Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-43403813-20190907005521/@comment-43403813-20191001011612

@MadEyes Your point is fundamentally illogical. It simply doesn't make sense for the Rinnegan to be immune to the strongest, most broken visual genjutsu in the entire series, but it not being immune to a much smaller, much weaker version?

That's like saying a guy could resist a M249 light machine gun to the face, but they die by nerf gun.

Additionally, we know that it is Sasuke's rinnegan that makes him immune to IT, and not only his Susanoo. Sasuke said in the manga that his "amped" susanoo was capable of shielding Team 7 from the genjutsu, alluding to the fact that it was his Rinnegan that amped the susanoo. Even Black Zetsu retorted that it was probably his Rinnegan that deterred the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

If that wasn't enough, both in the manga and the Naruto forums, both descriptions of Tsukuyomi and Infinite Tsukuyomi are near identical in functionality. Both trap the target in an illusion. The only difference between Tsukuyomi and Infinite Tsukuyomi is that IT's scale requires it to be reflected from the moon. That's it. This means that there is literally no logic in Rinnegan resisting IT but not resisting other visual genjutsu, like Tsukuyomi.

Also, Itachi and Nagato legit had a 30 second stare-down before Nagato initiated Chibaku Tensei. They did make eye-contact lol.

@FlatZone The reanimated Kage averted IT without being controlled. So that implies that even if Nagato wasn't controlled by Kabuto, Itachi's genjutsu still wouldn't affect him.

Of course, you could argue that its because of Nagato as an edo, and not his Rinnegan, that he would resist genjutsu. But that isn't definitive and it doesn't rule out the Rinnegan's immunity to visual genjutsu either way. All other situations where a Rinnegan user has encountered a visual genjutsu has shown an immunity.