Did Danzo Young Train Under The Same Teacher As Hiruzen?

2025-08-24 21:04:55 299

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Tessa
Tessa
2025-08-25 04:12:22
My take has always been shaped by rewatching the village-foundation flashbacks. Hiruzen’s progression into the Third Hokage has clear mentoring scenes and direct ties to Tobirama’s approach to village structure and law. Danzo appears in the same time slices but never gets the same explicit apprenticeship frames. Instead, he seems to absorb lessons from the environment, from clashes and crises, and from clandestine seniors who preferred secrecy.

Kishimoto let the story show Hiruzen with a recognized lineage while leaving Danzo’s lineage murky, which narratively explains why Danzo’s ethics diverged so widely: institutional grooming versus shadow apprenticeship. If you want to dig deeper, the databooks and certain flashback chapters hint at the social mentorship around them, but there’s no canonical single-teacher line tying Danzo to Tobirama in the way Hiruzen is tied.
Yasmine
Yasmine
2025-08-25 22:18:34
It's tempting to say yes because both Danzo and Hiruzen grew up in the same era under the influence of the founding Hokage, but the canon is careful: Hiruzen’s teacher is identified (Tobirama and other village elders), while Danzo’s direct teacher isn’t named. They were peers and likely influenced by the same elders, but Danzo’s training lineage is left vague—deliberately, I think, to keep him mysterious and morally ambiguous.
Declan
Declan
2025-08-25 23:58:09
I still get a little giddy talking about these old era details, so here’s how I’d lay it out based on what we actually see in the manga and databooks.

Hiruzen is explicitly shown as a prodigy and is often described as having been trained by the elders of that founding generation—most notably Tobirama Senju (the Second Hokage) is the one most associated with shaping Hiruzen’s early shinobi education. Danzo, on the other hand, is trickier. He’s definitely from the same generation as Hiruzen, a contemporary who grew up in the chaos around the village’s founding, but the series never gives a clean, on-panel teacher-student link for Danzo the way it does for Hiruzen.

So, short: they’re peers and moved in the same circles, and both were influenced by the founding leaders, but the text doesn’t say Danzo trained under the same specific teacher Hiruzen had. That gap lets Danzo’s shadowy, cutthroat methods feel more personal and self-directed to me.
Ella
Ella
2025-08-26 04:29:29
I still debate this with friends over late-night watch parties. The simplest reading is: they were the same generation, shaped by the same founding elders, but only Hiruzen’s teacher is named outright in the main sources. Danzo’s exact mentor isn’t given a spotlight; instead he’s shown developing his own faction and methods.

That omission feels intentional—Hiruzen is legitimized through formal mentorship, while Danzo is legitimized through results and secrecy. For fans who like lineage, it’s a bummer, but it also makes Danzo creepier and more unpredictable, which fits his role perfectly.
Priscilla
Priscilla
2025-08-28 01:47:54
I like to think of them as kids from the same war-torn neighborhood who took different routes. Hiruzen’s mentorship under Tobirama (and the village elders) is pretty clear in the backstory—he was groomed into leadership. Danzo’s origin is presented in a much murkier way in canon: he’s part of the same generation, but no single master is named for him in the main series. He’s often shown hanging around the power brokers and learning by doing, forming his own cell of followers and later Root.

So while they share the same era and likely learned from the same cultural environment and senior shinobi, it’s not accurate to claim Danzo explicitly trained under Hiruzen’s teacher. That ambiguity suits his character: he’s self-made, conspiratorial, and less legitimized by formal mentorship than Hiruzen was.
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