Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25645405-20141128183407/@comment-4366149-20141202013806

WindStar7125 wrote: Edit: Blaze Release techniques such as Amaterasu and Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi were tagged as Fire Release in the databooks. As I mentioned earlier, the 4th databook still names it "Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi" in its entry (which doesn't even mention anything about Fire Release), but elsewhere the book describes it as Fire Release; but I'm still wondering if it was the black flames that was described as Fire Release or the Kagutsuchi technique itself (because that will make a BIG difference, considering that the equivalence between Amaterasu and Blaze release was conjured by the community for the sake of convenience).

Amaterasu's Release was introduced as Fire from day one. But then a few months later, Kishi throws us a curve ball with Blaze Release. Either he couldn't make up his mind on what to make of the black flames, or we are the ones muddling everything. Again, this depends on the precise wordings that the fourth databook used when it associated Kagutsuchi with fire. It matters because I recently ran into the issue of all genjutsu=Yin that was purported to have been confirmed by the databook, but was in reality just a wishful exaggeration of what the databook says in order to justify an old preconception.