Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1018594-20160409062530/@comment-26090730-20160815195806

Ravenlot 27 wrote: I don't know which interview it was, but I surely heart that Kishimoto stated he didn't know how to defeat Madara at all (after his Rinne Rebirth > becoming a TTJ). So it's pretty logical to conclude that Kaguya, a more defeatable villain, was put on the stage instead of him. I would say that he already had a tool to defeat Madara without requiering Kaguya, the Six Paths — Chibaku Tensei, with that the fight could have ended right here (chapter 674, page 12), the only possible reason why he didn´t make Madara lose right there was because he wanted to insert Kaguya into the plot before ending the story, that´s the only logical conclution. But probably due to the time limit that WSJ gave him, Kishimoto could not properly pull off both things at the same time.