Profile for Rock Lee

 Rock Lee

Rock Lee (ロック・リー, Rokku Rī^?) is a member of Team Guy and the favorite student of team leader Might Guy. As such, Guy spends much of his free time training with Lee, resulting in Lee adopting several of Guy's habits, including his unwillingness to give up and an unyielding optimism that he can complete a given task.^[104] When first introduced during the Chunin Exam arc, Lee tries to put this optimism to use in completing two goals: to defeat a "genius" such as Neji Hyuga^[105] and to make Sakura Haruno his girlfriend.^[106] While Lee puts a great deal of effort into each goal throughout the arc, his later appearances see little to no attempts to make either a reality. Independent of Guy's influence, Lee speaks very politely to other characters. In the Japanese anime and manga, he always utilizes honorifics such as "san and "kun"; in the English adaptations, he never uses contractions. He also refuses to hold a grudge or treat an opponent unfairly, always making it a point to show them great respect.^[107]

Because of a defect that leaves him unable to control his chakra output, Lee is unable to perform many basic ninja techniques. Though this handicap would ordinarily mean giving up life as a ninja, Lee's dream is to become a respected ninja by using only taijutsu, or physical attacks.^[104] To help Lee achieve this goal, Guy has done all in his power to train Lee, giving him arduous training regiments to increase his strength and speed. As such, Lee constantly wears ankle weights that when removed, cause his already impressive speed to drastically increase.^[108] Guy has also taught him a number of powerful, even forbidden techniques; because some of these techniques, such as the ability to open the eight chakra gates, can pose a severe risk to Lee's body, he is only permitted to use them to protect something or someone dear to him.^[109] He is voiced by Yoichi Masukawa in the original Japanese anime,^[110] and his English voice actor is Brian Donovan.