Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32117903-20170914232807/@comment-1512913-20180114115814

Thekillman wrote: But it's not the trees, i get how the Shinju work. I just don't understand what exactly the final deal on Chakra is. Like, what is six paths chakra then exactly? What are biju made of, other than chakra, that makes them proper sentient beings that can produce more chakra? It's not just a soul - minato ripped out the soul from Kurama yet his other half remained biju-like, so there must be some non-soul component too. But why, and what is this component? Some people believe that the Tailed Beasts are nothing but tangible conscious masses of chakra. I disagree with this notion, in my opinion their physical shells are actual living flesh, but that's another topic.

Yeah, I would say the Tailed Beasts each have an actual physical living body + a fragment of the Ten-Tails' chakra + soul.

What Minato with Death Reaper did to Kurama isn't that strange. For example Orochimaru has been split into many parts as well. Part of him was in Anko, the main part that was missing arms got sealed in Totsuka Blade, then the Anko part regained the main part's arms? So yeah... Seems like Orochimaru exists more than once as well and each copy is just as real, no different from Kurama.