Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24165784-20151108230957/@comment-25122992-20151117161744

I didn't mean Izanagi reverts the time back. It acts simply - all the negative effects happened to the user are turned into an illision, genjutsu which is visible for all present people. Actually, during Izanagi's activation period the user turns himself into living genjutsu, albeit the genjutsu which is still partially real and can interact with the environment, aside from the negative effects applied to them, which in turn stay as "illusion" part. Also I should note that a normal Izanagi (which is not sealed in user's eye aka Madara) doesn't activate when it's time runs out; it has a certain time of activation per one eye (in Danzo's case it was 60 seconds, Obito had more than 10 minutes), during which user can endure several injuries/deaths, and all of them will be cancelled one by one at the cost of one Sharingan after technique ends. I mean Izanagi must be able to turn the sealing process into the illusion the same way as everything else, therefore I came to this idea it can make the Shinigami summon into genjutsu too, which leads to the revival of the sealer as well, as if he didn't summon it at all, although I highly doubt about this too.