Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25787298-20160519120227/@comment-734582-20160521143829

Sarutobii2 wrote: There's no reason Gamamaru wouldn't be effected by the IT. The reason he knew about the event was either because he looked into the Memory Stone that records everything above ground and relearned the events or Kaguya didn't bother wiping his memory, thinking he's just an ordinary toad. The toads have both crystals that can see across massive distances and wells that instantly transport toads across massive distances. It's not exactly implausible that the toads had spacetime techniques themselves. Not to mention, it's never stated whether animals even have chakra, so it's both plausible they use nature energy as their "Chakra", and thus use such techniques.

It's pointless to ask for logic in summons, because it doesn't exist. Apparently any toad can be summoned with the contract yet in a split second it can be determined who is summoned. The Sage Mode arc basically showed that no control exists over when you're summoned. So which is it?

Furthermore, regarding Senjutsu, nature energy exists everywhere, so it must also exist within animals and humans. Therefore, at any point in time, a human is automatically balancing the three energies: spiritual and physical energy exist on their own (since humans have stamina and experience, aka the source of those energies). Ninjutsu is about molding energies, creating chakra, in a sense it's analogous to water being made from processing hydrogen and oxygen (also in the sense that water has properties neither source has). Therefore it should be possible to use Nature energy on it's own. It's never established whether nature energy is just that, or whether water has water-nature-energy and air has air-nature-energy, and whether it can be nature transformed itself. But the Juubi is a mass of natural energy, so clearly it can be used on it's own.

Senjutsu is about mixing all three energies to create something beyond either: Nature energy has clear risks (petrification) and clear gains (increased resilience, reserves, healing). Ninjutsu has lower power, but also great versatility and negligible risks. Sage mode uses Ninjutsu to alleviate the risks (Physical and spiritual energy suppresses petrification), while having the best of both worlds, and so is clearly superior to either.

Further points: Six Paths Chibaku Tensei clearly splits the Juubi into the Gedo and a chakra entity. This means that there are no two versions of Kaguya's sealing: Hagoromo and Hamura Chibaku Tensei'd her and Hagoromo became jinchuriki of the chakra mass. Hagoromo summoned the Gedo to survive biju extraction, which explains why Rinnegan can summon it at all, as it makes no sense otherwise.

The Shinju can both come from space and yet grow from spilled blood. It's not a mutually exclusive statement. Similar things exist for Hagoromo (white eyes are the natural color of the otsutsuki race), Hagoromo was never stated to be born with Rinnegan and Sharingan is it's base form, so none of that contradicts the Manga.

Kaguya enslaved nations, yes. We haven't seen what went on in the entire world, unlike Madara's IT which clearly showed the major nations affected. She put people back in her lands and rules them, but since we don't know the exact geographical location, we can't say for sure whether she rules the world. Especially since logically, the SP CT that sealed her probably turned a continent worth of mass (if not more) into a moon (and thus, left an ocean). For all we know she ruled a piece of land that's now part of the moon.

As to Gamamaru, it's not clear what Kaguya did here, so why automatically assume it's a contradiction? They were all clearly unaware that he was sentient, so if she put back the wildlife, would she 1: Bother to wipe their memories and 2: wouldn't Gamamaru regain all memories upon seeing the Memory Stone, even if his memory was wiped?