Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-3001903-20160813043039/@comment-26369387-20160813132918

Well, the idea of Asura having Wood Release itself isn't necessarily dumb... It's the execution of Studio Pierrot that made it dumb and lazy: it came out of nowhere and giant buddha was lazy. Had the wood statue been asura(you know, the deity with three heads and nine hands that's actually associated with Asura), it would have made sense, but no, Studio Pierrot just decided,

"Hmm, I wonder if our viewers have already figured out that Naruto, Hashirama, Sasuke and Madara are reincarnations of Asura and Indra... Nah, the viewers are dumb, let's hammer it down one more time by giving Asura Wood Release out of nowhere and let's make it look like Hashirama's buddha statue, so we don't have to use any effort. The viewers won't realise that, they're dumb and will swallow anything, after all. And that means more money to us!".