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[greenalarm10.livejournal.com]

hey, newbie here! i was just wondering which rank is above which? anbu or jounin?

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[spacejunks.livejournal.com]

Hello! Jounin is after chuunin. ANBU is a specific, assasin(?) unit for the Hokage, chosen by the Hokage, so it isn't really a rank you can achieve.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong?

[kylara.livejournal.com]

ANBU isn't a rank, it's a job. ;D It's made up of chuunin or higher rank ninja, if that helps any.

[kriatyrr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but in the second databook, Uzuki Yuugao's rank is simply listed as "ANBU"..

So I suppose it is a rank, but it isn't a part of the regular hierarchy.

[swallowedhalo.livejournal.com]

Well ANBU is almost like a rank, but it's not officially so. Almost all ANBU are jounin but not all jounin are ANBU. Furthermore, I don't think that all ANBU do assassin work either. Many are simply bodyguards for the kages. They probably also do information gathering, torture and interrogation, etc.

[lunarwhirl.livejournal.com]

Isn't Anbu a "Special Jounin" rank?

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Anbu is not a rank but a job. :) The Anbu are commanded by the Hokage directly and all are masked to disguise their identities, so it's not to be clear who's Anbu and who's not. Anbu literally means Dark Department.

[hikari-cyhan.livejournal.com]

No, "Special Jounin" is a sub-rank of Jounin (thus, it's below it). It simply means that the person is a Jounin who specializes in something.

[hikari-cyhan.livejournal.com]

The best way to explain it would be that the regular shinobi are the army, and the ANBU are more like the CIA or the SS.

[lunarwhirl.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok.

[kylara.livejournal.com]

No, it's not a rank. When I was in karate there was something similar to the dissociation from rank: there was a "red belt" position given to certain people who helped the instructors, so no one knew what their rank was. ANBU is the same; since it is made up Chuunin, Special Jounin, and Jounin, the rank is removed in favor of only displaying the position -- because that's what matters. Uzuki Yuugao is ANBU, a position under the direct jurisdiction of the Hokage, and that's what matters.

[ex-fluff.livejournal.com]

Googl'd. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto_ninja_ranks)

[activeheart.livejournal.com]

does sub-rank imply below rank? (forgive me... i'm working on my second degree in science and this word discrepancy bothered me a little) i've heard that special jounin was a specialization of someone in one particular level (i.e. interogation) but weren't up to jounin levels all around (i.e. taijustu etc etc etc), thus was given the special jounin title instead. but i wasn't sure on the reliability of this information, and well, i think of sub-*** (whatever you want it to be) implies that it's a specialty, but did not imply a below ranking. for instance, i'm a forest geneticist, which is obviuosly a sub-group of geneticist, but my degree isn't any less than a regular geneticist (it's actually equivilant to an honours degree in genetics).

so, does sub-rank imply sub-jounin? or has this all been explained in a resource that i haven't got around to yet? ... sorry if i sound snotty and b*tchy... i'm a little annoyed at the other library people Not being quite while i study!... >.> ok, i'll stop now =D

[hikari-cyhan.livejournal.com]

No, that's all right.

I get all of my information from my sister, who is fluent in Japanese and has the fan books, as well as frequents Japanese forums and websites. I trust very much that her information is accurate.