Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-33156423-20170923231447/@comment-734582-20170927071319

Starscream1998 wrote: Look guys lets cut the noise and be real, Chakra was introduced originally in the usual mystical mumbo jumbo fashion...and then Kishimoto dropped an alien into the plot and basically Adam and Eve'd Chakra with that stupid tree. But it wasn't mystical mumbojumbo, that's my point. It was fairly clearly established that it combines mental and physical power. I've always assumed that meant that the physical part gives the basis and the mental part shapes it, hence why chakra can have a range of weird properties (Like being strong and tough like steel, or flexible enough for puppetry).

Sure, HOW that power to mix those two was obtained has changed, but the fundamentals haven't. LegionZero wrote: Judging from the definitions and the story of Kaguya, humans had the 2 energies but couldn't mix them to create chakra. The Shinju/Juubi/ granted that ability and Hagoromo portioned some chakra out, possibly granting the ability with that portion I think that the chakra that Hagoromo gave out were pieces of the Juubi's soul. Which is also called chakra, considering how the terminology for biju goes. Again, shitty terminology use in the manga. It would definitely explain why people obtained new power with this, and explain why the chakra of about a million people even remotely approaches that of Kaguya. Because we've already seen that the Juubi's power has high levels of synergy, IE Obito's juubi was far more powerful than 9 Biju + Gedo could ever be, and some chakra from fodder ninja made Kaguya "incomparable" to that.