Can you make a reference post about the different ways each village does their Ninja IDs? For instance, Konoha just does straight 123456 numbering, but I know Ame does R1-234 numbering.
Okay, so this was really fun to ponder and work out! NinjaRegistration numbers are actually quite similar in most of the villages, so forthe villages who we don’t have an example for in regards to the numbers it’llbe pretty easy to come up with a reasonable system of your own.
Konoha’s consists of a six number sequence that shares thefirst four digits among classes until they hit the next tier regarding thefirst four numbers. For example:
These two share the 0054of the ID number.
And we see it again in the Rookie Nine’s class:
Here they share the 0126of their numbers.
These numbers will continue to fill in until they hit the 0127 slot, as can be seen by the factthat Neji, Tenten, and Lee all have numbers at the very end of the 0125 sequence. It can be seen again whenyou look at Konohamaru’s ID, 0127, which means their class was the start of anew sequence. We can also infer from that how many years and classes it takesto cycle out into a new sequence.
Konohamaru was eight at the beginning of Naruto, and elevenin shippuden when he finally graduated, which means it took three years for ~100students to graduate and restart the sequence.
Kumo’s IDs differ in the way that they consist of twoletters and four numbers instead of Konoha’s purely number system. Every Kumoninja’s ID has a “CL” placed in the front of it, and like Konoha’s IDs some of thenumbers attached there are ones that remain consistent until the last two zeroout again.
Though there’s no listed graduation age for any of the Kumoninja, so it would be hard to tell how many years it takes for each set of ~100students to graduate.
Iwa’s system is basically the same as Kumo’s, only insteadthey use IW- followed by five numbers instead of four. And like the last two,it keeps the trend of having matching numbers at the front that change once thelast two zero out.
Suna’s numbering is a bit stumping. Their IDs consist offive numbers in the sequence of two dash three with the first two numberssignifying what class they were in. The last three numbers are the ones thatare kind of tricky, but we’ll get to that in a moment. First, let me give yousome examples:
So here Chiyo’s ID shows that she was part of the firstofficial academy class in Suna, and that Ebizō was in the second.
Here it shows that the sand siblings are from the 53rd,54th, and 56th classes respectively. But that stillleaves the last three digits in question, and I’m not sure there’s a real forsure way to say what they mean except for maybeGaara’s. Gaara is the jinchuuriki of the Ichibi, Shukakku, so the 001 could bea special classification reserved only for the jinchuuriki. Here are some moreexamples of why the last three digits are hard to figure out:
Fourth Kazekage Rasa – 28-115
So, what exactly is going on with Suna’s IDs? I honestlycouldn’t say, as they seem to have no rhyme or rhythm. Perhaps as time goes onwe can puzzle something out, but as for right now it is what it is.
Ame is another one that is a bit confusing outside of thefact that they continue…actually they don’t even seem to have a pattern like the others do aside from the team of threebrothers we see during the chunin exams in Konoha. Just look for yourself, starting with the three brothers:
Obviously this shows that they graduated together, but thenwe have the other Ame team:
…which doesn’t make much sense. The other odd thing isthat the members of the second team are a few years older than the three brothers,which really brings into question how things are numbered in Ame.
One possibility is that whatever the number is that follows “R”classifies a specialization, or it might be the class they graduated with(which, once again, brings into question the fact that the three brothers are “R1”and younger than the other three). If the three digits on the end follow theexample the other villages set, then the first digit might be the one thatremains constant until the last two zero out.
Amegakure is just really sketchy in general, it seems.
Kiri is odd in the way that they don’t have a known IDsystem in place. None of the Kiri shinobi that have been identified have alisted ID number, so it’s unknown how theirs works. It’s likely that it followsthe same pattern as Iwa and Kumo in that it begins with two letters – “WA” or “KI”,perhaps – or it could be in a similar format to Suna or Ame’s IDs. It’spossibly their registration system has even undergone changes during thetransition from Yagura to Mei.
So for Kiri (and any other village other than those named)it’s really up to the writer on how their Ninja Registration systems works.
