Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-43403813-20190907005521/@comment-38812954-20190927012904

Nah he alone should have been affected. There are two ways to view this: My way. your way.

My way:

"But then again the 6PoP does not transfer the enemies chakra or techniques back to Nagato so genjutsu whether sound or eyesight shouldn't be able to affect his brain since the enemies chakra won't reach him."

In the way I'm seeing it. It's not about chakra affecting chakra. It's about sound affecting your literal sense of hearing, and in nagato's case hearing and feeling. The pains themself most likely (to correct myself) can't hear. But through them. Nagato can. They instead only channel sound. With that said. Nagato's psyche alone then should have been affected by the frog song. As the pains only channel sound. Nagato channels and feels it. My meaning? You don't stay still like a statue during a loud explosion. The frog song is basically like a loud explosion coming through dead human walkie talkies. Hope I'm making sense (again)

To exaggerate further. The pains are basically like portals of sound for nagato. Two second pairs of ears. It's like nagato basically has mystical phone calls with friends and foes. For example him through the animal path talks to konan outside the leaf village. Him through tendo pain talks to Naruto. What konan says. Through the animal path he hears. What Naruto says. Through tendo he hears.

Your way:

In another way your chakra argument is valid. It could have been that the frog song distorted nagato's chakra flow in the pains. With his chakra somewhat granting them their own psyches that were still under control (this contradicts my argument but).

It's a case of kankuro and his puppet or puppets. If you destroyed the crow for example kankuro wouldn't feel that effect but he would be aware of it (pretty obviously though). Nagato didn't feel the effects of the frog song but was aware that something was up. Probably noticing that he wasn't fully in control of the pains under the genjutsu anymore. Hence the reason for him summoning the others to the scene.

Make sense?