Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-43403813-20190907005521/@comment-9782468-20190926160554

Do we even know if Konan was with Nagato at the time? Couldn't she have been out on a mission? There's just too many unknowns with saying Konan broke him out. She might have, but she might not have. Not enough evidence either way.

Itachi never attempted Genjutsu on Nagato most likely because using Visual Genjutsu to a Rinnegan would most likely be useless.

That or the fact that Tsukuyomi wouldn't do anything, since being an Edo brings the Edo back to full capacity before long, and Tsukuyomi only lasts an instant in real time so it's not much of an advantage.

In any case, it's made very clear that the Sharingan needs direct eye contact to the victim to activate. The Sharingan needs to see the victim's eye, which makes sense since the Sharingan is where the jutsu is coming from so it needs a path to the victim. So I don't think Nagato is affected by the Genjutsu used on his Pain bodies.