Naruto Characters - Iruka Umino

Iruka Umino
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Iruka Umino (うみの イルカ, Umino Iruka^?) is a Konohagakure ninja and instructor at the Ninja Academy, a school for prospective ninja. Masashi Kishimoto's initial design of Iruka featured "evil" eyes and sharper cheekbones, but this was abandoned in favor of a more relaxed appearance.^[148] When Iruka was a child, his parents were killed by the nine-tailed demon fox, which was sealed into Naruto Uzumaki.

He bears no ill will towards Naruto, instead being one of the few people at the start of the series to recognize Naruto as a person and not just a container for the fox. Naruto thinks of Iruka as a father figure because of this, and Iruka in turn has great faith in Naruto's potential to be a great ninja.^[122] In the Japanese anime, his seiyū is Toshihiko Seki, and his English voice actor is Quinton Flynn.^[149][150]