Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25449165-20160912035509/@comment-734582-20160913162027

Theannoyingpragmatist wrote: Thats what I think too. Since hagoromo and his contemporaries and predecessors dont need handseals I'd like to think that handseals are needed to utilize minimal or impure forms of chakra that are diffused from generation to generation. I think it's simply that with the Sharingan and Byakugan you can see chakra, but regular people can't. So while any Dojutsu user can see what they're doing, everyone else is trying to draw the Mona Lisa blindfolded. Hand Seals in that respect are standardized motions aimed at reproducing certain strokes.