Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-45510280-20200416210937/@comment-32685487-20200419170752

Squinty97 wrote: I don't personally consider the novels canon because they give feats outside of the character's usual abilities. For example Kakashi summoning rain clouds by shooting a super powerful Shiden.

In terms of Itachi using Tsukuyomi to this extent, I also don't find this plausible because the anime had every opportunity and then some to show this. They had official flashbacks of the Uchiha incident, they had filler flashbacks of the incident, the had flashbacks of the incident from different POVs, everything. The feat is such a huge outlier because it shows up in one instance in a novel where feats are already not in line with character abilities.

All those things make it seem like it's not within Itachi's abilities.

Itachi never had any reason to kill somebody with Tsukuyomi after Izumi, in fact every fight he has had that we were shown since then.. he was not trying to kill anybody or even mame them. Also do you realize he would have been laying on the ground out of chakra and prob dead if he used Tsukuyomi on everybody on the night of the Uchiha Massacre?? Your argument just doesn't add up at all. Itachi can do that and he has the abilities, the novel made that clear. Also as Jason said, the novel lines up more with the manga than the anime did.