Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-31338621-20180506051005/@comment-734582-20180511083306

Jason of the Mangekyou wrote: I'm sure you're gonna say that this isn't cannon, but itachi did show time manipulation I did say he can use time manipulation. I'm saying he can't control the power level of tsukuyome. there's no such thing as a "weak" tsukuyome, since in it's basis it's a genjutsu that pulls it's victim into a genjutsu world that the caster has full control over. Whether Itachi uses it to make a single copy of Sasuke have his eyes gouged out or whether he uses it on 100 Kakashi copies to torture them doesn't matter, because in both cases he's doing the exact same thing.

Jason of the Mangekyou wrote: that was also his last lap, is itachi dumb enough to use such a tech against sasuke knowing the effects it has on the opponent, the effects im referring to is being hospitalized for a week The whole point of the fight was to test whether Sasuke had gotten strong enough. If he hadn't resisted tsukuyome, then he would've just done the same as the previous times, namely taunted him for being weak and then leaving. Itachi fought him previously when capturing Naruto, doing the same kind of moves (e.g. Tsukuyome, easily defeating his attacks)