Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25122992-20170428150337/@comment-4961229-20170504012428

Thekillman wrote: I think the problem with this is power: Kabuto was able to bind all these people to his will and summon them at pretty much full strength. However a nested ET would mean that with each nesting the power of the next ET drops and the binding gets weaker.

So it would quickly become a very weak jutsu. It also raises questions regarding how properly Kabuto could control these ET, and opens up significant weaknesses. Why would a nested ET would necessarily mean that with each nesting the power of the next ET drops and the binding gets weaker?

I'm only talking about two levels of ET. That's all you need. Kabuto Edo's members of Akatsuki, due to their loyalty to the cause. He then temporarily erases their personality and directly controls them while they cast the next level Edo Tensei. Each Akatsuki cast a different set of Edo Tensei's. Those sets are still just on the 2nd level Edo Tensei, just once removed from Kabuto himself. He then returns their personalities after issuing orders through them to the 2nd level Edo Tensei.

This 2 level "cell" structure is much harder to stop than the one that was in the manga. (I would post a pic, but we're not supposed to upload images specifically for use in the forum.) No one knows what he did, not even the Edo Tensei. Even Nagato could only find who Edo'd him, not necessarily Kabuto. And unless they interrogate him properly when they do find him, the way Itachi didn't, they won't find out until it's too late. You'll have eternal Edo's running around.