it? It's a pure ball made of elementless chakra. It's the kind of control thing that already takes someone of at least chuunin level to even think of doing. I think this does highlight a huge problem though: Most ninja in Naruto only use signature jutsus of their clans and teachers. Tobirama, Orochimaru and Kabuto might be the exceptions of being out there creating things, but most ninja don't really use generic jutsus they've learned at school or from another ninja, do they?
@@jpcsdutra even then. Most genjutsu we see don't use signs. The substitute jutsu doesn't need signs. Neither does the body flicker when you think about it. Even the flying riji and reanimation don't use them!
@@jpcsdutra actually konohamaru's rasengan is probably more powerful than kakashi and jiraya, his normal rasengan is just average, like minato's, but he also developed his own version of rasengan, wind style: rasengan, which is far far far more powerful than the normal rasengan.
I think it would have made sense for characters like Madara, Sasuke, Hiruzen, Kakashi, Itachi, Minato (to a greater extent) and maybe even Sakura, Tobirama and Orochimaru, to be capable of using one-handed signs to cast jutsu. It could be a marker of *extreme* talent, intelligence, experience, chakra control, etc. And you could even have a tactical advantage over people who are even stronger than you are. It's almost like when Itachi put Naruto under genjutsu with one finger and no eye contact. You can seriously catch someone off-guard and hit them with a jutsu they can't identify ahead of time, because they didn't see your hand signs. You could catch them in a mix-up, surprise them and make it impossible to determine your next move as Kakashi said he's "never seen that before." And then you can use your other hand for something as well, like when Haku and Sasuke locked weapons. Maybe you could even cast two ninjutsu or genjutsu at once, or make it *look* like you can, or show a sign for a jutsu you have used, and a sign for another jutsu you used on the opponent before, or a new one-and they won't know which technique you're actually casting until it comes out. Unless they have dojutsu or some other keen sensory power, as Dygo said. But it's interesting what becomes possible with this. Another missed opportunity, eh?
Honestly, I don't see why they couldn't, it's just that they had both arms and probably never saw a reason not to, Deidara could use them as well as he would usually blow off his arms, Deidara could even cast jutsuu with no Arms, but people just forget about him...
I always saw hand signs as simply making the jutsu stronger. You can use a jutsu without any hand signs. Like the pointing Gen-Jutsu you mentioned. It was a fraction of the strength his normal gen-jutsu can do. One handed jutsus might be 50% the strength, but if you throw your opponent off guard, 50% is still good enough. We stop seeing it because "cheap tricks" become less and less useful. A ninja taking on Naruto with some cheap trick isn't gonna work. In a battle of low level ninja, it is a lot bigger advantage. It's why we also stop seeing substitute jutsu. It's really useful in low level fights, but when someone can blow up an entire squire mile it becomes a lot less useful.
@@hudsondo9581 That's an interesting idea, actually. Get the Jutsu out faster, but sacrifice power/potency. I see what you mean there. I guess it happens with a lot of Shōnen, since most take after DBZ. But I rate that a ninja should always be about tricks-even if some are cheap lol. Natuto mainly does this with skilled usage of Shadow Clones, and it seems to usually work well. At least there was some strategy kept, but I would have liked more of that and less flashy explosions and giant monsters.
@robertminnie782 Ya, I agree. The show would have been better if they had stuck to real ninja tactics instead of who has the biggest jutsu. In a battle of who's jutsu is bigger, you don't want to sacrifice potency. Ya, I came to my conclusion because Bleach Kido works the same. The more of the spell you say, the more power it has. If you're really strong, though, it can still pack a punch.
A lot of people pointed out that it probably takes twice the amount of time and focus to pull off a one handed hand sign. Additionally, there could be a chakra penalty. When Naruto was first using the clone technique, he was using twice the amount of chakra his counterparts used to create less clones of himself. One handed hand signs could function similarly. The castor would have to put extra chakra in order to perform the jutsu. Only those who have the talent, judgement, and chakra levels should attempt to weave one handed hand signs.
I miss hand signs being part of the magic system. Would have liked them to have stayed a focus. It was more for show, but it *made* the show, in a way. Rule of Cool.
At least in the Sasuke vs Naruto fight they used them in an interesting way. Sasuke saw Natuto trying to use the clone sign so he kept him from doing so. Also in the Kakashi vs Obito one, Obito used Kakashi’s hand to complete the other part of the sign during their clash.
One handed signs are more of a disability. Minato and Haku used them only when they were unable to have access to their other arm. It's easier to do two handed hand signs. The lore reason being that expressing chakra physically is more difficult with one hand. You need two hands. One hand is difficult and no hand signs is impossible. Chakra is expressed either spiritually or physically. Hands signs are used to pin point the exact physical chakra expression the user wants. Kaguya used zero hand signs because she only used her body's innate abilities. She fought like a child and exhausted huge amounts of chakra. Hand signs focus the user's chakra to express precisely a specifc chakra expression (jutsu). Think of it as Jinchuriki working with their Tailed Beast being stronger than the raw power of the Tailed Beast. The Jinchuriki is similar to hand signs, in that they focus the Tailed Beasts chakra into a more focused chakra output. Naruto in his Kurama Cloak Mode is stronger than base Kurama (even when assuming we do not factor in Naruto's own individual strength).
@@chalbramwell5353 maybe you should mate Im commenting on the statement "no hand signs is impossible" his explanation does not for for either rasengan or rasenshuriken since they both need a precise control of chakra and arent innate abilities
@@wesleydamen2018 ''The Jinchuriki is similar to hand signs, in that they focus the Tailed Beasts chakra into a more focused chakra output.'' bro please learn to read
If only someone had done a rewrite of Naruto that involved one handed hand signs being more prominent, such as Sasuke learning them while training with Orochimaru during the time skip.
There is one thing that you didn't mention. This might be my head canon but here goes. You are supposed to basically channel physical and mental energy into when using jutsu, so I would guess that you need 1 hand to focus 1 type of energy. When Minato used his one-handed hand sign he was standing still and basically concentrating doing nothing else. Haku was standing still both times and and Sasuke in most times I've seen him was also standing still doing one-handed jutsu. My head canon would be that concentrating both mental and physical energy with 1 hand would be like trying to gather Sage chakra while moving, which Naruto was trying to do but failed. But on a smaller scale. Which is why it wouldn't be common practice to use them, because they require more concentration and time and basically handicap you while using them. Which is why except for Haku we only see others using them in desperation (Having 1 hand). Haku was also trained to be an assassin, so preparing a one handed jutsu might have been easier for him then the rest due to his speed. Similar to how Sasuke now uses them regularly, because he uses them really fast, but he is again standing still while doing it. It's my own headcanon at least, and makes sense to me
Agree. My thought was that we’re casting a seal with their bodies, a circle O. And each hand sign is a stamp on the seal and when you transcript all the stamp on this seal the mixture of spirit and physical combine and in this ritual and create the jutsu and I was thinking about yugioh the dark magician magic circle, seal of orichacho, ect. And doing this with one hand take more than skill you need to fully understand your spirit like and how to mold it to fill the rest of the seal.
how does using someone else's hand to form a sign fit into that? thats something i never likes, yea it looks cool, but then if someone elses hand works with yours, what exactly are you even doing lol.
@@hoofhearted4 my guess it’s still a seal. I think about it like they use their hands to start the chant, ritual, seal or jutsu whatever you want to think about this magic system, but you still must finish it by clapping your hands together and finishing the circle because both obito and sasuke kicked their opponent away to perform the final hand sign and finish. You got all the molded chakra from using your opponent hand and in the end you put in your physical part by putting your hands together and releasing the jutsu. I don’t know if this make sense to you I try to worded something that made sense to me but never said it out loud.
During Haku's arc I belived it was part of his special technique that gave him the ability to using Signs with a signle hand. Similar to how Wood Release allows to suppress Bijuu. But then there were the other two cases with Minato and Sasuke. In theory having explicity Minato doing One hand handsign is truly weird because he is Kakashi's master and we were told by Kakashi himself that he never saw someone doing One Hand Handsign... and as you pointed Minato in the war is the same expertise wise that Kakashi knew very well
I may say something unexpected, but Sakura should have learned 1 hang signs jutsus. I say this mostly because of the a lot of time extablished fact that Sakara's chakra control Is insane and because It would be a nice addittion to her arsenal. This could in general boost Sakuras power because in canon she Is mostly a taijutsu and medical jutsus user, but giving her the ability to use powerfull 1 hand sign of a chakra nature not so protagonist of the anime (like earth and water) will both benefit her character and the nature trasformation chakra "lore"
actually she was meant to be a genjutsu specialist, if this character trait had stayed then yeah you right dude, like itachi she should point at someone with a finger and put them under but she uses medical ninjutsu which doesn't use signs or she just focuses her chakra into her fists which again.... no hand signs, infact naruto who uses jutsu dosen't use hand signs for rasengan because it isnt a chakra nature its just pure chakra
Unlike nagato, Minato wasn't in the pure lands he was in the shinigami belly where your soul fights forever against who you used it on so maybe he learned during his time his soul was fighting with kurama in there
My head cannon is one hand styles take twice as long to cast as two handed hand styles, if you have the option to use both hands you'd always want to use both hands, but I do acknowledge sometimes you want to trade speed for stealth so there should be some instances of people using one handed
My first Jutsu was Fire style: Dragon flame jutsu and My first 1 handed jutsu was Haku's 1 thousand needles of death. And I also know Minato's and Sasuke's. Nowadays I can do most Fire style jutsu, Lightning blade, Reaper death seal, Earth Style Mud wall and Wood style Renchuka no jutsu.
Maybe it has a significant disadvantage as well that we're not aware of. Maybe that way the jutsu uses more chakra, or it's slower, or the jutsu is weaker. Something like that.
When it's used, the users are mostly standing still and seem to be somewhat slower or they need to focus more, i'd say it has that as a sort of handicap
Like everyone else mentioned, it’s harder and less efficient. It’s a situational thing that is more of a leg up against someone in the middle of combat. Everyone doing one handed hand signs is flat out slower. I imagine that weaving chakra is more of a feeling than a conscious effort. Minato would theoretically have never seen 1 handed hand signs before, but he could feel chakra. That said, if I were in the ninja world and saw one handed hand signs, I would try dual casting. We heard them talk about synergistic chakras so if I could say use a water style attack to both deal some damage as well as create a channel for a lightning style to travel through.
0:28 There is one more. Madara used one hand and only sign to use wood dragon jutsu on Naruto during war arc. And probably one more when Itachi used a water style jutsu on Kakashi while distracting him with shuriken in his another hand so I am assuming he weaved those hand signs with only one hand.
It makes perfect sense why one handed signs are so rare since even Kakashi has never seen them used before Haku and Kakashi is a very experienced Jonin that’s been all over the world in missions. Minato must have never had a reason to use it in front of Kakashi.
The only thing crazier than this is Itachi being so fast Kakashi with his sharingan didn't even see him weaving signs. That's even more impressive because Sasuke said no matter how fast you are the sharingan can read signs.
@@DarkWolf-407 My bad, was talking about Sasuke, he makes that claim but we have two examples of his sharingan not being able to keep up against Bee and Lee
@@TheodoreBrosevelt About Sasuke his Sharingan wasn't complete against him, about Kakashi Madara explained that the real potential of Sharingans and Rinnegan can be unlocked only if you have both the eyes
I think Sakura, Tobirama and Tsunade are the only others who could've used 1 hand seals. Tobriama created his own seals and could do water dragon bullet with 4 or 6 hand seals when it usually takes like 44. Tsunade and Sakura because in order to use 100 healings you need to have insane chakra control. I also think some other medical shinobi like Kabuto could also use it because in order to even become a Medical Shinobi you need great chakra control and we know Kabuto has complete control over his chakra. These are the only people I think could even have a chance at learning 1 handed signs because of how good their chakra control is. Other than that no one else could learn them.
And, if you wanna go with the "only team 7 saw it because Haku invented it" it still leave us Sakura, which, sure, I dunno if she saw, but I feel like she may very well overhear Kakashi and Sasuke talking about it. You could even have Sakura trying to learn it in hiding, because, she is already so good at chakra control that there is not much to teach her on it anyway and have the reveal much later, about it (kind of like we had with the 100 healing seal. It likely wouldnt be an interesting training to show us after all, so instead, show it as a surprise, where she may even defeat an opponent because of it, by tricking them, she is supposed to be smart, so wouldn't seem weird) Bonus point : Kakashi sees it and is a bit vexed that the only student that was still in the village had actually most likely been training behind his back since the first arc and he never noticed, maybe even introspect and realizes he prioritized the boys over Sakura a lot. (or neglected her, depending on how hard you wanna be with him on this)
@@spit-fire You are confusing Chakra control with strength. Those 2 are strong but they can't control their chakra enough to even become a Medical Shinobi, let alone use 1 hand signs.
@@spit-fire If you want a good example, go back to when Ebisu taught about chakra control to Naruto (when he was teaching him how to walk on water). Naruto and Sasuke are stronger than Sakura, but Ebisu explained that Sakura is better than them at controlling her chakra, never wasting it when doing any justu, using just the right amount. Sasuke uses more than the necessary output because he isn't as good despite being stronger (and the whole gist was that Naruto was really bad at it)
one handed hand signs feels like speechless casting in mushoku tensei. in MT it requires a good understanding of the spell, what it does, and a young mastery of magic to pull off. Rudy can't cast healing/detox spells as he does not understand fundamentally how the spells works while elemental spells are easy for him and he can cast them without incantations. This is also again the same universe where a jutsu that is just molding chakra into a fast spinning ball is considered an A ranked jutsu.
I'd assumed they were a part of Haku's kekkei genkai since nobody else used them until the end of shippuden, partially also because neither of the 2 sharingan users present even attempted to copy those movements, and also because Haku only used it for Ice style jutsu, which were his main kekkei genkai & which made it seem like maybe it _only_ worked with those jutsu. Tbf though we don't see Haku use much ninjutsu at all, let alone anything other than Ice style, so there's nothing conclusive there. But when they do come up later it does raise questions since it clearly separates the technique from being tied to a bloodline. Another commenter pointed out how the one handed handsigns are always used while standing, implying they take a lot of extra concentration and are thus less useful in an active fight, similar to building up sage chakra. I had a headcannon that the one handed handsigns needed to be done twice to make up for the lack of the other hand, but from looking at Sasuke in Boruto that seems to be have confirmed as not the case. The idea was that a jutsu might take 5 handsigns using both hands, but when performing with one hand the same jutsu would need 10, performing the series of 5 handsigns in order twice. E.g. Fireball is *Horse, Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger* ; With one hand it would've been *Horse, Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger, Horse, Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger* . It'd mean that you could perform jutsu while keeping a hand free/ occupied by something else, but it takes twice as long to cast, further emphasizing the importance of the user's skill at performing handsigns.
One handed jutsu were used a lot more often. It is mostly mist ninja. Which makes sense, they are primary sword fighters so one hand will be filled. Hidden mist jutsu was just one hand. I always saw hand signs as simply making the jutsus stronger. It makes molding chakra easier. When they first walk on water they use a hand sign then never again. It's similar how they say Ninja's can only use one chakra nature. Every ninja can use every chakra nature, it just might be very weak. You can do a jutsu without any hand signs, but it would be a fraction of the strength if you did the hand signs while still taking up the same amount of chakra.
I wanna see someone take full advantage of one handed handsigns to launch 2 different jutsu's with 2 different natures at the same time. Something that would take an immense amount of chakra control. Not too late to have Sakura be useful at that at least.... something.... come on maybe Sarada or Boruto could try learning it from Sasuke. We've seen plenty of combination jutsu's, but there is a lot more potential with that with one-handed hand signs. It's not even that it's more discreet you can potentially just combine 2 jutsu's without needing a partner, or prepare the first jutsu beforehand. Like with Minato and Flying Raijin with Rasengan. Technically a combination jutsu, but one jutsu was prepped before using the other.
Its similar to the Eight Gates. They where introduced in the second arc , the Chiunnin Exam, but we only saw their full might in the last arc. And we got such a good a start with them, Lee openning 5 gates in the verry first time we saw it, pure awesomeness.
I think Itachi can use one handed too. 1) Against Kabuto fight, when Kabuto used water dragon, Itachi countered with water dragon using one hand. Granted, Kabuto was already in Izanami but it's plausible 2) When shadow clone Itachi confronted Naruto before fighting Sasuke. clone Itachi released himself/clone with one hand. In contrast, when Naruto and Kakashi did the rock-paper-scissor during elemental style training, Naruto (and Kakashi in the anime), required two hands to release their clones.
My theory is that one-handed handsigns are twice as slow to perform than the two-handed ones because you have half amount of the arms to perform them with. Having a leftover arm or the ability to hide your prepared jutsus from your opponent probably don't worth as much as being able to cast jutsus twice as faster. The one-handed handsigns are probably would be used by high-level fighters only, and at that level normal weapons (which you could utilize your leftover arm to use) don't do anything, but spamming op jutsus do. So using one-handed handsigns probably doesn't worth the effort nor the downsides it comes with.
If you go back to his first invasions of the leaf, it can also be assumed itachi can easily perform 1handed justu when he distract them with shuriken in one hand he made an explosive clone instantly with the othe hand. However his hands are hidden most of the show for the reason of surprise and not being able to see his signs.
I feel that minato was imagining having both arms because without the other hands support, the hand seals would end up deformed. I used to some times practice sand signs and doing them 1 handed is very difficult
I think it would make sense if those able to use this technique were the ones presented as among the best in chakra control, also perhaps those with more experience. So, Tsunade and Minato are the first ones that comes in my mind. But I imagine that the overall kage level shinobis focused on ninjutso would fit well with that. Could be more common among medical ninjas. So, among the trio in team 7 Sakura would be the fittest to learn it, since she showed great talent in that from the start, and eventually became at 17 one of the only 3 persons to obtain a byakugou seal.
I have never heard someone say "One-Handed Handsigns" untill just now and you said the phrase so many times in this video that by the end it lost all meaning and I would die extremely happy if I never have to hear someone say "One-Handed Handsign" other than that great video as always 😅
Hand signs aid the user in moulding chakra for the desired jutsu, so the better the person is at performing hand signs the less chakra is required for that jutsu, same goes for moulding chakra. If the user is better at moulding chakra sometimes hand signs aren’t needed for the respective jutsu. Chidori for example. So it make sense that one handed signs probably require more chakra and more time to finish the sequence making the cons out weigh the pros in some scenarios.
I think the reason is simple - muscle memory. Minato was used to regular hand signs, he found it much easier to use both hands just because he did it more.
I don’t get why nobody talks about this but where did the half of Kuramas chakra go when Minato died. Why didn’t it just respawn somewhere else or find it’s way to Naruto’s half instead of just DISAPPEARING FOR 16 YEARS? It was stated that tailed beasts can’t die so where did this huge amount of chakra go? This is more or less the biggest plot hole in the series
If you think about it, Minato didn't master kcm mode instantly, you forget the jutsu traps you in deaths stomach to fight your opponent infinitely, when he was released it showed that even in deaths stomach he was stronger than 9 tails, also I figure one hand seals would have some sort of extra chakra cost as the "ice boy" inherited those abilities and had them mastered however other people use hand seals to direct how much chakra is also used in an attack, I imagine one handed seals would cause jutsu to not work as intended, Sasuke was able to master because of sharingan and rennigan
People who used and sealed by the reaper death seal then their souls are stuck in the same realm together were they'll fight for eternally. So Minato had potentially years with Kurama to get KCM and one-handed hand signs. Though I might be wrong but Orochimaru needed to use the reaper death masks that was kept in the leaf to release the souls from the reaper.
I feel like Kakashi’s quote was more in the context of “I’ve never seen anything like this” For example if you saw a 2 year old land a backflip, it’s not like that’s the only backflip you’ve ever seen. But the circumstances altogether are something you’ve never seen before.
I think that obito should be able to use one handed hand signs because 1: obito probably would have learned them while missing an arm.2: it would be cool.
It was rare for me, because they explain that for a kekkei genkai each had is weaving each element.... So how can Haku mix wind and water to create ice with just one hand?
It could be interpreted that Kakashi has never seen a one handed seal cast such a complex jutsu, implying that one handed seals, rare in itself, are only used for basic jutsu.
It burns double the chakra a standard hand sign would require in a best case scenario and it's even harder to focus chakra with one hand than with two so most likely you would spend a lot of chakra for maybe having the enemy not recognize your jutsu (assuming they would have known otherwise) Also time spent practicing this is time not spent practicing anything else. So one handed jutsu are really not worth it if you don't have a very specific use for them, you are a hokage and are awesome in every other way already, or you literally can't use jutsu otherwise.
I'd imagine that using 1 handed seals requires very high mental concentration and chakra control... Can you even imagine using 2 jutsu simultaneously if you use each hand to cast a jutsu, this would allow unique jutsu combos or even new jutsu creation; especially in the case of elemental chakra natures. Combining 2 compatible chakra elemental natures (1 in each hand) would create new jutsu, empower a main jutsu or even be a way of rivaling bloodline jutsus where users combine 2 elementals nature's to Create a new jutsu nature or a new unique jutsu.
I have a in universe theory - one handed hand signs would probably have less control over your chakra and so therefore you have to put more focus into it. Also, 2 handed hand signs would probably less focus intensive and faster than one handed hand signs, and it would be much easier to control chakra into a certain point. My theory is that Minato knew one handed hand signs but never used it because it was much harder to control chakra and needed much more focus and concentration with less speed so it turned into a "I will use this only when I need to" type thing where whenever he doesn't have flying thunder god and he is in a situation where he has only one hand and has to perform a jutsu, like in the war arc, he would use it but 2 hands is just way faster and natural for a shinobi compared to one handed hand signs. As for Haku, he (Im pretty sure) only used one handed hand signs when his other hand was occupied in a weapon clash.
Well! This aged like milk now. *Glances at Boruto now being added to the list of One-Handed Seal users and making it an essential part of his kenjutsu-oriented kit. Also the fact that he still primarily uses hand sign ninjutsu, even if it requires less seals than most ninja.*
That's a good point imagine if kakashi and sauske could use one hand to emit chidori it would help sauske vs naruto as he has no hand signs for rasengon
To be honest i think it just takes time to do as two handed signs are faster than 1 handed plus it probably takes an insane amount of concentration. So i present you a person that can cast two different jutsus at the same time by using one handed hand signs with both hands. Yeah that would require insane amount of chakra control and concentration
The only thing that would make sense in my head would be if jutsu cast with one hand took longer to cast, or inherently used more Chakra, or required a lot more Chakra control, or all the above. It wouldn't explain why we never see other characters use them, but it would explain why characters would choice to use two hand signs overall.
Minato was inside the belly of the reaper it’s not the same as being dead. It’s stated that inside of their they are constantly battling the person they were sealed with, whatever that means:
dunno why it seems to be a memory thing but during Itachi's big debut, Kakashi, Asuma and Kurenai panicked when Itachi performed a jutsu with minimal hand signs with one hand. did that really happen or am i missing a detail somewhere.
We already have an example of a ninja using a form of "hand sign prep" with sasuke having summoning or seals on his wrists after time skip to be able to use shuriken on the fly without having to weave signs for it. There's plenty of examples tbh, look at deidara, he does an entire chakra clay infusuon before combat just so in combat all he has to do is the one hand tiger sign and *boom*. making hand signs more effiecent is a key factor for naruto everyone does it.
I mean i think it’s just Haku was so darned talented that it wasn’t a problem, but you see Minato and he has his eyes closed to focus. I mean it’s the difference of making a hand sign with an anchor helping you understand that exactly where your hand is and not so having to have a stronger focus to make sure they are made right
actually i expected some of the ultra threat enemies to use one handed signs but it never came i accepted it as a one time thing when naruto was about ninjas getting hired to do ninja things
in universe expalantion: hand signs are to mold chakra, so my guess is that using one hand molds the chakra worse out of universe: one hand, two hands, hand signs are dead
I would guess one handed hand signs take longer to pull off, could be weaker (since a single point of chakra produces less than two points), and may only be considered as a last resort? But it does seem strange that Kakashi never tried them, even after witnessing so many from Haku. You'd think he would sharingan that and keep it for later, unless Haku's abilities were tied to a blood-power that included his hand signs.
I imagine it is a slower process, requiring better chakra control which is the purpose of hand signs. No one moves while they are doing it with one hand either. So it probably isn't done except as a last resort. It is also possible that some techniques might simply be undoable with one hand. The techniques used with one hand are usually unique to the moment. The real question is Sasuke's ability to use his opponent's hands to complete his hand signs.
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What combos could you pull off witg one handed hand signs?
Cans you do review on boruto ch 79 that got leaked because it’s getting crazy for better and for worse in my opinion
It would be sick if someone could use two jutsus at the same time by doing different one handed hand signs on each hand
One hand sign stye : revive the other hand jutsu
Sasuke is the best user of one handed hand signs
Kage bushin.
Remember when Kakashi and Zabuza did a hand sign contest? 😂
Kakashi was trying to copy zabuza movement
that was sick
Such an iconic scene and moment in the beginning of Naruto
@@furr9381 actually I think kakashi already knew the jutsu and used it just slightly before zabuza to mess with him
@@furr9381 Kakashi put Zabuza in genjutsu and was making him use it.
Hand signs are used to mold chakra to perform most jutsu. Having both hands mean that you have that much more control over your chakra. When Minato used one hand for hand signs in the war arc, he had to completely stop moving and focus on his chakra control. He couldn’t really do this at any other point in his life because he wouldn’t have had time to stop and focus.
Look at the SPEED difference. That’s the handicap. Kakashi is known as having some of the fastest hand seals in the series. Look at how long those 1 handed jutsu take to cast. And they also seem like they have to stay still and focus more on producing both halves of their chakra. Similar to sage mode not allowing for movement while gathering
Huh, good note. I never realized just how much slower it is.
Still useful, but a logical negative.
I thought Sasuke was gonna die the first time I saw that.
… WELL..
@@ViltrumiteIsRite99 yea a large skill and timeframe to master, just to be the slowest on the field lol. Hence why we only see it when it’s out of necessity
@@AriesBozz And we’re talking characters like Haku, and MINATO.
People that are hyped up for their speed & talent.
We really don't know whether they are slower than 2 handed hand signs or if the time is diluted for use to be able to see.
That kakashi scene is anime only so no he doesn't have this fast handseals
I always figured that Haku's one handed jutsus were part of his Kekkei Genkai; and that is even more evident in time when we learn about the elements of chakra. That people are born with elements, maybe more than one, and the mixing of them is what creates secondary elements. In that sense, the one handed jutsu makes more sense as a Kekkei Genkai than Ice Style does. (Maybe even a mix of both. The Uchiha have the Sharingan but Lightning and Fire Styles also seem to be a norm for them).
The thing is that at one point hand signs kinda become like magic words in Harry Potter. Yeah it's "needed" for people with low power, but it seems most powerful jutsus or ninjas don't even require handsigns. Shadow Clones have their own, Chidori is used frequently without any. Akimichi's Baika jutsus don't usually have signs. The Rasengan doesn't need signs.
If so many don't need signs, I think there's a point to be made that high level ninjas don't even need them because they're already that good at chakra manipulation
The Rasengan is the clearest example of how hand signs are useful. It's the ultimate expression of chakra-shaping, so while Minato didn't design it with any hand signs because his chakra-shaping was perfect and he could just make a Rasengan in an instant, Naruto initially needed a clone to focus entirely on manually shaping the chakra, doing with two hands for an extended period what traditional hand signs do in a few movements.
@@ThermiteKitty It kinda proves my point though. What are the ninjas we have seen use the Rasengan? Minato, Jiraya, Kakashi, Naruto and Konohamaru. Out of these, Konohamaru is the weakest one by far and even then he is kind of a genius with Hokage ancestry.
None of them even need to bother with handsigns for the most part and are absolute chakra monsters. If someone would to "perfect it" and make it attainable with handsigns that fix how much chakra it spends... would that many more people actually use it? It's a pure ball made of elementless chakra. It's the kind of control thing that already takes someone of at least chuunin level to even think of doing.
I think this does highlight a huge problem though: Most ninja in Naruto only use signature jutsus of their clans and teachers. Tobirama, Orochimaru and Kabuto might be the exceptions of being out there creating things, but most ninja don't really use generic jutsus they've learned at school or from another ninja, do they?
@@jpcsdutra even then. Most genjutsu we see don't use signs. The substitute jutsu doesn't need signs. Neither does the body flicker when you think about it.
Even the flying riji and reanimation don't use them!
@@jpcsdutra actually konohamaru's rasengan is probably more powerful than kakashi and jiraya, his normal rasengan is just average, like minato's, but he also developed his own version of rasengan, wind style: rasengan, which is far far far more powerful than the normal rasengan.
@@Ragnaracc Substitute does. It's assumed you pre cast it
I think it would have made sense for characters like Madara, Sasuke, Hiruzen, Kakashi, Itachi, Minato (to a greater extent) and maybe even Sakura, Tobirama and Orochimaru, to be capable of using one-handed signs to cast jutsu. It could be a marker of *extreme* talent, intelligence, experience, chakra control, etc. And you could even have a tactical advantage over people who are even stronger than you are.
It's almost like when Itachi put Naruto under genjutsu with one finger and no eye contact. You can seriously catch someone off-guard and hit them with a jutsu they can't identify ahead of time, because they didn't see your hand signs. You could catch them in a mix-up, surprise them and make it impossible to determine your next move as Kakashi said he's "never seen that before." And then you can use your other hand for something as well, like when Haku and Sasuke locked weapons. Maybe you could even cast two ninjutsu or genjutsu at once, or make it *look* like you can, or show a sign for a jutsu you have used, and a sign for another jutsu you used on the opponent before, or a new one-and they won't know which technique you're actually casting until it comes out. Unless they have dojutsu or some other keen sensory power, as Dygo said.
But it's interesting what becomes possible with this. Another missed opportunity, eh?
Honestly, I don't see why they couldn't, it's just that they had both arms and probably never saw a reason not to, Deidara could use them as well as he would usually blow off his arms, Deidara could even cast jutsuu with no Arms, but people just forget about him...
Sasuke can use one-handed signs in Boruto (he has one arm 💀)
He did indeed use them 1-2 times in the anime
I always saw hand signs as simply making the jutsu stronger. You can use a jutsu without any hand signs. Like the pointing Gen-Jutsu you mentioned. It was a fraction of the strength his normal gen-jutsu can do. One handed jutsus might be 50% the strength, but if you throw your opponent off guard, 50% is still good enough.
We stop seeing it because "cheap tricks" become less and less useful. A ninja taking on Naruto with some cheap trick isn't gonna work. In a battle of low level ninja, it is a lot bigger advantage. It's why we also stop seeing substitute jutsu. It's really useful in low level fights, but when someone can blow up an entire squire mile it becomes a lot less useful.
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That's an interesting idea, actually. Get the Jutsu out faster, but sacrifice power/potency.
I see what you mean there. I guess it happens with a lot of Shōnen, since most take after DBZ.
But I rate that a ninja should always be about tricks-even if some are cheap lol.
Natuto mainly does this with skilled usage of Shadow Clones, and it seems to usually work well. At least there was some strategy kept, but I would have liked more of that and less flashy explosions and giant monsters.
@robertminnie782 Ya, I agree. The show would have been better if they had stuck to real ninja tactics instead of who has the biggest jutsu. In a battle of who's jutsu is bigger, you don't want to sacrifice potency.
Ya, I came to my conclusion because Bleach Kido works the same. The more of the spell you say, the more power it has. If you're really strong, though, it can still pack a punch.
one handed hand sign would be so cool if characters do it to confuse enemies or something.
A lot of people pointed out that it probably takes twice the amount of time and focus to pull off a one handed hand sign. Additionally, there could be a chakra penalty. When Naruto was first using the clone technique, he was using twice the amount of chakra his counterparts used to create less clones of himself. One handed hand signs could function similarly. The castor would have to put extra chakra in order to perform the jutsu. Only those who have the talent, judgement, and chakra levels should attempt to weave one handed hand signs.
I miss hand signs being part of the magic system. Would have liked them to have stayed a focus. It was more for show, but it *made* the show, in a way. Rule of Cool.
Miss the old days when we try to perform a chidori or fire ball hand sign
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"Horse! Tiger! Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
At least in the Sasuke vs Naruto fight they used them in an interesting way. Sasuke saw Natuto trying to use the clone sign so he kept him from doing so. Also in the Kakashi vs Obito one, Obito used Kakashi’s hand to complete the other part of the sign during their clash.
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Those are cool examples. Pretty few and far between, though. Would love to see more of that!
@@robertminnie782 oh for sure. I agree. Those moments only made me wish they did that more often.
One handed signs are more of a disability. Minato and Haku used them only when they were unable to have access to their other arm. It's easier to do two handed hand signs. The lore reason being that expressing chakra physically is more difficult with one hand. You need two hands. One hand is difficult and no hand signs is impossible.
Chakra is expressed either spiritually or physically. Hands signs are used to pin point the exact physical chakra expression the user wants. Kaguya used zero hand signs because she only used her body's innate abilities. She fought like a child and exhausted huge amounts of chakra. Hand signs focus the user's chakra to express precisely a specifc chakra expression (jutsu).
Think of it as Jinchuriki working with their Tailed Beast being stronger than the raw power of the Tailed Beast. The Jinchuriki is similar to hand signs, in that they focus the Tailed Beasts chakra into a more focused chakra output. Naruto in his Kurama Cloak Mode is stronger than base Kurama (even when assuming we do not factor in Naruto's own individual strength).
It's about controlling chakra output and what that chakra expresses.
So the jutsu rasemgan/rasenshuriken are justu's done with handsigns?
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bro re read what the person said
@@chalbramwell5353 maybe you should mate
Im commenting on the statement "no hand signs is impossible" his explanation does not for for either rasengan or rasenshuriken since they both need a precise control of chakra and arent innate abilities
@@wesleydamen2018 ''The Jinchuriki is similar to hand signs, in that they focus the Tailed Beasts chakra into a more focused chakra output.''
bro please learn to read
If only someone had done a rewrite of Naruto that involved one handed hand signs being more prominent, such as Sasuke learning them while training with Orochimaru during the time skip.
There is one thing that you didn't mention. This might be my head canon but here goes.
You are supposed to basically channel physical and mental energy into when using jutsu, so I would guess that you need 1 hand to focus 1 type of energy.
When Minato used his one-handed hand sign he was standing still and basically concentrating doing nothing else. Haku was standing still both times and and Sasuke in most times I've seen him was also standing still doing one-handed jutsu.
My head canon would be that concentrating both mental and physical energy with 1 hand would be like trying to gather Sage chakra while moving, which Naruto was trying to do but failed. But on a smaller scale. Which is why it wouldn't be common practice to use them, because they require more concentration and time and basically handicap you while using them. Which is why except for Haku we only see others using them in desperation (Having 1 hand). Haku was also trained to be an assassin, so preparing a one handed jutsu might have been easier for him then the rest due to his speed. Similar to how Sasuke now uses them regularly, because he uses them really fast, but he is again standing still while doing it.
It's my own headcanon at least, and makes sense to me
Agree. My thought was that we’re casting a seal with their bodies, a circle O. And each hand sign is a stamp on the seal and when you transcript all the stamp on this seal the mixture of spirit and physical combine and in this ritual and create the jutsu and I was thinking about yugioh the dark magician magic circle, seal of orichacho, ect. And doing this with one hand take more than skill you need to fully understand your spirit like and how to mold it to fill the rest of the seal.
how does using someone else's hand to form a sign fit into that? thats something i never likes, yea it looks cool, but then if someone elses hand works with yours, what exactly are you even doing lol.
@@hoofhearted4 my guess it’s still a seal. I think about it like they use their hands to start the chant, ritual, seal or jutsu whatever you want to think about this magic system, but you still must finish it by clapping your hands together and finishing the circle because both obito and sasuke kicked their opponent away to perform the final hand sign and finish. You got all the molded chakra from using your opponent hand and in the end you put in your physical part by putting your hands together and releasing the jutsu. I don’t know if this make sense to you I try to worded something that made sense to me but never said it out loud.
During Haku's arc I belived it was part of his special technique that gave him the ability to using Signs with a signle hand. Similar to how Wood Release allows to suppress Bijuu.
But then there were the other two cases with Minato and Sasuke.
In theory having explicity Minato doing One hand handsign is truly weird because he is Kakashi's master and we were told by Kakashi himself that he never saw someone doing One Hand Handsign... and as you pointed Minato in the war is the same expertise wise that Kakashi knew very well
I may say something unexpected, but Sakura should have learned 1 hang signs jutsus. I say this mostly because of the a lot of time extablished fact that Sakara's chakra control Is insane and because It would be a nice addittion to her arsenal. This could in general boost Sakuras power because in canon she Is mostly a taijutsu and medical jutsus user, but giving her the ability to use powerfull 1 hand sign of a chakra nature not so protagonist of the anime (like earth and water) will both benefit her character and the nature trasformation chakra "lore"
Sakura barely uses any hand signs when fighting.
actually she was meant to be a genjutsu specialist, if this character trait had stayed then yeah you right dude, like itachi she should point at someone with a finger and put them under but she uses medical ninjutsu which doesn't use signs or she just focuses her chakra into her fists which again.... no hand signs, infact naruto who uses jutsu dosen't use hand signs for rasengan because it isnt a chakra nature its just pure chakra
Unlike nagato, Minato wasn't in the pure lands he was in the shinigami belly where your soul fights forever against who you used it on so maybe he learned during his time his soul was fighting with kurama in there
I wonder what was Hiruzen doing with Orochimaru's arms in the belly?
@@banditkeith6479 Sounds mad sus.
My head cannon is one hand styles take twice as long to cast as two handed hand styles, if you have the option to use both hands you'd always want to use both hands, but I do acknowledge sometimes you want to trade speed for stealth so there should be some instances of people using one handed
The first hand signed Jutsu I performed was Chidori. ⚡️
Fire ball was the easiest one so it was my first and shadow clone jutsu doesn't count
My first Jutsu was Fire style: Dragon flame jutsu and My first 1 handed jutsu was Haku's 1 thousand needles of death. And I also know Minato's and Sasuke's. Nowadays I can do most Fire style jutsu, Lightning blade, Reaper death seal, Earth Style Mud wall and Wood style Renchuka no jutsu.
They look so cool in one handed handsigns
Maybe it has a significant disadvantage as well that we're not aware of. Maybe that way the jutsu uses more chakra, or it's slower, or the jutsu is weaker. Something like that.
When it's used, the users are mostly standing still and seem to be somewhat slower or they need to focus more, i'd say it has that as a sort of handicap
"But Boruto isn't cannon so that doesn't matter"
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Like everyone else mentioned, it’s harder and less efficient. It’s a situational thing that is more of a leg up against someone in the middle of combat. Everyone doing one handed hand signs is flat out slower.
I imagine that weaving chakra is more of a feeling than a conscious effort. Minato would theoretically have never seen 1 handed hand signs before, but he could feel chakra.
That said, if I were in the ninja world and saw one handed hand signs, I would try dual casting. We heard them talk about synergistic chakras so if I could say use a water style attack to both deal some damage as well as create a channel for a lightning style to travel through.
0:28 There is one more. Madara used one hand and only sign to use wood dragon jutsu on Naruto during war arc. And probably one more when Itachi used a water style jutsu on Kakashi while distracting him with shuriken in his another hand so I am assuming he weaved those hand signs with only one hand.
It makes perfect sense why one handed signs are so rare since even Kakashi has never seen them used before Haku and Kakashi is a very experienced Jonin that’s been all over the world in missions. Minato must have never had a reason to use it in front of Kakashi.
The only thing crazier than this is Itachi being so fast Kakashi with his sharingan didn't even see him weaving signs. That's even more impressive because Sasuke said no matter how fast you are the sharingan can read signs.
Then doesn't get his ass whooped by Lee after that, proving that in fact the sharingan can't always keep up.
@@TheodoreBrosevelt no kakashi couldn't keep up. But Itachi is another league of his own.
@@DarkWolf-407 My bad, was talking about Sasuke, he makes that claim but we have two examples of his sharingan not being able to keep up against Bee and Lee
@@TheodoreBrosevelt About Sasuke his Sharingan wasn't complete against him, about Kakashi Madara explained that the real potential of Sharingans and Rinnegan can be unlocked only if you have both the eyes
@@TheodoreBrosevelt no the sharingan kept up, it was his body that couldn’t keep up 🤦🏿♂️
0:32 you just earned a sub and a like
Love the thumbnail with minato’s handsign 😈
I think Sakura, Tobirama and Tsunade are the only others who could've used 1 hand seals. Tobriama created his own seals and could do water dragon bullet with 4 or 6 hand seals when it usually takes like 44. Tsunade and Sakura because in order to use 100 healings you need to have insane chakra control. I also think some other medical shinobi like Kabuto could also use it because in order to even become a Medical Shinobi you need great chakra control and we know Kabuto has complete control over his chakra. These are the only people I think could even have a chance at learning 1 handed signs because of how good their chakra control is. Other than that no one else could learn them.
And, if you wanna go with the "only team 7 saw it because Haku invented it" it still leave us Sakura, which, sure, I dunno if she saw, but I feel like she may very well overhear Kakashi and Sasuke talking about it. You could even have Sakura trying to learn it in hiding, because, she is already so good at chakra control that there is not much to teach her on it anyway and have the reveal much later, about it (kind of like we had with the 100 healing seal. It likely wouldnt be an interesting training to show us after all, so instead, show it as a surprise, where she may even defeat an opponent because of it, by tricking them, she is supposed to be smart, so wouldn't seem weird)
Bonus point : Kakashi sees it and is a bit vexed that the only student that was still in the village had actually most likely been training behind his back since the first arc and he never noticed, maybe even introspect and realizes he prioritized the boys over Sakura a lot. (or neglected her, depending on how hard you wanna be with him on this)
Itachi? Madara?
@@spit-fire You are confusing Chakra control with strength. Those 2 are strong but they can't control their chakra enough to even become a Medical Shinobi, let alone use 1 hand signs.
@@orianefaton1885 Yep
@@spit-fire If you want a good example, go back to when Ebisu taught about chakra control to Naruto (when he was teaching him how to walk on water).
Naruto and Sasuke are stronger than Sakura, but Ebisu explained that Sakura is better than them at controlling her chakra, never wasting it when doing any justu, using just the right amount. Sasuke uses more than the necessary output because he isn't as good despite being stronger (and the whole gist was that Naruto was really bad at it)
Naruto also did One handed Kage Bushin in Kakashi's Epilogue Novel
Just imagine how cool would it be to see TWO jutsus at the same time using one handed signs!
This video seems like you’re thinking loudly
one handed hand signs feels like speechless casting in mushoku tensei. in MT it requires a good understanding of the spell, what it does, and a young mastery of magic to pull off. Rudy can't cast healing/detox spells as he does not understand fundamentally how the spells works while elemental spells are easy for him and he can cast them without incantations. This is also again the same universe where a jutsu that is just molding chakra into a fast spinning ball is considered an A ranked jutsu.
I'd assumed they were a part of Haku's kekkei genkai since nobody else used them until the end of shippuden, partially also because neither of the 2 sharingan users present even attempted to copy those movements, and also because Haku only used it for Ice style jutsu, which were his main kekkei genkai & which made it seem like maybe it _only_ worked with those jutsu. Tbf though we don't see Haku use much ninjutsu at all, let alone anything other than Ice style, so there's nothing conclusive there.
But when they do come up later it does raise questions since it clearly separates the technique from being tied to a bloodline.
Another commenter pointed out how the one handed handsigns are always used while standing, implying they take a lot of extra concentration and are thus less useful in an active fight, similar to building up sage chakra.
I had a headcannon that the one handed handsigns needed to be done twice to make up for the lack of the other hand, but from looking at Sasuke in Boruto that seems to be have confirmed as not the case. The idea was that a jutsu might take 5 handsigns using both hands, but when performing with one hand the same jutsu would need 10, performing the series of 5 handsigns in order twice.
E.g. Fireball is *Horse, Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger* ; With one hand it would've been *Horse, Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger, Horse, Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger* .
It'd mean that you could perform jutsu while keeping a hand free/ occupied by something else, but it takes twice as long to cast, further emphasizing the importance of the user's skill at performing handsigns.
One handed jutsu were used a lot more often. It is mostly mist ninja. Which makes sense, they are primary sword fighters so one hand will be filled. Hidden mist jutsu was just one hand.
I always saw hand signs as simply making the jutsus stronger. It makes molding chakra easier. When they first walk on water they use a hand sign then never again. It's similar how they say Ninja's can only use one chakra nature. Every ninja can use every chakra nature, it just might be very weak. You can do a jutsu without any hand signs, but it would be a fraction of the strength if you did the hand signs while still taking up the same amount of chakra.
I was convinced for a very long time one-handed hand signs were kekkei genkai of Yuki clan, and since it was wiped out, only Haku was able to use them
I wanna see someone take full advantage of one handed handsigns to launch 2 different jutsu's with 2 different natures at the same time. Something that would take an immense amount of chakra control. Not too late to have Sakura be useful at that at least.... something.... come on maybe Sarada or Boruto could try learning it from Sasuke. We've seen plenty of combination jutsu's, but there is a lot more potential with that with one-handed hand signs. It's not even that it's more discreet you can potentially just combine 2 jutsu's without needing a partner, or prepare the first jutsu beforehand. Like with Minato and Flying Raijin with Rasengan. Technically a combination jutsu, but one jutsu was prepped before using the other.
Sarutobi did this but with 2 handed signs
I really liked the part in the Final Valley pt 2, Sasuke borrowed one of Naruto's hands to do a jutsu. Pretty clean
I like your channel and the inflexion you use. It's sort of like a podcast. Kinda cool.
My guess is one-handed hand signs take a lot more chakra and chakra control, its also slower to do with one hand meybe.
The moment he said Boruto isn't canon I subbed
Its similar to the Eight Gates. They where introduced in the second arc , the Chiunnin Exam, but we only saw their full might in the last arc.
And we got such a good a start with them, Lee openning 5 gates in the verry first time we saw it, pure awesomeness.
I just love the ragnarok BGMs in these videos
I think Itachi can use one handed too.
1) Against Kabuto fight, when Kabuto used water dragon, Itachi countered with water dragon using one hand. Granted, Kabuto was already in Izanami but it's plausible
2) When shadow clone Itachi confronted Naruto before fighting Sasuke. clone Itachi released himself/clone with one hand. In contrast, when Naruto and Kakashi did the rock-paper-scissor during elemental style training, Naruto (and Kakashi in the anime), required two hands to release their clones.
Minato is a talented genius. So I bet he learned them well in his lifetime. I believe never bothered using them cuz he felt like he didn't have to.
My theory is that one-handed handsigns are twice as slow to perform than the two-handed ones because you have half amount of the arms to perform them with. Having a leftover arm or the ability to hide your prepared jutsus from your opponent probably don't worth as much as being able to cast jutsus twice as faster. The one-handed handsigns are probably would be used by high-level fighters only, and at that level normal weapons (which you could utilize your leftover arm to use) don't do anything, but spamming op jutsus do. So using one-handed handsigns probably doesn't worth the effort nor the downsides it comes with.
Just watch kakashi, kurenai, and asuma vs itachi and kisame. See if it is disadvantageous to use one hand sign
I always figured that One Handed Signs are a compromise and are less efficient.
If you go back to his first invasions of the leaf, it can also be assumed itachi can easily perform 1handed justu when he distract them with shuriken in one hand he made an explosive clone instantly with the othe hand. However his hands are hidden most of the show for the reason of surprise and not being able to see his signs.
Use two jutsu simultaneously by using one hand to perform one jutsu each.
I feel that minato was imagining having both arms because without the other hands support, the hand seals would end up deformed. I used to some times practice sand signs and doing them 1 handed is very difficult
1 handed seals are different entirely than 2 handed seals it's not just 2 handed seals performed with 1 hand
i think one handed hand sines need extra ammount of chakara like minato have and also after the fight saske gets Indra's power also
0:30 also in the novels it’s shown that Naruto learned how to do shadow clones with one hand by crossing his middle finger and extending his index.
It is slower than 2 and 0, that is why.
All of a sudden all ninjas learned to cast jutsu without any hand signs, I figured one handed signs would be a part of that.
there's an episode to that sasuke is making unknown hand signs when casting chidori , episode when sauske face to face with gaara
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It the final battle between Sasuke and Naruto, they also used one-handed hand signs for a brief moment (both of them used one hand).
Something I would've loved to see would've been a ninja dual casting different justus at the same time with each hand.
I think it would make sense if those able to use this technique were the ones presented as among the best in chakra control, also perhaps those with more experience. So, Tsunade and Minato are the first ones that comes in my mind. But I imagine that the overall kage level shinobis focused on ninjutso would fit well with that. Could be more common among medical ninjas. So, among the trio in team 7 Sakura would be the fittest to learn it, since she showed great talent in that from the start, and eventually became at 17 one of the only 3 persons to obtain a byakugou seal.
I have never heard someone say "One-Handed Handsigns" untill just now and you said the phrase so many times in this video that by the end it lost all meaning and I would die extremely happy if I never have to hear someone say "One-Handed Handsign" other than that great video as always 😅
Hand signs aid the user in moulding chakra for the desired jutsu, so the better the person is at performing hand signs the less chakra is required for that jutsu, same goes for moulding chakra. If the user is better at moulding chakra sometimes hand signs aren’t needed for the respective jutsu. Chidori for example.
So it make sense that one handed signs probably require more chakra and more time to finish the sequence making the cons out weigh the pros in some scenarios.
I think the reason is simple - muscle memory. Minato was used to regular hand signs, he found it much easier to use both hands just because he did it more.
I don’t get why nobody talks about this but where did the half of Kuramas chakra go when Minato died. Why didn’t it just respawn somewhere else or find it’s way to Naruto’s half instead of just DISAPPEARING FOR 16 YEARS? It was stated that tailed beasts can’t die so where did this huge amount of chakra go? This is more or less the biggest plot hole in the series
It was sealed with Minato'a soul in the reaper death seal
@@DygoKnight can his sealed soul be brought back???
It was SEALED buddy oh my gosh pay attention
I also loved it when kakashi got his hand stolen by obito to do hand signs it was so cool and hilarious
0:34 It looks like Sasuke is just wiggling his fingers with his hand signs in Boruto 😂
If you think about it, Minato didn't master kcm mode instantly, you forget the jutsu traps you in deaths stomach to fight your opponent infinitely, when he was released it showed that even in deaths stomach he was stronger than 9 tails, also I figure one hand seals would have some sort of extra chakra cost as the "ice boy" inherited those abilities and had them mastered however other people use hand seals to direct how much chakra is also used in an attack, I imagine one handed seals would cause jutsu to not work as intended, Sasuke was able to master because of sharingan and rennigan
I think this video is a prelude to what is rarer than one-handed hand signs, which is feet signs. I am hoping on a video on that.
People who used and sealed by the reaper death seal then their souls are stuck in the same realm together were they'll fight for eternally. So Minato had potentially years with Kurama to get KCM and one-handed hand signs.
Though I might be wrong but Orochimaru needed to use the reaper death masks that was kept in the leaf to release the souls from the reaper.
Nobody :
That one filler character doing hand signs for Kekkaimon Gofuujutsu : Hachimon Heijo :
I feel like Kakashi’s quote was more in the context of “I’ve never seen anything like this”
For example if you saw a 2 year old land a backflip, it’s not like that’s the only backflip you’ve ever seen. But the circumstances altogether are something you’ve never seen before.
Haku had no choice but to learn One-handed hand signs, he needed the other hand to suck and beat off Zabuza’s “ D “.
I think that obito should be able to use one handed hand signs because 1: obito probably would have learned them while missing an arm.2: it would be cool.
It was rare for me, because they explain that for a kekkei genkai each had is weaving each element.... So how can Haku mix wind and water to create ice with just one hand?
Because he's him
It could be interpreted that Kakashi has never seen a one handed seal cast such a complex jutsu, implying that one handed seals, rare in itself, are only used for basic jutsu.
It burns double the chakra a standard hand sign would require in a best case scenario and it's even harder to focus chakra with one hand than with two so most likely you would spend a lot of chakra for maybe having the enemy not recognize your jutsu (assuming they would have known otherwise) Also time spent practicing this is time not spent practicing anything else.
So one handed jutsu are really not worth it if you don't have a very specific use for them, you are a hokage and are awesome in every other way already, or you literally can't use jutsu otherwise.
Somebody must talk about minato's plot armor in the war arc.
That's just the kekke genkai he passed on to Naruto. Plot no Jutsu.
I'd imagine that using 1 handed seals requires very high mental concentration and chakra control... Can you even imagine using 2 jutsu simultaneously if you use each hand to cast a jutsu, this would allow unique jutsu combos or even new jutsu creation; especially in the case of elemental chakra natures. Combining 2 compatible chakra elemental natures (1 in each hand) would create new jutsu, empower a main jutsu or even be a way of rivaling bloodline jutsus where users combine 2 elementals nature's to Create a new jutsu nature or a new unique jutsu.
I have a in universe theory - one handed hand signs would probably have less control over your chakra and so therefore you have to put more focus into it. Also, 2 handed hand signs would probably less focus intensive and faster than one handed hand signs, and it would be much easier to control chakra into a certain point. My theory is that Minato knew one handed hand signs but never used it because it was much harder to control chakra and needed much more focus and concentration with less speed so it turned into a "I will use this only when I need to" type thing where whenever he doesn't have flying thunder god and he is in a situation where he has only one hand and has to perform a jutsu, like in the war arc, he would use it but 2 hands is just way faster and natural for a shinobi compared to one handed hand signs. As for Haku, he (Im pretty sure) only used one handed hand signs when his other hand was occupied in a weapon clash.
Shikamaru would look dope using one handed signs with his shadows.
Gang signs 🤣0:01
Well! This aged like milk now.
*Glances at Boruto now being added to the list of One-Handed Seal users and making it an essential part of his kenjutsu-oriented kit. Also the fact that he still primarily uses hand sign ninjutsu, even if it requires less seals than most ninja.*
minato was in the belly of the shinigami suffering for years, that's how he mastered kcm and I guess also one handed hand signs
Flame of recca my first I saw one handed sign 😊
Naruto did in the novels when his prosthetic was in the process of being developed and made for him.
That's a good point imagine if kakashi and sauske could use one hand to emit chidori it would help sauske vs naruto as he has no hand signs for rasengon
I can’t believe you didn’t mention Obito after making a whole video about him losing an arm like a dozen times 😂
Sasuke one handed casting with his sword on his hand is fire 🔥
To be honest i think it just takes time to do as two handed signs are faster than 1 handed plus it probably takes an insane amount of concentration. So i present you a person that can cast two different jutsus at the same time by using one handed hand signs with both hands. Yeah that would require insane amount of chakra control and concentration
i always thought that one handed signs would take twice of long to weave bc its half of the sign and thats why everyone uses two hands bc its faster
The only thing that would make sense in my head would be if jutsu cast with one hand took longer to cast, or inherently used more Chakra, or required a lot more Chakra control, or all the above. It wouldn't explain why we never see other characters use them, but it would explain why characters would choice to use two hand signs overall.
That concept is even rarer than the rarer Kekkai genkai, let that sink in
Minato was inside the belly of the reaper it’s not the same as being dead. It’s stated that inside of their they are constantly battling the person they were sealed with, whatever that means:
Shikamarus shadow bind would be awesome. Hold the bind one handed and just yeet a chakra blade into the guy
dunno why it seems to be a memory thing but during Itachi's big debut, Kakashi, Asuma and Kurenai panicked when Itachi performed a jutsu with minimal hand signs with one hand.
did that really happen or am i missing a detail somewhere.
Something like that. Iirc it was that Itachi weaved the seals so fast that not even Kakashi with his sharingan saw them
We already have an example of a ninja using a form of "hand sign prep" with sasuke having summoning or seals on his wrists after time skip to be able to use shuriken on the fly without having to weave signs for it. There's plenty of examples tbh, look at deidara, he does an entire chakra clay infusuon before combat just so in combat all he has to do is the one hand tiger sign and *boom*. making hand signs more effiecent is a key factor for naruto everyone does it.
I mean i think it’s just Haku was so darned talented that it wasn’t a problem, but you see Minato and he has his eyes closed to focus. I mean it’s the difference of making a hand sign with an anchor helping you understand that exactly where your hand is and not so having to have a stronger focus to make sure they are made right
actually i expected some of the ultra threat enemies to use one handed signs but it never came
i accepted it as a one time thing when naruto was about ninjas getting hired to do ninja things
If you use one hand, is it only 500 years of pain?
in universe expalantion: hand signs are to mold chakra, so my guess is that using one hand molds the chakra worse
out of universe: one hand, two hands, hand signs are dead
I would guess one handed hand signs take longer to pull off, could be weaker (since a single point of chakra produces less than two points), and may only be considered as a last resort? But it does seem strange that Kakashi never tried them, even after witnessing so many from Haku. You'd think he would sharingan that and keep it for later, unless Haku's abilities were tied to a blood-power that included his hand signs.
Kakashi watching a kid half his age do one-handed hand signs like:
Wait, that's illegal.
I imagine it is a slower process, requiring better chakra control which is the purpose of hand signs. No one moves while they are doing it with one hand either. So it probably isn't done except as a last resort. It is also possible that some techniques might simply be undoable with one hand. The techniques used with one hand are usually unique to the moment.
The real question is Sasuke's ability to use his opponent's hands to complete his hand signs.