Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20180830184727/@comment-34194151-20181010050321

1) Sasuke never saw the blade from what I could tell. orochimaru was in the way and seemed to have complete control over sasuke's body at the time. Black Zetsu didn't comment on the speed of the blade but he also said the blade and mirror together makes itachi invincible, so go figure. The reason I think it's a speed feat is because orochimaru has not been shown to a monster at reflexes. One second shouldn't be enough time for someone at his level to react. The dash-mark, as you said, at the very least indicates abrupt action. So the next question of interest is, what action could have happened so fast in that small amount of time that it caught orochimaru in between words and made him surprised. well there is a giant yellow blade coursing through him, there isn't any other stimulus. Itachi didn't even take orochimaru seriously in that panel, saying "sasuke, got anything else?". Even so, I think you have addressed my point here fairly even if you still disagree.

2) Ok,so the shared vision had an effect there but it's not particularly huge. I could argue that Deva path's eyes by itself was enough to see that rasenshuriken. He could still react to the first rasenshuriken that naruto threw in 433 without any issue.

Ah, fair enough about 441 actually, I forgot deva path actually showed good learning skills. So maybe i can't use chapter 441, but still, edo nagato and kabuto had no reason to not be expecting an attack after chibaku tensei was destroyed. they were facing two perfect jinchuriki and itachi uchiha after all. I still believe that the distance nagato had between himself and the smoke should still have been enough for him to see and react to the blade coming at his lower peripheral vision.

lol yeah, well its a neccesary tangent so we can scale the speed of the blade.