Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32676759-20170725042729/@comment-734582-20171013081119

plot, the to-go reason when ignoring all the context creates holes in your theory.

Natrix Spiritual Cloak Gleam wrote: So BZ saw it bypassed and still said itachi had a perfect defense and offense. So whats there to doubt actually. Gaara's defense was called absolute, yet Sasuke pierced it. Susanoo was called an absolute defence beyond Gaara's yet, it was destroyed by Mei with ease.

There's plenty to doubt, and plenty of reason to doubt. Yet when i give a completely reasonable explanation for why Zetsu said what he said, and point to plenty of cases where hyperbole was used, you ignore that. And yet when your theory runs into problems, you just justify it with "pis".

It's clear from the Manga that the Databook hype is just hype. If it were so awesome, Itachi would've used it sooner. If it were without cost, Itachi would always spam it. He doesn't, so clearly more is going on. He doesn't stab Orochimaru until he's sitting still, the same way with Nagato. Evidently there's more to the blade than just striking someone. He doesn't use the shield against Chibaku Tensei, so evidently it doesn't work. If it did, he'd have used it. In stead he asks naruto how he survived. He doesn't use it against Kabuto, so clearly it didn't work against those attacks, or not as efficiently.

I have no problem believing that there was once a version of the story where the hype was true, but it seems Kishimoto decided on a different direction when he couldn't make the story work or the tools work or whatever.