Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20170619154549/@comment-5085906-20170626202102

It's when you get into these kind of discussions that you notice how shoddy the writing is in Naruto. We get introduced to a lot of cool, interesting concepts which are not developed properly leading to a lot of confusion. Don't get me wrong; it's fun to get involved in a debate, but when people begin associating non-existing feats to certain characters then it becomes a problem. And while I believe there's no way for a focused, battle-ready Minato to be caught under Itachi's genjutsu, a possible argument can be made for the opposite since we never got to properly see how Itachi's sharingan works. If it was Sasuke for example, I'd know that to be untrue since Sasuke's eye actually spun and worked like a, you know, normal (Mangekyo)Sharingan. There was mostly no indication when it happened with Itachi (or usually the eye would begin spinning AFTER he's caught someone under a genjutsu) so there's no way to accurately calculate the speed in which he can work his illusion techniques.

I've seen Minato's speed and I FIRMLY believe that there's no way Itachi's genjutsu activation time can match that, but if it was made as an argument there would be no way for me to reply to it since there's no clear evidence for me to base that counter-argument.