

I am curious as to how is an Anbu chosen, what are the requirements, and does
every one of them have like a certain backstory that makes them special or
different from the normal ninjas (like how Yamato is able to do Wood style
jutsu's and how Kakashi was one of the youngest Jounin in the village), or are
they just trusted by the Kage's?


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Requirements to be an Anbu Black Op


Anbu are recruited directly by the Hokage (or, in case of Root, by Danzou).
There's no mention of a hard requirement, but generally excellent shinobi are
chosen.


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In general, they are chosen from the excellent jounins the village has. This
is because the ANBU has to do missions like assassinating missing ninjas, and
missing ninjas are more often than not, includes ninjas of jounin level. So if
they are just so-so level jounin, they won't be able to do their missions
well.

Of course, even though s/he is strong, doesn't necessarily qualifies them as
ANBU. Notice that although Might Guy is a strong ninja, he never joined ANBU.
I think one of the qualifications for entering ANBU is that **even if you
excels in one ability, your other abilities must be high-leveled too**. Guy is
very strong in taijutsu (even Uchiha Madara admitted that he never met someone
remotely as good as Guy in taijutsu), but his ninjutsu and genjutsu is so so.
Compared to Kakashi, although Kakashi is not as strong as Guy in taijutsu, he
is quite high-leveled in it. His genjutsu is good and he is excellent in
ninjutsu, being called the Copy Ninja.

The last requirement and the most important is the **willingness**. That they
know what missions the ANBU conducts and they accept that if they join, they
have to do it, even if that means you have to massacre your entire clan.


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Guy actually requested to be in ANBU to keep an eye on Kakashi but the third
hokage and Danzo didn't let him because they said he "Lacked the necessary
darkness in his heart"


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