Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25787298-20160519120227/@comment-4646462-20160520051110

So what I can understand so far out of this is:

- There has already been nature energy in the world, notably concentrated in areas such as Mount Myokobu.

- The Shinju feeds off not just the blood of the fallen, but all energies around it. It's pretty much the same as every other incarnation of the World Tree ever. (I always thought that the Shinju was symbiotic with the world, with every untouched millennial fruit rotting into massive amounts of nature energy, which by extension led to the formation of the above-mentioned Sage Lands.)

- Kaguya's consumption of the fruit gave her a special energy produced by the Shinju, chakra. The chakra also gave her (and through birth her sons) the ability to combine physical and spiritual energy to form more chakra. I had to mention this obvious bit because the core mechanics behind chakra have been beyond screwed by the introduction of the Juubi/Kaguya and there at least has to be some form of explanation behind it.

- The first version of the Infinite Tsukoyumi killed those entrapped (or, to keep consistent with the manga logic, sapped them of all internal energy and kept them on life support until either the "line" was cut or the transformation into white zetsu completed). People at the time didn't have the ability or anatomy to use chakra, so sapping them dry didn't reduce them to a desiccated corpse.

- Hagoromo didn't have an inherited ability to use nature energy, he had to learn it. From a toad. Because apparently toads are the only sage beings on the entire planet. Seriously, where did Hashirama learn his Buddha-esque Sage Mode?

- Byakugan has a Shinra Tensei-style attack. What happened to Air Palm, or those Air Fists we saw two episodes ago?

Either way, I can't bitch too much about this episode, I like it.