It would seem wise to send a crack team to take out Kabuto, rather than to fight all the zombies one by one.
Or where he is?
Anyway, freaking awesome episode! I thought all four of the zombies were awesome enough, and then BAM! Seven Sword Lords!
I don't understand why Kisame isn't in that group though.
I'm curious as to how tough the Swordmen will be when several of them don't have their swords. We know Bee is using Samehada. And the Mizukage's bodyguard has another one. Not sure how Zabuza seems to have gotten his back from Suigetsu.
No body, no summon. But I know what you mean.Originally Posted by Darth
From the preview last time, I thought they'd make Haku even more feminine, but I was wrong. He was a total trannie here with his wider frame and more masculine way of speaking (way more than what I last remember from him) with make-up on his face..
If I wasn't over him before this, I sure am now.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
I don't remember him wearing lipstick though previously.
Granted but, if you're going to summon the Seven Sword Lords, and you don't have one of the Lords, why do you still have seven guys?
EDIT: Then I realized that one of the guys was the guy Kisame killed and took Samehada from. So obviously this group is all the previous Seven Sword Lords, and not the most recent ones.
But that just brings us back to the question of "What good are the previous Seven Sword Lords without any of their magic swords?"
It was already the same with Sassori.
Though a master, he's clearly at a disadvantage not having his puppets and not being able to use his chackra threads to his best, since having a body means tying most threads to it.
More over, no matter how great a ninja they were at the time of their death, they were still defeated. And in most cases at the peak of their art.
In the time beetween their death and their reanimation, everyone else has grown and got stronger... at least in the show as it is.
So fighting someone who already defeated you after they got even stronger and you at best are still the same or even weaker...
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
We don't know if they were defeated at their peak. Both Itachi and Kimimaro died while afflicted with some incurable disease. There's nothing in the way for them now.
That reminds me, that whole "freaking people out by animating their loved ones" works both ways doesn't it?
What's Sasuke going to do when he finds Itachi walking around out there?
So Kabuto said that killing the user of the Reanimation Jutsu doesn't end the effect.
Does that mean if they just kill him, all these character are just alive as immortal zombies forever?
Wouldn't that be a GOOD thing? I mean, it seems like he brought back more good guys than bad guys.
They'd still be under the control of the talisman that he put in their heads.
Until proven otherwise I'd say that was just bullshit. Or even if it wasn't, the zombies would likely run out of batteries or rot away otherwise in a short enough time. Besides, Kabuto seems to need to exert considerable effort to keep them in check and fighting instead of chatting and reminiscing, so without him, great many of them would be next to useless for the war.
They seem to be powered by human sacrifices. That is, a corpse inside that dirt is giving them energy. It's one of the benefits of this ultimate ninja technique that the user doesn't need to spend his own chakra to run multiple high level level ninja zombies - only a jinchuuriki could afford to do something like that for any significant amount of time. If nothing else, the corpse will rot away. Being covered by dirt full of bacteria and other life forms existing for the very purpose of breaking down cadavers only makes it that much faster. Once the body inside is rotten enough, I'd expect the resurrection to run out of juice and crumble away.
Yes, but when they can get completely obliterated by an attack and still reform from nothing, it's obvious that the state of the corpse inside is no longer relevant once the jutsu has been cast.
It also seems unlikely that the sacrifices chakra is being used to power the jutsu, since the sacrifices are usually total schmucks, but the zombies still have the chakra to perform kage-level techniques.
One more reason why they should run out of batteries soon: A nobody is being used to draw kage levels of chakra. Kind of like using flashlight batteries to run an electric chainsaw. It may run, but not for long.
As far as I can see, techniques in Naruto use chakra or are summoned living creatures using their own life force. These zombies are corpses with nothing inherent going for them and it was especially mentioned the necromancer doesn't need to spend his own chakra, so the only choice left is the sacrifice's life. Well, the very last choice would be a perpetual motion machine, but come on...
Pure guess:
The technique uses the sacrifice chakra, all of it. Hence the sacrifice.
Chakra is needed for the body to function, all organs need it.
Sassori rid himself of all organs and body parts just to keep a core, in order to free chakra lines to be able to control more puppets.
So the guess is that everyone -excep jinchuriki- has more or less the same chakra potential. The difference is in how much is free to use techniques and how training enables you to free a little more chakra.
Endo tensei probably accesses all of the chakra in the scarifices body, stopping all body functions at some point.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Yeah, that's my point as well. If it was possible to use ten years worth of chakra in ten days (even though the last traces of life would be extinguished after those ten days), anybody could perform ninjutsu miracles. I think that's the whole point of human sacrifices in magic in general, as long as they aren't merely meant to be eaten by some demon...