Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20160505114817/@comment-4912646-20160509024242

Ajr1218 wrote: Basically, the history behind Kaguya/Shinju/Juubi and the Sage is extremely muddy at best and gets brought up over and over with revisions each time. Kishi didn't have his shit together. That much is definitely true. I'm sure Kaguya was planned well before her resurrection, but Hamura seems like a last minute addition to set up for The Last and explain where the Byakugan came from. The idea of the Sage of Six Paths seems to have evolved a lot over time. At first, his most defining trait was the Rinnegan (and he was presumably named after the six "Path" techniques it granted him) but by the time we actually saw the guy, he also had special chakra, Yin-Yang Release, Truth-Seeking Balls, Six Paths Senjutsu, the Yin and Yang seals, and most likely every "advanced" nature going by Madara's Storm Release. The Rinnegan feels like such a small aspect of his character at this point, and apparently his greatest feat with it (creating the moon) wasn't even true in the first place. I really wonder at what point Kishimoto decided he was going to be an alien rather than just a wandering priest with special eyes, or if it was intended from the beginning.