Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27821571-20160915183730/@comment-30991949-20161001090447

First, there’s no evidence that magnet release is granted to Shukaku’s Jinchūriki. Gaara only has magnet release in his Hiden novel and it’s a possibility that he inherited it from his father.

Shukaku having magnet release never really made much sense to me to be honest, considering that it’s also his weakness (Rasa weighing down his sand with gold dust). Idk but you’d think having magnet release yourself would make countering it easy.

Anyway, there’s this panel where there are particles around Naruto’s rasengan: http://i.imgur.com/UbZicde.png

Some people said that was sand and that Shukaku’s sand was thus magnet release. It could also be another sort of magnetic particle? It’s also possible that Shukaku doesn’t use the magnet release in that way but Naruto does - we never see Shukaku manipulate magnetic particles. That could also be sand but in connection to the curse seal on the rasengan. Or the curse seals are connected to magnet release in some way?

Regarding sand being magnet release, which seems to get argued about frequently here: the only source that says that Gaara has magnet release also says that he’s never used it before and, before the reveal, sort of lies and says that none of Rasa’s children inherited it. Gaara has used sand since forever, which seems to imply that it’s not magnet release.