Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1512913-20170121174919/@comment-734582-20170202144945

The thing is:

What Kaguya does (and what the Shinju does) is control nature energy directly. Senjutsu is the art of using chakra to control nature energy, which is an indirect way. The problem is that this was never really explained, and that it seems like a fairly artificial difference.

IE, the Juubi isn't senjutsu, it's actual nature energy. But then what's the difference between absorbing nature energy (which, in a sense, controls it directly) and using nature-enhanced nature energy?