Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-28939725-20161201164545/@comment-734582-20161205210959

Ravenlot 27 wrote: Well, I think that it was at least not a genjutsu, since a) we don't know if Nagato could use them with Rinnegan b) genjutsu can't kill the victim, while Nagato surely did this. he killed them himself, he just needed Genjutsu to easily kill them. Besides, it's likely that the Rinnegan can cast genjutsu (it's awakened from the Sharingan), just not very powerful ones (else they'd have been spammed).