Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36512555-20200101053037/@comment-34656247-20200416032932

Squinty97 wrote: Sharingan takes in everything in his field of vision, so yes he was still looking at Sasuke If he wanted to read sasuke's hand movement he'd be focusing on Sasuke's hand and not the giant lightning dragon.

Ninja Of War wrote: Jason We were having a discussion a while back, and I'd like to hear your response on this. Ninja Of War wrote: But the panel didn't white-out with Sasuke's hand movement, only after. So how can you say kirin was launched already? If we go by the panel white-out, Sasuke's hand movements preempt the launch of Kirin. I don't understand what you're saying.

CyberianGinseng wrote: It doesn't matter what he was staring at. As has been demonstrated, if something occurs within the field of vision (which this most certainly did) of the Sharingan, it is recorded and the wielder of the doujutsu is made aware of it. There is absolutely no need for him to be looking directly at it. That makes looking at Sasuke's hand movement not as important as you people are making it out to be.

We have far more information in the pics you provide than we have in Itachi's case. In pic number 2 it clearly shows that dude standing there with the bullets already flying towards him in the air. He only starts his reaction in pic 3. We have no equivalent shot of Itachi standing there doing nothing, like this dude, with Kirin already in motion towards Itachi and then another pic of Itachi initiating Susanoo. These are two completely different situations. I don't understand what you're implying, Itachi clearly didn't have up susanoo before Kirin but during. So the similarities in both scenes is that both Liu Kang and Itachi activated their defense after the enemy's attack had been fired which makes it a reaction feat. Knowing that the attack is coming won't help if your reaction can't keep up with the attack after it had been fired.