Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36366948-20200805112208/@comment-3523655-20200817192726

Yeah but he's not always fighting Sasuke, is he?

Even if they are tanking each other's force and thus the power circuit stays closed, that's not how it went vs the Mizukage, who by this logic should've been sliced in half, as he is not at Sasuke's level, or the Tsuchikage who knocks him off his feet, whereas he should've taken that without budging, again by that logic.

Unless Chojuro and Kurotsuchi are contintent busters or whatever.

You're applying logic to a - by your own admission - inconsistent situation. I'm applying visuals, a key storytelling/narrative device in animation. We don't get anything in visually or in the dialogue that indicates that Kinshiki is at that level, other than a sentence in a databook which recontextualizes the scene.

Had that databook never said that Kinshiki was a planet-splitter, would anyone have considered him so?

I seriously doubt it.