Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34752936-20181204181520/@comment-34194151-20181208235633

1) Exhibit A Chapter 392 pg 10, mirror clearly expands in height and width to deflect snakes. 2) Exhibit B, Take a careful look at Chapter 393 pg 8. I'm looking at the Viz scans, both in color and in black and white, and you can clearly see the mirror expanded to cover the left side of Susano'o. Not only that it expanded to cover susano'os head, and is even reaching as far as to cover the back of susano'o, clear evidence that the mirror adapts.

3) Exhibit C. Take a careful look at Chapter 393 pg 5-6. The mirror clearly expands in height to counter an upward thrown paper bomb thrown at susano'o. On that same page, you can clearly see the SFX :whoosh, which means rapid movement through the air. That is concrete physical evidence that the mirror adapts, and the SFX proves that the mirror was decreasing in size back to normal. Undeniable evidence.

4) Finally, Exhibit D, Chapter 393 pg 9. The Yata mirror is not only covering the front, but has expanded to cover the WHOLE LEFT SIDE of Susano'o! You have to remember that the mirror doesn't have a physical form and can change any of it's properties.

The Yata Mirror downplay is something I anticipate in threads like these so I copied and pasted my usual counterarguments. Gaara tries to pull itachi out? great, mirror adapts and stops the sand from touching him. Sand pyramid? mirror repels the crushing force. Itachi's susano'o is objectively stronger than Madara's because he has a Yata Mirror while Madara doesn't.

The official manga translation on Chapter 392 pg 14 CLEARLY states the Totsuka blade does not have a physical form. The blade can cut through and pierce through anything and due to it's ethereal properties, and anything the tip pierces through is sealed away. The only way to deal with the blade is to dodge, except the thrusting speed is incredible.

Orochimaru in the official translation very clearly says "eh?" as the blade pierces through him. That is the phrase someone uses when they don't know what just hit them. The blade literally moved so fast that optic nerves could not process the visual information in the time it took for it to pierce through him. Lol, ITachi was the on one on his death bed. Nothing says orochimaru was weakened, he was literally using his most powerful snake technique...

Nagato was also in the best condition he ever was. Edo Tensei, improved mobility, and not to mention he was jacked up on Gyuki chakra. So no excuses. If the blade wasn't fast, he would have time to attempt the preta path, attempt subsitution, attempt a summoning technique, anything that could potentially impede the blade's path, deflect it, etc. The fact he couldn't in his healthiest condition proves the blade is fast, and Nagato objectively has one of the best reflexes and processing speeds in the manga. He isn't V2 Ayy, sure, but he literally had to fight using 6 different bodies in 6 different locations in Konoha, and it takes good processing speed to do such effective multitasking.

The fight against Gaara literally ends within the first few seconds of the match. Itachi has already shown he is smart enough to take advantage of line of sight blockers when launching the blade, as he used the smokescreen from chibaku tensei to launch the blade at nagato, reducing the time and space Nagato had to react to it. Gaara opens with a sand tsunami in the desert... Itachi's susano'o forms in fractions of the second. The blade isn't gonna be easy to see because Gaara can't see through his own sand. The blade pierces through, and if Gaara is lucky, his gourd sand feats as an adult might just be quick enough to react to the blade, except the blade just pierces through it anyways. Gaara won't see it coming, because he is blinded by his own sand, the blade is incredibly fast, and I highly doubt Gaara has better reflexes than Orochimaru and Prime Edo Gyuki chakra boosted Nagato. Restrict the totsuka blade to make this a fair fight, and also restrict the yata mirror too while you are at it, because right now even Adult Gaara gets mercilessly stomped.