Why the Naruto Anime Changed the Color of Chakra 

What color would your chakra be?

If Samuel L Jackson somehow made it into a Live Action Naruto production, he would make sure his chakra is PURPLE

Obviously, because Hikaku Uchiha would look cooler with Blue Chakra than yellow.

Blue contrasts better with the Nine-Tails's red/orange chakra

Blue provides a better contrast to Naruto's orange outfit.

It actually bothers me seeing the Rasenshuriken as orange, like its made of fire despite being a wind release which is usualy coloured as blueish or green, When i first saw it orange i wondered if i missed some kind of magma release

It was probably changed to blue because it was more aesthetically pleasing.

Probably because they didn’t want the Chakra to look the same like the Super Saiyajin aura 🤷🏻‍♂️

Up to this day, I'm still frustrated the studio choose the red color for all the chakra cloak of all jinchuurikis I would've picked purple for bee, green for 3 tails, blue for 2 and so on... It made Naruto/kurama's red chakra, look less special and unique

Yeah, the Rasengan being blue is a much better choice (even if orange is my favorite color). It makes it cooler when it does change to warmer colors, like the Vermilion Rasengan or the Lava Rasenshuriken. Although, I wouldn't have minded if, once Naruto entered KCM, all of his Rasengans became Vermilion.

I always imagined that the chakra colour would be represented by their chakra nature. Like if you had Wind nature, yours would be green, for example. Kakashi's rasengan I imagined to be purple. I feel like that colour fits well with his Lightning nature

I think the differently colored Chakra could've worked, Hunter x Hunter 2011 does it for rhe character's individual attacks (Their "chakra" is usually pale white but gains a unique color when its used for an attack) and it adds so much charm to that series

I think Madara's Susano'o being blue is actually one of the better options. Most of the time he wears that red armor, then there's the Sharingan, which is also red. If his Susano'o was red it could feel excessive. Blue Susano'o with the red armor has a better contrast. It also contrasts well with Kurama when he uses the Majestic Attire Susano'o. Blue and red, blue and orange. They are complementary colors. Maybe his Susano'o could have been a darker shade of blue to symbolize his inner darkness? But I think it's good on the blue spectrum. Yellow wouldn't fit (plus it's the standard color of chakra in the manga), green doesn't make sense, black would be too dark, and purple is Sasuke's color.

Chakra should be colorless and distorted like how you see the scorched air close the heated highways

Maybe it's a type of media thing. If blue color tint is expensive to print than yellow, maybe it's better tô make every chakra yellowish. And the same thing goes to the anime, maybe they already had finished lots of episodes before someone notice that the color was different than the anime colors, and would be cheaper to keep that color change in the anime.

Could of sworn Naruto when talking to Jiraiya he describing the Nine Tails Chakra as red and his own as blue

The Rasengan is originally made yellow so it doesn’t look like an obvious copy of Kamehameha & Hadouken, but the anime just said f*ck it blue looks cooler.

Also if the charka was yellow in the anime it would also blend in with the dirt around them or sand as well

Bro plagued me with the knowledge that there was a better alternative color for kakashi's susanoo and instead they went with just a lighter blue than madara... it was already bad enough that they just literally almost/totally copy pasted sasuke's susanoo for indra.

I don't know if you will read this, but i understood "Kakashi's" susano'o much more like if it was from Obito. I mean, the eyes comes from Obito, the powers are the same as Obito's, i assumed that what Obito did was giving his powers to Kakashi. So i feel that the susano'o Kakashi uses is not Kakashi's one, but Obito's one

13:37 But, that Susanoo and those eyes are from Obito's chakra...

There is also an interesting line of Naruto when talking to Jiraya about he having two different types of chakra inside him. As he would comment it was as if his normal chakra is yellow and the other chakra is red. Happens that Kurama chakra, just like other Bijuu, is red. And yet, always wondered why his Chakra Mode is a bright yellow.

The headcanon and possibly viable reason I always had for why the color of Chakra was changed was because of Dragonball and YYH. Because Dragonball and YYH set the template of Goku's Kamehameha and Yusuke's Spirit Gun being Blue, Studio Pierrot probably wanted their Battle Shounen descendents to follow the same successful template as well. They did it with Bleach as well, Ichigo's Getsuga Tenshou was Golden in the manga but also changed to Blue in the anime. Toriko's attacks are also Blue. I could be wrong, but this was what I always boiled it down to.

The PS2 Ultimate Ninja games did a good job giving characters unique chakra colors for their awakenings

Canon or not, blue Rasengan looks much cooler than yellow. So I'd say that the anime made the correct choice here.

5:43 OK i get it! i never assumed everyone had different color Chakra until you pointed it out anyways! geez, issues..

Recall, Ao was able to recognize Shishui's kotoamatsukami by its color when danzo used it. Chakra colors were not retconned, they just weren't shown in the colored panels

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I think chakra was always supposed to be blue but the techniques molded from raw chakra had different colours, so they must have tweaked that in the anime for a more consistent colouring of chakra.

Yellow/orange rasengan just looks god awful

I always saw chakra as yellow since I was well into the Jiraiya arc when I started looking into the anime. This was waaaaay back when this stuff was still new and I just committed what Naruto says there to memory.

That Susanoo is Obitos not Kekashis

Yeah it's probably for contrast while in motion. Makes it easier for viewers to track what's going on when the pictures, yknow, move.

Ends up reflecting the same thing that happened with the kamehameha, yellow in the manga, blue in the anime. While the dragon ball anime had the same color regarding ki auras, all being white, they decided to start diverging from the manga by making the aura of certain villain characters in late DB/early DBZ different colors as well as making the super saiyan aura yellow. Blue as a color definitely feels more supernatural because on ground level you don't see that color too often, the sky/heaven is blue and is so far away it's like it's beyond our world. I'm gonna guess that there may be some limitation of the media that influenced it somehow as well, like how blue is mega man's color simply because there were more tones of blue available in the pallette. Maybe something about how yellow paint interacts with the lighting technique that they used when these anime were still fully analog didn't result in satisfying enough visuals, who knows.

It should be noted that while there is a difference in color, it's not like it's all unique.... Chakra color is based on the mood and mental state. Samurai have a very strict mental stake, making their chakra blue... so it could be him being disciplined. Sasuke was strict with himself and was disciplined.... so it's blue.... Kabuto is the same... and when Sasuke goes crazy, his chakra becomes purple... Yellow seems to be hope.... this is just a theory, but it's probably something like that...

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The Kamehameha is also yellow in the manga.

I read the manga dozens of time and I never saw it was stated that chakra changes color depending on the person, where is it coming from? The only time they mention chakra color, was during Naruto's first training with Jiraya but it doesn't say it changes color form people to people

I could be remembering wrong but isn’t Naruto’s Rasengan/Rasenshuriken yellow in The Last movie

Didn't Bleach do the same thing? I seem to recall Ichigo having golden Reitsu in the manga but not the anime. I could be mis-remembering though. Been years since I last read it but this feels familiar...

I think it is possible that the videogames might have had just as much of an impact. Though they would start development when the anime was already airing, "blue as magic" is a video-game trope, and all games used blue chakra as a pickup, and that would have to be altered for each character. Another explanation could be that when the byakugan visualizes chakra it does so with a light blue "x-ray" lens, and that ended up just sticking. There's also the possibility that the studio and bandai didn't want it to look too much like Super Saiyans charging ki.

It's just to be iconic or for it to be easier considering they use other people's chakra is my guess. That way it's all normal until we see red in the tail beasts. Manga wise or was more interesting that chakra had colors for people

Manga inconsistency.. it seems like "executed jutsu" turns yellow, but "purely" chakra (coating a sword) becomes blue. same with Asuma, since it was just a blade that absorbed chakra, it became blue.. but Danzo used a jutsu on his kunai (literally blowing air on it lol). For Naruto's sake, I think it's to portay where the limits of his own chakra and where "Kurama's chakra" was being utilized.. normal rasengan was just yellow, but when he did a Rasenshuriken or Oodama Rasengan, it had a much darker more orang-y color.. which oddly fits Kurama's colour. in regards to the anime, I would imagine it was due to consitency.. different colours on each and every person would require a much more "attention to detail" as colours are illuminating.. Having one consistent colour would mean the same "flare up" in light.. imagine if you had (lets say the chunin exam arc) a bunch of kids running around and throwing jutsu's charging chakra etc. it would be a nightmare to consistently show it in the same "tame" way we know Naruto for today. Also, imagine the drawback for Kakashi if he actually had white chakra.. dude would be spotted from a country away lol PS: in regards to yellow, as it is a bright colour; during daytime "feint aura" would be basically invisible but at nighttime it would stand out like a sore thumb, making it hard to consitently hold "the same level". Blue is enough of a contrast to both dark and light that it "stands out" during the daytime and during night time :D

yo, i'm like 30 seconds in rn so apologies if you said it already lol. but i figure they changed it to blue simply for the fact of the iconic anime moves that came before it like the Kamehameha, Spirit Gun, etc. so they probably changed it to keep in line with the greats. also, Ki/Kamehameha also used to be yellow in the manga until the anime was created so makes complete sense to me lol.

It's interesting that something similar has happened in Bleach. In that story different characters actually have different colour powers, but the main character, who has yellow power in his base form in manga has blue power in anime.

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If every character would have their own chakra color then I would have it correlate with your nature affinity. Wind: Yellow to an olive Green Fire: Orange and lighter shades of purple Water: darker Blues into darker greens Lightning: light Blue and some Silvers Earth: Browns, greys, and some herbal greens. Red is only for tailed beast chakra... Naturo's KCM would be orangish as a hybrid of the two chakras (as would the cloaks he passed out during the war arc) Black is senjutsu chakra (since the cursemark is just a sage transformation and Sasuke onyx chidori turned black Imagine if Asuma used his Chakra blades with normal chakra and they were an olive green and then gained silver highlights when he extended/sharpened them If Naruto's Rasenshurikan had these black threads running through the silvery blades in sage mode. Then for a few characters Naruto: Gold Minato: Also Gold Jiraya: Sunrise Orange Kakashi: Silver Sasuke: "Electric" Blue Itachi: Campfire Orange Madara: Violet While in universe only jutsu without a nature transformation could reveal your chakra element the Sharingan and Byakugan would allow people to see the likely chakra nature affinity of their opponents to plan ahead. If anyone actually read this far recommend me some other chakra colors for characters.

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Madara's red susanoo and Kakashi's white susanoo sound amazing. I need to see this!

"Do it right! Make it white!!" LMAO!!! Context is very important ... 😂😂 Liked!

Blue chakra just fits better

The only connection I could think of is that they all trained each other

I think Kishimoto has retconed the chakra to be blue to align with the anime for quite some time, there is even a couple of manga covers and other official art by Kishimoto that proves it.

The chakra colour in the manga and anime should be the same as the character hair that would also explain the reason for the number of diffrent hair colors

“If you’re a die-hard then you probably know already” I guess I’m not

My theory as to why the Kakashi/Obito susanoo was light blue instead of white like you're suggesting is because the colour and brightness of the susanoo equal to the brightness (and colour?) of the ms wielder To have a fully white susanoo makes no sense for Kakashi or Obito (even though Kakashi has ties to the shade) and I'd go so far as to say it makes no sense for any Uchiha whatsoever I could understand a grey susanoo since its darker then white but missing a white susanoo is the same reason we don't see a black susanoo No one can have a completely dark and hate filled life and awaken a mangekyo sharingan Same with no one being able to have a completely light and love filled life and awaken it And even if you tried to use the argument of it was Kakashi's even though it was Obito's eyes it doesn't make a lot of sense Kakashi quite literally has one of the darker family lives in the entire story and he lost his whole team so even if he was the one creating the susanoo please explain to me why he would have the brightest possible susanoo? Of all of this talk of susanoo colours i think its only right to bring up Sarada and link back to my previous statements of no completely dark or light life (spoilers) Because one could possibly try to argue that Sarada didn't have to kill or be semi responsible for the death of any loved ones But the awakening of the ms (and sharingan?) is stated to be directly linked to emotional trauma we found out the sharingan can be unlocked with different feelings but at least in Sarada's case it was a form of love born out of desperately wanting something missing from her childhood and the missing thing *emotionally hurt her* that being Sasuke being a terrible father on top of that even taking chapter 80 of Boruto into account Sarada awoke ms trying to help Boruto in any way she could after realising she was one of the very few people in the entire world that didn't have her memories altered A.K.A. a traumatising event Which means our current contender for a bright susanoo will not have a white one unless Kishimoto retcons himself for the 1000th time And in all honesty Sarada's susanoo should be the brightest we might ever see in the story since Kakashi/Obito susanoo was made on a lot of darkness but then again we've seen characters with darkness in their lives slowly drift away from the right colour for their susanoo (Sasuke has such a dark susanoo for him now despite being a lot lighter of a character instead of supreme teen edge lord Sasuke) which might mean that a susanoo first activated later in life will be different to what the state of the Uchiha awakening ms is in at that moment But it still doesn't mean a white or black susanoo could exist because no matter how hard one might try their life cannot become all light or dark as cleverly portrayed with the concept of yin and yang Neither can exist without the other And even assuming that later life can affect the colour of a susanoo the light blue of the Kakashi/Obito susanoo would probably be considered too bright depending on which way you look at it Kakashi it could make some sense for the light blue Obito it makes next to zero sense And its supposed to be Obito's susanoo not Kakashi's so the entire idea of trying to figure out any of that is useless because that susanoo should've never have been possible anyways because Kishimoto decided to pull a mangaka special attack Beyond the grave plot necessity to make Obito give Kakashi his eyes for a limited amount of time and then they just magically go away like WTF KISHIMOTO But i hope this seems like a decent explanation as to why Kakashi/Obito's susanoo isn't white In my opinion it should really be grey but making a literal grey scale susanoo would've probably been a bit too ironic for the last new susanoo in the manga

It’s crazy even the Naruto toys come with blue rasengan

Are the colored version of the manga official? Can someone let me know so a can reread it lol

Maybe it's because i am used to it, but it looks better as blue, especially when it comes to the Rasengan, because it contrasts Naruto more.

We need nest part of rewriting naruto ASAP.

I'm not complaining that the color was changed to Blue in the Anime cuz Blue is objectively the prettiest color. But I do think it would have been cool to see different colors for each person.

I thought the color was unofficial? You said the color manga was official (not talking about Kishimoto pages)

I'm almost positive that there was some point in early Naruto when he's talking about using the Kyubii's chakra for the first time, he describes it as feeling red and his own as feeling blue. I may be wrong, but I have this memory.

Same thing in dragon ball. In the manga the kamehameha is yellow when in the anime it’s blue

I think the most obvious is the colour contrast for sure, especially blue versus the tailed beasts demonic red

Honestly making chakra colour blue in manga makes for a much better watch since it stands out from the characters and are nicer to look at in the long run. It was a better decision overall.

I think Sasuke's Chakra Colour was supposed to be Red, because in the manga you could see when Yoroi was absorbing Sasuke's chakra it was depicted as red.

You know it would actually be a lot cooler if chakra was different colors At the bare minimum I would like it if they added this to a Naruto Fighting game

Thought i was the only one that was severely disappointed that Madara's Susano wasn't a powerful Red. It would've fit him so much better and made him feel all the more menacing

*Chakra will always be blue in my heart*

blue is associated with magic so it'd be natural for chakra to be animated blue- and not some yellow piss-ball

I can definitely agree that Madara's Susanoo should've been a deep crimson and Kakashi's a pure white.

Challenge: Do one pull up every time he says yellow. One push up every time he says chakra. One burpee every time he says blue.

I like the blue more than the orange

the most elaborated excuse to rant about white susanoo

Had no idea it was yellow in the manga

Maybe it is easyer to draw black lines on a yellow background . And animators had just inverted colors because of what kishimoto intended but would not draw well ( yellow -> blue , black lines -> white ) , i think you are taking it too deep, think of practicality reasons, kishi is known for that.

Blue chakra >>>>>>

If anyone is a Shaman King fan its the same thing. Yoh and Specially Amidamaru has Orange spirit energy and then its blue in the anime. I think its just blue is a majority favorite color

Easily the Dragonball signature move color. Goku's Kamehameha for instance. Popularity purposes.

Kakashi and Jaraiya should have had whitw chakra, IMO it should just match their hair colour, black hair being blue chakra though.

chakra is blue in the anime due to consistency, same reason why kishimoto made chakra yellow in the manga but it is officially stated by kishimoto that everyone's chakra is a different color 3 examples in the manga/anime is that 1. Ao(the byakugan guy from the mist) recognize shisui's sharingan chakra color which is why he could discern that that danzo might be using genjutsu to control someone in the meeting. 2. Another example is karin discerning that the color of sasuke's chakra changed to black, which is cold and intense, unlike naruto which is warm 3. "The Last" movie, they made naruto and hinata have different chakra colors (with the exception of the very last rasengan where naruto uses it to "fly" with hinata for the kiss) For most of the movie, we see naruto using orange chakra while hinata has a purple chakra when using her lion fist (while kishimoto did say hinata had blue chakra, we also know homura has blue chakra, and from karin, we know that chakra color can change. So who knows, its all up to kishimoto's whims)

Iam not gonna even watch the video iam just gonna say that the yellow chakra looks like dragonball's KI and that's why he changed it and leave

Just like Ichigo´s Reiatsu Color , in the Anime is Blue but in the Manga is Yellow .

Pierrot has something against Yellow aura, they did the same with bleach, Ichigo’s getsuga tenshou is yellow and they changed to blue in the old anime

I don't really care for the idea of every character having their own unique chakra color because it would make different types of chakra a pain. For instance, if someone ordinarily has blue chakra but chakra blades are also specifically blue, it kinda ruins the specialness of it when that character uses that ability. Even if the same character isn't using the ability of their color, it would just be awkward. I am however a fan of the idea of standardized colors for every chakra type. If blue is the basic chakra, then sage mode could have green, chakra blades could have red, etc. That would be more interesting than what we got, especially if each of the elemental types also had their own color. As for the Susanoo's, I like purple for Sasuke but I would have gone with a darker, deeper shade than what he got to represent the darkness in his heart. For Itachi I actually think it should have been gray to represent his moral ambiguity, doing horrible things with noble intentions. Crimson Red I agree would fit Madara perfectly, his bloodlust in battle is unrivaled. For Kakashi because he's technically borrowing Obito's power when he's using it, I'd say his color would be Obito's color. In that case, I'd say his should be the lighter purple color that Sasuke ended up with. This would represent Obito's darkened heart slipping back into the light and finding redemption.

Everyone sleep on the orginal color because when i first watched the last and i saw naruto using yellow chakra i was pissed because he looks so much better with yellow chakra imo. Like the yellow rasenshuriken abd yellow rasengan he made suring the last a looked anazing. But i feel like its just anime and not just naruto, because in dragon the Kamehamehas are yellow but in anime thier blue, ichigo getsuga tensho in the manga is yellow but in anime its red and black, and then changed to black, then black and white, and then to yellow and blue

Didn’t they also said something about everyone having different chakra colors? I mean even i knew this and clearly remember em saying it in the anime and never read one manga page

You could force it back into the lore by simply saving that when you put chakra into a jutsu, any jutsu it tends to align with the color most common for that jutsu. And that personal chakra color is like chakra nature in that you can't really see it under normal circumstances nor does it strongly effect the jutsus being performed.

Do you really think it would be better for Madara to have a crimson susanoo? Considering the color theory, would the fights against Hashirama in the past, Shinobi forces, Five Kages look better or worse?

A white Susanoo from Kakashi would have been awesome.

Is Rasenshuriken nerfed in boruto and the last movie

It’s not really important at the end of the day but I just wanted to put it out there someone who has studied color theory that chakra isn’t consistent in the series. It’s always bothered me when they call Naruto‘s Ninetails chakra red when in fact, it’s a red orange, well, the chakra depicted in the manga is a yellow orange, and sometimes is completely orange. I think you were on some thing with the color contrast theory, but I think it’s based more on wanting the chocolate to contrast with Naruto‘s outfit, which is also orange versus the backgrounds, blue is the complementary color of orange. It looks much better visually on screen.

ah yes the piss rasengan my favorite

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Here's the simple reason why, no wanted people to thinlk Naruto was ripping off the super saiyan aura everytime someone used Chakra. Bleach did unique auras better

what's even funnier is in the anime danzo's laser sword thingy is yellow greenish, i repeat IN THE ANIME it's yellow greenish

Meh changing it to blue was the better decision. Blue energy is a very iconic aspect of anime tbh. Blue energy is like the standard

i think the different colors of chakra in the manga represent power more so than individual chakra color

I always thought they changed it so people wouldn't mix it up with Ki from Dragon Ball