Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-5407586-20150624095943/@comment-734582-20150627131518

Seelentau wrote: And Explosion Release was never said to be a pseudo-Kekkei Tota, you got something confused there^^ ah ok my bad.

If I'm getting it right you're saying that Shell/Clay is made of Earth and it is controlled by earth chakra seeing as Deidara uses Earth hand sign, it makes sense now the chakra is the one that explodes. I'm not even sure where the whole explosive chakra thing comes from (Databooks methinks?). However, yes. I think the parallel to Exploding Tags is quite strong. Deidera mixes chakra (either in an unstable form, or as an actual Explosion Release) into clay. This somehow stabilizes the clay into Explosive clay. (Analogous to how dynamite is nitroglycerin stabilized in paper). He then uses Earth Release to control the clay (e.g. into shapes, making them fly, guiding) and then undoes the binding via Katsu, releasing the explosion. Judging from how stuff like Sealing works, i expect Exploding tags to work in a similar fashion: an amount of Chakra (in unstable form or so?) is sealed into a paper tag, and then a handsign is made that unseals said chakra to create an explosion.

All in all, it seems to me that Deidera's methodology is too complex for a simple Explosion release. If he had KG: Explosion Release why not just fire it? I expect it to work not unlike in Avatar: Last airbender (or Legend of Korra). To me, Deidera's abilities seem to fit in the same category as Konan's and even Gaara's abilities: They utilize non-elemental jutsu.

Sasuke's lightning can work in a variety of ways, but i expect that his lightning may:
 * turn the explosive chakra inert
 * destroy whatever structure may be in the clay so Deidera's seal does not generate a chain reaction
 * destroy whatever controlling chakra Deidera has in the clay so the clay charges do not react to him anymore.

Remember that Konan lost control over her paper when it rained/water release was used. I'm not saying that she used fire jutsu to control them, but that whatever chakra she implanted and controlled was altered, destroyed or diluted when in contact with water and so it didn't respond to her. In a similar way i expect Sasuke's lightning to work.