Board Thread:Narutopedia Collaboration/@comment-17623-20140206165340/@comment-28861328-20140207191812

What a lot of people aren't realizing is that Kishi isn't going to tell us everything. He may never comment on Blaze Release ever again for all we know. He's under no obligation to do so. The point of telling a story is not to answer every single question presented by the story. Yes, this series is huge, but its still literature. There are a lot of things about the Harry Potter universe, for example, that Rowling never explicitly wrote into her novels.

Authors, by nature, expect you to connect dots where they leave obvious evidence otherwise, and precedents are one way that they do this. I don't think you realize how much extra work Kishimoto would have to do to spell out every tiny little bit of insignificant details to you, that you were supposed to get through common sense and logical conclusions.

The goal of an encyclopedia is to document what we know, but even real-world topic encyclopedias draw conclusions from a logical standpoint. That is to say, its not like Ultimate and I are suggesting that we just start making up stuff as we go. I believe Seel asked "Where do we stop?" That's a very simplistic question to answer. Look at the series. What evidence do we have? Is that evidence strong enough to reach a logical conclusion?

For example, since it keeps being brought up, Blaze Release:

All Nature Releases (not just advanced natures, but nature releases in general) start out with the name of the nature - Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Lightning, Wood, Metal, etc. - followed by the English word "Release" (the -ton suffix in Japanese). That has been that way since the very beginning arcs of Naruto. It has never deviated. So, logically, and with substantial evidence, we can say Blaze Release is at least a Chakra Nature. Now, according to the series itself, the only basic natures are Fire, Wind, Water, Lightning, and Earth - Yin and Yang being the basic foundation of chakra -, and, according to Kakashi, any other chakra natures are Advanced natures, or kekkei genkai.

Using that evidence, not only can we definitively say that Blaze Release is a chakra nature, but that it is also an advanced nature. For all we know, there is another nature involved. You're only assuming that just Shape Transformation is applied, when that, in and of itself, has never outright been stated by any source. Its just pure observation.

Now, another point Seel made: Your logic tells you that it's not a nature, so who's logic is right? Well, that again falls to the evidence. Do you have evidence, substantial enough to negate the evidence for it? I very highly doubt you do. Therefore, the evidence in the series supports the original logic. Hence, logical conclusion.

Wow, that was a mouthful. In laymans terms, I am for logical conclusions, so long as they have the backing of precedence and evidence.