[NARUTO OC] Reference: Raizo Minami

Aaaand the next member of Team Tori, Raizo Minami!

written profile: WIP

Raizo's younger appearance always came naturally to me. He's got a bit of a karate kid in him in terms of his fighting style, but he also considers himself charming and charismatic. His older design however was a bigger pain in the butt to work out. I went through a bunch of drafts and ultimately came up with this. The eyepatch and blind eye is because he's going to transfer his eyesight in one eye to his best friend Daisuke Yamauchi. His darker skin by the way, is because his father is from Kumogakure, while he looks nothing like his Konohagakure mother. Raizo's father is from the Kaminari clan but is deceased, so Raizo (a bastard child) is stuck living in Konohagakure. He was designed keeping in mind that he's meant to look a bit out of place amongst his peers.

I just wish he were a more focused ninja, then his overall stats would be much better. He gets better as he gets older, but his younger self was really unfocused and weak.

I like Raizo because of how far he's come in terms of character development. I think he's the most complex of my genin trio, even though he comes across the most shallow at first. His written bio should hopefully be a treat... at least for me, lol.

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Tsubasa Toriyama, the sensei


Mayumi Kimura, his teammate


Shigeru Koizumi, his teammate