Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27821571-20160915183730/@comment-3279282-20160917150206

This pattern was introduced long after sand manipulation was introduced. If anything, it suggests that sand can not be manipulated by Magnet Release, because if it could, it likely would've been introduced around sand manipulation. Plus, iron and gold have magnetic properties, desert sand doesn't (tmk).

Shinki isn't related to Gaara, he's his adopted son.

Shukaku's body isn't Magnet Release, wtf?

Whenever a discussion about Magnet Release and sand arises, it boils down to "Sand can be manipulated by Magnet Release because Shukaku has a sand body and Magnet Release". Why is that? Why are people so adamant to belive that it's true? Even in the novel, Gaara doesn't manipulate normal sand, from what I've read. And in the databook (which is above the novels), Gaara doesn't even have a Kekkei Genkai.