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Itachi's Japanese voice actor, Hideo Ishikawa, often talked with Sasuke's Japanese actor, Noriaki Sugiyama, about their characters. From all the Akatsuki characters Kishimoto designed, Itachi is his favorite based on his backstory. However, this idea was scrapped in favour of the current Itachi working for the Akatsuki. Itachi was originally conceived as the leader of Konoha's Special Assassination and Tactical Squad called the 'Anbu', dubbed the Itachi Squad ( イタチ隊, Itachi-tai ), which would have been a 70-man group divided into four teams, specializing in assassination and other illicit operations.

However, when Itachi was introduced, Kishimoto had the idea to make Itachi Konoha's secret agent who killed his clan under their orders. His only idea he had was to attribute to Itachi some violent action that would have Sasuke wanting to kill him. When Itachi Uchiha is first mentioned by Sasuke Uchiha in the manga, Masashi Kishimoto had not planned out the character's backstory. Numerous types of merchandise have been released in Itachi's likeness, including keychains, plush dolls and figurines. The gradual revelations of his past and its impact on the story has also received positive reception, and his fights were noted to be 'one of the best' in the series. His appearance as an antagonist has been praised by several writers, although some have considered his initial appearance to be unsurprising. Itachi's character has been popular with readers of the manga, and has been positively received by critics. Itachi is a playable character in most of the video games from the series. Although Itachi perishes during the final duel, it is later revealed that Itachi had a secret reason for assassinating the Uchiha clan. During the second part of the manga, Itachi becomes involved in attacks to ninjas possessing tailed-beast creatures until facing Sasuke in a one-on-one battle.

He appears working as a terrorist from the organisation Akatsuki and serves as Sasuke's greatest enemy. Itachi is the older brother of Sasuke Uchiha, and is responsible for killing all the members of their clan, sparing only Sasuke.

Itachi Uchiha ( うちはイタチ, Uchiha Itachi ) is a character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. Robbie Daymond (Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals) Skip Stellrecht ( Naruto Episodes 29–30)

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