Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28861328-20140618060932/@comment-945885-20140623224231

FF-Suzaku, is the "official" translation VIZ? It's not always the most accurate either....... Apart from occasional typographical errors (of which I don't think I've seen any in Weekly Shonen Jump), Viz's translation of Naruto is extremely accurate. Certainly far more consistent and accurate than Manga Stream and Manga Panda have ever been.

SuperSajuuk wrote: So, FF-Suzaku, let me get this straight: all the stuff Obito was running about him cultivating WZ underground right at the start of the war, when Kabuto convinced him to join forces, was basically a load of bullshit that was completely untrue?

Is Kishi basically backpeddling on everything he just stated in previous chapters? >_> Kishimoto didn't state anything in previous chapters, Obito did. The characters in a piece of fiction aren't themselves omniscient just because their dialogue was written by the author...

Obito and Madara thought they were cultivating artifical clones of Hashirama using his cells, but Black Zetsu was really releasing the former Infinite Tsukuyomi victims that had been sealed in the Gedo Statue. They were infused with Hashirama's DNA and further strengthened by Kabuto after he captured Yamato.