Board Thread:Fourth Databook/@comment-3279282-20141105164529/@comment-4543570-20141114002605

Seelentau wrote: Does Mu have Water Release? Nope. Either the databook fucked up or... well, whatever other possibility there may be, it's more likely that the databook fucked up again. Yeah, you are very wrong about that. Because it didn't fuck up. In fact it's essentially impossible for this book to have any particularly mentionable mistakes. Why, and this goes out to anyone that questions the databook? Because Kishimoto wouldn't allow this to be published if there were many, or really if any, mistakes! I don't know if he made it himself, but it's impossible that he didn't have a look over this before it was published. He is the author, essentially the god of the Naruto universe. If it's in the data book, then at most there could be are some light inconsistencies. Everything in this book is either extra material, unused stuff, or just stuff that was never stated or demonstrated in the series. I mean come on, Tsunade never used any nature's, yet no one's questioning hers? The data part is everything we know about characters and then some. The best example is giving the various unnamed Kage names. The point of the databook is to summarize things, fills in blanks, and add small bits of information that just never came up.

Because is so hard to believe that someone like Neji, a prodigy, had nothing but his Hyuga brand techniques? Of course not! Kakashi out right stated that most Jonin have mastered at least two of the five basic natures. Naruto essentially knows only one wind release technique, but uses a bunch of variants of it. So essentially as long as someone can use at least one technique of that nature, then it counts as a nature they can use. Case and point, the earth release technique that the Shinobi Alliance used to try and stop the Ten-Tail's massive Tailed-Beast Ball after Naruto could protect them with Kurama's chakra anymore.

So bottom line people: a character doesn't have to be a master of the nature to be able to use one or two techniques, so the fact that a bunch of characters now have natures listed that we never see used just means either they weren't very good at the techniques, were much better with techniques not of those element, or just didn't have any techniques that were particularly useful or could help with the situations that they were in.

Because really, if Kishimoto didn't make this do you think whoever did just came up and asked "can we put that a bunch of characters can use random natures we feel like listing, no matter how much sense it lack?" and that Kishimoto would agree to that? Of course not. The guy has been publishing this series for 15 years, it is his masterpiece, and there is no way he's going to let a bunch of random crap get released, unless it is true. Complain all you want, but this is business and logic speaking. Because does anyone expect that we would be able to see every single little thing the characters can, no matter how unimportant, unrelated or unneeded for the story?

And now I'm looking forward to how you people try and counter me.