Naruto Shippuuden Episode 322

[Harima Kenji]

I still can't understand what happens to the knife all the reanimated are supposed to have stuck inside of their bodies. Once again we saw in this episode Madara and the particle dude to reappear out of nowhere as strips of clay (or whatever it is), but the kunai should be external to the actual bodies, related to the reanimation jutsu, yet there was no sign of it.

If I recall, didn't Kabuto not put the kunai in them? Wasn't it Orochimaru that basically had the 'obey me' spell on them? Kabuto chose to let them keep their free will until he decided to block them.

It's been ages since I've seen Kabuto demonstrate the edo tensei to 'Madara', so obviously I can be wrong here.


Edit: I was wrong. He did use the tagged kunai on Danzo's assistant-person-thingie.

Maybe the kunai is just a means to integrate the seal in the corpses?