Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36342497-20180726162715/@comment-5407586-20180813184001

KronoDX wrote: Seelentau wrote: Also, all of you should really read up on how kekkei genkai work. It's pretty funny that you say that because the series itself hasn't actually explained how they work accurately. The common explanation is that they're abilities passed down by blood, but it fails to address elemental Kekkei Genkai entirely which we know for certain are not limited to blood relation. Kekkei Genkai literally means "Bloodline Limit". As for Kekkei Tōta, it's "Bloodline Selection". In other words, just because we don't know the bloodline relations between the cases you mentioned, doesn't mean that there aren't any. The only exception I can think of are the tailed beasts, who obviously can't belong to bloodlines.